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"I came here to find my sister," Iroha Tamaki said, a hint of unease in her eyes. "Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any magical girls in this world, but such rumors have emerged..."

222. I don't understand those kinds of things either.

Iroha Tamaki, 15 years old, is a magical girl.

On her way to find her sister, she suddenly fell into this world. This world is far more chaotic than her original world, filled with strange rumors and the existence of heroes who resolve crises.

The only problem is, there are no witches here.

Magical girls need to use Grief Seeds dropped by witches to purify their Soul Gems. Without witches, there would be no supply of Grief Seeds.

As a result, Iroha was subject to considerable limitations.

Today is the third day since she fell into this world. Not only has Huan Caiyu not encountered a single witch, but she also only has one Lament Seed left, and she still has no news of her sister.

Fortunately, the currency she was carrying was still usable, and coincidentally, she overheard rumors about "magical girls" at a family restaurant.

Finally, some clues have been found, and Huan Caiyu must seize this opportunity.

The above are all statements provided by Kita Kirihara.

In reality, the character in front of me, Iroha Tamaki, is one of Kita Kirihara's inner demon character cards; she just appears unusually normal and innocent after adjusting her state.

Releasing Iroha was not actually a ploy to trick Saki Koizumi.

They were actually searching for traces of Cupid.

Kyubey, a magician from another world.

In reality, it is a product of an alien civilization called Incubator.

To prevent the universe from increasing its entropy and avoid heat death, this civilization developed a technology that converts "emotions" into "energy".

However, this civilization itself has no emotions, so it targets human girls who are the most emotional beings, using their hopeful hearts to extract the enormous energy generated during the process of their hearts turning from "hope" to "despair," that is, from "magical girls" to "witches."

Kita Kirihara had not anticipated that a creature like Kyubey would appear in this world.

Kyubey contracts with magical girls and uses their energy to sustain their original universes... This act is a theft of fuel from this world.

Only Kyubey was an uninvited guest from another world who came from the void.

Damn thief.

Its ability to conceal its tracks was slightly beyond Kita Kirihara's expectations, so he used the character card he still had free, namely Tamaki Iroha.

Kita Kirihara never expected that the small matter he intended for Tamaki Iroha to handle would lead to an encounter with Koizumi Saki along the way.

Ah, Saki looks a little thinner.

Through Iroha Tamaki's eyes, Kita Kirihara carefully compared Koizumi Saki's condition.

Although the camera was constantly filming Saki Koizumi, what appears on camera is different from what you see with your own eyes.

[New character!]

This might be the person who could become my mother...

Don't call middle school students "Mom"!

Magical girls are so cute, they look so soft!

[And she's so naive, she actually revealed her true identity to the chief directly.]

So that wasn't just a rumor?

[A character who has not appeared in other timelines]

New plot developments, awesome!

So, is the Chief now going to team up with Ring to find that creature called Cupid?

[Hmm? This concept of soul gems that the new character mentioned sounds familiar.]

[I feel like I've seen this kind of setting somewhere before]

[Isn't this the same power system as Homura Akemi and Sayaka Miki? Does that mean the new character is from the same world as them?]

Yay!

But Huan really looks so innocent.

[The Chief's mental state seems so bad right now. I wonder if Huan will be bullied by him. (muttering to himself)]

That kind of thing... probably won't happen, right?

As things stand, Saki Koizumi is mentally stable and would not do such a thing.

After a brief conversation with Ayako Tamaki, she decided to go together to find the guy named Kyubey.

As the executor, Saki Koizumi only needed to think for a moment to arrive at the seemingly far-fetched but actually entirely plausible answer that "the void rift brought people from another world here."

...Originally, they were just letting some monsters in, but now they've started devouring people from other worlds.

This is absolutely embarrassing.

Saki Koizumi had considered this possibility from the beginning, but today she still encountered a visitor from another world.

Strictly speaking, the Silver Garden are all visitors from another world, but unlike the lone Iroha Tamaki, the Silver Garden are very united.

This was the first time Koizumi Saki had ever seen a lone person from another world... or rather, a magical girl?

After learning that the other party had nowhere to stay, Koizumi Saki hesitated for a moment before deciding to take responsibility.

After all, I am, by all accounts, an administrator of this world. It would be a bit much to let Iroha wander into another world because of the world's negligence.

Of course, she also had another selfish motive.

The Silver Garden... surely they wouldn't just leave Iroha Tamaki alone, would they?

Since they're all from another world, they might even know Homura Akemi and Sayaka Miki, who share the same power system. If I'm active with Iroha Tamaki, there's a good chance I'll run into the Silver Garden members who have disappeared.

Moreover, as a registered hero, Saki Koizumi also had a responsibility to protect the weak.

Instead of reporting to the tower, she chose to investigate Kyubey's matter with Ayako first.

However, Saki Koizumi noticed something.

She was very curious: "How exactly is the aptitude for becoming a magical girl calculated? Do I have that aptitude?"

"Koizumi-san, is there a wish you want to have fulfilled?" Iroha Tamaki asked in surprise. "Aren't you already a hero with superpowers?"

"Hmm..." Koizumi Saki vaguely brushed aside the topic, though she was actually quite interested in the wish mechanism. "Isn't it said that Kyubey will appear in front of people with the necessary qualifications? Since you're already a magical girl, that doesn't apply to you. As for me..."

So, if Saki Koizumi wanted to use herself as bait, that would be acceptable, right?

Moreover, there are people she wants to see.

If Kyubey really is a wish-granting machine, she might as well give it a try.

Anyway, with the world consciousness around, Saki Koizumi won't pay any price.

Because, from the moment she chose to become the executor, Saki Koizumi had no price to pay.

After Kita Kirihara left her, that kind of thing no longer existed.

Koizumi Saki is practically useless; all her assets are locked by the Voice of the World, and even visitors from another world cannot take them away.

“…I don’t understand those things either,” Huan Caiyu said, looking quite embarrassed.

In fact, Saki Koizumi's aptitude as a magical girl is arguably the worst.

Because the part of her that could be exchanged no longer belonged to her.

223. Magical Girls, Heroes, and Idols

Saki Koizumi belatedly realized that something was wrong.

She asked seriously, "Wait a minute, if it's a magical girl... does she have to be a girl?"

But she's already twenty-three years old.

"N-No, that's not true!" Iroha didn't know if there were any restrictions on becoming a magical girl, such as having to be a minor, but she thought that there were still magical girls around twenty years old, and felt that the hero in front of her should still have a chance...maybe?

Saki Koizumi hesitated: "Is Kyubey some kind of perverted alien who employs child laborers?"

Where would anyone allow minors to do such dangerous work... I have a bad feeling about their intentions.

Aya Tamaki couldn't answer that question.

She just chuckled awkwardly, indicating that she didn't know the answer to the question either.

The two decided to start by inquiring about the strange, rumored places.

Rumors that resemble urban legends and ghost stories may very well conceal traces of witches or Kyubey.

Witches are the embodiment of negative emotions; they hide in their own barriers and spread despair everywhere.

Ordinary humans cannot see witches. Witches can also use their witch's kiss to control humans.

Iroha has been investigating rumors that might be related to witches, but there are supernatural beings in this world besides witches. She has been searching for a long time and has encountered many troublesome monsters that are difficult to deal with, but so far she still hasn't found Kyubey or any witch.

However, with Saki Koizumi's assistance, gathering intelligence became much easier.

"A video?" Saki Koizumi blinked and took out her phone.

Huan Caiyu isn't very good at using smartphones, and many of the apps on her phone are unusable in this world, not to mention account verification on some platforms.

She stared expectantly at Saki Koizumi, waiting for this heroic young lady to use her mobile phone to gather information online.

The reason why the rumors about magical girls spread so quickly in this world is because of an idol named "Kotomi Aoi".

This idol was already somewhat famous, but later lost his voice due to untreated vocal cord nodules, and gradually faded from people's sight.

Yesterday, Kotomi Agasa uploaded a video of herself registering her official hero status at the Tower of Civilization, along with the entire process of how she and a white figure made a wish to restore her voice and gain the ability to become a magical girl.

Kotomi Sōtoku, who is both a magical girl and an idol, exclaimed excitedly: "Kotomi can keep singing forever and ever!"

Saki Koizumi frowned slightly.

Kotomi Sōtoku spread the rumors about Kyūbi online so openly that more people would be attracted to them... which is indeed reasonable.

Because this world is different from other worlds, the existence of heroes and the public disclosure of superpowers have made people's attitudes toward magical girls completely different from those in other worlds.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that teenagers love to show off their abilities, gain the envy of others, and satisfy their vanity.