Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"Hmm? Except for Act 1, I've been living at Homura's house all the time, right?"

Zhixing took out the mobile phone he carried with him uncertainly and replayed the audio of his past experience.

"Looking back now, the first time I met Conan was probably..."

"I was very panicked when I found out about this situation, and I was eager to ask Conan about it..."

"My thinking ability is not strong enough, so I immediately told..."

"I decided to tell you the secret code so that I could gain your trust."

Zhixing frowned. After listening to the information again after many days, he originally just wanted to recall how he gained Xiaoyan's trust, but as he listened, Zhixing found something wrong.

If the sentence about the first meeting was only recalled by Homura in the fourth round when she was sorting it out, then why did Homura in the second round care so much about a stranger who she couldn't communicate with, to the point of asking Madoka to make a wish?

What does it mean that one's thinking ability is not strong enough? How long does it take for it to be strong enough? What will happen after it is strong enough?

Zhi Xing walked back to the bed solemnly, looking at his original time-travel suit, and couldn't help falling into deep thought.

Although I had read the information before, I didn't think about it word by word. After all, there was more content below, and who knows if I had already thought about it? Moreover, I seemed to be in a hurry to attend the dinner and talk with Saotome-sensei and Madoka Koma. So I didn't have time to think.

Sitting at the familiar desk after a long time, Zhixing closed his eyes and listened carefully to the voice translation of past experiences on the mobile phone, while simulating the situation in his mind.

"At first, he had just opened his eyes. Zhi Xing appeared from Xiao Yan's hospital room wearing a pair of blue slippers that were not suitable for going out and a cheap casual suit made of exotic materials. He looked confused."

"Back then, pigtailed Homura, as a newly-crowned magical girl who wasn't used to the changes in her magic and had little contact with other people, wouldn't be as bold as she is now."

"Seeing my sudden appearance, I guess she'll chase me away. No, that's not right. Maybe she'll subconsciously turn into a magical girl and want to throw me out."

"In the second game, Homura definitely wouldn't have recognized Shixing the first time. After all, based on how he looked when he first looked in the mirror, there's no way he'd look the same after a month of living with the official team. Not to mention his beard and hair, his clothes wouldn't be the same either. Homura is nearsighted like himself, so if he just looked at him from a distance, he wouldn't have recognized him."

Zhixing opened his eyes and looked at the phone that was playing voice messages and the incomprehensible text on the phone. A thought flashed through his mind: "Have I been deceived by Xiaoyan?"

"Paperwalker must have been very embarrassed at that time. Although he could probably guess that he was traveling through time or dreaming, he would also try to explain to the other party. He could probably only speak some foreign language that Homura couldn't understand. After all, Homura in the second round didn't have that much time to study to become a top student, let alone Chinese, which doesn't require junior high school."

"At that time, based on my performance alone, would Homura be able to search for voice translation online for me?"

"No, Homura wasn't that kind-hearted. And her thinking ability at that time was definitely not as strong as it was in Act 3. Without the accumulation of an Act 3, and having just become a magical girl, Homura wasn't used to the change in her identity yet. It was impossible for her to trust herself, a patient, to handle such an emergency situation where a stranger broke into the ward. She probably kicked me out, and later discovered through the surveillance that she recognized the magical girl and was talking, so she thought of translating."

Although I don’t know whether there is a separate surveillance camera in the ward, there must be one in the corridor of the ward, which at least proves that I am not a bad person.

"If she only discovered her importance afterward, then Homura would have had to go through the police bail-out process to get herself out. And if Homura had revealed her magical girl identity at the time, the Paper Company would have made a decision to determine the timeline... right?"

"No, it's too easy for Homura to reveal her level in the ward. If she did, she'd probably reveal her language skills and try to get repatriated. No, if I'd been more cautious, I might have considered the side storyline, or Homura, who hasn't recovered yet... Well, I'm not mature enough, so I should have ruled that out."

"Anyway, if I were at the police station, then Homura would have been exposed to the authorities from the beginning. After all, a heart patient suddenly came from the hospital and bailed out a suspicious person who had sneaked into the hospital. And she happened to be a magical girl's age. I guess she would have been put on the list directly."

"And at the end of the second week, she was being hunted by the official magical girls. So, is it because she was exposed that she was targeted? After all, she's a new magical girl, so it's easy for her to be ignorant and go against the authorities."

"That would also explain why, even though I was attracted to the Witch's Kiss, I was taken away by the magical girls en masse, so that Homura would let her guard down."

"I'm afraid I've been controlled by the Witch's Kiss before. For example, I saw a magical girl and realized it was in Madoka Magica, but was taken away by the police. Without a language barrier, they might have to be deported. I don't even know if the magical girl is a witch-breeding city."

"That kind of uncertainty in life might have given me a witch's kiss in the police station."

"So that, under the premise that both Homura and the official girls knew about this, I, who was planted with the Witch's Kiss again, would be taken away by the girls. Homura was also very sure that the reason for leaving was correct, thus revealing the flaw."

"Then why wasn't any of this mentioned? Why wasn't even something as important as the first witch's kiss mentioned?"

Zhixing realized that there was something in the information that should not be concealed. Although it might not be mentioned because of its small importance, it was also something that needed to be deduced. Moreover, there were too many uncertain variables in this deduction, and it was impossible to get a clear result by simply thinking along the way. How could he have missed it?

Because there are too many variables, it is not uncommon to only have one question left, which can be a clue for investigation in the next round.

Zhixing was very confused, but after checking the time on his phone and roughly calculating his itinerary, he immediately put on his old clothes, put on new clothes, packed his slippers, and left Mami's room.

I wasted quite a bit of time at Mami's house, and now that I'm back, it's just in time to order takeout for lunch.

He quickly returned to Homura's house, ordered lunch, and picked up the notebook he had bought when Mami took him in and had been using until now, and looked through the previous contents.

Soon, Zhixing made a new discovery. Among the 9 documents in total, only the two articles, the past experiences and the investigation of the witch's barrier, were described from Xiaoyan's perspective. The rest were reasoned and verified by himself based on a certain guess.

"As I recall, the *-marked parts of the barrier chapter are not encrypted. The others require my translation to read."

"So, Homura also knows my encryption method? Doesn't that mean Homura has cracked the contents of the data?"

In Zhixing's imagination, the encryption method of his translation ability should be able to encrypt a large paragraph of text at a time, rather than trying it word by word.

For example, use translation software to translate it dozens of times until you are unable to understand it the next time, and finally summarize it into Japanese and let Xiaoyan write it down and bring it to yourself in the next round.

However, Zhixing sighed as he looked at his phone that was unable to connect to the Internet. Without the same translation channels, he had no way of determining whether the current version was within his capabilities.

If this is the case, the same method can be used to imitate encryption, and because it is translated by software, the meaning of the words may still be understood. After all, no matter how outrageous the translation is, it is still based on approximate words.

"So, how did you encrypt the information so that Kyubey and Homura didn't know the specific content, so you could safely write words like the Principle of the Circle and Reincarnation in the information."

"No, now is not the time to think about that. The problem now is..."

Zhixing recalled Homura, who hadn't directly answered his question and had become indifferent to the lives of magical girls, and then looked at the past experiences described from Homura's perspective. Zhixing lowered his head and asked himself:

"Is all of this recorded in past experiences true? Or have there been numerous deletions and revisions to the past, ultimately leaving only the less than four pages of content we have now?"

"If Homura wants to delete it, she needs to know the corresponding content. Since the past and the witch's barrier are likely the most important data, it is possible that it was just an encryption method that was translated many times, and thus Homura was able to see through it?"

"As for what happened afterwards, it's very likely that I updated the encryption method myself, so there's no Xiaoyan's participation. It's all my own talking."

The paper merchant looked at the typeset catalogue and was stunned, muttering:

"It can't be such a coincidence, right? Could it be that I've taught myself psychology and have figured out my own thoughts?"

"Table of contents"

"Witch Night Barrier Investigation Report---2"

"Conclusions of the Familiar's Characteristics Investigation---8"

"Foreign Aid List Search Status---14"

"Basic Abilities of Magical Girls---25"

"Duration of wish---30"

"Translation ability test data---33"

"A rough summary of past experiences --- 35"

"Avoid pitfalls in daily life---39"

"Top Secret Conditions - Oral"

Looking at the second updated article on the characteristics of familiars, Zhixing couldn't help but look at his notebook. The *-marked part that he hadn't read yet just happened to contain only familiars and past experiences.

"The past experience must be the first thing to be written about, and the witch's barrier must be the first to be verified. After all, this is related to the people in the shelter and has the second greatest impact on the battle."

"And yet the foreign aid that has the greatest impact on Witch Night's operations is only ranked third. The familiar's characteristics must have their own new encryption method, which is why it's placed second. If you read it out of order, you really won't be very interested in anything related to familiars."

Zhixing really wanted to read the two *-marked parts in full, but the performance requirements of the Witch's Lament Seed were there, so Zhixing didn't dare to miss any opportunity easily. Even though Zhixing didn't want Xiaoyan to be able to defeat Witch's Night now, he didn't want to do it even to accumulate combat experience. What if he had already defeated it sometime in advance?

But just like before, Xiaoyan's trust cannot be lost, otherwise even if he dies and can be resurrected on the first day of the new round, Xiaoyan will block the resurrection point and bully him without any defense.

If this was just a hypothesis to convince herself before, then judging from Homura's current attitude towards Sayaka and Asami, the possibility of this hypothesis coming true is quite high.

"Mistakes are inevitable, and they must be mistakes that can affect the Five Colors Team. However, these mistakes cannot be obvious and must be made after hard work. Isn't this a coincidence? I don't think I have any hope of success. Although the current situation, if it weren't for Kamijou's problem, maybe it would have been... No, the number of Seeds of Sorrow has always been a big problem. Even without Sayaka, there wouldn't be enough to share."

"So, the 5! Five-Colored Team plan, because Madoka can't be included, can only be 4!, and because the number of Seeds of Sorrow is limited, it can only be 3! or even 2!. And Homura can't be removed from the group. So, as long as it's officially implemented once, Homura probably already knows that she can only team up with Asami or Kyoko. Now, Asami is still there, probably just to add a variable to prevent the situation of insufficient magic power."

"Right now, I can't come up with any plan that can help Witch Night, except relying on the desperate opportunity brought by the information to lure the witch over."

"Witch, familiar, magical girl, ordinary person, wish making, Kyubey."

"The power of this world is hopelessly simple. There's nothing that can act as a variable. Even making a wish is subject to the dual constraints of karma and Kyubey. If it weren't for Madoka's exceptional talent, it wouldn't be enough to break through."

"What other solutions can I offer that will allow Homura to continue passing the information to the next me?"

Chapter 105 Decryption: Conclusion of Investigation into Familiar Characteristics

"As for the witches, Homura has been investigating and researching their combat capabilities, thinking of countermeasures, weapon deployment, route planning, and trap placement, but that hasn't helped. The other witches can't command them to fight, after all, without the legendary barrier, they can only transform it into a reserve of Seeds of Sorrow."

"As for familiars, unless you breed them, there's no point in cultivating them. After all, they're just used to drain the magical girls' magic with a large number of people. The current amount is just enough for Kyoko and Homura to consume five tubes of magic, and there are still two to be determined. They can be used to fill up the state and prevent Witch Night from turning into its second form. No matter how many more there are, there's no third person to use them. If Asami or Sayaka are there, they will prevent the breeding of familiars."

"As for the magical girls, we've already tried to recruit a large number of external reinforcements. Even official ones didn't work, let alone private ones. Besides, we don't have that many Seeds of Sorrow to pay for hiring an individual. As for developing the magical girls' combat capabilities, Asami has been working on that, and she's also letting Homura learn combat techniques from her. Since I know nothing about combat, I won't give any advice as an outsider. I'll leave it to Asami, who has extensive combat experience."

"As for ordinary people, there are mainly two types: one is the army cultivated by civilization, and the other is the apostles under the wish. As for civilians, they are basically a burden. It is possible to consider asking the authorities to relocate civilians. No, considering the speed of witches, people probably can't escape. It will only increase variables and cause panic, and increase Madoka's chances of making a wish. Therefore, the shelter method is the best. After all...Witch Night just happens to not come from the shelter, there won't be many places for people in the city to gather."

"The military is even less effective. Unless it's attacked by long-range missiles, the military is still too powerless against the Witch Night, or even the Witches themselves."

"And now there's another question. Why don't the apostles, who have access to information about magical girls, know about Witch Night? Are they stalling for time, or are they truly unaware? It's obvious that every magical girl would understand once they were told."

Zhixing was stunned for a moment, then noticed that something was wrong with the situation.

Even the apostles who are wrapped in the power of wishes are unaware of this information, but all the magical girls are aware of it. This information is very similar to the setting of a certain anime, and according to that setting.

Witch Night does not exist in the memories of ordinary people, and they may not even be aware of the information. Only magical girls are not affected.

"In other words, someone wished to eliminate the Witch Night, but it only disappeared from ordinary people's memory, making it impossible for ordinary people to know about the Witch Night and realize the harm it could cause?"

Zhixing clicked on the voice chat again and listened to the results of the first round of investigation:

"Unfortunately, even during Witch Night, the official allocation of Sorrow Seeds was too low, so none of the five of us wanted to risk expending mana on an attack..."

"This is the setting of the Original Witch. Since the power activated by wishes comes from the cause and effect of humanity as a whole, is it to eliminate humanity's knowledge of Witch Night in order to fulfill the wish of destroying Witch Night?"

Zhixing scratched his head in distress. He had realized that Madoka's wish was consumed by sacrificing the lives of magical girls from various universes, so he could ignore the causal amount and realize the wish of the Principle of Circles. But if the removal of the witches on Witch Night was true, then Madoka, whose causal amount was not enough, could not make this wish in advance. Otherwise, it would only make the witch change her name, which would be terrible.

"In this case, the original insurance plan: if Homura fails early, then relying on Madoka to answer the questions and recreate the TV ending to revive everyone will not work. Homura must be able to play for more than 100 rounds, and she must not beat Witch Night or die in the middle. Otherwise, it is impossible to estimate whether Madoka's karma has reached the required level."

"But now, Homura seems to be able to ignore the casualties of others and is not moved by them. In this case, either she no longer cares about Madoka's casualties, or she cares about her so much that she becomes extremely sensitive to the slightest bump. What happened during this round that made Homura become like this? It's like she's a completely different person from the original pigtailed Homura."

“When you become numb to the things around you, you either become nihilistic and don’t care about anything, or your hopes are all tied to one rope.”

Zhixing, who has personally experienced despair many times, can deeply feel this. Without going into details, just when in the Witch's Kiss state, no matter what is said around him, he will leave without caring. This state will continue until his curiosity is aroused, and then he can get rid of it on his own.

They don't think about the dangers or consequences, and they don't even realize whether what they are doing is right or not. They just move forward according to the ideas that come to their minds.

This is because the Witch's Kiss forced her to get out of this state, but if it was the Magical Girl's own idea, then

"Ah, I hope it's the second one. Maybe then, when I'm running out of ammunition and food, I can try and transform it into the magic of love."

Although Zhixing had no way to deal with Witch Night, he did have a few safety measures to ensure the continuation of Xiaoyan's reincarnation.

Although these methods are basically to take advantage of Madoka's wishes, change Homura's values, and seduce the witch's multiple reserves.

"Because of the possible scenario of Witch Night, we need to investigate. If it is confirmed, then without Madoka later on, the wish won't be able to be used as a means of breaking the impasse. Moreover, there's only Madoka's wish left. I don't know any of the possible magical girls among the first-year students."

"As for Kyubey, since we know that there are still some Kyubeys with feelings among them, it seems that we can have a conversation."

"But it seems Kyubey couldn't protect himself, so he exposed the human coordinates. Who knows if there was another civilization before humans whose coordinates were also exposed, and then they used the cause and effect created by the entire civilization to make wishes, thus blocking Kyubey's detection, and finally it was humanity's turn."

"Do you want to negotiate and have them find another race? Or do you want to give up Witch Night and let Madoka remain uncontracted?"

"There's no reason to persuade a Kyubey with feelings, and a Kyubey without feelings won't be afraid of Kyubey's casualties and won't take action to stop the Witch Night, even if it's just a small matter for them."

Zhixing re-examined the world view of "Magic Circle" that he knew, and a new unsolved mystery emerged, but it was of no help to Witch Night and Reincarnation.

It just lets the paper industry know more so that they can try to add to the information.

After finishing his thoughts, Zhihang stayed for a while, then his thoughts were interrupted by the takeaway. After lunch, he quietly collapsed on the bed and took a rare nap.

"Jingle Bell"

"Ah? Ah! Phone?"

The ringing of a phone call woke Zhixing up. He got out of bed in a daze and looked at the phone on the desk.

"This is... a number with no notes."

Zhihang waited for two seconds and saw that the phone was still ringing, so he picked it up without saying a word, waiting silently for the other party to speak.

""

After a moment of silence, as if realizing the call had been connected, a frantic voice came from the other end of the phone, and then the other end of the phone spoke:

"Um, is this Mr. Edogawa?"

“Kamijou, who is this?”

"Uh...me?"

Kamijou was a little overwhelmed, and in response, Zhixing silently took out his phone and checked the time.

16:01

"Sorry, I should say you're Kamijou, who's still attending school in Mitakihara, or doesn't have to go to school anymore."

"Both, I suppose. The other one is here too."

"What's going on? The other one can still walk around freely? No, who are you talking to now?"

There was silence for a moment, as if a handover had taken place. Then, the same voice rang out again: