The Dimensional Tavern of the Mefilas Alien

"Clap! Clap! Clap!"

Homura Akemi emptied the magazine in one go and then threw the pistol on the ground.

Next, she fastened her belt. Then, she inserted the Gatsi alien card into the middle slot.

"Gatchians!"

Murphy's dedicated and inspiring notification sounded.

A gust of wind blew by, ruffling Homura Akemi's hair.

Are you ready?

Homura Akemi lowered her head slightly, the flames burning in her eyes dancing in the wind. Her two fists clenched tightly on her right side, just like her angry and forceful mood, so much so that her hands made a cracking sound.

"They actually wanted to turn Madoka into a magical girl... I will never forgive them!"

Homura Akemi's arm slid sharply across her body, then she let out a shout under the night sky:

"I will expel every single witch and hatcher from here!"

"Monster Girl..."

"Transform!"

A light even more dazzling than a magical girl's transformation flashed, and in less than a second, Homura Akemi transformed into Guts-chan.

"Xinei!"

She leaped high into the air, several stories high, and then delivered a flying kick that killed another Cupid several streets away.

Mami Tomoe, who was about to fight the witch, was dumbfounded. What was that thing? A beam of blue light fell down.

Enemy? Meteor?

Just as Mami Tomoe was about to transform, she became alert and saw the blue meteor leap high into the air again, then split in two and fly off in two different directions.

"What is that?"

Little Madoka, standing to the side, asked Mami Tomoe blankly.

"I...I don't know either!"

If she was a witch or a witch's familiar, why did she ignore them when they were right in front of her? If she was a shooting star, why did it happen to kill Kyubey and then split in two in the sky?

Chapter Sixteen: I Bloom Amidst the Carnage

Not long ago, Madoka Kaname and Sayaka Miki were just two ordinary girls at Mitakihara Municipal Junior High School.

They, like any other ordinary girl, experience joy from beautiful music and melancholy from the feelings of adolescence.

But a few days ago, an accident shattered their understanding, leading them into a dangerous, bizarre, yet somewhat alluring strange world.

That day, as usual, Madoka went to a music store with her friend Sayaka to listen to music, but unexpectedly heard a cry for help.

Xiaoyuan is a kind and gentle girl. Although she didn't know where the voice came from, her personality dictates that she absolutely cannot ignore cries for help.

So, at that moment, she decisively left the music store and ran to find the cry for help.

To put it in a cliché, the gears of fate began to turn at that moment.

Xiaoyuan encounters Kyubey, who is being chased.

What shocked her even more was that the pursuer was none other than Homura Akemi, who had just transferred to the school.

Homura Akemi is beautiful, academically gifted, and athletically gifted, but she has a somewhat aloof personality.

She tried to keep Madoka away from Kyubey, but the kind-hearted Madoka couldn't bear to leave him, who was so cute and was calling out to her for help.

Seeing that she could not persuade Madoka, Homura Akemi stopped talking and stepped forward.

Just when Madoka thought she might be killed along with Kyubey, Sayaka Miki arrived just in time and used a fire extinguisher she picked up from the side to stop Homura Akemi.

However, before the two could even catch their breath, the world underwent a tremendous change. The roads shifted, the walls twisted, and they were suddenly swept into a bizarre and fantastical world.

Various portraits, tinged with childlike innocence yet strangely terrifying upon closer inspection, appeared. The entire world became as abstract as a Picasso painting, with bizarre creatures, seemingly straight out of a dark fairy tale, dancing around them.

At that critical moment, Mami Tomoe, an upperclassman, suddenly appeared and saved them, forcing Homura Akemi, who was relentlessly pursuing them, to retreat.

They then realized that the world they had just been in was a witch's barrier. Homura Akemi and Mami Tomoe were magical girls fighting against witches. The rabbit-like creature that called for Madoka's help was her contracted partner, Kyubey.

After learning about the existence of magical girls, Madoka and Sayaka were both quite confused for a while.

Despite Kyubey's patient persuasion, urging them to sign the contract by promising them the power to make any wish, the two, being ordinary people, still hesitated.

As girls, very few of them wouldn't yearn for magical girls. But the thought of actually fighting terrifying monsters like witches, even with the perk of making a wish, makes them hesitate.

Seeing this, Mami Tomoe invited them to come and see her battles more often.

"I'm actually really looking forward to having more companions."

Despite her elegant demeanor, impeccable manners, and exceptional ability to care for others, Mami Tomoe is actually quite lonely inside.

She had once been in a tragic car accident. In the midst of the accident, near death, she had no time to think and instinctively made a wish to live.

She doesn't regret her wish, but she does feel a little disappointed.

If she had thought more carefully at that moment, perhaps she could have saved more people. At the very least, she could have saved her parents who were also in the car accident.

It was precisely because of this unique experience that Mami Tomoe felt empty inside.

Having lost his family, he felt like an outsider.

Therefore, after Madoka and Sayaka learned the truth about magical girls, she subconsciously wanted them to become magical girls like herself and share this fate.

And now, the group is on their way to defeat the witch. But then, they encounter this unexpected and devastating attack.

"That shooting star just now... did it look like Homura Akemi?"

Mami Tomoe, being a magical girl, had her body enhanced by magic, so she barely caught a glimpse of Homura Akemi's silhouette in that fleeting glance.

Although her clothes had changed and she no longer possessed magic, she couldn't mistake that feeling.

"But what's going on? Isn't she a magical girl? Why is she using abilities other than magic to fight?"

Mami Tomoe doesn't have a good impression of Homura Akemi.

Magical girls don't always emerge unscathed from their battles against witches.

The more magic is used, the more murky the Soul Gem becomes. The magical girl also becomes increasingly weak, and may even find it difficult to transform.

Therefore, magical girls eliminate witches not only to protect ordinary people, but also to obtain the Grief Seeds that fall from the witches.

Because the Seed of Lamentation can cleanse the impurities within the Soul Gem.

Therefore, in magical girls, there are quite a few bad guys who use their power to do whatever they want, and even deliberately let witches kill people in order to obtain more Grief Seeds.

Based on Kyubey's information and Mami Tomoe's own judgment, she felt that Homura Akemi was most likely that kind of person.

But now, Homura Akemi has undergone a dramatic transformation in just one day.

Mami Tomoe is actually quite confident in her abilities. That's why she ruthlessly drove Homura Akemi away when they last met. But Mami wasn't confident she could handle Homura Akemi just now.

"Because she has become a lackey of some mastermind behind the scenes."

A rabbit-like creature appeared.

"Chubi, you're not dead!"

Xiaoyuan was pleasantly surprised, but she immediately noticed something was wrong. There was a puddle of Kewpie sauce lying on the ground.

Kyubey glanced at the pile of food on the ground. Normally, it would have immediately recycled the previous Kyubey-chan. But the situation had changed, and to preserve its image in the hearts of these girls, it couldn't afford to waste a little.

"I……"

"biu!"

A beam of light shot out from the other side of the alley and blew up Cupid's head.

Mami and the other two stared in astonishment, and saw Homura Akemi in her blue combat suit standing on a small hill at the end of the street. The Desert Eagle in her hand was still emitting wisps of smoke.

"What is that?!"

When Madoka and Sayaka saw the true face of the hill, they covered their mouths and collapsed to the ground.

That was clearly a small mountain of flesh and blood made up of countless Kyubey bodies. Homura Akemi stood on it, her crimson eyes and blood-stained figure like a Shura returning from hell, yet she also possessed a strange and dangerous bewitching beauty.

Despite how inappropriate it was, Xiaoyuan couldn't help but think of the rose.

At this moment, Homura Akemi is like a thorny flame rose!

Mami Tomoe is really stupid.

She originally intended to fight Homura Akemi. But Mount Kyubey left her speechless.

"Watch closely, this is the truth about the incubators called Kyubey. They are nothing but invaders from another planet!"

"what?"

Mami Tomoe was struck dumb.

After the death of her family, Kyubey became her only companion, and now that he is said to be an alien invader, Mami Tomoe simply cannot accept it.

Chapter Seventeen: The Empire's Iron Cavalry Traverses Myriad Realms

"So-called magical girls are nothing more than the embryos of witches!"

"Iramie Akemi said coldly, but at the same time, she felt a sense of satisfaction," she said.

In past reincarnations, she had also tried to reveal the truth, hoping to change everything.

However, after learning the truth, the magical girls either turned against each other out of despair or fell into depravity because of despair.

Given Madoka's kind nature, even knowing that becoming a magical girl is a path of no return, she would still definitely sign the contract.

But things are different now.

Even though she has to bear the burden of the Witch's Night, Homura Akemi can still suppress Mami Tomoe who has turned evil or even become a witch!

"Magical girls are nothing more than biological weapons created by the incubators!"

Mami Tomoe's pupils were tightly closed.

"Our battles with witches are merely tests of our weapons' performance, and incidentally, they will help us become witches faster."

Madoka and Sayaka huddled together, trembling. That's not how it is in magical girl anime.

A true magical girl doesn't bring light by shouting about love and justice and calling for miracles with a heart full of belief.

Aliens and biological weapons?! What the hell?! Ugh, I don't want to hear such dark stories!

Homura Akemi, on the other hand, recalled the story she had heard from Teresa and quickly merged it with the truth about magical girls.

Although she doesn't know the truth about Teresa's world, Homura Akemi currently only wants to use conspiracy theories to shake Madoka's heart and completely dispel her desire to become a magical girl.

Therefore, she even started thinking about how to suture it while she was at a bar. That's why she can talk about it so fluently now.

"Don't you find it suspicious that the witch could fall down to purify the Seed of Grief of our Soul Gem?"

As she spoke, Homura Akemi channeled the energy of the Guts aliens into the Desert Eagle, firing a beam bullet that killed Kyubey, who was trying to talk to the three of them.

Kyubey originally wanted to communicate with Mami, Madoka, and Sayaka through telepathy, but Homura Akemi monopolized the telepathic channel, so its voice couldn't be transmitted.

"And haven't you ever wondered what would happen if a magical girl's Soul Gem became completely corrupted?"

"We are merely carefully cultivated props; the witch is the true fruit that the incubator needs."

Homura Akemi said coldly.

"In this country, women who are still growing up are called 'girls.' Therefore, so-called magical girls are nothing more than witches who haven't fully matured yet!"

"Evidence? Where's the evidence?!"

Mami Tomoe shook her head desperately; she was unwilling and unable to accept it.

If all of this is true, then what exactly are they? And what has been the point of everything she's done all this time?

Unbeknownst to her, Mami Tomoe's Soul Gem had become tainted.

"The evidence is this body!"

Homura Akemi moved with near-instantaneous speed, snatched Mami Tomoe's Soul Gem, and teleported away. Then, just as Mami's body was about to collapse, she returned the gem.

"Aren't you curious? Why is it that magical girls' bodies are so convenient? Even if they have broken bones or injuries that would kill an ordinary person immediately, they can recover quickly as long as they are willing to spend magic power."

"That's because our current bodies are just puppets! The real us is actually the Soul Gem!"

After personally experiencing her body's condition, Mami Tomoe was almost in despair. She wanted to refute it, but couldn't think of any points to make.