I, the little cat, am a substitute for others who are starving and thin

"The birth of a magical girl is necessary."

The less intense afternoon sunlight filtered through the window, casting the shadow of the cat-like creature. Kyubey jumped to Xiaoyuan's legs, hooked the tomato in Xiaoyuan's hand with his tail, and threw it into the space behind him.

"Kyubi? Why?"

Madoka waved to Kyubey uneasily. Since Homura never forgot to make fun of Kyubey during their date, her only impression of Kyubey was that he was a pyramid schemer who used his cute appearance to deceive people.

I heard that Yimi and it seemed to be a rival, so was it really okay for it to take Yimi's items? But Yimi also seemed to be being used, not realizing what she was doing.

"Magical girls are a must for both me and that child."

Kyubey hugged his tail and licked his fur: "But since you don't want to become a magical girl, Madoka, this responsibility will fall on someone else."

"other people……"

Xiaoyuan suddenly thought of Sayaka. To be honest, Yimi had never said that Sayaka could be a magical girl at the beginning. In fact, the reason she came to their house was because she had the qualifications of a magical girl, but Sayaka still...

Is this because the fate that originally befell her has now affected others? It happened to Sayaka before, and now it's Dad's turn.

-

"Well, let's teach that kid to do this next time."

Mami Tomoe put the cooked cake on the table and stared at it quietly for a long time.

I sighed and said, "Although I love making cakes, I still feel a little unmotivated when I don't have anyone to share them with."

She closed her eyes, then opened them again: "So, do you want to share this cake with me, or do you come here on purpose to be kicked out?"

Homura Akemi landed in her yard, and both of them stared at each other with the same degree of coldness.

"Two weeks... no, in about a week or so, Witch Night will descend upon this city."

Homura Akemi said this calmly.

Among all the magical girls she knew, Kyoko was the strongest one, but in contrast, Mami was the most fragile one.

Tomoe opened her mouth in surprise: "I know, I will take action when the time comes."

"It's not about attacking, it's about helping. You can't deal with Witch Night by yourself."

Homura Akemi stated this fact.

"Even if you say you want to help, I don't really want to fight alongside the guy who hurt my friend."

Tomoe Mami closed her eyes again, "But in order to possibly reduce casualties... could you please apologize to Kyubey?"

She has made the steps very clear.

In her eyes, Homura Akemi was like someone who wanted to kill the contractors and cut off the magical girls in order to monopolize the Seed of Sorrow resources, just like in some movies and TV shows where a forger was killed so that only she could possess a peerless weapon.

Although it sounds sad, it is actually not uncommon for this kind of thing to happen among magical girls. Everyone is a competitor and doesn't want to see other powerful peers. Mami was kindly warned about this kind of thing by other magical girls a year ago.

However, there are indeed not many people who can directly attack the contractors like Homura Akemi.

"Is it?"

Homura Akemi turned and left.

She didn't want to bow to Kyubey, even though she really hoped that this timeline would go smoothly.

Seeing her attitude, Tomoe rubbed Kyubey in her hand with some disappointment: "Why can't everyone just live in peace?"

"Maybe it's because of you that you're more like the outlier?"

Something flew towards Mami, and she caught it without even looking back.

It is a seed of sorrow.

"Kyoko?"

Tomoe Mami looked in that direction in confusion, and then expressed even greater confusion: "Why is there a slap mark on your face?"

Xingzi rubbed her face quickly. "It's just the injuries I got from defeating the witch. Also, that Seed of Sorrow isn't free. Pay for it."

Tomoe Mami smiled: "Want to eat cake together?"

"Don't act like we're too familiar with each other. I didn't come to see you on purpose."

Kyoko came over and roughly grabbed Kyubey's head and pulled her up.

"You bastard, are you hiding something else?"

"Kyubi? Put it down!"

Tomoe Mami quickly grabbed Kyoko's wrist.

Xingzi ignored her, the spear nearly piercing Kyubey's skin. "I just felt something was wrong. I felt it after seeing the 'difference'. Now tell me honestly, what will happen if the Soul Gem is completely contaminated?"

After realizing that the other party has been deceiving you once, it becomes easier for other suspicions to arise.

"You noticed it already? I didn't expect you to be the most perceptive one."

Kyubey's words made Xingzi squint her eyes involuntarily, and the spear in her hand almost went off accidentally.

Seeing Anzi's dangerous behavior, Tomoe Mami pointed her gun at her: "What do you mean? Kyubey, what's going on?"

37

Chapter 37: The Beautiful Witch.

To other magical girls, Kyubey may be a friend, contractor, or partner, but to Mami, besides being a friend, she also has the relationship of saving her life.

The wish of "Save me" that came true when she was on the verge of death. If it weren't for Kyubey, she wouldn't be able to fulfill her wish of making a cake here. Even though Kyubey's response to Anzi seemed a little bit wrong, she was still willing to trust him at this moment.

"Sorry, Kyoko!"

The bullet shattered the floor-to-ceiling window, and the multi-knotted sticks that Xingzi had split apart opened one by one. Kyubey took advantage of this opportunity to escape. The violent impact shattered the fragile cake placed between them into pieces. Xingzi, who didn't want to waste food, took a bite of the fragments in the air.

Although the attack was launched in an instant, Mami had a good grasp of the situation and did not aim at the vital points.

Xingzi looked at Kyubey, who had already run away: "Are you crazy? I never thought you were so unreasonable before. No matter how you look at its answer, you should know there is a conspiracy!"

Mami, who has completed her transformation, stands on a street lamp and cosplays Gilgamesh again.

"You, that black-haired girl, why do everyone have such strong malice towards Kyubey? There must be some misunderstanding, right?"

"Isn't it, you little bastard? Besides me, there are other magical girls who want to attack Kyubey? That's a clear sign, right? Just capture it and confront it face to face, and you'll know."

Tomoe Asami shook her head: "I won't let you use force against this child."

At her feet, two rifles coalesced and rapidly fired. Anzi leaped away, thrusting the serpentine shafts forward, only to be held down by Mami's ribbon. Another warning shot whizzed past Anzi's shoulder, shattering the streetlight behind her and plunging her into darkness.

Xingzi glanced at the scrape on her shoulder and said, "I'm really getting angry."

To be honest, she did come here because she was worried about Mami, because this guy and Kyubey seemed inseparable.

In the end, I have to be treated like this... It's just karma. When Mami showed concern for me before, she was cold and said that if you insist on wasting magic energy on your familiars like this, we will part ways.

Anzi directly output a lot of magic power to shatter Mami's ribbon, but for Mami, who had fought side by side with her for a period of time, her more skillful fighting style would be seen through at every step.

She has clearly been fundamentally strengthened, but I don't know if it's Anzi's illusion, but why is Mami Tomoe more powerful when fighting her than when fighting the witch?

"Why don't you use the illusion magic you used to be good at?"

"I don't need that kind of thing anymore. Besides, you trust Kyubey so much, but you probably don't know that he's already tricked us once, right?"

Although she didn't want to admit it, facing Mami like this, she no longer had to worry about the consumption of her magic power and she was actually a little suppressed.

"There's nothing we can do about it—"

Under Mami's puzzled gaze, Anzi simply put aside her past kindness and a giant gun-shaped python as long as a street emerged from the air beneath her feet. It emitted a terrifying red light and locked onto Mami's throat. In her sadness and confusion, it pierced her neck directly.

Probably he didn't expect Xingzi to be so cruel, so he didn't react.

However, Anzi took this opportunity to grab the pale yellow soul gem that belonged to Mami and was thrown away. Looking at this thing again, she still felt a dull pain in her butt.

"What are you standing there for? Why don't you treat yourself?"

She looked at Mami, who was fatally wounded.

She didn't need to remind her, the instinct for survival had already made Mami frantically output magic power for healing at the moment she was injured.

"Looking at me like that, are you dead?"

Kyoko looked at Mami, who was looking at her with disappointment, and tied her soul gem to her spear: "So what now?"

She threw the spear out, and it got nailed to the wall a hundred meters away.

Mami, who was confused by her behavior, had her pupils dilated for a moment and lost consciousness just like Anzi before.

Kyoko retracted her spear and threw the Soul Gem back at Mami, watching her regain consciousness.

"Have you ever been like this before?"

Impossible, very few magical girls can discover this fact. The importance of the Soul Gem to magical girls is comparable to glasses for severe myopia. It is basically impossible for a girl to forget her Soul Gem at home when going to school, as shown in cartoons.

"What the hell..."

"Although this may be very frustrating to you, you are just an empty shell. How can an empty shell have any vitals?"

Kyoko looked down at her, "It's not just you, but mine too. It's the same with all the other magical girls who've signed contracts with Kyubey. That gem is the real you!"

"Gem... Kyubey?"

Mami held up the Soul Gem in both hands, not quite understanding it.

"It makes sense to keep this a secret, isn't it? This is the form most suitable for combat, and every magical girl who knows about it has the same reaction. So, based on experience, I'm keeping it a secret."

Kyubey jumped on the side of the road, his always cute face and tone now revealed an indifference that seemed to show he didn't care about anything.

"Just admit it openly. Do you think I won't be mad at you?"

Xingzi grabbed its ears and lifted it up, her nails almost piercing into Kyubey's ears.

"Now let's continue with the previous topic. If the Soul Gem is completely contaminated, what will become of the magical girl?"

Kyubey's gaze turned to Tomoe Mami, who seemed to be very cooperative: "The abbreviation for magical girl is naturally witch."

"Witch?"

Mami took a long time to react, and suddenly covered her mouth. It might be that the injury caused by Anzi just now had not been completely healed, or it might be that she felt nauseous after realizing something.

"is that a lie……"

Mami kept sitting like a duck on the ground and couldn't stand up for a long time.

Just like last time, there was no expected explanation, which made Xingzi a little unhappy: "Is that really the case? It's hard for you to admit it so bluntly."

"Strange, was it Sayaka who reminded you of this? It's inevitable that magical girls will eventually become witches."

Kyubey wagged his tail while remaining lifted up.

"No one can understand the reason no matter how many times I explain it to humans. However, among the witches you killed in the past, there might be other magical girls who have transformed. But you can rest assured that after your soul gems give birth to witches, I will have the other magical girls deal with them in time, and they shouldn't cause too much harm."

"You're lying... Kyubey, why are you doing this?"

Tomoe Mami dropped one hand.

"Aren't we... friends?"

"We're friends, Asami. Even though humans have a vague definition of friends, that's what you call me."

Even though she was being carried, the voice was still cheerful, which made Mami feel a little scared.

"Hey, isn't it time for you to face reality? Now calm down and listen to me..."

Before Anzi could continue, Mami suddenly drew her gun, aimed at the position of Anzi's soul gem and shot decisively.

"you?"

"Liar, lie, lie..."

Xingzi quickly checked her soul gem, and fortunately there was no chip.

Tomoe Mami's eyes became empty, and despair began to emanate from her: "Instead of waiting to become a witch, it's better to..."

Homura Akemi said that Mami was the most fragile magical girl she had ever seen. The reason was that this scene was not the first time it happened in her reincarnation. She was the first to collapse after learning the truth, and then started to attack her companions who were laughing just a moment ago.

Shocked, Anzi looked at Mami's own Soul Gem, and she hadn't noticed just now that there was a visible layer of haze on it.

"Hey, what's going on?"

Although I have realized that despair will lead to the contamination of gems, it shouldn't happen so quickly!

"It's already hatched."