Uplifting Journey

Under the mushroom cloud, the city that had exposed its absurd and distorted true face has turned into nothingness. In the huge pit, only one house is still floating in its original position, with strangely shining lights.

Xiao Meiyan, who came out of the distorted space, stood in mid-air. Her gaze penetrated the house and looked at the Madoka family who were unconscious and in a coma inside, and then turned her gaze to the center of the nuclear explosion.

The smoke and dust all over the sky was instantly emptied by the controller of the enchantment. At the bottom of the nuclear explosion crater, a little blue light flashed, and then countless cells were born around a half-moon-shaped blue gemstone that appeared out of thin air.

Bones, muscles, organs, nerves... Countless human tissues emerged from the pervasive magic patterns in an extremely precise and swift manner, and a blue-haired girl was reconstructed in the blink of an eye.

"It's really merciless." The revived Sayaka Miki looked at Xiaomei Homura who was slowly falling from midair and smiled, "You can use magic power to control mass-energy conversion and easily simulate nuclear explosions. Your knowledge and control are truly amazing." it's terrible

"However, my magic is not weak. Although I can't do anything against you, you are also very difficult to deal with me, right? So why don't you stop and have a good chat?"

Xiao Meiyan, who landed on the ground, lingered on the blue gemstone on Sayaka's abdomen for a moment: "Even the attack that destroys the soul gem can't kill you. That's right, touching the existence of that field is indeed true in a single point of time." Difficult to deal with."

Xiao Meiyan raised her left hand, and the soul gem on the back of her left hand suddenly burst into a real purple-black brilliance.

At this moment, space and time began to distort violently. Sayaka, who didn't even have time to react, was trapped in the trough of curvature by the ruler of time and space, and then was torn apart and obliterated by the gravitational gap in the chaotic space-time cliff.

And this is just the beginning - the space-time vortex like a black hole, under the time magic of Akami Homura, extends upstream and downstream along the time axis, completely erasing Sayaka Miki at every time point in the barrier.

After the violent time shock, the simulated city destroyed by the nuclear explosion instantly restored its original appearance - because the nuclear explosion itself disappeared from the timeline together with the battle, and the result of the city being destroyed naturally no longer existed .

The black, long, straight girl who transcended time stood quietly in the empty square. She waited for "a while" and then murmured: "...is he dead?"

"of course not."

Xiao Meiyan turned her head suddenly, and saw Sayaka, who was wearing a school uniform and carrying a schoolbag, appeared behind her at some point.

Sayaka, who went to and from school again during the timeline change, looked at the schoolbag in her hand, then threw it away, and spread her hands to Xiaomei Homura in front of her:

"If it's Kyoko, the body on the entire timeline is destroyed by you, so even if you don't die, you will have to suffer for a long time. It's a pity that my soul magic can directly act on my body, as long as there is a time point carrier If it's not destroyed, then I won't be really hurt."

Xiao Meiyan frowned slightly: "I obviously destroyed all of you."

"It's just me inside the barrier," Sayaka shook her head, "Although your barrier covers the entire time axis, at the starting point where the world line breaks, you who can only control yourself but not Madoka, you must The Madoka family opened the witch's enchantment

"No matter how strong your ability is, as long as the birth of the enchantment is still in progress, it is impossible to completely overlap the starting point of the enchantment with the starting point of the world line. That little gap is enough for me to survive. In the same way, as long as I If you stay at Xiaoyuan's house, you will always be able to find traces of your enchantment that is hard to find in the future."

"Even if you can seize that opportunity to touch my barrier, it's impossible to invade so easily." Xiao Meiyan stared at Sayaka, "What did you do?"

"Even if most of your energy is used to hide and maintain the operation of this huge enchantment, you won't be unaware of the timeline changes involving the enchantment, right?"

Sayaka chuckled lightly: "Then, have you ever thought about why Madoka was aware of my existence before you?

Xiao Meiyan was startled, and then her heart throbbed—indeed, she only noticed this inexplicable outsider after Madoka said that she would wait for Sayaka.

As the master of the enchantment, as an awakened person whose consciousness transcends time, she should have reacted at the initial point in time when Sayaka invaded the enchantment and caused the timeline to change.

However, she let Sayaka Miki stay in the barrier for a while without knowing it, and she didn't realize the problem until she, who was accompanying Madoka, directly contacted him.

Looking back in disbelief in the direction of Kamu Madoka's house, which was blocked by many buildings, Xiao Meiyan showed a bitter expression on her face: "...Did Madoka influence me?"

"To be precise, I exerted influence on you through Madoka," Sayaka said with a trace of sadness on her face, "All magical girls are actually part of the principle of the circle, and we in the world can still retain the original spirit. All by Madoka's self-sacrifice—

"Only when she gives up on herself as the core will of the principle of the circle, we magic girls who use the power of the circle will not be corroded by the soul, and can maintain an independent personality and body

"It is because of the rejection of such a tragedy that the 'you' outside choose to rebel." Sayaka sighed, "She wanted Madoka to regain her consciousness, so she tried to replace it—becoming the core of the principle of the circle without giving up her own desire and emotion

"If she succeeds in this way, all the powers of magical girls will be completely erased from the timeline, and she will use the power she has seized to protect the fragments of Madoka as a human in the low-dimensional world forever.

"What's the difference between her like that and you who are restraining Madoka and hiding in the barrier now? You always choose to turn a blind eye to the other parts of Madoka after she grows up."

"Shut up! You want me to think that the ring that destroyed Madoka's soul is her? Don't be kidding!" Xiao Meiyan, who knew more about the inside story of the high-dimensional world outside the world, trembled slightly, and she gritted her teeth Said, "The emotion in my heart, the pain of completely losing Madoka, how could you possibly understand?!"

"I understand." Sayaka showed a complicated smile on her face, and she gently pressed her heart with one hand, "As a fuse just in case, I store Madoka's real and complete memory here. and emotions, so I can understand the feelings between you and her that have been precipitated through reincarnation.

"That's why, as a part of Madoka, I was able to invade your barrier so easily - your power is always defenseless against Madoka."