The Girl's Voice at the Radio Tower

5.1.1

??? (Ui? to Homura): If you want to change fate, come to Kamihama.

Homura: Fate? Kamihama? What are you talking about?

???: There...

Homura: "There, what?"

???: "Magical girls will be saved!"

Homura: "What do you mean, saved?"

"What do you know!?"

flash back to present? Madoka and Homura in a restaurant food court thingy.

Madoka: "Homura-chan? Homura-chan?"

Homura: "Uh, I'm sorry, Kaname-san..."

Madoka: "What's wrong? You looked like you were really pondering something..."

Homura: "Umm... I was thinking about today's homework..."

Madoka: "Oh, that reminds me, we have to turn it in tomorrow, right?"

Homura: "..."

*What does it mean, that 'magical girls will be saved'?*

In Iroha's room in Yachiyo's house:

Iroha: "Let's leave all these trinkets here..."

"Alright, that seems good."

"..."

*Ui...*

*Now that I've started living in Yachiyo's house, I finally cleaned up my side of the room.*

*I was surprised when mom and dad said they were going overseas, and I was wondering what to do since I heard there weren't any openings in dormitories...*

*But thanks to Yachiyo inviting me to stay at her house, this hectic moving of house went smoothly.*

*Now, your big sister is going to be searching for you based at Yachiyo's house.*

"..."

"...sigh..."

flashback to the vision of Ui at the Kuchiyose Shrine

Vision of Ui: "If you want to change fate, come to Kamihama. There, magical girls will be saved..."

flash back to the Jet Black Wing

JBW: "In this city, Magius is working to release magical girls from a spell."

Mifuyu: "Maybe, somewhere I don't know, Ui has joined the Wings of Magius..."

back to present

Iroha: (There's no way, right?)

(That Ui was fake, after all...)

now a title screen: Chapter 5: The very end of loneliness

[knock knock]

Iroha: "Yes?"

Yachiyo: "Tamaki-san, I'm going to go shopping for dinner now."

"Would you like to come with me?"

Iroha: "Hmm, what should I do?"

mini-Kyubey: "Go!" and "Maybe you shouldn't." I picked "Go!"

Iroha: (I'm out of pencil lead...)

"Alright, I'll go."

Yachiyo: "That's great, actually today there's a sale on ice cream."

"By myself I can only carry one, so I wanted some help."

Iroha: "Ah, yesterday Tsuruno got angry with you."

Yachiyo: "Yeah, Felicia ate all the grape flavor."

"I thought it was the perfect opportunity."

Iroha: "Then I'll gladly help!"

[battle]

Iroha: "In the end, we didn't buy any ice cream..."

"Tsuruno-chan might be angry still..."

Yachiyo: "It's Tsuruno, once she goes to sleep she'll forget all about it."

"But more importantly, has our culprit Felicia-chan finished peeling the onions yet?"

Felicia: "Mmh?"

Yachiyo: "Hey! What are you doing reading manga!?"

Felicia: "I don't like onions because they make me cry."

Yachiyo: "Just rinse them under water. I showed you yesterday, didn't I?"

Felicia: "Did you?"

Tsuruno: "I'm heeeeeere!"

Iroha: "Tsuruno-chan's here..."

Yachiyo: "If she's that lively, she's probably not angry anymore."

Tsuruno: "Ohhh, you're preparing dinner!"

Iroha: "Welcome back, Tsuruno-chan."

Tsuruno: "Haven't seen you since lunch!"

"Ah, I bought this, so I'm gonna put it in the freezer."

Iroha: "Ah, ice cream?"

Tsuruno: "Ehehe..."

"Yesterday I was acting immature, so this is a symbol of my reform!"

"Sorry I got mad at you, yesterday, Felicia."

Felicia: "This is for me? Can I eat it?"

Tsuruno: "Yes, let's eat it together!"

Felicia: "Yachiyo, can we eat now?"

Yachiyo: "After dinner, you can."

Felicia: "Yay! Tsuruno's the best!"

Yachiyo: "Then, Tsuruno, can you help us make dinner?"

Tsuruno: "Of course!"

Yachiyo: "Then take out a pot and put on the heat..."

Tsuruno: "Aye-aye sir!"

Iroha: "Haha..."

Tsuruno: "Hm? Whassup, Iroha-chan?"

Iroha: "I was thinking it really seems like we're a family."

"..."

*A time I couldn't have imagined, just a short while ago...*

*Spending time and having fun with others so naturally...*

*Really...*

5.1.2

A classroom scene

*Before I moved, lunchtime was always spent eating with friends and having fun.*

*But in truth, I never actually had fun during that time.*

[some girl]: Tamaki-san, let's go already!

Iroha: "Um, I still have day duty work left..."

[that girl]: "Hmmmm?" [looking angry]

[some other girl]: "Tamaki-san, you're not coming?"

[first girl]: "She'd rather work than be with her friends."

Iroha: "That's not what I said."

"I'll finish up soon, so please wait!"

A mall scene now

*Back then, I was like a baby chick constantly following her parents.*

*Afraid of being alone, smiling so they wouldn't hate me, frantically trying to keep up with everyone.*

*That's why...*

[first girl]: "Sometimes, Tamaki-san, I don't understand what you're thinking."

Iroha: "Huh?"

[first girl]: "You're always, always smiling, you always say yes to whatever..."

[second girl]: "Oh, I get that feeling sometimes too."

Iroha: "Umm, I'm sorry..."

*People found me suspicious like this...*

*Whenever I thought I'd try and say what I really felt, I'd get scared and be unable to...*

*I was always trying to match my surroundings, so when they'd hit the mark like that, I'd have no response.*

*Wanting to change things and the fear of changing...*

*The two looped back into each other into a repeating vicious cycle, and every day became more difficult...*

*But that's why my place of comfort was at home with my family.*

*And then the hospital where Ui and her friends were.*

*That's right, Touka-chan and Nemu-chan said this:*

flashback in the hospital

Ui: "Why do you fight all the time, Touka-chan, Nemu-chan?"

Nemu: "..."

"The reason is clear."

"Home is a place where a person can show their true self."

Ui: "Oh?"

Nemu: "That's the words of Andre Malraux, a French author."

"This is like my home, so I show my true self and fight all the time."

"So you don't have to worry when we fight and don't talk to each other, Ui."

"You and Touka both are my best friends, but also like my family."

Touka: "pf, ha, ahahaha!"

"We're all best friends? We're all family?"

Nemu: "Is there something strange about what I said? I merely laid out my true feelings."

Touka: "No, best friends is fine. It's an astronomical probability."

Ui: "Astronomical?"

"Touka-chan, what do you mean?"

Touka: "It's an extremely small probability."

"Depending on the era and the age, the results vary, but..."

"There are all kinds of statistics and papers on the number of friends."

"At the latest developmental psychology conference, they announced it's usually 3 people..."

"Right now, the earth has 7.4 billion people, so..."

"Just to meet one of us is a one in 2.4 billion probability..."

"If we convert that to percent..."

"It's zero point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero 4 percent."

"A suuuuuper small probability."

"Including your sister, that's like picking the one out of that, three times."

"So for all of us to be talking here, it's an astronomically unlikely relationship, don't you think?"

Ui: "Nemu-chan, Touka-chan..."

Nemu: "It's pointless to talk numbers about human relationships."

Touka: [pouts]

Nemu: [pouts too]

Ui: "Please stop!"

back to the present

Yachiyo: "Watch out!!"

Iroha: "Ah..."

Yachiyo: "Are you alright? Did you cut your finger?"

Iroha: "I'm... I'm sorry..."

Yachiyo: "What were you doing, spacing out like that?"

Iroha: "Oh, it was nothing."

*So I have the same thing now, a family-like relationship with everyone.*

*And it feels like it was an incredibly lucky draw for us to be chosen.*

*But that's embarrassing, so I couldn't say it...*

5.1.3

they're in the living room

Felicia: "There's one hour left until the event, everyone get ready!"

Yachiyo: "Event? What's going to happen?"

Iroha: "A smartphone game that I'm playing with Felicia where you build a city."

Tsuruno: "I remember that, you can cooperate and look for treasure."

Felicia: "That's right, and I'm all ready to go!"

Yachiyo: 'So that's what you were doing on your cell phone the whole time."

"...wait, your town is entirely farmland!"

Felicia: "That's right, I like cows."

"Yachiyo, your city is... ugh, all police officers?"

Yachiyo: "Peace and quiet is important, right?"

Tsuruno: "My town is flourishing with restaurants!"

Iroha: "They're all Chinese restaurants!?"

Tsuruno: "I'm aiming for the hundreth Chinese Restaurant Banbanzai!"

"What's yours like, Iroha-chan?"

Iroha: "Mine has been invaded by Felecia-chan's escaped cows..."

Felicia: "Sorry about that!"

Tsuruno: "My oh my...."

Yachiyo: "Okay, that's enough of the game for now."

"I hope everyone hasn't forgotten?"

"Treasure hunting is important, but we also have to look for Wings of Magius..."

Iroha: "That's right... We haven't found even a single one since then."

Tsuruno: "We also have to get Mifuyu to switch sides too!"

"Yes, yes."

Iroha: "But even though we've been searching for 'rumors' we haven't run across her either..."

Felicia: "That's because you're going after unknown, small-fry 'rumors'."

Tsuruno: "Yes, that must be why!"

"We have to go after a dangerous rumor that pulls in people."

"You need good bait to catch a big fish!"

"It's truly the food chain!"

Felicia: "I'll bash up the strong ones for you."

Yachiyo: "That's right..."

"There is a rumor in the 'Kamihama Rumor File' that has my interest..."

Felicia: "What kind of rumor is it?"

Yachiyo: "In the Chuuei Ward there's a rumor of the 'radio girl'." (denpa shoujo)

"Unfortunately, there's not much to work with."

Felicia: "Then we should go looking!"

Yachiyo: "I've investigated it once before."

"But all I got was 'Oh, you've heard already?' from everyone."

Iroha: "Ah, I see..."

"Up until now, all of the 'rumors' that became real were like:"

[weird rumor thing]: "Oh, you've heard already? Who'd you hear it from? The rumor of the 'Misery Water'?"

Iroha: "They were all like that."

Yachiyo: "That's right."

"So I thought that the 'radio girl' was probably just a normal rumor..."

"But even so, investigating rumors is our only lead on the Wings of Magius..."

Tsuruno: "Yes! Master Yachiyo!"

Yachiyo: "What, Tsuruno-san?"

Tsuruno: "If that's so, then let's investigate a really big rumor!"

Yachiyo: "Hmm."

"I can't think of anything else to try, so tomorrow let's do that."

Iroha: "Umm, Yachiyo-san?"

"After that, may I go look for Nemu-chan's house?"

Yachiyo: "Yeah, of course you may. I hope you can find it tomorrow."

Iroha: "Yup!"

Yachiyo: "Also, Felicia, make sure you go to school."

Felicia: "Nwha?"

Yachiyo: "Did you think I didn't notice?"

"Tomorrow I'll take you there by force, if necessary."

Felicia: "Aww, she found out."

5.1.4

Iroha: "sigh..."

"I printed out the map, but now it's all covered in X's..."

(Seems like I'm going to cover the entire Sankyou Ward...)

"..."

(I wonder if Yachiyo was successful...)

(Felicia-chan really didn't want to go to school...)

flashback to at Yachiyo's house

Felicia: "Hey, Yachiyo, you dropped some money!"

Yachiyo: "Ah, where?"

and Felicia runs away

Yachiyo: "Did you think I'd fall for a trap like that?"

"Don't run away!"

Felicia: "Gyanyah!"

back to the present

Iroha: "She was trying to escape like that..."

the phone rings

Iroha: "Ah, a call from Tsuruno-chan?"

Tsuruno: "Iroha-chan Iroha-chan Iroha-chan Iroha-chan!!"

Iroha: "Ow, my ear!"

"Umm, what's wrong, Tsuruno-chan!?"

Tsuruno: "Hurry over here! It's amazing!"

"Bye!"

Iroha: "Ehhhh!? Wait, don't hang up!"

Tsuruno: "Hurry and come! Yes yes!"

Iroha: "Calm down, Tsuruno-chan!"

"I'm going to go, but I don't know where yet!"

Tsuruno: "The Chuuei Ward radio tower!"

Iroha: "Radio tower? What happened there?"

Tsuruno: "You'll see when you get here!"

[battle]

Chuuei Ward

Tsuruno: "Yachiyo! Iroha-chan! Over here!"

Felicia: "That's awesome! Fascinating!"

"This has to be a witch or a rumor or something."

Iroha: "What do you see?"

Tsuruno: "Rather than seeing it, we heard it!"

"I came to pick up something I ordered, but then I heard a girl's voice coming from nowhere."

Iroha: "Is this something scary?"

"There are a lot of people around, it has to be one of their voices..."

Tsuruno: "That's not how we heard it! How should I put it..."

Felicia: "It's like the air was talking!"

Tsuruno: "Yeah, that's right!"

Iroha: "Ehh? You've gotta be kidding..."

on a black screen

*taking deep breaths*

Iroha: "Ehhh!?"

Felicia: "See? The air was talking!"

Tsuruno: "If you strain your ears, soooooooometimes you can hear a girl's voice!"

black screen again

*heh, hehehe...*

*Aha, ahahaha...*

Iroha: "A-again!?"

Yachiyo: "The 'radio girl', huh..."

Iroha: "Is this the one you were talking about?"

Yachiyo: "Yes it is, but something's strange.."

"Before it was saying 'Save me... save me...' and other sad things like that..."

Iroha: "Do- Stop saying things like that!"

Yachiyo: "But it's true."

girl a: "..."

girl b: "..."

"Hey..."

"That voice before, was that a girl from our school?"

Iroha: "Huh?"

"Yachiyo-san, did you hear that?"

Yachiyo: "Yes, that girl who walked by sounds like she might know something."

Tsuruno: "Alright, leave it to me! I'll go ask her immediately!"

"Wait, they're gone already!?"

Iroha: "..."

*When they try to make up, they get "taken away" by the It's Through Rule...*

*When you meet the person you're looking for, "everyone goes to sleep" at the Kuchiyose Shrine...*

*The Misery Water that gave people "misfortune".*

Iroha: "If the voice of this 'Radio Girl' isn't a rumor but instead is the voice of a person..."

mini-Kyubey choice: "Then we should investigate." or "Then we shouldn't investigate." I'll pick the first.

Iroha: "Maybe someone has gotten caught up in a *rumor*..."

"Yachiyo-san, can you look into the 'Radio Girl' once more?"

Yachiyo: "Right, my assistant, I had the same idea."

"Tomorrow we'll split in two and look into the 'Radio Girl'."

Iroha: "Then, bye, Felicia."

Felicia: "Hmm?"

Iroha: "Can you tell me your contact info?"

"I don't think you told me yet."

Felicia: "Then you tell me your ID as well."

"It's a problem if we can't contact each other."

5.1.5

(they're in their pajamas)

Yachiyo: "Tamaki-san! Grab Felicia!"

Iroha: "hnn... Take this!"

Felicia: "Bwah!"

Yachiyo: "Alright, sit like that. You have to dry your hair."()

Felicia: "That takes time, and it'll dry on its own just fine."

Yachiyo: "It'd be such a waste if such pretty hair got damaged, though."

"Here, I'll dry it for you."

"Well, how was school?"

Felicia: "Hm?"

"Nothing interesting happened, really."

"There's nobody to talk about manga or cows with."

Yachiyo: "Cows... now that's a tough hurdle."

Iroha: "So you didn't talk about anything?"

Felicia: "Well, I did some, but..."

"It was all about idols and live broadcasts and things like that."

"And then some weird webpage."

Iroha: "A weird webpage?"

Felicia: "Today, some people said it was really cool so I asked them about it."

Iroha: "What kind of page was it?"

Felicia: "Dunno."

Iroha: "You didn't get to see it?"

Felicia: "They told me about it, but I couldn't access it."

"So I gave up."

Iroha: "You couldn't get in? So there's a webpage like that..."

[battle]

Yachiyo: "There we go, all dry."

Iroha: "Yachiyo-san."

Yachiyo: "Hm?"

Iroha: "Felicia-chan's asleep."

Felicia: [snoring lightly]

Yachiyo: "She sure is a free spirit..."

"..."

"Poke!"()

Iroha: "Yachiyo-san!?"

Felicia: "mmmmnn..."

Yachiyo: "Wow, her cheeks are really soft."

Iroha: "Really?"

"Then let me try..."

Felicia: "nyuuu..."

Iroha: "They are! Just like a baby."

Yachiyo: "Poke, poke..."

Felicia: "Mmm... unh!"

Yachiyo: "Ow!"

"She bit me!"

Felicia starts snoring contentedly again.

Yachiyo: "At least when asleep like this, she's cute..."

Felicia: "Mm... yuck..."

Yachiyo: "No, not cute."

Iroha giggles.

Then her phone rings.

Iroha: "Ah, a message."

Yachiyo: "It might be from your parents."()

Iroha: "Yep."

"..."

"Wh-what's this?"

Yachiyo: "What, what happened?"

Iroha: "Ya-Yachiyo-san, this is from someone I don't know!"

*"Would you please save me?"*

Yachiyo: "It looks suspicious..."

"It's probably just a bad prank e-mail."

Iroha: "W-what should I do?"

"Should I say I can't help them?"Yachiyo: "No, you shouldn't even reply to these."