The Price of Magic

6.3.1

[flashback to the museum]

Mami: "This is who I am now..."

"Miki-san, get out of my way..."

"We can discuss further once I've erased them..."

[fade to gray]

Sayaka: *Mami-san as I met her in Kamihama was not who I remembered her being...*

*And the story I heard from the Kamihama magical girls...*

*"When her magic runs out, a magical girl becomes a witch."*

*I still can't help but disbelieve it a little...*

*With such heavy knowledge, I hurried to meet up with Madoka and Homura again.*

*When I left the museum, I told them with telepathy to leave the area.*

*Being that I was unfamiliar with the area, we had arranged a place to meet in case something happened...*

[in the Mizuna Shrine grounds at night.]

Sayaka: "Madoka! Homura!"

Madoka: "Sayaka-chan!"

Homura: "W-where's Tomoe-san!?"

[we see a white and a black Wing of Magius]

white wing: "How carefree to be ignoring us!"

Madoka: "Wawah!"

Sayaka: "You're still...!"

Madoka: "Sorry, we couldn't shake them off!"

Sayaka: "...Let's retreat."

Madoka: "Huh?"

Homura: "B-but..."

Sayaka: "Enough already, let's leave!"

"We can talk about it later, please!"

Madoka: "Sayaka-chan..."

Homura: "O-okay..."

black wing: "Where do you think you're going!?"

white wing: "You won't get away so easily..."

Sayaka: "...out of my way..."

black wing: "What?"

Sayaka: "I SAID GET OUT OF MY WAY!"

[she attacks the white wing]

white wing: "U-uwah!"

[the white wing collapses]

black wing: "Wha—! With one slash!?"

Sayaka: "Haah!"

black wing: "Guh!"

[the black wing collapses too]

Sayaka: "Let's go!"

Homura: "Miki-san?!"

Sayaka: "Hurry!"

Madoka: "O-okay!"

Homura: (Miki-san... what on earth happened?!)

6.3.2

[in the shrine]

Sayaka: *Recklessly pushing aside the girls who tried to stop us, we manage to escape...*

*And then we ran blindly through the town.*

*As if stirring up my heart which hadn't yet calmed down...*

[on a boardwalk by the river]

Madoka: "W-wait up! Hold on, Sayaka-chan!"

Sayaka: "What is it, Madoka!?"

Madoka: "pant... pant..."

[she transforms back to normal]

Madoka: "We're far enough away now, we should be fine..."

Homura: "Y-yeah, I think so too... pant..."

[Homura detransforms as well]

Sayaka: "Ah..."

[she does likewise]

Sayaka: "O-okay..."

Madoka: "sigh..."

"Sayaka-chan, can you tell us now?"

"What on earth happened?"

Sayaka: "..."

(I need to tell them... everything...)

(But... how should I put it?)

Homura: "Miki-san?"

Sayaka: "..."

(I've gotta tell them!)

*I steeled my resolve, and squeezed out an explanation of everything I'd seen, partly to help myself understand what had happened.*

Madoka: "..."

Sayaka: "..."

Homura: "..."

(...This truth... Finally we've run into it...)

(Kaname-san... Miki-san...)

Sayaka: "Madoka... I..."

Madoka: "...Am I... going to turn into a witch?"

Homura: "Kaname-san..."

Madoka: "And... Mami-san..."

Sayaka: "Madoka..."

Madoka: "Why!?"

"Why did she have to change like that!?"

"Sayaka-chan! Homura-chan!"

Homura: "Kaname-san! Calm down!"

Madoka: "It's too cruel... This is terrible..." [note: identical to what she says when she learns the truth in Episode 10 of the TV series]

Sayaka: "It really is..."

"Argh, what the hell!?"

[an overlooking scene of the city]

Sayaka: *No matter how loudly we yelled, our voices were just swallowed up in the jet-black sky...*

6.3.3

[on the boardwalk]

Sayaka: *As I had thought, telling them about Mami-san and about turning into witches gave them quite a shock...*

*Finally, Homura was the first to open her mouth to speak...*

Homura: "...For now, let's go back to Mitakihara, okay?"

[another view of the river]

Sayaka: *Madoka and I nodded wordlessly and we headed back to Mitakihara.*

*On the way...*

Madoka: "..."

Sayaka: "..."

Homura: "..."

(...What should I do?)

(I've walked through time in order to do something about this truth...)

(But I haven't yet done anything...)

(To think that this would come to light so soon...)

(Kaname-san... Miki-san...)

Sayaka: *Before long, as time passed...*

*Fear spread inside me...*

(I'm going to... become a witch...)

(When my magic runs out... I'll turn into a witch!)

(Even though I wished to protect everyone when I became a magical girl...)

(Why... why must...)

"...Why must I... become a witch!?"

Homura: "Miki-san..."

Sayaka: "What should I do..."

"Hey, what can I do!? Madoka! Homura!"

Madoka: "..."

Sayaka: "What should I do now!?"

Madoka: "Sayaka-chan..."

Sayaka: "Madoka..."

Madoka: "Sorry about before."

Sayaka: "Huh?"

Madoka: "I yelled out before..."

Sayaka: "W-well, I did too..."

Madoka: "Sayaka-chan... and you too, Homura-chan..."

"I've been thinking about this..."

[battle]

Sayaka: "Thinking?"

Madoka: "Yeah..."

"Even now, I'm really scared..."

"If my magic runs out, I'll become a witch..."

"...But just because I'm scared, I can't throw away hope..."

Homura: "Kaname-san..."

Madoka: "If we give up here, this will be the end..."

"We have to search..."

"We have to find a way to avoid becoming witches!"

Sayaka: "Madoka..."

Madoka: "It's not completely impossible, after all!"

Homura: "...Yeah, that's right!"

"I'm sure there's a way!"

(...This is what I came here for, after all...)

(In order to grasp a future full of hope!)

Sayaka: "Homura..."

Madoka: "We should ask Kyubey if he knows anything..."

Sayaka: "Kyubey, huh..."

Homura: "Maybe... Tomoe-san knows as well!?"

Madoka: "Yeah, I'm sure she does! The Wings of Magius too!"

"You said that Tsuruno-chan and the others were being manipulated?"

Sayaka: "Yeah, they seemed brainwashed."

Madoka: "I knew it... They're planning on having them do something!"

Sayaka: "..."

"If we look into it... we might be able to find something out!"

Madoka: "That's right!"

"Instead of just moping around here, let's get up and go, Sayaka-chan!"

Sayaka: "Madoka..."

Homura: (...I knew it...)

(Kaname-san is always this kind of person!)

Madoka: "First, I want to meet with Mami-san and discuss!"

"We've gotta turn her back to how she was before...)

"Once we settle matters with Mami-san, then we'll understand more about the Wings of Magius..."

"And then we may be able to get more information about transforming into witches!"

Sayaka: "..."

"Sounds good, Madoka!"

"We need to face our fates..."

"And then fight back!"

*So with our nearly broken spirits stirred up once more, we returned to Mitakihara...*