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- --Dialogue is listed in Japanese reading order, more or less.
- --Panels are separated by an empty line.
- --Separately-blocked text within the same panel is split over multiple lines
- (but without an empty line separating them).
- --Panels without any text are just skipped over (there's no placeholder
- indicator for them or anything).
- --There are a fair number of bare "..."s and "?"s and so forth that I didn't
- transcribe. I also didn't transcribe some of the general-purpose yelling
- noises (「はああーっ」 and so forth).
- --Translation notes are in square brackets [].
- --Translation was based on
- 4810bc9bf39ce1398605a662c8cd6c3d3d74dc368e108aa810051d7b2ee5011d on PD
- (一般コミック) [Magica Quartet×ハノカゲ] 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ~The different story~ (中).zip
- --SFX are not translated for the most part, because I'm not sufficiently
- familiar with English comic conventions for representing onomatopoeia.
- --Honorifics and naming conventions are retained wherever possible, so that
- e.g. Mami calls Sayaka "Miki-san", while Madoka calls her "Sayaka-chan", and
- these distinctions are faithfully preserved.
- --Kyouko's dialogue is translated with quite a few expletives because her
- speech here is even coarser than in the anime, especially when she's
- speaking to Sayaka. If this buttangers you, bowdlerize as you see fit.
- Dramatis Personae (w/ abbreviations as relevant):
- M: Kaname _M_adoka
- S: Miki _S_ayaka
- T: _T_omoe Mami
- K: Sakura _K_youko
- H: Akemi _H_omura
- Q: Kyuubey (_Q_B)
- Hito: Shizuki Hitomi
- Ksuke: Kamijou Kyousuke
- ?: Unidentified speakers or one-off characters
- Non-spoken text is identified as "Text:", "Sign:", etc.
- ------------------------------Page -3 (Cover)------------------------------
- Blurb: Kyouko used to fight witches alongside Mami, but she began to grow distant from Mami following a tragedy brought about by her own magic. Meanwhile, Miki Sayaka became a magical girl, and with her friend Kaname Madoka, began working with Mami. And now, Mami and Kyouko are about to confront each other---!?
- ------------------------------Page -2 (0a)------------------------------
- K: 'Sup, Mami.
- T: Y-you're...
- K: You've got some nice friends there with you.
- T: Akemi Homura-san and Sakura Kyouko-san!
- T: What do you want from me? I thought we were through!
- T: Are you here to pick a fight?!
- K: Pfft. I'm here because I wanted to talk to you.
- ------------------------------Page -1 (0b)------------------------------
- K: W-we want to...
- Text (K): Want some!!
- K: ...be friends with you guys!!
- Box: Rocky
- T: Both of you...?
- T: Why, of cour-
- [I don't know what the text around Mami's head is supposed to be.]
- Text (M/SFX): [sleeping noises]
- S: Madokaaaa!!!
- ------------------------------Page 3------------------------------
- S: [yelling noise]
- ------------------------------Page 4------------------------------
- S (top right): Why, you...
- Witch: [door opening noise]
- S (middle right): ...kh...
- S (bottom middle): Uh-...
- SFX (T): [trigger sound, *clink* or something]
- ------------------------------Page 5------------------------------
- Text (S/telepathy): Thanks, Mami-san!
- Text (T/tel): No problem.
- Text (T/tel): I've got your back.
- Text (S/tel): That witch is really nimble. I can't land a hit on it.
- Text (S/tel): And it keeps retreating behind those doors.
- Text (S/tel): What is this, whack-a-mole?!
- Text (T/tel): Relax a little. I'll create a window of opportunity for you.
- ------------------------------Page 6------------------------------
- Text (T/tel): Could you draw the witch's attention a bit more?
- Text (S/tel): Will do!
- M: Mami-san...
- T: Don't worry.
- T: I won't let Miki-san be hurt.
- T: So that's the last one.
- ------------------------------Page 7------------------------------
- Text (T/tel): Miki-san, don't move from there!
- Text (T/tel): I'm going to destroy all the witch's doors but that one.
- Text (T/tel): Attack the witch when it comes out of that door.
- Text (S/tel): OK! I'll do what I can!
- T: I'll destroy them all at once!
- ------------------------------Page 8------------------------------
- Text (T): Tiro
- M: You forced it out!
- ------------------------------Page 9------------------------------
- Text (T): Ricercare [「リチェルカーレ」; presumably Tiro Ricercare is some new move of Mami's]
- T: Now's your chance, Miki-san!
- T: Face the witch!
- ------------------------------Page 11------------------------------
- S (right side): [yelling noise]
- ------------------------------Page 12------------------------------
- S: Hee hee...
- S: We did it, Madoka! Mami-san!
- T: Goodness, what a night, ...
- ------------------------------Page 13------------------------------
- T: ...Akemi-san.
- M: Homura-chan...
- T: We defeated the witch.
- T: There are no traces of a witch remaining around here.
- S: You can't have any of this Grief Seed, ...
- S: ...transfer student.
- H: I have no need for it.
- S: [sound of annoyance]
- H: ......
- H: Tomoe Mami.
- T: What is it?
- ------------------------------Page 14------------------------------
- H: With two of you present, surely you're powerful enough to defeat witches.
- H: And yet you desire more companions?
- T: ...are you referring to Kaname-san?
- T: Would it really be such a bother if she became a magical girl?
- T: Or perhaps you wish to bring her...
- T: ...to your side so she can fight alongside you?
- T: You know, I heard from Kyuubey...
- T: ...that you fought alongside Sakura-san.
- S: With _her_...?
- ------------------------------Page 15------------------------------
- T: Do you two...
- T: ...really intend to take this territory for yourselves?
- T: If so, be warned - we won't take that lying down.
- T: Keep that in mind.
- K (flashback): From now on, ...
- K (flashback): ...I'll fight in my own way.
- Text (T): It's been a while since then.
- ------------------------------Page 16------------------------------
- Text (T): After Sakura-san left this city, ...
- Text (T): I met a new magical girl.
- T: Shall we return home?
- M: Okay.
- Text (T): Miki Sayaka
- S (small text): What's with her?
- Text (T): Kaname Madoka
- Text (T): Both second-years at my school. I first met them when I saved them from inside a witch's barrier.
- Text (T): Kyuubey saw that they both had what it took to be magical girls.
- Text (T): Miki Sayaka forged a contract and became a magical girl, ...
- Text (T): ...and now fights alongside me.
- ------------------------------Page 17------------------------------
- Text (T): Akemi Homura...
- Text (T): ...is a transfer student, and is a second year like Kaname-san.
- Text (T): It seems that she is trying to prevent Kaname-san from making a contract. She's quite mysterious.
- Text (T): I suspect that she is quite a powerful magical girl.
- Text (T): And then - I'm not sure why - but...
- Text (T): ...Sakura Kyouko has returned to Mitakihara.
- Text (T): There isn't a trace of the kindness she had when she fought alongside me.
- Text (T): Now, she's just an uncouth, greedy girl with a bad attitude.
- ------------------------------Page 18------------------------------
- Text: Episode 5 [I used "Chapter" in volume 1, but it really should've been "Episode"]
- ------------------------------Page 19------------------------------
- M: Mami-san, ...
- M: ...does that mean...
- M: ...that to save yourself...
- M: ...you have to give up...
- M: ...on all the magical girls who aren't your friends...?
- S: Madoka...
- M: Sorry for asking, but...
- T: It's fine.
- T: I understand how you feel.
- ------------------------------Page 20------------------------------
- T: It'd be wonderful if magical girls could be friends.
- T: I don't want to have to fight other girls either.
- T: Nobody likes conflict, after all.
- M: Okay... I...
- M: ...think it would be nice if everyone helped each other out.
- M: I don't think Homura-chan wants to fight with us.
- M: I feel like she keeps running into us not because she wants to compete with us, ...
- M: ...but more because she has some special reasons for what she does.
- T: ...that might be the case.
- M: So, then...
- T: But, Kaname-san - ...
- ------------------------------Page 21------------------------------
- T: ...we don't know what those reasons are, so...
- T: ...I can't very well welcome her as a friend.
- T: It is my responsibility to protect the two of you.
- T: Think of the worst case scenario if we joined forces with someone untrustworthy like her.
- T: If an emergency were to occur, ...
- T: ...I wouldn't be able to guarantee your safety, Kaname-san.
- M: ......
- M: I guess...
- M: ...I really should decide on a wish soon.
- Q: Indeed. If you became a magical girl, ...
- Q: ...there's no question that you'd be very strong in battle.
- Q: If you make a contract with me, that is.
- ------------------------------Page 22------------------------------
- T: *cough*
- T: We won't rush you, ...
- T: ...so think hard about it.
- T: If you become a magical girl, you'll need the resolve to make firm decisions like I was talking about.
- M: O-okay.
- M: But in the end, I wonder if they would even consider compromising.
- S: Right, Madoka? Especially that transfer student...
- S: Like,
- S: "I have no need for it", ...
- S: ...my foot!
- S: There's no way an annoying person like that would ever want to be friends!
- S: ...but moreso than her, ...
- S: ...that Kyouko's the one that really gets my goat.
- ------------------------------Page 23------------------------------
- S: Not only does she let familiars go...
- S: She even called my wish meaningless. She made fun of it!
- S: "Your wish won't help anybody."
- S: "Even if it comes true, no good will come of it."
- S: ...that's what she said.
- S: She doesn't know the first thing about me, ...
- S: ...but talks like she does.... I can't let that slide.
- S: I totally don't want to get close to someone like that.
- S: ......
- S: Ah, sorry, I'm done.
- S: Mami's delicious cake deserves better conversation.
- Text (S): Aaanyway, I'm gonna have some of this delectable chiffon cake.
- M: Say, Sayaka-chan, ...
- ------------------------------Page 24------------------------------
- M: Did you finish the homework due tomorrow?
- S: !?
- S: We had homework...?
- S: Shoot...
- T: A magical girl's duty is important, but so is schoolwork. Don't slack off.
- S: W-well... it's just that, you know, there isn't time in between all these rough battles to do homework!
- S: What about you, Mami-san?
- S: Can you balance your schoolwork with being a defender of justice?
- T: Need you even ask?
- S: Gah!
- S: You're too good, Mami-senpai!
- T: Come to think of it...
- T: ...up till now, your training has focused on actual combat, but...
- T: ...I think it's time we started working on your knowledge of magic.
- S: Wha!?
- ------------------------------Page 25------------------------------
- T: There's a lot of things you need to know.
- T: For example, more effective ways of searching for witches, or...
- S: Huh?
- T: ...how to practically apply magic based on your innate nature, or...
- S: Huh?
- T: blah blah blah [that's actually what it says]
- T: All these research notebooks I've written up should be useful to you.
- S: Yikes!
- T: You've got to become a full-fledged magical girl soon, after all.
- S (small text): Palotto la Magica Dué Infini... [「パロット・ラ・マギカ・デゥーエ・インフィに...」 - I inserted the word breaks based on what seemed most likely. I don't know what this is supposed to be, and it looks like nobody else does, either, though maybe there was something similar in one of the games, cf. <http://blog.livedoor.jp/clannad5659/archives/52218501.html>?]
- M (small text): Rosso Phantasma...
- M: ...Sakura...?
- S: I'm going to be with you, so I don't need to worry about searching for witches... right?
- T: Nope.
- S: A-at least for now!
- S: I've got to put schoolwork first, right...?
- T: I suppose. In that case, let's have a study session tomorrow.
- T (small text): And then we can learn how to search for witches!
- S: Aw, come on!
- S: Can't I just aim to be a defender of justice?
- M: I don't think that'll work, Sayaka-chan.
- S: I know, Mami-san! When I'm taking a test, you can use telepathy to...
- T: I refuse.
- ------------------------------Page 26------------------------------
- SFX (top right): [door closing]
- T: Now, then...
- Q: What are you going to do today?
- T: After Kaname-san mentioned it, I just realized...
- T: ...I have homework...
- T: Oh, rats. I completely forgot.
- T: I wonder if I can get it done tonight...
- Q: ......
- T: ......
- T: Don't say a word about this to them, okay.
- T: I don't want them to see their senpai doing such a slipshod job.
- Q: Fine by me.
- T: ......
- Text (T): My juniors, huh.
- ------------------------------Page 27------------------------------
- T: Hey, ...
- T: Do you know anything, Kyuubey?
- T: About Sakura-san and Homura-san?
- Q: It would be natural to assume that they're trying to deprive you of your territory, ...
- Q: ...but sadly, I have no evidence for that.
- Q: Even if I was sure of that, ...
- Q: ...all I could do is give information as a neutral observer.
- T: That's true.
- Q: Do you plan to become friends with them?
- T: ...No.
- T: It's not solely my problem anymore...
- T: I'll be happy as long as I have Kaname-san and Miki-san.
- ------------------------------Page 28------------------------------
- T: Tiro...
- T: ...Finale!
- M: Hitomi-chan!
- ------------------------------Page 29------------------------------
- T: She's just unconscious. She'll be fine.
- T: Let's let her be for now.
- M: Thank goodness...
- T: Is she one of your classmates?
- M: A classmate and a friend.
- M: But why did this happen to Hitomi-chan...
- T: This sort of thing isn't uncommon.
- T: If there's just a slight weakness in anyone's soul, ...
- T: ...witches can take advantage of that and manipulate them.
- T: I only made it in time because you called me here. Thank you.
- M: Heh heh...
- K: Huh? Miki Sayaka isn't here?
- ------------------------------Page 30------------------------------
- K: Did she...
- K: ...desert you guys already?
- T: Goodness, what a greeting, Sakura-san.
- T: My humblest apologies, but...
- T: Miki-san isn't the sort to do such a thing.
- T: Unlike you.
- T: What about you?
- T: Is Akemi-san not with you?
- T: I had heard that you were working together.
- K: Hell if I know where she is.
- K: Besides, what do you care about how I'm doing?
- ------------------------------Page 31------------------------------
- T: Such an attitude...
- T: ...you really have changed.
- T: I've been hearing quite a few rumors about you.
- T: They're not good rumors.
- K: So what?
- K: You think that'll make me run away?
- T: I'm not going to fight you. I don't want to get her involved.
- K: I've gotta wonder why you're bringing a normal person around when you're hunting witches.
- K: Going for a hike is one thing; fighting a witch is another, you know?
- T: She has what it takes to become a magical girl.
- T: That's why I'm having her come around with us - so she can see what we actually do.
- T: She isn't uninvolved.
- ------------------------------Page 32------------------------------
- T: Isn't it better that she understand the risks and rewards of making a contract...
- T: ...instead of jumping right in, knowing nothing?
- K: Do you really believe that?
- T: ?
- K: You, over there - ...
- K: ...if you're planning on...
- K: ...making a pointless wish like Miki Sayaka, ...
- K: ...you'll be on my radar, so watch yourself.
- M: ......
- M: I wish you wouldn't say such things.
- M: I don't know anything about you, so...
- M: ...I don't know why you're saying such terrible things to Sayaka-chan, but...
- M: ...I know this much: ...
- ------------------------------Page 33------------------------------
- M: Sayaka-chan's wish most definitely wasn't pointless!
- K: Uh-huh.
- K: You're only able to say that because you don't know anything.
- K: You're just letting that senpai lead you by the nose.
- K: All Tomoe Mami wants is power.
- K: She doesn't care one whit about what happens after you make a contract.
- T: ...?
- T: What are you talking about? Don't speak such utter nonsense.
- T: Sakura-san.
- T: You're welcome to remain in this city, but...
- T: ...I will not permit you to continue to provoke my juniors like this.
- T: Let's go, Kaname-san.
- ------------------------------Page 34------------------------------
- H: ...Why me, rather than Mami?
- K: Well, ...
- K: ...it's not like she gave me much room to negotiate, y'know?
- K: That bitch sees people like us... [「ヤロウ」/yarou]
- K: ...as her sworn enemies.
- ------------------------------Page 35------------------------------
- K: It's like she's violating novice magical girls with her sweet-talking... [unclear context, but she uses the verb 手篭めする/tegomesuru, which has sexual connotations]
- K: If more of these pretentious "hero of justice" eyesores start showing it'd be a real pain.
- K: Even if she keeps on doing that...
- K: ...it's not like she'll regain what she lost.
- H: You seem to know quite a bit about Tomoe Mami.
- K: ......
- K: I'm gonna jack her territory soon. [Kyouko uses a rather crude word for "take" 「ぶん取る」/buntoru]
- K: Nothing strange about it, is there?
- K: Don't get me wrong - I don't trust you yet.
- K: I've gotta keep my guard up.
- K: But let me hear what you have to say...
- K: ...about the Walpurgisnacht.
- ------------------------------Page 36------------------------------
- M: Mami-san... did you know that girl?
- T: ...once upon a time, sort of.
- T: You needn't worry about it.
- T: No matter what anyone says, ...
- T: ...you must decide for yourself...
- T: ...whether or not you'll become a magical girl, and what wish you'd like granted.
- T: Alright?
- M: ...okay.
- M: At first...
- M: ...I wanted to become a magical girl...
- M: ...just so I could be useful to someone.
- M: But when Sayaka-chan made her contract to become a magical girl, ...
- M: ...I thought that wasn't the right thing to do.
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- M: I realized how weighty Sayaka-chan's wish was, ...
- M: ...and so I saw that wishes were a matter to be taken seriously.
- M: I had to find a clear purpose for my wish, not just some vague, flighty reason.
- M: So that's why I want to think about it a little more.
- T: That's good. I should've done the same.
- M: I know I'm getting in your way, but...
- T: ...you aren't.
- T: Not at all.
- T: Your presence alone is heartening.
- ------------------------------Page 38------------------------------
- S?: What's up, Hitomi-chan?
- S?: Didn't sleep enough?
- Hito: About that... It turns out that last night, ...
- Text (S/tel): Madoka.
- Text (S/tel): Sorry I couldn't go looking for witches with you last night.
- Text (M/tel): What about you? Were you alright alone?
- Text (S/tel): ...yeah...
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- Text (S/tel): I'll be able to team up with Mami-san today, so...
- Text (M/tel): That's good.
- Text (M/tel): Um, Sayaka-chan, ...
- Text (M/tel): ...last night...
- Hito: ---
- Text (S/tel): Is something wrong?
- Text (M): Well...
- Text (M): Hitomi-chan was...
- ------------------------------Page 40------------------------------
- Text (M): ...--a witch [it's plot-relevant that I omit the verb part of this sentence; cf. page 96, when there's a callback to it.]
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- Text (T): ...they just keep on coming.
- Text (T): Even against a familiar, there's no end to them.
- Text (T): We've got to strike at the source.
- ------------------------------Page 42------------------------------
- T: Miki-san.
- T: Focus more on the witch and less on its familiars.
- T: Can you help me pin it down?
- S: ...yes.
- M: ...Sayaka-chan?
- ------------------------------Page 43------------------------------
- T: ...there!
- T: You're all bark and no bite.
- SFX (T): [sound of her pulling her ribbon loose]
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- T: Tiro...
- T: !?
- T: Eek!?
- ------------------------------Page 45------------------------------
- Text (T): What...? [probably telepathy]
- Text (T): What's going on?
- Text (T): The barrier's form is changing?
- Text (T): It's like it has a will of its own...
- ------------------------------Page 46------------------------------
- Text (T): ...this isn't a different part of the barrier.
- Text (T): This is a completely different type of magic than before.
- Text (T): Was the witch earlier just a decoy?
- Text (T): If so, then...
- T: Be careful, Miki-san!
- T: There might be...
- T: ...another witch hiding inside the barrier!
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- T: Miki-san?
- M: Sayaka-chan!!
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- M?: Mami...san?
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- Text: Episode 6
- T: [choking noise]
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- T: Kkh-
- T: Ugh...
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- M: Mami-san!!
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- M: Mami-san!
- M: Stay with us!
- M: Mami-san...
- Text (S): ...I have to.
- ------------------------------Page 55------------------------------
- M: Ah...
- M: Sayaka, you can't do it alone!
- S: I'm going to borrow your strength, Madoka.
- Text (S): I have to...
- Q: Madoka, make a contract with me! Quickly!
- Text (S): ...protect both of them!
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- M: Homura-cha-
- H: What are you going to do, Miki Sayaka?
- ------------------------------Page 57------------------------------
- H: Abandon Tomoe Mami?
- H: Or...
- H: ...let the witch go free?
- S: ...!?
- H: You'll bring ruin upon yourself if you're half-hearted about this.
- H: You have no time to waste. Make your decision.
- S: W-what's your problem?!
- S: You come barging in and spewing all that...
- K: Quit dawdling, dumbass!
- K: Save your friend already!
- K: Do you want to let her die?
- ------------------------------Page 58------------------------------
- S: Why are you...
- K: I'm buying you some time. Do it!
- K: Even if your wish was pointless, the magic you got from it is yours.
- K: This is your chance to use it. Don't screw it up!
- Text (Q): Miki Sayaka -
- Text (Q): Your contract is tied to a wish for healing.
- S: ......!
- M: Sayaka-chan?
- Text (S): My healing powers...
- Text (S): ...are better than anyone else's.
- ------------------------------Page 59------------------------------
- K: Why are _you_ here?
- H: You can have this one's Grief Seed.
- H: I've done what I needed to do.
- K: Is that so?
- K: Well, I don't care what you have to say.
- K: This one is mine now.
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- Text (M): ...Kaname-san...?
- Text (M): Miki-san...?
- ------------------------------Page 61------------------------------
- Text (M): Those girls...
- ------------------------------Page 63------------------------------
- S: ...uh
- S: !?
- K: ...you were holding back.
- K: Your lives were on the line!
- K: What do you think magical girls are?!
- ------------------------------Page 64------------------------------
- K: When you team up with someone, combat is totally different than when you're alone!
- K: If you fuck up, you're endangering somebody else!
- K: It doesn't just end with you!
- S: I don't...
- S: ...need to hear that from you.
- S: I know that!
- ------------------------------Page 65------------------------------
- S: Ah...
- S: Mami-san!
- T: Thank you, Miki-san.
- T: Sorry for getting in your way there.
- S: Thank goodness...
- S: I'm sorry, Mami-san.
- S: It's all my fault...
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- T: It's been a while since we met here.
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- T: Do you mind if I set here?
- K: If you're here for the Grief Seed, I already used it up.
- T: You earned it. I won't ask you to return it to me.
- T: Besides, ...
- T: ...there was another Grief Seed left behind.
- K: Dunno what you're talking about.
- T: Did you already have lunch?
- T: I baked some cookies.
- ------------------------------Page 68------------------------------
- T: Why did you return to this city?
- T: Did you really come to usurp our territory?
- T: Is that why you're working with Akemi-san?
- K: ......
- T: This has been...
- T: ...bothering me a bit...
- T: Have you been eating properly?
- T: You haven't been subsisting on snacks and fast food every day, have you?
- T: Do you think that's suitable for a girl your age?
- T: You need to eat a well-balanced diet.
- ------------------------------Page 69------------------------------
- K: What do you care?!
- K (small text): I've been eating [something]! [I can't read what it says...]
- T: I'm right, aren't I?
- T (small text): That's not going to cut it.
- T: At that rate, it's not just your diet that-
- K: Just drop it already!
- T: Thank you for yesterday.
- T: You saved me.
- T: I suppose I have to thank Miki-san, too.
- K: Miki Sayaka's the one who saved you.
- K: Not me.
- T: Sakura-san.
- T: Let me get straight to the point.
- ------------------------------Page 70------------------------------
- T: Do you really have no plans to...
- T: ...fight alongside me?
- T: I really can't...
- T: ...bring myself to think ill of you.
- K: ......
- K: ...I...
- T: You've become strong, Sakura-san.
- T: It's been so long, I barely recognized you.
- K: Wh-what are you talking...
- T: The way you fight now is completely different from when we were together.
- T: It's like...
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- T: ...you're trying to make up for the powers you lost.
- K: ......
- T: Surely there are other reasons you left this city...
- T: ...besides your family circumstances...?
- T: Something you're hiding from me?
- K: Is that what you're after?
- T: I didn't want to probe, but...
- T: I just couldn't stop thinking about what you said...
- T: I know it's too late now... but why didn't you talk to me about how...
- T: ...you became unable to use your magic?
- T: If it was that you didn't want to be a hindrance, then-
- K: If I had told you, would it have made a difference?
- ------------------------------Page 72------------------------------
- K: I mean, ...
- K: ...if I had told you about it, would you have stopped hunting familiars?
- K: You'd just look at me with a smile on your face while...
- K: ...doling out your Grief Seeds to me, a hindrance who can't even use magic right, wouldn't you?
- K: I just can't stand that part of you!
- T: Sakura-sa-
- K: It doesn't really have anything to do with magic.
- K: You could've just left it at "we don't get along", but...
- K: ...you just keep beating this dead horse.
- K: You really love meddling, don't you.
- T: [noise of frustration]
- K: ...by the way...
- K: ...I've got something to tell you, too.
- ------------------------------Page 73------------------------------
- K: Your battle last night - ...
- K: ...you and Miki Sayaka...
- K: ...are really the worst team.
- K: I couldn't bear to keep watching. That was terrible!
- K: I took the Grief Seed as a fee for...
- K: ...showing that blockhead some simple moves. Simple as that.
- K: But then you get these stupid ideas in your head.
- K: If you're that thankful to me, ...
- K: ...you oughta give me another grief seed at least.
- T: You've truly...
- K: Why'd you let someone like her make a contract?
- ------------------------------Page 74------------------------------
- K: You must've known from the beginning what her wish would be.
- K: You knew what happened to me when I wished for others to be happy.
- K: And you teamed up with her just like that. Some nerve you've got.
- T: That's...
- K: She should just betray you, same as me.
- T: Miki-san wouldn't do that!
- K: You think so?
- K: She's going to be in trouble soon.
- T: Do you really believe that?
- T: I won't let you speak ill of her...
- K: What're you gonna do about it?
- K: If you want to fight, let's go at it!
- ------------------------------Page 75------------------------------
- T: ...no.
- T: That's enough.
- T: It's my fault. I should've known you'd think that way.
- T: I regret having done what I did without considering your feelings.
- T: Sorry to have wasted your time.
- T: You have your own territory, don't you?
- T: Leave this city. The sooner, the better.
- K: ...shit.
- ------------------------------Page 76------------------------------
- S: Morning, Madoka.
- M: Good morning, Sayaka-chan.
- M: Are you...
- M: ?
- H: Can I help you?
- ------------------------------Page 77------------------------------
- Text (S/tel): About that...
- Text (S/tel): ...thanks for protecting Madoka and Mami-san.
- Text (H/tel): Indeed.
- M: Sayaka-cha-...
- ------------------------------Page 78------------------------------
- T: I see... so Miki-san is...
- M: Uh, um... please keep this a secret...
- T: Sure, that's not a problem.
- M: Back then, ...
- M: ...she must've been worrying about the whole thing with Kamijou-kun.
- M: Ever since then, ...
- M: ...Sayaka-chan has been really depressed...
- M: ...since she feels it's her fault that happened to you.
- ------------------------------Page 79------------------------------
- M: So I just was hoping...
- M: ...you wouldn't hate Sayaka-chan for that, and...
- M: ...that you'd continue to fight alongside Sayaka.
- T: Ah, certainly.
- T: I'll continue to protect Miki-san.
- T: You needn't worry.
- Text (K/flashback): ...betray you, same as me.
- T: I won't let that happen.
- T: It's not going to happen for a second time. [I'm 99% sure this line is supposed to evoke Homura's repetition thing, especially given that there's a Kyuubey shadow in the next panel.]
- T: Not if I can help it.
- ------------------------------Page 80------------------------------
- K: Stop teaming up with Mami.
- K: No matter what you do, you'll never become like her.
- K: You're just extra baggage for her.
- K: Quit the defender-of-justice games. Why don't you adopt a more sensible approach?
- S: You're right.
- ------------------------------Page 81------------------------------
- S: I'm not a defender of justice like Mami.
- S: No matter how you look at it, we're different.
- K: You're awfully perceptive toni-
- S: Mami-san...
- S: ...told me about you.
- S: You were her first apprentice, right?
- K: Damn her...
- S: Just based on our strength as magical girls, ...
- S: ...you're more suited for Mami-san...
- S: ...than a burden like me.
- K: Huh?
- ------------------------------Page 82------------------------------
- S: You guys are the sort who'd abandon the people of this town for your own benefit.
- S: I don't intend to accept the way you think or the way you fight, but...
- S: ...I don't have the right to...
- S: ...criticize you for it either.
- K: ...?
- K: What's with her...?
- ------------------------------Page 83------------------------------
- T: Why the formalities, Miki-san?
- S: I'm sorry about last time.
- S: I let my guard down, and so...
- S: ...you got...
- T: Goodness...
- T: Like I said, it's fine.
- T: After all, everyone ended up just fine.
- S: ...it's just...
- S: I think we should settle this now...
- ------------------------------Page 84------------------------------
- S: Why don't we stop teaming up?
- T: ...Why?
- T: If it's just because of the incident last time...
- S: It's not just that.
- T: ?
- S: A while back, ...
- S: ...you saved one of me and Madoka's friends.
- S: A girl named Hitomi, remember?
- T: Y-yes...?
- ------------------------------Page 85------------------------------
- S: I...
- S: I knew that she'd...
- S: ...been possessed by a witch.
- ------------------------------Page 87------------------------------
- ?: He was a prodigy before the accident, wasn't he?
- Text: Episode 7
- ?: At the violin, that is.
- ?: Even if he's able to walk again, his fingers...
- [the rest of the dialogue on this page is identical to the relevant section of episode 4 of the anime.]
- S: It'll all work out! If you don't give up, I'm sure someday...
- Ksuke: They told me to give up.
- Ksuke: I won't be able to use my hand again.
- Ksuke: Not without a miracle or some sort of magic!
- ------------------------------Page 88------------------------------
- S: ...they exist. [contraction of the episode-title quote 「奇跡も魔法も、あるよ!」/"miracles and magic do exist!"]
- ------------------------------Page 89------------------------------
- T: ...Mi-
- T: Miki-san?
- M: Sayaka-chan!
- S: Just in time, huh, ...
- S: ...Mami-san!
- ------------------------------Page 90------------------------------
- Text (S): That's great... Kyousuke.
- Text (S): I'm going to be a magical girl now.
- Text (S): I'll protect Kyousuke...
- Text (S): ...and everyone else in this city, as a defender of justice!
- Hito: Sayaka-san, ...
- Hito: ...I'd like to speak with you.
- ------------------------------Page 91------------------------------
- Hito: For a long time now, ...
- Hito: ...I've been enamored of Kamijou Kyousuke-kun.
- S: Are you free for a while today?
- S: I want to meet you to discuss something...
- Ksuke/telephone: Hm... could we do it tomorrow?
- Ksuke/telephone: There's some I've got to take care of today...
- S: It... has to be today.
- S: ......s-so... listen...
- S: Are you quitting your lessons, Hitomi-chan?
- ------------------------------Page 92------------------------------
- Hito: I am. Not all of them, but...
- Hito: ...I need to make time to study for my high school entrance exams.
- Hito: My family wasn't very happy about that...
- S: But still, you're pretty awesome, Hitomi.
- S: You've been doing so many activities with complaining even one bit, right?
- S: I can't even remember to get the next day's homework done~
- M: Sayaka-chan...
- S: Entrance exams are next year, huh...
- M: They're not that far away anymore.
- M: It must be tough, ...
- M: ...taking lessons and studying for exams at the same time, Hitomi-chan.
- Hito: I suppose it is.
- ------------------------------Page 93------------------------------
- Text (Hito): I'll probably end up neglecting both of them.
- Text (S): Even if I...
- Text (S): ...tell him how I feel, here and now, ...
- Text (S): ...what if Kyousuke and I... get together.
- Text (S): What...
- Text (S): ...would I do...
- Text (S): ...about being a magical girl?
- Text (S): Even if I don't do anything, Mami-san will protect this city, right?
- Text (S): No... if I think like that, I'm the same as them.
- Text (S): That can't be okay.
- Text (S): What am I thinking...
- Ksuke/telephone: ...you're not saying anything, Sayaka.
- ------------------------------Page 94------------------------------
- S: ...no, never mind.
- S: You need to be back in form to play the violin by exam time, right?
- S: Keep on practicing, okay?
- [the rest of the dialogue on this page is basically identical to the relevant section of episode 7 of the anime.]
- Hito: I will wait one day for you.
- Hito: After school tomorrow, I will confessing my feelings to Kamijou Kyousuke-kun.
- Hito: Whether or not you tell him how you feel, ...
- Hito: ...please make a decision you won't regret.
- Text (S): It's fine this way.
- ------------------------------Page 95------------------------------
- Text (S): That's right. I'm a magical girl.
- Text (S): My duty is to defeat the witches and protect everyone.
- Text (S): I don't have time for anything else.
- Text (S): ...but...
- ------------------------------Page 96------------------------------
- S: ...Hitomi...?
- S: ...it...
- S: ...couldn't be her.
- Text (S): Hitomi should be on her way to her lessons now.
- Text (S): Besides...
- Text (S): ...I don't know what to say to her...
- M: Hitomi-chan was... [continuation of Madoka's line from page 39]
- ------------------------------Page 97------------------------------
- M: ...possessed by a witch.
- S: ...get it?
- S: I'm horrible, right?
- ------------------------------Page 98------------------------------
- T: ...that's...
- T: ...not your fault.
- T: I mean, at the time, you didn't know if it was her...
- T: ...and you couldn't have known if she was possessed by a witch...
- T: ...and in the end, she was fine.
- S: I guess.
- S: If you hadn't saved her, she'd be dead.
- T: ......
- S: I'm all talk.
- S: I keep on going on about "justice", but...
- S: ...when push comes to shove, I have to rely on somebody else. I'm useless.
- ------------------------------Page 99------------------------------
- S: And that's why you almost died, Mami-san.
- T: ...Miki-san.
- T: I don't think there's anything wrong with depending on your friends.
- T: Besides, you've saved me so many times.
- T: I'm only here now thanks to you...
- S: You're really kind, Mami-san.
- S: Why won't you blame me for anything?
- S: In the first place, all of this only happened because...
- S: ...I ignored your advice and forged a contract.
- S: I'm glad that you're always there to help me out, but...
- S: ...it's kind of hard to deal with sometimes...
- ------------------------------Page 100------------------------------
- S: ...I'm sorry.
- S: That's why I think we should separate.
- S: I don't have anything to give you in exchange for your kindness.
- S: Plus, I wasn't...
- S: ...good enough to team up with you in the first place.
- S: In a sense, ordinary people and other magical girls are the same to us - ...
- S: ...we have the power to affect other people's lives with every action we take.
- S: That's the heavy burden we bear.
- S: No matter what situation we're in, ...
- S: ...we as magical girls are supposed to save everyone from the witches.
- S: But back then, I realized that...
- S: ...I don't even have what it takes to do something that simple.
- ------------------------------Page 101------------------------------
- S: You can't...
- S: ...afford to work with someone who puts your life in danger, can you, Mami-san?
- T: ...I...
- T: ...I still...
- S: If you...
- S: ...still want to team up with me, ...
- S: ...even though I've forsaken innocent people, ...
- S: ...I think I'll lose all respect for you.
- ------------------------------Page 102------------------------------
- S: I'll let Madoka know.
- S: I can't protect anybody the way I am now.
- S: Take care of her for me.
- Text (S): I'm sorry, ...
- Text (S): ...Mami-san...
- ------------------------------Page 103------------------------------
- K: See?
- K: It's hopeless.
- H: What is?
- ------------------------------Page 104------------------------------
- H: You seem to be in a foul mood.
- K: ......
- K: Whaddaya want?
- H: Nothing in particular.
- H: I just was wondering...
- H: ...if you might be considering joining up with them.
- K: Huh?!
- H: Truth be told, ...
- H: ...I have thought about making Tomoe Mami an ally.
- H: Surely I could ask as much in exchange for the other day.
- K: I didn't say a damn thing about joining her.
- H: It wasn't worth it, though.
- ------------------------------Page 105------------------------------
- K: ...what?
- H: Did you speak with Tomoe Mami?
- K: ...
- K: Hell if I know! [I don't know why she's saying this, given that she should presumably know whether or not she talked to Mami. I guess she's just being defensive.]
- H: You are free to act as you please, but...
- H: ...I would prefer that you not let your vexation stand in the way of my objective. [It's unclear whether this is "our objective" or "your objective" or "my objective", but the latter seems most logical in context]
- K: Screw you!
- K: You wanna fight?!
- H: I was just pointing out one of your faults.
- K: ...damn, you're a pain in the neck.
- K: If you've got time to lecture me, ...
- K: ...why don't you go and hunt a witch or two?
- ------------------------------Page 106------------------------------
- K: If you can't find a Grief Seed, it ain't my problem.
- H: ...I see.
- H: Perhaps I shouldn't be so ambitious. [context unclear]
- ------------------------------Page 107------------------------------
- H: There are too many magical girls in this town.
- ?: --Miki-san?
- ?: Are you okay?
- ------------------------------Page 108------------------------------
- ?: If you're not feeling well, you should go to the nurse's office...
- ?: Is the nurse's aide here?
- M: That's me!
- S: Oh, I'm fine.
- S: I'll just rest in the shade.
- M: Sayaka-chan.
- ------------------------------Page 109------------------------------
- M: Why don't you make up with Mami-san?
- M: It's obvious that it's getting tougher for you every day.
- M: It's tough for me to watch that happen to you, too.
- M: You can't keep going like this...
- S: All I'd do is slow Mami-san down.
- M: At least let me be with you, then...
- S: No.
- M: ......
- S: You can tell, can't you, Madoka?
- ------------------------------Page 110------------------------------
- S: I'm the sort of person who abandons her friends.
- S: Can you really entrust your life to me?
- M: I... guess...
- M: I'd just get in your way even if I was with you...
- M: But what if I became a magical girl, too...?
- M: Sayaka-chan?
- ------------------------------Page 111------------------------------
- S: Kyou...suke?
- S: Why...
- Ksuke: I thought you'd be up here, Sayaka.
- S: Wha...
- S: ...what's up? Need me... for something?
- Ksuke: Yeah. I have something for you.
- ------------------------------Page 112------------------------------
- Ksuke: Sorry it took me a while, but...
- Ksuke: ...I wanted to thank you for...
- Ksuke: ...doing so much for me while I was in the hospital.
- Ksuke: So... I hope you like this.
- Ksuke: We don't have time to see each other outside school.
- Ksuke: I'm busy after school, too.
- S: Don't...
- ------------------------------Page 113------------------------------
- S: Don't worry about it!
- S: I guess you were concerned about me. Ha ha ha. [forced laughter, however you want to transcribe that]
- S: You don't need to thank me!
- S: It's not like... I was visiting you in the hospital so you'd appreciate me...
- S: Anyway, I don't have the right to accept that right now...
- Ksuke: ...?
- S: You know, Kyousuke...
- S: ...you should stop wasting time here. Go see Hitomi.
- S: There's a rumor going around, you know...
- S: ...that Kyousuke and Hitomi might be going out...
- ------------------------------Page 114------------------------------
- M: Sorry, Sayaka-chan.
- S: ?
- M: Kamijou-kun.
- M: I have to tell you something.
- Ksuke: Kaname-san...?
- M: When your fingers healed...
- M: ...didn't you wonder how or why they went back to normal so quickly?
- M: Well, ...
- S: Ma-...
- M: The one who healed your arm was...
- S: Madokaaa!
- ------------------------------Page 115------------------------------
- M: Sayaka-chan!
- Ksuke: My.. arm...?
- Ksuke: Sayaka...?
- Text (S/flashback): They exist.
- Text (S/flashback): Miracles and magic... they exist.
- M: I know this is sudden, and difficult to believe, and...
- M: I don't think you'll understand it right away, but...
- ------------------------------Page 116------------------------------
- M: ...you saw it happen with your own eyes.
- M: Isn't that right, Kamijou-kun?
- M: Sayaka-chan put her life at risk to bring you a miracle.
- S: Madoka...
- M: I'm really sorry.
- M: I know that this isn't how...
- M: ...you wanted this to end up.
- M: But I couldn't bear to watch you get hurt any more.
- S: Why'd you say that...
- S: I can't do it...
- S: Just look at what I did to Hitomi...
- Ksuke: Sayaka.
- ------------------------------Page 117------------------------------
- Ksuke: Can you tell me more?
- S: ...alright.
- S: I'll tell you everything I've kept a secret.
- S: Just give me a day's time.
- ------------------------------Page 118------------------------------
- S: I need to prepare myself emotionally.
- S: You'll be learning about the worst parts of me, you see.
- Ksuke: ...I understand.
- S: I think I'll leave early today.
- S: Could you tell the teacher?
- M: ...okay. I'm sorry again.
- S: No, no, it's fine.
- S: I just didn't think that my secret identity would be revealed here.
- S: Don't scare me like that.
- S: You know, ...
- S: ...that's not like you, Madoka.
- S: ...but...
- ------------------------------Page 119------------------------------
- S: ...you did it for me. Thanks, ...
- S: ...Madoka!
- S: See you tomorrow!
- ------------------------------Page 121------------------------------
- K: Got another one!
- Q: Well done, Kyouko.
- K: Same as always.
- K: Like I'd let a witch get the better of me.
- Q: When you lost your enchantment magic, ...
- Q: ...I didn't think you'd last much longer.
- K: Uh-huh.
- K: Don't underestimate me.
- Text: Episode 8
- Text (K): That's right.
- Text (K): I'm strong now.
- Text (K): I'll never screw up like back then.
- ------------------------------Page 122------------------------------
- Text (K): I'm different now.
- K: I wonder how...
- K: ...Mami's doing.
- Q: By the way, Kyouko, ...
- Q: ...back in Mitakihara City...
- Q: ...a new magical girl showed up just the other day.
- K: ...and?
- K: Mami's new apprentice, huh?
- K: She wished for somebody else's sake? What an idiot.
- K: Yeah...
- ------------------------------Page 123------------------------------
- [the background of the top panel is from page 73]
- K: ...stupid Mami.
- Text (K): What're you trying to do? [context unclear]
- Text (K): Do you want the same thing to happen again?
- Text (K): Even if you team up...
- T: Leave this city. The sooner, the better.
- K: ...shit.
- Text (K): I'm the one who was meddling.
- Text (K): It's not like I really believe that Sayaka should betray her.
- K: I'm an idiot...
- Text (K): I get that she's different from me...
- ------------------------------Page 124------------------------------
- Text (K): It's just... I...
- K: Cut the shit.
- K: There's no point in defeating familiars!
- K: Just go after the witches, dammit!
- K: You're working alone, aren't you?
- K: Then do whatever the hell you want!
- K: You're going to end up unable to fight!
- ------------------------------Page 125------------------------------
- S: What's it to you?
- S: You hate losing Grief Seeds to other people, right?
- S: Just beat all the witches yourself.
- S: That way, I can focus on the familiars.
- S: We'd both be happy, and the town would be safe. It works out.
- S: In short, we defeat all the witches and familiars. Isn't that...
- K: ...Oh, for...!
- K: ...anyway, ...
- K: ...what you're doing now isn't good.
- K: I've made the same mistakes.
- K: Just listen to what your senpai has to say.
- S: ...what's "the same"?
- ------------------------------Page 126------------------------------
- S: Don't lump me in with people like you... people who justify sacrificing other people for their own ends.
- S: Or what?
- S: Do you mean to say that you lost people important to you due to your own foolishness?
- K: Exactly.
- K: ...That's right.
- K: ......
- S: Did you hate yourself?
- S: Did you ever think that...
- S: ...you'd be better off dead?
- ------------------------------Page 127------------------------------
- K: I didn't.
- S: Yeah, that's just how you are.
- S: I'm just the opposite.
- K: ......
- K: You want to give people a miracle, and then give them your life?
- K: That's a fucking stupid way to live.
- ------------------------------Page 128------------------------------
- S: ...I guess so.
- S: I know that it's stupid.
- S: The one person I wanted to hide it from found out...
- S: ...that I'm a magical girl.
- S: That's why I ran away.
- S: I was scared of people learning about my mistakes.
- Text (S): I don't know what I'd do if people found out about my worst aspects.
- Text (S): I thought it'd be better to...
- Text (S): ...hide everything and just disappear, consumed by a witch.
- Text (S): That way, nobody would hate me, and...
- Text (S): ...everybody would mourn for me in the end.
- ------------------------------Page 129------------------------------
- [the background of the top middle panel is from page 91 of volume 1]
- S: ...you just...
- S: ...thought of me as a coward, didn't you.
- K: ......
- S: That's fine.
- S: I guess... I think so, too.
- K: Who cares what anyone else thinks?
- K: It's your life - do whatever you want to do. That's the right way to live.
- ------------------------------Page 130------------------------------
- K: As for Mami...
- K: ...she likes the way she lives.
- K: She lives just so she can fight for justice.
- K: That's why she can go to the lengths she does.
- K: We're not like that.
- K: Basically, she's special.
- K: There's no reason for us to get depressed just because we can't be storybook heroes like that.
- S: ...did you leave Mami-san because you couldn't be like her?
- K: Yeah.
- K: You ought to...
- S: Sorry.
- ------------------------------Page 131------------------------------
- S: Maybe that's good enough for you, but that won't satisfy me.
- S: I know I can't become a true defender of justice like Mami-san, but...
- S: ...I don't want to become a selfish magical girl who...
- S: ...lets familiars run free for her own benefit.
- K: You...
- K: You idiot!
- K: You didn't understand a word...
- S: Like you suggested, I'm going to go search for a witch.
- S: You're happy with that, I take it.
- S: My apologies for bothering you with my complaints.
- ------------------------------Page 132------------------------------
- K: It's too late, stupid.
- ------------------------------Page 133------------------------------
- K: You haven't been keeping an eye on her.
- K: Looks like your precious little junior's gone on her way.
- K: She's searching for a witch.
- K: You should go after her.
- K: She's even weaker than I was back then.
- K: A witch might make a snack out of her, see?
- K: What are you gonna do?
- ------------------------------Page 134------------------------------
- Text (K): ...obviously.
- Text (K): You don't want this to...
- Text (K): ...happen again either.
- Text (K): I'm sure you've got your own thoughts about this, Mami.
- K: She'll be fine.
- ------------------------------Page 135------------------------------
- K: My bad for getting in your way, senpai.
- K: You'll still make it in time.
- Text (K): You don't want...
- Text (K): ...Sayaka to turn out like me, do you?
- ------------------------------Page 141------------------------------
- S: Ma...Mami-sa...
- S: Why...
- T: Just in time, huh...
- T: ...Miki-san.
- ------------------------------Page 142------------------------------
- T: Leave the rest to me.
- T: You must be almost out of magical energy.
- T: You're going to tell him the truth, right?
- T: Let's go home together after this.
- S: ...no.
- ------------------------------Page 143------------------------------
- S: I don't want to.
- S: I don't want to be a villain.
- S: I don't want someone precious to me to know that I'm the worst of the worst.
- S: But I don't want to deceive him and...
- S: ...only tell him the good parts, either.
- S: And yet, when it comes down to it, I'd have to do one or the other.
- S: So I figured I ought to run away...
- ------------------------------Page 144------------------------------
- T: If you don't want to say anything to him, then don't.
- T: Or if you just want to tell him the good parts...
- T: ...and deceive him, why not do that?
- T: That's how I've lived my life.
- S: Mami-san...?
- T: What do you think of me, Miki-san?
- T: Do you think that I'm a serious-minded senpai who fights for justice?
- T: That's all a lie.
- ------------------------------Page 145------------------------------
- T: You know, ...
- T: ...I never wanted to be a defender of justice.
- T: All I wanted was to be with someone else.
- T: I'm just a lonely girl at heart.
- T: I was always scared of being disliked.
- T: In front of you girls, I presented myself as...
- T: ...a serious-minded senpai with a smile on her face.
- T: ...but I'm done keeping up that facade.
- ------------------------------Page 146------------------------------
- T: Please, Miki-san.
- T: Even if not for your sake or someone else's sake, ...
- T: ...be with me for my sake.
- T: If you can't forgive yourself, ...
- T: ...I'll just stop being a hero.
- T: So...
- ------------------------------Page 147------------------------------
- T: ...please don't leave me.
- S: ...don't be like that.
- S: That's not the...
- S: ...Mami-san I admired.
- S: I admired Mami-san, the defender of justice.
- S: That's why I absolutely didn't want to get in your way.
- S: But now you've said all that...
- S: ...am I good enough?
- Text (S): I'm a terrible girl.
- Text (S): Yet you're still okay with me?
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- T: Of course.
- S: Ha ha... [laughter]
- S: Oh boy...
- S: I should really have a biting retort here, but...
- S: I'm happy...
- S: ...that I'm needed by you. [lit. "I'm happy that you have a need for me, despite how bad I am"; this awkward passive construction is the only concise translation I could come up with that gets this across]
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- T: ......
- T: Let's carry on this discussion over tea with everyone.
- T: Come along - ...
- T: ...Kaname-san is waiting for us.
- T: I'm confident today's cake will be delicious!
- S: Thank you, Mami-san.
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- K: ...huh...
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- Text (K): Was that...
- K: ......
- H: Where do you think you're going?
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- K: You...
- H: If you're thinking about going to find Tomoe Mami and Miki Sayaka, ...
- H: ...you'd better not.
- K: Tha-...
- K: It's none of your business...
- H: Do you want to die?
- H: Or would you rather kill them yourself?
- K: ...what are you trying to say?
- H: By now, it's probably...
- H: ...too late for either of them.
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- Hito: ?
- Hito: What's the matter?
- Ksuke: ...nothing.
- Ksuke: It's just the rain.
- Hito: Oh, goodness me.
- Hito: My umbrella should be in here...
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- Hito: Er... seeing as you're on crutches, ...
- Hito: ...you needn't really...
- Hito: ...use your own umbrella...
- Ksuke: No, I'm fine.
- Ksuke: I'm trying to do as much as I can by myself.
- Hito: If you insist, I suppose...
- Text (M/flashback): The one who healed your arm was...
- Ksuke: ......
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- M: I can't find Mami-san...
- M: Did she meet up with Sayaka-chan?
- Text (M/flashback): Please help me find her, ...
- Text (M/flashback): ...Mami-san.
- Text (M/flashback): She thanked me, but...
- Text (M/flashback): ...I'm worried.
- Text (M/flashback): She was acting kind of weird...
- Text (M): Sorry, ...
- Text (M): ...Sayaka-chan.
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- Text (M): I...
- Q: I see.
- Q: You made it out of the barrier safely.
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- Q: You came intending to save Miki Sayaka, ...
- Q: ...but were thoroughly surprised by what ended up happening.
- Q: ...isn't that it, more or less?
- Q: That's understandable.
- Q: From the beginning, I wasn't planning to tell you about this.
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- [the background of the middle panel is from page 101 of volume 1]
- Q: Be it sooner or later, Miki Sayaka would be the first to hatch. That was pretty predictable.
- Q: In a territory occupied by multiple skilled magical girls, ...
- Q: ...it's not surprising that there wouldn't be enough to go around for...
- Q: ...a solitary magical girl with poor witch-locating skills.
- Q: No matter how large a city is, there's a limit to how many witches can inhabit it.
- Q: And yet, you didn't abandon your practice of hunting familiars.
- Q: Even if you didn't know the ultimate fate that awaits all magical girls, ...
- Q: ...surely you fully understood how important Grief Seeds are.
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- T: Kyuubey...
- T: Why did Miki-san turn into a witch?
- Q: Need you even ask? You already know the answer.
- Q: Miki Sayaka was turned into a witch by...
- Q: ...Akemi Homura, ...
- Q: ...Sakura Kyouko, ...
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- Q: ...and Tomoe Mami.
- Q: Who else could it be?
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