Mahou Shoujo/Puella Magi/Magical Girl Kazumi Magica ch 18

Mahou Shoujo/Puella Magi/Magical Girl Kazumi Magica ch 18 English Script
By /a/non

Dialogue are separated and arranged in reading order
Text in brackets are comments, suggestions, notes, etc.
Text in parentheses are smaller text

Ka = Kazumi
Kr = Kaoru Maki
Um = Umika Misaki

Mi = Mirai Wakaba
Ni = Niko Kanna
Sk = Saki Asami

Name order is Western.
Attack names are in Italian.

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Kr:	Niko...
	Why did you...
Ni:	I can't let you kill Kazumi

Ni:	You humans, that is
[Left]:	Kazumi pleads for Pleiades to resurrect Michiru and Satomi.  She also starts turning into a witch and seemed to be killed, but Niko saves her. However, what's Niko's true motive...?
Chapter 18 "Connect"

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Um:	What's the meaning of this, Niko!?

Ka:	Ugh...
SFX:	gurgle...
Ni:	Kazumi and I are the only two

Ni:	composite magical girls in this world

:	!?
SFX:	gurgle...

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Ni:	What a strong current
SFX:	crackle
		crackle
Mi:	Niko, what did you do to Saki?

Ni:	Nothing
	Just turning Saki into a witch

Ni:	With electric magic that can speed up or slow down life
	[lit: Iru Fraasu]
Sk:	AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

Ni:	Your screams
	are the best

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Mi:	Sakii
	ii
	ii
SFX:	sizzle
		AHHHHH


Mi:	Juubey!! Clean Saki's gem!

Ju:	It's too late! Run away, Mirai!

Mi:	No!!
	Even if Saki turns into a witch, I don't want to leave her

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Mi:	Saki is---
SFX:	shhh...
		Kyahaha...

Mi:	You're always so funny, Saki
Sk:	You're always so cheerful too
	I can't believe it

Mi:	Huh?
Sk:	I can't believe that you didn't have any friends
	What in the world is the reason?

Mi:	...

Mi:	They... They said that it's creepy that I use "boku"			[blah blah male first-person pronoun vs. general/female first-person pronoun blah blah]
	Do you think that it's strange too...?

Sk:	---Yea, it's strange
SFX:	depressed...

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Sk:	It's strange that they think it's strange
Mi:	!

Sk:	When I was a kid, I used "boku" too

Sk:	My dad got me to say "watashi," but I still have an urge to say "boku" sometimes

Sk:	So it's like I can see my old self in you
	That makes me happy

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Sk:	...We're the same age
	Strange, huh...

Mi:	Saki...

Mi:	Saki is me,
	and I'm Saki!!

Sk:	Mi-
	ra-...

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SFX:	CRUNCH

SFX:	collapse

SFX:	clink

Mi:	I can't kill Saki

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SFX:	ROAR

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Mi:	Saki...
	I love you

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Kr:	Mirai!

Ka:	Ahhh!!

SFX:	whoosh
		GYAHHHH

Ni:	Connect
SFX:	fwoo

SFX:	fwhip
		fwhip
:	!?

Ni:	Stay!
SFX:	BAM
:	GYAHHHHH

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Um:	She stopped
	the witch with magic!?

Ka:	Niko, stop
	Let me out!
Ni:	Two people left in Pleiades
	I'm almost done with my revenge

Kr:	Revenge!?
	What in the world are you--
SFX:	throw

SFX:	catch

Kr:	California
	Guns went off accidentally... while kids played cowboy
Ni:	That was how it all began

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Ni:	Two deaths and one injury
	The survivor was Kanna Hijiri
	The one who pulled the trigger was also
	Kanna Hijiri

[Background]:	Flower Class
SFX:	kyah kyah

Ni:	Even though Kanna was young, her hands were tainted
	She threw away her smile

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Ni:	She kept praying for redemption

Sign:	Class 5-2's Play "Cowboy in Love"
Ni:	She thought,

Ni:	"if that accident never happened, how happy would I be
	and how great would my life be?"

Ni:	Kanna dreamt up an hypothetical version of herself

Ni:	Together, her real self and her imaginary self
	were one girl named "Niko"			["Niko" can mean "two girls"]

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Ni:	And--- her wish for becoming a magical girl was to realize her imaginary self
	and give her the name "Kanna Hijiri"

Um:	Kanna Hijiri...

Ni:	Is that you?

Ni:	I lived happily without knowing anything
	I had friends and a family

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Ni:	But one day, I found out
Sk:	Damn, we're too late
SFX:	[lit: pusu pusu]

Ni:	What's that monster?
	And that girl
	looks exactly like me...!!

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Ju:	That's your original self

SFX:	Hahaha

Ni:	That cat... said that I'm the hypothetical self of that girl...
	I'm a clone made from her magical girl contract

Ni:	Then

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Ni:	What in the world
	are these people?

:	What's wrong, Kanna? Do you not like it?

Ni:	There's no way...
	...that I'm the only fake!!

SFX:	type type
Ni:	!!

Ni: This article...
	Dad
	Mom

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SFX:	[vomit sound]

Ni:	Why...
	Why did that girl make a hypothetical version of herself!?
SFX:	Hah
		Hah
Ju:	Through watching you, she wanted to experience

Ju:	the happiness that she never got

Ni:	Then she can just erase her memories
Ju:	She doesn't want to escape from her crimes
	That's her will

Ni:	Huh?
	Don't joke with me

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Ni:	What does she think I am?
	I'm just a doll that's living in a story she made...
	I can't believe she felt hapiness from it

Ju:	I'm not able to joke
	I'm just telling you the truth

Ni:	Unacceptable

Ni:	I want to make her suffer and kill her!
	I want power!

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Ju:	I'll grant that wish
	if you'll become a magical girl and fight witches

Ju:	As long as you have a feelings like a human
	I can grant your wish, even if you're not human

Ju:	But you'll inevitably
	turn into a witch and die

Ni:	I don't care
	My very existence is made-up anyways

Ju:	Then, your wish, please...

Ni:	Connect
Ju:	?

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Ni:	I want the power to connect to others without drawing attention
	I'll watch her
	and burn her death into my eyes!!

Ni:	That's how I found out about
	Niko's memories and suffering, and Pleiades's plans

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Ni:	I was happy when I heard that they were making another girl just like me
SFX:	rub

Ni:	But,
	at the same time, I started hating you selfish girls

Um:	...
Kr:	Did you control any of us?
Ni:	No way
	It's fun to watch you destroy yourselves

Ni:	I just prepare events to make it fun
SFX:	clatter

Um:	You made them...

Ni:	I connected to your Ex File and Niko's cloning magic
	It was easy
	Then, I just used Yuuri and Soujo as pseudo-witches

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Ni:	to dirty your Soul Gems
	by making you use a lot of magic
SFX:	grab

:	...!!

Ni:	The plan was almost perfect
	Yuuri failed at the stealing Kazumi
	because she clumsily switched her with a bomb

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Ni:	That was such a pain, kazumi

Ni:	You're so worn out...

Um:	What are you going to do with Kazumi!?
Ni:	I want

Ni:	to be real
	If humans are real and we're fake,
	then I'll destroy humanity and turn us into the new humans

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Ni:	I can make all of the weapons I want by turning magical girls into witches!
:	!!

Ni:	I call the new humans "The Hyades"!!
	It's perfect because we're the half-sisters of the Pleiades!!