MagiReco Another Story 6.3

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...*
*And I decided to meet with someone...*