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- Part 1:
- Momoko: Phew... that should be all the familiars around here cleaned up now.
- Momoko: But, how complex is this-...
- Momoko: Waaaah?!
- Momoko: Damn...! There're still familiars left...
- Momoko: Huh...?
- Momoko: You're...! A magical girl?!
- ???: That's right. I'm...
- Part 2:
- Yachiyo: Sigh... it's a problem big enough to make my head hurt.
- Mifuyu: It certainly is... it's a good thing that she didn't take any damage from the witch, but...
- (One year before Iroha arrived... order was kept in Kamihama City due to three magical girls.)
- (The first one... the peacekeeper of the East side who dealt with the magical girls living in the Daitou and Artisan Wards...)
- (Izumi Kanagi.)
- Eastside Magical Girl: ...Kanagi-san.
- Kanagi: ――?! Kanagi: Are you okay?!
- Kanagi: Those injuries look terrible... Could it have been... one of those Westsiders...?!
- Eastside Magical Girl: ...No, that wasn't it.
- Eastside Magical Girl: I'm very sorry to bother you at this time, but it's a dispute with another Eastside magical girl...
- Kanagi: ...Please give me all the details.
- Eastside Magical Girl: A neighboring team was about to go after a witch that appeared in our territory.
- Eastside Magical Girl: So then it turned into a dispute... may I respectfully ask you to mediate this?
- Kanagi: So that's what happened... be that so, then I shall lend you my power.
- Eastside Magical Girl: Thank you very much!
- (The second one... the peacekeeper of the West side who dealt with the magical girls living in the Mizuna, Sankyou, Shinsei and Sakae Wards...)
- (Nanami Yachiyo.)
- Westside Magical Girl: A-are you sure?!
- Yachiyo: Yes, our team has plenty of grief seeds stocked.
- Yachiyo: You don't have enough over there, do you?
- Westside Magical Girl: We don't... We're at the point where we're worrying about whether we should head all the way out to the Central Ward or not.
- Yachiyo: Then all the more reason...
- Yachiyo: Today you can also hunt witches in our territory if you like.
- Westside Magical Girl: Thank you very much!
- (And the last one... yet another peacekeeper who resided on the West side.)
- (Azusa Mifuyu.)
- Hinano: I may go to school in Minagi, but I'm a magical girl of the Central Ward.
- Mifuyu: Yes, I know.
- Hinano: Recently I've been seeing more magical girls from both the Westside and the Eastside appearing in the Central Ward.
- Hinano: ...the circumstances are how they are. I've warned the magical girls of the Central Ward as well.
- Hinano: I want you to promptly rein your side in, too.
- Mifuyu: Absolutely.
- Mifuyu: We have a pact between the West and the East.
- Mifuyu: We respect the territory of the Central Ward's magical girls.
- Mifuyu: We don't intend to break that promise.
- Hinano: ...I'll choose to believe those words.
- (When hunting witches, the Westside and the Eastside's community systems weren't just to complement each other's fighting styles and cover deficiencies.)
- (When grief seed supplies were low due to a decrease in witches, it was also a system that aimed to allow them to share witches in each other's territories.)
- (By doing this, the magical girls avoided unnecessary conflicts with each other and prevented causing injuries to each other.)
- (But... for Kamihama City, which had fallen into a severe witch shortage, this system was not able to be maintained, and the behind-the-scenes antagonism between the Westside and the Eastside was coming to a head.)
- Mifuyu: There's a problem in the Central Ward, too.
- Yachiyo: I understand their feelings. I'd like to win over the Central Ward to our side, too.
- Yachiyo: If we expand our territory, that means more grief seeds could be traded between us.
- Mifuyu: But...
- Mifuyu: "You both must respect the territory of the Central Ward magical girls as much as possible."
- Mifuyu: We must adhere to that pact.
- Yachiyo: I understand that, too...
- Yachiyo: I just thought, too, while we have their trust...
- (At that time, the Central Ward was not subject to either the Eastside or Westside's systems of cooperation.)
- (The Central Ward, which bordered each of the cooperation systems, became a neutral zone for the Eastside and Westside.)
- (In exchange for not following either system, each magical girl was guaranteed their own territory.)
- (But...)
- (Due to the witch shortage, securing grief seeds became more difficult, and magical girls from both the Eastside and the Westside began zeroing in on the Central Ward.)
- Central Ward Magical Girl: Thank you very much for helping me.
- Westside Magical Girl: It's fine, it's fine, don't worry about it! We helped each other, anyway.
- Westside Magical Girl: ...Ah, right! Can I come back again?
- Central Ward Magical Girl: Huh?
- Westside Magical Girl: Since I was happy that we got to fight together, I just thought it'd be nice if we could work together again.
- Central Ward Magical Girl: S-sure...!
- (There were girls who increased their grief seed supply by gaining goodwill with the Central Ward magical girls through cooperation...)
- Central Ward Magical Girl: T-this is my territory...!
- Eastside Magical Girl: Huh?! Don't think you can claim territory when you're not even strong enough to defend it!
- Central Ward Magical Girl: N-no way... but there's a pact!
- Eastside Magical Girl: ...Ahhh, so like... that's what I've been saying.
- Eastside Magical Girl: This area isn't anyone's territory, so it's not a violation of the pact.
- Central Ward Magical Girl: H-how mean! This has always been my territory, too...!
- Eastside Magical Girl: Quit whining! Just fucking go somewhere else!
- Central Ward Magical Girl: ...Uuu...
- (There were girls who increased their grief seed supply by coercing the Central Ward magical girls without any power out of their territory...)
- (They each had their own methods, but without the peacemakers of the cooperation systems knowing, magical girls who violated the neutral zone began to come in.)
- Yachiyo: I haven't heard anything about the Westside and Eastside clashing directly yet, but...
- Mifuyu: It might just be a matter of time...
- Yachiyo: Central Ward magical girls are losing their territory.
- Yachiyo: I sent Momoko and the others to confirm if there are locations that have been left void.
- Mifuyu: It's very probable that Eastside magical girls have been going there, too.
- Yachiyo: Yes, now's the time we should try and strike a bargain.
- Mifuyu: Yes, since we're all magical girls, we should be helping each other out, but...
- Yachiyo: It's complicated, isn't it.
- Yachiyo: Even if we may be able to get along as individuals, getting the Westside and the Eastside to become friendly...
- Yachiyo: That's a whole other conversation.
- Mifuyu: ......
- Mifuyu: ...Ah, what about trying to contact Kanagi-san?
- Yachiyo: Kanagi?
- Mifuyu: Since it's a matter of territory, going through the Eastside's peacekeeper would be logical.
- Yachiyo: ......Well, that's true.
- Mifuyu: And even though she is a quirky person, she does have reliable character.
- Yachiyo: ...True.
- Mifuyu: ...Could it be that you still hold a grudge from what happened the last time you met?
- Yachiyo: ...That's not true at all, though?
- Mifuyu: Fufu, Yacchan, you really hold grudges about weird things.
- Yachiyo: That's...!
- Momoko: Yachiyo-san...! Mifuyu-san!
- Mifuyu: Momoko-san?!
- Yachiyo: Those injuries...! What happened?!
- Yachiyo: ...No, first, sit down. I'll bring you some water.
- Yachiyo: Mifuyu, you take care of Momoko. We'll talk later.
- Mifuyu: O-okay...!
- ------
- Yachiyo: You were attacked by an Eastside magical girl while inside a witch's labyrinth in the Central Ward, huh...
- Yachiyo: Are you completely sure?
- Momoko: I'm sure. She said it herself.
- ???: That's right. I'm...
- ???: ...a magical girl from a ward that's against yours.
- Momoko: That's what she said!
- Yachiyo: Just to confirm...
- Yachiyo: The Central Ward magical girl who was supposed to be in that territory wasn't there, right?
- Momoko: Of course! I got involved since nobody was there.
- Momoko: I hesitated a little bit, but I wasn't about to let the witch get away.
- Mifuyu: This is also just to be sure, but was anyone there before you?
- Momoko: I don't think so. If they were, I would have left it to them.
- Yachiyo: ...Momoko didn't really do anything wrong.
- Mifuyu: Yes, if the Central Ward magical girl isn't in her territory, then it isn't against the pact. She can hunt witches at her own leisure.
- Yachiyo: ......
- Mifuyu: ......
- Mifuyu: ...Yacchan.
- Yachiyo: Yes... it's finally begun.
- Yachiyo: Momoko, did you tell this to anyone else?
- Momoko: No, just the two of you. I haven't told Rena or Kaede, either.
- Momoko: ...it's not like I want to aggravate things either.
- Momoko: Same with you two, right?
- Yachiyo: Sorry about this...
- Momoko: Please don't be so reserved. We're teammates, aren't we?
- Momoko: But saying that, it's good that I was the one who got attacked.
- Momoko: Since it's Yachiyo-san and Mifuyu-san, this should still be able to be settled in a good way, right?
- Mifuyu: ...Yes, that's our intention.
- Mifuyu: Yacchan...
- Mifuyu: Before this incident spreads, shall we try to settle it for the better?
- Mifuyu: In the worst case, either side could use this as a reason to start a big conflict...
- Yachiyo: ......
- Yachiyo: Before we start imagining the worst case, let's do what we can do.
- Mifuyu: Having a conversation with Kanagi-san, right?
- Yachiyo: Yes, and... you could call this a chance, too, in a way.
- Yachiyo: We've got a just cause. That could prove advatangeous to us in negotiations.
- Mifuyu: ......
- Yachiyo: Mifuyu, I'm going to steel myself for the worst. You should, too...
- Mifuyu: ...Okay. I'll be ready for anything, as well.
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