Midnight Tanabata

p1
>Tanabata
>Miki Sayaka... You're hanging up a wish twice in one day?
>Don't sweat the formalities?
>Midnight Tanabata

>My wishes are both the same.
>"May I be able to spend Tanabata with everyone"!

>Hey, can I take a look at your tanzoku?
>Just try and look... I'll knock you off of this cliff.

p2
>Saying stuff like that...
>just makes me wanna look even more.. There!
>Cut it out...! Do you wanna fall off the cliff? I'm not kidding!

p3
>What wish did you make?
>What pray tell did Akemi Homura, creator of this world, engrave on her tanzoku...

p4
>Eh...?
>You're kidding... How?

p5
>Miki Sayaka...
>You saw my wish, didn't you...?
>It's somewhat unfortunate.

p6
>No... It did take me by surprise but it's nothing worth exaggerating that much... This thing here.
>>May Miki Sayaka fall off a cliff - Akemi Homura
>You simply predicted that I would look at your tanzoku... right? Am I wrong?

p7
>Eeh... That's not it.
>Miki Sayaka... Could you listen to me for a bit?
>Wha...What's with you? You're acting kinda weird.
>Just listen.

p8
>I thought that if I could make Madoka live happily as a human... I wouldn't desire anything else.
>Remaking the world, I would carry out my role until Madoka lived out her natural life span... That was the plan.
>But... One concern remained inside my heart.

p9
>When Madoka's life comes to an end
>my role will come to an end too.
>What do I do after that?

p10
>I'm no longer a magical girl, so the law of cycles should no longer applies to me... in which case...
>I would smash my Dark Orb, after which just my spirit will continue to roam this world for all eternity.
>Indeed. It would be like walking a path Madoka will never walk again... A fate worse than death.

p11
>I remember Madoka becoming the law of cycles as a result of her wish... No...
>This is... Homura returning my memories to normal...

>Madoka's protection... This world's maintenance... I have confidence these will continue so long as my thoughts remain.
>If something like that is gonna happen to me sooner or later...
>Miki Sayaka...

p12
>I wonder if you will come with me
>to the place that lies beyond.

p13
>If your Soul Gem becomes smashed while my power obstructs the divine protection of the law of cycles,
>By all rights, your soul, that no longer has a place to go to...
>will be just like me in my final days... Reduced to just a thought overseeing this world. I can do that.

p14
>I'm sorry... I'm just saying selfish things right up to the end...
>But...

p15
>I... don't want to be alone anymore... I don't want to...

p16
>..

p25
>You could've just gone by yourself.
>You're... the one I can't forgive for trampling all over Madoka's feelings.

p26
>Not just Madoka.
>Kyouko... Mami-san...
>And even Nagisa...

p27
>Even though... We went to that place wanting to save you...
>You... betrayed all of our feelings!

p28
>I'm the only one who remembers all the crimes that Homura is guilty of...!
>...And...

p29
>I'm also the only one who remembers...
>that thought back then...

p30
>I
>wanted to save Homura.

p31
>Hey.. Not that I don't trust you or anything
>Are you sure that whole thoughts thing will happen to both of us?
>...Yes, that's right.
>I see...

p32
>Geez...
>!
>How did this happen to us...?

p33
>You pretty much kicked us off here...
>I swore I would never forgive you and yet...

p34
>Why...
>is it that...

p35
>But... I finally understand the gist of it.
>I surely...

p36
>don't...
>want to leave you all alone...!

p37
>I was once a meddler who gave up being a human to begin with.
>If you say you're gonna go...

p38
>I guess I have no choice but to join you, right?
>Homura...

p39
>Miki Sayaka...

p42
>I only have one small request...
>What is it? Ask me anything.

p43
>Your arms that are hugging me.
>Could you slide them down a little lower?
>Erm... Like this?

p44
>That's it... That should do it.
>Ah...Sorry, was it too tight?

p45
>No... You hugging me isn't unpleasant... It's quite nice, actually.
>It's just...
>It's just...?

p46
>They were keeping me from spreading my wings.
>Eh?

p48
>Erm.
>So basically...

p49
>You were screwing with me the whole time...?
>No.
>It would be more accurate to say I was "testing you".

p50
>Even so... I wasn't expecting you to say all of that stuff...
>It was cos you were tasking your joke to such an extreme...!

p51
>I'll reflect on the going too far thing...
>But thanks to that, I did gain something big from it.

p52
>I no longer
>need to worry about what lies ahead.

p53
>Isn't that right?

p54
>Miki Sayaka.
>...!

p55
>Really now?
>For now... Let. Me. Down!

p56
>Oh yes... But before that
>I'll be taking back those memories you have concerning Madoka.
>Ueh
>You'll become a nuisance again if I leave them be.

p57
>I'm gonna suck 'em up.
>Wait...

p58
>Wait just a minute! Aren't you gonna do it with a snap like before?
>Miki Sayaka... It is just like time. However, this time, I can't afford to simply take your memories.

p59
>So... just stay still and accept it.
>D-Don't stick your face in so close! Don't get so co-...