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- Part 15:
- Meru?: Thank you very much! "I" (watashi) am grateful for the help.
- Mifuyu: --?!
- Mifuyu: Look out! Kanagi-san!
- Fake Meru: And for letting me deceive you.
- Kanagi: You...
- Fake Meru: Aha! You can't get away from me at this distance.
- Kanagi: That goes for you, too, fake.
- Kanagi: Haaa!
- Fake Meru: Ah... uuu... w-why... did you know...
- Kanagi: Because Azusa said she "felt uncomfortable", I was being observant.
- Kanagi: I didn't even have to read your heart to know.
- Kanagi: Anna doesn't say "I" (watashi), she says "I" (boku).
- Fake Meru: Aha!... Tooo baaad...
- Mifuyu: Thank goodness...! For a moment I thought you were in trouble...
- Kanagi: If it weren't for your words, Azusa, I may have been.
- Kanagi: You've helped me out once again.
- Yachiyo: I wasn't prepared... since she was being attacked, I thought she was the real one...
- Momoko: Me too... I didn't question it at all...
- Tsuruno?: There! They're over there! Meru, over there!
- Meru?: Everyone, are you okay? We're totally worn out...
- Momoko: Meru and Tsuruno again?!
- Yachiyo: ...Do you think these two are fakes as well?
- Tsuruno?: Oh, could it be that you're doubting us?
- Meru?: How rude! I'm the real Meru!
- Meru?: Ah! Since you say that, how do we know you're not the fakes?!
- Momoko: ...They seem real.
- Yachiyo: ...They sure do.
- Kanagi: I'll read their hearts. That'll be a lot faster.
- Meru: Like I told you, I'm real!
- Kanagi: Don't get all huffy. This is just to make sure.
- Meru: No! I'm mad! I *am* huffy!
- Yachiyo: ..For being so exhausted she's quite full of energy, wouldn't you say? Even though we're in a barrier...
- Momoko: When you think how Meru acts, this is definitely how Meru acts...
- Tsuruno: She was really the tense the whole time we were looking for you...
- Tsuruno: So I'm sure she's very relieved!
- Kanagi: More important, what shall we do now?
- Yachiyo: Meaning should we continue or should we withdraw, right?
- Mifuyu: I... think we should withdraw.
- Mifuyu: Everyone's exhausted, after all.
- Mifuyu: And more than anything, we haven't found any clues how to get to the witch.
- Mifuyu: Since we've learned the source of the attacks, so I think we should end our investigation here.
- Kanagi: ...Mmm, if we overpursue, none of this will matter if we're defeated.
- Yachiyo: ...That's right. Let's evacuate.
- ------
- Part 16:
- Meru: We're out! It's completely dark, but it's somehow really refreshing!
- Tsuruno: Haaa, it's like the air has a nice flavor to it, doesn't it!
- Mifuyu: Heh heh, it does, huh?
- Momoko: But still, not even being able to reach the witch with a lineup like we had...
- Momoko: That's pretty bad.
- Yachiyo: ...It's just going to take a ton of time to explore this barrier.
- Yachiyo: Fortunately, it seems to be pretty benign if nobody goes inside, at least.
- Mifuyu: We've got a new issue, but we've achieved the main goal we had.
- Kanagi: That's right. We've clearly discovered that the culprit of the attacks was a witch.
- Kanagi: It'll be quite tricky to get the magical girls to accept that as fact, though...
- Mifuyu: True... but let's be patient and persistent about it.
- Yachiyo: Yes... but a basic settlement will still be difficult.
- Yachiyo: There's nothing we can do about the fact that there aren't enough witches... aren't enough grief seeds.
- Yachiyo: If we're unable to figure that out, we won't even be able to hold our own sides together...
- Kanagi: There's unrest in the Westside, eh?
- Yachiyo: ...It's the same on your side, isn't it?
- Kanagi: ...I can't deny it.
- Mifuyu: But at this rate...
- Mifuyu: More magical girls will try to take over territory in the Central Ward.
- Mifuyu: I can't accept any more being done against the magical girls of the Central Ward.
- Kanagi: That's certainly true...
- Yachiyo: But if all we do is prohibit it, there'll be more girls who just break that prohibition...
- Kanagi: ...What about putting some kind of condition on it?
- Mifuyu: Condition?
- Kanagi: To negotiate with the Central Ward.
- Kanagi: But something difficult enough that not just anyone could waltz in and do it.
- Mifuyu: ...If that's the case, what about defeating the witch that was the cause of all this?
- Yachiyo: Defeating that witch?
- Yachiyo: ...That certainly wouldn't be easy.
- Mifuyu: Yes, and it's also "the source of this current conflict."
- Kanagi: ...Mmm, whoever takes out the source of the problem gets the rights to negotiate here.
- Kanagi: It makes perfect sense.
- Mifuyu: We also will need to get the people of the Central Ward to accept it...
- Kanagi: To be clear, it's the right to negotiate, not the right to control.
- Yachiyo: I think all we'll need to do to get them to concede that is to talk to them.
- Mifuyu: ...Indeed. And also, until the witch has been exterminated...
- Mifuyu: We should guarantee the security of the Central Ward magical girls.
- Mifuyu: And we will also need to decide how to pay reparations for damage that was done during this.
- Mifuyu: And also... we will need to come up with an agreement to clearly define punishments...
- Mifuyu: ...for anyone who breaks the pact regarding the rights of the Central Ward.
- Yachiyo: ...You're being awfully proactive about this, Mifuyu.
- Mifuyu: I'm trying to make it up with my actions to someone whose trust I betrayed.
- Kanagi: ...I have no objections. We have a deal.
- Yachiyo: All right. We'll leave the details to another day.
- Yachiyo: Since we're going to need to hear and consider the opinion of the Central Ward, as well.
- Mifuyu: ...We should also all think about one more thing.
- Mifuyu: How we can prevent something like this from happening again.
- Mifuyu: By deciding, as magical girls, what we ought to be...
- Yachiyo: ...You're right.
- Kanagi: ...Aye, let's learn from our mistakes on this.
- ------
- (Later, the witch behind all this was led to an abandoned building on the Eastside using its nature of being attracted to mirrors.)
- (A supervisory role was created to keep regular people from getting too close.)
- (By doing this... while people still had gripes over various things, it ended this series of uprisings.)
- Kanagi: Azusa, may I have a moment?
- Mifuyu: What is it?
- Kanagi: You really helped me out inside that barrier.
- Kanagi: First off, I'd like to restate my gratitude to you for that.
- Mifuyu: Please, don't worry about it so much.
- Kanagi: Obligation is obligation. Leaving it unpaid isn't in my nature.
- Kanagi: Is there any specific way you want me to repay you for your help?
- Mifuyu: Eh... you really don't have to go that far...
- Mifuyu: ...No, that's the kind of person you are.
- Kanagi: Aye. I told you I'd definitely pay you back, didn't I?
- Mifuyu: ......
- Mifuyu: Then, if... if there's a time I'm no longer around...
- Mifuyu: I want you to help Yacchan if she's ever in trouble.
- Kanagi: Help Nanami?
- Mifuyu: Yes. Please and thank you.
- Kanagi: ...I understand. It's a promise.
- Mifuyu: ......
- (I don't want to acknowledge it, but... my powers may be weakening.)
- (If, in the future, I no longer am able to fight, if I am no longer able to be by Yacchan's side...)
- (...If there's someone who will be able to lend her powers to Yacchan, then...)
- END
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