Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story

Stay back, Homura! I got this!

- No, wait, Miss Kaname! I'll help!

Come to Kamihama.

Come to Kamihama,

where Magical Girls can be saved from their fate.

Who are you?

Come to Kamihama,

where Magical Girls can be saved from their fate.

Come to Kamihama,

where Magical Girls can be saved from their fate.

Come to Kamihama.

We can be saved?

In Kamihama?

Who was that?

Oh, no!

Madoka!

- -

You came back just in time.

Thanks for saving us.

Thank you, Miss Miki.

That was too close.

You idiot. Are you trying to get Madoka killed?

If you're gonna pick a fight with a Witch,

you should learn how to fight first!

I-I'm sorry.

It's not her fault, Sayaka.

I jumped in instead of waiting.

All Homura was doing was trying to help.

Anyway, how'd it go with you?

Were you able to find Mami?

Yeah. I found her.

Ah, thank goodness!

Part of me wishes I didn't, though.

Huh?

She's like a different person,

definitely not the Mami we used to know.

Now what do we do?

What's wrong, Sayaka?

What are we gonna do?

All us Magical Girls

are gonna end up turning into Witches.

A Soul Gem is born of hopes, dreams, wishes.

It contains the soul of a Magical Girl.

In other words, this little thing is me.

When it fills with despair and becomes dark and cloudy,

a Magical Girl transforms into a Witch.

Then she spreads chaos,

death, and destruction upon the world.

When a Magical Girl receives her wish,

she must accept this cursed existence

and join a fight that has no end.

At least, until she dies in battle against a Witch

or becomes a Witch herself.

That is the fate of a Magical Girl.

There's a rumor.

If a Magical Girl wants to be saved from her fate,

she should go to Kamihama City.

I didn't know then what we needed saving from.

But now that I've been there

and found out the truth about us Magical Girls,

I do.

No way. It's not true.

I didn't want to believe it, either, but it's true.

Sooner or later, in the end,

Magical Girls all turn into Witches.

That means when Kyubey made those contracts with us,

he was lying?!

That's rude.

I never lied to you.

Kyubey!

The deal was you'd be granted one wish,

no matter how impossible,

and you'd become a Magical Girl

and assume the responsibilities of the job.

That's a fair trade,

considering all the powers you got.

Yeah, but you didn't say anything

about us turning into Witches!

Well, you didn't ask.

That's a pretty important detail to leave out!

It's simple. If you don't want to become Witches,

just defeat them and take their Grief Seeds.

As long as you keep purifying your Soul Gems with them,

why, you could live forever, theoretically.

If you compare your lifespan and abilities

to a normal human's, it's not a bad trade at all.

It's a horrible trade.

The Witches we fight,

they all used to be Magical Girls, just like us!

That's right.

And just like you, they all made contracts with me.

Now that they're Witches,

they torment the world with their suffering.

But you can release them from that fate by defeating them.

Why would you do such an awful thing?

When a Soul Gem finally burns out,

it becomes a Grief Seed.

At that moment, an incredible amount of energy

is released into the universe.

It's our job as Incubators

to recover and redistribute that energy.

But what's the point of doing that?

If we didn't, entropy would expand unchecked,

and the universe would eventually die out.

To survive, the universe needs a source of energy

that isn't bound by the laws of thermodynamics.

Your contribution is very important.

Now do you under--

I heard enough out of you!

Sayaka!

That's what you get for tricking me

and Mami and Madoka!

That was mean.

I was just trying to have a peaceful conversation.

Kyubey!

How in the heck?

Why is it, that whenever you humans

come to regret a decision you made

without fully understanding the situation,

you blame and hate others?

Honestly, it's so baffling.

I'll kill you!

Miss Kaname.

You're not even a little freaked out over all this.

Why's that, new girl?

You knew about this, didn't you!

What are you doing?!

C-Calm down, Miss Miki!

Why didn't you tell us before?

Or was it more fun for you sitting back and laughing at us?

That's not true!

She's not the enemy!

Stop trying to pick a fight with her, already!

Miss Kaname!

Being a Magical Girl is hard,

but we can't just drop everything now.

We have to stop this Witch, and we have to save Mami!

Save her?

You said yourself she's like a different person.

Yeah, I know what I said.

She was.

We'll fall into despair, every one of us!

And then we'll become Witches!

Can everyone really be saved?

Do we even deserve to be?

Regardless, I will fulfill my duty!

I promise that!

I don't get it. Why did she attack me?

Something happened to her.

The way she was going on and on about saving us,

it's like she was possessed.

That's it, then. If she tried to hurt you,

she definitely wasn't thinking straight.

She wasn't.

Then maybe she's been brainwashed by someone,

maybe by a Witch!

I know. What else could it be?

But still...

what can we do about it?

I mean, look at us.

We can't even beat the Witches here in this city.

And don't forget Walpurgisnacht.

What are we supposed to do when she shows up?

She's the greatest, most evil Witch ever.

We don't stand a chance against her.

We never did.

I don't want to end up a Witch or like Mami.

I'm sorry.

I thought I was doing the right thing.

I know. I get it.

You didn't want us falling into despair.

That's why you didn't say anything to us.

And you were right.

You're not mad, then?

No, I'm not.

Everything's gonna be okay.

I've repeated this time again and again

with one goal, to save Miss Kaname.

I keep trying over...

and over and over.

But this time, something different happened.