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[justforyou]

Oriko got hurt. Someone attacked her. I took care of it, though.

Where's the priest guy? I think I need to talk to him.

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[stillneedawish]

Attacked? Is she okay now?

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[fortheworld]

I am alive.

I will simply be out of action for the forseeable period.

[stillneedawish]

... How bad is it? Um, you don't have to answer if you don't want to, it's just that that sounds like it's serious.

[fortheworld]

I will recover.

[justforyou]

You don't have to respond, Oriko.

sort of action...?

[fortheworld]

[Oriko just sighs and puts her phone away.

...Well. Back to figuring out how to solve this mess when it's a struggle just to walk.]

[justforyou]

[And then Kirika's coming in, because, really does Oriko think that she'd stay away?]

I could use my soul gem to help.

[Which she wonders why Oriko hasn't healed herself already but...then again, they can't waste their energy.]

[fortheworld]

No. You'll need it. I can't hunt Witches in this state.

[justforyou]

Right.

[She sighs and crosses her arms.] I'm not going to let this happen again.

[fortheworld]

There will always be risks, Kirika.

[justforyou]

I'm not going to let another magical girl do that.

[fortheworld]

Kirika, as of right now you will need to gather enough grief seeds for two people. I understand that you are angry, but we do not have the power to spare.

[justforyou]

Oriko, now that you're out of action for now you won't be straining your soul gem that much. We can split grief seeds but even that aside, I can handle this.

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[justforyou]

Like Oriko said, she's alive.

[stillneedawish]

That makes it sound like it might be serious.

I'm glad you were there to help though, Kirika-san.

[justforyou]

She got attacked by another magical girl, not a witch. That's plenty serious enough to me.

I only got there afterwards.

[stillneedawish]

What, seriously?! No way...! ... was this about Grief Seeds, or...?

[ she knows - she's heard, at least - that sometimes magical girls can get territorial over them. but to think that they'd fight one another to the death--!

... she hopes it wasn't an alternate-timeline version of someone she knows. how many magical girls can there be in a city the size of Mitakihara? ]

So... I guess you ended up fighting this other magical girl too, huh. After you arrived.

[justforyou]

No, it wasn't.

[there's a reason Kirika's not saying who it was. Madoka wouldn't like that.]

I had to. I couldn't just let something like that slide, could I?

[stillneedawish]

It... wasn't?

No. I guess you really couldn't, huh? Not if it was to protect your friend.

[justforyou]

Sorry, kouhai. It'd be more understand if it was.

I don't know what I would do if Oriko died.

[stillneedawish]

Maybe... Even if it had been over something like Grief Seeds, I still hate it. I hate that magical girls have to fight each other at all.

... mm. I get it, I think. A little bit, anyway. I wouldn't know what to do if it was Sayaka-chan.

[justforyou]

Even if they didn't have to fight, I don't think that would stop them from fighting. That's what people do.

...Wouldn't you want to hurt that person? The one that hurt her? What if they killed her?

[stillneedawish]

... I guess so.

Hurt them?! I... I-I don't know. If... if they did something like that, and they were going to keep on hurting people, then. Yes, I'd want to stop them, if I could. I'd want to make sure they couldn't hurt anyone else. But...

[justforyou]

That girl is your closest friend, right? Then hurting them back after they nearly killed her... it'd be alright, right? They deserved it. I mean. What would you do if she died?

[stillneedawish]

I...


I don't know. I honestly don't know.