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"Man, at this rate I'll really believe that this is your family! They're off their rockers. Okay, they think they know you. But they saw me for the fucking first time! Do you get it? I'm a complete stranger! Yet they let me into this fine house and just nick off! How do you think the brat could stop me if I began to loot it?"

Kyouko had just passed the door handle of the Kaname household's bathroom to her friend with a grin. The parents hadn't have a hard time to persuade them. One part of Homura tried to resist but the other was grateful for the invitation and their trust. Kyouko had similarly ambivalent feelings. She felt bad for exploiting this unusually hospitable couple and worried that she'd might cause problems to the ravenette but she'd have never skipped such a prime opportunity for a whole afternoon of freeloading.

"He couldn't but I'd wring your neck in that very moment!", the thin girl answered closing the bathroom door from the inside.

When she re-appeared in the blue jeans and black t-shirt Junko had left her her hair shone again like the feathers of a crow. She found Kyouko in the kitchen with Takkun sitting on her lap. They were cramming sandwiches in unison. The redhead was ready for Homura's tantrum (though their host's cheese and home grown vegetables were totally worth it) but the black haired beauty plunged into the fridge and looked over the food supply instead. Then she grabbed a pack of chicken meat and dipped the pieces in a mixture of soy sauce, ginger and garlic. She grabbed the ingredients without even looking, followed by Kyouko's knowing stare.

"Even Tomohisa-san will approve!", she remarked with a lopsided smile when she finished preparing the marinade. "You like Tatsuta-age, don't you, Takkun?"

She tried to prove something without doubt and it wasn't her cooking prowess.

The child loudly agreed and Kyouko shook her head in disbelief. Then Homura made another sandwich for herself.

"How can the master chef eat fast food?", Kyouko grinned when the other girl sat next to them.

"You can't think that such meals are done in a few minutes. It will be the dinner for the Kanames' return. I'll leave it in the marinade while we eat and I tell a story to Takkun."

She smiled at Tatsuya in her usual low-key manner but her glance at Kyouko suggested that it would be much more than a bedtime story.

They entered the living room together. The little boy usually slept in his own room but this was a special occasion. As they stepped in, Homura typed something on the control panel by the door and the windows went dark. Kyouko let out a respectful whistle.

A beam of light pierced through the darkness. The ravenette's sleep-deprived pale face shone like the Moon with dark circles around her eyes for craters.

"Now I'll tell you a story about the lizard girl and the Goddess."

Tatsuya giggled and Kyouko shook her head again. She knew Homura as a silent and modest girl yet sometimes that silent girl found surprisingly dramatic ways to convey her message. This seemed to be one of those moments. Fortunately the child didn't take her too seriously, it was pure amusement for him, just like the thrill of a dark forest evening in a tent.

"What kind of lizard was she? Was she a dinosaur?"

Homura flashed a cunning little half-smile.

"No, it's a more ancient story. I could say she was a Synapsid. But no one really knows. Soon enough I'll tell you why!"

Kyouko felt that it would be the right time to bury her face in her palms. But it would have raised difficulties in observing Homura and she was perfectly sure that the ravenette would let out particularly interesting things soon.

"Once upon a time there was a beautiful garden full of flowers. In this garden lived a little black lizard. She spent the afternoons sunbathing on a log and waiting for someone to come by the path through the garden. One day, a Goddess came and spotted the lizard. And because she was so kind and honest she could trust even a reptile like her. From that time on she came every day and talked with the lizard girl or just held her in the palm of her hand and adorned her neck with a ribbon."

Homura's voice turned serious.

"But the lizard wasn't alone in the garden. In the forest, by the road, there lived a Thrinaxodon."

"What kind of animal was that?", the child asked.

"He was a bit like a weasel but he wasn't yet a mammal. He had fur and liked to dig tunnels and steal eggs. He thought that a lowly lizard didn't deserve the attention of the Goddess nor the ribbon around her neck. He believed that if he kidnapped and married the Goddess every fruit in the garden would belong to him and all the birds would respect him and bring their eggs to his burrow. One day he stopped by the path to lure her in his home and lock her up. But the Goddess just smiled at him and went to the log like she always did."

"What was the Goddess called?", Tatsuya asked. "She must have had a name!"

"Of course she had!", Homura answered turning the flashlight's beam at her face again. "But no one should call that name. It would be a disaster if the Thrinaxodon heard it! But listen what she said when she arrived! She said:"

"I've just met a Thrinaxodon. He asked if Heaven is a happy place. But I'm afraid I can't really tell."

Kyouko got what Homura implied and anxiously looked around. But no matter how hard her magically augmented eyes pierced the darkness she could see no trace of the little white Thrinaxodon. So she relaxed, waiting for the story to unfold.

"What is happiness?", the little lizard asked as she nested in the Goddess' palm.

"Perhaps the May sunlight."

"It was what incubated my egg.", the lizard answered.

"Maybe a warm, loving family."

"The other eggs were already empty."

"If you can call someone's name."

"If someone calls your name."

"When someone cares for you."

"'What is Heaven like? Do you have a family? Do they care for you?', the lizard girl asked but she saw in horror that the Thrinaxodon sneaked through the bushes and crouched behind the Goddess' back, snarling and ready to catch her by force if his wits hadn't been enough. The lizard girl grabbed two of the Goddess' fingers in panic and tore her in half. Then she took one half, tied her up with her ribbon and hid her in her cupboard. And she would never dare to let her go again because she was afraid of the other half getting angry at her and leave the garden for good together with the first half."

Tatsuya stared at her, eyes wide, stiff in shock. Even Kyouko knit her brows.

"Listen, kiddo! I'll hold this crazy chick and you smack her in the head with that pillow, okay? She can't tell tales like this to a four-year-old!"

"Daddy said you must never hurt girls!", Tatsuya objected. But then his shock gave way to a laugh when he saw Kyouko grab Homura's neck with one arm and grin from behind her back.

"And you get the second from me if you stop here! But for heaven's sake tell it in a way he can digest...", the redhead messaged to her skinny friend.

"It doesn't end here.", Homura assured aloud.

"Because the garden was small but the world huge. The empty eggshells weren't for nothing in the nest where the lizard girl hatched. One of the elder sisters came to the garden and decided to visit her sibling. She came with one of her friends, the strong and cunning red Inostrancevia."

She carefully accented the epithet and gladly saw that the other girl got the message even though she had no idea what kind of animal Homura was talking about. But the boy was just as clueless.

"Was it like a fox?", he guessed.

"It was much larger, especially its teeth. But it wore a similar red fur, only striped. And sometimes it got really angry. Then it looked pretty much like a saber-toothed tiger."

Tatsuya was spellbound by the colorful image his mind painted of this new creature. It must have been the king of animals in its time, he thought, and he wasn't far from truth.

"This Inostrancevia knew what the little lizard was hiding in her cupboard. She gave a big bag to her friend to take it with her when she visits her sister. 'Just large enough for one half of a Goddess!', the elder sister thought."

"But she had never met her sister before. What would she do if she proved to be a savage beast? She fearfully knocked on the little door of the little house."

"But she was older! She had to be bigger! Why was she afraid?", Tatsuya interrupted.

"It's true that she was much more older than earlier she hatched. But the older is not always stronger! And she wasn't even bigger at all. They were as like as the two eggs they had hatched from."

It didn't make much sense. Tatsuya overlooked the paradox but Kyouko pricked her ears like a normal Gorgonopsid never did. She had grown used to picking up Homura's random remarks and now she had a lot to choose from. She had already realized that she knew most characters in the story and she began to enjoy the game.

Luckily she didn't have to push the storyteller to go on.

"But it seemed she didn't have to be afraid. Her sister was happy to see her and they had tea together. The other lizard girl didn't get anxious until she stepped to her cupboard."

"'Something stirred in there.', the elder sister lied. 'It may be a Hadrocodium gnawing at your belongings. I can help you catch it!' Then she opened the cupboard and untied the bag halfway to steal the hidden half of the Goddess. She was very surprised when the other half jumped out of the bag and fell on the kidnapped half's neck. The younger lizard was scared but the Goddess wasn't angry at her but took her in her palm again and gave back her ribbon. She thanked the elder sister too for helping her to find her other half. She called her over to her place and gave her a whistle. 'Blow this whistle when in trouble and I'll come to help you.' Then she and her lizard girl followed their visitors out of the garden and waved until they disappeared at the horizon."

"But how did she get in the bag?", Tatsuya asked, eyes wide with curiosity.

"It was the Inostrancevia's doing. She saw what the lizard girl had done and the whole rescue mission was her plan. She had a best friend, a Tiktaalik in the creek. She was half fish so when the half of the Goddess came to drink she crept upon her underwater then jumped over her so the Inostrancevia could shove the surprised half Goddess into the bag. Then they told her that they were to take her to her other half so the half Goddess didn't move half of a finger and didn't give half a squeak until the bag was opened. And because she was so light even the elder sister couldn't notice anything."

This part of the story was much less unsettling and Takkun's lids grew heavier by the minute.

"It was a nice story. The dirty lady liked it too. Goodnight, Homura-nee-chan!", the boy said waving at an empty armchair.

The two girls glanced around in unison but they couldn't see anyone else in the room. They dashed into the kitchen and dowsed around with their soul gems. When they finally lowered the gems they both sensed a flash in the corner of their eyes. They raised their souls at once again and turned around back-to-back but everything was just as empty as before.

"Can we be tired enough to hallucinate the same thing at once?", Kyouko pondered.

"I don't know. I don't think so."

Homura placed her gem on the table and returned to her cooking, eyes still open to any sign of wraiths. She sprinkled the marinated chicken slices with some white powder and submerged them in boiling oil.

"By the traditions I should have put ground katakuri tubers on the meat.", she said. "But most people use simple potato starch today. No matter how much of a gourmet Tomohisa-san is he's too environmentally aware to chop up endangered wild flowers for dinner."

"Isn't it you who fries this chicken now?"

"I've learned everything I know from him. Look, they begin to look like floating autumn leaves on the Tatsuta river. It means they'll be ready soon."

But she could talk to Kyouko as much as she wanted. The red haired girl had already picked a piece out of the boiling oil with her chopsticks and begin to chew.

"This is... hot... stuff!", she declared panting through a mouthful of hot meat.

"Of course. It is a good dinosaur.", Homura said.

"Oh. So there is a sequel! I can't wait."

"This is why we came here. Pity that our gems are so bad at indicating Thrinaxodons. Or dirty ladies. I'm afraid that Takkun has really seen something."

"Homura, I'm really not sure anymore. Is this Tri... something really such a jerk?"

"You know, sometimes he may even help us. But it's never an act of kindness. That's unknown to him. But there are other enemies too, ones that you would never think of. Even wraiths can surprise us. There's a reason behind the rule that you must never let go of your weapon, let alone your soul gem. My sister said bizarre things about them."

Kyouko nodded. Her fellow magical girl had just confirmed her ideas about the casting of the story.

"So the lizard went home.", Homura continued. "At least she tried. But her house was already occupied by a gang of naked mole rats. They were so cunning that they always knew where she tried to sneak in and stopped her at any door or window."

Tatsuya chose this moment to walk in.

"Shouldn't you be sleepin', kiddo?", Kyouko grunted. The child looked fearfully at her then fixed his eyes on Homura.

"You left Mei out of your story so she can't sleep now.", he asserted.

Homura gave him a curious look then she noticed the small black animal at his feet. Her eyes widened but she held out her hand to the bird-like creature. Fragments of chaotic and horrible memories flooded her mind. These embodiments of subconscious magic had only existed in another world and her ones could have been the last of them before everything changed. If she had erased some of her own memories to protect her sanity then these minutes had been the first to go.

Kyouko showed a strange mix of curiosity and fright as the ancient creature sniffed the slender hand then jumped up to the girl's forearm, balancing with its wings and long bony tail.

"Mei... So you have a name now.", Homura whispered in awe, bending her arm to bring the animal closer. It answered with a soft chatter and touched its snout against Homura's nose.

Tatsuya clapped in amazement but the redhead rooted to the ground.

"You're trembling.", Homura stated. Kyouko didn't even object.

"You may have seen strange things yourself when you felt really bad.", Homura continued. "Things that were familiar in an uncanny way. Believe me, I know myself, it could be much, much worse."

"But we all can see this one!", Kyouko snapped. "Look, you have to get out of here, now!"

"Mei, make sure that Takkun's safe!", Homura instructed the animal then she grabbed the other girl's arm and bolted through the back door. "Don't worry about him, that raptor is me!"

It was a serene sunny afternoon in a carefully tended back garden of a peaceful Mitakihara house but they felt in another dark night.

"Your visions aren't going to come true, Madoka saved you from them. But I brought mine with me from another world. I have already been on the other side."

"Your gem... It didn't get even worse, did it? You look scary."

Instead of reassuring Homura raised her begging eyes on Kyouko.

"Help me! I have a plan but I'm too weak by myself. Madoka entrusted me with betraying her. I should have already done it but I was too afraid. I still don't know this world well enough. But now I know that I don't have much time left. Listen! My army is big but there's no 'dirty lady' in it. Someone must be after me."

"Why, could you be Judas the most faithful disciple? Just like my father said."

"No matter how much the others loved their master they were too weak.", she explained when she saw the ravenette's confused look. "Jesus had a plan but he needed to die and rise again. Someone had to betray him so he could be arrested and executed. Judas was the only one who could overcome his attachment and carry out Jesus' wish."

"Did Judas question his own sanity? Because I do! Kyouko, I can overwrite anyone's memories, including myself! If I didn't have this gift I'd remember things that would render me a vegetable! How could I know that it's not some forged memory that I really have to die to tear my God in two?"

"Holy crap, what do you expect from me? Should I get you to kill yourself? How would you think the kid feel if just evaporated and never came again? Or his folks! His father said something at the playground. He said he was afraid of you disappearing on them like so many of our age. Homura, they aren't stupid! They know that something is wrong with you, they know that you're involved in something and they're worried for you!"

"That's it. I said I'm in a trap.", the other girl sighed with her head bowed, hiding behind her dark bangs. Kyouko felt like beating or kissing some sense in her like earlier but now she was full of doubts.

"And this is just one half of the trap. The other half is a Catch-22. We can't just be killed. Our magic starts to repair our bodies in an instant which makes our soul gems darken. And you know what happens when your gem turns black. If I try to kill myself to avoid madness it'll just drive me insane quicker. The darkness of the gem is a nasty drug. I know one that works like that. It grabs your brain and brings your gem down. Of course you're worried about me. I'm scared too. Curtly, Mami's right. Step by step, I'm going crazy."

She held up her gem in her palm. Its blackness covered her hand in a dark shadow like its blackness sucked in the surrounding light.

"On the other hand, if you shatter a magical girl's soul gem there'll be nothing left to bind her to this world. It's over for her. But I don't know if Madoka can come for those who don't reach complete darkness. You know, we forgot about this detail when we blew the whistle and thought it out with my sister. I thought I was so savvy, prepared for anything and everything, that I'd avoid her every mistake. I even left Madoka's ribbon behind knowing how dangerous it is. The one I'm wearing is a fake. And I hadn't even mentioned her name until this morning, not even to you. But I spent my nights exerting my brain over her wish, I took it apart and thought it over, word by word, and I can't see any other solution! Of course I'm crazy! There is no other way to meet Madoka! But I'm really scared that I'll do something terrible this way. Kyouko, helping me kill myself just isn't enough. I ask you much more. I want you to stay with me, to beat it in my head that I absolutely must not lock her in my cupboard! Shake me conscious even in my last moment, smack me and shout at me that I have to take her power not her freedom!"

"You want a slap in the face?", Kyouko grunted and granted her wish. Homura stared at her with wide, red-rimmed eyes, holding her hand against her burning cheek. But the redhead hadn't finished yet.

"Being a magical girl and having to fight is one thing. The two of us can still protect this city, I could even do it alone! But you can't let down the kid and his parents! I bet they'll adopt you if you stay here but you're just trying to vanish on them... You wouldn't betray Madoka... You'd betray them! I don't even know what I should tell Mami so she won't strangle you on the spot!"

"They can't adopt me, the other they have already tried it. But if I succeed I won't be the only one here for them, I'll get Madoka back! I'll make sure that they'll remember her."

Her dreamy smile ran shivers down Kyouko's spine.

"Look, Homura. You know our chances. Sooner or later we all meet our last wraith. Probably sooner. Don't rush it. I promise I'll be there when your time comes. Just put your gem down here, I've brought your share of the cubes. And when your head is clear and you still want to go... We'll see."

She watched tensely as the other girl hesitantly summoned her soul gem.

"You're right. That 'last wraith' is what I really can't afford. While I'm here I'm a ticking bomb. You don't even know-"

Tatsuya's excited cheer interrupted her hoarse speech.

"Homura-nee-chan, look here! Mei has caught a kitty under the table!"

Kyouko turned on her heels and bared her fangs in the child's face.

"Didn't I tell you, brat, to go to sleep? Big girls have important-"

This was the moment when she noticed Homura's black feathered familiar. The ghostly little predator dragged the heavier Incubator with great determination. Tiny beads of blood oozed from where its little curved teeth pricked the alien's skin. It was an impressive sight, like a wild duck retrieving a hound.

"You shouldn't have dragged me here like this, Akemi Homura. We completely support your experiment."

Of course, his smile didn't change a bit.

"So you really are the freaky bystander Homura called you. But if you came to push her deeper in her madness I swear I kill you!"

"I'm just observing the consequences of her choice. Akemi Homura has set up a remarkable hypothesis. It was incorrect of me to label her stories as unfounded superstition. They were old magical girl lore, after all. But she started to show signs that match our predictions about soul gems' development, signs we had never been able to observe before. It's true that she plays an important role in the cycle of emotional energy as a magical girl, but, as you correctly pointed out, you and Mami can adequately handle your territory. Moreover, I can make new contracts anytime to help you out. So Akemi Homura is more useful in shedding new light on the background of the whole process. Her sacrifice can fundamentally change our energy collection methods."

"Kyouko, I've been an idiot. I shouldn't have talked at all, not even in his absence."

"No, Homura. You are an idiot if you think you can handle it alone.", Kyouko grunted. She took the alien from the ravenette's familiar and held him up in disgust.

"So watching a girl who contracted with you race to her own destruction is just an experiment to you.", she snarled at him in a much less friendly manner than she had at Tatsuya. "You know what? That girl may be crazy. She may be paranoid. But she's bloody right in one thing: you're our fucking enemy!"

Her moves were impossible to follow. But whatever she did turned Kyubey's body into a bundle of dirty rags nailed to the ground by the tip of her spear within a tenth of a second.

Tatsuya looked the girls and himself up and down with widened eyes. They were all covered in tiny crimson specks of the furry creature's blood. Mei sniffed the body then turned away in disgust and scurried back to the child's feet.

"Congratulations, Kyouko!", Homura grunted. "Didn't I tell you not to kill him? Now we have absolutely no idea where he's eavesdropping..."

Then she turned to the boy and put her comforting hand on his shoulder.

"Don't worry, Takkun, Kyubey can't be hurt like this because he's a magical creature. This thing is just a puppet. The real Kyubey is still watching somewhere around here. We just don't know where. Let's find him!"

For a few seconds she feigned musing on her new quest then she leapt to the jessamine shrub by the fence.

"May he be hiding here?", she chuckled partly covering her mouth with one hand and poking in the bushes with the other. "Me and my many sisters, tiny eggs in a nest, tumbling around and around ~ A little loop this way, a little twist that way ~ Eggshells are nice rounded attractors, we're all at the same place now ~ My secret is blown ~ just like my sister's ~ But I'll catch you now! Screw in the gem, gem in the glass! When ~ I ~ break ~ the ~ shell ~ I ~ will ~ be ~ the ~ de ~ vil... Or not?"

Her fellow magical girl followed with her spear trained on the bushes, still dangling Kyubey's body on its tip.

Tatsuya didn't understand a thing except that something was very-very wrong. He backed off in fear flicking his eyes between Kyouko who seemed to imitate a shrike with the impaled corpse and the madly chirping Homura.

"Gotcha!", the raven haired girl cheered and dragged something unexpectedly big out of the shrubs. And she had helpers. Many little porcelain hands pushed the intruder forward, just to vanish among the leaves with a choir of restrained giggles.

They saw a strangely familiar young European woman. They didn't know how she got there. For what they knew she could have even teleported because her aura radiated unmistakable magic.

"Are you spying for Kyubey?" - Homura pointed a finger at the woman's chest, staring in her eyes from a good four inches lower. Kyouko shook the corpse off her spear and eyed the interloper in a similar manner and angle.

"Wait a minute. Is this Kyubey the alien your friend just stabbed?" The question included a second one. What did Homura know about the aliens?

"Of course, you must belong to another Incubator!", the ravenette slapped her forehead. "So I'm being watched by more of them. No problem, even this one can be back in any moment."

She made a quarter-turn, raised her hands to her mouth and began to shout.

"You bastards have finally realized how important I am?"

Then she turned back to the woman training her bow at her, drawn and loaded with an eagerly sparkling magical bolt.

"I've never seen you before. Why are you here? This is Kaname-san's garden!"

Then she hissed in pain as the little raptor bit her calf. She jerked her head back and down in surprise to face Tatsuya and Mei, her bow evaporating from her hand.

"Stop fighting!", the boy yelled at her. Homura shook her head and looked back at the intruder with lucid eyes.

"At last!", the woman sighed then she grabbed and shook the girl's hand. "I know, you are Akemi Homura. I'm Lara Croft and I've come to warn you. This is no one's garden because it doesn't exist. Everything you see", she swept the horizon with her finger, "is a dream. It probably isn't even the first one they forced on you. They're monitoring you and I think they're looking for this Kaname Madoka."

The ravenette gave her a dark look.

"Are you sure?"

Everyone else nodded their heads. Homura looked around and she didn't need their confirmation anymore. Kyouko's and Tatsuya's grotesque grins, pointy teeth, blue-orange eyes and needle spears all proved Lara's words. They were mere actors in a way too familiar play.

"They mustn't find her. I have to get out of here. Where do they keep my gem? Where's the tower? Why can't anyone see it?"

"Your gem is hidden in an Incubator's back. There's no tower and even if there was no one knew about it. We're on a cursed island in the middle of Dragon Triangle which hasn't been found, not even by those dumb satellites up there."

The girl looked back through pinpoint pupils in her wide eyes.

"What the hell am I doing in Dragon Triangle? It wasn't in the plan!"

Lara felt how the world faded before Homura, she could even see the little sparks dancing at the edge of her field of vision. Her head spun as she saw the girl sway dizzily. She waited for her to collect herself. This was the first time she could see her with complete clarity so she took her time to inspect her. With her delicate features and almond shaped eyes the mysterious raptor girl gave the impression of a charming Japanese teenager and though she was indeed small and thin she looked healthier than Lara remembered. Her most prominent traits were the shiny black hair that reached beyond her waist and those appalling purple irises.

"Yonbey said something about you meddling with his experiments. I think I'm one of these. The other must be a girl from the 3rd century called Himiko. I have business with her and I think you can help me when you are yourself again. You saved my life a few hours ago when you appeared in your... raptor form and cleansed my gem with yours."

Homura anxiously shook her head, fixing her strange lavender eyes on Lara.

"Beware of the me that can do things like that! I don't remember having such abilities. Who knows what I've become?"

"At first I didn't want to interfere.", Lara admitted. "But I had to think it over. I want to get you out of here. But first I'd like to know where you left your body."

"It's really nice of you. I'll try to keep it in mind if I can. I don't know what kind of rules I obey out there."

"The enemy of my enemy may not be my friend. But she's definitely the enemy of my enemy. I hope we can be allies in the future. So you don't remember where your body is?"

"No. And I don't know what I'll turn into if I get out of here. Don't trust me! I may be very dangerous out there."

"More dangerous than Himiko? She keeps my crew hostage on this cursed island with her goddamn storms. She controls the island's weather as she pleases."

"I don't know anything about Himiko, Miss Croft. I didn't even know that we can live to grow up, even your existence is a surprise to me. How could one of us from the ancient times still be around? If I were you I'd fear her, she has seen everything, she must be tough and cunning and full of surprises. But still, I'm probably even more dangerous. You'd really better leave me here, sealed from the outside world. And no matter what happens, you absolutely must not call Madoka here. Do you understand?"

Lara shook her head.

"I don't know anything about this Madoka. But the aliens will surely find a way to call her here. If you stay here they are going to find her, you can count on it."

She wanted to tell more but she felt a strong hit and found herself in the outside world. Yonbey sat by her feet turning his back at her and wagging his tail. Lara slipped back into the gray world and floated between her and the alien's body. She glanced around for enemies and when she saw none she threw herself upon the animal. She plunged through the trapdoor on his back and grabbed the slightly ragged floating gem to tear it out.

Here comes the rest. This piece is way less explicit.

(Spell checking it was a unique experience. And an absolute chore. Ignore once, ignore all, add to dictionary. Once even a real typo...)

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And the weirdness continues...

Kyoko pretty much said what I was thinking, that that story was a bit too advanced for a four-year-old... but then again, you've got me doubting whether this Tatsuya is even real, so...

I love how you integrated the lines from the concept movie trailer, though!

Of all the characters I expected to see interact with the Puellae Magi, Lara Croft has to be somewhere around dead last...