A/N: Written for the PMMM Flash Bingo, #184 – system.


Entropic System

It was a system that had no holes. Or what holes it did have were plugged by the redundancy it embraced.

Puella Magi were formed, and they fought until either death or despair claimed their souls. The dead vanished to never return. The despairing became the enemy to be fought.

If that was all it was, there'd always be less Witches than Puella Magi – but that wasn't the case. Not every girl became a Puella Magi, but every girl who didn't manage to die first became a Witch. And so there were always more Witches than Puella Magi in the end, and the Puella Magi were the hunters of Witches who kept the numbers in check.

That was the system, never-ending. And it would never end as well. That was how they'd designed it: a system that would eternally power their world.