Nobita walks forward like a mindless zombie limping away without a focus in his eyes. The nightmare from previous night leaves him little rest, and consider the event that lead up to it... needless to say he is reaching the limit of his stamina even though the week hasn't even pass its midpoint mark. Although at the moment, mundane school things is the last thing Nobita is thinking about.

He can't stop thinking of all the cryptic message Miyoko leaves him, or his nightmare. He's still holding onto hope that nightmare is simply caused by himself thinking too much - Not the first time this happened after all - but he is pretty sure he used up all his good luck by escaping death twice in a role since Monday.

So no one told you life is this fucking way... story of my life...

"You look completely worn out Nobita, last night must be tough for you." Once again, Nobita's 'most friendly acquaintance' Hidetoshi Dekisugi asks in a concerned voice as he joins Nobita on their way to school.

Yes... last night was pretty tough. Almost got hung by an insane Magical Girl, then met another still sane Magical Girl who told me all Magical Girl eventually goes banana balls... getting run over by a shop lifter girl... getting yelled by mom after all those years... And to top it all off, that nightmare was simply terrible. But how would Dekisugi knows about that...

"Just because the principle wants us to both get good rank in the math contest to boost our school's reputation doesn't mean you are obligated to kill yourself for it Nobita. You need to be more mindful of your own health." Dekisugi continues his lecture of Nobita, the glasses wearing 8th grade feel the need to slap himself for over thinking again.

Ah... of course Dekisugi is thinking about mundane task like that math contest. Now that I think about it... Dekisugi is smart, athletic, handsome - a little on the girly side but still handsome, and a lots of girls prefer his type anyways - he's kind of like those male supporting character from Magical Girl shows the female infatuates about. Well... I'm not the female lead of this Magical Girl story. It would be quite funny if he turns out to be Tuxedo Mask actually...

"...You still have your whole life ahead of you Nobita, so don't waste your life on such foolish things." Dekisugi's Doraemon like life lecture is finally over as Nobita finishes amusing himself in his thought. As he finishes, Nobita can faintly catches a soft apology from Dekisugi. "I'm sorry..."

"What are you sorry about?"

"Oh, I just thought... you are my best friend, yet I didn't spare any time to help you deal with what's troubling you those few days..." Dekisugi looks surprised at Nobita's question as he starts to furiously look in every direction before fixing his gaze behind Nobita. "...LOOK OUT!"

Dekisugi quickly yanks Nobita away by his arm before he can form some kind of reply or realize what's going on. Nobita hits the pavement on his ass as he catches someone's loud screaming.

"NO BREAK! NO BREAK! NO BREAK~!"*BANG*!

The next thing Nobita realizes is Dekisugi spinning around and making a beautiful arc in the air, clearing right over the school wall of Saigaku High and lands with a heavy thud with someone shrieking in a particularly high pitch... And Junko currently lying face down in the pavement where Dekisugi is standing a few seconds earlier holding onto her lunch box like it's her new born baby.

"YES! MY LUNCH IS SAFE!" Junko jumps up from the pavement with a triumphant punch to the air as her wrecked bicycle is making some teeth grindingly painful screech. That's when Nobita realize what Junko means when she was screaming 'No break'. The break on her old beaten up bicycle must be broken.

"Dekisugi, or whoever he lands on might not be safe though." Nobita quickly follows Junko's example as he jumps up to his feet and runs inside the school wall. He sees Dekisugi lying face down with a face up Hideo like they are a pair of shameless yet loving couple making out in the schoolyard during broad daylight. It is quite a funny sight, and would totally goes into Nobita's I will totally use this incident to rub it in Dekisugi's face book if it isn't the fact Dekisugi just saves him from a nasty trip to the nurse's office.

Nobita also notices there's a girl with a petit figure standing a short distance from Dekisugi and Hideo with a fascinated look in her eyes directing at the pair of boys. The most noticeable thing about the girl is her blond hair that styled into a anime girl like twin drill style that remind Nobita of Crescent bread. She's quietly mumbling something, and as Nobita approach he starts to regret hearing what she's saying.

"...What a passionate lover's dive, so in addition to Nobi-Senpai, Dekisugi-Senpai is also close with Nakazawa Senpai... Ah... It is certainly too much for me to bear..." The 7th grader mumbles to herself with a furious blush on her face as she starts to spin around in front of the two entangled boys.

"...Shouldn't you call a nurse or something instead of doing... whatever you are currently doing?" Nobita asks with a raised eyebrow as he squats down besides Dekisugi. "You two alright?"

"Err... I'll be alright as soon as the lady gets off me, I don't want other eligible bachelorette think I swing the same way as you two." Hideo says after a painful grunt, for a brief moment Nobita considers giving him a good kick on the head like Junko would likely does. Nobita pulls Dekisugi up from Hideo as the unlucky boy slowly crawls up from the dirt while looking at the doll like 1st year girl, who's currently dancing around the area like she's high on caffeine. "Might be already too late, Kareha will start shipping me with our lady here like she does the two of you after this. So much potential wasted because of her habit to indulge in day dream... That girl would rank better in The List if her head isn't stuck in the cloud higher than Yukiko all the time."

"The List?" Nobita and Dekisugi both asks with varied degree of curiosity in their voice as they watches the blond girl dances away into the school building.

"You know, the list all school has that ranks a girl's attractiveness in us boys' eyes." Hideo gives Dekisugi a good pat on the shoulder after he straighten his back, "By the way Dee-Chan. You rank third in 2nd year, and fifth place overall."

"...I'm not sure what's more disturbing: there's list that rank girls based on their physical and mental attractiveness, or I'm in it." Dekisugi looks taken aback for a second before letting out a defeated sigh.

"I'm just surprised such a list exist in the first place. Aren't we still in the 'we hate girls because we don't want to get cooties from them' age group?" Both Dekisugi and Hideo gives Nobita a very sympathetic look as he finish giving his own input. "...What?"

"Nobita, my man. You need to get on with the time. All the study is turning you into a very dull boy." Hideo says with a faked mature voice as he puts his arm around Nobita's neck. "Next time I'll take both you and my lady here to town, and we can go hunt for hot chicks."

"You just want Dekisugi and me to boost your image so you can score a date yourself." Nobita swats Hideo's arm away with an annoyed snort. It's not like he doesn't understand the attraction between opposite sex: he has been rather obsessed with Shizuka for as long as he can remember after all. But after Shizuka got taken away, he's been actively avoid getting into any deeper relationship.

The bond between human can be a fragile thing, what's the point of building one when you know you lack the strength to properly care for it?

"Why? What gives me away?" Hideo says with an over exaggerated fake shock on his face as he walks towards their classroom with Nobita and Dekisugi.

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The morning passes without anything out of ordinary - which means Junko and Kasumi still fights over the supremacy between coffee and tea, and Yukiko still tries to convince Dekisugi to wear some kind of dress to school the next time - Nobita opens the cover of his lunchbox as he ready to dig in before he hears Yukiko lets out a loud exclamation. "Jun-Chan! You brought such a fancy lunch today."

Nobita briefly considers the possibility of finishing his lunch quick and take a short nap before afternoon class, consider Yukiko is probably over reacting to things once again. But his curiosity manage to gets better of him, and he take a peep would produce a better result than yesterday. So he does just that, and gets admittedly surprised as much as Yukiko.

While Nobita and Junko Ryugu is not close by any definition, they did spend more than a year in the same home room. So it's a bit of surprise to see something other than three rice balls or Umeboshi Bento inside Junko's lunch box. Granted, what's inside her lunch box isn't very fancy: some usual fried shrimp, sausages, egg cake and the likes. But it's certainly count as a feast for Junko who comes from a very poor family. As for the almost delinquent herself... she actually looks embarrassed for once instead of being annoyed.

"Don't make a huge deal out of this Yukiko. Ah! My egg cake!" Junko says with a red face while she rapidly flaps her arms around like a baby bird trying to learn flight. Yukiko quickly breaks through her defence and snatches something away from her lunch box.

"Sorry, it's not like I want to steal your lunch... I'm just curious who give you this lunch because the taste isn't like your father's at all. It actually taste better, which is quite the feat since your father has the cooking skill of an official chief." Yukiko says with her eyes looking up at the roof while licking her lips. Her mouth quickly turns into a devilish smile as she stares at Junko. "And I know it's not from your mother because... no offense to you. So, tell me, who's the chief? Is it someone both me and Kazuko will soon get acquainted with?"

So she's suggesting Junko has some admirer? That would be very surprising consider she isn't one who cares about her look, and her fist will probably scare away any possible admirer. Well, unless it's someone like Gian, who loves girls who can match his toughness we are talking about...

Nobita turns his attention back to his own lunch while Yukiko continues to try probe more details out of Junko about her unusual lunch. Just then a small girl opens the door of their classroom and run in front of the duo. She looks all teary eyed and ready to cry any moment. "You left without me yesterday Junko, that was so mean of you."

"Ack! I'm so sorry about that Kazuko!" Junko lets out a comically loud scream as she almost fall down with her chair. She quickly jumps up her seat and pulls Kazuko into an embrace as she pets her friend's back. "There, there Kazuko. I hope the long way around home wasn't too much for you. I promise you I won't forget about you today, or the tomorrow, or the day after..."

"Well... it's not a big deal actually. Nobita Senpai offered to walk me home yesterday..." There's some unintelligent gibberish afterwards, but Nobita didn't pay much attention to it due to him focusing more on his lunch and a loud exclamation.

"WHAT!" With a loud roar that rivals Godzilla's angry war cry, Nobita feels himself being pulled up from his chair by his collar as a sausage gets stuck in his throat. He makes some gagging sound as Junko spins him on his feet to face her angry stare. "Ok bastard. You have exactly one minute to convince me you weren't trying to take advantage of little Kazuko before I put you into a world of hurt!"

"Ga... Grr..." Nobita starts to swing his arms wild as he start to lose what little air he has. He can hear Hideo making some snarky comment about not being the subject of Junko's rage, Yukiko observing his blue face, or Kazuko trying to calm her angry friend down but he can't make any sound that convinces Junko he's currently choking to death. And all he can think about at the moment is how much this situation reminds himself of all those time getting beaten to a pulp by Gian.

He feels some pressure being applied to his abdomen, quickly the sausage shots out of his mouth, hitting the back of the room wall like a rubber bullet and bounce back, nailing Hideo in the forehead. Nobita collapses on the floor like a sake of potatoes as Dekisugi lets out a relived sigh. "There, now that Nobita isn't choking I'm sure he can answer your question."

If Nobita isn't wrong, Dekisugi just saved his life for the second time this day. That's not good, he doesn't like owning Dekisugi anything, let alone his own life twice. Although such thought quickly vanishes away with a loud gulp on Nobita's part as he hears Junko cracking her knuckles. "Good, now I can take him apart limb by limb the proper way."

"Please don't do that Ryugu-San. I'm sure Nobita didn't mean any ill will towards Satome-San when he offers to take her home." Dekisugi quickly stands between Junko and Nobita while he raises his hand trying to stop Junko from taking some drastic action. But the almost middle school delinquent girl easily shoves the pretty boy aside as she steps forward and once again drags Nobita up by his collar.

"I'm not asking you. I'm asking four eye froggy himself. Spill it out froggy, I ain't got all day!" Junko says with a menacing stare deep into Nobita's eyes.

"Look... I just thought about when I was in grade school I had all kinds of trouble getting back home: Being hit by a car, bitten by dogs, fall into a ditch, or becoming local bully's punch bag, you name it. The only thing I was thinking about was I don't want Satome to experience what I experienced and that's all I can say. If you don't believe me... that's not the first time I get a savage beating." Nobita gives Junko a defeated sigh as he spills out whatever the aggressive girl wants to know. After a few short minute of Junko trying to stare into his soul she finally releases Nobita.

"I'll believe you for now. But you better not try something funny with Kazuko, or you'll get very familiar with my fist." Junko waves her fist in front of Nobita as she issues a threat, although Nobita's attention is draw more towards Kazuko. For some reason the 7th grader seems to have a very disappointed look on her face.

Well... so much for my plan of catching up on my sleep. Now I'll be lucky if I can finish my lunch on time after this mess.

"Ow... I think I got hit by a bullet. Anyone wants to take me to the nurse's office?" A short distance back, Hideo lets out a painful groan.

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Once again, the afternoon classes pass by without much incident. Nobita almost feel sorry for their home room teacher Kakashi Sensei. Considers the silver haired teacher actually puts in the effort into making his lessons interesting unlike his colleagues yet all Nobita can think about is the meeting he's going to have with Miyoko. Although it does make the afternoon fly by fairly quickly, and soon he's finding himself going to the third floor through stair.

"Aren't you going home Nobita? I'd imagine you want to get some shut eye after all that." Dekisugi asks with a concerned voice as he's about to go down stairs.

"I'm catching up on my sleep on the roof. You are getting enough girl jokes made of you without being my mother." Nobita gives a shrug to his most friendly acquaintance. Dekisugi lets out a soft sigh.

"You are right... It's not my place to be over protective like a mother hen. Just be sure to get home before sun down. Saigaku is turning into a dangerous city like Tokyo with resent climbing of murder and suicide rate. I'll see you tomorrow then." Dekisugi gives Nobita a smile and a wave as he disappear through the stairs.

Nobita on the other hand just lets out a shrug as he continue to climb the stair toward roof. He almost knows the way by heart, and can almost walk to the roof with his eyes closed for all the time he takes nap on the roof. This time it feels different as he thinks about the event from two previous nights, as well as his nightmare. And the tiny door at the end of stair feels like some kind of metaphor that contains all the answer he seeks.

With a deep breath, he gives the handle a yank and pushes the door open as he sees a bunch of white doves fly up... okay, they are actually sparrows but it just sounds more dramatic if they are white doves. At the edge of the roof a girl with short hair dressed in plain jacket and pants is waiting for him with her back turned. It immediately reminds of Nobita of her fading figure from last night.

By any standard, Miyoko is not a girl that will catch your attention on the first glance. She has a very plain face that will blend into a crowd, and simple short hair that'll make you think of a steam bun at most. At the same time, Nobita can't erase the memory of how lonely her backside looks to him.

"Oh, you are here. You don't look too well, but I suppose you have a lot on your mind." Miyoko turns around to face Nobita with a smile on her face. That's when Nobita notices she has a small plastic bag in her hand as she fishes out a juice. "Want something to drink? It'll probably be a long explanation."

"Don't mind if I do." Nobita walks to the senior student as he takes the fruit juice from her. He pops the can open and bring it to his mouth, let the sweet and sour taste washes all over his mouth. It leaves a bitter after taste for some reason, but that may just be Nobita's imagination. "You told me you'll explain everything you know about being a Magical Girl."

"I intend to follow that promise. But first... how much do you know about Magical Girls from Kyubey or Jaiko? They born from wishes, and they fight against Witches who born from curses?" Miyoko asks as she gives the school yard one last good look before she sits down on the roof together with Nobita.

"The wishes, and they fight Witch part. Buttface McFuzzington didn't mention anything about Witches are born from curses." Nobita notices Miyoko seem to try her hardest holding in laughter at his new nickname for Kyubey. "Although that's partially my fault. I broke his brain before he got to that part."

"Really? How did you do that?" Miyoko looks at Nobita with a fascinated face, suggesting it isn't an usual occurrence where someone shut down Kyubey's brain function.

"Trolling him. I spammed him with useless banter for twenty minutes before he drops his head and fall onto the floor. Although to be fair, he did pretty well to last twenty minutes against one of the most irritable behaviour known to human kind." Nobita gives a nonchalant shrug as Miyoko giggles at his explanation.

"Yes, that sounds like good old Kyubey. Taking everything dead serious even when someone's obviously trying to bombard him with useless information. Although you are probably the first contract candidate who actually tries to troll him." Miyoko shakes her head around a little as she pulls two melon bread out of her bag and passes one to Nobita. "So I guess it's my job to explain that part too."

"Please do." Nobita nods alone as he opens the plastic wrap and sinks his teeth to the sweet melon bread from Pantasia. It's soft and sweet, but also leaves him with a bitter after taste. This time Nobita's is pretty certain it's just his imagination.

"Very well... although I have to admit I'm not very good at giving large scale exposition since it's my first time. But if Kyubey gives you the full break down of his contract, is Magical Girls are born through wish. And with their power, they fight against Witch who born through curses and spread despair among human. Such action drives people mad, into either murder or suicide if unchecked."

Nobita can't help but think about both his father Nobisuke, and Dekisugi who mentions about the climbing crime and suicide rate in Saigaku. It's safe to assume the non-politically correct named Witch has something to do with the problem, but the way Miyoko is talking suggest there's something more. "And he's lying?"

"Not exactly. Incubators are actually incapable of outright lying. But on the other hand they don't give you the full information. Funny thing about human brain: When we aren't giving the whole picture we tend to fill in the blanks ourselves. And Incubators are actually quite adapt at guiding us to the conclusion they want us to have..." Miyoko shakes her head as she's about to continue, before an emotionless voice interrupt her.

"That's rather in poor taste won't you agree Miyoko? Giving away classified information without my approval." Nobita and Miyoko turns their head towards the corner as the white bunny cat fox ferret thingy from space walk out of the shadow and into their view.

"Kyubey. I am grateful towards you. But that doesn't mean I'll blindly support everything you do, especially when you are scouting out your newest victims for your magic system." Miyoko closes her eyes and look sad for a moment as she tears a small part of the bread and feed it to Kyubey. Who eats the treat with his usual smiley face.

"Very well. I suppose losing one prospect with below average potential doesn't hamper the operation in the slightest." Nobita can't help but frown at Kyubey's nonchalant acceptance, and the way the cute looking creature speaking about himself like he's not present at all. "Please continue your explanation Miyoko."

Miyoko puts her melon bread down as she picks up her spade shaped necklace with the green oval gem imbued into it. It turns into an egg like jewel in her hand that glows with a faint green light and some spade shaped marking on it. "Remember when I told you being a Magical Girl is a feeble existence... have you seen a Soul Gem?"

"Jaiko used her Soul Gem to heal my wound when we ends up facing against a Witch. Something about it being the source of your magic or something?" Nobita looks at the jewel in Miyoko's hand, he notices Miyoko has a mixed expression when she's staring at it and wonders why.

"Have you wondered why it's called a 'Soul' Gem? It's because it literally contains a Magical Girl's soul inside. This body you see before you is a hollow marionette, controlled by my soul which now reside in this little egg shaped jewel. And that's why I told you Magical Girls are feeble even though we are capable of inhuman feats. All of us only have a short, half life after making our wish and if our Soul Gem leaves our body for more than 100 feet our body stops function. As in... our bodies drop dead."

Wait a minute... WAIT A MINUTE! Did Miyoko just nonchalantly give out some atomic bomb level spoiler?

Nobita can feel his stomach starts to tighten up as something is forcing its way up his throat. He fights hard not to start regurgitate what he just eat as he finds himself hunch over the floor. So both Shizuka and Jaiko... they are remote controlled dead girl walking?

"You are looking very pale. Maybe I should stop my explanation right here." Miyoko gently rubs Nobita's back as he gags and cough while taking the information in. Nobita holds up his hand, trying to convince Miyoko he's in fact okay because he wants to know the rest of the story.

"I am... okay. I just need to catch my breath. But please don't stop right here. I'm more bothered about what you said, of Magical Girl being a death sentence." Nobita sharply turns around to look at Kyubey, wanting to know how will the damnable ferret will smooth talk his way out of this. To the boy's surprise, Kyubey is happily munching on Miyoko's melon bread with a smile on his face. "KYU~BEY~!"

"Oh, were you finished all the explanation? Do excuse me, I was too busy eating." Kyubey turns around to regard Nobita's enraged face with his usual deadpan smile. "Or are you angry I'm eating this bread? I do apologize, I thought Miyoko is done with it."

"No, you can have it Kyubey." Miyoko smiles at the damn ferret as she gently scratches his head. Kyubey lets out a satisfied purring sound at Miyoko's touch. "Nobita is just angry about you taking our souls from our body."

"Like everyone when they find out. Well... actually everyone except for you, Miyoko. Frankly I do not understand why human make it such a big deal about their soul need to remain in their fragile body. Your specie even have prolonged debate about whether souls exist or not, so why is it so important they need to remain in your body when you can accomplish so much more when I take it out and then fortify your body with magic?" Kyubey finishes the last bite of his meal before turning around to face both Nobita and Miyoko, his tail waving back and forth as Miyoko continues to run her fingers through his head.

It's very possible the damn ferret is simply making excuse for his own action. But for some reason Nobita actually sees some point in his argument. There are many people who are skeptical about the very existence of soul, so why does every gets angry when they knows they do have a soul, and it got taken out of their body and put into a small glass egg.

"To be fair I was fairly upset at first just like Nobita, but angry or not I have to accept this is what I am. It's not like I lost my free will because of it. Why be resentful and miserable at something that's out of my own control when I can spend the time to do something meaningful?" Miyoko turns around and look at Nobita as she starts speaking once again.

"Although there's more to being a Magical Girl than simply having your soul pulled out of your body. Do you notice the dark taint inside my Soul Gem?"

Nobita looks closer at Miyoko's Soul Gem, and sure enough he realize there's some blackness inside that makes her Soul Gem look dull in its brilliance of emerald green. He looks up at Miyoko. "I remember Tuxedo Mask cleaning Jaiko's Soul Gem with something they call Grief Seed. Recon the taint is bad news?"

"Very bad news. Remember when I told you being a Magical Girl is our death sentence? As we use magic - or simply goes on our daily life for that matter, using magic just make it much quicker - our soul becomes tainted with this dark negative energy. Negative thoughts, such as anger, sadness, jealousy, or most prominently despair speed up this process much faster. When the negative build up exceed our Soul Gem's capacity we forget ourselves, turning into the very thing we fight against. Yes, that's how Witches are born. It born from our souls that is filled with despair, and in term we spread the same despair around the world. That's the only thing Magical Girls can look forward to: You die as a Magical Girl fighting Witches, finding yourself a twisted purpose that fight against your despair but losing your sanity in the process like Kurokami-San, or turns into the very thing you fight against and bring only harm to others..."

Nobita can no longer hear what Miyoko is saying as he finally loses it: He hunches over the roof once again and barfs out the mixture of bread, fruit juice, and whatever liquid that's still in his stomach. He feels a hand running on his back, probably trying to sooth his sudden outburst of throwing up as he hears some gibberish in his head.

So his nightmare from last night was actually true. That means Shizuka is probably dead, lost her sanity like Kurokami, or become one of those eldritch abominations somewhere in this world and Jaiko will be next. For a while it doesn't even occurs to him if he didn't manage to break Kyubey's brain the first night when they meet, it's possible he'll make a wish to help Jaiko fight that Witch and the same fate will await himself.

Nobita doesn't know how long time passed before he recovers from his addled state. But when he comes to, he realize Kyubey is making some comment with his usual emotionless voice. "...Perhaps giving Nobita some food before your explanation was a very bad idea?"

"Yes, I didn't expect Nobita to react this violently at my explanation, but in hindsight giving him food was a very bad idea." Miyoko asks with a concerned voice. "Are you okay Nobita? I'll bring you to the nurses office now..."

"I am okay! And thanks for giving me some food before we started. If I had nothing to throw up in my stomach I'll probably barf out my lung instead." He quickly throws up his arm skywards, and it occurs to Nobita he's probably having some jerky and irregular movement that further convince Miyoko he is in fact not ok. He quickly turns around and snatches Kyubey off his feet as he start to stretch the damnable ferret's cheeks wide like he wants to split up Kyubey's face down the middle. "WHY THE HELL DO YOU DO THIS TO THOSE GIRLS YOU FUCK!"

"Nobita... Not that I don't understand your burst of anger. But maybe stretching Kyubey's face wide is not a good idea if you want to get answer from him." Miyoko looks up at Nobita who currently have a crazy look like Homer Simpson trying to strangle his own son.

"Not to worry Miyoko. I can communicate with you two with my telepathic matrix even if I can't speak." Kyubey on the other hand looks very ok for the physical abuse Nobita is putting him through. Maybe he is incapable of feel pain, or perhaps he is so used to physical harm when his contracts find out the truth he is used to receive it. "But to answer your question Nobita: Entropy. To put it in an easy to understand term, think of a burning bonfire. A fire gives away light and warmth as it burns, but it is not perpetual. Eventually when it runs out of fuel to burn the fire die out, and you are left with darkness and cold because there's no longer energy."

"Now put this analogy into larger scale. The universe we lives in is this bonfire. For all of the sentient species in the universe to exist, there need to be energy present. But just like a bonfire, the energy in our universe is not perpetual. Eventually the fuel will run out and all life in our universe will cease to exist due to the extinction of energy. Our specie realize this problem and begin to actively seek solution to entropy, and in our search we find ways to turn emotion - particularly very strong negative emotion - into energy to add to the energy pool of our universe. That is why Magical Girls and Witches exist: To extend the existence of our universe."

"If you think turning into eldritch abomination is such a noble goal... WHY DON'T YOU DO IT ON YOUR OWN ASS YOU TUB OF FUCK!" Nobita, getting quite tired at stretching Kyubey's face starts to shake the damn ferret up and down.

"That is not possible. For even before we discover the threat of entropy, our specie notice the flaw of having emotion: It drives self destructive behaviour which will eventually bring about the down fall of any sentient race. So our fore kin, in their wisdom purged all emotion from our specie. There are still couple of Incubator from ancient time who simply sealed away their emotion rather than not having them in the first place. But the number is simply too small to make a difference at fighting entropy by the time we realize the threat."

Kyubey tilt his head at Nobita as he starts to calm down a little. "You, and almost every other human who learns about this seem to have some misguided impression we do this simply to torment your race. But really, there's nothing noble or despicable in the Magic System we implement. It simply exist as it is: a way to prolong the end of universe which will be the end of everything. It matters not if one is the fuel or the caretaker of this universe in the end, for we are all insignificant grain of sand, slaves to the rule of the universe."

Nobita releases his iron grip on Kyubey and lets him hit the floor with a light thud. His anger is extinguished by the last message Kyubey sent to him. Incubator don't have emotion, but at the same time he can't help but feel a certain sadness in Kyubey's point of view. Suddenly he feels very tired like the fatigue from previous two days catch up to him, and he feels older than he has any right to be at his age. "Miyoko, you said you are grateful for Kyubey turning you into a Magical Girl... You are grateful, for this? Living as a remote controlled corpse and eventually become the fuel of the universe?"

Nobita realizes he is probably being too blunt and tactless, but at this point his mind is too strained to care about it. To his relief, Miyoko doesn't look like she's offended in the slightest.

"Yes. I know it sounds crazy... but I didn't get a choice when Kyubey presented his contract to me. I was attacked by a Witch when he asks me to make my wish, and if I didn't become a Magical Girl I would die on that day. As much as mother would hate the idea of me following her footsteps... she will hate it even more if I dies on that day." For a second, Nobita swears he sees a glistering tear forming around the corner of Miyoko's eyes. But she quickly blinks away, and looks fine when she opens her eyes to look at Nobita once again as if the tear is merely Nobita's imagination.

"Wait, you just said your mother was a Magical Girl? Doesn't that means they can at least live long enough to have children?" For a second, Nobita feels like he's trying to grab onto whatever straw floating around him but Miyoko just shakes her head and destroys whatever small hope he still have left.

"Mother was able to live to the day of seeing me slowly grow up because she somehow sealed her Soul Gem. It's like putting the corruption into stasis, and as long as she doesn't try to use magic her soul won't degrade like the rest of us. But I ask around other Magical Girls, and no one ever heard of something like that. I fear it may have something to do with her specific magic power, and with her gone that method is lost forever. For now, all I can hope for is to help all my sisters in any way I can, and may they find small amount of happiness before they are gone. On the day of my passing, if I can say I truly have helped all my sisters to the best of my abilities, I will be able to lose myself with some contentment."

Nobita feels only bitterness in his mouth at Miyoko's statement. For a while nobody says anything as they simply stares at the school yard or the floor before Nobita finally opens his mouth again. "Does Jaiko... knows what will happen to her?"

"I suppose I'm being a hypocrite for not telling her the truth... but would it do anything good to her to let her know she spend her wish on something foolish, and she will turn into one of the very abomination she fights? Maybe I am wrong in this, but I think it's better for her to live in the delusion she gained the power to fight and protect those she loves, and hopefully find some happiness alone the way." Miyoko closes her eyes as she puts her finger through the steel net around the edge of the roof. "Do you need someone to help you to the nurse's office... or escort you home? You don't look too well."

"No, I'll manage. It'll be hypocrite of me to cry over something so trivial when you are able to keep such a strong face after you learned what'll happen to you." Nobita shakes his head as he walks towards the stairs. He loses his footing around third or so stair and rolls down all the way. "Ouch..."

"I can fix your body with a wish from you, just so you know..."

"Kyubey... SHUT THE HELL UP!"

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I realize the way I portrait Kyubey is not very accurate to his cannon behaviour, but that's how I like to picture Incubator as: A eloquent lawful neutral specie without emotion that is only concerned, or almost obsessed with continuing their existence. I do think at this point, too many PMMM fanfic depict Incubator as malicious being who often flat out lie about everything for the sake of being bad, and I do hope the way I write Kyubey (and other Incubators who will eventually appear in the story) can be a refreshing change.