004 ʗ ACCIDENTAL VIDEO

[handfulmagica]

[Sayaka had been thinking for a while, after seeing Mami train and then fight monsters with her at the coliseum. She had been devoting herself to her music lessons, but she realized that she had been neglecting her magical girl duties. After all, a magical girl was supposed to be a hero of justice! She couldn't just forget about it like that.

Plus,

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[insorrow]

[One good thing about the whole Weiss thing? Nobody ever expected you to say anything, though Aya sometimes did anyway and yeah, Ken sometimes wondered how long he'd spent thinking that one up. At least it meant they were spared Youji going on about making girls cry every five seconds or something equally daft.

[Now, in spite of himself, Ken's wondering what he'd say. He can't think of anything good either.]

You want something short. So's you're not off your guard too long. You wanna strike first, right?

[handfulmagica]

[It was the same with the whole Puella Magi thing. None of them really used transformation quotes, but... That was mainly because there's no time for that when you're fighting Eldritch Abominations. This place has nothing of the sort.

Plus... it's fun. But only if people weren't listening to her brainstorming. :|]

Oh crap, this was on?!

[Sayaka picks up the Dreamberry, a look of embarrassment on her face. Oh well...]

Er... Right! I need to keep it simple, but effective. It only takes a second for me to transform, so at the very least, I can say more than one word.

[insorrow]

Uh... yeah, it does that sometimes.

[A smile. A shrug. He's seen worse. Probably done plenty worse too, come to think of it, and without the excuse of 'it just came on'...

[Normally Ken would wonder why say anything at all. But - well, magical girls. (And why not them, either? Again, this place has done plenty weirder.) Might be stupid to draw attention to yourself, but if you had to transform in the first place... well, how discreet was that? What'd you got to lose by saying something with it?]

I never figured you had to sit down and work this stuff out. I thought you kinda got the catchphrase with the costume.

[handfulmagica]

Well, being a magical girl isn't exactly a glamorous job back home. Plus, it'd be a moot point, since Witches don't exactly understand human language.

[Yes, little girl is talking about this casually.]

Things are different here, though! You don't have to as cautious.

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[homerunmagica]

[ Don't mind Homura, she will just be over here.. Silently judging.. Aka, just doing what she always does. It's hard to read any particular emotion off her face though. ]

I doubt something like that is necessary, Miki Sayaka.

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[handfulmagica]

[Oh come on, Hameru. You probably did this too back in the second timeline.

Crap, this was on? Sayaka was embarrassed, but... at least it was just the transfer student.]

It's not like there's any Witches here. I'm allowed to have fun.

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[homerunmagica]

[ She probably did. And failed pretty hard. But what is admitting anything moemura-related.. ]

I had hoped you would have understood by now that this isn't about having fun. [ Because it's far too easy to get carried away with it and then Bad Things start happening. ]

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[handfulmagica]

Well, maybe back in Mitakihara, but things are different here. None of it applies to me anymore.

[Even if she did have a sort-of truce with Homura, this girl still irritated Sayaka to no end.]

Could you please do something pleasant for once and not rain on my afterlife parade? 'Kay thanks.

[nolessthanseven]

Pretty sure yelling something out before you attack them is going to give you away.

And get you killed, in a lot of cases. I don't know about you, but I've found demons don't really wait for a fluttery transformation sequence.

[handfulmagica]

[Sayaka was about to react that the fact her Dreamberry was on, but geez... What a party pooper.]

... I know that. There isn't anything here that's like the stuff I used to fight back home, so it wouldn't hurt to have a bit more fun with it. It only takes a second to transform...

[nolessthanseven]

Yeah, keep telling yourself that. It's more fun until you end up dead. That's a lot of fun.

[handfulmagica]

Considering that I'm already dead, yeah. It is. Being here is more fun than that crapsack for a home world.

[13thkey]

[...... Kinda confused]

Why do you have to say something?

[handfulmagica]

[Oh...

Oh.

This was on? Great.]

To add some 'cool factor' to when I transform, of course! To make people think, 'Wow! A real hero of justice!'

[And to give people the illusion that she needs to say something to activate her Soul Gem when she really doesn't.]

[13thkey]

[Hero of Justice? Well, I guess here it's not that surprising in Somarium]

I guess, but wouldn't it be easier to not have to worry about that?

[handfulmagica]

[... Urk. This was embarrassing. Oh well, gotta maintain that super energetic idiot personality.]

But that isn't fun! Don't be such a party pooper~

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[harmonicmelodia]

[He's very confused by what she's doing, so he's going to see what she's up to.]

Miss Sayaka, may I ask why it is you are shouting?

1/? [ voice ]

[handfulmagica]

[Huh?]

2/? [ voice ]

[handfulmagica]

[Wasn't that Frederic's voice? Wait...]

3/? [ voice ]

[handfulmagica]

[She turns around... The tell-tale Dreamberry light is on.]