>>32349227

You finally open your eyes - and see her standing over you. Helmetless. Suitless. Wearing a long white dress with a cleavage window that looked absolutely hilarious on her, simply for the fact that it was the one thing you'd never have imagined her to wear.

Even a clown outfit would fit her better.

You'd have laughed, if your throat didn't feel like it was permanently blocked up by bile and blood.

"M-Miss Malal," You manage to croak out anyway, realizing that you too are helmetless only after you've breathed the words. You pull yourself up to a sitting position a moment later, just as Malal moves to a chair beside you, gathering up her dress and cursing underneath her breath with every step. ...She's also wearing high heels. What the hell? What the hell is this, some costume party?

...And she's glowing, too. Not like being backlit by clever lighting effects, but...glowing from the inside. Luminous.

"Wish it was," Malal growls, just as she plants her ass onto the chair, and letting the rest of her cumbersome white gown drape itself around her. "Fucking thing, I don't even know how I get to move in this kind of outfit, much less shoot a goddamn evil sun out of the sky." She grabs a handful of skirt and pulls it up, revealing an inner lining that's...well, seemingly made out of space. "Look at this. LOOK at this. I'm fucking flashing the entire universe. My panties are being seen by the fucking solar system. It's the upskirt to end all upskirts."

Well, it's not...it's not really that bad, it's kind of pretty--

[1/2]

>>32349230

"I knew you'd say that." Malal sighs, before patting her knees with prettily-gloved hands. "Anyway, we don't have much time to chitchat, so let me cut to the chase."

She looks at you with piercing amber eyes. "We fucked up, Yuma. That could've gone through a whole lot better, but..." She shrugs. "That's just how it happened."
...

How do you respond?

[]I...I'm sorry.
[]I wasn't thinking. I just...I wanted to prove to myself you weren't the monster I thought you were.
[]No, YOU fucked up. Everyone is dead because of you. EVERYONE.

>>32349243
>[X]I...I'm sorry.

>>32349243
[X] I...I'm sorry.
[X] I wasn't thinking. I just...I wanted to prove to myself you weren't the monster I thought you were.

>>32349243
[X]I...I'm sorry.
[X]I wasn't thinking. I just...I wanted to prove to myself you weren't the monster I thought you were.

>>32349243
>[X]I...I'm sorry.

>>32349243
[X] I'm sorry. I know it won't fix anything, but I'm sorry.

>>32349243
[X]I...I'm sorry.

Serious doubts are a far cry from thinking She was a monster.

>>32349243
>[]I...I'm sorry.

>>32349243
[x] I'm sorry
[x] I wanted to prove you weren't the monster

How can we fix this?

>>32349243
>[X]I...I'm sorry.
[X] I wish I were dead.

Actually, I'm not sure I'm not, but I feel like being dead shouldn't hurt this much.

...Where is it? Kharn, I mean?

>>32349243
>[x]I...I'm sorry.

>>32349243
>[X]I...I'm sorry.
>[X]I wasn't thinking. I just...I wanted to prove to myself you weren't the monster I thought you were.

>>32349243
[x]I...I'm sorry.
Not the time for confrontation. Though, that might never arrive depending on what happens here.

>>32349243
>>[x]I...I'm sorry.
>[x]I wasn't thinking. I just...I wanted to prove to myself you weren't the monster I thought you were.

I want to chew her out and tell her everything is her own masterminding fault, but it wouldn't be in character for Yuma.

>>32349243
>[X]I...I'm sorry.
>[X]I wasn't thinking. I just...I wanted to prove to myself you weren't the monster I thought you were.

>>32349243
>[X]I...I'm sorry.
>[X]I wasn't thinking. I just...I wanted to prove to myself you weren't the monster I thought you were.
the best time of the day!

So how dead is Yuma?

>>32349243
[x]Oh well! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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>>32349227
>OP pic

>>32349336
Consider for a moment that she (and every magical girl ever) is a lich, and has been since she made her contract.

>>32349243
>[ x ]No, YOU fucked up. Everyone is dead because of you. EVERYONE.

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>>32349243

Current voting period is closed.

Thank you for your participation!

>>32349243
>[X]I...I'm sorry.
>[X]I wasn't thinking. I just...I wanted to prove to myself you weren't the monster I thought you were.

Huh. I was expecting it to be Goddess Madoka, not Malal-as-Goddess. I wonder if they're the same person.

>>32349389
if Malal fucked up, it was in entrusting important duties to an apprentice who couldn't handle the weight of her duties, just like Alondight trusted Mordred to not fail at the crucial time.

>>32349380
That's a pretty dumb definition of dead.

>>32349415
They're aspects of each other.

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I don't have much art to post for you guys today as work has been pretty hellish for me this week. Here's an in progress drawing of Murder Mayumi and Miracle Midori

Once again, I'm super creative with filenames

Also have a MadoSaya drawing in the works, but that isn't MGNQ

>>32349509
>MadoSaya drawing
I'm curious to see it

>>32349454
Actually, there's a reasonable amount of doubt about that.

Paticuarly Malal, considering her parallels with Chiaki.

Which isn't to say that they're not both parts of their respective wholes. But It seems safe to say that the "mortal" incarnations of the various witches are still free to be their own people.

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>>32349529

Hmmm... okay.

I'm trying to work in on some advice and do something different with the lines. Trying to give them more "weight", I guess? A friend had asked for this sometime... uh, like two years ago.

I forgot.

Now I'm imagining the scene from the end of TTGL, where everyone in the universe could see the fight with the Anti-Spiral? That, but with Malal's panties.

>>32349574
Very nice.

>>32349574

said friend should be happy, your skill has increased significantly.

>>32349574
thanks for sharing NiceHatGuy, it's very good

>>32349576
>universal pantsu flashing
Sounds like a job for Dan.

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>>32349576
Yuma did nothing wrong.

>>32349509
Looks great, Mayumi's waist seems a little thin though

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>>32349256 >>32349260

You're...you're sorry. It's...you just wanted to find out the truth.

N-no. No, that's...that's not true. You weren't even interested in the truth.

You just wanted to prove to yourself that Malal wasn't the monster you thought she was.

Malal looks at you stonily, before turning away - and then, apropos of completely nothing, starts to laugh. Her shoulders, very nearly bared by her dress, quivering as she does so. She slaps a gloved hand over her mouth a second later, muffling herself.

"Ghgk. S-sorry. I'm..." She starts to giggle, her long pink hair rippling down her shoulders and back in luxurious waves. Malal, your Rank Leader, is actually giggling. Like a real girl and shit. "I know this particular scene should be really serious, like, super serious and shit, but I just...I just can't." After a few moments, she finally manages to calm down enough to wipe at her eyes with silk-encased fingers. A chuckle or two escaping her lips as she does so.

"Christ." Malal finally says, putting her hands down and slapping her knees again, as she once more looks up at you from h er seat. "Here I was being really fucking proud that I've taken every single variable into consideration, every detail taken into account - but I go ahead and miss the one single detail I shouldn't have. The one under my fucking nose."

She gestures at you with a hand that seems much too dainty, much too fragile-looking to be able to break ribs and bone behind ruggedized Culexus hardsuits. "I didn't account for someone like you being...well, being too much like me."

She giggles again. "I trained you too fucking well that it actually worked against me. That's...that's something to think about."

She did? Granted, it's been a while, but you're pretty sure 'being a hypocritical idiot 101' wasn't part of her lesson plan.

[1/2]

>>32349753
homuhomu-dokadoka

>>32349753

The pink-haired girl in the white dress snorts here. "I'm not talking about that. It's more of...thinking for yourself. Doing what needs to be done, rather than what someone with a higher rank tells you to do. Bucking orders when you see that they're not making too much sense, or could even jeopardize everything."

Malal shakes her head. "I trained you to think for yourself, Yuma, and not just follow some idiot with a hat or a cooler-looking helmet. Of course, I'd have preferred that you did it in the pursuit of truth and everything, but I'm grading you on your actions, not on your intent. That said..."

She closes her eyes as she takes a deep breath, as if bracing herself for pain. "...it doesn't exactly make everything we've done here right. Or worthy of forgiveness."

...

"Still, what's done is done. The die's cast, the cards are dealt, yadda yadda yadda, we'll know if the stupidly-intricate Rube Goldberg machine that we've just kicked into activation actually works in a couple of years' time." Malal dusts both her hands, as if patting them clean of the matter entirely. "Now there's nothing else to do BUT wait, and that's always the hardest part."

...

How do you respond?

[]...Did everyone really have to die? What...what kind of plan needs so many deaths to work?
[]Plead for Malal to tell you about her plan. You just have to know.
[]Who are you? Really? WHAT are you?

>>32349775
[X]Plead for Malal to tell you about her plan. You just have to know.

We fucked up and now we gotta fix this. What's the end goal. Maybe we can just adjust the scenario behind the scenes.

>>32349775
>[X]Who are you? Really? WHAT are you?
>[X]...Did everyone really have to die? What...what kind of plan needs so many deaths to work?

>>32349775
>[x]Who are you? Really? WHAT are you?

>>32349775
[X] Plead for Malal to tell you her plan. How can we make sure we're not screwing it up more if we don't know it?

>>32349775
>>[X]...Did everyone really have to die? What...what kind of plan needs so many deaths to work?
>[X]Plead for Malal to tell you about her plan. You just have to know.
>[X]Who are you? Really? WHAT are you?

Ah, to hell with it. All three, but mainly

[X]...Did everyone really have to die? What...what kind of plan needs so many deaths to work?

>>32349775
>[]Who are you? Really? WHAT are you?

>>32349775
>[X]Who are you? Really? WHAT are you?

This is some shit

>>32349775
>[X]Who are you? Really? WHAT are you?

>>32349775
>[x]Who are you? Really? WHAT are you?

>>32349775
[X]Plead for Malal to tell you about her plan. You just have to know.
[X]Who are you? Really? WHAT are you?

Guys, if we ask who she is, she'll just play coy.

>>32349775
>[X]Plead for Malal to tell you about her plan. You just have to know.
>[X]Who are you? Really? WHAT are you?

>>32349775
[X]...Did everyone really have to die? What...what kind of plan needs so many deaths to work?

>>32349775
[X] Who are you? Really? WHAT are you?

Because, really, knowing her plans would just make us fuck it up.

>>32349811
>>32349812
>>32349813
>>32349818
Dammit, anons, focus! The plan has been set in motion and we need to hit the floor running to catch up to it and make sure it's not veering too off course because of what we did.

>>32349825
It's Malal. She'll play coy regardless.

>>32349775
[X]I guess means that I still don't get to know the whole story, even though everybody had to die?

Godfucking dammit, Malal.

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>>32349837
This.

Malal is dead. Yuma is alive-ish. Give Malal hope that our failure can be learned from.

>>32349775
>[X]...Did everyone really have to die? What...what kind of plan needs so many deaths to work?
>[X]Plead for Malal to tell you about her plan. You just have to know.
>[X]Who are you? Really? WHAT are you?
I would like ask all 3 but if we have to choose on it's more in character
[X]...Did everyone really have to die? What...what kind of plan needs so many deaths to work?

>>32349775
>[x]...Did everyone really have to die? What...what kind of plan needs so many deaths to work?
I want to ask ALL the questions, but she said we don't have that much time...

>>32349775
>[x]...Did everyone really have to die? What...what kind of plan needs so many deaths to work?
>[x]Plead for Malal to tell you about her plan. You just have to know.

>>32349775
>[x]...Did everyone really have to die? What...what kind of plan needs so many deaths to work?

>>32349845
I mean, I get it. Play your cards close to your chest and prevent interference as much as possible. Very orderly, keep loose ends to a minimum.

I get it. Doesn't mean I have to like it.

>>32349775
>[X]Who are you? Really? WHAT are you?

>>32349775
>[]...Did everyone really have to die? What...what kind of plan needs so many deaths to work?

>>32349845
Seconded

>>32349868
You know there is a such a thing as knowing too much.

>>32349887
Not when you got something as important as saving the world from Pinky and Homura.

>>32349775
>[x]...Did everyone really have to die? What...what kind of plan needs so many deaths to work?

>>32349856
You know that question doesn't ask "what is the plan" but just "what kind of plan", right?
It won't answer any real questions.

>>32349891
What if knowing the truth just makes people give up? Did that ever occur to you? Thing could be so fucking bad that if someone found out they'd just crawl into a ball and kill themselves rather than face whats coming.

>>32349775
[X]...Did everyone really have to die? What...what kind of plan needs so many deaths to work?
[X]Plead for Malal to tell you about her plan. You just have to know.

>>32349902
"The Blessed Lady is broken and we gotta fix her, oh by the way the Devil is around here too" doesn't exactly cause much sanity loss.

>>32349915
It's not exactly much of a plan either.

>>32349868
Yeah. Time's are hard, can't even trust the people who honestly want to help and would try, etc.

But she doesn't have anyone she trusts the entirety of what she does and what she's chosen to do. It's dangerous to do such a thing, and risks breaking the plan, but...there are still some things you have to do, because you are human(lich).

>>32349925
"Something something something golden weapons" is probably the plan.

>Q: what kind of plan requires so many deaths?
>A: the kind of plan that saves the universe
Well, that was plainly useless.

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>>32349775

This concludes our second voting period!

Thank you for your participation!

>>32349953
Hopefully Yuma gets enough answers that she'll be helping Murderface in the future.

Or starts collecting Golden Weapons herself...

>>32349953
Think a vote banner of embarrassed-angry Malal-goddess is in order?

You know, the time after Walpurg must be just as bad for Officios:
>a huge chunk of their workforce is dead
>a lot of cleanup
>lots of girls witching out due to losing their waifus and misery
>only the weakened leftovers of magical girls left to fight

I wonder how they handle it?

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>>32350018
>I wonder how they handle it

Recruitment drives.

>>32350024
Destroyed homes from the collateral damage makes for quite a few contracts

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>>32350068
>"Oh, so your boyfriend died in a mysterious apocalyptic battle? We can fix that, if you'll only sign here, here, and here."
>"Thanks for contracting with the 9th. By the way, you're now a lesbian. And a lich. You'll learn more about it during orientation."

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>>32350068
Oh god, all those "I wish for my house back"

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>>32350024
Finally a reason to post this.

>>32350141

damn it.

Who would I need to talk to if I wanted to do a writeup related to MGNQ?

>>32350141
I wonder if make a wish is actually run by an incubator in mgnq.

>>32350170

Talk directly to Decu.
Fly to the moon and present your offering.

>>32350170

Talk to me.

>>32350172
Of course it is.

>>32350172
40% of Eightball's recruiting

>>32350223
it's run by Kyubey. It started out as a means of recruitment but these days is mostly a tax deductible after the Mami situation made him rethink his position.

>>32350240
Man loves him a hospital. Hospitals is where you get shit DONE.

>>32350256

I wonder if magical girls discriminate each other based on their contract circumstances.

"oh, you were in a car accident? pfffhaha, loser"

>>32350300
They're teenagers. Of course they do.

>>32350300
I assume it would be a taboo subject like wishes.

>>32350310
Yeah. It doesn't matter why the Incubators fucked you, they still fucked you good.

>>32350300
"Look at this sucker! I bet she contracted because she was dying or something else lame"
"Oh yeah? Better than contracting because your chest was too small"

I'm a thread late for this, I know, but I really wanted to say this: Mordred, you are not a hero.
You are a mediocre coward.
You aren't even a great coward, the like of Ciphias Cain or Rincewind would have realized that standing firm the few extra seconds to actually kill the witch would actually increase their chances of survival.

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>>32350326
10 bravery lets (not) do this!

>>32350326
Wannabe hero in the body of a coward.

A truly first-rate coward wouldn't even have been here in the first place.

>>32350326
Rincewind is a role model for us all. *scream for mercy in 7 different languages

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>>32350326
Mordred a shit

RIP in pieces cavefish

>>32350300

They might keep it to themselves, only sharing it with that special someone who would never judge them for their wish.

Have Kyoko and Sayaka reached the wish sharing stage of a relationship yet?

>>32350326
What should we do to get back at Mordred?

I'm thinking we force her to serve for a spell in the 9th.

>>32350361

did she even survive?

>>32350383
I'm sure she did.

>>32350326
This is assuming the Sword of Promised Victory was charged in that time. Which I had assumed was the case, and that she just made it disperse so she could run, but upon rereading I found no mention of it. So perhaps she didn't even have it ready at the time. For all we know the stress of the situation made charging it all the harder and doubled if not tripled its charge time.

>>32350392
NOBODY DID ANYTHING WRONG

>>32350361
Pretty sure the second would want to execute her for cowardice. I say we petition them to send her to the seventh, they'll take anyone, and that way she has to live with her shame.

>>32350348
Well, there was that time that Rincewind voluntarily charged into the Dungeon Dimensions armed with nothing but a half-brick in a sock and having no known way of getting out (because it was either almost certainly die horribly that way, or have the Apocralypse occur and absolutely certainly die horribly along with everyone else.) I don't know much about Cain, but I imagine that he's been in similar situations.

>>32350407
People were just being people

>>32350361
absolutely nothing.

Bitch is dead to us. Doesn't even exist.

>>32350415
Nah, we should have her do a penitent crusade at the 9th.

That way Murderface can yell at her a bunch and maybe she'll end up being useful.

>>32350419
Rincewind did everything right.

>>32350433
Implying Murderface wouldn't just shoot her.

>>32350419
Caiaphas Cain is a filthy coward who probably worships Nurgle.

>>32350407
Alternately: EVERYBODY DID EVERYTHING WRONG

>>32350392
"32224249"
>Just as your retinal display - scrambled as it is - declares that Mordred's five minutes are done.

>"MORDRED!" You scream, risking a moment to turn back at the girl. "KILL IT! KILL--"

I'm pretty sure the Sword of Promised victory was ready. Maybe there was a few seconds left, if we say that there's a bit of randomness in the charge time. We definitely could have bought those seconds.

>>32350433
I wouldn't want to put her in a situation where anyone from the 9th's life may be in her hands though. Let her go meditate and contemplate her failure and get beaten up by Yuu.

>>32350456
It said her five minutes were up. Not that it was ready.

>>32350458
>get beaten up by Touhous
ftfy
Yuu is Already Dead by this point.

>>32350462

Yeah. She might've been too busy pissing herself to charge up the attack.

>Mordred ends up with a golden weapon

This would be hilarious.

>>32350462
If it wasn't ready she could have said something, if it was charging slower she should have mentioned it previously, instead she dropped her weapon and ran. Pretty clear cut case of cowardice there.
Not that I think we shouldn't give her a chance at redemption if it ever comes up.

>Mordred is dead and stuck in the golden Holy Avenger of +5

Oh that would be hiiilarious

>>32350462
It seemed to pretty clearly imply that the 5 minutes being referred to was Mordred's charge-up time. Maybe we better ask Decu. Either way, Mordred a shit.

>>32350484
You think Pinky would dress it up as being an actual gift from the Blessed Lady just to corrupt her more?

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>>32350491
Mordred a best.

>>32350506

not the one in this universe.

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Edit I'd been wanting to do for a while now

>>32350141

My. Fucking. Sides.

Well played, anon.

>>32350587
Adorable.

>>32350587
This is too good. I cannot deal with cuteness of this magnitude.

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Mordred's bound to be something of a fuckup no matter what, I think. The original had shit like "daddy" issues and questionable taste in clothing, among others.

Just remember that it could be worse.

>>32350587
Christ Hat
Why must you make me go through hearts at this rate?
This cuteness will be the death of me

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>>32350587
2cute4me

>>32350587

My god... That is adorable.

>>32349796

Did...did her plan really ask for this much death? You find yourself asking after a few moments of being stunned into sheer, shell-shocked silence. Did it really need the lives of all your friends - your only friends - for it to work? To get kicked into gear?

Did it need The Black Templars? Did it need Cavefish?

Because if it did, then it's not a plan at all.

It's some kind of barbaric ritual sacrifice, made to appease some bloodthirsty god that isn't even real.

Plans, no matter what they're for, shouldn't even consider people dying for it to work.

The familiarly-annoying sting of tears pricking your eyes manages to blur your vision slightly, but not enough that you failed to see the flash of guilt flicker across Malal's face.

"Don't you think I know that?" The pink-haired girl murmurs, looking down at her gloved hands on her ruffle-infested lap, her fingers picking imaginary lint out of the pristine white silk. "Because I do, and I've tried everything to limit just how many people needed dying for my plan to work." It's here that she looks up at you, tears welling up in her own amber eyes.

"Do you know that the original draft asked for the entire fucking Ninth to be put on the chopping block? Every single one. You, me, Kyoko, Sayaka, Mami...everyone. Not just us." She shakes her head. "And even with all of those, it still wasn't a 100% guarantee that it'd work. It was just the...the easiest and the most convenient version, as far as these things tend to be easy and convenient."

She angrily scrubs the back of her gloved hand across her eyes. "The final draft - the one I had to do some last-minute editing on, thanks to you - confined the potential friendly body count to about a hundred, more or less. From two thousand lives to less than a hundred, but not after a metric fuckton of legwork, paperwork, and dealing with psychopaths who'd sooner cut your kidneys out and eat it with a side of fries and ketchup."

Like Kharn?

[1/2]

>>32350837
Shit, Malal knew about the cult.

>>32350837

"Worse." Malal chuckles. "But yeah. If you're asking if I regret it, I do. If you're asking if I feel anything for planning the deaths of twenty girls - twenty of the kindest and most selfless girls I know, despite life taking a massive dump on them from day one - I do feel something, and it's never stopped hurting from the moment I considered it." She lowers her head, and holds a hand over her heart. "It hurts a lot more now, after the fact. I don't think it'll ever stop hurting, even after...well, you know."

...

"You're probably waiting for me to say about how the plan's worth it, right?" It's here that Malal looks up at you. "About how it's so huge that a hundred lives isn't worth hesitating over when the rest of the entire universe is at stake?" She sniffs loudly, before wiping at her nose with a sleeve.

"I don't disagree with you, mind. A plan to save the world...people dying should never come to it. If you have to justify your actions with that, then..." She shrugs. "You're no worse than the monster you're trying to save the world from."

Then why? Why did she do it--

"Because I've accepted becoming a monster the moment I had my contract draft, Yuma." Malal smiles weakly, here. "I'm fine with being one if it means saving everyone else. I'll bear any sin I have to if it means making things right."

Silence, and it's here that black feathers suddenly begin falling from the featureless sky, to land on Malal's feet, on her pristine white dress. Feathers large enough that they seem to be from some bird of prey.

"I guess that answers your second question too, huh?" She says, still smiling despite the tears now flowing freely down her cheeks. "Not much of a role model now, am I?"

How do you respond?

[]This is Girl A's fault, isn't it? She made you do this. She's involved somehow. I know she is. THIS IS HER FAULT.
[]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

>>32350837
inb4 Kharn did nothing wrong

So what the fuck was the plan?

>>32350873
>[X]This is Girl A's fault, isn't it? She made you do this. She's involved somehow. I know she is. THIS IS HER FAULT.
>[X]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

>>32350873
>[x]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

Be reasonable Yuma

>>32350873
>[x]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

>[]Tell me how to fix things.

We're in it to win it now.

>>32350873
>[x]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

>>32350873
>[x]This is Girl A's fault, isn't it? She made you do this. She's involved somehow. I know she is. THIS IS HER FAULT.

>>32350873
>[X]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

Girl A is irrelevant right now. We must know how to fix things.

>>32350873
>[]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

>>32350873
[X]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.
Don't screw this up, guys.

>>32350873
>[X]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

Uh oh, Homucifer inbound?

>>32350873
[X]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

>>32350873
>[X]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

>>32350873
>>32350873
>[X]This is Girl A's fault, isn't it? She made you do this. She's involved somehow. I know she is. THIS IS HER FAULT.
>[X]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.
She's still trying to find something to blame, and Malal certainly isn't a target anymore. It really is all homu's fault anyway.

>>32350873
>[X]This is Girl A's fault, isn't it? She made you do this. She's involved somehow. I know she is. THIS IS HER FAULT.
>[X]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

>>32350873
>[x]This is Girl A's fault, isn't it? She made you do this. She's involved somehow. I know she is. THIS IS HER FAULT.
>[x]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

>>32350873
>[x]This is Girl A's fault, isn't it? She made you do this. She's involved somehow. I know she is. THIS IS HER FAULT.

THE GUILT TRAIN HAS NO BREAKS

>>32350873
>[]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

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>>32350916
>Malal is currently being tortured endlessly by Homucifer
>It's all Yuma's fault

No wonder she's grumpy around Murderface.

>>32350873
>[x]This is Girl A's fault, isn't it? She made you do this. She's involved somehow. I know she is. I could hear her when I got here. THIS IS HER FAULT.

>>32350873
[X]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

>blame girl A
>get bitch slapped by Malal and be told that it's our fault

>>32350873
>[]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.
Help her carry that weight.

>>32350926
Blaming Girl A doesn't help anything, and all of this is Yuma's fault. She already was told that.

>>32350873
>[x]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

>>32350943
Gott ist tot!

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>>32350873
>[X]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.
Yuma doesn't realise it, but I think she's playing Homura to Malal's Madoka here.

>>32350873
>[X]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

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>>32350473
Yuu is NOT a Touhou.

Don't make me sic DragonSlayer on you. Bitch is hardcore.

>>32350873
>[]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

>>32350994
Yuu isn't the warmaster or her girlfriend, though.

>>32350587
That is amazing.

>>32350873
>[x]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

>>32350873
>[x]This is Girl A's fault, isn't it? She made you do this. She's involved somehow. I know she is. THIS IS HER FAULT.

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>>32350994
>Dragon Slayer

Mah nigga.

>>32350873
>[x]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.
>[x]Wait...
>[x]This has something to do with Girl A's, doesn't it? She made you do this. She's involved somehow. I know she is. WHAT THE HELL IS SHE? HOW THE FUCK DID SHE KNOCK ME OUT FOR TWO HOURS WHILE SHE'S IN ANOTHER FUCKING COUNTRY!?

Don't do the blame thing, but Yuma should be wondering what the fuck is going on with Girl A.

>>32350873
>[X]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

>>32350873
>>[x]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

>>32350873
[ x ] This is Malal's fault. Her and her fucking stupid plans.

>>32351050
Asking how Girl A is involved is an acceptable compromise.

But we definitely need to know the plan and how to fix it.

>>32351050
Agreeing. Don't blame Girl A, but really ask what the fuck is up with her.

I hope we get to keep our promise to Enyo at least.

>>32350873


>>32351050
[x] this

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>>32351014
We haven't seen DragonSlayer just yet, I don't think. Chariot, Black Gold Saw, and Insane Homu Shooter, so far, and I think a BRS stand in.

>>32351101
I mean the warmaster of the Seventh is a Touhou.

>>32351099
STEP OFF NYA

FORESEE ME CUTTING YOU BITCH

>>32351130
Cat, please.

>>32351099

if there's already someone doing banners, could you please not try to race to post unless that person says the can't continue to post? it's only polite...

>>32351130
>>32351148
Sorry!

>>32351168
Ah, I'm just teasing. Thanks for jumping to help out.

>>32350873
>[X]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

>>32351168

You should probably go ahead and delete that post to free up the banner for usage later.

>>32351206
>Implying there'll be enough updates that you could run out of banners
laughingdecu.wav

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>>32351136
>Cat, please.
Here you go.

>>32351127
Oh, that's all right then.

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>>32351221
Thank you.

easily worst quest on this board

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>>32351221
The Nyanscendant One.

>>32351221
That's terrifying.

>>32351233
Cat Homu so pretty

>>32351218
I think it's more that banner would be particularly apt for the end of the flashback.

>>32351206
Annnd done.

>>32351241
>>32351242
I fucking KNEW that NECO was this timelines Homura.

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>>32351221
What have you started...

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>>32351221
>>32351233
>>32351271

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>>32351218

No, that's not what I meant or implied. My reasoning was mostly along the lines that the character might become relevant later and her banner might be better served to be posted later.

Or, as >>32351254 said, it might be apt to close the flashback with.

Long shot might be what you implied, but stranger things have happened!

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>>32351307
"Madoka Kaname, come over here and pat me on the head."

Sup MGNQ. I'm actually running a photo shoot today so I'm popping in on occasion when I have the odd free moment. Managed to color in more of best girl in the last week sometime though.

If I can, I'll try to post an example of the kind of gear Neco would use for her usual shenanigans like say, attempting to take up skirts of our war master.

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>>32351337
Durrrrr forgot the image

>>32351347
I thought neko wore leggings?

>>32351340
fair warning.

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Guess this is relevant again.

I really love this gif

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>>32351337
it's too perfect

this opportunity is too perfect

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>>32351337
This is a bit irrelevant, but I've started to hate NECO a bit less recently. Probably has something to do with the fact that I read The Truth (a Discworld novel) recently, seeing the relationship between investigating journalist and psuedo-noir hero from the other direction. Of course, NECO hasn't been nearly as helpful to anyone as William de Worde was.

>>32351392
That we know of.

>>32351392
>NECO
>Not a shit and useful ever

that will be the day

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>>32351307
>fluffy fluffy

>>32351384
Why can't I hold all these Homus?

>>32351419
Because you're not Madoka, apparently.

>>32351374
>using my own edits on me
Well played cat, well played.

>>32351392
NECO, dropping your name isn't going to fool anyone.

>>32351360
This is a fanservice outfit.

>>32351409
>implying we're not going to wind up sleeping on her floor at some point after we inevitably get kicked out of the ninth

>>32351430
It's not her. NECO hasn't read that book.

>>32351434
and her normal sweater + mini and leggings isn't?

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>>32351444
NECO is one of very few people you'll meet who's written more books than she's read.

>>32351446
Bare legs and stilettos are more traditionally seen as fanservice, even if leggings are better to people with good taste.

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Oh, I forgot.

I did make one sketch this week.

Not much time for anything else though.

Smiling Chiaki was a bit weird at first, but oddly "right" when the doodle was finished

>>32351546
it's weird seeing her smile. but oddly comforting too...

>>32351546
I want more eskimo kisses please.

>>32350873
>[x]Tell me how to fix things. Tell me how to help you. I can't help you if I'm always kept in the dark.

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>>32351570

Oh... this reminded me of something else.

Ok. Hope I can finish it before the thread is over.

>>32351684
SHE LOOKS SO DISGUSTED

>>32351684
>that "seriously, fuck this" look
Perfect

>>32350902 >>32350903 >>32350905 >>32350908

You step forward, brushing away the black feathers from her hair, from her dress. Even if more and more of them began to fall, seemingly trying to cover Malal in an entire pile of them.

She has to tell you about the plan, you plead with her. She has to tell you how you can help her. How to help her, period. You can't help her carry her burden if she insists on keeping you in the dark.

"I can't," Malal is crying blood now, twin streaks of crimson inking permanent trails down her cheeks as she continues to sob. Her teeth sharpening into points with every word she mumbles out, cutting her lips, cutting her tongue, making sweet-smelling crimson trickle down her chin as well. "That's the problem - if I tell you, then SHE'LL find out, and she'll ruin everything! I can't tell you, I can't tell Mami, I can't tell Kharn, I can't tell anyone else -- can't you see that, Yuma-chan? No one can help!"

For fuck's sake, she has to stop treating you like a child! You won't screw up again! She needs to tell you, even if just a little bit, even if it's just what to do -- something for you to set your actions by, to tell you that you're doing the right thing! PLEASE!

With the wind howling now, and the black feathers falling so thick and fast that it's practically forming a palpable, material darkness trying to block out all sight - it's here that Malal seems to make a decision, just as her eyes suddenly flicker from bright amber to a fathomless, pitiless black.

"L-Look...look after Girl A." Her smooth, calm voice turns ragged, uneven, wheezing. "Protect Girl A. S-save...Girl...A." She grabs at your padded arms desperately, and you bite back a scream as claws stab right through your hardsuit's material, into flesh, into bone. "Promisssee...me, Yuma-chan. Promise me you'll...see her through...to the end."

[1/2]

>>32351724

You will. Y-you...you promise you will.

What's...what's happening to her? What's going on?

"Can't...hold on much longer. Not...meant to stay on this long." Malal drunkenly steps back, her bloodied dress made even more grisly as she vomits a mouthful of blood down her front, just as a hole seems to rip itself right in the center of her chest. Revealing blackened flesh underneath and a clear lack of a beating heart. "I'm...ngh...I have to go. Remember, you promised--"

Yes! You promised! You'll take care of Girl A!

"G-good. That's...good." Malal sighs, just as she sinks to her knees, grunting as two skeletal wings stringed with tendons and gore rips its way out from her back, the falling feathers adhering to them. "H-heh. I...didn't think it'd hurt this much...b-but at least you're waking up now."

...What? Waking...up?

"S-sorry." The pink-haired girl manages to breathe just before pitching forward, falling face-first into the feather-blanketed ground. She heaves a few more breaths, each one shallower than the last, before finally lying still.

+ Sorry...about Cavefish. Sorry about...everyone. +

And with a deafening scream, the storm of black feathers turns into a hurricane, blinding you completely and utterly.

[2/3]

>>32351732

"Yuma?...Yuma, wake up! WAKE UP!"

And for the second time, you do. Immediately reaching up with both hands to slap away the one trying to pull your helmet off of your head, even with your suit's pressure seals still active.

Your eyes - gummed up with grit and dried blood - snap open after a few tries, your vision strangely blurry and dim but not enough that you don't catch the bright red warning prompts flooding your retinal display. Warning you about things like 'critical suit damage' and 'terminal brain embolism imminent' and 'life signs failing'. Stuff you don't particularly care about at the moment.

You blink-click them all away, ignoring them all to focus on your rescuer.

It's Enyo. The stump of her severed arm bleeding anew, and her mask a swollen mask of blood and pain.

"Yuma? Yuma, you're up. Thank the First Knight, the Blessed Lady, and all her servants." Enyo, visibly relieved, hauls you from the cairn of blood-soaked skulls and snow you seem to have been buried underneath. "Are you hurt? Do you have any wounds that need to be taken care of right away?" Before you can answer, though, it's here that the raven-haired Karasawa turns to roar at a few other Knights picking through the snow and skulls away from you, among the black-clad bodies of the fallen. "APOTHECARY! SOMEONE GET ME AN APOTHECARY, I FOUND THE EMPEROR'S CHAMPION!"

How do you respond?

[]Where's Cavefish?
[]Where's Malal?
[]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.

>>32351756
>[X]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.

>>32351546
....it says somethign about me that I can only imagine Chiaki smilign with tears in her eyes.

She is just too broken inside to not.

Or that's me projecting. I'm going to get you for that, Hat-chan. You'll see.

>>32351756
>[X]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.

>>32351756
>[x]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.

>>32351756
>[X]Where's Cavefish?
I TOTALLY SAVE YOU WITH THAT WICKED SWORD GRAB, I TOTALLY DID.

>>32351756
>[X]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.

We already know about the others.

>>32351756
[X]Where's Malal?
[X]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.

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>>32351756
>>[x]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that I want to fuck her.

>>32351756
>[X]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.

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>>32351756
[x] Alondight

>>32351463
What do you mean, NECO's written books? I'm assuming this is a joke I'm just not getting...

>>32351756
>[]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.
I need some levity to contrast with the horror. Please.

>>32351756
>[X]Where's Cavefish?

Oh boy, another promise to break

>>32351756
>[x]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.

>>32351756
[X]Where's Cavefish?
Guys. Guys. We know she's dead, but it would be very wrong not to ask.

>>32351756
>[]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.

>WHERE'S PENDRAGON! SWORD OF PROMISED VICTORY MY ASS!

>>32351756
>[X]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.
Brain damage is the only possible excuse for this. Fortunately it seems like may have it.

>>32351756
[]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.

>>32351756
[X]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.
[X]Where's Cavefish?

>>32351732
>just as a hole seems to rip itself right in the center of her chest. Revealing blackened flesh underneath and a clear lack of a beating heart.
This just further intensified my plant-related shadowruns.

>>32351756
>[]All of the above

>>32351756
>[x]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.
>[x] Where's Cavefish?
>[x]…Where's Malal?

>>32351770
>>32351808

Yes, this makes sense.

Add [X] Where's Cavefish, to my vote

>>32351766
FWIW, you're not the only one.

Not so much from damage though, more "wait, I have muscles there?" kind of way.

>>32351790
Well, it's a reference to Dark Place, but... yeah, I reckon NECO's probably written books.

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>>32351756
[x] All of the above + WHERE IS MORDRED FUCK

>>32351790
He means that she's written a lot of writeups but has admitted to not having read much in a while

>>32351756
>[X]Where's Cavefish?

>>32351790
>"The Secret Society:The Truth of Magical Girls"
>"Photography for dummies, Nya~"
>"How to Smug"
>"Stalking for the Amateur Photographer"
>"A Record of Why Your Waifu a Shit"

Certainly prolific

>>32351756
>[]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.
>Is Pendragon alive? Because I'm going to kill her!

>>32351756
>[x]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.

>>32351756
[X]Where's Cavefish?
At least her body.

>>32351851
This.

Mordred better not be dead, because we'll pull her soul from the Law of Cycles and kill her again.

>>32351756
[x]Where's Cavefish?

>>32351851
>>32351756
THIS

>>32351756
[X] I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.
[X] Where's Cavefish?

>>32351875
Inb4 they didn't see her run away, all they saw was Malal's arrow, which they assume to have been Mordred's technique.

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Okay, if Malal turns into Evil Homu when she's killed, does that mean Murderface will turn into Pinky when she's killed?

>>32351756
[x]Cavefish
[x]cry
[x]cry a lot
[x]then cry some more

>>32351867
>"How to Smug"
If this includes pics of NECO demonstrating, it is probably the most boner-inducing book since MMxMM

>>32351921
I don't think that what was happening.

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>>32351867
>"A Record of Why Your Waifu a Shit"

S-she's not a shit. She's not!

>>32351921
Yeah, what the heck was up with that?

Was Homucifer attacking her? Using Malal as somekind of Aliens-style incubator to incarnate properly into the world by bursting from her body? What?

>>32351950
Black Rock Shittah.

>>32351756
[X]Where's Cavefish?
[X]Where's Malal?

>>32351756
[x]I'm fine. Just...just stop shouting, please. And where's Alondight? I need to let her know that you want to fuck her.

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>>32351950
search your feelings nya

you know it to be true

>>32351756
[x]Where's Cavefish?
[x]Where's Malal?

>>32351808
order of importance:
1. Alondight promise, because we'll basically never have a better opportunity to keep it.
2. Malal, because she was just here and now she's not and we're confused
3. Cavefish because HOLY SHIT THAT WAS A THING WASN'T IT.
4. Mordred

>>32351921
....oh...
Malal's heart is in Yuma's chest.

>>32351997
So technically Malal is alive... inside Yuma?

>>32351935
Don't. Tempt. Me. I have too much I want to draw.

And Crix, stop shit posting and get back on duty Chairforce

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>>32352024
Lewd. Too lewd.

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Is NECO Arcueid?

>>32351997
>>32352024
I can't see it, myself.

Thematically it would seem to make more sense for Homu to have torn it out at some point.

The raven feathers would seem to point to corruption of some kind, and not nessicarily be indicative of Homu.

>>32352024
Malal 2.0 is complete!