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“Ah right, Miki-san, please come up to me after class- no you’re not in trouble don’t worry”
Still slightly worried Sayaka nods and goes along with her day, if a bit distracted
So when class ends she asks her friends to wait for her and meets up with Saotome sensei in teachers lounge
“Ah Miki-san, you’re here”
Awkwardly turning around, holding some papers she puts them on a table before starting to look for something
“Hold on, it’s supposed to be- Ah here it is!”
Fishing out a file she picks another stack of papers and turns to Sayaka
“You see Miki-san, you were supposed to get a transfer student today, but she missed class with no warning, I’m a bit worried about her so I wanted you to go and check up on her, bring her some study material for what she missed today”
She pause, seemingly to think
“Would you be able to do that Miki-san? I could check on her myself too”
Quickly shaking her head she takes the paper and smiles
“It’s no trouble Saotome-sensei! I’m curious about this transfer student too now so I have to go!”
The teacher smiles before opening the file and showing the address to Sayaka, who notes it down on her phone before leaving to the school gate
“…so Saotome-sensei asked me to check up on her, said something about her leaving the hospital not too long ago, wanna tag along?”
Madoka frowns, already worried about the mystery girl and nods
Hitomi takes a bit longer before agreeing
10 minutes later they're in front of an apartment, door slightly open
Furrowing her brows Sayaka knocks
“HEY, WE’RE COMING IN TO CHECK ON YOU SO DONT FREAK OUT, YOUR DOOR IS OPEN”
Satisfied with her warning Sayaka steps in and pauses. The apartment is in shambles, furniture destroyed, full of holes, other beaten, like somebody hit it with a baseball bat and in the middle of it all lays a girl, just staring up into the ceiling
“Uhh, hello…?”
The girl doesn't look at her, still staring up, glaring at… something
Making sure to make her footsteps heard (one reason being not wanting to surprise the girl, the other the slight annoyance at being ignored) she steps in front of her, bending over slightly to face the girl (still laying on the floor)
“Yo, heard you were supposed to join our class, you feeling alright? Saotome sensei said you just got out of the hospital so maybe you need something?”
The girl blinks a couple of times, confused, before she stirs and sits up a bit
“Oh this was today?”
It’s said in a very casual tone, as if it didn’t matter, as if the whole room looking like someone broke in was normal, as if just laying on the ground in-actually what is that outfit? Cosplay? Kind of looks like one with that shield
The girl glances at them all, her gaze travelling from one to another, sticking to Madoka for the longest time before she turns to Sayaka, her voice polite to a point, if completely exhausted
“Thank you for bringing me homework…”
She seems to pause contemplating something before her expression relaxes, as if deciding it didn’t matter
“Would you like some tea?”
Glancing at her friends Sayaka watches them, glancing between each other Hitomi decides to speak
“We were planning to go to a mall nearby, how about you join us…?”
Madoka gives a quick nod, agreeing
The girl seems confused before sighing and looking down on her clothes, a moment later light engulfs her and she’s in their school uniform
“Alright, it’d be a pleasure, I have something to do there anyway”
Sayaka stared
The girl-their new classmate glanced at them before furrowing her brows in confusion
A few moments later she speaks
“Ah you weren’t supposed to see that…”
***
Sayaka never expected magical girls to be real, what she expected less was to find out about it from a classmate she just met, who was so tired she just went and untransformed in front of them without a second thought
The explanation is short, magical girls make a wish, fight witches, use grief seeds to not die
Which is a bit morbid for Sayaka’s taste, but she supposes the world is just like that sometimes, unfair to people who don’t deserve it (Kyosuke, what did he do that made him deserving of being unable to do what he loved most?)
Hitomi leaves after they finish lunch and Sayaka invites the other 2 girls to go get some CD’s
Akemi is… interesting to say the least, tired, a bit inattentive at times, seemingly spacing out, when asked why is that she gave a simple answer
“Haven’t slept in a few months, was too busy”
“What do you mean you haven’t slept in months???”
Sayaka receives another round of confused blinking before she replies
“Magical girls aren’t really human after they contract, I can sustain myself with magic alone, keeping myself awake and alert”
Skipping over the ‘not human’ part (which she will go back to at some point, god what the fuck is with this girl, she needs help, it doesn’t look anyone else is offering it) Sayaka is pretty sure that using magic instead of sleep shouldn’t go on for that long, especially with how Akemi is acting
Madoka is looking worriedly at the girl, which yeah absolutely fair, they might need to force her to sleep soon, just have to find out how
Not even 10 minutes into the search for the CD she hears a voice
‘help, help me please’
Looking around she notices Madoka doing the same, while Akemi seems to glare at a wall massaging her forehead
The voice continues and Madoka moves, not wanting to be left behind Sayaka grabs Akemi’s hand and follows Madoka
Soon enough they’re somewhere in the back of the mall, there is a white cat-rabbit hybrid caught under the chains, the voice speaks again
‘Ah you’re here! Please remove those chains from me’
Madoka moves to probably start on that before Akemi exclaims
“Oh my fucking god shut the fuck up for a second incubator, I have a migraine after your bullshit, just bring a new body or something, we both know this doesn’t matter”
Sayaka glares at the girl, but before she could say anything the thing-incubator? What a strange name- interrupts her
‘Oh? You know about that? How curious’
Akemi rolls her eyes before glancing at her ring, wait why is it glowing
“Oh fuck you, you lead them to a labyrinth”
Akemi growls at the mascot (?)
‘That shouldn’t be a problem for you though right? It would be extremely disappointing if an anomaly like you couldn’t deal with a witch’
All the response it gets is a glare before the world starts to spin
***
A few minutes later and two magical girls are staring at each other, Akemi with her resting bitch face (Sayaka has come to learn throughout the day, that she’s just not expressive) and another one (Akemi called her Mami Tomoe?)
As if struck by inspiration Akemi reaches into her shield and tosses something to the blonde who catches it, looking confused as she stares at it
“…is this a peace offering or something?”
“Sure?”
The silence once again emerges, it’s the third time in 5 minutes, thankfully it doesn’t last as long this time
“…how about you all come with me to my apartment? I’ll explain everything there”
Akemi just looks at them, exchanging quick glances with Madoka they both nod, Akemi shrugs and walks up to the other magical girl
Sayaka and Madoka run up after them
Sayaka can’t help but feel interested, I mean magical girls? Who’d say no? (Even if the whole not human is still creeping Sayaka out) and now she’d have an actual explanation instead of key points Akemi gave them