Chapter 26

The girls of Madoka Magica were all... Very emotional, and that probably played a part in how they being magical girls could and would eventually become witches. But Homura was an outlier, over the hundreds of time loops she had performed in trying to get a perfect ending to keep Madoka from making a wish via Kyubey and becoming a magical girl or worse, dying. She had taken control of herself and typically portrayed an almost bored cool persona.

Until we got back to Mami's place and that calm cool persona broke down as she whirled on us and began demanding actual answers while Mami being the sweetheart she was went to go make us some snacks and tea.

I really... Really disliked the whole we saw your world in fiction trope used to describe how the main character was able to know the events of the world they got isekaied into... It was just kinda painful to watch or read when the other characters would be forced to wonder if they were 'real' or not. Giving them the Deadpool or even Joke treatment in how they were forced to see beyond the fourth wall.

So I bullshitted... And blamed the asshole dragon of dreams who was the world guardian and stopped eldritch monsters from reaching the world of DXD. "We have a stupidly powerful dragon god who can make dreams and illusions into reality, with his powers he is capable of seeing into other universes and then he sends the events of those universes into the minds of humans and other beings to make them have powerful fits of creativity within their dreams and they would write out and bring those worlds to life in media," I said shrugging as no one could say otherwise and call me a liar.

With how common and super popular 'Drag So-Ball' was in DXD, I truly wondered if Great Red ever popped over to Dragon Ball, saw how bullshit it was and said hell nah, and then fled before he got punched to death by something hundredth of a percent the size of the dragon.

After my general explanation, Homura didn't really have much of a choice but to take me at my word and so she got to the actual heart of the matter and what she desired most of all. "How can you save Madoka?" She questioned folding her arms over her diminutive chest and as I began to explain, Mami came back into the room with a tray filled with soft cookies and some sweet tea.

I only paused my explanation to take a bite out of the pretty damned good cookies as Serafall listened to my idea. "Alright, so the major issue is that you don't want Madoka to become a magical girl correct?" At her her nod I continued. "Well the reason you don't want her to get wrapped up in becoming a Magical Girl is the fact that she would inevitably become a witch and with the way you have time looping, all those parallel worlds' essence is focused onto Madoka her a literal Universe level goddess should she make such a wish." I continued making Homura twitch at my reminder.

As she was well aware of how in each time loop Kyubey paid more and more attention to Madoka. In the earliest loops, Kyubey would give her a lukewarm wish and oftentimes run off to go mess with other girls, to make them Magical Girls. But by fifty loops in, once Kyubey found Madoka's potential the rat wouldn't leave her alone for more than a couple of minutes if at all.

"So we have a number of solutions really," I said pulling out a large notepad from my spatial storage spell and putting it on the table with possible things we could do and allowing Homura to hungrily devour the information I had that would fit the context of the universe that even she didn't have.

"There are a couple of main options we can go with," I said stretching. "The first option is Madoka uses her universe-spanning wish to either end entropy and thus end the whole reason the Incubators are on Earth, or she can use that wish to transform the whole process in which the incubators use Grief Seeds as the fuel and instead go for the process in which her wish would condense the extreme emotions of humanity that are released after feeling them, into the familiar's and witches that would Magical Girls would then slay and give to the incubators creating a harmonious cycle." Homura grimaced at the thought of working with the incubators in the slightest.

But in reality, I very much doubted with how the incubators could use a few hundred young girls' condensed suffering to pull the entire universe together and fueled. That they would abandon humanity as a fuel source. It was far better and truly realistic to make them realize we didn't need to suffer for them to get the same or even better energy which would also allow them not having to deal with Magical Girls throwing a fit and killing their clones when they realized their betrayal.

Serafall then spoke and explained the other main option. "But Kyubey is locked into this universe. As a time traveler like yourself, you know the universe isn't so immutable and we came from another one." Serafall leaned in towards Homura as she then asked the question.

"You could come to our Earth after all. There is no Kyubey there at all. Sure there is the whole Supernatural world, but should Madoka make a wish to get some combat power she will be able to hold her own before we leave this universe. Plus, Jake has already shown he can merge your soul seeds back into your body though... That is something a bit perverted hehe" Serafall continued with a giggle while Homura and Mami both flushed while Mami in particular did something daring.

Her hand that was under the short table scooted over and fell on my knee and then automatically I took her hand into my own with our fingers intertwining.

Homura then spent the next while questioning us about the world of DXD, learning about Devils in particular and Serafall didn't hide anything. How the world's barely hidden supernatural world was one born of strength and might make right, where Serafall was a monster who could kill entire countries within a few minutes should she whip up a powerful enough freeze.

Homura held her own Soul Gem within her hand and I saw already there were tiny specks of darkness within her soul and she sighed. "My own time looping resets my soul gem but it darkens faster each time, I am well aware of the fact that I am in fact running out of time and I am not unaware of the irony in that..." She shook her head. "I will think about these options, they are honestly the best I can see right now but I utterly hate... The idea of working with Kyubey in any manner." She finished with her lips tightening in disgust at the thought.

And I was fine with that. I got my wish, I got Mami. I was happy at this point, so I was just waiting for the time to return back to DXD to get used to my new Mystic Eyes. This was for Serafall now, either she seduced and got these Magical Girls to return with us back home to DXD or we left with Homura probably kidnapping Madoka in a sack so she couldn't make a wish.

Either way was fine.

"Now it's already getting late, Mami do you have a spare bedroom or something we can sleep in?" I asked stretching and holding back a yawn at the day's events.

Mami nodded with a soft smile as she pointed out the spare bedroom her apartment had that she never really used. "The bedding is in the closet and there's a spare futon as well, so you don't have to share a bed." She said with a cute flush coming to her face but before I could speak Serafall coughed, and she winked as she spoke loudly.

"Oh Mami, you are such an angel truly... If you were taller, I might have hated you for looking like my arch-rival Gabriel honestly! But I am taking Homura for a sleepover, so Jake you sleep out here on the couch!" Serafall said literally snagging Homura and throwing her over her shoulder making me and Mami blink as Serafall shamelessly walked away with only Homura's muffled curses ringing out as Serafall slammed the door to the spare bedroom locking it ominously.

"Well... I suppose you can sleep on the couch I guess." Mami said with a frown and my face twitched as I muttered.

"I suppose so... Guess I got a sore back and neck to look forward to in the morning," I grunted as I took in Mami's kind of decorative couch that clearly wasn't meant for sleeping on... And just to test it, I laid across it and even Mami snorted as she realized my legs had to rest on the armrest on the end of the couch as I was too tall to properly fit on it.

After a moment of laughing at my situation, Mami bit her bottom lip and she softly spoke out and I realized what Serafall's game was... And how she was still my best wingman! "Uhm, I suppose you could also sleep on my bed with me," Mami whispered.