sorry for your loss

[cuteandinnocentpet]

[When people are returned to the main floor, they will find a trail of cupcakes from the elevator to the dining room. There is a table of drinks, pills, and cupcakes and cakes from the automat.

And on the table, in the center, is this asshole, with a party horn in its mouth. Despite that, it talks into everyone's mind.]

As you strangers tend to have a tradition of parties after an execution, I took the liberty. The plates and cups are over there.

[. . .

be merry I guess]

Comments

[cuteandinnocentpet]

Of course not. But, you wouldn't run out of the energy to cast spells for some time.

[Of course it knows that.]

Their energy is what helps to stave off heat death, but it's more than that, of course.

In our home universe, and from what we've seen in other realities where we've had contracts, magical girls are integral to the evolution of the species. Their magic and their legacies have had a very profound effect on bringing their civilizations to advancements that wouldn't have otherwise been possible.

Quite a few places would lack even the basic understanding of how to make fire without the existence of magical girls.

[katzenpfote]

You didn't answer the question.

What of the ones who turn into witches? You're sacrificing them.

[cuteandinnocentpet]

Ah. Yes, we are. But it's a part of the contract, ultimately, and as I said, their existences as magical girls were and are not in vain.

The overall positives far outweigh the personal negatives, so far as anyone who sees the big picture are concerned, you see. In the end, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, do they not? In this case the few also help in making the universe better, more efficiently than the many, who would not be able to in the same way.

[katzenpfote]

And do they know that they are being sacrificed? Do they fully consent to it?

[cuteandinnocentpet]

Some learn of it, and learn to accept that fate. But many don't think to ask. They just want to fight Witches, and gain a wish.

Of course there are those who try to fight that fate, to find loopholes, but so far only one has ever been found. One that I doubt can ever be duplicated again, given we are now aware of it.

[katzenpfote]

You're putting people in a contract they don't know all of the terms of.

There's a reason I called you a devil before.

[cuteandinnocentpet]

It's not our fault that more people don't think to ask questions about our contracts. If one never feels the need to ask, why would the other feel the need to answer?

Besides, we give them everything they need to fight Witches. They aren't wholly ignorant of all the dangers they might face as magical girls.

[katzenpfote]

If one does not know there are other terms, that is still deception.

... Going slightly back, though - change is not always making entropy. You must always adjust things, as one adjusts a spell's formula, as you and I adjust plans... you can't tell me that change is not needed.