Edie is walking home from school. It's something she's done hundreds, thousands of times before. It's later than usual, but not really out of the ordinary--sometimes clubs let out late. It happens.
It's a perfectly safe route.
"Yeah.
I'm going to test the 'telling fluff causes reset' hypothesis by waiting a week and doing it."
And she does that.
It goes much the same as last time. The reset takes a few hours to happen though.
Edie is not shocked this time and does not go "what the fuck" at her sister.
She does explain the situation, and her ideas.
And Emily agrees that the ideas are good ones, and calls for a fluff.
"Can I use a wish to send a message, if I don't know who to? Like, I want to send a message to the person who did a thing, but I don't know who did the thing."
Emily holds a folded-up letter that Edie had written before Emily summoned the fluff, and says, "I wish that the person this letter is for would receive it."
(The letter, unbeknownst to the Kyubey, reads:
Hello. I apologize for accidentally siccing the fluff-thing on you; assuming this is the case, or whatever it was that caused the last two time-resets. My name is Edie Lehnsherr. On February 13, I was attacked by the victim of a witch, and died. My twin sister wished to bring me back to life, with a wording that I believe has caused me to retain my memories when time resets. I asked Kyubey about it, the first time it happened (to me), and then time reset again. I tested the guess that telling it was what had caused that to happen by waiting a week and doing it again. This time I convinced my sister to use her wish to send you this letter (since it seems that no changes to her are preserved through the reset). My phone number is [x]. Please contact me and explain what's going on, it's very distressing to be unable to have any lasting perceptible effect on anything other than my own mind.)
Based on her sister's description she's sort of curious what kind of powers she'd get from sending a letter but it probably doesn't matter anyway.
So the fluff informs Emily that she will need to hunt witches.
There's a reset mid-explanation and Edie gets a text.
You're lucky I can read English
New text:
please stop interacting with the evil aliens till you know more, they get in the way
I would have tried something else if you hadn't. They're evil and not just frustrating?
yup
surprisingly good at obfuscation considering they won't outright lie
they're managing the whole magical girl + witch ecology to harvest human emotions and they started it
witches are decharged magical girls
She stares at her phone for a minute.
Then she types:
the first time we thought it wasn't a big deal if she decharged because the fluff said I could wish her more charge
can you wish a witch back to a magical girl or would she have been stuck