Whoa! Did Zhi Yi. intends to create a "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"-type society?

That was a pretty neat Chekhov's Gun with the meetings at the beginning of the story where Yuma and Kyouko joked at their relationship status and Mami wondered why they specifically always avoided including her in their jokes.

About the Paris excerpt, as a French, I have two remarks :
1- The mass protests to the skyline plan is way too realistic, lol
2- The government listening to those protests is way too unrealistic, lol.

I wonder who is this Julian Bradshaw that he got access to all the dirty, classified history of MSY as a man. Must be pretty high in Governance's hierarchy.

Tftc. No good deed goes unpunished:

a key buttress against Brazilian forces to the east
- Mendoza on is much nearer to Chile than to Brazil
- #map6/-31.28/-73.31

one tentacle in front of its mouth
- I am open to the possibility that this represents nausea caused by too much uncertainty.
- Yes, she won't have seen it, because they never normally experience that much
uncertainty, because pref-specs.

I was just hoping for an update and here it is. Thank you for keeping this going. It is still something I look forward to reading even after all these years. Peace.

"HUGS"

OR...the traffic is fake on purpose and being used to cover The Conspiracy's tail?

They shouldn't force Clarisse to do something she's uncomfortable with: let the decision be hers!

I don't trust Kyubey, but that dream... Something fishy is going on in the background and that furball knows more than he's letting on, I just know it.

(Be careful.)

It seems like the veil of the conspiracy is lifting, bit by bit. Time will tell if this is just another Hope Spot, or the first domino falling on the way to crushing them.

Ryouko's hesitation is understandable, but I wouldn't; my vote would instantly go to getting consciousness-uploading tech for humanity, no matter how long I had to spend getting probed by tentacle aliens. I've been holding out for robot bodies for thirty years ;_;

Holy mother of mercy, did what I think happened, happen? Now we kinda know why the incubators choose to use humans as rechargeable solar panels/batteries and why they remained when the secrecy ended.

I so love that you are still actively plugging away at this. Your world building has only become more intricate and you easily manage to keep the slow-burn plot intriguing enough to get me back eagerly with each update. Thank you for keeping the flame lit.

Madoka a bit cruel, how can she just put homura in the hell like that.
looking forward to the next story

Can't imagine magic integrated so well with science fiction,which gives me a totally different experience

"HUGS"

Clarisse's bit up top makes me feel optimistic, though it could be in the moment, like Ryouko's letters. Guess we'll find out soon enough.

Investigations into this rogue party are underway and Governance now has proof of Madoka? Hoo boy. Also, permission to punch that cranky third voice? Then again, they all sound full of themselves...

And so Ryouko and Clarisse are off to see Cthulhu's cousin, but at least they're getting the ball rolling on diplomatic talks. Question is, will /Thinker-preserving's party be willing to hear her out?

Also, sorry I'm late to the party: had a bit of an email snafu with my Alerts. Or is it an Alert snafu with my email? Either way, still cleaning up the issue, but eager to stay tuned and read more!

It just hit me that the bird magical girl is a government drone! XD

The longer Ryouko spends on this diplomatic mission, the more she risks running out of grief cubes - a magical girl's limiting factor, as always. And of course there won't be any demons to harvest along the way. Just gotta hope the supplies hold out.

The problem with hope is that it implies the strong possibility of failure. And there are so, so many ways Ryouko or her allies could fail at every front of this massive shadow war.

Things are nicely working towards a conclusion. I loved Kyoko's card to play at the meeting. Also, I appreciate the use of star names. It helps keep all of the Cephalopod's straight. Stay strong Ryoko.