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Your scrutinous gaze lingers on the new vinyl record; you don't remember this one. It had to branch out of another for whatever reason. Curious for the first time in wow a lot, you study it cautiously, with eyes the size of the moon times ten thousand seven millions^41.
It has... Witches.
No way. What? In my cosmic salad? Is this how it is? You fast-forward the disk hastily but carefully, and it stops dead at the present in the year 2015. No less than baffled, you quickly realize that your surprise is just getting started: the denizens of this world are completely different from those of the others.
Impulsively, you backtrack. In 1927, the fates still intertwine with those of the other timelines. Come 1942, differences are made; some Magical Girls are never born, but new ones take the center stage. Little girls donning armor spread the word of an Order of the End, clashing blades with the ancestral clan of the Blue Gates. Spinning the record like a DJ, you find it: 1931, Chechenia, Grozny, 9:32 AM- the branching point.
After waiting for 12 hours standing on a stack of buckets next to a door, railway supervisor Ilhan Kovačević cock-slapped rookie Semenov Imeredala across the face through his pants with suspenders. This cock-slap had happened in all other timelines as well, /yet this case was slightly different/. The slight difference in angle meant that Semenov was hit over his nose instead of under it, which caused Ilhan to comment that Semenov had already seen God instead of pointing out that he tried to take it with his mouth on purpose. Both events ended up with the men throwing fists and then having a drink in a very, almost identical fashion...
And that's where the similarities end.
The chain reaction caused by that comment meant that almost the entirety of humanity, fifty years from then, would be different- and the Magical Girls too. Homura had never been born. Sayaka never met Mami in school. Kyoko never buried that beef inside that parfait.
Fascinated by the differences, you first focus on the new Magical Girls and their history. But your ravenous curiosity is cut short: back in 2015, time is flowing as usual. In this timeline, unlike in all the others, history is still being made... right at this very moment.
Your hand goes limp like a stone; as the cosmic record spins, Magical Girls are still fighting Witches. You /could/ erase them all right now... but this timeline is so different.
Why is it so different?
>Erase all of the Witches from the stray timeline.
>Study this orphan timeline further just in case.
