Eh. Doesn't really have a nice talk with Madoka. She's worried and feeling left out. She needs a little speech right now. Also, let's start small. Have her help her friends out before we ask her to deal with a hostile meguca.
Heh, just occurred to me that if you twist Kant badly enough you can totally use him to justify the witch system. Universalizability? Why yes, Kyubey can totally universally meguca-fy potentials without contradicting his goals. Heck, that is his goal. Treat people as an end, and never as a means only? That of course is where the wish comes in. He's giving them the chance to get whatever they most desire.
Fine, then we just set them up in a warehouse with some mattresses. We're giving them free housing it doesn't have to be a palace. Also, do you really thing we'll be getting that many at once? I really don't think gradually saving the world is the point of the quest, given the super powerful thing we don't even understand that we still have to fight. Let's focus on us and ours and save everything from that before we try to also become a worldwide meguca government.
I'm almost certain Kyuubey would not describe humans that way.
"Having not only read the work in question but influenced its initial popularity, I can say with near-certainty that I am not underestimating the species that produced it."
We're just talking about helping the people that come to us here. Consider it "gathering allies" if you must have a monomaniacal focus on something we don't have the first idea how to prepare for. Worldwide meguca government doesn't enter into it, just Mitakihara meguca government.
Yeah, but we don't need to devote precious time and patience to little details. We can house them if they show up. Screw the real estate side quest.
We really really do. We have to save the main characters if at all possible (those Sabrina loves) and fight the superpowerful thing that's coming for us.
Then we shouldn't do it. No matter which approach we use, there will be headaches and red tape, unless we dump it in someone else's lap. Get Madoka to (get someone to get someone to) figure out the details, throw huge quantities of money at them if, as and when it becomes necessary; done, no longer our problem, we can pretty much forget about it.
Clarification on this?
Doesn't need to be a hotel. We could find a few dormitories for girls (which are way cheaper than hotels yet should be adequate enough), and say they're there for cram school for the entrance exam to Mitakihara University or something.
Semi-converted warehouse >>>>>> living in the streets. And they're coming here mainly for the free cleansing, not for a vacation and expecting first-class treatment.
Homura is massively irrational about Oriko. Oriko having an opportunity to recruit an army would not make her happy.
We have to deal with people ranging from, like, nine to who-knows-how-old. And, again, we can find. Outsource.
Dealing with people who are variously miserable and irate because of lack of first-class luxuries like functional plumbing will make our life much harder.
We cannot count on either of these things happening in a useful timeframe.
We'd be lucky to secure a property before WN if we started trying now. We aren't trying now, we're starting to find out how to approach the problem, in a hypotheticals-and-possibilities way, now. None of this makes the imperfect stopgaps unnecessary, it just means we won't have them turn into permanent solutions because we don't have the time to fix them personally and never get someone else to.
Because we actually care about their problems. There really doesn't need to be any other reason.
There are 20-30 magical girls who know we exist from the Sendai incident and the internet exists. Anyone who considers any of those people trustworthy enough to take their word for it might decide to seek us out and things will build up fast from there because anyone who chooses to investigate will get confirmation straight away.
I expect the opposite, anyone whose home is secure has little incentive to chase a rumour but someone who's on the loosing end of a territory arrangement could easily decide they have no other choice.
There probably are similar cases to Kyouko, but I think her case is extreme and should be rare in its severity.
Because it's one person with exactly the rare power we need. That directly implies a larger number of people who don't have soul magic are also going to show up, and buying/renting real estate is slow enough that we would still need to start now even if we could stopgap until May.
And we're never going to make any useful changes beyond the people we care about if we don't get started. Again, I contest the idea that housing is something that can be set up quickly, which means we want to get started on it ahead of time if we're going to get anything of reasonable quality - and no, an abandoned warehouse with no amenities is not reasonable quality. If we're not going to do that now, when will we? Because to me the answer is looking an awful lot like the 'sometime' that, in practical terms, translates as 'too late'.
Point, but I'm pretty sure Homura would flip her shit over letting Oriko recruit an army. It's an option we could talk to Madoka about as part of this discussion though.
The name of the quest is Puella Magi Adfligo Systema. Adfligo Systema = Strike Down [the] System. World-saving is implied.
For gods sake, we are not devoting precious time to the little details, we are wedding delegating this to someone who can help with using this to solve a personal problem. This is the exact opposite of an inefficient use of time!
Because we care about helping them, because if we can keep them in one place they'll be easier to deal with, and because if we present them with living quarters as a fait accompli they'll be more likely to take it, implicitly accepting our authority in the process.
