She has demonstrated knowledge of both English and Japanese so far. Considering the way her brain works, she probably should be able to speak any language that we can.
Interesting fact: The madoka witch runes are actaully a cipher of German. It doesn't come up very often because it is most commonly used for names, which can fit any latin language, but the longer passages that occasionally appear are written in german.
That's...interesting. It seems that Sakura has never thought of the issue of a dedicated healer eventually encountering a patient that survived inhuman levels of damage. Akiko not only had the foresight to ask Masami for clarification, but to be on the lookout for any hints of lichbombing.
Just tell them the truth: It's a cipher. We cracked it a while back.
It's cool. We can just go off on a tangent about frequency analysis and multilingual semiotics and aggressive mimicry and bacterial competence and sidechannel information leakage and everybody'll chalk the whole thing up to brain damage.
We're not brain damaged! We just... Have different capabilities.
We're a magical girl, not a Technocrat.
The problem is, that no longer helps when other people's hypothesis for how we know these things is that we're a witch.
Well that's why we don't do it in front of anyone that isn't, say, Mami.
Well that's why we don't do it in front of anyone that isn't, say, Mami.
I don't see the problem - why do Magical Girls hunt witches? Because they're evil? We're "White Knight" Sabrina, "friend to all she meets". For grief seeds? We make them completely unnecessary and will cleanse people in need. Even if they think we're a witch...we're a good witch.
Unless your name is Sakura.
Rational thinking is what Incubators do, and they preferentially target girls who do emotional decisionmaking precisely for this effect.
No, we really don't.
