Clearly Homura was busy with other things.
Timestop, man. Timestop.
"A bullet for you, a bullet for
you, a bullet for
everybody! Oh, and it looks like Sayaka needs a Grief Seed. Coming right up!"
Facing a serious Homura in combat is
fucking terrifying. Barring truly extraordinary circumstances,
there isn't even a fight. You're dead before you know it.
For all that we joke about not going to Asunaro because it's a crazy, crazy place, MItakihara is undoubtedly worse:
1) There's a girl there who can yank your Soul Gem from you--and just break it if she wants--from 100 meters away, without even looking or having a line of sight on you. She can draw the Grief from the Grief Seeds in your pocket to ensnare you, maim you, or dice you into a hundred pieces. Oh, and she can flood your Soul Gem with Grief to insta-Witch you. She can also fly, encase herself in practically invulnerable armor, and shoot lasers out of tiny marbles of Grief powerful enough to melt cars.
2) There's a girl there who can
stop time, has a pocket dimension, has an arsenal of guns and explosives, and is utterly ruthless. She isn't limited to eight or so seconds of timestop, either. She's
scarier than Dio.
3) There's a girl there who can see the future. She knows how to make bombs. She's partnered with a girl with versatile, powerful antimagic projection capability.
4) There's a girl with incredible levels of skill, versatility, and a good heaping of experience. She makes guns out of
ribbons.
5) There's a girl there who can copy virtually any power with a touch, and has an entire arsenal of copied powers to choose from at any time.
6) There's a mega-Witch coming to wreck the place soon.
7) There's a girl there with absolutely ludicrous amounts of Potential.
8) There's some kind of ontological entity around that takes whatever opportunities it can get to fuck things up, and it leaves a calling card of a long, black feather. It apparently can't be seen, felt, or touched, but it can control Witches.
9) It's about to be flooded with desperate MG immigrants/refugees.
Asunaro ain't got
shit on Mitakihara.