Kyubey is evil. It steals your soul. Literally.
So after what's like halfway through the series, with Madoka YET giving up her soul, we got to know about the true meaning behind the contract with Kyubey.
In return for a wish that you make, Kyubey will remove your soul and change it into your soul gem while your body becomes the shell which your "soul" controls. So instead of the body controlling the gem, it was actually the other way round.
Now that was unexpected... Thinking that plainly luring girls to risk their lives for it was bad enough... Now this.
After engaging Kyouko and being saved by Homura, Madoka got hit with the truth.
That Homura did not come intending to save Sayaka and warned that it what she did could be the last they'll ever see. Replenishing the light in her Soul Gem, Sayaka knows that she would have to keep hunting witches to keep her Soul Gem "filled" and she had lost to Kyouko due to Kyouko storing much more power in her Soul Gem with her hunting attitude, to let the food chain occur naturally. Sayaka, who stands on the side of justice, knows that familiars are dangerous beings to be left alone but if she doesn't hunt more witches, she wouldn't be able to fight on par with Kyouko, let alone knock some sense of justice into her.
Kyubey, taking the chance, suggests to Sayaka to allow Madoka to join in the fight after telling Sakaya that someone who has the potential as a Mahou Shoujo and could win over Kyouko without stuffing the Soul Gem full with power and Madoka was it's choice. Sayaka refuses to give in to Kyubey as she didn't want to get Madoka involved. Tsk tsk tsk. Kyubey just doesn't want to give up on Madoka doesn't it...
Homura then goes to arcade to find Kyouko to "pass" the city to her. Kyouko, on the DDR machine, with a pocky stick in her mouth and talking with Homura, has epic multitasking abilities.
Obtaining a perfect score while doing all 3 of those at the same time is just awesome. Side effect of a Mahou Shoujo maybe? :D Anyway, Kyouko really looks cool dancing there, kinda like her personality more :)
Homura reveals to Kyouko something big is arriving in the city and tells Kyouko that she'll get the pesky Sayaka out of the way. Homura does seem to know more secrets about what exactly was happening to this city but doesn't wish to reveal anything yet. Seems like doomsday to me O_O.
Busybody Madoka over-cares again and this time, she was told of by Sayaka. Not being on the same wavelength, attempts to communicate with Kyouko without engaging in a fight is rather impossible. Somehow Madoka's acting all "Nanoha"-styled again by attempting to communicate rather than fighting.
It isn't a wrong decision but placing herself in Sayaka's shoes, doing so isn't as easy as she would think it would be.
Turning to her mother for advice, Madoka learns about how trying one's best to do something "right" might not be rewarded with happiness, and doing something wrong now might just be a solution. To experience "falling" now would definitely be easier to pick oneself up as compared to the future. Meanwhile, Kyouko had went to seek her prey, Sayaka, who had went to Kyousuke's home and provoked her through suggesting to break the limps of Kyousuke, to make him helpless without Sayaka and that he'll always stay by her side.
You won't wanna mess with her
The taunt worked as expected and the two prepares for another deathmatch above a highway until Madoka appears at Sayaka's side (by Kyubey's tipoff) and Homura on Kyouko's. Not wanting Sayaka to turn her targets onto other Mahou Shoujos as well, Madoka rushes forward and throws her Soul Gem down, onto the top of a truck.
Knowing the truth behind the Soul Gem, Homura disappears and rushes to retrieve Sayaka's Soul Gem. The others who were clueless soon knew the truth when Sayaka collapses and Kyouko discovers that she's dead.
While Homura closes in on the truck, Kyouko seeks information with Kyubey who tells her that she had just thrown Sayaka over and the body in front of her was just a shell. Any human body would definitely be in risk while fighting a witch but with such a shell and the Soul Gem, the shell could be controlled within a 100m radius, which explains Sayaka blacking out after the truck left the radius, and that being a shell, the body could always be repaired if serious damage was dealt.
With the truth coming to light, Kyouko grabs Kyubey up, disbelieving that she had signed such a contract with the animal. Homura returns just in time with Sayaka's Soul Gem and she starts breathing once again, still clueless about what had just happened and the truth behind the contract with Kyubey.
Seems like Kyouko might change her stand on her food chain theory soon after knowing about the truth. Homura seems to know way more information than the others, even about "doomsday" or even the secret of the Soul Gem. Now it seems rather likely that Madoka could be wishing for everyone to be released from this contract after knowing about the cold hard truth and this reason could play an even larger role in delaying Madoka's contract with Kyubey. Seriously, who would still want to give up their soul in exchange for a wish. Not many i suppose. Especially for someone who doesn't know exactly what to wish for, yet. SOOO, according to Kyubey, the shell could be repaired as long as the Soul Gem's intact, which might hint that Mami could be "remade" if her Soul Gem was still around. Unlikely but possible. Now that this truth is out, i doubt the Mahou Shoujos would just hold their Soul Gem proudly out since that's what they really are.
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