[The outside world]

[In the meanwhile, Homura had realized that the Grief Seed had vanished in the confusion.]

...Damn it, where'd it go?

[She griped, searching about the place the Witch Barrier had been.]

- Those things are dangerous, damnit!

[And then, she looked at the churning dark energies in the upper part of her Grief Seed, and sighed.]

...And I could have used a cleansing, too, if I was being honest with myself, I suppose...

[Well, it wasn't like she didn't have quite a bit of spare Grief Seeds stored up, but still, this was annoying indeed.]

[And that was when there was a chuckle...And a golden ribbon with a Grief Seed attached to the end of it came drifting out of a wormhole that suddenly opened up in the air!]

[Homura stared, flabbergasted, as the golden ribbon quickly stuck the Grief Seed to her Soul Gem. The dark energies seemed to be being drawn out as five times as fast as normal.]

[And then, the ribbons and Grief Seed were both gone with a jaunty wave,drawn back through the wormhole in the air - And the wormhole itself was gone, too, like it had never existed.]

[Inside Sayaka's mini world]

[Sayaka-Oktavia grinned, then.]

< That was very nice of you, Mami-Candeloro! >

[Mami-Candeloro grinned back.]

< But of course - Homura is Madoka's friend, after all! And Madoka is Sayaka-Oktavia's friend, and my friend, too! >

[Kyoko-Ophelia sighed a bit at that, and crunched on a rice cracker.]

< ...Hey, come on - The pinkhair's my friend too, right? I mean, she is in lots and lots of Otherworlds, anyway, so... >