Yutaka looks at the time. Memorises it.

Kyūbey?

Hello!

Would you mind coming over here a moment? I assume you can tell where I am from the contact?

Just a second!

Here it is, trotting into Yutaka's room!

"Hi, Kyūbey!" says a magical boy Kyūbey has never met, in his magical boy outfit. "Nice to meet you this timeline 'round."

And then Kyūbey's pressed against a wall and time's stopped. "Now listen here you motherfucker you had better explain in detail to me where witches come from."

Kyubey's tail twitches. Its facial expression remains the same. It geeshes against the wall just a little more than something with bones would.

Witches run on despair just as magical people are powered by their hope and joy!

"Witches come from magical people. Stop," he slams the wall with Kyūbey, "being," slam, "so," slam, "fucking," slam, "misleading all the time you slimy fucking bastard!"

It might as well be a stuffed animal. It doesn't even make a satisfying noise when it hits the wall. It's too soft.

"I'm fucking waiting. I have all the fucking time in the goddamn world and you don't.

"Explain."

When there is no longer enough positive emotion to provide the magic that a magical person must have to operate, they convert to running on negative emotion instead, which is more sustainable.

"That makes no sense. Why? What's the point? Why make magical people, if the thing we're fucking for is killing ourselves? What do you get out of this you creepy fucking doll?"

Magical energy.

"Are you really going to make me drag everything out of you. Stopped time costs me almost nothing, you gain nothing from continuing to act like this."

"Who are you? Where are you from? Why are you here? Why do you make magical people? I'm certain you have multiple agents or bodies or something and it would not be hard for me to hunt each and every one of them down one by one until I exterminate your species from this planet."

I'm Kyubey. I am from Earth. I am here to harvest magical energy and that is why I make magical people. It would be very hard.

"I have infinite time. Literally. I don't think you understand how thoroughly outclassed you are. You could answer me now and save both of us some time, or I could dictionary crack you. Your choice.

"What does that mean. How does making magical people let you harvest magical power."

Humans are unique in the universe for having emotions in healthy members of the species. These feelings are convertable into generic energy, somewhat like the way human civilization uses electricity. Taking control of the process of making wishes and the conversion into witchhood afterwards and collecting the full grief seeds allows galactic society to run and may stave off the heat death of the universe. But I am not afraid that you will destroy this body. I don't feel anything about it at all. You can if you want to, and it doesn't matter and will not affect me very much.

"Galactic society? You just said you're from Earth."

Yes, Kyubeys are constructed on Earth to appeal to human sensibility. There is no reason to have Kyubeys elsewhere in the universe.

"Why are wishes necessary? Why does conversion into witches generate magical energy? Why not just create the witches directly if you can just do that?"