

Girls make contracts with Kyubey - they will have a wish granted in exchange
of fighting witches using their new powers.

But, what is the consequence of simply not doing it? What if magical girls
simply ignore Kyubey?

It somehow doesn't seem like Kyubey even has the power to kill them, otherwise
he could just kill off Homura who keeps ruining his attempts to make a
contract with Madoka.

The only thing that occurs to me is that their magic will deplete overtime and
they need to kill witches to recharge - but then again I imagine that if they
never fight witches they'd never deplete their magic in the first place.


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What are the consequences of ignoring Kyubey's contract?


Nothing, the end result has always been Magical Girls becoming witches
regardless if they fight or not.

When a Magical Girl is made, their Soul is removed from their body and
made/placed into the Soul Gem. As they use their magic, the Soul Gem clouds in
which they need Grief Seed to purify. If it's not purified, it will become a
Grief Seed and the Magical Girl will become a witch, shown when Sayaka
transformed in Episode 8

After Sayaka became a Witch, in Episode 9 Kyoko is seen using her magic to
preserve Sayaka's body. We can speculate that without a soul, the body starts
to rot and the Soul Gem is actually preserving the body on its own.

This is somewhat hinted in Episode 10 in the timeline Homura and Madoka
defeated Walpurgisnacht and Homura was asked by Madoka to kill her (the final
timeline of Moemura). In this timeline, we see that both of their Soul Gems
haven't been fully tainted as they didn't have the same pattern as Sayaka's

[![Madoka's and Homura's Soul
Gems](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VeNYRm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VeNYR.jpg)
[![Sayaka's Soul
Gem](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gRebRm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gRebR.jpg)

Since all Madoka and Homura was doing was laying in the ruins not using any
magic themselves, we can assume that the Soul Gems continue to taint as they
maintain a Magical Girl's body until it starts creating those strange patterns
in the blackness that Sayaka's Soul Gem did just before she transformed.

Alternatively, since a Magical Girl's body just stops responding when they are
separated from their Soul Gem (as demonstrated when Madoka threw Sayaka's off
the bridge and it landed in a truck that drove past), one could also assume
that the ability to control their body also slowly taints the body, including
talking which is what Madoka was doing before Homura kills her.

As such, even if you tried reneg on your side of the contract, I speculate
that the end result would still be the Magical Girl becoming a Witch

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# What about after the series?

Post Series:

> In Madoka's Universe, still had Magical Girl's purifying their Soul Gems
> though those black cubes Wraiths drop (shown when Homura is talking to an
> Incubator about the witch system)

Post Rebellion:

> In Homura's Universe, we aren't 100% as to what has changed with Magical
> Girls, but given that Homura has given the Magical Girls normal lives and
> stripped them of their memories (and power as evident with Sayaka's
> confrontation) and that she had the power to erase the Incubator's from
> existence but chose not to instead re-purpose them to do Madoka Universe
> Magical Girl Work (dealing with Earth's Curses), I would assume that she has
> made it so that so that Magical Girl's won't become witches via inactivity,
> otherwise this might cause the Law of Cycles of act and reclaim Madoka to
> deal with them.


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