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Originally Posted by Dawnbringerz
What QB said:
契約は成立だ。
君の祈りはエントロピーを凌駕した。
The contract has been formed.
Your wish has outdone Entropy.
The word 凌駕 (ryouga) is a little bit difficult to translate directly into English.
The dictionary definition is excelling; surpassing; outdoing; superior
In this case, the most fitting definition would be "outdoing", as her contract has generated (or has a potential to generate) more energy than existing entropy.
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Thank you so much for this! It really helps.
It's odd that Homura's wish should have a relation to entropy, or at least universal entropy. The energy QB harvests from the emotions of MGs has that power, but not the wish, I don't think?
So either the wish itself has some sort of emotional power QB can gather, or...
QB is talking about some specific example of entropy, namely, Madoka's death. So QB might be saying, "your wish has overcome/outdone/surpassed the entropy [involved in Madoka's death]." That would fit the conversation that QB is having with Homura. Otherwise he is talking a little bit to himself, since Homura at this point can have no idea about QB's entropy-restoration project.
If QB means what he says literally, in the sense that Homura's wish itself has the power to outdo entropy, then it is evidence that the girls themselves somehow make their wishes come true, and that QB only acts indirectly to accomplish these wishes. On some level that has to be true: if there were MGs before QB, then they were able--somehow--to become MGs without QB and do MG-type stuff without QB: that is, they already have power, perhaps, to do wish-level magic.
Thanks again for taking the time to translate that passage.