So you are prepared for the possibility that magic and technology may both end up useless. [Something that Homura himself hadn't seen asked, but that had to be considered. What hadn't occured to him, however, was the idea of "falling back," for a simple enough reason--in five centuries, it had never been an actual option.]

If things do go so poorly for our forces, will retreat even be allowed? [There's an honest curiosity here, much unlike their prior conversation.] And how will you account for those who would die before they give up the field?