008 | OVERFLOW

[godsoffortune]

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[fizzipocus]

I know! I'm--! [Wait. She was so sure a second ago, but it was as if the memory just faded away when she reached for it.]

I guess I can't remember that either... It feels really weird to forget something like that.

[sweetdeath]

It's okay! Sorry for asking.

[His smile is a little concerned for her. It's hard, to forget everything. It really is. And he doesn't have a good idea of how to help people work through it yet; even with his shinki, so far, they've all reacted to it in completely different ways.]

... Anyway, you look fourteen or fifteen! Just the right age to start in high school.

[fizzipocus]

Don't worry about it! I bet I'll remember any day now. [Though it was easy to be carefree about it, since she didn't know how dangerous certain questions could be for shinki. That aside, she had to wonder about school now that it had been brought up. Something about the prospect of going to high school didn't feel quite right, but thankfully she wasn't thinking about why that was.]

Do they teach magic in high school?

[sweetdeath]

Not most high schools, that's for sure.

[He blinks at her. In that memory, with the monster... had she been using some kind of flashy magic? He thinks she might've been.]

Do you know magic?

[fizzipocus]

Yeah, but I'm still learning. Probably. [There was a sheepish smile coupled with those words.]

Do I still have them...? [She fished around in her pockets before finally pulling out some rectangular slips of paper with symbols engraved on them. Didn't she have more than this, though?

Oh well, she must have just misplaced them somewhere.] These are my crests!

[sweetdeath]

[Tsuzuki leans in, interestedly examining the slip of paper. It looks a little like an ofuda and a little like a playing card. That's pretty cool, actually: unfamiliar, but fascinating.] You know, that looks bit like the kind of magic I use!

[He fishes an ofuda out of his coat pocket, holding it out to her in an example.] I don't know if I can teach you anything about those, but if you'd like to learn ofuda spells, those I can help with.

[fizzipocus]

Wow, it really does look similar! [She stared at the ofuda for a moment. Learning new magic sounded like a great opportunity. The only problem that she was getting a weird feeling deep in her gut, and that feeling was saying "I can't do that." It was strange, and she couldn't think of a reason why she would feel that way.]

It's alright if I think about it for a little while first, right?

[sweetdeath]

Oh, yeah, sure!

[Tsuzuki offers her the slip of paper.] You can keep this if you're curious. I've been making plenty.