Magician in Type-Moon

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She could almost feel her mother's hand about to turn the doorknob. In a panic, Asagami Fujino was about to say something to stop her mother.

Matou Ike, however, stood up calmly and made a gesture for silence.

"It's alright, let her in."

Asagami Fujino's eyes widened slightly, and she was stunned for a moment.

Matou Ike's words didn't come through her voice, but resonated directly in her heart.

This strange phenomenon made her involuntarily recall all that had happened before.

The next moment, the mother's voice rang out again, and the door was pushed open.

"Fujino, I'm coming in."

Asagami Fujino hurriedly composed herself, trying her best to appear calm and composed.

The mother entered the room, her eyes filled with concern and a hint of doubt: "Why didn't you answer me? What are you daydreaming about?"

"Ah, sorry, Mom, I was a little distracted just now," Fujino replied with a slight smile, trying to hide her surprise and nervousness.

The mother didn't ask any more questions, but just sighed softly, "Come down quickly, the food is getting cold."

Asagami Fujino nodded, and only after her mother left did she dare to relax and turn to look at Matou Ike again.

"Go ahead, eating is the priority."

Upon hearing the reply, Asagami Fujino nodded slightly. The moment she pushed open the door, Fujino couldn't help but look back one last time.

Nothing changed. After closing the door, Fujino took a deep breath in the hallway to compose herself.

When she came downstairs, the atmosphere at home was as usual. Her mother was setting the table at the dining table, while her father was engrossed in reading the newspaper.

Fujino was her mother's burden; all her father needed was her mother and the family's land. Fujino had always been an appendage.

Therefore, Fujino tried her best so that he wouldn't hate her even more...

Daily life seems to have been unaffected in the slightest.

Fujino calmed down a bit and sat down at the dining table.

However, the questions and curiosity about Matou Pond still lingered in my mind.

"Fujino, what are you doing? How could you be so careless!"

Her mother's voice rang out again, pulling Asagami Fujino back to reality.

Looking at the scorch marks on her hands, Fujino was somewhat at a loss.

Right now, I should be crying, right?

But I don't want to cry.

It would be fine if it were just Mom alone, but Dad is also sitting at the table right now.

I couldn't cry at all when I looked into that person's eyes.

"Does it hurt a lot?" the mother asked.

No, it doesn't hurt. I can't understand what pain is.

I didn't understand, so I didn't answer. My father was sitting right in front of me, so I didn't want to act spoiled.

More importantly, she didn't want her mother, father, teachers, friends, or anyone else to discover that she couldn't feel pain.

They remained silent.

The mother sobbed softly beside him, while the father ate his dinner in silence.

The father silently finished the food in front of him, then took out a package from behind him.

"Fujino, here is this month's medication. Remember to take it on time."

After saying this, the father got up and left.

Sure enough, this man, whom we rarely see, returned to our home today for the first time ever.

However, judging by the time it's been, it's indeed time for those medications I usually take to run out.

Fujino brought the package to her front, preparing to open it and take out the drug called indomethacin.

This medicine is a substance that can relieve pain.

Taking large doses can almost eliminate the pain.

But I can't feel any pain at all, so I don't know why I'm taking this medication.

But as long as they ate it, Father would be a little happier, and Mother would be able to live more comfortably in the house.

Wouldn't that make Mom happy?

Um? what happened?

The medicine box in front of them, along with the entire package, was sent flying.

who did it?

Her father had already left, and only she and her mother were around the dining table. If she had to count, there was also a stranger hiding in her room.

Who did this?

If I had to leave myself aside, it seems like my mother is the only one left.

Does this mean she doesn't want to take this anymore? But if she doesn't, her mother might not even be able to remain the matriarch of the Asagami family.

There were just too many women around my father, so many that they were getting on my nerves...

This would mean the loss of even the economic means to make a living.

Huh? What's coming closer?

There were only two people at the dining area, so it could only be the mother.

She hugged him, tears welling in her eyes, looking very sad.

"Don't eat that stuff anymore!" the mother said, her voice as soft as a whisper, yet like the hiss of a dying wildcat.

Fujino didn't quite understand what those words meant, but she was happy to be held in someone's arms and cry with her mother.

"It's okay, Mom. Fujino is used to it. As long as she takes her medicine on time, she'll be fine."

As usual, Fujino began to comfort her mother.

"Snapped!"

Fujino snapped out of her daze and saw her mother clutching her hands, tears streaming down her face, murmuring, "Don't say things like that again..."

Why was the mother angry?

And if I can't feel any pain, why does my heart feel pain?

That said, what is the heart? Is it my heart that's injured? Or my brain?

When the brain receives words that attack Asagami Fujino, it activates its defense mechanisms and becomes traumatized. It's only after being injured that a person realizes it's pain.

Whether it's rebuttal, defense, or vehement condemnation, they are all merely antidotes created by the brain to alleviate pain.

Therefore, even though I don't know what pain is, I can still feel the pain of a wounded heart.

However, this is an illusion.

It must be an illusion.

True pain cannot be erased by words alone.

The pain in one's heart is quickly forgotten, because such a small wound is not worth mentioning.

If the mind resides in the brain, then all that's needed is to harm the brain.

In this way, Fujino will also experience pain.

Just like the days I've lived so far.

but...

Fujino always longed to be a virtuous woman like her mother, a good student that her father could be proud of, and an ordinary girl that no one would find suspicious.

It wasn't for anyone else; it was Fujino herself who deeply longed for this dream, and has been protected by it ever since.

However, that's all over now.

No matter how hard you search around you, you can't find that kind of magic.

......

"You've finished eating? It seems something unpleasant happened downstairs."

The man in front of me leaned against the wall, watching the setting sun gradually sink in the west, casting a long shadow.

"It's nothing, I'm sorry you had to see this."

"Fuu_u..."

The summer sky is so vast that one glance is enough to tire you of it; the blue sky is cloudless, with only the bright, shining sun hanging high above.

"that..."

"Asagami-kun... um, is there something you need? You can go ahead and say it."

Asagami Fujino hesitated for a moment, then looked up at Matou Ike.

The man's figure appeared particularly blurry in the sunset, as if he had merged into the golden sky.

His gaze remained gentle, with a hint of amusement, as if waiting for her to speak.

"I just... don't understand how all of this is happening."

Fujino's voice was very soft, as if she was afraid of disturbing the quiet atmosphere.

"Don't you really understand?"

Matou Ike said calmly.

"Of course I don't understand. Didn't you tell that priest today that Xiao An is your familiar or something?"

Fujino retorted this insincerely.

"If that's the case, then these things have nothing to do with me, right? It's you monsters who keep bothering me."