AUTHORS NOTES:
Hey everyone, been a while hasn't it? The story is off hiatus now, and I'm sure anyone who's been waiting for an update is eager to read, so I won't take much of your time, but just wanted to make a few quick notes.
Firstly, to address the AN from last chapter and why I'm still continuing this. Yes, to say I'm dissatisfied with the direction of the YuYuYu franchise and have no love for what it is now would be putting it lightly, but I still like the characters of the original 3 installments, if not what recent material has done with some of them and not much else anymore. Because of that, I'm still going to write the story. I wouldn't keep writing for something I didn't like anything about. But, because of that and how it's an ongoing series, if something happens in this story that contradicts what the canon says in later material, that's just going to be how it is as I've my own plans for my story and haven't been fond of how the canon's been. So expect YuYuYu, WaSuYu, and NoWaYu to be followed, but no assurances on any material after that.
With that out of the way, sorry about the update only being a shorter chapter after such a long delay. I originally planned on making one larger update, actually two chapters ahead in terms of writing, but I just found out about some stuff that could make my next few months pretty turbulent, so I think it's better to have consistent chapters for a next few weeks instead of dumping some now and then potentially going months without an update AGAIN, but do let me know what you prefer so I can account for it if the situation arises in the future. Either way, Chapter 11 will be going up once I get it back from my beta reader, which should be within the week tops.
That's it! Hope you enjoy the story. As always, feedback welcomed.
"He wasn't kidding when he said there'd be a lot of studying..." Gin grumbled at her book with an annoyed expression.
It wasn't long after their initial magic lesson, that the Taisha had approved Negi's suggestion and some self-study would be allowed. However, it did come with one notable condition in that they would have to report what they practiced and any results which came from them. Gin wasn't the most eager about all this extra work, but it was summer and while they did have summer homework, she didn't need to worry as much about it bogging her down. Besides, studying history didn't teach you how to do all those cool looking things with magic, an incentive which gave her motivation to jump right into working. However, even with this factor and apparently getting a massive head start on learning, the task was trying for Gin. Testing her magic after reading was fun, the actual studying was far from it.
Still, she'd managed to learn that fire spell Negi had demonstrated almost immediately and to where she could do it without the wand too! Afterwards, moving onto how to move objects around with her mind, which annoyingly had taken a fair bit longer. The first one was Ardescat, if she remembered right. However, the second one was something different, an unnamed spell the book called it? Those were apparently weak compared to 'named' spells, not that Gin really saw a difference, but could be used for a lot of stuff compared to a named one, which did a specific thing. Ah, well, as long as it worked.
"Now, let's see if this works..." Gin murmured, standing with wand in hand. After learning how to move objects around with her mind, an idea had struck her. Make the household objects come to life and do some cleaning for her, just like she'd seen in a movie somewhere. Gin loved to help her family around the house and had fun doing it, but if she could use magic to get part of it done faster, she'd have more free time to spend with them. This would be the perfect justification to take a break now to play with her siblings, instead of cleaning too, if it worked.
Looking at the motionless vacuum, a rather basic one with a nozzle connected to a larger body where the mess went, across from her, Gin pointed her wand at it and focused on building up energy around her. After a moment, she focused her will into directing the energy to 'push' the switch into the 'on' position.
With no visible force, the vacuum switched on and started making noise.
Gin couldn't help grinning ear to ear at the sight. She'd already moved a few things in her room, but she still couldn't help feeling giddy every time she did this. It was just so cool to be able to do this without any need to transform. The powers gifted by the Shinju were sacred and important things to be respected, not used so frivolously, but she could do whatever she wanted with magic.
Still, Gin tempered her excitement for the moment. She hadn't tried moving something this big, and then came trying to make it do stuff without her actively focusing on it. It might've been a bit of a leap, but Negi said they could probably learn much faster, and she'd mastered the fire spell easily enough. It was worth at least giving this a try, nothing ventured nothing gained!
Repeating the process once more, this time Gin focused toward trying to command the vacuum to move across the floor, moving the practice wand in tandem. Annoyingly, Gin felt some kind of 'resistance' when attempting to move the appliance. It wasn't entirely unlike when trying to physically lift something you really had to put your back into carrying. Except, this one picked at her mind as well, like it was difficult to focus precisely
For a few minutes, Gin summoned up as much willpower as she could muster toward telling the stubborn vacuum to 'move', but no matter how much she tried, the girl couldn't get it to move, at least not all of it. When trying to move the whole vacuum, it might skirt a few centimeters at best, then stop. So much for her idea of making it clean automatically.
Starting to get a headache, Gin relented for the moment and tried moving only the nozzle, to which she had far more success, the device starting to move with the motions of her wand. It took some effort and Gin's mental abilities couldn't move it with the finesse her physical ones could, but she was actually doing it!
For a short time, Gin continued trying to maneuver the vacuum head around, slowly getting used to the feeling of moving it this way, adjusting her motions and gradually gaining more control over the exact manner she wanted to move it. Right now, this certainly wasn't as quick as doing it with her own two hands, but Gin felt like she was starting to get a decent 'feel' on how magic worked, and enough practice would let her do it faster.
Eventually, Gin cleaned up everything the vacuum nozzle could reach from its stationary position, and she commanded the appliance to turn off. She needed to take a quick look and make sure cleaning this way was as thorough as it was cool.
"Nee-chan!" The voice of one of her brothers, five-year-old Tetsuo, brought Gin's attention away from her inspection.
"How'd you do that?" Tetsuo asked with a wonder filled expression, the toys in his hands forgotten for the moment. "Is it that new magic thingy?"
Confidently smirking, Gin gave a nod. "Yep! I can move stuff with my mind." Feeling eager to show off a bit and please her brother at the same time, Gin pointed her wand toward the toy plane in Tetsuo's hand.
The toy responded to the direction and wiggled out of Tetsuo's hand, hovering in the air briefly, before floating upward and turning toward his amazed face. "Nee-chan, show me how to do that!"
"Hrm..." Gin hummed in thought. As much as she did want to grant her brother's request, she didn't think it would be quite so easy. Negi did say the most basic spell could sometimes take months of practice to do right, and even with her head start it still took some practice. But, that didn't mean there weren't ways of making him happy.
"I can't really show you how to do this yet, but lemme show you something else that's cool." Gin spoke with a confident grin. She still had some of the room left to clean, but she could spare a few minutes for her brother. Besides, when so excited about it, how could she possibly say no?
"So, you just take it like this..." Gin instructed, handing her eager brother the wand, clasping his hand in her own to direct it.
"Now, say it just like I do." Gin continued, guiding the movements of the wand, slowly speaking the chant for her brother to copy.
"P-prac big ner." The young child struggled to say the foreign words right, even with Gin's help.
"Ardescat." Gin finished for her brother, causing the familiar tiny flame to appear at the wand's tip. "Hey, good job!" Gin praised her brother with a wide grin. Sure, she'd been the one to do it, but it made them smile. It wasn't like she couldn't teach him how to really do it himself someday though, right?
Tetsuo looked at the fire with a gleeful face. "That's cool!" Curiosity seeming to get the better of the child, and they slowly reached their free hand toward the flame.
"Woah, wait a second." Gin said, extinguishing the flame. "That's real fire, don't wanna burn yourself." Gin reprimanded, playfully tousling her brother's hair and earning an annoyed response from them.
"Nee-chan needs to finish up cleaning a bit. So, we can play in a few minutes, alright?" Gin added, moving over to the toy she'd levitated earlier and handing it back to Tetsuo.
"Alright!" Her brother eagerly replied, moving out of the room. "Show me more stuff to do! I'll get better than you!" Tetsuo shot before moving off to do their own business.
"I'd like to see you try!" Gin called back with an amused grin. Her grin, however, soon faded when she refocused back on the current task. She really had to finish this up so she could play with Tetsuo and make it to Sonoko's house on time later. Sumi was going to be mad at her again if she wasn't ready.
Sumi sat at her desk, a tense look on her face and several objects neatly arranged in front of her. A blank book and pencil for notes, along with the book and wand Negi had supplied for studying magic, both expected objects to rest on a desk. However, there was a set of three other items that stood out of place next to the pair of books: a knife, bandages, and rags.
Negi had warned the Heroes about practicing healing magic unsupervised and the possible risks of using it in unskilled hands. Normally, Sumi was always an advocate for following the rules, but she couldn't push the idea away any longer. Heroes were strong and could recover from injuries far quicker than a normal person, even more severe injuries that would scar a normal person and take weeks to heal, would take less than half the time and leave barely a trace. But, that kind of power wasn't comparable to the healing abilities Vertex possessed. Of all the powers the mages had demonstrated, being able to quickly heal severe injuries was by far the one Sumi believed most useful. Negi and Fate wanted to leave as quickly as possible, so the sooner she learned to master this magic, the sooner she could feel safer after the mages left.
Still, Sumi wasn't charging recklessly into this task. She'd assembled tools to manually treat wounds and first spent much of her time practicing basic spells since receiving the magic book. Getting a brief flicker of fire, like Sonoko had produced, had been easy, but to make the flame stay until she willed it to vanish? That had taken longer than she'd have liked, if nothing compared to the months it supposedly took normally. Still, she'd done much studying and gotten a good feel for magic, and healing a small cut was even part of the beginning spells. She was confident enough to give healing a try.
Taking a deep breath, Sumi gripped the knife in her right hand and raised it up toward her left, holding the blade against her index finger. Bracing herself, the girl slowly cut the knife against her fingertip, feeling a prick of minor pain shoot through her hand and seeing a small dab of red start leaking out of the wound.
Setting down the knife, Sumi picked up the practice wand. She hated using foreign words and avoided it whenever possible, but none of the spells she'd done so far that had a chant, could be done without her using one, and simply speaking it in Japanese had failed to produce results, a frustrating fact she'd have to ask Negi about later. But, she was doing this for the sake of her friend, something she internally repeated a few times for encouragement. Besides, she'd eventually get to where chants weren't needed, based on what the girl saw the mages do.
"Practe... bigi... nar...," Sumi spoke slowly, forcing the words out like it invoked a curse, moving her wand with far more grace than she spoke her words. But even still, she forced herself forward, remembering how she felt experiencing being healed, drawing upon that to further guide and shape the spell into the manner she desired. "Tui gratia... Jupiter gratia sit..." Responding to her words, a small green glow started to appear at the tip of Sumi's wand.
"Cura."
The same glow enveloped the cut on Sumi's finger, and the girl saw the wound close before her very eyes, leaving only a trace amount of blood that had leaked from the cut before Sumi healed it.
"Huh…?" This made Sumi pause and bring her finger closer to her eyes for inspection. Had it… really been that easy? The other spells, while not overly difficult to perform, had still taken her some practice to reach a level she felt in total control of the spell. Yet, this one felt far easier to cast and control, not exactly in a manner she'd describe as second nature, but there was so little resistance in directing the spell.
Wiping away what little blood was left, Sumi carefully scanned where she'd cut herself, positive she'd find at least some trace of her wound, but to her growing surprise, not even a scar remained.
Looking for an answer, Sumi thought back toward her studying. She remembered the book mentioning everyone possessed a natural affinity toward certain types of magic that would make learning spells of that nature much easier, Negi possessing one for lightning, while Fate aligned toward earth. If this spell felt so much easier than the others, did this mean she had one toward healing magic? She had to test this.
Pausing her experimenting briefly, Sumi stopped to note down her progress, as per Taisha instructions and for her own sake, formulating her next plan. While this spell had been surprisingly easy and healed quite well, it'd been after much practice with some other beginner spells. Perhaps this felt easier because she had more practice than when first attempting other simple spells, like the fire one. Or, maybe this spell was generally a far more simple one under normal conditions. After all, Negi had said their circumstances were unique and required adjusted training.
Taking her wand in hand once more, Sumi cast Ardescat, the first spell she'd tried to learn. As expected, it was easier to produce and maintain the spell than initial attempts. However, the spell still lack the same natural ease she felt when healing herself earlier.
Recording her experiments and observations once more, Sumi smiled to herself. This had to mean she possessed some natural affinity toward healing magic! Sumi wasn't sure if she would ever be the powerhouse Gin or strategist Sonoko was. However, she knew she could greatly help her team this way and not worry about holding anyone back. She wondered what kind of magic her friends would lean toward…
But, that was a thought she could consider later. The group were meeting up shortly at Sonoko's house, and they could share their progress then. For now, Sumi knew she had to keep studying. It'd been some time since the Vertex attacked, and when combined with oracle indicating the encounter would be special, Sumi couldn't quite shake the sinking feeling in her chest, not too unlike the weird one she got before Sonoko and her split up from Gin the day before the field trip…
To say Sonoko was having fun with magic would've been an understatement- she loved all the new toys it gave her to work with. She'd started with some of the recommended basics, like the spells to make fire and a ball of light, which had been oddly difficult next to everything else, she saw Negi use. However, after getting the fundamentals down, she'd branched off into things that personally interested her, and one section instantly drew her. Illusions.
Sonoko possessed a natural gift when it came to her hobby of writing, but though not bad, she was actually good at her cutesy art style, Sonoko didn't have quite the same level of skill in drawing. But with illusions, she could take the images for her story ideas out of her head and see exactly how they'd really look with her own eyes. She couldn't wait to show her friends when they arrived.
Still... Though it'd been easy to pick up, even with illusions being comparatively simple magic, she always felt like something was off when looking at and focusing on her creations, and she couldn't fix that no matter what she tried. She thought maybe it was due to her still learning, but when she had tried making one of the house working think she had Sancho, when she truthfully had nothing, they'd completely fallen for it. The book had mentioned that illusions were incredibly basic and thus easy to get around for anyone with a little magical training, but she didn't know anything to deal with them. Maybe it had to do something with her status as a Hero and the Shinju's power, it still had some residual effects which let them pick up magic so fast, after all.
Oh, well. They were almost lifelike and it didn't make filling her room up with various colored Sancho duplicates and not needing to worry about cleanup or storage, any less fun. The whole thing was like something out of her dreams.
"Even if it's an illusion, it still feels so soft~..." Sonoko sighed with a content smile, sitting on a pile of her cat pillows that rested on her bed. Even despite knowing they were fake, Sonoko was still quite surprised to learn the illusions felt almost lifelike, if off by a tiny bit. In reality, she was just resting on her bed, the same as it always was, but to her eyes and sense of touch, it felt like anything but that.
But, magic was also going to be something they used in combat, and Sonoko knew she needed to practice something that might be useful in battle. As much as she personally loved it, Sonoko had doubts about such basic illusions working on the Vertex if even she could see through it. And she knew just what to practice.
The book had mentioned everyone who did magic possessed an affinity for certain types of magic, making it far easier to cast. But, at the same time, it could also make using spells from the polar opposite element, a bit more difficult. A mage with a strong affinity toward wind, would have trouble with earth. In other words, if she had issues using light based magic, then maybe she had an affinity toward shadow magic.
Sonoko took her attention away from the Sancho bed, and glanced around her room for ideas. Fitting her family's social status, her room was quite an extravagant one. Extremely spacious, to where 2-3 bedrooms from an "average" household could've easily fit in this part of it, never mind additions like the closet. The furnishings were of equally high class, with much of her shelf space filled with various things related to her interests, ranging from cute looking toys to mementos from her times with Sumi and Gin. She even had a few pictures taken when Sumi and Sonoko dressed up Gin, and then Sumi herself, besides the mirror in her room. Being in a rich family, her parents got her anything she asked for even with an offhand comment, but it would've been nice if they spent a little more time with her personally now and again.
But, Sonoko brushed the thought away for the moment, refocusing on the present when an idea struck her. Taking wand in hand and concentrating on the shadow cast by a nightstand, Sonoko began weaving a spell. Each element had their own areas they excelled or focused on and from her studying the elements, shadow magic largely involved creating constructs out of darkness. Where's someone using wind magic could do something like form the wind into a barrier in front of them, one working with shadows could turn the darkness into worn armor. The idea felt stuck her as possibly similar to how her spear worked, it could take all sorts of shapes, even less conventional ones, such as when it'd become a flight of stairs for Sumi against the Capricorn Vertex.
Drawing upon her experience and feelings when shaping her spear, Sonoko directed her will at the shadow, aiming for something simple. To her delight, the girl felt the darkness respond with surprising ease, a thin line starting to emerge from it. Eager to get a closer look at the process, Sonoko leaned forward, putting her hand onto one of the Sanchos comprising her bed in her eyes.
And directly onto the open air in reality.
With a surprised shout, Sonoko lurched forward and straight off the side of her bed, impacting the floor and the raised shadow face first with a loud thud, immediately undoing any active magic.
"Ow…" Sonoko moaned, sitting up and rubbing the red spot on her head, that shadow construct thing she'd made had been hard as a rock. She'd wanted to be able to see her illusions in the same light as reality for fun, but not like this. At least she seemed able to trick herself if she wasn't focusing on it.
"Sonoko-sama." Came the voice of an older man, one of the many people working at her house, from outside her door. "Is everything alright?"
"Fiiiiine, just fine~." Sonoko casually answered back, standing up and dusting herself off. It was only a small bump, she'd dealt with far worse. Still, she wondered when the Heroes would learn some healing magic.
"Very well. I came here to tell you that your two friends have arrived."
That immediately brightened up Sonoko's mood. Gin and Sumi had planned to come over today, but was it really that time already? Perhaps she'd let the time slip while relaxing on the Sancho bed. "Oh! Let them in, I'll be right down!"
Mere minutes later, Sonoko was greeting her friends and showing them into her room. "Hey, Wasshi, Mino-san~. I wanna see what you guys learned with magic."
"Sonocchi… Wait a moment, what happened to your forehead?" Sumi asked, pausing at the entrance of Sonoko's room and giving her a concerned look.
"Space out trying magic?" Gin teased with a cheeky grin.
"Welllllll, maybe a little~." Sonoko answered with a sheepish look. She would often snooze a little at random times, but hurting herself had been a first.
Sumi sighed with frustration, producing her practice wand. "Hold still a moment, I think I can fix that."
"Practe bigi nar." Speaking the words like she was attempting to squeeze water from a stone, Sumi began chanting, her wand glowing. "Tui gratia Jupiter gratia sit. Cura."
The moment Sumi finished speaking, Sonoko felt a warmth overcome the bump on her head, along with a soft green glow not unlike when she saw mages use healing magic. Almost as quickly as they came, the sensations faded, but, so too did any lingering bits of pain she felt from the injury. Reaching her hand up toward where the injury had been, Sonoko didn't feel anything wrong. Sumi had just healed her. "Wasshi, was that..."
"Sumi, did you use healing magic just now?" Gin asked, her expression and tone a mixture of surprised and impressed.
"Y-yes." Sumi answered, looking a touch nervous with flushed cheeks, either from speaking the words, the sudden spotlight, or a combination. "I know what Negi-san said, but healing magic would be incredibly useful, and it was listed with the basic spells too…."
"Well, I think it worked great. I feel all better, thanks Wasshi~." Sonoko comforted with a smile and warm hug toward Sumi, which seemed to help relax the other girl. She knew the other girl had put away some of her pride to practice this, but actually seeing her use a spell, with a western chant no less, was a welcomed and reassuring sight that showed her dedication.
"Thanks, Sonocchi, I'm glad to hear it worked." Sumi said with a growing grin and more confidence seeping into her words.
"So, what else did you learn how to do?" Gin eagerly asked, making her way into Sonoko's room with the rest of the group.
"Well… I didn't practice too much, aside from the recommended ones and this. It just came naturally, so I focused on healing." Sumi answered, stowing her wand for the moment and opening the floor to her friends to share their experiences.
"Alright, then lemme show you what I can do!" Gin immediately jumped at the chance to show off and produced a small flame in her palm, without so much as a chant or aid of a wand, a confident smirk on her face.
Both Sonoko and Sumi leaned toward the flame, eyeing it with amazement, though the expression was far more pronounced on Sonoko's own face. "Ooooh, Mino-san, how'd you do that?"
"It's not that hard." Gin bragged. "Felt easy and I saw them use magic without anything special, so I tried it a few times and it worked!"
"I can't do that." Sumi commented, for some reason looking frustrated over the display. "Creating fire wasn't too difficult, but it still took some time to master it and the words..."
Yep, even if Sumi was willing to use them, it didn't mean she had to like it. The spell chants were in another language, Latin the book had said, so Sumi must've been more than eager to move past chanting and do away with that fact. At least she was able to put her issues aside for the time.
"I bet Mino-san's good with fire~." Sonoko added. It made perfect sense if she thought about it.
"Yeah, just like with my axes. I use it with those, so no wonder this is easy." Gin commented, making the flame vanish and lowering her hand. But, she didn't stop there, instead taking out the wand given to her. "It's not as easy as fire, but check this out!"
Making a few motions with the wand, Gin pointed it toward Sancho, resting on Sonoko's bed. In response, the cat pillow suddenly started levitating in the air, slowly floating its way over toward the trio, moving in tune with Gin's wand.
"Sancho can fly! They're like a superhero now~." Sonoko exclaimed with a wonder filled voice. This gave her an idea to follow up with an outfit sometime. Add in a cape and cute costume, and Superhero Sancho would be complete.
"That's impressive Gin, but what made you look practice that kind of magic?" Sumi asked curiously, taking her eyes off the flying pillow and looking toward Gin.
"Oh, uh, well-" Gin replied, face shifting toward a sheepish one. "I was thinking if I could make some household tools move and clean on their own, it might give me a little more free time with my family and you guys."
Sumi responded with a sweet, if a bit embarrassed, smile.
"Wonder if I could make stuff do homework too..."
Which immediately turned into a scornful scowl.
"K-kidding, just kidding!" Gin quickly corrected with a defensive wave of her hands.
"Aww…. The mood was going so well and giving me ideas too." Sonoko commented with a disappointed frown, holding the now released from Gin's magic Sancho. A line like Gin's answer would've been a perfectly romantic one for her novels.
"S-Sonoko, come on! That's embarrassing!" Gin stammered, face turning bright red, already knowing exactly the machinations going on in Sonoko's mind.
"W-what about you, Sonocchi. What did you practice?" Sumi quickly stuttered out, seeing an easy way into another topic and instantly jumping onto it before either her or Gin got too flustered. What neither of them guessed was Sonoko could use these kinds of reactions anyway.
"Right. I'm good with fire, Sumi's got healing. Find anything that clicks with you?" Gin asked, shoving away her embarrassed feelings, instead replaced with that of curiosity.
"Welllllll~," Sonoko leisurely drew out her wand. "I was practicing a little with shadows."
This caused her friends to give her a curious and eager look, the only spell related to that element anyone remembered, had been Negi teleporting.
"But, I didn't have too much time to practice it." Sonoko finished, setting Sancho on a counter and earning deflated looks from her friends. "I did learn how to do something else that's cool though~." Sonoko added, a gleeful sparkle overtaking her eyes as ideas bounced around her head at the perfect opportunity to show her skills. "I learned how to make illusions~!"
"Illusions?" Gin asked with an inquisitive look.
Sumi, on the other hand, had a gradually growing sense of unease quickly manifest on her face, already seeing where this was going. "Sonocchi… Why did you practice those..?"
"Wasshi, watch this!" Excitement and anticipation in her eyes, Sonoko pointed her wand at a confused looking Gin and worked her magic.
Before Sumi and Sonoko's very eyes, Gin's clothing transformed. Gone was her striped shirt and red jacket, replaced by a shoulderless white gown and long gloves that went just past her elbows. No more were her boyish shorts, instead changed into the lower half of the dress that extended to the floor. Completing the look perfectly, was a clear veil going down the back of Gin's head.
Sumi's expression rapidly shifted through a series of emotions, confusion over Sonoko's plans, realization of what just occurred, before finally settling on the same gleeful grin Sonoko's possessed. "S-Sonocchi, i-is that a w-wedding dress? W-When did you learn to do that?"
Gin similarly went through her own set of conflicting emotions at seeing what her friend did. Perplexed, then shocked, and finally extreme embarrassment on her bright red face. "S-Sonoko!? W-what the h-hell did you do?!"
"I learned illusions for things like this~?" Sonoko casually answered, wide grin never leaving her face. "Mino-san wanted to be a bride, and I always wondered what you'd look like in a wedding dress~."
"C-can you do a white kimono instead?" Sumi practically begged her friend, phone already in hand and taking pictures.
"Change it back!" Gin loudly protested, flailing her arms.
"I coooooould~." Sonoko mused, turning her eyes toward Sumi. "But first, it's Wasshi's turn~"
"Eh…?"
Before Sumi could process Sonoko's words, Gin's clothes had returned to normal, followed by Sumi's own transforming into that of a suit, a fancy black that matched her hair in coloration, with a white button up undershirt peeking out below the neck and sleeves, followed by equally classy black pants and shoes.
"Hrm… Looks like a little tight around the chest, but not too bad~." Sonoko mused, taking mental notes. Sumi had two big issues which made finding some more form fitting outfits troubling, especially boy clothes.
Now, it was Sumi's turn to turn bright red and Gin's to get revenge. "S-S-Sonocchi, why a suit?!" Sumi stammered, looking down at herself in shock.
"I think it looks good on you, Sumi. But, I bet a western dress would be even better!" Gin shouted, grinning at how the tables had turned.
Sumi's eyes quickly shot toward Gin, with a mixture of horror and betrayal.
"It matches with Mino-san~." Sonoko stated without skipping a single beat. "But that's a good idea too, let's see…"
Yep, magic was definitely something Sonoko wouldn't get tired of.
SPELL TRANSLATIONS
Ardescat:
English: Ignite Flame.
Cura
Latin: Tui gratia Jupiter gratia sit. Cura!
English: Let the grace of Jupiter be for your sake. Heal!