Susie's Awakening

I put on a thick coat and headed out into the chilly city alone.

I arrived at the department store street in the city center. There were cake shops, hat shops, and hotels. Everywhere was bustling with activity.

(I unconsciously use "find" without realizing it...)

The snow-covered streets of the human world were filled with the excitement of people celebrating Christmas and the New Year. The lights in shop windows, the laughter of lovers, the hurried footsteps of workers.

My special ability, 'find,' is conveying a lot of information to me.

"picture……?"

The outlines of ordinary people passing by appeared to be bathed in a faint, pearly light. The young baker I passed, the old woman selling flowers by the roadside, the children playing excitedly.

They are 'ordinary people' who don't know anything about magic.

However, a hidden special ability lay dormant within them. The light they emitted was the very essence of white magic, the fundamental energy that saves and brings prosperity to others.

(We're not special.)

Susie stopped in the middle of the crowd, stunned. It was ordinary people, not the privileged class, who were truly suited to white magic.

(Is it really okay for the privileged class to continue to 'monopolize' magic...?)

Just as stagnant water becomes corrupted, monopolized power inevitably gives rise to black magic.

The reason the Survival Principal dabbled in black magic wasn't solely due to personal desires.

"It will happen again... A second and third survival challenge will inevitably arise."

As the cold snow fell on her cheeks, Susie hid in an alleyway, holding her head in her hands.

A certain resolve struck me like a bolt of lightning.

"To reveal the existence of magic to the entire world and liberate it for all."

However, doing so would mean betraying and destroying his parents, his brother, and all his privileged comrades who fought alongside him. His love for his family and the future of the world.

(Why did you even think of that...?)

It's a bad habit of mine to agonize over the weight of a scale that's too big. But I'm not alone anymore.

(My family would understand now.)