Majo to Kyurasu - Vol. 2 Ch. 14.2 - 14th Dose: Witches and Yearning (Part 2)

[MangaDex]

 

[shae_]

Maybe this witch doesnt have a backstory involving humans?

 

[Grishnag]

So, she is very obsessive and nukes her own memories in order to not be?
Or am i mistaken?

 

[Zblurth]

So, she is very obsessive and nukes her own memories in order to not be?
Or am i mistaken?

I do not think it is "though" as in I will cast a spell to forget, I think she just build herself in a way she cannot imagine herself do that and so denies reality when it happen, I am sure their is a word to describe that as it is a pretty well documented protection/coping mechanism but well I forgot


Anyway I kinda like this character
And thanks for the tl as always

 

[UdenEmpati]

So, wild guesses:

Rea has always used her magic for others' sake, and never her own. An ironclad rule for her, though the specific/exact reason why, hasn't been explicitly stated.

(If I had to guess--it's because of how absurdly powerful the literal creation of limitless wealth would be, and using it for her own sake could risk a runaway effect where she falls victim to ever-increasing selfishness & greed. Maybe her magic is even dependent upon her using it for others; if she uses it for herself, it and/or Rea herself gets magically corrupted in some fashion.)

But her infatuation/worship of Lady Shien causes her to subconsciously start to create things that emulate Shien. 'False Idol' type stuff, maybe? In any case, she's now using her magic for herself. And this was the first time, which seems rather important--both in the sense that this is unprecedented for her, and that it's going to happen again.
With how distraught she seems, and how quickly she grasps to the "it's not me, but another Me inside, that is doing this, I'm not to blame", I think it can be confidently said that there is indeed something very important about her not using her magic for herself.

Now - purely conjecture, but It could be that her personal tragedy isn't directly tied to the witch hunts. Alternatively, I could see a case where she starts getting carried away with her selfish usage of magic, to the point she does it in front of humans without realizing it, and they go after her, possibly to try and exploit her power.
But she escapes, and perhaps in the process of being pursued and/or captured, she gets other witches attacked as well. But even not involving others, it would be traumatic just for her.

And so she magically lobotomizes herself to remove even the knowledge of her magic, for fear of ever falling into temptation and all the knock-on effects that surround her loss of control. But the need to create wealth remains as an impulse, and so she generates it "mundanely", over centuries--but with no understanding as to why.



I suspect chapter 15 will be the rest of her story, and I just hope that it's not going to be too rough.
Visually gorgeous as always, though.

Thanks for the TL work.

 

[NissanFairLadyZ32]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[Babymech2]

It's pretty obvious she just gooned for a hundred years after discovering this power

 

[luigiymario2]

Poor cutie...

 

[Brobobo]

Did she crash the economy and super regrets it?

 

[DLRevan]

As I said in a previous chapter, the hidden magical damage to her face couldn't have been done by humans...and most likely was self-inflicted.

Humans could still have been some kind of trigger of course, but with this chapter it seems like this really is entirely her own problem.

 

[blubby7272]

These comments are cooking as always

Love the analyses

Thanks for the TL!

 

[q0099]

Thank you kindly for the chapter!

 

[MsW0lf]

So I think her magic has the drawback in that if she uses her magic for herself she pays for it in memories. In the present day all she has left is the drive to “make money” and doesn’t even remember that she used to be able to make it out of thin air. The last memory she lost was that she was a witch. So she lost everything else, even the “why” of making money, which is why she just earns money and never uses it. Now THAT’S some bitter irony, she wasn’t even making the money to use to buy anything. But “selfishness” takes many forms I suppose…

So, the way in which she becomes “stable” is she starts giving Shein the money which starts returning her memories, and then she is able to live with the other girls and no longer needs to use her powers to polish her shine for Shein… heh…

 

[Okuu]

She was so down bad that she learnt self-interest

 

[UdenEmpati]

So I think her magic has the drawback in that if she uses her magic for herself she pays for it in memories. In the present day all she has left is the drive to “make money” and doesn’t even remember that she used to be able to make it out of thin air. The last memory she lost was that she was a witch. So she lost everything else, even the “why” of making money, which is why she just earns money and never uses it. Now THAT’S some bitter irony, she wasn’t even making the money to use to buy anything. But “selfishness” takes many forms I suppose…

So, the way in which she becomes “stable” is she starts giving Shein the money which starts returning her memories, and then she is able to live with the other girls and no longer needs to use her powers to polish her shine for Shein… heh…

huh.
Re-reading, you might be onto something.

Given the chapter is "yearning" and she clearly yearns for Shien, yeah. What's weird to me is this infatuation with Shien isn't new, apparently, but it picked now of all times to kick off. It'd been half a year before, and it seems periodic at best, anyway.

Perhaps because she also was coming down with something? Fever makes you delirious, so perhaps she was out in the cold too long (she mentions talking to townsfolk, and she was washing Shien's scarf down by the river, all before coming back home...and it was nighttime and snowing when she left Shien and Tama).
So if she was getting sick, her normal fortitude and mindfulness were shot. She used magic for her own personal interests--which if not causing memory loss, is apparently something she must not do, and it freaked her out.
But the thing she made was connected to Lady Shien. And so she was drawn to it, like we see in this second half when she puts it on the scarf, but then goes back and puts the earring in before looking at herself in the mirror and the 'golden smoke Shien' appears, when she uses the magic again. And she realizes she made the pipe, as well--which, I went back through and saw nothing about pipes related to Former Shien, so I'm not 100% on how that factors in just yet (maybe it'll come in later on).

And thus she starts doing it more and more, feeding into her desire to be closer to Shien in some way.
And honestly that would be almost more tragic than her getting caught up in the Witch Hunts--because that means it's self-inflicted. Mode-chan was victimized by others; as were Tama and Shien. But Rea losing herself to her own worst impulses is a distinct flavor of tragic for this series, thus far.

But it kinda dovetails nicely with the negative aspects of selfishness and avarice and coveting of people and things. Her ability is creating literal wealth and prosperity, but the moment she doesn't use it with complete altruism, it corrupts her/her magic.

 

[BreadBunny]

Perhaps because she also was coming down with something? Fever makes you delirious, so perhaps she was out in the cold too long (she mentions talking to townsfolk, and she was washing Shien's scarf down by the river, all before coming back home...and it was nighttime and snowing when she left Shien and Tama).

Okay I think you're just reading this part wrong, it's much more likely this chapter is just one or more days after her visit to Shien. No way would she have been able to talk to the townsfolk while all of them are at home because it's midnight and they're sleeping. So logically there would have needed to be at least one day inbetween where she talks to people and washes the scarf. which could still have gotten her sick but there's just no way that would have happened that night.

 

[Turbotune]

Storyline’s going to take a while before finding out the truth, but no worries. I already anticipated that Rea’s reason of being tangled up in this mess is about to get more complicated than Mode.

Besides, this chapter gave us more possibility, and it may hint towards the fact that it was Rea’s own magic that got out of control because of her feelings and infatuation for Shien rather than direct conflicts with the humans.

Or you know, these things could get mixed up and form something heavier. I see that smoke pipe is where “smoking” had begun, before Shien used cigarettes for her medicine. That could be recalled upon some time later.

Anyway, Thanks for the chapter, and I’ll look forward to the next one!

 

[Echion]

is it just me or are there like 5 different fonts used in this chapter?

 

[beThereShortly]

Oh no this will not end well at all...

 

[Ichigo69]

Oh no this will not end well at all...

Well, we know she doesn't die, b/c she's still alive in the current time
LOL