Majo to Kyurasu - Vol. 2 Ch. 13.2 - 13th Dose: Witches and Chance Meeting (Part 2)

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What do my memories say?

You were obsessed with money.


....but I'm obsessed with money now?

Yeah, but you were way more annoying about it back then.

Bonus:

Wait, the person I was trying to get attention from with money was myself?!
 
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Given the running theme of trauma for every individual we meet upon coming to grips with their Then and their Now, I suspect the next chapter will be a rough one.
Mode-chan retained her memories, and the loss of all her forest friends left her largely catatonic. Rea, presumably, potentially erased her own memories, or had them violently suppressed as a trauma response, if that one panel of her refection several chapters back is any indication. Whether it was willful or a neurological defense mechanism, the trigger would have been horrific, and she's about to relive it.

Hopefully Shien can guide her through this reclamation, and she, Mode-chan, and Tama can all come together to begin the healing process for the Alchemy Witch.

The art remains sublime, though. Truly an incredible visual component to this story; I've always thought manga's strength as a medium was being able to capitalize on non-representational illustration styles to showcase things like emotion or metaphor in a visually literal sense, and this title achieves that in spades.

Thanks for the TL.
 
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Confession was so smooth but got overshadowed by this smooth operator.
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I wonder if she really is going to remember everything. Shien seems to think the issue is rather casual for her magic to fix. But this chapter cuts us off before she does anything.

I want to say whatever her trauma is though, if she does get her memory back, I find it hard to imagine its worse than what she has now. She's cursed by her lack of memory, to the point of endlessly earning money for reasons she knows not. She's well aware that she's been driven into an insane obsession that doesn't even benefit her, because she doesn't have any desire to spend the money for herself. She's literally smoking her own cig stubs and is homeless. And she's probably been doing it for centuries.

On a related note, it's quite hard to tell how much money she's stashed away but it really is a mind-boggling amount. Based on previous chapters as well as this one, the coins consist mostly of 100 yen and 500 yen ones. There's no way to tell how deep or large the pool actually is and so how many coins there are...they can stand up to their hips but another panel shows the coins piled high enough to show at an angle to the water surface. They did seem to walk a considerable distance to the water edge though.

Some napkin math would be...let's say the pool is some 6m by 2m. Coins are piled on average 3~4cm deep (both types of coins are between 1.6~1.9 mm thick). Let's ignore the fact that the pool clearly gets shallower at the edge. That gives us somewhere between half a million to maybe 800,000 coins, depending on the ratio between the denominations. Or somewhere between 100 million or 200 million plus in yen.

I'm sure someone can do a better calc (or use AI for this, though I take a dim view of overusing a chatbot to think for you), plus we lack a lot of information, and maybe more importantly, nothing in this manga should be taken physically literally, but the point is it's an incredible amount of money....albeit it's technically possible on her minimum wage equivalent jobs and brutal work hours. Maybe 50~60 years of non-stop zero break 'part-time' work. Good thing she has several lifetimes eh.

Oh yeah, I also haven't counted her tent. And she's got yen bills in there, tons of them, since she can't store them in the pool.
 

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