Majo to Kyurasu - Vol. 2 Ch. 9.1 - 9th Dose: Witches and Transformation (Part 1)

[maeribaeri]

I don’t think she is that much of a secret keep, though!

If you ask me, I think her stability is what happens when she always keeps her hope! Simple as that! (As cliche as it may be)

It's possible that's all there is to it, and of course, with this author it's literally impossible to tell where they'll take their characters.
But also, there is such a thing as overplaying one's own trauma and putting on a mask of the persona people expect of you, for many possible reasons (being afraid of rejection for example).
And we haven't really learned much about what happened to Tama after she got separated from Shien. And she is exactly the type of person I could see hiding her own trauma, especially seeing how much strength Shien and Mode gain from her still being the person they used to know.
Suffice to say, I am very curious for future updates of this manga.

 

[Baddtraxx]

thank you so much for picking this up

 

[Turbotune]

It's possible that's all there is to it, and of course, with this author it's literally impossible to tell where they'll take their characters.
But also, there is such a thing as overplaying one's own trauma and putting on a mask of the persona people expect of you, for many possible reasons (being afraid of rejection for example).
And we haven't really learned much about what happened to Tama after she got separated from Shien. And she is exactly the type of person I could see hiding her own trauma, especially seeing how much strength Shien and Mode gain from her still being the person they used to know.
Suffice to say, I am very curious for future updates of this manga.

I mean it’s possible, but we already saw a brief overview of Tama’s life after the Witch Hunt in the first chapter, described by a few mini panels and there’s not much depressing stuff back then (and the volume cover even has the words “Everyday Comedy” on it), so I don’t think Tama has that much “Traumatized past”, or at least she has the least trauma of them all.

I said it before in another comment, but I see this manga as a Doubled Down Dark version of “Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid”, in which the magical characters have to adapt to the modern human world while trying to find themselves, and while the undertone is dark (with their past and personalities and all), the characters have love (sometimes even the goofy kind) and happiness among them, plus the occasional Ecchi and cute moments.

Plus this is irrelevant, but the art is just so pretty and stylish. The Mangaka really improved a lot since the last “Yona Yona Yona” series and “Reki and Yomi”, so needless to say I am also greatly anticipating the next chapter.

 

[Suspicious_Harmonica58]

I hope all of them can heal and be happy, thanks for the TL

 

[luigiymario2]

I feel like Shien is hiding something, like sure, she was a kind of neet back then but to the point she became this way? Something else must have happened, maybe true heartbreak being separated from her student?

 

[a_other_alt]

I fucking love this artist's artwork

 

[smormu]

I think Tama has some abandonment issues and hearing Shien say that nothing happened since the witch hunt meant to her that nothing was keeping Shien from looking for her, she just didn’t feel like it.

 

[tsuylen]

Not sure where people are getting the reading that the master is dying.
She just seems incredibly depressed. Likely if Tama had rejected her, then she would have had literally no other reason to keep living. She smokes for likely the same reason most people do, because its soothes her and it passes the time. The implication to me is clearly that whatever happened to her was so traumatizing, that she became overly dependent on smoking.

 

[k1rumaaa]

something defo happened💔

 

[PinkManiac]

Why do I feel like the smoke she just lit would give Tama a dream summary of what happened to her after they split up, and now Tama is fighting sleeping due to unease. And I feel like it really will be nothing that has happened, a mind numbing nothing that would drive most to insanity for centuries.

 

[WJ_PK]

Thanks for the TL

 

[dudelookatree]

"I'm fine"
- a witch who is not fine

 

[mangaburner1979]

I'm so glad this got picked back up, thank you for the translation. Did not expect this level of heartache from this manga but I'm loving the tonal shifts.

 

[MathMols]

If the author goes for the (for some reason) typical trope and make it so Shien was r*ped or something I am dropping this…

 

[BreadBunny]

Genuinely I think things are just the way Shien presents them. nothing happened, for several centuries she just languished and didn't do much of anything to the point she became completely dependent on substance abuse to get her through her boring days.

Shien just got very depressed and Tama coming back into her life is pulling her out of that fugue while also presenting her with the idea that she can't continue to fail her student. Shien views herself as much lesser than she used to be as well. So yeah I don't think she's lying, nothing happened and also if Tama leaves her because she stops caring for her master Shien might as well have nothing else to live for.

 

[MelonManic]

I call bullshit, something must've happened that devolved her into a shadow who who she once more

Oh yo, she actually yawned earlier on, that's. what. I'm. talking. ABOUT.

Aight I'm all caught up here now, I continue with my day as planned....
Have a nice day like nice

 

[Tobesmgobes17]

Thank you for the chapter. I FUCKING LOVE THIS MANGA PLEASE KEEP THE TL'S COMING

 

[BlessedSushi]

Jesus...I picked up this story for erotica Yuri and witches....this shit is sad as hell...and I'm loving every second. My heart hurts.

 

[Nomfishus]

If the author goes for the (for some reason) typical trope and make it so Shien was r*ped or something I am dropping this…

I hope it doesn't happen too but it is quite likely that Shien was captured, used as some noble family's personal panacea and poison creator... and probably also s*x slave since she is quite beautiful... I don't see how else she'd have survived when she apparently can only create potions and not use any other magic and apparently only wants to make people happy with her medicines and as such probably didn't have any weaponisable potions at hand during the witch hunts and since she was protecting Tama she had to delay the mob somehow...

I suppose one possible alternative is that she did die (or was in a near death state) but had some medicine hidden in her teeth or something and healed herself with it after the mob left. That'd traumatise her pretty badly too but since she said nothing happened at all I feel it's more likely she was locked up or trapped somewhere

 

[Turbotune]

I hope it doesn't happen too but it is quite likely that Shien was captured, used as some noble family's personal panacea and poison creator... and probably also s*x slave since she is quite beautiful... I don't see how else she'd have survived when she apparently can only create potions and not use any other magic and apparently only wants to make people happy with her medicines and as such probably didn't have any weaponisable potions at hand during the witch hunts and since she was protecting Tama she had to delay the mob somehow...

I suppose one possible alternative is that she did die (or was in a near death state) but had some medicine hidden in her teeth or something and healed herself with it after the mob left. That'd traumatise her pretty badly too but since she said nothing happened at all I feel it's more likely she was locked up or trapped somewhere

Being tortured near death is likely since she can already heal a lost eye with a cigarette, and the mob wanted to get information on where the remaining witches are, so they might torture her, but being sexually assaulted doesn’t sound like what’s about to happen.
If legends about the succubus exists at that time, if they believe her to be a dangerous bewitching witch, no way they’d keep her alive for longer than necessary. Only extremely desperate, extremely rational or extremely ambitious people would actually try and use her.

And all I see from the mob is anger and fear. I believe if Shien got captured and refused to tell, they wouldn’t treat her any differently than any other witch, which is to her her burnt at the stake.

Which reminds me, it’s also entirely possible that she was already captured and burnt alive at the stake, but with witch medicine at the ready, she could prepare and revive herself when nobody was watching…which is certainly a very terrible scenario, but it’s the most likely one I can imagine, like what you mentioned.

After which she could hide her identity and pass off as a merchant, devote herself to a noble as a healer, or just hide and live off in the wild with the animals…at this point anything is possible.

But ultimately I would wonder how she’d keep her hat and not lost it after all these years and not reveal herself to the witch hunters. Especially when Tama explicitly mentioned that she had lost hers, so I would guess that the witches’ wardrobe may be discussed about in more detail in the future.