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Despite getting some great answers, this was a frustrating episode. It's hard to see Kurumi, a determined ray of sunshine, continue to sabotage herself. Every chance she had of realizing that her dream of becoming a magician wasn't so far-fetched at all was upended by her new, crippling fear of failure. For whatever reason, her inability to use ancient magic during the race was the final blow to her ego. Now, she sees every opportunity not as a chance to prove she can do it but as an inevitable disaster when she fails to activate her spell and only fails herself. hope again.
To date, Kurumi has not been able to successfully cast a spell under low-stakes conditions, so it is reasonable to assume that she will not be able to successfully cast a spell in a desperate, high-stakes situation. of course. People tend to react to life-or-death moments (or moments that simply feel like it) by magically turning off or dismissing their fear and embracing that opportunity, as seen with Kurumi and Yuzu. Kurumi, despite drawing out her magic array perfectly, was still frozen twice. Yuzu desperately uses ancient magic even though she never truly believed in it or the ability to use it before. Even after successfully using it, Yuzu still wasn't sure it was real, and she was less saddened by the failure of her second spell than she was accepting it as if the first was just a fluke. lucky. Kurumi sees Yuzu's initial success as a sign that she really has no talent or interest in ancient magic. Yuzu, after all, is a Rettoran legacy and is within a stone's throw of joining Magumi. It was clear that she would be more successful than Kurumi, who came from nowhere.
The great irony is that Kurumi is also revealed to be a legacy and inherently powerful. The “she” that Ms. Suzuki is about to meet is not Kurumi but her grandmother, a top Magumi student of her time, with the implication being that while she was there, ancient magic was taught. (This makes a lot of sense if we consider that modern magic serves as a substitute for our technology, while ancient magic represents similar practices.) That makes Kurumi a a more credible opponent to Rettoran, though it also tramples a bit on the idea that Ms. Suzuki is trying to level the playing field by teaching people ancient magic because that implies It is implied that Kurumi's enrollment at Rettoran was a factor main factor. But Kurumi is still no one's idea of a mage in the stratified world of Rettoran, and that alone could advance Ms. Suzuki's cause.
Still, it's annoying to be halfway through the series and have our heroine in the middle of a deterioration that threatens to spoil the plot, or at least what we assumed the plot would be. . Knowing that the cat/school nurse is an actual human seemingly trapped in cat form is understandable, and seeing Kyo's modern magic fail in the face of Element M is important thing, but Kurumi's wallowing in despair sucks the fun out of the series. Hopefully things will be resolved next week, and I think her newfound friendship with Yuzu will help, even if I'm not selling “Yuzie” as a way to convey the intimacy by removing honorifics. (I also don't love “Ms. Suzuki” in the subtitles when that's clearly not what the students are saying.) When Kurumi finally regains her joy and spirit, it's going to be breathtaking item. Let's hope we don't have to wait too long for that to happen.
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