©まほなれ」製作委員会
Folklore is not just stories. While much of it certainly looks like nothing more than colorful language or fantastical stories, there is truth to most of it, whether in sayings like “the red night, the joy of sailor” or stories about how girls should not trust strange wolves. It is in-world folklore that puts the lie to the Rettoran class system, as Kurumi discovers this week because, despite the insistence that only those with Magumi's special notebooks will could use magic, she had been doing it all her life – with the “spells” her grandmother had taught her.
The central conflict was confirmed this week: the guarding of magic, with the privilege of using it carefully managed by academies like Rettoran, presumably at the behest of a government agency. From the beginning things were very suspicious, the fact that Kurumi got the highest score possible in her magic tests but then was not allowed into magic classes at school, and Yuzu's exclusion also made it more and more apparent. I feel strange. As Asuka said, there are many “extremely ridiculous” things in Rettoran, and everyone who learns magic finds them the most ridiculous.
That was the lesson Ms. Suzuki brought home. The potato stew is just a means for her to encourage her students to really think about what she's trying to teach them, and despite showing ingenuity, only Kurumi passes the test—and that's it. because she remembered what her grandmother taught her. Unlike most of her classmates, Kurumi grew up in a rural area and her grandmother raised her in a seemingly old-fashioned way, teaching her skills like cooking over a live fire, among other things. . As Kurumi was trying to figure out the right magic to draw, she remembered a “charm” her Grandma taught her to make the fire burn hotter: a small magic drawn on the palm of the hand and then held towards her. flame. According to her, it was something people used to do, implying a magical tradition open to everyone rather than limited to a select few, a tradition that has been lost in urban areas. more urban of the country. Kurumi has used magic all her life. That indicates that the notebook “Ms. Magician” given to her is essentially a magic notebook – from long ago, when magic was drawn by hand.
This sets Ms. Suzuki's goal of “creating magicians” from her students of different lights. She's trying to level the playing field, to return to a time when magic wasn't owned by a select few. Does that mean she wants her whole class to become professional magicians, like the Magumi race? Not at all—as we saw from Kurumi's grandmother, magic can help any profession and that seems to be what she's striving for. Some can become experts in magic. Still, it's hard to argue that Sally's cooking wouldn't benefit from good control of the stove's heat or that Maki's dancing wouldn't be enhanced by a little magic.
The bigger question is why anyone would want to use gatekeeper magic. It is almost certainly a matter of social class and power for self-proclaimed elites. That makes what Ms. Suzuki is doing dangerous. She may be doing it with the knowledge of Magumi's principal—their discussion was either that or he put her down—but it's still a potentially dangerous path she's taking. Go. The twins are almost certainly involved somehow, as their decision to sign up for two different tracks now seems very deliberate and we still have the cat and the dog to deal with that spaniel. Kurumi's goal isn't just her dream…or at least more like a dream that others hope to capture for their own reasons.
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