Yoshiyuki: "Indeed... Isn't this too unreasonable?"
Takagi Yoko: "Calm down, everyone! Kikue told me that witches do awaken early!"
Jimbo Kikue: "...Although it is a special case, it is true."
Erina: "I have never heard of such a thing!"
Rita: "...I have heard of it."
Rita: "There is a special kind of Witch of Time... who awakens early."
Erina: "The Witch of Time...can control time?!"
Rita: "Not only that. There is space..."
Yusuke: "That's it."
Yusuke: "...Since their witch power can control time and space, they may awaken very early."
Saya: "No wonder..."
Yoshiyuki: "Miss Saya, when you say 'no wonder', what do you mean...?"
Saya: "...Have you noticed that the clock in Mayu's room is strange?"
Yoshiyuki: "!!!"
Yoshiyuki: "It's true...the hands rotate fast and slowly, sometimes in reverse..."
Saya: "It's been like this since Mayu fell ill. At first, I just thought it was broken, but when I took out my phone, I saw that each digit of the time displayed on it was changing irregularly, and occasionally garbled characters appeared. "
Saya: "Since then, I had a vague feeling that this was related to Mayu's witch power. But I didn't expect that this would cause her to awaken her power two years early."
Erina: "Real or fake... let me see!"
Erina: [Quickly took out her phone and looked at the clock, then grabbed Yoshiyuki's wrist and looked at the watch he was wearing, and found that it was indeed in an abnormal state]
Erina: "This...is really like this..."
Xiaoji was sitting on the bed, pressing her face against Mayu's.
The two dumplings were swaying gently on one side, seemingly very happy, as if they didn't understand what was going on.
Yoshiyuki: "Kikue, actually I don't quite understand - why did the witch power revealed by Mayu cause the clock to react? Isn't the passage of time itself unchanged?"
Kikue: "Yes, I understand what you mean. In fact, this is related to people's perception of time being too dependent on the clock."
Kikue: "People created clocks in order to confirm time, but in turn they were imprisoned by the things they created. They may not even realize how time itself is defined, and their impression of it is also limited by this twenty-four-hour dial. limit."
Kikue: "For someone who has never seen a clock and does not understand the concept of a dial, even if she becomes the Witch of Time and leaks her power unconsciously, it does not seem to affect the operation of the surrounding clocks. It will affect the operation of the clocks around her. Something else—anything that would allow her to tell time."
Rita: "It's true."
Rita: "I heard about a girl who had been imprisoned in a cell. After becoming the Witch of Time, her power always leaked out uncontrollably, affecting the time indicators around her."
Rita: "But she judged time by nothing more than the sunlight and moonlight she saw through the grated window, and"
Rita: "So in her subjective experience, the change of day and night suddenly became irregular, sometimes faster and sometimes slower. Sometimes the sun was just angry, and the moonlight shone down. But there were other distractions - the delivery of food. people."
Rita: "Although she delivers food once in the morning and once in the evening. But sometimes the person who delivers the food is too lazy to come, so she has no food to eat."
Rita: "If she hasn't eaten for a whole day and time happens to slow down, she may feel that she has been here for a long time without eating. Although she will be hungry due to her subjective consciousness, she will not be hungry because of it. die."
"But the meal saved in the morning for lunch may have deteriorated due to the influence of power - although based on the actual flow of time, this is impossible to happen."
Rita: "On the other hand, I feel like I just had a meal, but someone brings another meal right away and it's still dark."
Kikue: "Yes. As long as something can influence people's perception of time with authority, or represents time to a certain extent and is the medium of time perception, it will be unintentionally affected by the Witch of Time who cannot control her power."
Yoshiyuki: "...Rita, what happened to the witch you mentioned?"
Rita: "I don't know... maybe it has been dissected, or the whole person was soaked in a petri dish. Or it was used as a power source..."
Yoshiyuki: "Huh?!"
Yoshiyuki: "...Why?"
Rita: "...The world she lives in is a cyberpunk-style world. I traveled there before coming to your world, but it was too dangerous, so I left not long after."
Rita: "There were very few people in that world who could use magic. The few who had some talent for casting spells, that is, those who had a magic network and magic blood in their bodies, were not called mages, but were called psykers."
Rita: "When they cast spells, they almost always use psychic aids and weapons with these devices. They can't use the otherworldly magic weapons like the ones I brought. Only a few powerful psykers can cast spells with bare hands. ."
Rita: "In my opinion, this kind of people are actually mages in the general sense. However, Vizela and the average mages here on Earth can cast spells with bare hands, but the effect will be compromised, right? But as long as they can cast spells with bare hands, The psykers are quite powerful, and none of them are minor players."
Rita: "But no matter how powerful the psykers in their world were, it would be difficult for them to physically control even the simplest magic weapon in another world. Maybe... the psykers in that world are really fundamentally different from normal mages. ."
Erina: "...In other words, we psychics are just what some mages call themselves. We all use spells, right?"
Rita: "Hmm... It's usually like this. In short, what they do with witches and aliens with magical powers is to capture them and study them, or use them as rare psychic batteries. It's really scary. Well...I was caught once too, and I almost couldn’t leave.”
