Lisa is immortal due to the blood of the witch. Although she has long since stepped down as the head of the family, she has always been the one behind the scenes of the Jinbo family.
Therefore, although the head of the Jinbo family has real power, he is only the second in command. Ask Lisa what she means when making major decisions.
Because they have lived and reproduced in Japan for a long time, the appearance of Amis's descendants, such as Jimbo Kikue, who is now in the same class as Yoshiyuki and others, is no different from Japanese, and his names have also been changed to Japanese names. The Amis family became the Jimbo family.
Due to their hostility to the Guangyao Holy Cult, the Jinbao family no longer uses the spells of this system, but they still inherit the traditions of their ancestor Herman, and practice Shushan Immortal Magic and Onmyoji. To this day, they still often exchange feelings and techniques with the Shushan Sect. , Escort exchange students to study and live.
Erina and Yoshiyuki had never known that Mayu had been detected with witch blood for a long time.
Yusuke only learned about it a week ago - this was because the Witch Monitoring Committee came to Yida's house to find trouble and took action against the family leader. Yida Masamune was worried about Mayu's personal safety, so he notified Yusuke to pay more attention to his sister.
As a bodyguard, Saya Kawamura has been protecting Mayu at all times recently. She insists on picking her up and dropping her off after school, and refuses to let her and Akiko Horiuchi (Mayu's fourteen-year-old black-haired maid and playmate. She is in the same class as her, in the second grade of junior high school) ) out of sight outside of school.
...In fact, the blond, seventeen-year-old maid Saya Kawamura has another mission.
That is, once Zhenyu cannot control his power, he will kill him. To avoid hurting innocent people.
However, she did not inform anyone about this.
Only she, the head of the family, and Mayu's parents knew.
Everyone looked very surprised to see another Erina appear.
Yusuke was especially surprised - if Mayu wasn't asleep, she would have been the one who reacted the most.
"Hey, why didn't you tell us that Mayu is a witch?" Erina asked angrily, "I feel like grandpa likes to hide this and that from us!"
"Well, Miko-sama, please calm down. This is because I'm afraid you will leak the news in front of Mayu..."
Another of Mayu's three maids, the nineteen-year-old straight black maid Saito Kana, spoke softly from the side.
"...I have always taken care of Mayu's daily life, but I have never heard that witch blood appears in her body..."
"Yes." Saya Kawamura used her ice spell to make a new ice pack, gently replaced the old ice pack that was already warm on Mayu's head, and then whispered.
"You know the character of the head of the family. He doesn't want Mayu to have any psychological burden."
"...Logically speaking, the power of a witch will awaken at the age of sixteen. Mayu should have had two years left. Once she reaches sixteen, she will most likely be unable to control her power. Even if she can no longer bear it, We can only deal with her."
"Even if the Yida family does not handle it responsibly, all parties will not let such a time bomb survive. I am afraid that there will be no need for the Witch Monitoring Council. Other exorcism families and even the Metropolitan Police Department will take action."
"...Mayu's health had been fine before, but she started to feel inexplicably uncomfortable in the past two days. Then all kinds of symptoms appeared. General weakness, pain in various organs and limbs, affected vision, and intermittent fever. And coma..."
"Well, I'll interrupt you. I just checked, and it's exactly what Saya-san thought. It's really a witch's disease. That's a terminal disease that witches who are incompatible with the witch's blood will suffer from."
"But don't worry. Although it is a terminal illness, with the elixir made by Mr. Xu Yezhou, it should be able to stabilize. When I go back, I will ask Miss Lisa to get some. After that, I can contact Mr. Xu Yezhou and ask him to prescribe it every time in the future. I’ll also make an extra serving for Mayu.”
After checking Shinyu's pulse, Jinbo Kikue first expressed his conclusion, then he hesitated for a moment, and then thoughtfully said something that shocked Yoshiyuki.
"But... there's something I don't know whether to say or not - this pulse condition is a bit strange."
"Maybe it's because I'm unfamiliar with my skills and made a mistake in judgment, but... her witch power seems to be on the verge of awakening..."
"Nani?! This is impossible!" Erina immediately became anxious: "Mayu is only fourteen! How can there be a witch who awakens before she is sixteen?!"
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 also space..."
Yusuke: "I see."
Yusuke: "...Since their witch power can control time and space, they may awaken very early."
Saya: "No wonder..."
Yoshiyuki: "Miss Saya, when you said 'No wonder, 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 doesn't understand the concept of a dial, even if she becomes the Witch of Time and leaks her power unconsciously, it doesn't seem to affect the operation of the clocks around her. 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 she became the Witch of Time, her power always leaked out uncontrollably, affecting the time markers around her."
Rita: "But she only relies on the sunlight and moonlight she sees through the bars and windows to judge time, 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 I deliver 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 doesn't have anything 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."
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The meal saved in the morning for lunch may have deteriorated due to the influence of force - although this is impossible to happen based on the actual flow of time. "
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: "...Lita, 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 spellcasting, 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 are, 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 psykers 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.”
