The Optimistic Authour

Do you think Yeasties ever gets sad about how he's very clearly disliked by most wizards. And they don't even try to hide it?

(Him being Vivanna's apprentice and Qifrey being Beldaruit's.........do you think they were ever forced to hang out as kids......while their masters had like, big wig meetings.....)

It's a spell of Fireball, but Bigger

Is he lying because of ego, or is he lying because he knows Qifrey is slightly unhinged when it comes to the Brimcaps?

I hope Tartah is getting good commission for this.

Awww, he's not used to all the positive attention? That's so cute.

FINALLY

Coco has been so dark recently. She seems quite determined though. She's SURE she'll finally become a witch. That's a change of pace from her initial worry.

Uh oh, did Second In ComDAD nix her permission to perform? Is he trying to protect her...?

Uuuuurrrrghghgh this is.... so difficult.

Because on the one hand, Agott isn't just being a brat here. She practiced a long time for this. It's unfair to drop this on her now. And she's clearly got very emotionally wrought motivations for doing this.

But I can also understand why Olruggio might want to shield her from becoming the center of attention at such an event, especially if her blood relatives will be watching. They only need one small thing to go wrong to make themselves a problem in her life again, presumably.

Also, it's true that she's way more focused on proving herself than being a witch for the sake of magic at this point............but it's not as though she's alone in this, necessarily.

is.... is that allowed???

Tartah, YOU guys made it together didn't you???

Coco is lyin' like a pro. "As a way to get around" sure girl

I'm confused about why she wasn't. And kinda surprised by Qifrey being ok with it too. I mean, what's the difference between this and sylph shoes, really? Just the fact that the seal on the sylph shoes is a bit more visible? But why aren't they sold? I bet those lords and ladies seen in the other chapter would love a pair.

It's interesting that Tartah is framed as being the sole person to recognize that Coco is struggling emotionally with something here. None of the other apprentices, not even Agott (who, understandably, has her own stuff going on) are able to suss out that Coco isn't quite as happy and bubbly as she acts.

Either that, or Coco is specifically letting down this wall around Tartah only. Possibly because he, too, revealed to her that he's not exactly on board with the status quo.

This is like. The opposite of the crabs in a bucket scenario.

She wants to help, so badly. But it's already been ruled that she cannot. That is the first rule of her accepting this gift that Qifrey gave her. The rule is that she cannot pay it forward, ever. She must ALWAYS be the special girl who crossed a line that no one else is allowed to cross. She gets special privileges... and no one else does.

Another might have flaunted it. But it clearly destroys her.

I hope this manga ends with Coco becoming a teacher to kids just like her.

But more and more, I'm wondering what her hat will look like......

....I wonder though. Given that she lived a fairly soft life with her mother..... .isn't there an argument to be had that without magic, the world is also incredibly awful? Without magic at someone's side, awful things happen to people like Custas, for example.

All that could have been avoided.... but by avoiding it, you set up the risk for another type of awful thing to happen........

It's a domino effect, and no matter which way the pieces fall, someone is bound to get crushed. :(

I suppose what matters is what you do going forward...

uhoh UHOH

UHOH

I--

Okay wait, no.

That's.

Those aren't like, warped and unrecognizable evil forbidden magic bionic legs.

Those are. Those are just fancy prosthetics.

Those are literally just...... prosthetics. He's not even using the feet, which are presumably pretty fucked up still. He's just balancing on what appears to be another type of contraption which has been affixed or melded to his legs?