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That's just a choice, you realize.

It isn't.

What stops you from explaining?

[pauses for a long moment, considering]

...Take out your phone and look up my profile.

[does so, frowning a bit as he reads]

"Explaining magic"?

Forget about the objectives. Look at the notes.

...

What is that supposed to mean?

What do you think it means?

Well, it somewhat explains why you feel like a curse to me, but...

[?????]

[sigh]

Is it too difficult? Perhaps I really should explain more now that we're on the topic.

It would be easier than me making wild guesses.

Then how about this?

In your world, things like sorcerers and curses are established facts, right? There is nothing strange about them existing.

Well... yes, and no. It's an established fact to sorcerers and curse users, but people who can't control their cursed energy cannot see curses at all. Jujutsu sorcery exists to protect them from that which they can't perceive or understand.

But curses still exist even though people can't see them, right? In that sense, your world is "a story where magic exists".

["a story"]

If you want to put it in very simple terms, yes.

It's just an example for the sake of this explanation, Suguru-Death.

Anyway, since you're familiar with people from many different worlds, you must be familiar with the idea of a world that's different. A "story where magic doesn't exist".

[wait, he needs to think about this one]

I'm not sure I am... actually.

...Really? You haven't encountered any?

Not as far as I know. Even Henry has that... [hand gestures] thing going on.

[what the hell, that's so unfair, why do all the other worlds get to have magic]

...Well, you can still imagine it, right?

Yes, go on.

In your world, where the established story is that "magic does exist", it will always exist whether people know about it or believe in it.

However, in a world where "magic doesn't exist", it can only come into existence if that established story is brought into question.

Edited 2022-06-08 00:37 (UTC)

... Questioning the fact that magic doesn't exist allows magic to exist...?

Belief allows magic to truly exist. But the first step to achieving belief is overcoming disbelief. And in order to overcome it, the established "story" must be brought into question with a fog of confusion and uncertainty.

Does that... make the magic more powerful? Is that how it works?

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