19th Magic Bullet

[gonnamarrydaddy]

[Phone; backdated to the 17th]

[So, Yuna's teacher was on the list of erased people.  She knows he's not here anymore, but she's got some feelings she needs to get out, so have her yelling over the phones.]

All right, what the heck were you thinking, Negi-sensei?  Erasing yourself just because the town told you to?  That's not the sensei I know!

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[answerer_sword]

[The card that the girl is playing with looks strange. Almost like...]

[Bazett steps up to the girl.]

Do you mind...if I take a look at that?

[gonnamarrydaddy]

Huh? Oh yeah, sure. Here.

[Yuna hands it over. If Bazett has any ability to sense this sort of thing, the card is clearly magical. However, it's keyed to only function for its owner, so at this point it's little more than decoration.]

[answerer_sword]

[She wishes she still had her magic circuits. Then, she would have been able to tell whether or not the card was magic. However, it certainly seems to be arranged in a way similar to a Class Card. Furthermore, it does not appear to have been created by any sort of human printing technology.]

Do you happen to know any magic users?

[gonnamarrydaddy]

Magic users?

[She thinks for a minute.]

Well, none back home, anyway! I know some people here can do that kind of stuff, but I didn't get this from any of them.

[answerer_sword]

You must have gotten it from someone else then. Can you remember getting this at home or here? It is clearly some form of magical contract between you and someone else.

[The classical colors, directions, virtues, and planets, not to mention magic circle in the background, is evidence enough for that.]

[gonnamarrydaddy]

Magical contract?

[Yuna just laughs.]

Who would I have made one of those with? I don't know the first thing about magic!

[answerer_sword]

[She closes her eyes and ponders it a bit. If the girl does not know magic and does not remember making the contract, then where would she have gotten it from? Then, she remembers the current situation in the town.]

Someone that no longer exists in your memory...Do you remember that broadcast from a couple days back? I think whoever made this contract with you must have been among those names.

[gonnamarrydaddy]

Sure, I remember it. But why do you think someone on that list made the contract with me? Or that I made one at all? I mean, what's so special about that card, anyway?

[answerer_sword]

I have had experiences with magical contracts before, and I can tell by its arrangement that this card is a form of magical contract. I cannot tell what type of magical contract it is, but you are certainly one of the participants, as seen in your picture on the card. As to why or which one of the people made the contract with you, I do not know. If you still had your memories, you would have been able to tell me.

[gonnamarrydaddy]

I dunno, it still sounds pretty far-fetched to me. It's not like I can't remember years of my life or something. I mean, sure, most of it is pretty boring stuff, but there's nothing missing.

[answerer_sword]

Your memory loss is pretty complete

[gonnamarrydaddy]

[Yuna takes a minute to absorb all of that, thinking it over before shrugging and shaking her head.]

Well, if that's what happened, I probably shouldn't worry about it too much. After all, it's not like I can force myself to remember someone if the town's really messing with us that hard.

[She reaches out to take the card back, looking down at it for a moment.]

And if I really did forget someone important, I'll probably remember again in a few days anyway.

[answerer_sword]

[Bazett sighs.]

I really hope you are right. Have there been precedents for the town taking things away permanently?

[gonnamarrydaddy]

I don't really know. It's never happened to me, at least.

[...]

Unless it has and I don't remember.

[answerer_sword]

I see...so it stands to reason that we might get these memories back sometime...

[But would it be soon enough?]

Until then, be careful with that card. Magic is not something to be tampered with.

[gonnamarrydaddy]

Okay, if you say so.