"..."
Ryougi Shiki wore an utterly speechless expression.
"I'm not interested in magicians."
"No, no, no. Magic isn't Magic, nor is it a Trick.
Magic is incredibly powerful. It exists on an entirely different level from those things."
Shirou stared at the girl with his twilight-colored Mage's Eye.
"For example, a magician could never fill the hole in your chest, but magic might be able to."
"The hole in my chest?"
"That's right. You must have realized it long ago, right?
You're all alone now—the 'him' inside you died in your place in that car accident."
After Shirou finished speaking, Ryougi Shiki covered her mouth.
She finally remembered the reason her memories had been fractured.
The presence of another personality within Ryougi Shiki—Ryougi Ori—was gone--
Shiki was a person with dissociative identity disorder, possessing another personality within her.
The Ryougi family had a hereditary chance of producing children with two personalities.
Children like that, whose existence was taboo in ordinary families, were instead revered as transcendent beings in the Ryougi family and treated as legitimate heirs.
Shiki had inherited this bloodline.
This was also why her parents had skipped over their eldest son and chosen their daughter as the heir.
However, this should never have happened.
Between the two personalities—the masculine male personality and the feminine female personality—the male had stronger control.
The few legitimate heirs throughout history had all been born male, with a female personality within them.
Only Shiki, for some unknown reason, was the exact opposite of all past examples.
Within the female Shiki was Ori, a male.
The one with control over the body was the female Shiki—in other words, her.
Ori was her negative personality, bearing the emotions she suppressed.
Shiki had lived until now by erasing Ori, that negative darkness, killing the