Shiro was unusually silent, lifting his head to gaze quietly at the sky.
After a while, he smiled and said, "I know all that. Don't worry. I'm... fine."
"Are you really fine?"
"Heh—don't worry. I know my own condition very well. You're probably worried I have dissociative identity disorder, right? Relax. I got rid of that hidden danger a long time ago."
"Got rid of it?" Enkidu appeared, looking at Shiro in confusion.
Shiro smiled and raised his right hand. Enkidu coiled around it loop after loop, and he showed it to Enkidu.
"This is..." Enkidu narrowed his eyes and looked at it, then his pupils suddenly dilated as he cried out, "Autonomous consciousness!? How did you do that? Wait, don't tell me..."
"Mm. You're thinking along the right lines. This is my unformed second personality... You know where I came from. I was suddenly thrown here for no reason—how could I just adapt all at once? If I really had that kind of ability, I would've made it big in my previous life long ago."
"So you used magecraft to interfere with yourself?"
"Mm. I didn't have any other choice. Back at the Ninja Academy, I could still hold on through my curiosity and yearning for supernatural power. But that was a battlefield! A battlefield where people died! So I could only use Suggestion Magecraft..."
As he spoke, Shiro gave a self-mocking smile. "And that was why I ran into problems later. It was born."
Shiro looked at Enkidu with a deep, unreadable gaze.
"So how did you solve it afterward? Since you used Suggestion Magecraft, you shouldn't have been able to notice it." Enkidu rubbed his chin, looking at the self-moving Enkidu around Shiro, his thoughts unknown.
"True. You're right. Suggestion Magecraft really isn't that easy to wake