"Come to think of it...
"Maybe it's because you and I both came from that world.
"Our bodies share one trait.
"Namely... the total amount of magic power in our bodies is approximately zero."
In this world, where everything possessed magic power, even the grass and trees by the roadside, even an ordinary rock, contained some amount of it.
The so-called "magicless" did not actually have no magic power in their bodies.
Their total reserves were simply so vanishingly small that they could not produce even the faintest glow from a Dragon-Eye Stone, the most basic tool for testing magic power.
But Cui Ciyou and Nanahoshi Shizuka truly had "zero."
Their bodies could not produce even the tiniest trace of magic power. It was an absolute absence.
"That's right."
Cui Ciyou nodded, agreeing with Nanahoshi Shizuka.
"My body really can't store or generate any magic power."
However, there was a difference between them. Although Cui Ciyou had no magic power either, he possessed a strange force called "mental power."
That force could directly connect with and control the energy within Magic Crystals, allowing him to cast magic.
Nanahoshi Shizuka had no such convenient ability.
That was the greatest difference between them.
"Aside from that, we seem to have something else in common."
Nanahoshi Shizuka looked at Cui Ciyou's youthful face. "Our bodies... don't seem to age."
"...You noticed too?"
Nanahoshi Shizuka nodded. "Going by how much time has passed, I should be around twenty, but my height and appearance haven't changed."
"An expired schoolgirl?"
"What did you say?"
"Office ladies of the right age are pretty popular too."
"You..."
For decades to come, the girl before him would not change in appearance at all.
They could not resonate with this world's cycle of magic power.
Time, too, seemed to have