The twin girls stared blankly at the man making such outrageous claims before them. That thing that had plagued them for so long, shackling them like a vile curse...
Was a blessing?
Had anyone else said that, even Satoru Gojo himself, they would both have snapped that he had no idea how much suffering it had caused them over the years.
But this was Kamo Xu, a man who might truly be able to turn that curse, that sickening bond... back into a connection that held them together.
When they heard this absurd fantasy they should never have believed, somehow, they both believed it.
If... if we really could live like ordinary sorcerers, even if things were only a little better than they are now!
Mai did not want to let this opportunity slip away. Not in the slightest.
If Kamo Xu's theory was true, then... wouldn't that prove she wasn't a hopelessly defective reject, and her sister wasn't the worthless failure everyone called her?
They would no longer have to be discriminated against, beaten, and forced to grow stronger over crimes they had never committed.
They would no longer have to grovel to survive, abandon their dignity for a mouthful of food, or fight desperately for their lives just to see another day!
She could live. She could live a good life!
And that opportunity was right before her, laid out in plain sight. She would not even have to pay much of a price. All she had to do was make that man a cursed tool.
The peaceful life she had dreamed of, the life that should have been hers from the start, the future mired in the mud... she could take them all back into her own hands!
Mai could think of no reason to refuse. There