Shoutout to Bruh_Vista and Harjas_Sidhu for beta-reading and providing extensive feedback for this chapter!
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Yohn questioned his life often, nowadays - surprisingly, even more than when he had to live a life drenched in darkness. After a faint light was split on his black canvas, thanks to the Magi-Core, Yohn took the initiative to pull apart the curtains so that he could finally let all the light in. However, in this process, he had taken on two hangers-on.
Well, calling them hangers-on would be a disservice, since they were contributing a lot to his endeavour to step into the light. The fact of the matter was that their mere presence increased the pressure bearing down on Yohn. He felt that with the two people on board, he just HAD to succeed or else he would be a complete failure of a mage. Not that either of his two "partners" had explicitly stated that to him.
