As time passed, Akasha learned words, behaviors, and many other things quickly, like spoons absorbing water.
It made Erina think that Akasha learning speed was great. Erina thought that her intuition as a mage to make Akasha her student was not wrong.
Because Akasha learned from Erina, it means that her way of speaking and behavior is also similar to Erina which will have an impact on Akasha's future in the future. But for now, let's skip that.
More than half a year has passed since Akasha was taken by Erina.
Akasha was already close to a normal child, although there was one big problem for Elise at the moment. That is Akasha expression...
Akasha expression was always as expressionless as when they first met, making Erina worried.
(Is it normal for a child of his age not to have an expression like that? Moreover, her hair has a little white gray that doesn't match her age. Something must have happened before he lost his memory.)
Erina was always at a loss as to whether to help remember his past or create a new future.
(Even if I try to use magic to explore his memories, somehow I can't activate it.)
At first Erina thought that it was Anti-magic that accidentally activated continuously, but even if it was Anti-magic, it was impossible to activate continuously.
(And the craziest thing is that he doesn't have any Ether at all.)
It's impossible for living things to not have Ether, no, this whole world is created from Ether, just as atoms are the structure that makes up things, Ether is the same.
This means that not having Ether is something impossible to exist, as far as current knowledge goes.
Although Erina rarely showed up to the Mage Association, she was still the number 2 most influential person there, she could get the latest knowledge from the research of the witches easily.
But there was not a single piece of information regarding the existence or objects that were not created from ether or rejected Ether.
So, as a witch, Akasha was an existence that excited Erina but as a person who knew the world very well, the existence in front of her was an anomaly that had to be destroyed.
But for some reason her heart strongly resisted, and intuition told her that if Erina eliminated Akasha, something bad would happen.
Despite her worries, Erina continued her duties as Akasha teacher and temporary parent.
And as his teacher, she had to take care of Akasha expression problem, because it seemed like it would bring trouble if brought into society.
Erina decided to ask for help from her friend with a magic device that connected each mage thoughts with the magic link in the brain of the marked witch.
"Hello, it's rare to hear you call first? Is there a problem?"
"Well, actually I was has a student, and-"
"What!!! You're has a discipline!!! You?!"
"Your voice is too big, my brain hurts. Do you really have to react like that?"
"Yes! We're talking about you, a lazy, arrogant, annoying person and so much more. Although great as a magician, you're terrible as a living being."
"You... When we meet again, I'll use the Sun Card on that mouth of yours."
"Hahaha, come on it was just a joke. So what's your real problem?"
"My discipline actually has a problem."
"Yeah yeah yeah, you still want to joke around again? I still have a lot of work you know."
"Hey I'm serious too, I actually have a discipline!"
"Eh....."
After that, silence flowed from the other side.
"Oi, did you hear?"
"Ah, yes... Yes... What were we talking about?"
"My Discipline!? "
"Ah, haha yes yes. Let's just leave it like that for now. So what is it?"
Although Erina was a little suspicious of her friend's pitying tone, she decided to continue.
Erina explained the outline of the problem Erina was facing.
"No matter what happens, her expression remains expressionless, it seems like something happened in her past but she seems to have forgotten about it. In this field of psychology, you must know something, right?"
"Indeed, the field of psychology is my area of specialty, but the case you're talking about is too realistic for mere imagination. Ah, sorry, forget about that."
Erina felt she heard very important words just now.
"If the case as you said is true, perhaps something very bad happened in the child's past to make the child close the memory but it's strange, it should be that even if the expression is also hidden it won't have any influence on the expression.
Although there are cases of little expression or even more frequent expression, there are no cases where it can't express."
"If there is, maybe it has something to do with magic?"
"But, to my knowledge, there is no magic related to one's expression plus the field of magic is your specialty, right?"
"I don't know of any magic like that myself. Then what about emotions?"
"Hmm, there are some but they are nothing more than temporary effects, nothing that would last long."
"Is it possible that it's a new magic?"
"It could be, but the type of magic related to human emotions is very difficult, even if there is someone who can do it, maybe number 1."
"Number 1, if I remember correctly, that person never appeared in any meeting even if the other Top 10 gathered, so how do you know if he might know?"
"You said it yourself before, that mage number 1 is very unique."
"Ah, I seem to have said that. I met her once even though her face was covered by a cloak, but he had so much Ether, it was like seeing the 'Demon King', that's why I thought she might know a lot of magic that I didn't know. Moreover, he probably older than me."
"Older than a living fossil like you."
"What did you just say? "
"Ahaha! I was saying, how great is she that she beats your beauty!"
Erina sighed and decided to let it go this time. Erina friend decided to continue the conversation.
"If not by magic?"
"You mean Supernatural abilities?"
"Yes, the Empire has 9 owners of supernatural abilities. "
"It's possible, considering we only know 3 of their supernatural abilities."
"It's useless to speculate, how about trying to read her a story? It's possible that she'll immediately make an expression, considering the person who's taking care of her is you.
It's impossible for you to take care of a child normally. Yes, that's right, it's impossible for her to have students."
Erina could not hear the last murmur.
"Can it really work?"
"It might, it could also help your mental health too."
"What does that mean?"
"Nothing."
"Alright, thanks, I'll try it soon. I'll treat you to a nice meal the next time we meet."
"You don't have to worry about that kind of thing, we're friends. And you should call me more often, although I can't always answer considering that lately the empire is very busy especially thanks to the change of emperor making the Empire a lot of changes both from within the Empire and the surrounding countries, at least I will accept your call."
"Yes, thank you."
"Remember! Call me or anyone often, you must be living in the forest right now, remember, talking to someone is still important, otherwise, you will start hallucinating, right, Hallucination!? Remember It!"
"Yes yes, I'm closed."
"Wait-"
Before she could finish speaking, Erina had already hung up the call.