This review on Majo no tabitabi Chapter 10 contains spoilers. If you haven't seen the chapters, we recommend that you do so and then go back to read the review.
Majo no Tabitabi - Chapter 10: The Two Teachers
Sheila sends Saya on a mission for the club that is so easy to do that it's weird that she didn't. However, she is about to go on vacation and the Coal Witch entrusts her. After completing her preparations, Sheila visits Fran, who will accompany her during the holidays. They were both apprentices of the same teacher at the same time, with Fran being the longest and most experienced of the two.
On one of their trips with their teacher, the three witches came to Qunorts, the city of freedom, to run a club. What was to include all members of the Curio Company. A group of thieves who are incapable of using magic and who speak out against those who can. Use special tools to deal with wizards and witches. Sheila and Fran will be responsible for catching them. If they don't, they'll be expelled.
The bad relationship Fran and Sheila had had since meeting only resulted in them standing in each other's way to be evicted. Which ended without much progress towards its main goal. However, both are captured by the Curio Company, which they wanted to do for all of its members at the same time.
The world is small
not how previous episodes, in the plot of the story told in Majo no tabitabi - Chapter 10 shows young Fran and Sheila in their days when they were apprentices. Something that not only made me happy to see their immature facets at the time, but also some details about witches that I found curious. Some even changed his attitude towards them.
Starting with the fact that a witch can have more than one apprentice at a time. In all honesty, I believed they could only have one student at a time. A mentality that arose in me because the teacher was able to teach her apprentice better that way. However, it doesn't seem to be banned as such, it just happens very rarely.
Another detail that caught my attention Majo no tabitabi - Chapter 10 is directly related to the reason Sheila wanted to be a sorcerer's apprentice. More precisely, his past. She was able to use magic without being tutored by anyone and was completely unaware of the existence of witches. All of this together only makes the 'Night witch'. So I won't deny that I would like to learn more about her. From discovering that he “had powers (imagining he was looking at them that way, having no knowledge of their existence) to what he did to end up working for the club.
For the reasons Sheila and Fran wanted to be witches. I confess that I felt that Sheila was of greater "weight" than Fran. Even if they both did it for selfish reasons. Sheila wanted to stop being a "street rat" while Fran wanted to become the first witch in her country.
I certainly see Sheila's motive more as a personal motive as she tried to help herself and to improve. Fran, for her part, could have a slightly more "humanitarian" motive as she would be the first witch to be the one anyone would rely on when needed. Helping others without this being their main goal.
I see both as valid motivations for the characters. After all, Elaina only wanted to become a witch because she loved the stories a witch wrote about her travels. It's not that the protagonist has a reason of greater weight than Sheila or Fran. In fact, I think the main character is less interesting.
By the way, I think there is no longer any doubt that Elaina's mother is Nikeh. Although possibly another name, Foula and Shiren were Nikeh's apprentices. Which happen to be names that are similar to Fran and Sheila. I'm pretty sure he only changed a few syllables between both names to create the ones he used in his stories. Besides its obvious resemblance in appearance to Elaina. I wonder if someday the 'Ash witch'will find out and when.
Jealousy?
I firmly believe that they have already slowly shown a story that has involved people who are jealous of magical users because they cannot. It's a pretty straightforward topic that could pop up to begin with Majo no tabitabibut that didn't happen until much later. It's not that I'm complaining that they were taking it slowly. I just think it's a good subject to start a story with. Whether it's the protagonist or not.
I guess I'd have these kinds of suspicious thoughts for those able to use magic. Why can't I use magic? What defines being able to use it or not? Is there any way I can use it in the future? These would be my three most important questions if I were in a similar world with creatures with magical abilities.
The first two questions may be easy to answer, as we could use the need for a “gene” from birth as an example. This has a great chance of being inherited by the next generations, but it can also occur suddenly in a descendant of a family without a history of magical users in the past. Generating a somewhat hierarchical organization depending on its ancestors and the number of magical users in the family's history.
The third question could be solved with "tools". Same as the ones that appeared in Majo no tabitabi - Chapter 10, which can make similarities with magic, or at least some types of magic. Which reminds me of what happened to the tools. During the chapter, they mention that they used these tools to confront witches and wizards in more than one sense. However, only one member of the Curio Company used a tool in the "infiltration" of Sheila and Fran. What happened to all of the others?
When I talk about the Curio Company and the tools, I still have one question that pertains to them: How did they get the tools? Additionally, while using these tools, I wondered if there was any code that recognized witches and apprentices must respect. For example, that they could not use offensive magic against a person who was not a magical user. If there were such a ban, it would make sense that the members of the Curio Company should be captured so slowly. And if it didn't exist, then I imagine they were trying to avoid using magic to capture them so as not to add fuel to the fire. This related to the citizens' trust in magical users due to the numbers that the same Curio Company had distributed.
Fortunately in the end Majo no tabitabi - Chapter 10 You make me understand that a story is coming that can resolve my doubts. Well, it seems that there will be a meeting of teachers and trainees in Qunorts, along with the possible return of the Curio Company.
