It never does. That's the drawback, really--because we can't do much, or because we use different methods for a similar result, it never feels like enough.
But if the result is the same, if you manage to fight and survive even with what little power you have, that's still an accomplishment whether you did it alone or with help.
I'm a knight. I never say anything unless I mean it.
Besides, I've been living as a mage with no real strength for years. I know exactly how it feels, and how to circumvent what failings can be circumvented.
I didn't know either, until it was way too late to back out. So if I can support people as reckless as I was, that's a decent way to use a teaching career as far as I'm concerned.
You don't have to think of yourself as one. Frankly I wouldn't if I had the option, 'real mages' are god awful. But for what it's worth, I'd bet my title that you could keep up with any of them.
Do you think that's really a good idea? I mean, I probably wouldn't be very good at it anyway, and don't you already have other classes you teach here?
She gets as far as starting to type out a response refuting his claim at not being good at magecraft, but then manages to realize that it'd just leave her open to turning it right around on her. So she promptly backtracks on that, then spends another good moment or two frowning at the phone's screen like another idea will just appear there. It doesn't, of course, as everything she can think of, all the various arguments against her investing the time and energy in such a pursuit back in Chaldea, have pretty much all been refuted in one way or another over the course of all this conversation.
Which means the only question is, for the first time in literal years, is what she wants to do. For herself.
It's a strangely intimidating feeling, but the question isn't going to just go away without an answer.
As long as it's not getting in the way of anything else, then maybe I guess?
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But if the result is the same, if you manage to fight and survive even with what little power you have, that's still an accomplishment whether you did it alone or with help.
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but you really meant all you said before, huh
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Besides, I've been living as a mage with no real strength for years. I know exactly how it feels, and how to circumvent what failings can be circumvented.
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I guess I just never really thought of myself as a real mage, even if that's technically what I've been called. But it's
I don't know, nice? for you to say all that.
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You don't have to think of yourself as one. Frankly I wouldn't if I had the option, 'real mages' are god awful. But for what it's worth, I'd bet my title that you could keep up with any of them.
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But I don't mind being called a mage. It just seems a little strange when I don't even know any magecraft.
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If you ever want to try learning the most basic of basic abilities, my door's always open.
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Which means the only question is, for the first time in literal years, is what she wants to do. For herself.
It's a strangely intimidating feeling, but the question isn't going to just go away without an answer.
As long as it's not getting in the way of anything else, then maybe I guess?
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