To the Village (2)

Once I boarded the carriage, I decided to finish thinking through what had been on my mind earlier. It wasn't anything specific; I had noticed that my thoughts occasionally became strange.

I wasn't an idiot, so I could easily tell when the things I thought about were gradually becoming strange. As I had said before, I had never been someone who prioritized efficiency. If anything, I had been the sort of person to think that, since money would come in tomorrow, I could spend as much as I wanted today.

Yet I could clearly feel that I was changing more than I had realized.

Even last time, when I received the bounty, hadn't I thought it would be better to save some money in case I couldn't receive it? The old me would never have had such a thought.

More precisely, it would be right to say that I couldn't have had such a thought. I wasn't that meticulous by nature.

If anything, that sort of meticulousness could safely be considered part of Lumia's personality.

Even taking into account that I had to sleep with the Hero, if I had been thinking normally, I wouldn't have tried to use the same room. Yet at the time, I had been consumed by the thought that saving money mattered more than anything else.

It was clearly strange.

And although it was still only circumstantial evidence.. the whole thing about using magic was highly suspicious too. I didn't know the details myself, and according to the setting, I could use magic despite being unable to speak or hear because I was a Star Child, but..

Even so, magic shouldn't come out just because I thought about it, should it...