I Became the Cute One in the Problem-Solving Team

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Yuria, completely unaware, was secretly eavesdropping with her ears perked up.

Crow and Alice were having a conversation that seemed anything but ordinary.

Why did he think Yuria might be cursed?

The reason was simple: she was, in many ways, extremely healthy.

People who lose the ability to speak are generally divided into two main types of conditions.

Aphasia, caused by brain damage, and mutism, where psychological factors prevent speech.

However, aphasia affects the language processing area, causing widespread symptoms.

This was far from Yuria, who had no issues understanding or reading language, just speaking.

But mutism didn’t fit either, as there were no signs of anxiety or stress.

Yuria’s mental state was perfectly calm, almost healing to those who observed her.

It almost seemed like she was deliberately choosing not to speak, holding back.

Crow, being both a doctor and a fixer, had the ability to see through such patients.

So, there was only one way to interpret Yuria’s symptoms.

She was being forcibly deprived of her ability to speak to others due to a curse.

“Miss Alice, didn’t you say Yuria seemed to lose consciousness while trying to write earlier?”

“Ah, yes! Greg saw it clearly. She dropped her pen but didn’t even remember it…”

“Hmm, I’ve seen a patient with similar symptoms before. Forbidden Magic. A spell that prohibits certain actions. Of course, I can’t sense any magical traces on Yuria…”

“If it’s a curse that leaves no magical traces… could something similar be possible?”

To be precise, it’s more of a curse-type spell than a curse itself.

Crow narrowed his eyes as he supplemented Alice’s answer.

A curse.

It was a type of spell that had almost become obsolete.

In an era when magic hadn’t yet been established by any great mage and didn’t exist in the world.

What ruled the now-vanished otherworld was a form of sorcery built up over hundreds of years.

Grinding life imbued with magical power, unifying intent through meaningless actions, and accidentally touching the laws of the world with useless mutterings.

It could never be called magic, but it was something very close to it.

People called it sorcery, born from a mix of inevitability and coincidence.

“But sorcery…”

“Yes. No one uses it anymore. Especially not since the world we lived in was destroyed.”

However, most of these sorceries quickly became obsolete after the advent of magic.

Sorcery was…

 

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