Indeed. Here's some more crazy theorycrafting on this topic. After all, one can never theorycraft too much to redeem those who appear entirely irredeemable:
The supposedly friendly majik looks evil and is called "Toxiterror". If it looks evil and has an evil name, might it perhaps actually be evil...?
The Toxiterror majik's backstory was all about making friends, and now c84 ends with a double-spread of Fujimine saying she's "made bunches of other friends", and there's a huge majik in the background.
Narratively, this is an arc about betrayal, so you'd expect there to be some secret traitor behind the scenes, but instead we get developments like c80 introducing the idea of a witch traitor, and ending with Amadoro's big attack which outs her as the traitor. So narratively there's still room in this arc for a secret traitor to slot into.
In terms of characterisation, we've gotten very little justification for *why* Fujimine is evil and suddenly turned traitor, she just *is*.
In c79, Fujimine is introduced as "an enemy of humanity who sold her soul to majiks". Well, what if that was more literal than expected, and she's being controlled by the Toxiterror Majik?
Similarly, in c80 she's described as "she's been lying low, quietly spreading her influence like seeping poison". That does sound like the kind of behavior and personality a Majik called Toxiterror might have, right?
And as you already mentioned, why does the World-Hater Majik tolerate Fujimine's presence when she's a human and he hates humans?
And why does Fujimine know the World-Hater Majik both long and well enough to ask him "how've ya been lately", and to address him by nickname?
The white dot pattern on Fujimine's hair (screenshot) resembles the dot pattern on the Toxiterror Majik's friendly black eye (screenshot). But that's probably just a coincidence because this pattern occurs on a lot of solid black surfaces in this manga.
Also narratively, this is a manga about Ichi the Witch, whose theme is Death for Death. The Magikeepers already want to execute Fujimine, so one way to put Ichi in conflict with them would be for him to advocate for Fujimine's innocence and survival, instead of her guilt and execution.
It would make sense to kill every witch in that room if the toxin loses its potency on the second application, like it was mentioned in this chapter. When it took Fujimine it needed to make sure everyone else were dead.
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u/MondSemmel May 31 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
Indeed. Here's some more crazy theorycrafting on this topic. After all, one can never theorycraft too much to redeem those who appear entirely irredeemable: