A True Apprentice

p1
>Have you finished packing already?

>Yes.
>This is the last of it.

>That's really all you're taking?
>I don't have that many things I can take with me anyway.

>Thank you for looking after me.

p2
>It's such a shame.

>It can't be helped.
>I simply didn't have any magical talent.
>That's all there is to it.

>A great magician like you, Sensei,
>shouldn't be wasting their time teaching someone as talentless as me.

>...

>There can only be
>one person that a magician
>can pass down the secrets of their life's work to.

p3
>I think it's for the best that I realised my own limitations
>and left this place before hearing about them so that your excellent magic
>can be passed onto future generations.

>You don't have to be my apprentice.
>You could simply stay by my side.

>I can't do that.
>I'd feel sorry for your new apprentice.
>Besides...

p4
>I wouldn't be able to bear it.

>It's not like

>I wanted to become a magician either.
>I just had the talent.
>And with that talent,
>my magic could prove useful to the people of this world.
>That's all it's ever been.

p5
>If I stopped being a magician,
>it'd only be one of countless branches in the magic system that comes to a halt.

>In that case, I may as well...

>Sensei...?

>Hey,
>um,
>I...

>!!

>You can't...
>Don't do that anymore...

p6
>Since it's already over,
>I'll tell you the truth.

>You were certainly a great magician, Sensei,
>but truthfully, I hated you.

>I hated everything about you.
>It creeped me out.

>The heartfelt movements of your fingers as they stroked my head,
>your body warmth as it pressed up against my bare skin,
>and those sweet words you whispered in my ear all made me want to throw up.

p7
>But I figured that if I put up with it and submitted my body to you,
>I'd be able to learn your secrets in no time.

>You're a great magician, after all.
>Even if I leave, you'll find another apprentice soon enough.

>Someone way better than me.
>A true apprentice.

>But you're only human, Sensei.

>Once you start getting lonely, you'll crave that girl's body too.

p8
>To be honest,
>I don't want
>to do that to you ever again.

>I'm just a shallow and sly apprentice

>who would pretend to love you for my own gain.

p9
>But it's fine now.
>I'm no longer your apprentice.
>I can't tell you what to do.

>Now we have nothing
>tying each other down.

>I better get going.
>Take care.

p10
>Fu...
>Fufu...

>I'm so pathetic... I'm useless... Completely useless...
>Everything that I shouldn't have done, I did to that girl...

>I'm completely useless...
>without her around...