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Well we got a quick answer on the bottle question. I thought that was an interesting concept of two bottles with a shared single content. I particularly liked the idea that there is a hidden small magic circle on the bottle that makes the magic work.
It’s amazing how much a magic utility belt can cheer up a young lady!
Can’t help but feel bad for Tatta-kun. No place for a wizard with poor eyesight in this world. The fictional name for his condition is interesting - silver foil disease.
Qifrey making good use of his cape this week. Lots of swishing and swirling action! Especially on p57.
p.43: I couldn’t find 見事なまでに in my dictionary, I found an explanation here: grammar - 見事なまでに what does it mean? - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
p.44: 摑んだ is the 旧字体 form of 掴む, itself not a jouyou kanji (albeit fairly common). The author felt fancy.
Took me forever to get past the first page, didn’t know the reading ぼくfor 墨 and was overthinking that it might mean something else 
Then I got really confused because somehow I managed to go from page 50 to page 102 so the story didn’t make much sense anymore, just assumed that the author was being very creative about not resolving things 
And I hadn’t caught that either haha, so thanks for commenting!
Having a great day today!
Yoooo we’ve seen hints of “Dark K-dog” before but he really stepped over a line this time.
Really love that the chapter preceding this one had him scolding the kids on how important memory was to a person— and then he did that to Norunoa!
I’m not sure I follow. What did he do to Norunoa?
K erased his memory of what had just happened with the ink.
Norunoa is confused by Taata’s question on the last page and the panels are both drawn in a way to indicate something is wrong. K’s scene with him also ended on an ominous disagreement. I guess I assumed everyone would come to the same conclusion (my bad 
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I don’t understand the “twin bottle” thing, what exactly is duplicated and why? Didn’t the brim hat just change the contents?
Is K-dog saying that a magic circle was written on a glass fragment and submerged? But what does it do exactly?
EDIT: oh it’s like a portal between the bottles? He can fill it remotely?
Two bottles one content, got it.
you guys are really taking me out with the accepted use of “K-dog” 
it makes me laugh quite literally every time i see it. “dark K-dog” lmaoooo
Yay this one I did understand!
Ah, that’s interesting. I had interpreted that last differently. Norunoa has wanted to report the ink to the authorities, but Qifrey didn’t want to.
I thought Norunoa was pretending like nothing had happened with the intention of not incriminating himself in the future (for failing to report forbidden magic).
Qifrey wiping his memory is a much darker interpretation but reading it again I agree this is probably what happened. He certainly has a very dark look on his face as he apologises to Norunoa.
I must say, I do like a story where there are not simply good characters and bad characters, but much more complex characters who are a mixture of good and bad.
I think it would be weird to deny that the flash happened instead of coming up with a plausible excuse if that were the case. I think he got men-in-blacked.
That’s what it looked like to me at the end of the last chapter, when he dripped blood into the connected bottle.
Yeah it makes sense now, took me a while to connect the dots. I was dead set on my idea that he had just changed the contents of the bottle while coco was unconscious.
Super interesting chapter! K-dog is so complicated, I like how he goes from Dark K-dog to Sugar-Sparkles K-dog in under five pages. It’s like, a little creepy but still you want to love him…
I just realized that coko could easily have killed herself with her Nitro Ink™. Imagine her trying to cook another baked potato only to have Fat Man blow up in the kitchen…
Hmm, when he spoke about memory wiping before, my impression was they normally wipe an entire memory, or is it just their knowledge of specific events?
Yes I think the tool the magic police can remove all memory of the magical world, though Koko was afraid of forgetting her mom so maybe they would have removed her from her memory too? Maybe because she was involved with magic in the end.
They don’t show how Qifrey does it but pretty sure he managed to remove only the recent events with the big light from Mister Ns memory
I don’t think she would have forgotten about her mum as a whole, just how she ended up getting stoned and the picture book etc… That would mean that she would have no hope of ever fixing it.
If we assume that he did indeed erase part of Norunoa’s memory, this would mean that he is able to do this without a magic tool unlike the magic police, unless he has something like that and carries it around with him at all times which would seem odd. Since I can’t imagine that memory wipe magic is taught as a standard curriculum, being forbidden magic and all, this would imply to me that his past relationship with the “brim hats” which was hinted at in the past is really close, maybe he even was an (unwitting) disciple 
