[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

"That many years..." Nobuo leaned back, staring out into space in near disbelief. But then again, the coma might have had an effect on him as well, and the others acting strangely was probably all due to the time that had passed. It seemed more and more like a reasonable explanation the more he thought on it. He began to feel a bit more satisfied to know that there was a plausible explanation for everything, "I told Ken'ichi that I -didn't love that-.. But to think...he believes that Fumiko is his child now? I wonder what motives the spell caster would have to use that magic on Ken'ichi.. Doesn't taboo magic usually come with a penalty?"