Anyway, I'm sure I missed quite a lot, but still, I managed to read
the whole thing, understand what was going on, and enjoy the story.
It's about Akane, who lost her parents early on and was raised in
Matoba family. Basically, she grew up without any real support. You
must understand that the Matoba house is not a friendly place to grow
up in. The only person who was ever nice to her was the head of the
family, an old man, Matoba Mitsutoshi. But when she turned 16 (I
can't actually remember, but I know it was when she was 12th grader),
he kicked her out of the house.
About 10 years later, the old man died, but left something to her.
Apparently, in his will, he wrote that if she can find it, she can
have it. There are no other clues. So, Akane hires a magic user to
help her. Of course, that would be Yoyamada Masami and Kikuchi Yume.
All the time reading the manga and watching the anime, I never could
understand the title. This book changed all that. It's really about
what is important to magic users. Yume helps Akane find the item by
using magic, but is that what's important? Absolutely not! Finding
the item did not really help Akane in any way. It was the late
Mitsutoshi's real intention and feeling that Akane needed to find, and
that would not have been possible without Yume's magic. And it's not
about magic, but rather about what to use the magic for.
I think this story is wonderful. Non-chan (Studio Neko-Han-Ten) says
the second book is even better, so I've started on it, but as usual,
it will take some time to get through.
