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- Chapter 22: Agott screaming in fear as the Brimhat witch carves into her arm. She remembers the words of the Magic Security Council members who checked Coco's hands after the sand river incident — that Brimhat witches will carve glyphs into their skin like tattoos — and realizes what the Brimhat is trying to do. Even if she's an unwilling victim, to have a magic glyph carved into her skin would be a terrible crime that could be punished by having her memory erased... or worse. Watching her struggle and scream while being unable to escape from the Brimhat's grip is terrifying, her fear even worse than the pain.
- Chapter 23: Eunie being forcibly transformed into a wolf. Everything that Agott was afraid would happen to her if the Brimhat witch had held onto her for just a bit longer happens to poor Eunie, who was just starting to feel confident in his magic. The transformation looks physically painful, and readers later learn that it also meddled with Eunie's mind.
- Chapter 36:
- As an adolescent, Qifrey was kidnapped by Brimhat Witches, had his right eye plucked out, had his memories erased, and was Buried Alive in the Forest of Death and Shadows. The coffin he was stuffed into started to leak, and when it rained he nearly drowned before being rescued by the Magical Security Council and Sage Beldarut.
- What's more, despite escaping the ordeal "without a hint of forbidden magic" on his body, the magical world was more than willing to wipe his memories again and leave the injured, amnesiac child to fend for himself. It's only thanks to Beldarut's intervention that Qifrey was saved from that fate. Recall that in Chapter 11, the Magical Security Council was also ready to wipe Coco's memories when they found her at a site where forbidden magic had been cast to turn a rushing river into a trail of sand, despite there being no way for Coco to create a spell that powerful or advanced. The lengths the council is willing to go to start to paint a grim picture.
- Chapter 49: Lulucy and her fellow apprentice, Ellien, were left under the supervision of a Unknowing Nobleman by their mentor in order to complete their Practicum training outside of the assembly. The young women found themselves subjected to increasingly overt sexual harassment by the nobleman, and when Lulucy tried to defend Ellien with magic she was berated by their mentor. When she reached out for help to resolve the situation, her distress was dismissed as "overreacting." Years later she is still haunted by the time when she was totally unable to rely on the people who were supposed to protect her and punished for defending herself and her sister apprentice.Lulucy: It diminishes it. It wears away, crumbles, and breaks. My dignity as a person. My daily life that was supposed to be safe. And my trust in the witches that were supposed to protect me.
- Chapter 63:
- This chapter shows how god damned scary Engendill (former Sage of Friendship) can be when he wants to get what he wants: Manipulating the peeping tom from Chapter 49 to undergo forbidden body modification and tricking him to reach near the window where the curtain leeches are known to reside; knowing full-well that the leech's feeding habits will destabilize the peeping tom's blood, catalyzing it, and making him swell up like a giant pimple and exploding with the force of TNT (as can be seen on the image of this page). The sheer body horror displayed here is shocking and up in the same levels as Berserk; making Euinie's transformation look mundane and pedestrian in comparison. It really gives a hint on how fucked up body modifications was during the old times.
- The aforementioned curtain leech that drank the tainted blood of the peeping tom grows to a Godzilla-sized monstrosity. Imagine a giant mass of leeches the size of a skyscraper with hundreds of mouths the size of basketballs, all lined by rows and rows of teeth (like lampreys). It moves fast enough to strike down witches flying through the air and civilians running on the ground.
- As Engendill watches the curtain leech (now hopped up on magic steroids) effortlessly take down fully-grown dragons and rampage towards the city, globs of blood fall onto his hat and merge to form a wide brim: Engendill has been working with the Brim Hats. If one of the three ruling mages in the witches' government is part of the Brim Hats, who else might be compromised? How far might their conspiracy have spread? What could they have accomplished with Engendill's material support of their operations and political clout to cover their tracks?
