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"That is something we will hopefully have answered today," Nanami replied.
"Huh?" Itadori muttered with a confused blink.
"I am going to use a form of structural analysis on your body to see if there's any source of magical energy, now if you would please lay your hand out Itadori," the blond explains as bluish-green lines covered his right hand.
Yuji blinked once more at the glowing lines crawling across Nanami's hand before shrugging and placing his palm flat on the table, fingers spread.
"This isn't going to hurt right?" he asked.
"No, it'll be quick and painless."
Nanami placed his glowing hand over Yuji's and closed his eyes.
Structural Analysis was, at its core a diagnostic tool.
It worked the way a doctor pressing a stethoscope to a chest worked by listening, mapping, and building a picture of what lay underneath the surface.
He had used the spell more than a hundred times on objects, on buildings, and occasionally on people when circumstances required it during his time as a former enforcer/hunter.
He knew what he expected to find.
No magic circuits.
The boy had already confirmed he hadn't known about the supernatural world until this morning.
Nanami's earlier attempt at hypnosis had found nothing resembling the standard circuit architecture that magi were commonly born with or developed through generations of selective breeding.
Whatever Itadori was, he certainly wasn't a magus in any conventional sense.
What he expected to find was perhaps some sort of alteration in his mind's pathway that could perhaps act like circuits and therefore could be a pair of mystic eyes that allow Itadori to manipulate and control blood.
True enough to his hypothesis Nanami did locate the pathway and was about to pull away when he suddenly stopped after getting feedback from the center of Itadori's body.
Because lying there was a vast core of magical energy.
Nanami couldn't believe it the boy possessed a magical core, if any other magus had discovered this they would surely strap him on a platter and start dissecting him apart until not even the bones remained.
He would definitely need to make some calls and find out more about the boy's family lineage.
The quality of mana that was being produced from the core was incredibly potent and dense.
The next thing Nanami did however was a rather poor choice of looking in deeper as he was hit with an unnatural amount of malevolent aura.
It's only thanks to experience that he doesn't gasp, but sweat does begin to fall from his forehead.
The aura shapes itself into a large creature with four arms, tattoo like markings were all over its body, it's mouth was spread into a wicked smile, and the left side of its face appeared more like a mask made of bones with an extra set of eyes.
In its eyes all Nanami could see was the intent to destroy, consume, and hunt down others.
He broke the connection without wasting another second and snapped his hand away from Yuji's palm.
The chair he was sitting on scraped against the floor as Nanami pushed back from the table, one hand coming up to his chest pounding from fear and anxiety.
He grounded himself by distracting his mind with the first few things he could see in his home.
The kitchen, his books, the clean floor, and the dining table.
He was still here in the present not anywhere else but in the now.
Slowly but surely the pounding in his chest along with his fear and anxiety.
"Nanamin?" he opened his eyes.
Yuji was watching him from across the table with his hand still flat on the surface and his brow furrowed and his expression one of worry.
"Are you okay?" Itadori asked, "you went really pale just now."
Nanami straightened his glasses.
He took one measured breath.
Then another.
"I'm fine," he managed to muster out.
Yuji's frown deepened "yeah that's what I said earlier but you didn't really look convinced by it either."
A fair point Nanami chose not to acknowledge it though.
He looked at the pink haired boy across the table and thought very carefully about what he had just seen hiding in the depths of his core.
'Just what exactly are you, Itadori Yuji?" Nanami thought to himself.
"Soo..did you find anything?" Yuji awkwardly questioned.
"I did," Nanami said.
"And Is it good or bad?" the boy nervously inquired.
"Well, the good news is that your potential as a magus is most definitely higher than most," Nanami said carefully, "you possess what is called a magical core. It's an extremely rare thing far rarer than magic circuits. Most magi spend generations of selective breeding trying to produce something half as potent in circuit quality. The other thing you have are a pair of mystic eyes which can allow some people to view and even possibly manipulate the world. However, that all depends on what kind of eyes you have."
Yuji blinked "oh..okay so what's the bad news?"
Nanami was silent for exactly three seconds.
"The bad news," he said, "is that if any magi where to find out you possess a magical core or mystic eyes, they would not leave you alive long enough to introduce themselves," Nanami finished gravely.
The room went quiet.
Yuji stared at him with both elbows on the table and his pen hovering over the notebook going completely unwritten in.
He was processing it all in.
"So basically," Yuji started slowly, "I'm walking around with somethings that makes every wizard in the world want to dissect me."
"Magi," Nanami corrected automatically "and yes that is an accurate summary."
"Alright cool," Yuji nonchalantly shrugged "is that why you looked like you were about to pass out a minute ago?" he asked.
Nanami shook his head "no that was a separate matter."
Yuji's eyes narrowed by a fraction he had, Nanami was noting with increasing frequency an inconvenient ability to identify when a sentence was technically true but practically evasive "separate how?"
"Separate in the sense that it concerns something I need to research further before discussing it with you," Nanami replied
"So, it's bad then."
"It's unknown."
"Alright fine," Yuji said, "so just to sum it all up I've got a magic core and magic eyes that make wizards want to take me apart. What does that actually mean for me practically? Like day to day?"
"It means," Nanami said, settling back into his chair and folding his hands on the table, "that your existence in the moonlit world needs to be managed with extraordinary discretion. The core itself isn't visible to most practitioners without direct and deliberate analysis of the kind I just performed. Casual observation won't reveal it. Your eyes on the other hand I suspect are able to be switched on and off, so I don't think you'll have to worry about that much."
"So as long as no one goes digging around inside me with spells, I'm fine then?"
"Broadly speaking yes."
"Okay then so what do I do about the core and eyes? Can I train it? Use it better? Or are they just sort of sitting there doing whatever they want?" Yuji rapidly questioned.
That was it wasn't it.
The question Nanami had been quietly dreading since the moment the structural analysis had returned its results, because the honest answer he could think was, 'I don't fully know yet.'
He personally had little to no experience when it came to the matter of someone having a magical core.
"You can indeed train and use them better of that, I am sure. I'll just need to surf through some of my family's old records on the subjects relating to your situation. From there I can begin formulating your practical lessons," Nanami explained while inwardly sighing.
'Unfortunately, this means I'll have to pull an all nighter,' he thought to himself.
"It's close to 7pm so I think it'd be best if you get some rest Itadori or if you'd prefer you can have some time with the TV just don't stay up past 10pm," Nanami said leaving the table and down the hall towards one of the rooms.
"7pm's definitely too early for me to go to sleep so I'll use the TV," Yuji answered closing his notebook.
Heading into the living room Yuji snatched the remote and plopped down on one of the couches before flicking the TV on to a random channel.
"Ooh they're playing Spiderman TAS tonight," he cheered.
-end of chapter six-
Alright guys so again nothing really exciting this chapter, next chapter we will finally see something good.
Unfortunately for our boi Yuji though...he's going to see some shi in his nightmares.
Stones and Postive Comments definitely help with my motivation.
Lastly I just want to say that I write fanfics because I like doing it. Not because I want to be a pro or earn monetary gain. Feedback is something that I do take and never delete but again please do keep in mind that I am just doing this for my own enjoyment and that I am not an expert pro.