Once Upon the Midlife Crisis

My parents were Mages: the first time I heard about the possibility and turned for the consideration. Flabbergasted and dumbfounded, all the other words in the thesaurus, of course I could use them all to prove the point─but doesn't constitute in stopping my nerves and blood vessels succumbing to a mix and mismatch of emotions.

Suddenly, I found myself riding a roller coaster.

"I think I'll go home…" I said.

However, Higanbana ceased my moment. "Why not eat dinner with us?" he extended the invitation, which I accepted without prior eagerness.

Every day from then on, I'd always think of apologizing to Miss Akutagawa for making the dinner table gloomy that time. She served delicious curry, but it didn't stop my mind from circumventing the frontiers of my identity─regarding each and every aspect of my childhood if connected to being a Mage.

How was it even possible that they didn't point it out when I was in Nichiyoubi?