Her Reason

Her Reason is a short story included in Epic of Evil: The Daughter of Evil Fanbook, released on August 25, 2012. The manga was illustrated by Ichika. It elaborates upon the origin of Gumillia's glasses and her reason for not wearing them in public until years later.

Plot Summary
After being pressed by Elluka, Gumillia relates that she has had a problem with her eyesight since her reincarnation. After discussing the extent of her vision, Elluka determines her eyesight is normal; the girl is instead used to her farther vision as a chipmunk, where she could see minute details at a great distance. In response to Gumillia's complaints, Elluka reluctantly conjures a pair of glasses to give her back her far-reaching eyesight. While Gumillia is taking in her surroundings, Elluka intuits that her animal form's field of vision was still wider but determines the glasses are good enough.

The sorceress suggests Gumillia use magic instead, as forcing her vision to widen with the glasses would make her feel dizzy. At that moment, Gumillia collapsed into Elluka's arms from straining her eyesight and Elluka removes the glasses. She then forbids Gumillia from wearing them except for when searching for the sins, claiming that there shouldn't be any trouble because her glasses gave away her secret. Elluka also forbids her from wearing them in front of her, believing that her apprentice wearing glasses will make her look unattractive.

Many years afterward, Yukina expresses surprise at Gumillia wearing glasses, unlike the last time they met. The child surmises that Gumillia's eyesight did not get poorer over time and that there must be another reason why she wears them. Despite Yukina's insistence to hear the story, Gumillia evades her questions and leaves. She remarks to herself that there shouldn't be any trouble because her glasses gave away her secret.

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Conceptualization and Origin

 * The manga explains the origin of Gumillia's glasses she wears in The Daughter of Evil: Praeludium of Red; Ichika was allowed to draw the manga with the motif of "reason" in mind.

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 * At the end of the short story, Ichika wrote a small excerpt thanking mothy for being the artist of the manga and was glad to have visualized the charm of Story of Evil through the nonsensical piece.

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