What exactly is a good luck charm?

"With this, I can finally be in a mutual relationship with K-kun!
Let's do it soon!"

T-chan said to me happily.

"Huh?" "Do what?"

"A good luck charm to be in a mutual relationship with the person you like!"

If you write the name of the person you like on an eraser and use it up completely without anyone else touching it, you will be in a mutual relationship.
That kind of good luck charm was popular at the time.

I think that was probably around the time I firstheardthe word "good luck charm".
Even now, I remember the excitement I felt when I first heard this
"good luck charm".

But looking back now, I feel that my excitement was
a little differentfrom everyone else's.

"Wait, wait, wait." What kind of magic is that? 🤣
Is there a god of erasers or something?
Will Angel-sama (a type of Kokkuri-san) grant it?
...No, isn't that a bit dangerous?

And besides, wouldn't a smaller eraser be more efficient?
If I just spent all day writing and erasing, wouldn't it come true right away?

Wait, would that be considered cheating?
Who decides what counts as cheating anyway?

Contrary to T-chan, who was excited, I was excited for a completely different reason.

I mean, isn't this mechanism incredibly interesting?

What if there were five girls in class who liked the same K-kun?
What would happen if they all did the charm?
Thinking about it normally, it seems like the person who uses up their eraser first would be the one to get into a mutual relationship, but...

If K-kun already had someone he liked, would those feelings
be overwritten?
That would be a real nuisance for K-kun, wouldn't it? 🤣

Huh?
Then what if I tried participating too?
Would I suddenly start liking K-kun for real?
No, would K-kun start liking me?

Being liked by a handsome guy wouldn't be bad.
...And so, I continued to daydream with a smirk.

No, wait.
Is there no price to pay?
Don't bad things happen in exchange for wishes coming true in these kinds of things?

Like losing your life...
No, that's just reading too much manga 🤣
But as a child, I had seriously started thinking about things like that.

And then, I suddenly realized.
Why is this charmlimited to romance?

Is health not okay?
What about money?
Can't it be used for bigger wishes?

I was always thinking about things like that.
Thinking about it now, I've always been interested in making wishes come true.

…No, that's not quite it.
Actually, “Why does it come true?”
I couldn't help but be curious about that instead.

Yet, I hated studying.
My grades were terrible, too.
And yet, I couldn't just leave mysteries like this alone.

Then time passed, and as an adult, I encountered
“the Law of Attraction.” I became more obsessed with it than any good luck charm from back then.

But looking back, it’s strange.
Even though the things I’m interested in have changed,
what I’m thinking about in my head
hasn't changed one bit since I was a child.

What hasn't changed, then or now, is that while I’m willing to believe in mysterious events just as they are,

“Why does that happen?”
“What kind of mechanism makes it happen?”
I end up wanting to know those things.

And in my case, my wishes come true strangely more easily
when I approach them after understanding a mechanism that I can personally accept.

Of course, there are still things I can't fully explain.
But the events I used to think were “magic” back then
are starting to connect into a single line
for me little by little now.

Where did my current “Why?”
begin?
When I thought about that, the first thing that came to mind
was this “good luck charm.”

Honestly, it’s just a story like that, though🤣
Even though there must have been many other good luck charms,
strangely, this is the only story I still remember vividly.

What kind of “good luck charm” did you know
when you were a child?

“This was popular!”
“I actually tried this!”
If you have any nostalgic stories like that, please let me know😊