Poor Patches. And what makes it worst is that Hijiri is considered an old-timer and yet she's "getting with the ages" more than Patchy.

Don't worry, Patchie. Grimoires and tomes are a hundred times cooler and more wizard-appropriate than scrolls anyway!

Patch would probably have more use for the buff spells. Increased lung capacity and faster speech would probably be very useful.

Zaku_Zelo said:

Don't worry, Patchie. Grimoires and tomes are a hundred times cooler and more wizard-appropriate than scrolls anyway!

Very true.

A lot of people just prefer a physical copy

While Sorcerer's Sutra Scroll is indeed convenient you have to constantly rely on magic buffing your toughness, strength and stamina, so you can be easily defeated by surprise.
On the other hand, that one Grimmoire is no slouch either - can be used as training weigh, doubles as tough armor plate and more importanly, Patche invented own Book-Fu fighting style revolving around paper slab. And about last one: local witches for a long time ago learned that having backup physical weapon is mandatory in the Land of Fantasy, where everyone is fighting with magic bullets (i.e. said grimmoire, broom, high-explosive toys etc), so your reliance on pure buff one day may fail you spectacularly.

Just wait until she sees Hatate's smartphone and any kind of digital bookstore app/Project Gutenburg...

I wonder...if there pdf version of grimoires available?