Okay... and can he drain it from the potion into himself?

If he doesn't want the potion to work anymore.

He is perfectly fine with this outcome!

Shlorp.

This potion and all the other potions from the same batch are now nonfunctional and he has some mana!

...oh dear.

Erm. At least it was just a flavour enhancer. Still, he thinks he'll start looking into being a witch after lunch.

The cafeteria contains people! There's Kaylo over there.

Flop. "Hiya."

"Hi, what's up?"

"Turns out I can drain mana from potions! Bad news is if I do it from one potion I get it from the whole batch and it's no longer functional so I accidentally made a bunch of other people's flavour enhancer stop working."

"Oh. Well, some people will have disappointing lunches and you'll have to buy in bulk going forward I guess. You didn't see that coming?"

"Not really. And I was actually planning on learning whether I could become a witch and make my own potions."

"Probably. It doesn't rely on anything like a CC."

"I wonder what it does rely on, though."

"I haven't studied witchcraft in particular but lemme know what you find out."

"I will. And why haven't you?"

"It's not very interesting compared to other kinds of magic."

"Huh. If you say so."

"But I'm glad you can turn it into mana, that'll be very handy."

"Not to mention the fact that it will help with dysphoria."

"There's wizard spells for that, you know."

"Well, I'd have to go bother someone each time rather than doing it myself—which I guess might be worth it anyway, given how costless wizardry is."

"And you're in a wizard school so you wouldn't have to go to a pro and pay them."

"Yeah. ...I still wanna be a wizard, though."

"If I figure out how to do it I'll tell you."

"I'm thinking I could try looking at pregnancies and what-have-you to figure out when you get a CC, see if I can't replicate it."