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章節 912: Chapter 912 Riveria’s Demonic Power part 2

"V-very wrong?" Riveria was surprised at Elaine's choice of words because she couldn't really see anything wrong with her conclusion.

"Yes." Elaine nodded with a serious expression, "Due to how things in your own world worked, you've misunderstood the beings called Devils."

Elaine asked Riveria to sit down before continuing, "I won't blame you, though. And I can somehow understand why Kisuke Urahara let you have this kind of mindset."

Riveria looked at her hand and let the foreign energy that was different from Magic Power flow through it, albeit, not doing anything nor being converted to something useful, "...Please tell me more.", she muttered full of confusion, along with the emergence of a crack in the trust she had given Kisuke.

"The Magic system of your world automatically grants the user the knowledge of how to use it without the need to understand the principle behind it. It's not wrong to think that this isn't your power since it could also be taken away from you just by resetting your 'Level'."

"On the other hand, Devil reincarnation has filled what's supposedly taken away from you and given you the ability to manifest Demonic Power, with Kisuke Urahara providing most of it. Indeed, if it was explained to you that way, it's still the same as before, which is technically true but also not the whole story, hence, a misunderstanding was born. Lady Riveria... What do you think a Devil is and what do you think about their Demonic Power?"

Riveria took a deep breath and set aside her thoughts for now, "Devils are offshoots of a part of the Biblical God and Demonic Power is the manifestation of their power that uses the power of imagination. It's an unreasonable power."

"I see..." Elaine muttered, "That description of Devils could have only come from high-ranking books that aren't available to most people. It seems that Kisuke Urahara didn't hold back. Although that only expanded your misunderstanding more."

"..." Riveria remained quiet as she clenched her fist, feeling betrayed.

"...Uhmmm... He probably has a good reason, Riveria-sama. Let's listen to Elaine for now. Although she's not good with social cues and interactions, her experience in Magic and anything related to it is far greater than mine." Le Fay tried to comfort Riveria, though at the price of attacking her maid.

"...Ehem..." Elaine frowned for a bit but didn't say anything against it since she knew of this shortcoming of hers, "To resolve this misunderstanding, you first need to take your mind away from the fact that Kisuke Urahara's Demonic Power is filling what's missing, to the fact that you're a real Devil."

"Demonic Power can only be wielded by Devils and even if you're a reincarnated one, there are no Devils without Demonic Power of their own. This means that you're generating your own Demonic Power as we speak. Because you've just reincarnated, it'll be slow at the start, but it should ramp up as time goes by."

"T-then, do you mean..." Elaine didn't have to finish what she had to say for Riveria to come to a correct conclusion.

Elaine nodded, "Yes. Sometime in the future, your dependence on Kisuke Urahara's Demonic Power will cease. So he's only filling up the gaps, for now."

"And now that we've established that your Demonic Power is your own, let's move to the next point. Why can't you use Demonic Power?"

"Because it's still not mine?"

"Incorrect." Elaine immediately shook her head, "Although you can't convert it into anything meaningful, you still can feel and manipulate it to some extent, can't you?"

Riveria confirmed Elaine's words.

"Then let's go back to our definition of a Devil, which isn't really written in any records of a Devil's library because it was such common sense that even children knew it and so it was deemed unnecessary."

"Devils are beings of desire and pride. They are prideful and thrive on desires. You are a Devil so you have to embrace these values to make full use of your abilities."

"...P-pride and desires?" Riveria was taken aback.

"That's right. As you are now, you don't embody these two. Due to your mindset of 'not owning' anything, you ended up going against the very thing that they embody. In hindsight, you're more suitable to be an Angel since you can convert that into 'faith'."

"...What should I do exactly?" Now that she'd taken a big step, she definitely didn't want to reincarnate into something else. Still, pride and desire, while the words themselves were easy to understand, she didn't have any inkling of how to embody them, 'Do I need to act like the Elves in my home forest for pride? What about desire? What do I want? And how come I don't remember all the Devils that I've met acting on it?'

"For pride, just be proud of yourself. That should be enough. As for the latter, I'm not a Devil so I don't exactly know what you need to know. If I were to guess, you'd have to find that yourself."

Riveria sighed, 'If that's really the case, then I really have to find it myself.' Unbeknownst to her, the mindset she had been keeping had already slightly changed.

"Then again, I said that I might have an idea as to why in the beginning."

Riveria straightened her back and listened closely.

Elaine smiled widely and said, "You can try doing the opposite~!"

"...Huh?"

But instead of answering Riveria's question, Elaine stood up from her seat and began cleaning up, "Let's stop for today. Lady Riveria, you'll probably confront Kisuke Urahara to get some answers to your questions."

"Wait!" Riveria also stood up but Elaine didn't bother entertaining her, "But I suggest you walk around and digest everything first before doing that. Lady Le Fay, please take her back to Kuoh Town."

Le Fay trusted Elaine's decision and grabbed Riveria's hand without any questions and began constructing her Teleportation Magic.

"Please wait! Give me another hint!" Riveria pleaded.

Seeing her reaction, Elaine couldn't help but somehow understand the actions that Kisuke had taken, "Lady Riveria... One of the most important assets of a Magician is his or her own confidence and thirst to achieve something impossible. Please don't forget that. Lady Le Fay, after you've dropped her off, please return immediately and if possible, contact the DxD. We've caught the movement of a Sacred Gear user and there's a possibility that it's on Longinus level."

Le Fay nodded in understanding and the two of them disappeared in a mote of light.

"I wonder if Sir Urahara knew this would happen? Then again, I wonder if I'd just blindly went along with this, would I have contributed to making Lady Riveria a doll that can only follow others and what's laid out in front of her?" With those fleeting thoughts of today's meeting, Elaine returned to fulfill her other obligations and prepare for the next lesson.


創作者的想法
Goyya Goyya

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AN: Riveria, in this case, should be at a university student level where she could be left alone. But because of her inferiority complex she’d developed due to discovering that her Level was essentially borrowed and that her knowledge of Magic was nothing in the DxD world, she ended up having the mindset of an elementary or middle school student.

Editors:

28th00: Ah, Erofu. FOLLOW YOUR DESIRES RIVERIA-CHAN! 

章節 913: Chapter 913 The Elf’s ‘Regression’

After teleporting to an indiscrete corner in Kuoh Town, Le Fay followed Elaine's instructions of leaving her alone for now, but not until after giving her a guidebook and making proper arrangements for her accommodations that could last her for months if she wanted to.

"Riveria-sama, it'll probably be after you learn how to use your Demonic Power before Elaine moves on to the formal lessons. I wish you good luck."

After Elaine's words, Le Fay already has an inkling of what Elaine and Kisuke were trying to do as she also went through something similar long ago. Though as a child, she was able to get through this phase quite easily.

Riveria thanked Le Fay for her time and asked her to give her regards to Elaine before she disappeared within the light of the Teleportation Magic. Now that she was alone in the quiet corner of the town that was full of greenery, she was able to calm her mind and took a deep breath, 'Do they really have to be so mysterious about this?'

As she took her step forward, the light between the leaves of the trees hit her face, 'Pride and desire... Pride is... thinking that you yourself are great, isn't it? Desire... What do I want exactly? Suddenly being asked that question, I won't be able to answer it easily.'

The cheerful chirps of the birds entered her ears signifying that she was pretty far away from the hustle and bustle of the town. It was then that she recalled her Familia. Being alone in this foreign world for the first time and not being busy burying herself among the books, she realized how much she missed the companions that accompanied her throughout life and death situations.

Riveria thought that she'd be immune to such a thing, but it turned out that she wasn't very different from others that would feel insecure when thrust into an unknown situation alone.

Riveria lifted the guidebook with a map sandwiched between the pages. She looked at it for a few seconds before clenching her fist and keeping it within her bag with Space Magic cast on it before turning around and walking deeper into the forest, and she wouldn't come out of it even after a week of staying in it.

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On the morning of the 8th day of staying within the forest undisturbed, Riveria was living relatively well since she was given a full set of camping materials and food in her bag. Leaving her tent, Riveria met the first light of the day and stretched out while conjuring water through simple Magic to wash her face, 'Looks like the weather will be good today.' she thought while wiping her face.

Compared to the first time she came to become a hermit, Riveria had calmed down a lot and was able to rearrange her thoughts properly, 'I'm glad that I secluded myself. Though I still can't use my Demonic Power at its full capacity.'

She'd always ask herself if she had really become a Devil and would always get her answer by taking out and flapping her pair of Devil wings along with the night vision in the darkness. She was already capable of using her Demonic Power but was focusing on the fact that it could be used through the power of imagination. Without thinking of the process, she was able to move wind, combust matter, gather wind, and lift the earth, but beyond that and anything more complex would make her Demonic Power retract. So to a large degree, she's still failing.

Riveria was about to prepare her breakfast and continue her routine when a ringing sound suddenly came from her tent and she looked towards it. She didn't have to go inside to know what it was because, for the past four days, it'd ring about two to three times per day.

Riveria sighed and thought, 'I can't avoid him forever. The only thing I'm passing to him was the fact that I'm acting like a sulking child... Though I'm not really at fault, am I? I still think it would have been better to hear it from him directly so that I wouldn't be forever dependent on him.'

After contemplating for a few seconds, Riveria set aside making breakfast for now and reentered her tent to pick up the card that was placed on the table beside her bed. She looked at it for a few more seconds before taking a deep breath and injecting her Magic Power into it.

[Hmmm? Riveria-san? You finally answered! Does that mean you forgive me now?] A holographic screen showing Kisuke's face emerged from the top of the card.

Kisuke's nonchalant and borderline flippant tone of voice immediately struck a nerve in Riveria's head and she was about to hang up.

[Wait, wait, wait! Don't hang up!]

Riveria decided to wait, "What is it, master? I'm still quite busy figuring out how these things work."

[You can actually make yourself busy in that forest? That's amazing.]

"If there's nothing else, I'll just hang up."

[...] However, Kisuke only silently stared at her with a small smile on his face.

"W-what?"

[Nothing, really. I'm just glad that you're doing alright. I was worried, you know?]

Riveria was stunned and wasn't able to speak for a moment as the string in heart was struck nicely. She immediately noticed her strange silence and cleared her throat, "If you were worried, then at least apologize. I trusted you, but I'm now very confused with everything and started questioning why I'm even here."

Despite that recovery, her wiggling and red ears betrayed her and revealed what she's feeling right now.

[...Too easy...] Kisuke muttered under his breath.

"What was that!?"

[I mean too cute!]

"Wha!?" Riveria's face heated up, "Stop messing with me! I'm fine so I'm hanging up!"

But before she could do so, Kisuke, with a serious tone, said, [I did betray your trust, but I won't apologize.]

Riveria clenched her teeth, "You won't apologize because you know you're right? Is that it?" She couldn't really handle this rollercoaster of emotions that Kisuke was subjecting her to.

[I wouldn't say that I know I'm right because I always make mistakes too. I don't think of myself that highly. I just think that it's good for you and my opinion of that hasn't changed. Hence, I won't apologize.]

"...Why? Is it fun playing with me?" But then, Riveria immediately realized how wrong her words was and saw Kisuke sighed with disappointment, "N-no!"

[It's fine. Because from the outside perspective, I'm really just playing with your emotions.]

"Stop!" Riveria raised her voice, "Please stop! Please don't say that... I apologize... I didn't mean it…"

'While you like messing around with people's heads, you're not the type of person who'd betray the feelings of someone you care about just for some amusement!' Is what she wanted to say but she had to swallow it because she was afraid. She's afraid that she didn't qualify for the condition of 'someone he cares about'.

'What's this? Why does this hurt? I have to calm down...' Riveria took a deep breath in an attempt to reign in her feelings.

But Kisuke only panicked when he saw some tears were about to fall from the corners of her eyes, [Hold on... Riveria-san... Are you okay?]

"Ahm fyne!" Riveria inevitably sniffled while giving out a reply, 'What's going on!? Why can't I stop myself!? This is embarrassing!'


創作者的想法
Goyya Goyya

Editors:

28th00: It’s… 700 chapters late(?), but we have achieved EAR WAGGLES! She’s learning that Devils are very emotional beings, huh? The fact that she feels like a maiden in love that got spurned, but knows it’s not true, really doesn’t help either, though.

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