While bringing various food from England, Kuroka came back to where Medusa, Riveria, and Aika are, "Heya~ How are you all doing, nyaa~?"
Instead of just a singular tent, there was now a log cabin big enough to house a large family in the middle of the clearing. Thanks to Medusa learning the Kisuke-way, she now also knew how to build simple buildings overnight.
And although there were three people in this place, only Medusa came out to greet Kuroka, "Good morning. How are things going on that side?"
Kuroka stretched her arms up to loosen the tension on her back, "They're chasing down the Alphecca Tyrant user but I think it's a trap to gather everyone there. It shouldn't be long before things explode. Are you going to bring them over?"
Medusa nodded her head, "It's a good opportunity for them. Regardless of the result, I'll take responsibility."
"Don't single-handedly assume responsibility, nyaa~ I'm in this too."
Medusa chuckled and asked, "Oh? You want to get a scolding from him?"
Grinning, Kuroka replied, "Like you, I'm looking forward to it!"
Contrary to Kisuke's wishes of just letting Aika naturally recover, the two of them decided to just throw her at the site of conflict to hasten the process, of course, without saying anything to Kisuke. They came to this conclusion after watching Aika for the last two weeks and they thought that Kisuke was taking the wrong approach here.
Compared to him, who was buried in his work, Kuroka and Medusa could actually see Aika's decision and didn't think that it'd be good for her to stay this way. Not when she kept returning to this place at every opportunity she could get and would even lie about it to her parents.
"Where is she, anyway?" Kuroka asked while looking at the log cabin. Although she could feel Riveria's presence in her room, she couldn't tell where Aika was.
"She returned home yesterday. I think she decided to confront her parents about the course she wants to take.", replied Medusa while looking in the direction of Aika's place.
"Even though she hasn't remembered anything substantial?"
"Isn't this the main reason why we planned to take her there?"
"That's true, nya~" Kuroka chuckled, "What about Riveria? How has her ridiculousness evolved?"
Medusa hesitated for a moment before sighing and answering, "She's now able to imbue the petrification attribute into normal Mana Bullets."
Kuroka was just asking casually and didn't really expect to receive such a ridiculous answer, "S-seriously? She was able to copy your petrification and was even able to apply it into something else?"
Medusa nodded, "It wasn't as strong as mine and she can't really use it directly because she doesn't have my eyes."
"W-what if she could replicate your eyes too?"
"...I don't know if that's even possible." Medusa shook her head, "It wasn't just that. She's also able to replicate your Illusion Youjutsu. And as if that wasn't enough, she's also able to do something similar to Touki."
"Even Youjutsu!? With Demonic Power!? ...And do you mean the Touki Shirone and I use? Not the general one?"
"I don't think she has seen any other Touki users aside from you. On top of that-"
"There's more!?"
Medusa nodded once again, "It seems that she's also capable of replicating some Martial Arts. When we sparred in some close combat practice, I saw that she was slowly adapting my movements. As such, I speculate that her eyes... No... Her Demonic Ability is to see through the world's logic and use it for herself and even modify it to her liking."
The corner of Kuroka's lips twitched, "...What the heck? That's OP."
"It is. But it's not all sunshine and rainbows for her, since it's also accompanied by some pretty heavy restrictions. First is the energy consumption but that isn't really a problem once she expands her capacity or gets a battery as an artificial source.
"Second is that it seems to cause heavy strain on her mind. There was one time she got too excited and instantly lost consciousness while bleeding from her orifices." Medusa sighed yet again while holding her head when recalling that incident, "I panicked that day, you know? I thought of calling Kisuke, but I didn't think he'd be able to respond immediately considering where he is, so I instead called Sakura-san. Thankfully, it was only bad mental fatigue."
"Only? That's pretty bad though? Could have sent her into a coma, nyaa."
Ignoring Kuroka's comment, Medusa continued, "Third is that if she doesn't work hard and study, she won't be able to retain what she's 'learned'. The moment she 'sees' it, it'll only last a day or two in her head. The problem is, once she uses that ability of hers, she'll be able to 'capture' everything that's happening in her field of view, and if she focuses, she'll even be able to use her other senses for 'viewing'."
"Then isn't bringing her along to the upcoming battle be just going to be a detriment to her? If she's unlucky, she'll overload her mind again."
And as an extension to that, Riveria's bane would be large-scale battlefields where everything is happening at the same time. Medusa thought the same so she was now contemplating whether to bring Riveria or not. She's afraid that when she 'sees' thousands of spells being thrown everywhere, her head might actually explode... Literally.
"Shall we consult Kisuke about this, nyaa?"
Medusa looked at her before looking back at Riveria's window. A few moments later, she replied, "Let's make a call."
Half an hour later, Kisuke arrived at their place with a big smile, "So where's our OP Elf?!"
But Kuroka and Medusa couldn't answer his question and were instead staring blankly at his lower body, which wasn't there.
Kisuke, who was standing... or floating, asked them, "What?"
"Did you die?" Kuroka returned a question while pointing at his lower body that could be likened to a traditional pop culture ghost.
Editors:
28th00: Her level reset left her empty with an incredibly large amount of unused potential, and she awakened to her libido and mixed it with her lust for knowledge to gain a Super broken skill. She’s still a super squishy mage though, so the detriments are obvious, at least until she adjusts fully. Kisuke is messing around with his Gigai shenanigans again, isn’t he?
Goyya: Gigais have so much potential. Especially those made out of flesh and blood.
"This is a projection technique that I recently developed and haven't named yet," Kisuke answered while pointing at his nonexistent legs.
Kuroka and Medusa then approached him and began touching him, "How does this work? I know it's a Magic Power projection, but since you aren't dead and have a real body, you shouldn't be able to do this, right?" asked the latter curiously.
Before creating a body for her using her eyes that Kisuke confiscated from Cao Cao, the leader of the Hero Faction, Medusa had been projecting a shell made out of Magic Power to contain her soul and it was also the method her sisters use to come out of her. However, that would require not having a physical body, and even if she successfully projected one, there would be no soul to control it so it would disperse immediately.
Reaching that line of thinking, Medusa's eyes widened as she realized something, "...Did you take a part of your soul and inject it in here?"
"Correct~" Kisuke snapped his fingers, "As expected of the expert~!"
"What do you mean expert? If you could do this without any repercussions, I can only consider myself as an amateur."
Kisuke just chuckled and explained, "I indeed took a part of my soul and built a body around it. However, I can only control one body at a time for now, so my main body is currently unconscious. On top of that, I'm technically a normal person in this and if this is destroyed, I'll take damage that I wouldn't be able to laugh at."
"So we need to protect the fragile you! Got it, nyaa~! Leave it to me!" Kuroka declared as she continued to caress Kisuke's body trying to find something different from it.
"So... Where's my OP Queen?"
Kuroka stopped what she was doing and pouted, "Do you really have to phrase it that way?"
"It's true though?"
"If I knew you'd create your own peerage, I would have presented myself on a silver platter, nyaa."
"But none of you could actually convert to a Devil." Kisuke said as he saw Medusa start walking towards the cabin so he followed her while the sulking black cat was now hanging from his back quietly.
A minute later, the group arrived at Riveria's door but instead of knocking, Kisuke directly and rudely opened the door, "Where's my favorite Elf?!"
What greeted his crass behavior was a flying book to the face. Since even his senses and reactions were dulled, Kisuke couldn't dodge it and a loud smack was heard.
"!?" But instead of the victim, the assailant was the one surprised, "Why didn't you dodge that!?" Riveria, with obvious dark circles around her eyes, yelled.
The book dropped down and a clear mark was left on Kisuke's face, "I couldn't..."
Riveria was about to retort but decided against it when she saw the floating Kisuke and Kuroka, "You have another weird transformation..."
"It's not a transformation nor it is weird." Kisuke rubbed his face, "But let's set that aside for now. I don't have much time but I'd like to do my best until the conflict breaks out ."
"Conflict breaks out?" Riveria left her bed and started stacking the messy books.
"These two will explain it to you later. For now, tell me the whole story."
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It wasn't long before Kisuke got a grasp of the whole picture and like Kuroka, he also had a similar reaction, "What a ridiculous ability... When I said take everything, I didn't quite mean it that literally."
Riveria stared at him for a few moments before asking, "Then what did you mean?"
"..." Kisuke wanted to say that he meant she could shape her Demonic Power in any way she wanted and take on any ability, but he was afraid that he'd only confuse the Elf and just shook his head, "It's nothing. This is the path you've chosen to take and it's the correct one... No... You must make it the correct one regardless of what others say. Just remember that this is your own power and not something borrowed."
"Are you saying this now because you think I'd misunderstand it again?"
Kisuke nodded happily, "That's right~. You might not notice it yourself, but you do have some insecurities. Being insecure in your own power, that's not very Demonic, isn't it?"
"Don't worry about it. I already realized that the moment I opened these 'eyes'."
"That's good." Kisuke then floated up and kept his notes under his kosode, "I already got what I need for the Soul Gear that should be of help to you."
"Soul Gear?"
"You've seen it. Those strange weapons materialized out of nowhere. The most famous right now is the Red and White Dragons. Soul Gears are something similar to them."
A certain image emerged in Riveria's mind, "Ah... Those... I still can't believe something like that exists."
Instead of Teleportation Magic, Kisuke's body began to disperse and before he fully disintegrated, Kisuke reminded them, "By the way, don't reveal any of this as much as possible if you still want to enter these Magic Organizations. If you reveal your ability to them, most of them will bar your entry just because you might learn their Magic Technology with just a simple glance."
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Kisuke reopened his eyes and materialized the notes he'd taken while asking Riveria, Medusa, and Kuroka about the former's ability, 'It's already an unreasonable power even with its restrictions since it could also potentially copy unique powers that their original users don't fully understand... In that case, let's make it even more unreasonable so that everyone she faces will want to pull their hair out~!'
A grin emerged on Kisuke's face as he imagined the reaction people would have in the face of Riveria's fully developed ability, 'How fun~! For starters, a battery is needed. Second, memory storage where she could transfer that temporary knowledge and make it more permanent. The third is a limiter to decrease the scope of what she can see.'
Standing up from his seat, Kisuke went to the deeper part of his laboratory, 'Depending on how well she does, Riveria might be the first one who'll be able to create a library where all Magic exists.'
Editors:
28th00: Ah, that’s evil. I approve. Nobody will even want to fight her, or even be near her. She’s basically a memetic virus that STEALS their special abilities! Truly, a work of pure evil. Glad to see Kisuke is still a terrorist at heart! He sure is spreading that TERROR!
Goyya: And on a higher level, she wouldn’t even need her eyes to ‘see’. Though with various limitations.