Chapter 431 (1/2)
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Tokisaki Kurumi is so happy she could go mad.
Every spirit comes equipped with an astral dress and an angel that corresponds to their ident.i.ty. Tohka's purple astral dress is the Spirit Dress of G.o.d's Authority, number 10. Her Angel is her large sword named Sandalphon. Meanwhile, Tokisaki Kurumi's astral dress is the Spirit Dress of G.o.d's Authority, number 3. Her angel's name is Zaphkiel.
Zaphkiel is essentially a large clock, the musket gun would represent the minute hand of the clock while the flintlock is the hour hand. Zaphkiel possesses the ability to infuse the power of time into bullets which Tokisaki Kurumi fires with a different effect depending on the type of bullets.
She's a spirit of time with the ability to manipulate time.
It's a very powerful ability for sure, in a way, she's stronger than Accelerator who has control over vector quant.i.ties. However, because the angel is so strong, the cost of using her power is great as well.
To manipulate time Tokisaki Kurumi must pay with time either from her own, spirit power or time from someone else. In order to protect herself from dying to Zaphkiel's effect, she would consume other people's time to subst.i.tute for her own. Anyone in her City of Devouring Time is going to have their time taken away and stored by Kurumi until she wants to use it.
Each of the hour on the clock designates a specific ability, the different abilities cost different amount of time. The 12th bullet consumes the most time and a single bullet requires all of a spirit's power so Kurumi hadn't fired one of these bullets yet.
Her objective at the moment is to gather more time and use the 12th bullet to go back in time to 30 years ago in order to kill the first spirit. By doing this, she hopes to make it so that there are no spirits on this world. Spirits won't be hunted down and humans won't be harmed by s.p.a.cequakes, this is a lonesome goal for her.
But, to fire the twelth bullet requires immense sacrifice to the tune of a spirit's life, if she used it like this she would only go back in time and die immediately or be rendered so helpless that she can't finish her goal. In the original work, Kurumi wanted to eat s.h.i.+do because he had the power of 3 spirits sealed within him.
However, the s.h.i.+do in the original work is not in here. Wu Yan is dubbed s.h.i.+do by Kotori while the original main character had her gender transformed into female, namely, Itsuka s.h.i.+ori.
s.h.i.+ori has the power to contain the power of spirits but she didn't have any spiritual power sealed within her due to Wu Yan and Ratatoskr's intervention.
Without being able to boost her time storage by consuming s.h.i.+do, Kurumi can only rely on slowly consuming human lives until she can fire her twelfth bullet. At least, that was her plan until now…
She saw Wu Yan's power. Her ability to consume other people's time in order to pay for her own Angel's ability necessitates that she be able to measure other people's time.
She's in a frenzy because she can feel that this man before her is a man of literally unlimited time. She went after him like a mad piranha, she didn't even waste more time in talking.
Infinite time, that is to say this guy is immortal.
Even if humanity goes to h.e.l.l, this man will be around. Even when all life on earth goes extinct, this guy will probably be kicking a stone somewhere. He has all the time in the world and then some.