Chapter 106 - 50x Gravity (1/2)
The first one who gave the endurance test was Nagisa. She went onto the platform sat cross-legged with her eyes closed. The device created a barrier around it and started the test as programmed. First, it was the test of physical endurance. As configured the gravity on her increase by 0.5 with each passing minute.
0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0!!!
That's where she gave up. So her physical endurance was noted as 2.5 of normal gravitational force. Now it was the time for mental endurance and the test that Ryan had been waiting for. The gravity on her came back to normal and gave her some time to catch up with her breath.
Just when she was getting ready for the second test the device caught her off guard and emitted the specially designed rays on her.
Thud!!
She became unconscious inside the device. Ryan got worried and was about to ask something when Mr. Robert intervened and said, ”She is alright. She is just facing an internal demon now.”
”Okay..... But,” Ryan was about to argue something when a sound came for the device. He turned around and found Nagisa was already out of the device.
”Ehhh…..?!! How is this possible? You defeated your internal demon that quick? Even then it was an artificial one, it should take some hour at the least to defeat it.”
”Hmm… Friend Ryan do you know who is the ancestor of the Hiragi Family?”
”No….. Who is it?”
”One of the Seven Sages who was an exorcist was the ancestor of our family.”
”Oh…..!!” exclaimed Ryan. But deep inside he got a heart attack. Finally, he got a hint about one of the Seven Sages. Now all he had to do was, to enter the Hiragi household and read the old records. But while he was rejoicing over it he membered something that was discussed in the class.
”Nagisa chan, if I remember correctly the Hiragi's have a martial arts background, right?!! Then how come you are saying, that they are from an onmyoji (exorcists) background now?”
Before Nagisa replies to his question Mr. Robert intervened and explained, that the ancestor of the Hiragi family was an onmyoji from the very beginning. But as the spell incarnation and chanting of onmyoji were quite long, he devised different ways of martial arts to weaken ghosts, demons and their kind. Later the second generation family head of the Hiragi family modified them and made them suitable to use on humans.
”Oho,” exclaimed Ryan and asked the question that was bugging him for a while. ”Then Nagisa chan, how did you subdue your internal demon?” asked Ryan with curiosity. Because in ancient times no spell, magic, or trick existed using which someone can subdue their internal demon.