142 Is There a Bug in the System!? (1/2)

After a long period of time.

Seiji finally left Shika’s room and told her to take a good rest.

His current mood was a joyous one.

It was almost as if he had succeeded in a love confession.

No, no, they just promised to be good friends… no wait, to treat each other as brother and sister, the pure kind of relationship!

…Really?

Really! Shika was only a second-year middle school student! Even if… even if their relationship became even deeper in the future, it definitely wouldn’t happen now!

Seiji suddenly came to his senses as he commented on himself.

He forcefully suppressed the emotions in his chest by reciting the numbers of pi again.

‘Yep, okay, I’ve regained my composure.’

Seiji had a fresh and bright expression on his face as he returned to the main hall.

He poured himself a cup of tea and sipped it slowly as he opened up his system.

In his personal statistics, he saw the new stat of [Spiritual Power] just as his system had informed him.

[Spiritual Power: 0]

The system didn’t even leave a quirky comment next to it.

Even more unexpectedly, Seiji didn’t have any options to increase his [Spiritual Power]!

Seiji’s brows furrowed.

[Academics], [physical ability], and so on all had options to help Seiji increase his stats from the very beginning, but there was nothing for [Spiritual Power].

How was he supposed to increase it then?

It wasn’t really important that the system didn’t even comment on this stat, but what did it mean for it to be so different from his other stats? It seemed rather mysterious.

His biggest priority was to increase this [Spiritual Power] stat. If there was no way to increase it, then…

After remaining silent for a few moments, Seiji opened up his new [Spiritual Abilities] menu.

After opening it up, it was blank inside.

Blank… what the hell!!?

Seiji was in a state of shock now.

Hey, hey, system, just what do you mean by this?

‘Didn’t you just tell me something about [Spiritual Abilities] being able to grind for points and items as well??’

What was with all this blankness!? Was there a bug in the system!?

Of course, the system didn’t respond to anything that Seiji said or thought.

After finishing his stream of comments, Seiji opened up his [items] menu to check what he just received.

[Character reward card ”Shika Kagura”—from now on, I’ll always be with you.]

[This card will have an everlasting passive effect. This card cannot be used or disappear.]

[All basic stats increased by a bonus of 3 points.]

[30% increased resistance against ice-type spiritual magic attacks.]

[30% increased attack against ice-type spiritual magic defense.]

[??? (Prerequisite conditions not met. Currently inactive.)]

[Additional ability 1: ??? (Prerequisite conditions not met. Currently inactive.)]

[Additional ability 2: ??? (Prerequisite conditions not met. Currently inactive.)]

[Additional ability 3: Brother and Sister Drawing (Drawing prerequisite met.)]

[Drawing improvement ability: 65% increase in ability to draw brother or sister characters and improved visualization technique. Mana will be consumed while using this technique. ”The distance between a brother and a sister might be the closest or the furthest apart in the world.”]

[Additional ability 4: ??? (Prerequisite conditions not met. Currently inactive.)]

[Additional ability 5: ??? (Prerequisite conditions not met. Currently inactive.)]

[Additional ability 6: ??? (Prerequisite conditions not met. Currently inactive.)]

Seiji was speechless for a good long while.

He felt as if he had just received some godly equipment, but he was too low-level to equip it.

Just what the hell was all this!?

He didn’t even feel like imagining the system as a fairy and beating it up anymore. He merely felt drained of all energy.

Well, at the very least, there was still one more reward.

He inspected the [Spiritual Ability activation card] that he had received. It was called [Spiritual Ability—Spiritual Power Transference activation card]. It would activate the [Spiritual Power Transference] option.

That was all that the system told him.

This explanation… it wasn’t any type of explanation at all; it was just increasing the word count!