134 Episode 30: Problems with Demon Stones (2/2)

”Dear Ilia!

”You say it's good to call it off... it won't heal, neither will Raini”

Ilia whispers in Raini's ear, where Ilia's arms draw Raini's hips as if they were snakes, clutched together and tangled away. Then Raini turns bright red on his face like it was caught on fire, but he becomes Ilaria if he has lost his power, but it remains.

Raini has an incredible look on her face and is making her mouth fill with tears. I kind of have empathy and pity for that figure, but I wouldn't dare touch him. Because I also know very well that being touched comes to my heart......!

”So... Raini had some errands...”

”Yes! Be sure! Leave someone like this alone for tea! Dear Anis!”

”Oh, terrible.”

Out of Ilia's arms, Raini starts preparing tea with a puffy rage. Ilia sat in a chair without looking bad. I sat down laughing bitterly to imitate Ilia.

”... so? What's wrong, it's rare to visit Raini first”

”Mmm. I had a little trouble researching demon stones. I just wanted to ask Raini for his opinion.”

”Is something wrong with your study of demon stones?

Raini asks just for his face as he prepares his tea.

”Kind of. I'll explain more when I'm ready for tea.”

”Okay.”

After waiting until Raini's tea was ready, I informed Raini and Ilia of the results of the demon stone activation experiment and what I found out in that experiment and the problems.

By the time I'm done talking, the tea I was drinking was gone, so Raini is brewing it back to me. Raini, who finished making tea, put his finger on his lips about his seat.

”As long as I can... I understand the story. You got such a problem when you tried to use Demon Stone...”

”Yeah. I'm saddened that this investigation into the Demon Stone wasn't enough. So I thought I'd start with Raini.”

”Really? I hope there's something I can do...”

”You can't start a demon stone unless it's magic that fits its attributes, and its compatible magic presupposes physical strengthening, right?... but what happens in Raini's case?

”Is that my case?

”Yes. I think Raini is conscious and able to use the power of the Demon Stone, but isn't it using physical enhancement?

Raini puts her finger on her lips with a troubled look on Ilia's point. After a long roar, Raini opens his mouth.

”If you ask me, it is, but in my case, the Demon Stone is already in my body, and the magic is optimized,”

”Magic is optimized?

”Yes. Uh, I'm talking about the spirits in my soul that resonate with the spirits around me that make me magical, but I think the spirits in me are probably already perverted.”

”... to the point of becoming”

Raini says with his hands on his chest. Lhumi says that the soul of this world is more or less inhabited by spirits. With exceptions like mine.

Raini also said he could use magic before he woke up a vampire. That means Raini should have had a spirit in his soul, too. Or it's possible that the spirits that lived there were degenerating with vampire demon stones, but that can't be verified anymore.

”Since vampires may be a special example, they may not be when asked if it's a story that can be applied to other demonic stones... but Master Anis's example is the same as mine in that sense, isn't it?

”Me?

”Yes. You said it would go well with the engraving marks made of dragon demon stone because you're under the curse to be a dragon, right? It's very similar to the state of my vampire's demon stone.”

”Well, that's right. But I'm a special example, too, because I seem to be a rare person told that my soul has no spirits in the first place.”

”... because the exceptions have been around too long before, it seems natural to me that you didn't think the Demon Stone was such a troublesome substitute”

Me and Raini accidentally looked at each other and laughed bitterly at Ilia's pointing out that she squealed softly.

If you do say so, I, Ufi and Raini can all be described as unusual. How dare you, well, impress me that all these anomalies have gathered in the outhouse.

”Let's get back to it. So Raini doesn't have the magic to be colorless?

”No, I don't think so. Maybe, because otherwise, the magic props won't work.”

”Yeah?”

”Demonic props use all kinds of spiritual stones, don't they? But for example, you think you can force yourself into the Spirit Stone of Fire, the Magic of Wind Attributes?

”... I don't know, I never tried it in the first place. What do you think of Ilaria?

”You wouldn't normally do that if you could, would you? I mean, if you're unconscious on a daily basis, isn't magic stained with any color, even if demonic stones exist in your body?

Although there are many different types of spiritual stones that are moving demonic props, I certainly wouldn't have thought of putting in the magic of different attributes, if you ask me. If you ask me if I need to, I don't need to. Although the interest itself.

Anyway, the colorless magic that is not dyeing magic beyond moving demonic props proves that it exists in Raini's body, which is a vampire. In fact, we have to experiment to see if this hypothesis is correct.

”So what stage do you think it will color, though we proceed to talk about it as having uncolored, colorless magic?

”... Wouldn't you like to use magic? I can't use magic unless I'm really aware of it. It's the same power of demon stones, the same power of engraving marks, right?

”... Indeed. I mean, magic doesn't stain certain colors if you're unconscious......? So if you become aware of the Demon Stone, you will be pulled by the Demon Stone's magic powers and you will not be able to control it well......?

Isn't Raini's hypothesis a pretty well-deserved opinion? The powers of magic and magic stones react to the will to use them. In other words, the colorless nature of magic is lost at a stage when you become aware of magic.

In the case of Demon Stones, because they have the power to try to pull this magic, even if they don't like consciousness, they turn to Demon Stones. When this happens, even the magic that tries to use magic may be pulled by demon stones.

If this hypothesis is correct, it is a very troublesome issue. Because we have to give up using magic as usual already in the phase of using demonic stones.

”... it might be a natural story if you say it again, it”

”Hmm? Why, Ilia?”

”The Demon Stone is a subspecies of the Spirit Stone, but the Demon Stone becomes the Demon Stone by preying on the Spirit, right? Our magic is due to the Spirit, so isn't it natural that if we try to use the Demon Stone, the Spirit's power will be preyed upon?

”... ahhh!? True!?”

I was stunned by Ilia's allegations. Yes, if you ask me! So the relationship between the magical power from which the Spirit comes and the power of the Demon Stone, which works by eating the Spirit, is dominant on the Demon Stone side!

Besides, this is the theory you put forward! Why don't you notice, me!?

”... that? Is this packed? No, it would be useful if I reopened it, but it would definitely disapprove the nobility, how the demon stone works.”

”Master Anisphere really likes to sell fights to the Spirit Faith...”

”I'm not selling because I want to!?”

I'm not a believer, but I'm not a disbeliever!? I'm quite grateful to the Spirit!?

Raini laughs vaguely as he deludes into such my clarification, and to Ilia, the beginning and end of laughing with his nose. Ugh, ugh! Oh, I hope not!