136 Episode 32: Witchs Demon Stone Discussion (2/2)

”If you have feet on the ground, you'll be fine.”

What kind of logic is that? I accidentally get zero sigh.

”... well, fine. Is Tilty a lightning attribute fitness?

”There's nothing you can't use.”

”... by the way, what are you best at?

”Darkness”

”... right”

”How did you convince me?

”Yes, sir. Priscilla, I'm sorry, but can you bring me Fenrill's demon stone?

”I'm in awe”

Priscilla entered the city hall in a courtesy and brought me Fenrill's demon stone.

I unseal the box that seals Fenrill's demon stone and give out Fenrill's demon stone. Tilty, peering into Fenrill's demonic stone, is turning an interesting gaze.

”Huh, this is Fenrill's demon stone, huh?

”Use physical enhancement, then let the magic flow and look. If you could use the lightning attribute, would you be aware of that? Because I think if it starts up well, the magic will reflux... and then I'll lend you a celestial, so release the magic.”

”Okay. Well, I'll give it a try.”

Tilty touched Fenrill's demon stone as he played his voice with pleasure. Tilty was touching the demon stone... but it doesn't look like a change has happened.

Failed to start? And looking at Tilty surprisingly, Tilty seemed to observe him quietly re-touching the Demon Stone several times.

”... How's it going?

”... right”

When I ask, they reply with the sky up there somewhere. Tilty, who had once let go of his hand or looked closer, was satisfied or stood up away from Fenrill's demon stone.

It doesn't look like Fenrill's demon stone has been activated. I mean, can't Fenrill's demon stone be activated by Tilty's magic?

”Master Anis, why don't you try?

”Yes? Me? I don't think I can start it, do I?

”If you do it normally. That's why I want you to see the magic of the dragon.”

”... why again?

I want to see how you react.

”... ok”

As Tilty prompts me, I concentrate my consciousness on the engraved mark as I touch Fenrill's demonic stone. Replace the magic of the engraved dragon that awakened with my magic as a calling water with my body, and attempt to flush it into the demonic stone of Fenrill.

Moment after moment, thunder poured out of Fenrill's demonic stone and my hand was bounced off. It's like when Charne activated it.

”Said.”

”... I knew it”

”I made you understand!?”

”I just expected it. Here, show me your hands. I'll fix you up.”

Tilty took my hand and used healing magic to heal it gently. Although it was not painful, the pain was completely removed.

”... that's unusual, I can't believe Tilty uses magic that easily”

”It's a necessary expense. And I found something interesting.”

”What did you find out?

I ask Tilty as I stand up. Tilty who stood up in the same way, but I guess Tilty is laughing even over the vale, it came through.

Because Tilty was shaking his shoulder. Tilty is inspired by curiosity when he's reacting. Not very nice.

- He's alive.

”What?”

This demon stone is alive.

Alive? A demon stone? I frowned unexpectedly at Tilty's words.

”Of course, it's dead as an organism. Yeah, well, it just means you're alive.”

”In other words?”

”This nucleus is still trying to live. It's a dormant state of affairs, so if you flush” adaptive magic, ”you'll wake up. To try to live, to try to live.”

”What do you mean...?

”This demonic stone is still alive as a nucleus, as it was when there was a body. I'm trying to misrepresent the bearer of adaptive magic, the body that created me, or anyone close to it, as the body.”

Tilty told me, and it was Al who I remembered unexpectedly. Al Kun took Raini's demonic stone and vampired it.

Sure, though Al felt like vampire power was biased against regenerative abilities then... what if that wasn't just unfamiliar, but the result of trying to survive the magical bearers that Demon Stone adapts to?

”The environment in which demonic stones are born in the first place is a weak and strong diet. Seek strength to the point where demon stones are born to survive. It's the instinct to live there. If you say that the original stone of the demon is a spirit, then the demon stone can be explained if you think that the spirit can wield the power that the creature with the demon stone has optimized to live.”

”... why did you let me shed my magic?

”The magic of dragons is the magic from which demon stones are derived. That doesn't mean you accept magic that might be repainted.”

After all, demon stones are incompatible with each other's magic powers, or you rebel even when you think about them because of how they are created.

”But I used the magic potion that I made by crushing and mixing all sorts of demonic stones, didn't I?

”Isn't that because you ingested it in the form of medicine? It must have taken in demonic stones as a result of a minimal competition for survival in the body. I wonder if the side effect of mood augmentation when using magic potion is the instinctive augmentation caused by the struggle for survival that has taken place in your body?

With his arms together and his fingers up, Tilty sets out his hypothesis.

”The demonic stone taken in the body is the power of those who instinctively take it in. But the nature of the demonic stones taken in doesn't always match the body. So a demon stone that doesn't fit loses its function as a demon stone when it is taken in by the holder of a magic stone that doesn't suit you. And then maybe it regresses or vanishes as a spirit before it degenerates? So the effect of the magic potion is not permanent, and the engraving mark that anchors the magic stone on the body must be the right answer for humans to deal with the magic stone.”

”... that magic between demon stones that are compatible with each other can be compatible?

”Yep. Isn't that why so many demons with demon stones are one kind of guy at a time? The more similar individuals are taken in, the more power they have as individuals. If you think about it, you'll be convinced that demons attack demons in some ways.”

Tilty's right, demons with demonic stones don't often have more than one of the same individuals. It is basically one species at a time, and that is why those who fought and won against Demon Stone Holding have used Demon Stone as a proof of their honor.

If the demon stone formed by survival instincts is an instinctive habit to gain further power, the ecology of demon stone is also satisfactory.

”So... a human being with the power to adapt is seen as a” new body ”to Demon Stone?

”Right. But the only way a demon stone is for demons, not for people to deal with. So the magic dyed by the Spirit is eaten up, and it's not easy to handle because it's not optimized for people to handle. Oh, really... it's just a curse!

It was well understood that Tilty's expression, hidden beneath the vale and should only be seen grudgingly, had turned into a trance.

And as if she were in love, she shouted softly with a voice that made her feel joyful.