Chapter 346 309 – Flustered Haruno
[Ding! Randomly Plundered Trait: Toxic Black Mist (Blue)]
[Toxic Black Mist (Blue): You can release black mist lethal enough to kill people.]
"Not a very useful skill. Classic trash-clearer."
Takumi gave it a quick glance, fused it, and didn't think much of it after that.
As for the cell spores he had released, after the flames devoured the Flatwoods Monster, they still hadn't extracted anything worthwhile.
That thing had simply been too weak. At best, it counted as ordinary feed.
With the Flatwoods Monster's death, the domain it had deployed vanished as well.
What replaced it was a street that had already been reduced to rubble.
At that moment, the only thing left intact within a hundred-meter radius was the area around the house Yukino was renting.
Faced with that scene, Haruno and Shizuka were both still mentally frozen.
So much had happened in less than a few minutes that their worldview had already been smashed to pieces.
Takumi, however, merely pressed his hand downward calmly.
"Restore."
This time, he changed the target of the restoration reset to the entire city block.
In the next instant, everything flowed backward as if time itself had reversed, and the whole area returned to normal.
Feeling the barely noticeable amount of magic power he had spent, Takumi nodded in satisfaction.
His development of the Power of Restoration was gradually expanding from individuals to the outside world itself.
Even without borrowing a Philosopher's Stone, if he really wanted to, he could now temporarily reset the world itself.
But in the end, the Redo of Healer world and his main world were different.
His main world was far too large, and it involved far too many powerful beings.
Resetting things on the level of an actual timeline was still far beyond easy for him.
"But resetting dead matter like this is already effortless for me now. If I applied this in combat, could I make an enemy's attack flow backward onto them?"
Takumi couldn't help thinking of Josuke Higashikata's Stand, Crazy Diamond.
There was one especially tricky thing about its restoration ability.
It could destroy separate objects, then mash and reconstruct them together into something new.
"I can develop my own ability in that direction too. If I make proper use of that trait..."
Takumi could already imagine the possible applications.
Shatter an enemy's body, then helpfully reconstruct it while mixing in his own magic power or some foreign substance.
That would contaminate their body, maybe even alter its nature entirely.
If he used something like that on a god, it would be fatal.
So long as any one of a god's divinity, divine power, or divine body was contaminated, their power would plummet at terrifying speed.
And if he wanted to get truly nasty with it, there was always the Crazy Diamond beats you into a toilet route.
If he could develop a trick like that, the only words to describe what his enemies would go through were pure, unbearable agony.
"Hehehe~~"
Takumi let out a sinister little laugh, then quickly suppressed it.
The former application had far greater development value. The latter was mostly useful for making people suffer.
But those were problems for later. He had all the time in the world to work on them.
Right now, he still had to deal with Haruno and Shizuka.
After returning to the front of the house, Takumi smiled at both women.
Their hearts skipped a beat, and each of them forced out a stiff little smile.
Haruno's gaze was unbelievably complicated. She opened her mouth, then closed it again, unable to figure out what she even wanted to say.
Shizuka, meanwhile, thought for a moment before speaking first.
"Can we sit down and talk properly?"
"Of course, Shizu-sensei~"
Takumi raised a brow and smoothly picked back up on his earlier invitation.
The two women followed him inside, both much more restrained than before, their expressions tinged with open awe now.
"Don't be nervous, Haruno-san, Shizu-sensei. I may have a few tricks, but I'm really more of a peace-loving person."
Takumi sat down on the sofa like he was the owner of the house and cheerfully gestured for them to sit.
Haruno's mood right now was incredibly strange.
She had originally come here to check on her sister, then it had turned into walking in on what felt like a scene of cheating.
And now, somehow, she had become a guest in the house.
The moment she stepped inside, she first smelled air freshener, and after that, a thick, unmistakable scent of sex hormones.
Her body gave a slight tremble, and she turned toward Takumi with embarrassed irritation.
[Did he leave that here on purpose for me to smell?]
Takumi simply pretended not to notice, still smiling.
[Yeah, I did. What are you going to do about it?]
Neither of them said a word, but with a single exchange of looks, both instantly understood the other's thoughts.
Only Shizuka, seated beside them, didn't react much to that at all. She was basically just here to watch the show.
The only thing Shizuka was truly curious about were that monster from earlier... and the secrets surrounding Takumi.
Itching with curiosity, she was the first to speak.
"Takumi, you've messed with me plenty already. Can you finally tell your teacher what all that stuff earlier was?"
"Shizu cutie~ you're making this hard for me!"
Takumi leaned back, his tone instantly shifting.
"..."
Watching Takumi switch gears without even a frame of warning, Shizuka shot him a resentful look.
She could tell what he wanted: some kind of benefit.
But what exactly could she even give him?
Money?
Shizuka didn't think Takumi lacked money.
And other than that, she...
At that thought, Shizuka's face abruptly flushed red.
Thinking back to all the teasing things Takumi had said to her before, ripples immediately spread through her heart.
Could it be... Takumi wanted to be one of those shameless students who went after their teacher?
That kind of thing... wasn't exactly appropriate, was it?
Shizuka instantly spiraled into conflicted silence, her expression shifting over and over.
Completely unaware that her thoughts had gone careening off in that direction, Takumi tossed out two Divine Envoy Pieces and pulled out his phone.
"I'm not asking for much. Just fuse with one of these pieces and join a group chat."
"Fusing the piece is easy. Just hold it in your hand."
"And that group was made by me. Your sister's in it too, Haruno~"
Takumi warmly beckoned the two women over and laid out his terms.
Haruno and Shizuka exchanged a look, their eyes flickering for several seconds.
After hesitating for a moment, Shizuka was the first to pick up a Divine Envoy Piece. Haruno followed right after her.
Neither of them was stupid. They both understood that this was basically a loyalty pledge.
At the same time, they both knew they didn't really have a choice.
After learning so much, there was no way they were just going to stroll out of here carefree.
Shizuka acted so decisively because she didn't believe Takumi would harm her.
Haruno, on the other hand, had weighed the situation carefully and realized her only option was to trust him.
As the two women fused with the Divine Envoy Pieces, pink heart-shaped collars briefly appeared around their snowy necks.
Both women saw it happen, but before either of them could cry out, the collars faded into faint markings.
Unless someone got right up close and looked carefully, the traces of those heart collars would be impossible to spot.
After they fused with the Divine Envoy Pieces, streams of information flooded into their minds, helping them understand what had just happened.
Taking advantage of that moment, Takumi checked their status panels.
[Name: Haruno Yukinoshita]
[Class: Divine Envoy Snow Woman]
[Level: 1 (Upper)]
[Traits: Divine Envoy (Purple)... Snow Woman Bloodline (Purple), Prestigious Family (Blue), Genius Learner (Blue), Favored by Fortune (Green)...]
[Name: Shizuka Hiratsuka]
[Class: Divine Envoy Teacher]
[Level: 1 (Upper)]
[Traits: Divine Envoy (Purple)... Martial Arts Mastery (Blue), Favored by Fortune (Blue), Educator (Green)...]
As Takumi read through their panels, a biting cold burst from Haruno's body, while sharp fighting spirit surged up around Shizuka.
"Settle."
With nothing more than a thought, Takumi used his authority as their master to effortlessly help both women suppress their suddenly swelling power.
And at that moment, both Haruno and Shizuka were still completely lost in the shock the Divine Envoy Pieces had brought them.
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