"What a terrifying aura, I feel a power exceeding Durandal from that sword."
Xenovia's eyes widened, showing a surprised expression as if she had seen sothing terrifying.
As a natural Holy Sword User, her perception of Holy Swords and Demon Swords was superior to that of ordinary people. It was precisely because of this that she understood just how exaggerated the weapon Tatsuma was contracting was.
Xenovia said, "President, Asia. This distance might not be safe enough, let's retreat outside the Church first."
Asia asked, "Huh? What about Tatsuma?"
"Instead of worrying about him getting hurt, you should worry about whether you will be shaken to death by the aftershocks."
"I agree with that."
Rias echoed a sentence, then led Asia and Xenovia out of the underground space.
On the other side, Tatsuma still stood in place, ignoring the repulsive force and continuing to inject demonic power into the silver longsword.
The contract magic slowly ford, and Tatsuma's connection with the sword gradually strengthened.
But just then, a vast wave of ntal power ca from the sword. Tatsuma did not resist, splitting off a wisp of ntal power to rge with the other party and enter the interior of the sword.
The surrounding scenery changed, and the wisp of ntal power he had split off arrived in a pure white space.
Looking around, he looked at the girl with silver long hair, and blue pupils not far away. She stood in place, exuding a cold and lonely atmosphere, quietly observing Tatsuma.
The two sides looked at each other for several seconds, and finally, Tatsuma was the first to break the silence, stepping towards the other party.
"Aren't you going to introduce yourself?"
"...Est."
"My na is Tatsuma Nakamura. Est, why did you pull in?"
"I am a demonic sword, and the curses I devour will enter the host's body after exceeding the critical point. Signing a contract with will result in death."
Est raised her right hand, and a wisp of red thread appeared along her fingertip, connecting all the way to Tatsuma.
"For the sake of your life, please stop signing the contract. I don't want to take my master's life again."
Curse? Take the master's life?
Listening to Est's words, Tatsuma raised his eyebrows, a look of surprise in his eyes.
He naturally knew Est. However, in his impression, Est, as a clone, shouldn't know these things.
Could it be... the one standing here is not Est's clone, but the main body?
"Please interrupt the contract."
Seeing Tatsuma staring at her without speaking, Est was silent for a mont and repeated again.
"I don't want to take my master's life again."
"Relax a bit, Est."
Tatsuma temporarily stopped thinking and reached out to touch Est's head.
"Any curse is ineffective against ."
"Ineffective?"
"That's right, I am immune to all curses in this world. If you don't believe , you can try."
[Origin Fruit (Rainbow): Training effect 10000%, all stats greatly increased, ignores all curse effects.]
Glancing at the effect of Origin Fruit, Tatsuma showed a confident expression.
"Release the curse in your body, and let the results show everything."
"If I cannot withstand that curse, or show even the slightest hint of wavering, I will interrupt the contract and no longer bother you."
"...I understand."
Est hesitated for a mont, then nodded in agreent.
A solitary life wasn't what she wanted. After living with Areishia, she also yearned for a life with companionship.
If Tatsuma could truly withstand the curse...
Looking at the man in front of her, a ripple appeared in Est's sowhat cold blue pupils.
The resentnt of the beings she had slain, and the curses she had devoured, slowly erged. The two rged together, turning into black mist that flowed along the red thread, all the way into Tatsuma's body.
A hint of tension appeared on Est's face, her eyes fixed on Tatsuma's face, watching his reaction.
The two looked at each other.
After staring at each other for a few seconds, Tatsuma covered his mouth with his hand and yawned.
"Est, can you be a little faster? At this rate, it'll take you several days to clear out the curses in your body."
"...Please be careful."
Est understood what Tatsuma ant and increased the speed of the curse injection. The scale of the black mist slowly expanded, and after enveloping Est, it gradually spread in all directions.
The resentnt materialized and surged forward, the wailing of the dead echoing, like a human purgatory.
Looking at the terrifying scene around him, Tatsuma was as calm as ever, without the slightest panic.
Maintaining his senses, until he confird that Est was no longer releasing the curse, he opened his mouth and took a deep breath.
The black mist filling the sky was sucked into his abdon, and under the purification of Origin Fruit, it vanished.
The pure white ntal space reappeared, and Est's expression changed slightly, showing a hint of surprise.
"How is it? This should prove it, right?"
Tatsuma patted his stomach and let out a satisfied burp.
Demonic power surged, and the contract magic that had already reached its critical point began to take further shape.
This ti, Est did not resist anymore. The pure white ntal space slowly collapsed, and the part of Tatsuma's spirit he had separated returned to his main body.
In the struggle between him and Est, the underground area of the church collapsed as expected.
The ceiling was covered with rubble, and a circular shield ford around them, enveloping Tatsuma and Est.
In the pitch-black underground, a circular pattern appeared on the back of Tatsuma's hand, with a hexagram mark engraved inside. Tatsuma had seen a similar mark on Grayfia's hand, which represented the completion of the contract.
He retracted his aura and looked at the silver longsword still stuck in the ground in front of him.
"Est, switch to human form and move around. I don't need you under normal circumstances."
Buzz!
A faint white light appeared from the sword body, and Est appeared in human form in front of him.
Unlike what he had seen in the consciousness space, she was naked at the mont, with only a pair of thigh-high stockings on her legs.
Est grabbed Tatsuma's arms with both hands and said with a serious expression, "Tatsuma, this is a bad habit. Since we've signed a contract, you should summon in battle. I will help you."
Tatsuma said, "While I understand what you an, can you please not be naked when you say that?"
Est pointed at her thigh-high stockings and muttered, "I am wearing clothes."
"That's not called clothes. This is clothes."
Tatsuma took out a set of elentary school style uniform.
He had prepared this for Rias, who occasionally changed her physique to a loli form. At the mont, it was just right to give to Est to wear.
However, just as Tatsuma was about to hand the school uniform to Est, a bang sounded above his head. The church remains pressing down from above were blown away, and a beam of light fell through the gap.
At the edge of the gap, Xenovia poked her head out. "Tatsuma, now that the contract is complete, co out..."
Her voice ca to an abrupt halt.
Looking at Tatsuma holding the elentary school uniform and Est wearing only a pair of thigh-high stockings under the ruins, Xenovia retracted her head and rubbed her eyes, then poked her head out again for another look.
"President! Asia! It's terrible!"
"Tatsuma kidnapped a loli from sowhere!"
"Huh?!"
"A loli?"
Asia and Rias's voices sounded.
A few seconds later, the two, like Xenovia, poked their heads out from the edge.
Looking at the scene below, Asia was stunned in place like Xenovia.
Rias, on the other hand, remained calm and, after a mont of thought, asked, "Tatsuma, is she the spirit body of that sword just now?"
Tatsuma nodded slightly. "Yes, her na is Est."
He used magic to instantly change Est's clothes, and brought her back to the surface.
After they had each introduced themselves and gotten to know each other initially, Rias looked at Tatsuma.
"Are you going to stay in the Familiar Forest for a while longer?"
"Yes, there's still sothing I need to do."
Tatsuma's thoughts moved, and he opened his trait inventory.
Hueco Mundo, Familiar Forest, Gremory Main Estate Guard.
Working at the sa ti as Grayfia, after two days of high-intensity trait farming, he had many more traits in his inventory.
From research to combat, from body to soul, from elental control to ability enhancent, the newly dropped traits covered various fields.
While recalling, Tatsuma did so selecting and quickly found the trait he wanted.
[Physical Clone (Blue): Consus a certain amount of energy to create a physical clone. The clone possesses 50% of the main body's physical stats and so of the main body's abilities.]
[Note: The clone can inherit up to the main body's blue traits. Those above blue traits cannot be carried.]
This trait was dropped from the guard captain when Tatsuma was training the Gremory guards yesterday.
In battle, the opponent sent out ten clones and simultaneously attacked Tatsuma with magic from different directions.
Although the result was the sa as the other guards, being accurately found and instantly defeated by Tatsuma, his performance was not bad. Tatsuma later granted him a trait.
In addition, Tatsuma also rembered this trait that the opponent dropped.
Compared to clone magic that can only inherit a part of the main body's power and has limited use, this kind of innate ability that can create clones is stronger and more suitable for Tatsuma's next plan.
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