Leaving the Shuzen estate behind, Arthur took Shuzen Ya'ai and flew toward the spatial passage.
He didn't hurry, didn't dawdle.
Mid-flight, Arthur opened the Compendium of All Things to check what he'd actually earned from this trip to the Yōkai Domain.
Entry Name: Yoshii Muya
Grade: Blue
Description: Chimera-type yōkai
Reward: Ten-Thousand-Mile Flight
…
Entry Name: Kuyō
Grade: Blue
Description: Four-Tailed Yōkai Fox
Reward: Rasengan
…
Entry Name: Shuzen Issa
Grade: Purple
Description: Vampire Patriarch
Reward: Blazer
"…Huh."
He'd lit three entries in one go, so he naturally focused on Shuzen Issa's first.
What surprised him was that it could be lit at all.
You could tell at a glance that Shuzen Issa was very, very unhappy with him.
He hadn't expected to be recognized by him.
Clearly, it wasn't "friend."
It was "family."
Tsk tsk… worthy of being my father-in-law.
Arthur then looked at the other two entries.
Ten-Thousand-Mile Flight — he couldn't place it for a second.
But Kuyō's reward, Rasengan, he understood instantly.
After all, it's the "spinning to win" one.
A ninjutsu created by Minato Namikaze in the world of Naruto.
A technique that rapidly spins and compresses the user's internal energy.
Its power scales with how much energy you pour in.
You can fuse other elemental attributes into it.
It's a growth-type ninjutsu.
That's why it spawned a whole bunch of variants later.
Finally, Arthur's eyes fell on Shuzen Issa's reward.
Blazer.
He felt like he'd heard it before…
But he couldn't recall right away.
Since he couldn't, he just moved on.
Arthur first claimed Ten-Thousand-Mile Flight.
In his consciousness space, a pair of small, snow-white wings appeared before his soul-body, their bases set into a silvery disk.
Information poured in.
Arthur immediately understood.
So it was the Feather Imperial Arm from Akame ga Kill! — the one that lets you fly.
You can condense energy feathers and use them to shoot enemies.
It even has a hidden art, "God's Feather."
Within its tolerance range, it can bounce back flying attacks.
A pretty decent Imperial Arm.
But in Arthur's opinion, it was just barely blue-tier.
He then claimed Rasengan.
The technique to extract his internal energy, spin it at high speed and compress it, appeared in his mind and almost became instinct.
Finally, he claimed Blazer.
A sphere of light, pulsing with a mysterious fluctuation, appeared in his consciousness and fused straight into his soul.
The next instant, his soul flared with light.
Countless light-orbs — big and small, like stars — flew out of his soul, filling up the surrounding void.
The orbs turned into cards.
Each card seemed to hold the image of some phenomenon or concept.
The cards began to fuse.
In the end, only fifty-two remained.
The light gathered, and at his soul's waist, a special card holster appeared.
All fifty-two cards slid neatly into it.
Information surfaced, and Arthur got it.
"Blazer" came from the world of Chivalry of a Failed Knight.
A special kind of human that manifests their own soul power as a weapon — an Innate Armament — and then controls it with mana.
What he'd gotten… was that talent.
To manifest his soul power into a weapon.
His Innate Armament was: Myriad Phenomena Cards.
It could borrow the power of "all phenomena."
Fire. Flowing water. Lightning. Ice.
Even light and darkness.
Fusion and separation.
Space and time.
Fate and causality.
On paper, it looked very strong.
And, to be fair, it was strong.
But there was an upper limit.
Because he was borrowing power — not directly ruling over it.
If two people both used space…
And they were equal in overall strength…
Then the one who directly controls space will be stronger than the one who borrows space.
So it would always be half a step weaker.
Still, the strength of it was in its all-rounder nature.
"No wonder it's a purple reward."
After the Blazer talent fully fused, Arthur couldn't help but sigh.
Innate Armament · Myriad Phenomena Cards.
You could even say it was the result of his Third Magic and this Blazer talent — both purple-grade — stacking and integrating.
Powerful, no doubt about it.
Arthur stopped in midair.
"What is it?"
Shuzen Ya'ai, fingers interlocked with his, looked at him curiously.
"I'm gonna test the new ability."
He said it to her, and lifted his right hand, index and middle finger together, and flicked them in front of him.
A card appeared between his fingers.
Silver as the main tone, edged in gold.
The back showed a flowing cosmic starfield.
The front was the pattern of a hollow white sphere.
This was the Space Card.
"Preparing spatial transfer."
Arthur borrowed the power of space, planning to teleport himself and Shuzen Ya'ai straight from here back to the courtyard of his house in the human world.
The Myriad Phenomena Cards fed back an answer.
It was doable — but the consumption would be very high.
High consumption?
The man with infinite energy was least afraid of that.
The Space Card drank in primal force like crazy.
After about three seconds of charging…
The card flashed.
A powerful spatial force wrapped around Arthur and Shuzen Ya'ai — and the two vanished.
The next instant, human world, Arthur's residence.
Arthur and Shuzen Ya'ai appeared silently in the courtyard.
"Mm? Xiao-Lin (Xiao-Bai)!"
On the first floor, Tohru and Akashiya Moka both sensed it and looked toward the courtyard.
Sure enough — there he was, and he'd brought Shuzen Ya'ai back.
"!!!"
Seeing the world blur once and then finding herself in Arthur's human-world home, Shuzen Ya'ai's eyes widened, lips parting.
Shock filled her eyes.
One blink, and they'd crossed from the Yōkai Domain to the human world — so this was Arthur's new ability. What a ridiculous spatial transfer.
"Huh? That's…"
Back home, Arthur glanced toward the living room — and when he saw the third figure inside, his brow rose slightly.
A trace of surprise flashed through his eyes.
Long orange hair.
The same aqua-green eyes as outer Moka.
Delicate, cute face, fair skin.
Only about one-fifty tall.
And… like Shuzen Ya'ai, she was… very "adequately" built.
This girl was none other than the missing fourth daughter Shuzen Issa had sent to the human world to look for Akashiya Moka — Shuzen Kokoa.
So why was she here?
And why was she restrained?
"That's… Kokoa!"
Shuzen Ya'ai also saw Shuzen Kokoa in the living room and couldn't help the surprise in her eyes.
Why is she here?
Arthur and Shuzen Ya'ai stepped into the living room, leaving their shoes outside.
He looked Kokoa over.
Then Arthur looked at Tohru and Akashiya Moka. "This is?"
Akashiya Moka smiled a little.
"Xiao-Bai, this is my younger sister, Shuzen Kokoa. She came to the human world this time to — uh — to look for me."
When she mentioned the reason, she hesitated.
Tohru glanced at Kokoa and chimed in:
"About half an hour after you two left, she suddenly texted Moka to meet up."
"I went with Moka."
"But the moment we met, Moka's little sister suddenly attacked. I had no choice but to subdue her and bring her back."
"That's what happened."
Akashiya Moka smiled a bit awkwardly.
And Shuzen Kokoa, who was restrained there by Tohru, couldn't even talk — she just stood there like a wooden puppet.
Only her eyes could still move.
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