Yoshino and Evangeline watched the battle from behind, observing Tobiichi Origami killing demons. Without Yoshino noticing, her eyes seemed to be stained with ink, taking on a faint black layer. Black runes also appeared on her right hand; these were the rune marks of the Magic of Darkness. Under this influence, Yoshino's heart was unconsciously filled with slaughter. She wanted to go up herself and slaughter all the demons in front of her, but the 'evil' within her was desperately suppressing Yoshino's murderous impulses.
"Yoshino… calm down. Don't let your mind be influenced unconsciously." Just then, Evangeline grabbed Yoshino's shoulder, making Yoshino's eyes return to their original pure sky blue. She lowered her head, looking at her hand with some confusion. What was going on with that impulse she just had? Why did she suddenly feel a urge to kill?
"It seems the person inside you is still reliable, Yoshino. The scene in front of you infinitely amplified your murderous impulses through the Magic of Darkness. Although you haven't fought using the Magic of Darkness, it still unconsciously affects your emotions." Evangeline said with some difficulty. As the creator of the Magic of Darkness, no one understood its evil nature better than her. Yet, even the current slaughter affected her, which meant the will of evil within her was truly too great.
But this was also understandable. Yoshino's body did not have a single soul like others; she had four consciousnesses within her. Even if two of the four consciousnesses represented good, no one could represent absolute good. Moreover, among the two consciousnesses representing evil, one was a demon representing one of the ten great vices, and the other was a being that destroyed a world in another parallel world. The evil they represented was not that simple. Even if they no longer had the intention to harm Yoshino, the evil they emitted would still gather in Yoshino's soul. The soul with these four consciousnesses combined made Yoshino's susceptibility to the Magic of Darkness several times greater than others.
"I don't know what's going on. I should have stopped Origami when I saw her doing such things, but why did I have no such thoughts just now? Instead, I wanted to go up and do the same thing with her? It seems that even with Astaroth and 'evil' helping to restrain it within me, my soul will still be unconsciously devoured by evil." Although 'good' and Zadkiel were helping to cleanse the evil from her soul, the situation was currently in balance.
Although the side of good played a larger role, Yoshino worried that one day the weight of evil on the scale would tip over the side of good. Would she still be her original self then? Yoshino thought with some worry. Just then, Yoshino's neck began to emit a faint light, and under this light, white runes appeared on Yoshino's other hand. Then Yoshino took out the glowing object from her neck and found that it was the necklace that the 'Muse' group had given her at the very beginning.
'It seems thirty years of charging have restored its power, Xiao Ran. I still clearly remember the scene when we used its power to fight the world last time.' Looking at the glowing necklace, Astaroth said with some emotion. She had obtained the power of the necklace to be able to contend with the world. "If we hadn't used too much of the necklace's power back then, the little master wouldn't have been forced to travel through time and fall into a thirty-year slumber under the satellite ray attack."
'But if we didn't use the power of the necklace, the guardian would have been crushed by the world's power. There was no other way, Asta. The world's power was too strong for us; only the necklace, which also had world power, could resist it.' Zadkiel's phantom appeared in the sky and said. She had also noticed the problem with Yoshino earlier. She had initially thought that their abilities could prevent the Magic of Darkness from invading Yoshino's soul, but this unconscious invasion made them feel completely defenseless. But thinking that the necklace's power had recovered, she felt relieved. 'Now with the necklace's power helping us resist evil invading the guardian's soul, we can relax a bit.'
'Tch! That's why if we hadn't helped that guy save her parents back then, all these troubles wouldn't have happened. Her parents' death was the world's arrangement, but the little master, soft-hearted, wanted to help her change the outcome of this matter, and then suffered for it.' Thinking of this, she felt very angry. At that time, to save her parents, they almost completely exhausted their energy. They could only stay inside Yoshino's body and watch everything happen, completely helpless.
'You can't say that. At that time, I and the guardian had merged and couldn't merge a second time in a short period. And because of the kabbalah tree of life, you couldn't merge with the guardian. Now that the guardian has learned this Magic of Darkness, it means you can also merge with her and won't be affected by the kabbalah tree of life.'
'Is that so… That's indeed a good thing. But I'm a bit curious, why didn't the kabbalah tree of life help the little master resist the darkness invading her soul? I think with its help, even without our assistance, those evils wouldn't be able to enter the little master's soul, right?' Astaroth asked with some surprise.
'What are you thinking, Asta? It's true that there's no problem with the kabbalah tree of life doing such a thing, but if even one part goes wrong, the tree of life would be contaminated by the evil produced by us few. At that time, the kabbalah tree of life would turn into the inverse kabbalistic tree of evil and erode the guardian's soul. Then, no matter how hard we tried, it would be impossible to resist evil invading the guardian's soul.' She had considered this plan back then, but thinking about the ten particles in Yoshino's body turning into the ten great vices, that terrifying evil would not be so easy to stop.
'Tch! You make it sound like you look down on the evil tree. It's still a demon of the fourth vice among the evil trees, after all. Look, the little master is doing fine now.' Hearing the other party's words, Astaroth pouted and said somewhat angrily. Although she had forgotten that she had also wanted Yoshino to undergo a reversal back then.
"You only behaved because I was suppressing you! It's probably because of me, the fourth sephirah angel, that you, a demon, awakened in the guardian! And you've caused the guardian a lot of trouble, you know!" She thought back to how the demon, who used to wear revealing clothes, was now dressed like a shut-in, and she couldn't help but feel a pang of emotion. Why would a demon change so much? Although her current improvement was a good thing, she felt that her current life was much more tiring than the days when she had to guard against her.
Every time she was inside Yoshino, she acted like a shut-in, specifically creating a small house in Yoshino's mind space, filled with anime and games from Yoshino's past life, mostly what they called GALGAMEs! For some unknown reason, the 18+ games were the most numerous.
Once, when she finally fell asleep after staying up for who knows how many days, she, enduring the shame in her heart, looked through the 18+ GALGAMEs she had collected. She then discovered a very serious problem: most of them were stories about demons and Little Lolis, all yuri games. She also found a box sealed by power, with multiple seals placed on it, as if to prevent others from opening it, so it was specifically done that way.
But such a seal was nothing to her; she easily opened it. However, what she saw was Astaroth using her power to create… herself and Yoshino's… Sorry, the rest of the content is a bit hard to describe. So please use your imagination to picture what she did with her power.
Seeing Zadkiel's face alternate between dark and pale, Astaroth remembered that her initial behavior seemed to have caused them a lot of trouble. (It wasn't'seemed,' it was 'definitely'!)
Not wanting to be punished, she remembered the trick she had learned to soften an angel's heart. She stood up aggressively, and as Zadkiel looked confused, the other party pounced on her… hugging her legs and starting to cry loudly (fake).
"I'm sorry, Zadkiel! Please forgive me, I didn't mean to. It was all because I was young and naive that I did those things."
"You've lived for who knows how many centuries! Your age can be compared to that old woman who claims to be seventeen and that unscrupulous doctor named Eight Billion! And you're still trying to act young!" She pushed the other party hard, but she seemed determined not to leave, even clamping her legs around her. "Ah! Where are you touching! Let go of me!"
"Hehe~ Zadkiel, your thighs feel so good, I think I've fallen in love with these legs. You have to take responsibility, Zadkiel." She suddenly turned into a pervert!
"Get lost! You useless, perverted demon! Get away from me!" The enjoyable daily life of the angel and the demon began anew here.
Looking at the glowing necklace in front of her, Yoshino held it gently in her hands. She could feel that the members of Muse were now by her side. "Everyone… sure enough, you're all with me."
"Yoshino…" Evangeline stared blankly as nine beautiful girls suddenly appeared beside Yoshino and embraced her. Although they were all consciousness bodies, with their help, the evil aura on Yoshino disappeared without a trace.
She had already met these nine girls during the Magic of Darkness incident. They were the people Yoshino had contracted with in her first world. She knew that they were just ordinary people with special abilities, but she hadn't expected them to be able to suppress the evil within Yoshino. "They're quite capable, aren't they?"
Just then, a glowing magic circle suddenly appeared under Kagurazaka Asuna's feet as she was resting, and then she vanished.
"Oh, oh~ So we've reached the other party's location? But with his current ability, going there would only result in a complete defeat. It seems I need to hurry over and help." Then she turned around and saw the happy smile on Yoshino's face, who was at the center of Muse, and found herself unable to interrupt the scene.
"Forget it, Yoshino, who holds the title of Saintess of the Magical World, can recover even if that kid's limbs are broken. For now, let Yoshino cherish this moment with them."
"How frustrating, she never showed me this expression when she was with me. It seems I still need to work harder."
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