I Was Reborn, but I Was Told That the Popular Standard Skills Were No Good, so I Chose the Skill of Collecting [Title] - CH 227

“What did you hear from the goddess first?”

Sophie asked me as we walked into my room at home. So I told her everything I  heard from the goddess.

“I see….”

Sophie mumbled and started to think about something. What was she thinking about?

“For now, can you bring out Yug and Zeal?”

“Copy that.”

I followed Sophie’s lead and took Yug and Zeal out of me. Then Sophie also took out Dia and Sifa.

“I have a question for the four of you. Is there any beast, spirit, or devil that can forcibly cancel a contract?”

When Sophie asked that question, only one hand went up from among the four.

“I think that depending on the conditions, maybe only the spirits can do it.”

The hand went up from Yug.

“What are the conditions?”

“I won’t know for sure until I actually check it at the time, but it would have to be that the person is weak, has almost no magic power left, and can be touched by the spirit.”

“I see….”

Sophie pretended to think for a while again.

“The only reason you can do that is that you’re the king of the spirits, right?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“So you mean that it’s impossible for the devils and the beasts without their respective kings?”

“Maybe.”

That’s becoming a difficult question. I still have contact with the devil king, but I have no contact at all with the beast king.

“If Zero-kun grows up to some extent, I think he can do it all.”

“Me?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

I don’t think I can do that even if I grow up, I might be able to do it for the spirits, but not for the other two races.

“I don’t know what happened to you, but you have the element of the Beast King and devil king now, too.”

“Eh?”

“Huh?”

I’ve never heard of such a thing… I mean, I’m not a devil. What does she mean?

“But there’s no Beast King and Devil King mixed in with my races, right?”

“There are other kings in there, even if there’s no Beast King and Devil King, right? Zero-kun’s race is the lightning beast devil king, right? It’s a kind of synergy effect, so both beasts and devils are in the king class.”

It seems that my race isn’t just a normal addition to the mix. Was that goddess aiming for this? Or was it just a coincidence?

“If I could strip the three races from a hero on my own, how long would it take?”

Even if she said a year for this, there’s a possibility that I could somehow work hard and be able to strip them in a month or so.

“Ummm…it’d take at least hundreds of years?”

“Eh…?”

“Zero-kun, for better or worse, you’re the king of the three races. You can get a lot of good points, but because there are three bad points, each one is a little bit weaker than the other. So if you want to be a king like Yug, you’ll need more than a few thousand years even if you focus on only one race.”

“Wow…”

The reason for this is that the number of impurities in the race is so high.

“By the way, can you two get in touch with the devil King?”

Sophie said as she looked at Dia and Sifa.

“─ It’s impossible for us to keep in touch. However, he’s a kind-hearted person toward his own kind, so I’m sure he’d want to do something about it if he knew about this.”

“That’s all I need to know.”

Then Sophie and I put the spirits and the devils back inside ourselves, respectively.

“The goddess said there’s always a way, right?”

“Yes.”

That goddess said there’s a way. There’s no doubt about that.

“Does that mean I’m not thinking well enough? I’m not as good a thinker as that goddess?”

No…I think it’s quite impossible to try to catch up with a goddess’s thought process… Ignoring my feelings, Sophie continued to ponder. All the while, I couldn’t leave because she was holding my hand.

“I don’t know what to think at this point.”

Sophie, who had been thinking about it for several minutes, suddenly said. Well, there are things that even Sophie can’t do.

“But I can tell you that even at this stage, the only chance you have to pull them away from the heroes is during the whole inter-school survival.”

“Why?”

“Because only one person can participate at a time in an individual match. And once you do it once, it’ll be difficult because the other two will be on alert. Besides, if you try to forcibly strip them outside of the competition, there’s a good chance we’ll become criminals.”

“Criminals?”

I’d never thought that pulling off the spirits could make us criminals.

“If it’s not an inter-school battle unless the other side recklessly challenges us, we have to take the fight to them. And if they take the spirits away from us, we’ll be the only ones at fault. And no matter how badly the heroes treated the spirits, the general public, which has rarely seen spirits, would think that treatment was normal. In the first place, the general public wouldn’t understand how they are treated. But those of us who forcibly took them away would certainly be the bad guys.”

“…You mean, when it’s normal to be around them during the inter-school battle, and when I pull the spirits off of them to make it look like an accident?”

“Yes.”

The goddess said something about not losing, but in this case, it’s definitely unforgivable to lose.

“For now, we haven’t even officially decided what the battle against the school will be yet. Let’s take our time to figure out how to pull it off.”

“I agree.”

With this, the strategy meeting with Sophie ended. In the end, the only thing that had been decided was the timing of the stripping. Nothing was decided on the method.

Oh…by the way, I forgot to ask Yug whether I’m a devil or a beast.