I Was Reborn, but I Was Told That the Popular Standard Skills Were No Good, so I Chose the Skill of Collecting [Title] - CH 242

“Devil Possession.”

“Picon!”

『[Title] Acquired [The Possessed]』

I started with devil possession. This was easy. I was used to it, since the procedure was similar to that of the descent of the spirits.

“The black haze is the same as Sophie’s.”

There’s a kind of black haze coming from me. This is the same as when Sophie was possessed by a devil. And I somehow know that I can use the ability that Bros was talking about.

“Yug, are you okay with it?”

“You want to try it? Good!”

I asked Yug if I could try out Bros’s ability, and she gladly agreed. Huh? Come to think of it, I didn’t tell Yug that I wanted to try Bros’s ability, did I? Yug wasn’t surprised when I used psychokinesis? Do kings know each other’s powers?

“Thank you.”

I lightly wounded Yug’s beautiful hand with my sword. But that wound was gone in an instant. But I used Bros’s ability firmly.

“Wait a minute.”

Yug said, and then she sent balls of various attributes into the air. Can you do something like that with the amount of magic power I gave you? I can’t. Is Yug much more magic efficient than me?

“Ah, wind! I can’t use wind magic!”

It seems I’ve sealed wind magic. Yug is excited about the fact that she can’t use magic. It seems unusual for her to have magic that she can’t use. But I felt sorry for her that I had to keep it sealed, so I released it.

“Ah, now I can use it.”

As soon as I unsealed it, Yug was able to use wind magic.

”Next up is devilization.”

Now that I knew I could do devil possession, I tried devilization next.

“Ah Zero-kun, wait a minute…”

“Devilization.”

“Picon!”

『[Title][Half-majin] has been acquired』

Yug tried to stop me, but It was too late and I was devilized.

“Zero-kun…? Are you okay?”

“I’m fine.”

I crouched down the moment I was devilized. But I’m not in any bad physical condition. In fact, I’d say I was in good shape.

“I’m sorry, Yug, but I need you to be my opponent.”

“Okay.”

I feel like my animal-like instincts have been overflowing since my devilization. I had to squat down and suppress it, but it wasn’t something that could be suppressed by such a thing. The strongest thing right now is the hunting instinct that wants to defeat Yug, who is stronger than me.

“Ha!”

I was glad I had enough reason to let go of my sword, because when I had trained with her in the past, I’d been outmatched. Let’s see how much the difference in power has narrowed down.

“What?”

I punched her and my fist slipped through her face. Then she put her hand on my chest.

“Yes. It’s over.”

“Argh…”

I was deprived of magic power at once. I quickly recovered by supplying magic power, but for a short while, all the magic power was gone. So, of course, the devilization that uses magic power was dispelled.

“Zero-kun, are you okay?”

“Oh…I’m fine, thank you.”

“No problem.”

Once the devilization was canceled, the overflowing instincts I had felt earlier were gone.

“Yug, you can defeat anything can’t you?”

“It’s because it was you, Zero-kun. Normally, I wouldn’t have enough magic power to take away such a large amount of magic power.”

Apparently, it also takes magic power to take away magic power. Then, having calmed down considerably, I took another slow look at my figure. I now had three pairs of wings, similar to those of Bros. It looks as if I can fly, but I can’t.

“You can’t fly unless you raise your devilization skill level to about five.”

“I see…”

I can’t do it yet, but I hear I’ll be able to fly soon. I feel like I’m getting further and further away from being human.

“Yo.”

I punched a tree to see which of my statuses had increased due to my devilization. Then the tree fell down. Then I tried to move a little, use magic and so on.

It seems that devilization specializes in attack. It seems that the other statuses are not increased. I had finished what I wanted to try for the time being, so I deactivated the devilization.

“I didn’t think you would suddenly do both at the same time!”

“Whoa…”

When I canceled the devilization, Bros came out and got mad at me. I certainly didn’t intend to do it at first. Rather, I thought I couldn’t do two at the same time. But I felt like I could do something, so I did it.

“I should have explained to you the disadvantages of doing devil possession and devilization at the same time if this is the case. As I experienced, the disadvantage of doing both at the same time is that your instincts become uncontrollable. There’s a benefit to doing both at the same time, though, in that it increases the power of both.”

I see…there is such a disadvantage…. But there are advantages as well?

“Of course that disadvantage disappears when the total skill level of devil possession and devilization reaches about 10.”

In other words, I’m still inexperienced at handling two of them at the same time. I guess it will be a little while before I can master both of them at the same time.

“I’m going to finish up by doing both beastification and devil possession at the same time.”

I headed here right after the morning match, but it was almost time for Sophie’s afternoon match to be over as well. I had another match tomorrow, so I couldn’t stay up late.

“Hmm?”

At that moment, I felt Sophie’s magic in the sky. Then, that magic turned into lightning and fell toward me. This magic was the Thunder Burst that I often use. As I was hit by the magic, I thought about the reason why Sophie had unleashed her magic.

“It’s not like her life is in danger, but she wants me to come home soon.”

First of all, if Sophie’s life was in danger, she would have come to me in transition without thinking about it before the match.  Including my previous life, I have been with Sophie for more than 20 years, so I have confidence in this consideration. If there was a Sophie test, I think I could get at least the second grade. Well…if there was a version of that test for me, Sophie would probably be able to pass the first grade easily.

“Elira, let’s go home.”

I regret that I haven’t tried beastification and devil possession at the same time yet, but I decided to leave right away.