Genji promised to tell Chiaki and Mika about her trial and Awakening, but not about the spiders or her specific abilities.
Not revealing her identity and name, just giving a rough description of the situation to the others was also fine.
After Seiji came to an agreement with her, he called Chiaki and Mika over and roughly explained what happened last night.
"Trial … Awakening to Spiritual Abilities … how amazing." Chiaki looked towards Genji. "What kind of ability is it, specifically?"
"It's not an amazing ability. Please allow me to keep it a secret."
"It's not easy to tell … is it? Don't tell me that it's like your identity as an artist, with some sort of Ero ability? "
Genji's expression didn't change at all when faced with Chiaki's guess.
Seiji, on the other hand, had a subtle expression on his face.
Shooting out white spider webs … if he really had to describe this ability, it was indeed rather Ero.
At this moment, Chiaki suddenly looked at Seiji Mukai's face.
"Heh heh, judging from this person's expression, it's highly likely that my guess is correct." She chuckled as she adjusted her nonexistent eyeglasses and pretended to be a famous detective.
Seiji hurriedly put on a poker face, but it was too late.
"Chiaki, if Asamiya-san doesn't want to say, please stop making wild guesses." Mika stopped her.
"Yeah … fine." Chiaki decided to give up.
"By the way, I'm so envious of you Awakening to Spiritual Abilities in a single night. I want to be like that as well." She sighed.
"I don't think that I'm envious of something like that. If it wasn't for Seigo helping me, I probably wouldn't have been able to wake up," Genji told her.
"Oh … my apologies, I was being too casual with my words." Chiaki folded her arms. "But even if it's not easy, I still want to have such an opportunity."
"Why's that?" Genji looked directly at her.
"Because I want to stand together with my friends, and not be excluded," Chiaki said sincerely as she looked at Seiji Mukai and Mika.
"Chiaki …" Mika's expression changed slightly.
Seeing this scene, Genji realized something.
"Uehara -san is also a Spiritual Ability user?"
"That's right," Chiaki answered her, "I'm the only ordinary person sitting here right now."
The purple-haired girl fell silent.
"However, wanting to be the same species as my friends is only half of the reason … the other half is that I want to act cool!" The silver-haired girl's tone suddenly changed as her eyes flashed.
"Awakening a special ability is a childhood dream! Even transforming into a magical girl is acceptable!! "
Seiji, Mika, and Genji were rendered speechless.
Magical Girl Chiaki?
The three of them couldn't help but try imagining it … it seemed surprisingly suitable?
"If Chiaki becomes a magical girl, I feel like she'll be a popular supporting character apart from the main character, perhaps even more popular than the main character," Mika couldn't help but comment.
"I think so as well. I can practically imagine such a scene." Genji nodded in agreement.
"Right! I'm quite eye-catching. "Chiaki made a star-studded gesture with her hand.
"But because she was too popular and stole the show, she was cut out in the middle of the story," Seiji explained.
"Don't!"
"She only showed her face before the end of the story, just like that," Genji continued.
"That's too much!"
"After this story ends, she'll appear as the main character of the outside story. Her goal is to make another profit and squeeze out every last bit of value," Seiji continued.
"Damn it! I definitely won't continue this story!! "
"I didn't expect that she'd become so popular, so I forcefully requested that the story continue, which resulted in the story starting to collapse …" Genji continued.
"Enough!" Chiaki forcefully retorted. "What's wrong with the two of you saying one after another? Don't imitate the twin witches!! "
"Cough … I was just joking a little." Seiji paused for a moment.
"It's unknown why Genji met with a trial, and I don't know how to prevent it … Although I can ask around, I feel that it'll be difficult to prevent such a thing," Seiji stated in a serious tone.
"Let's just pretend that it can happen to anyone. I hope that you'll all be prepared. If something like this really happens, please remain calm and be cautious.
If you need help, you can try calling for me. Perhaps I'll be able to answer your summons, or perhaps I won't be able to answer, or I might even disrupt the situation.
At any rate, don't panic if something happens, and think calmly about what to do. "
Chiaki and Mika both expressed that they understood his sincere warning.
…
After Genji and the others left, Seiji called Summer Night to ask about last night's situation.
The Grand Mistress told him that not only did the night of one hundred demons occur again, there was also an obvious increase in the number of demons that appeared. Since all the factions were on guard and managed to take down the demons in time, there weren't too many casualties.
Doubtlessly, this was a serious situation. However, compared to another situation that happened at the same time, it seemed like nothing.
That was, an ordinary person suddenly Awakened to Spiritual Abilities overnight!
"This is an incredibly astonishing phenomenon … it's just like how you greatly increased your Spiritual Power and Mana in a single night with just Visualization. This is something that belongs in the category of legends!" Summer Night told him in a serious tone.
"Awakened."
This was the name that Seiji had decided on this morning for this type of person.
It wasn't impossible for someone to become a Spiritual Ability user in a single night, or in a short period of time.
For example, Mika had originally been an ordinary girl, but she became a Spirit Controller after obtaining Mashiro Kobayashi.
However, it was quite unusual for someone to be able to freely use their Spiritual Power without receiving any external objects or powers.
The last such person recorded in history books had appeared thousands of years ago.
That's right, thousands of years ago!
Such a legendary phenomenon from so long ago had actually appeared in modern times, and there were more than just one or two such cases … The entire mystical society, or rather, the spiritual world, was in an uproar because of this!
"According to the information that I've received so far, there are only eight Awakened that have been discovered. However, the actual number is definitely much higher than that."
This was quite astonishing.
Just what was going on? What was the cause of this? Why these people? All the factions were trying to find out more about these Awakened.
"Including the Wanhua Family, all the factions are paying close attention to this. Investigating and stopping the night of one hundred demons is now secondary," Summer Night explained.
Seiji furrowed his eyebrows slightly.
"What will happen to those Awakened?" he asked in a low voice.
"They'll be researched … they'll probably use all sorts of methods to find out what exactly happened to them." Summer Night paused for a moment as her tone became even more serious. "Seiji, among the people that you know … are there any Awakened among them?"
"No." Seiji understood what she meant and answered decisively.
"That's good, then."
There was then a period of silence.
"Night of one hundred demons … Awakened … I'm beginning to feel that the Midnight Spell might be a spell that far surpasses all of our imaginations." Summer Night sighed.
"Although I can't be certain that everything was caused by the Midnight Spell, I'm beginning to faintly believe that … everyone is underestimating the Midnight Spell, because nobody knows what it really is.
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