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"I'm only putting forward a guess. As for whether Ultear Milkovich's ability can actually do something like that, we'll still need to hear Arton's explanation about her."
"Besides, even if Ultear Milkovich can do it, that doesn't mean Ain would be able to do the same thing after receiving Ultear Milkovich's template, right?"
Smoothie patted her little sister on the shoulder and comforted her.
"Hah… y-yeah. You're right."
Cinnamon patted her head, secretly thinking she'd gotten way too ahead of herself.
Seriously, she hadn't even obtained Ultear Milkovich's template yet, so why was she already thinking about having her lifespan stolen by Linlin?
Even if Linlin really did get upset over Ultear Milkovich's ability and needed to take someone's lifespan, she'd take Ain's lifespan, wouldn't she?
Arton had already said that Ultear Milkovich's template suited Ain.
Under those circumstances, there was no way Arton would leave the template behind and then hand it over to her, Cinnamon, to use, right?
Although, if Arton really were willing to do that, Cinnamon would be more than happy to accept the template.
There was no helping it. This template was simply too powerful. It made it impossible for her to refuse Ultear Milkovich's power.
At worst, she just wouldn't display this ability in front of Linlin, right?
As long as she didn't show this kind of ability in front of Linlin, then Linlin's punishment definitely wouldn't fall on her.
What she didn't know was that if she really did obtain the template from Arton, Linlin would definitely ask about it.
When the time came, Linlin would absolutely make Cinnamon demonstrate the ability.
If Cinnamon showed even the slightest hesitation, Linlin might very well unleash her soul pressure and force Cinnamon to display that power.
If Cinnamon didn't obediently show her ability, that soul pressure would take effect on her.
At that point, Cinnamon's soul would rise to the surface.
Seeing that, Linlin would basically know her daughter was deceiving her.
And with Linlin's personality, if she knew her daughter was deceiving her, she would definitely take away a portion of her lifespan.
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"That's amazing. The ice that just shattered actually restored itself."
"It's practically like time flowing backward."
Nami said in surprise.
"Listen to yourself. Isn't Ultear Milkovich's time magic literally making time flow backward?" Carina retorted.
"Ahahaha, sorry. I accidentally forgot that part."
Nami scratched the back of her head, a little embarrassed.
Then she turned to look at Arton and asked with curiosity written all over her face, "Captain, Ultear Milkovich's time magic can make things that have already happened flow backward in time."
"Then can her ability make things that haven't happened yet appear ahead of time?"
Hearing that, everyone looked at Arton curiously.
Being able to reverse the time of an event was, of course, incredibly impressive.
But compared to reversing time, making something that had not yet happened appear in advance was undoubtedly even more incredible.
Everyone present was curious whether Ultear Milkovich possessed that kind of ability.
Even the diary copy holders who weren't on-site and were merely watching Arton's situation through the diary copy livestream felt the same way.
"Honestly, I'm pretty sure I already mentioned this before."
"Ultear Milkovich's time ability is all-encompassing."
"Making time move forward? Of course that can happen."
Arton smiled and spoke.
He raised his hand and snapped his fingers. Ahead of them, Ultear Milkovich moved once again.
She cast time magic, causing the restored frozen rose garden to shatter again. Then she activated her magic once more, making the remains of the ice roses turn into water ahead of schedule, then into mist.
The ice that originally would have needed some time to evaporate into mist was completely vaporized in less than a second under the support of time magic.
Chapter 670 – Ain Worries She'll Only Be Superhuman for a Few Seconds
Smoothie sighed in admiration. "As expected, time magic really is getting more and more exciting. It can actually force something to rapidly advance forward and make it happen ahead of schedule."
Smoothie added, "When Ultear Milkovich's time magic is used on an enemy, it can not only rewind them backward into a state of nonexistence, it can also push them infinitely forward until they disappear."
Gion said, "Just like the sea Kuzan froze will eventually melt, and the magma Sakazuki created will eventually disappear. If time is accelerated forward, the ice and magma will both reach their endings ahead of schedule."
Kujaku said, "This ability is way more useful than my Devil Fruit power. I'm so jea~lous of Ain."
Hina said, "In that case, should I be congratulating Ain?"
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"As you've all seen, time magic can make something reach its conclusion ahead of time."
Arton turned around and said to Ain and the others, "If the user's control over magic is impressive enough, they can even take something that would normally happen over the next year and compress it into a single second."
"Metal will rust under wind and rain, then eventually turn to dust. That process is extremely slow."
"But with time magic, that progress can be moved forward. Ultear Milkovich can make steel turn to dust in an instant."
"Of course, that's the result of manipulating time. It's not some ability to make metal rust."
As Arton spoke, he couldn't help thinking of a certain Rust-Rust Fruit user from the original story.
That guy seemed to be able to make metal rust in an instant and turn to dust.
That ability was pretty good too, but compared to time magic, it was miles behind.
"Next, let's watch a practical combat demonstration."
"Ain, watch closely."
Arton clapped his hands, and a bare-chested young man appeared in front of Ultear Milkovich.
The young man formed hand signs with both hands and cast Ice-Make magic, creating blades and swords made of ice that flew toward Ultear.
But Ultear only used a little magic, and the ice weapons turned into droplets of water that fell to the ground.
After that, the young man cast Ice-Make magic several more times, but none of it managed to launch an effective attack against Ultear.
Every attack turned into water ahead of time before it could reach her.
"That's amazing. So this is time magic in action?"
"That man's Ice-Make magic isn't working at all."
"Now that you mention it, aren't those two from the same school?"
Carina propped her cheek on one hand and murmured.
"They are from the same school. Ultear Milkovich is the daughter of that young man's master," Arton said casually.
"So that's how it is. But why are they fighting?"
"Their relationship doesn't seem like ordinary sparring, does it?"
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Nami looked at Arton curiously and asked, "That sounds like a long story."
"We should focus on Ultear Milkovich's abilities for now."
Arton shook his head.
Ultear Milkovich's background story was honestly far too long.
When they had free time, Arton could certainly tell his companions about Ultear's background.
But during this sort of template demonstration, time was limited.
He didn't want to take his sweet time explaining Ultear's background and end up making the demonstration finish early before everyone could gain a fuller understanding of her abilities.
If that caused some kind of bad effect on Ain, Arton wouldn't be happy about it either.
"Captain, since time magic is this powerful…"
"When I cast this magic, is it going to drain a lot of stamina?"
Ain asked with some worry.
She had no way not to worry. The more powerful the ability Ultear Milkovich displayed, the more Ain worried that the stamina requirements would be extremely high.
She didn't want to become someone who was only superhuman for a few seconds before getting knocked right back to normal.
If that happened, Ain felt she would still have a hard time helping Zephyr-sensei in any real sense.
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