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From the beginning of his transmigration until now, Asakura had received many gifts from the Nameless Magic Book.
But the most precious among them was neither the mysterious Magic nor the wondrous Association Clubroom.
It was this 'Magic Eye' that he had always worn an eye patch over, trying to hide.
No matter how strong a Magic was, it required the consumption of Magic to activate; without Magic, the Magic itself was useless. While the Association Clubroom was novel and interesting, at the end of the day, it was just a Clubroom, and its various functions were nothing special.
Only his Magic Eye, though obtained early on, was as precious as drawing an SSR with a 0.6% drop rate in a gacha game, and it could function without Magic, making it essentially plug-and-play.
But the problem also lay precisely in this point.
The Magic Eye: Truth Vision, theoretically, could be considered a 'All-Seeing Eye' ability.
The crimson pupil stared at the seemingly empty air.
The next moment, an infinite amount of information flooded into Asakura's mind.
From the expansion rates of various dimensions of the universe to the physical properties of every dust particle in the air, whether useful or not, all information was extracted and crammed into Asakura's brain, its sheer volume even causing Asakura to feel dizzy.
Actually, this was already considered good.
When Asakura first obtained Truth Vision, he was completely unprepared for this side effect and happily tried it out.
As a result, being unprepared, he was like someone directly hit by Satoru Gojo's Unlimited Void domain; his brain's bandwidth was instantly occupied by junk information, and at that moment, his brain seemed to even stop thinking.
The almost infinite amount of information made Asakura's brain feel as if it were boiling; after only a few seconds, blood gushed from his nose and mouth due to his body being overwhelmed, and he fainted. It was fortunate that this happened, otherwise, if he had looked for even a moment longer, even if he survived, he would likely have become an imbecile.
After that, the still-shaken Asakura almost never used Truth Vision again.
If it weren't for having no clue about the disappearance of the two members of the Service Club today, and truly feeling that there was something strange about it, Asakura would not have easily made up his mind to use Truth Vision again.
With psychological preparation, the situation this time was much better than the last.
Yet, even so, Asakura still felt as if his brain was like a balloon, rapidly expanding with useless information, on the verge of exploding at any moment.
He tried hard to ignore the meaningless information, diverting almost all of his life's attention to meticulously search for the specific intelligence he wanted.
A moment later, crimson blood trickled from his nose, and Asakura promptly put his eye patch back on, cutting off the ability of Truth Vision.
The brain itself has no pain nerves, but at this moment, Asakura felt a dull ache in his brain, as if someone had inserted a red-hot iron rod and was stirring it vigorously.
He took the Sorting Hat from his backpack and placed it on his head. The Sorting Hat's effect of strengthening spirit and will was immediate, instantly making his head feel much more comfortable.
Asakura wiped his nosebleed and took a deep breath.
Although, if there were others present, from an objective perspective, the entire process from Asakura removing his eye patch to putting it back on probably only took three to five seconds, he had already obtained the information he wanted—a fragile accompanying space had appeared in this room.
It could also be called an 'Inherent Barrier,' 'Domain,' or 'Magic Den,' etc., in short, a strange space not formed naturally.
Undoubtedly, whether it was the mistress of the house, Yui Yuigahama, or Yukino Yukinoshita, who came looking for her, both had most likely stumbled into that strange space.
If he continued to observe with Truth Vision for a moment longer, he should be able to find the key to breaking or even destroying that space, but Asakura really couldn't bear the cost of Truth Vision, so he could only go so far.
"Although this doesn't mean I can't get in..."
Asakura unwrapped the bandage on his left hand—this item, along with the eye patch over his right eye, was considered a symbol of chuunibyou by many boys at school, but in reality, it was not so; if he could, he would not want these two things to manifest so obviously.
As mentioned before, after Asakura came to this world, he completed many tasks from the system, or rather, the Nameless Magic Book, and thus received many gifts.
However, he only acquired two 'Magic spells'.
The reason Asakura seriously and sternly warned Gokou Ruri not to cast Magic spells casually, otherwise it would cause severe backlash, was twofold: first, to scare the girl so that she would take the Chiba Magic Society more seriously and not abuse Magic spells; second, it could also be considered Asakura's advice based on his own experience.
He had indeed suffered a Magic backlash, but it wasn't the Snake he showed the girl, but rather the Scale, his first Magic spell, obtained much earlier.
At that time, Asakura didn't know much about Magic spells and didn't have the habit of consulting the Nameless Magic Book. He was merely instinctively overwhelmed by the powerful force of the Magic spell after acquiring it and its casting experience, and he forcibly used the Magic spell Scale despite having almost no Magic power, ultimately leading to a backlash.
And the power of the Magic spell Scale, after the backlash, resided in his left hand.
Even now, with sufficient Magic power, Asakura finds it very difficult to use the Magic spell Scale through normal means; he can only activate Scale by direct touch with his left hand, where the Magic spell resides.
And the effect of the Magic spell Scale itself, as the name suggests, is to generate 'scales'.
This Magic can generate invisible scales with powerful defensive capabilities, and it can also directly transform living organisms and even inorganic matter, causing scales to grow on their surfaces.
Of course, this is not the main point; theoretically, Scale also has the meaning of 'isolation'—outside the scales is the external world, inside the scales is oneself, and the scales themselves are a boundary.
Although it hasn't completely reached the point of forming its own world, Scale can indeed separate Asakura himself from the 'world'.
This also means that when Scale is activated, Asakura can enter different spaces as an independent entity.
"...It actually succeeded."
After using Truth Vision to distinguish the different boundaries of the barrier, he activated the Magic spell Scale to cut himself off from the normal world, making contact with the accompanying space as an independent entity, and then deactivating Scale would complete this 'stowaway' process.
What then appeared before Asakura was a space so strange that it gave him a headache.
—At first glance, it was a grotto, but the ceiling was made of bumpy rock-skin cookies, and what looked like stalagmites on the ground were actually deformed ladyfingers. Everywhere, cocoa flowed like lava, coupled with a cloyingly sweet smell in the air.
Asakura could probably guess who the owner of this space was.
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