Gatto Notes: Last Chapter for this week!
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""Welcome back, Hisa-nii/HisaHisa, Baraqiel-sama."" The sound of Rem and Ram's synchronized voices echoed as the Old man and I entered his house.
"Yo! I'm back, thanks for waiting, Rem, Ram." I patted the heads of the twins who're currently, very much shorter than me, because I'm currently in my aged body.
As I finished patting the heads of the very much adorable pair of twins, my body started shrinking until it turned back to my regular age.
I looked back at the Old man who's very much pissed right now, and grinned.
"Sorry old man, it seems that, while I can't beat you— right now.
You are also unable to beat me!"
"Tch! I can't believe that the one to inherit that old lady's full abilities is you." The old man clicked his tongue before suddenly.
*Tok!* The old man suddenly flicked my forehead.
"OW!" I winced in pain as I held my forehead in pain.
"Anyways, Your ability is now sufficient to protect your loved ones against low-high class threats. Especially with that cheat of an ability yours." The Old man says, grumbling the last few words before he enters the house.
The old man, is of course, pointing about my unique 『Time』.
And oh boy, was he right. In this whole month spent training with him, I have gained lots of insight regarding, not just Time, but also my other abilities.
But still, the ability which progressed at an astonishing rate was, of course, Time.
Things like stopping the time of just one specific organ is now completely possible.
And what's more, the less area I stop the time off, the harder it is to dispell.
So— I could pretty much just stop one vital part of my enemy and they would be dead without even knowing it.
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Another week passed by, and that entire week was spent by hanging out with the twins, and some days with Akeno as well, and then, on the last day of the week, I finally summoned my first ever 5★ Character, Minerva.
And oh boy, was that woman more troublesome than I had expected. For she was a walking contradiction.
Her Authority itself shows that. Her
『Wrath』 ability manifested as a healing ability, as opposed to the Archbishop of wrath, who's ability's sole purpose was to spread pain to as many people as possible.
When Minerva materialized before me in the Gacha Altar, the woman had unhesitatingly attacked me despite already talking to her back in the Re:Zero world.
But that attack wasn't filled with malice. No— Despite appearing as such at first glance, she actually just wanted to use her authority to "heal" me.
I may have told her a creative truth on how reviving her in this world would greatly injure me.
What's more, this particular version of Minerva, is one who just merged with the Wrath Factor, and had just recently awakened her unique authority.
Her cause of death?
How should I say this— it's pretty unlucky?
Because, in her world, just as she had awakened and had used her ability, its drawback that causes a natural disaster in a random place had actually activated in the area she was in.
A magnitude 9 earthquake had actually happened, and Minerva still had no idea it was her Authority's doing.
That earthquake ended up creating a massive crack that leads to magma in the battlefield where a war was currently ongoing where people fell victim.
And among them, Minerva too, had fallen off that crack. And if not for me stopping time just as she neared the magma, then the Witch of Wrath would've experienced a pretty gruesome death.
Especially since, with her enhanced superhuman durability, she would be able to experience actually drowning in a scorching hot magma.
I shudder just thinking about that possibility.
On another note, after Minerva used her authority on me, she actually felt drained, which was a good thing! Since it means that the authority isn't actually gonna cause a catastrophe whenever she uses them.
I don't know how and why this happened though, maybe it was the Gacha Altar?
Now that I think about it, Ram, who's supposed to actually show violent tendencies while her horn still exists, had never actually shown those tendencies in the past year that we were together.
I turned my head towards Minerva and the twins who were currently fully captivated watching a T.V show about magical girls.
Wait— why does the magical girl look familiar…SERAFALL?!?
'What the heck?! Why is her show in the human realm? I thought it was only shown in the underworld?' I looked at the T.V screen, baffled as I wondered whether this was caused by the butterfly effect, or if it actually exists in canon but was never mentioned.
Although I was thinking the latter, after all, as an avid magical girl obsessed person, as well as a woman who would do anything as long as she loves it.
Serafall was definitely the type of person who would try to spread the magical girl genre that she loves so much all around the world.
*Ring* *Ring*
"Hmm?" I looked at my old looking phone that's currently ringing due to a call and answered it.
"Moshi Moshi, who's this?"
["Brat, it seems that those bastards are gonna attack soon."] The sound of the old man's voice sounded, and my eyes narrowed.
"Alright, Old man. We'll be staying at your place until you come back, if you don't mind"
["Of course, as long as you keep Shuri and Akeno safe, you can come and go in my place as you please. And after this, I'll give you a reward that I'm sure you would be satisfied with."]
"A reward huh? Sure, whatever Old man. Akeno and I are friends, so even without the reward, I'll still protect her and Shuri-san."
["Oh really? Then I guess, I won't ask Azazel to give me data on his sacred gear research the—"]
"*Ahem!* While I would still protect my dear beautiful friend Akeno without any reward. Nonetheless, a reward from the great, charitable, and strongest fallen angel Cadre Baraqiel is greatly appreciated!"
[".... You're more shameless than I thought, brat. And you're still a brat. I worry what will happen to you after a decade has passed."]
[" Anywho— I'll hang up, so you better be here by the end of the day. I'm leaving first thing tomorrow."]
*Click*
"Phew! Safe!!" I sighed, full of relief as I finished that phone call with the old man.
Who knew he would be so generous to actually take my previous words in one of the sparring sessions that we had seriously.
And I wasn't worried he wouldn't fulfill it. After hanging out with him and training this past month, I had come to know who Baraqiel really is.
And he's someone who fulfills his words as best as he can.
So even if the old man actually failed to get me that data, I won't mind as he most likely tried his best already.
"Ram, Ram, Eva. Let's go, The old man said it's starting." I called the twins and Minerva who I delegated the nickname"Eva".
The twins, while surprised at first, quickly nodded and stood up from their seats and started their preparation.
Meanwhile, Minerva on the other hand just looked at me with confusion, and wondered what that was about.
So, I started explaining everything starting from day one.
"Hisa-nii, Sissy and I finished packing enough clothes." Rem's voice sounded as she and Ram walked down from the staircase carrying a single suitcase filled with our clothes.
"Honestly, HisaHisa is so lazy, always asking us to pack his stuff."Ram teased me, her eyes rolling before it fell to Minerva.
"Speaking of which, we haven't bought clothes for Minerva-Nee yet. So if it's fine to you—"
"Alright.. Here's my credit card." I sighed before I took the credit card that father had given me before we departed from the underworld and handed it to Ram.
"Yatta! Let's go! Rem, Minerva-Nee!" Ram's eyes glittered as she dragged her sister and Minerva who's currently wearing one of my mother's clothes out of the house, leaving me behind with the suitcase.
I sighed faintly, feeling complicated about how the twins became more cheeky in this past month.
And I suspect Akeno and Aunt Shuri.
But that's fine I guess, it's better than when they were acting distant.
As for worrying about their safety? There's no such thing. Ram herself can pretty much beat me as long as I don't use
『Time』.
In fact, she's one of the top powerhouses of the Re Zero world, known as the reincarnation of the Oni God.
So if some unscrupulous individuals try something, then they will get shredded by the wind before they know it.
What's more, I always have spirits following the two of them. Mizuki and Kazemi are actually pretty fond of the two.
And I'm thinking of making the wind and water spirits the twin's contracted spirits once I create a suitable sacred gear for them to inhabit.
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