Nia had settled down. She heard that she was going to resume her pen name, Motoari Souji, and restart the manga that had been on hiatus for four years.
To dare to restart her manga after a four-year hiatus, even for a popular mangaka, countless fans would probably want to send her razor blades.
Hiatuses are something every fan hates. A week or two is fine; the author might have been delayed by something.
But a four-year hiatus like this, Nia might be the first in the industry.
However, Nia using her original pen name to create was undoubtedly telling those at DEM Industries, 'I'm right here, come and catch me if you dare.'
(Motoari Niya: Come at me!)
DEM Industries probably wouldn't go so far as to fight an unknown power of unknown strength just to catch Nia, and this was Amamiya City, with so many innocent citizens here.
Even if those behind the capture of Spirits disregarded these ordinary people, other factions within DEM Industries or other forces would absolutely not allow him to act so recklessly.
"Hmm~ You want to secretly establish an organization that's not inferior to DEM Industries or Ratatoskr, is that what you mean, Tsukiyo-chan?"
Nia, possessing the Angel of Omniscience, knew about DEM Industries and Ratatoskr. When she learned that Inaba Tsukiyo wanted to establish a new force, she was terrified.
But then, thinking of the titans that had beaten DEM Industries until they didn't even recognize their own father, Nia thought it wasn't impossible.
Nia didn't ask Inaba Tsukiyo how she mastered the technology to create titans. These were her secrets, and Nia felt it wasn't appropriate to inquire.
Most importantly, she couldn't use her Angel to find out about Inaba Tsukiyo, or rather, she couldn't find out about her past.
Her Angel only showed what had happened to Inaba Tsukiyo in the past few months; besides that, she couldn't find any other information.
Mysterious, that was Nia's evaluation of Inaba Tsukiyo.
On the surface, she looked like a Little Loli without combat power, but in reality, she was a violent Little Loli who could kill you dozens of times in the blink of an eye.
Anyway, Nia's daily routine, besides completing her weekly manga, was slacking off~ playing games~ slacking off~ and so on.
It would be better to find something for Nia to do. This girl seemed quite smart and should be able to come up with some ideas for herself.
"Even if you ask me something like this, I don't have any good ideas for you. After all, I'm just a mangaka; at most, I can only find some reliable information from familiar anime plots for you."
"…I'll make you and Yoshino 'Four-Dish Steamed Goose Heart' tonight."
"Don't think I don't understand what that dish means! Hmph! So what if I'm an otaku? Have you ever seen such a beautiful otaku like me?"
Motoari Niya snorted coldly, striking a seductive pose and winking at Inaba Tsukiyo.
"…No chest, no butt, and you're already half of a person approaching a hundred years old, yet you're still pretending to be young here."
"You… you're rude!"
"You're shameless."
"What do you mean, shameless! I'm naturally beautiful! I only look seventeen! How dare you say I'm pretending to be young!"
"Why not? Since you say you're seventeen, can't you just take what I say as a joke? Are you feeling guilty?"
"…"
Deep breaths, calm down, Nia. You can't lose your temper. Even if you do, it's useless.
She's someone who can take on DEM Industries alone. Even if that woman were present, she probably couldn't defeat so many titans.
And you still need her protection right now. Ignore these words. Calm down, calm down.
Actually, Inaba Tsukiyo was the least qualified to say such things. She was also very aware that her situation was even more serious than Nia's.
Nia was only in her forties, while her age could be described in centuries, completely incomparable to Nia's.
Of course, as long as she didn't say it, how could Nia possibly know?
"Back to the main topic, your idea is very good. Technology completely different from DEM Industries, and overwhelming strength, all of these can put pressure on them. And your technology for moving titans is something this world doesn't have. While they are wary of you, they definitely also want to defeat you. Then, they'll try to acquire these unknown technologies from you to enhance their own combat power."
"The technology for moving titans… Oh~ you mean quantumization. This technology indeed doesn't belong to this world."
Quantumizing the body and then reconstructing it in another location, this technology is somewhat similar to the teleportation technology on Kotori's Bridge.
But quantumization can teleport a large number of titans simultaneously, which is where Ratatoskr and DEM Industries cannot compare.
"Your position in this organization is the BOSS, and titans are weapons. So, you also need captains to lead these titans in battle, which are the mini-BOSSes."
"Hmm? Godfather and other advanced titans should be able to fill that role, right?"
"That's true. But those are machines, and they are reproducible, which means they are consumables. What you need is to deter these people, which means having self-awareness and combat power stronger than both Father and the titans."
"…Having self-awareness, and combat power stronger than titans… right?"
She hadn't thought of this. According to the Herrscher's power, it wasn't impossible to give Father or Godfather human-like abilities similar to Bella's.
It's just that these were her trump cards, and she couldn't use such abilities unless absolutely necessary.
Then… now, only one other ability could be utilized.
Looking at the ring in her hand, it had been a long time since she had used this ability. She wondered if using the power within this ring could create something fun.
"By the way, Shiori's school seems to be Raizen High School, right? It's a bit embarrassing, but this plan sounds interesting."
DEM Inc. hasn't made much of a move, and I don't know what those guys are planning. I hope they don't mess around and drag everyone in Amamiya City into it.
There are still a few days until the weekend, and Shiori and Inaba Tsukiyo's date is getting closer.
On this day, in the second-year office of Raizen High School, a little girl with silver hair and a black-haired girl stood before a cute teacher.
This black-haired girl was Tokisaki Kurumi, whom he had met before. For some reason, she became a student at Raizen High School, and she was even in Shiori's class.
The cute teacher in front of them was Shiori's class teacher, named Okamine Tamae, a twenty-nine-year-old single woman.
"If the principal hadn't told me about this, I would never have believed you were a high school student, Illya."
"Hehe~ Teacher, you're very pretty too."
"Teacher isn't talking about that, but thank you for the compliment. I'll take you both to the classroom to say hello to everyone in a bit. Don't be nervous."
Although she didn't understand how Illya got into Laichan Middle School, Okamine Tamae still took her and Kurumi to the classroom.
While Okamine Tamae was greeting the other students, Illya and Kurumi stood outside the door, looking at each other.
"You… are very special, Illya. There's a very attractive scent about you."
"You're very special too, Tokisaki-san. I wonder if the left eye you're covering is as pretty as the other one."
Illya said thoughtfully, which made Kurumi narrow her eyes and become wary.
Kurumi and Illya entered the classroom under Okamine Tamae's greeting, and as they entered, the chatter in the classroom ceased.
"My name is Tokisaki Kurumi. By the way, I am… a Spirit."
Kurumi wrote her name on the blackboard first and introduced herself to everyone with a smile.
There were no other actions, but Kurumi's smile made the classmates burst into enthusiastic applause.
"This… this is indeed a very unique self-introduction, Classmate Kurumi."
Okamine Tamae clapped her hands with a somewhat subtle expression and said with a smile.
"Because I'm not very familiar with this school yet, even if it's after school, would you mind showing me around the school?"
Tilting her head, Kurumi said with a smile, her eyes thoughtfully looking at Shiori, who was sitting in the back of the classroom.
"Could I trouble you, Mr. Shido?"
Shiori's expression clearly froze, and under everyone's envious gazes, he stiffly nodded.
"Alright, thank you very much for Classmate Kurumi's self-introduction. Now, let's hear the next student introduce herself."
Okamine Tamae wiped the sweat from her forehead. Although it was a bit confusing, Kurumi's introduction was finally over. Now it was Illya's turn.
"Yes~"
Illya cutely raised her hand, went to the blackboard, and quickly wrote her full name with chalk.
"Illyasviel von Einzbern. I used to live abroad. I've always been fascinated by Neon's anime culture. If anyone is interested, would you like to chat with me?"
Illya's words made the eyes of certain groups in the class light up. This was a girl who liked anime!
This was a rare species. Many girls didn't like anime, so it was unexpected that such a cute Little Loli would like anime.
(fuhai: I don't think girls dislike anime; they just dislike sloppy otaku. After all, this world still values appearances.)
"That! Can you tell us what type of anime you like, Illya?!"
"Me? I really like Magical Girl. Hehe~ Representing justice and friendship, Magical Girl Illya is here!"
As she spoke, she made a V-sign with her hand next to her eye. This cute gesture made the Boys roar loudly.
Okamine Tamae nodded in satisfaction. She had been a little worried that Illya would make a very unique self-introduction like Kurumi, but it seemed quite normal after all.
After the introductions, Okamine Tamae told Illya and Kurumi to find seats below.
As Illya approached a seat near Shiori, she accidentally bumped Shiori's desk, and the pen on the desk fell to the floor because of the impact.
Shiori squatted down to pick it up, but Illya also squatted down to help pick up Shiori's pen.
"Um… thank you."
"You're welcome, Demon Queen."
"!!!"
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