Mio.
She was very strange yet familiar to humans and the Gods.
She was the mysterious third-ranked on the Eternal Beauty List, and the girlfriend of Kanzaki Hikaru, that 'playboy'. Now, after seeing Mio's race: Origin Spirit, many people had just realized.
"That's right, I knew Mio, who could enter the top three of the Eternal Beauty List, defeating Great Yōkai Hagoromo Gitsune, Seraph Gabriel... and other mythical-level beautiful women, must not be ordinary."
"Paradise Lost... This Divine Artifact doesn't exist in myths and legends..."
"Spirit?! I remember Tokisaki Kurumi, Yamai Yuzuru, Yoshino... all these people are also Spirits."
"That's right, Origin Spirit, does that mean Mio is a unique existence among Spirits?"
"Perhaps... judging from her having the Divine Artifact Paradise Lost that occupies seventh place on the Divine Artifact List, we can know. Although it doesn't rule out the possibility that Spirits like Tokisaki Kurumi also have them, that possibility is very low at the moment."
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"Wait, look at the Divine Artifact List, it seems an Additional Introduction will appear."
"Very strange, the Additional Introductions on the previous Dimensional Lists always appeared immediately. Now it's as if there's interference!"
"..."
The text slowly appearing on the Divine Artifact List seemed to be disturbed by something invisible. Sometimes visible, sometimes not. However, soon, the supreme magnificent power in the list passed through, and everything became calm again. The text also appeared slowly as usual.
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[Additional Introduction: Spirits—Mysterious existences that exist in a neighboring world different from this world. Possess strong combat abilities, and when they appear in this world, they cause massive explosions and what is called Space Quakes. Such individuals have diverse appearances, but their commonality is they all have strong combat abilities, and their figures are all young women.]
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[Additional Introduction: Angels—Unique powers or abilities of Spirits. These miracles that have physical form are also called
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[Additional Introduction: Origin Spirit—Is the Spirit Queen, Mother and origin of all Spirits. All Spirits that currently exist were born from fragments of Spirit Crystals she separated. They are parts of her power, and she has absolute dominion over the Spirits...]
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"This Origin Spirit is really more excessive than we imagined!"
"So this is what Origin Spirit means, it's natural that such a transcendent existence has a weapon ranked sixth on the Divine Artifact List!"
"..."
Not just ordinary humans were shocked by Mio's identity.
Yomi and Utaha at the Super Disaster Countermeasure Office stared at the Divine Artifact List with serious eyes.
"Origin Spirit is truly an extraordinary existence!!"
"Hikaru, how did that bastard get involved with such an existence."
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Onmyō Academy.
Eriri pouted her lips, with a slight sense of reluctance and unwillingness to lose on her face.
What kind of existence were Spirits?
After she joined Onmyō Academy, she had learned a lot. They were all natural disasters that couldn't be resisted by humans. Now Hikaru's girlfriend was the Origin Spirit, the source of those natural disasters.
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Exorcists Group.
"Hmph, what a traitor!"
Kazusa snorted coldly.
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Grigori.
"I really don't know what's special about that man." Shinobu said irritably.
"Perhaps, Hikaru-kun has a unique charm that's very attractive to girls." Kanae said with a smile.
Seeing her sister still showing signs of 'old love not yet extinguished' for this 'playboy', Shinobu could only sigh in her heart.
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At the training ground of the Shiomiya residence.
Kaguya, Asuna, Kuroyukihime... and the others looked at each other.
As women who had close relationships with Hikaru, they were already very curious about his current girlfriend, Mio. Minor information about her, aside from what they knew from the previous Eternal Beauty List, the rest came from Kuroyukihime.
Every time Kuroyukihime talked about Mio, she always showed a bit of fear. It was really hard to imagine, a woman like Kuroyukihime could also show such an expression.
Now that they knew Mio was the Origin Spirit, how should they put it—
Their respective feelings were mixed, there was surprise, but greater was a sense of reluctance because they didn't know how to compete.
That was the Origin Spirit.
In other words, was the place where Hikaru stood really a place they could climb, or replace?
The atmosphere was silent.
"Hey, hey... rather than exaggerating yourselves wanting to compete with Mio, it's better for you to think about how to escape from her, so as not to be completely eliminated."
Kurumi's clone nearby immediately saw through these little girls' thoughts.
Just like her at that time.
In front of Mio, she wanted to have Shin all to herself, but the result was Mio directly sending her to the neighboring world when Shin wasn't paying attention. After that, it took an unknown amount of time for her to finally 'crawl out'.
"That person is the most 'stingy' ever, and also very easily jealous!"
"...This!!!"
Instantly, Kaguya, Kuroyukihime... and the others were shocked, clearly forgetting this.
It seemed no woman wanted her boyfriend to be shared, and Yuriko who was silent nearby even nodded, rarely agreeing with Kurumi's view. Clearly, something had happened between Yuriko and Mio because of Hikaru.
"How strong is she... Mio, Hikaru's current girlfriend?"
Kuroyukihime raised the question that everyone present wanted to know. Even Rias couldn't help but perk up her ears and listen with curiosity.
After all, although they knew Mio was the Origin Spirit, the origin of all Spirits, she must be far stronger than Kurumi. But how strong, at what level, they had no rough idea.
"Little girls, isn't it all written on the Divine Artifact List!"
The one who spoke wasn't Kurumi, Yuriko, or Ai who was being asked, but Ddraig from the Boosted Gear on Asuna's hand.
Written?! What does that mean?!!
"Is it The Other Side Realm?" Kaguya asked doubtfully.
"The Other Side Realm, the ultimate destination of all living beings in the world!!!"
"Still the end of the cultivation path!"
"The Other Side Realm—"