We retired to our rooms shortly after the party. When I reached my room. Which Kuro had forced her way into. Sakura standing at my door with a serious look.
"Sakura? Something wrong?"
Kuro just went in the room without engaging. She was tired. She doesn't like those kinds of environments.
"Ryu I've figured out that thing you asked about."
I racked my brain because I couldn't immediately remember what she was talking about. Then it hit me, and my eyes widened.
"Ah right I asked mother for access to the Fourth research lab's notes for you. So you could see if you could find out how to increase someone calculation area."
The calculation area was a frankly poorly explained thing in the story. Here it's much more obvious. The novel mentioned it's not actually a physical part of a magician and is poorly understood. It's a metaphysical organ rather than a physical one. While a regular calculation area can be trained and grow it's incredibly difficult. Tatsuya's artificial calculation area that his mother implanted into him actually cannot grow. Which is why his calculation strength never got better.
So I was curious could Sakura, an AI with power beyond comprehension, figure it out. Must've been difficult because I asked her a week ago.
"Yes I've figured out how to artificially increase your calculation area. Are you sure you want to though? it honestly seems unnecessary to me with your strength."
She had a good point, but I feel like I've been becoming complacent. And honestly I'm starting to get tired of feeling like I need to play second fiddle to Tatsuya and Miyuki. At first I thought everything would be okay when they take charge. But over time the more I thought about it the more I didn't like it. In fact I hated it.
So I figured If the old people won't recognize me because I'm adopted into the family I'll make them. I haven't told mother yet, but for some reason I think she would agree. She holds a grudge against a lot of the older generation, as well as some of her generation as well.
"Your right it isn't necessary. However I want to leave no room for error in my plans."
She smiled very happily. In a honestly unsettling way.
"That's great~ if that's what you want. Just know this will her a lot~"
Her grin quickly became sadistic. Making me think she made the process painful on purpose however…
Is it wrong that i find her unreasonably attractive right now. I'm not a masochist, but in the immortal words of a certain space cowboy. "I love a woman who can kill me."
We entered the room. Kuro was already passed out and exhausted. Sakura then cast two spells. One to make sure Kuro stayed asleep, and another to isolate the room.
"Okay~ just take off your shirt. Then, lay face down Ryu-Chan.~"
She's definitely enjoying this. I complied and layed on the bed. She proceed to straddle my back.
Damn her ass and thighs are soft. No, stop no horny right now.
She placed her hand just above my head and then…
—pov Sakura (BB if people forgot)—
Ryu-Chan started twitching and spasmming in pain. Aaaaahhh so cute. No screaming though this is too painful for that. He's doing a great job staying conscious. His magic does really crank up his physical durability by a lot.
I think if it were any other magician there's a high chance they'd die of a heart attack. That or suffer total ego death if their body survived. The mental aspect wasn't a problem his magic prevented it from crushing his ego to dust. So all he has to deal with was the feeling of his entire nervous system be set on fire for 30 minutes.
25 minutes passed.
Wow. He's still conscious at this point, although barely. I wonder if he'll last the whole time. Too bad this is probably a one time thing. I'm not really enjoying this anymore. Got tired of it after the first 10 minutes to be honest. 0/10 not enough screaming.
the final 5 minutes passed.
—pov back to Ryu—
That was fucking awful. I'm starting to suspect she didn't make it painful on purpose. Because any other magician would've probably died from that. Thank the gods for dragon slayer magic. I could vaguely feel someone say your welcome.
Doesn't mean she didn't enjoy it though. Now that my senses weren't assaulted by constant pain. I felt a wet spot on my back. I chose not to comment though.
Sakura got off my back. My mind felt very hazy due to my adrenaline suddenly crashing I managed to flip myself over before passing out.
I woke up the next day with a slight headache and soreness everywhere. Thankfully events dont start tomorrow although my events aren't till next week. My thoughts felt faster. I felt like I could cast my non dragon slayer magic much faster now. Then my vision suddenly shifted. Everything was blue. Huh, I guess this was an unintended side effect. I now had the same elemental sight that Tatsuya and Kudou Minoru have.
Huh Tatsuya's right I do look weird in the eidos. I look wrong and glitchy. Like staring at an eldritch horror with out the insanity aspect. It's wrong and uncomfortable. Well this will come in handy when I go into combat. It's not like anyone can detect it being used. At least not that I can remember. Now that I think about it I forgot to ask how much the enhancement was. She wasn't in the room. Wether she stayed here or not I have no clue. Kuros gone off as well.
I looked at the clock 11:00am. Yeah that tracks I passed out around 10:00pm. I went about lunch. And wandered around until I found Sakura.
"Oh the enhancement? it should be around 400-500% of what you previously had."
My eyes widens at that statement.
Okay that was way more than i expected but I was glad my suffering wasn't for something as small as a 50% increase. My mental calculation area went from the "just above average" of my childhood to probably firmly in the monstrous category.
We chatting for awhile more Sakura declaring she wanted to go on a date after the competition. I had no reason to refuse. As much as I said that we should get to know each other more. I couldn't deny I wanted her.
I've noticed I'm getting more possessive lately. Hmm, even though I'm not becoming a dragon physically because of a lack of dragon seed. I've started noticing I have some dragon like tendencies. I go absolutely ballistic if someone goes after things I care about. I'm possessive of Kuro and Sakura. And I hate being under others I don't respect.
I'm okay with mother and major Kazama. Mother goes with out saying as one of, if not, the strongest magicians in the world. And major Kazama has a great work ethic and admirable goals. Honestly I don't respect Tatsuya. In fact I pity him in my eyes despite his monstrous unique magical abilities and intellect that's all he has. And honestly I don't like his dream either. He wants to make magicians more accepted by showing they are not just weapons. Through using magic to help with mundane things like power generation for example. While a noble goal it is ultimately naive. The things created would be good, revolutionary even. But people would still not accept magicians.
Just because a weapon can be used for something else doesn't make it any less a weapon. We magicians were born weapons and that how the mundane will always see us. And honestly I'm okay with that. If magicians weren't able to fight I'd lose all purpose.
Ironic in my original world I was a coward. Hell I admit I threw up when mother had me fight a death row inmate to the death as training. But now I enjoy a good scrap. Though stomping ants is boring. I hope my events will be mildly interesting. After all off my CQC spells can't be used. This is due to physical combat not allowed in monolith code and it's impractical to use in ice pillars break.
The day passed idly as there were no events day one.
The next day Kuro practically dragged me out of bed. She wanted to see the "chief's", as she called Mari watanabe, battle board match." We arrived at the venue meeting up with Sakura along the way. We ended sitting near Tatsuya's group. And honestly not because we wanted to the stands were packed.
"Honoka, Shizuku, been awhile since we last talked."
"Yeah it's been awhile Ryu."
"Oh h-hi Ryu"
Honoka is as nervous as usual around me. Meh can't blame her. I can casually obliterate a building with a punch. I'd be scared of me too if I were her. Oh fuck, I just realized I'm going to have to hold back soooo much in monolith code.
"Yo! Ryu what wrong you seem upset?"
"Nothing Erika, just realized I'm going to have to hold back to an extreme degree in monolith code. Don't want to be disqualified after all."
Everyone but Erika, Mikihiko, and Tatsuya didn't understand what I was implying by that. Sakura and Kuro naturally understood as well.
Soon the competitors moved to the starting line.
"Hm casting three spells at once isn't easy."
It's less a matter of calculation. And more splitting your concentration to maintain each spell. Well I guess you can't multi cast if you have ADHD.
"Your right. It takes a lot of skill and practice to do so."
Other than that observation nothing interesting happened. Mari won the qualifying round just like in the novel.
Authors note
The realm is under renovations
Tired starting Monday I'll be shifting my focus to my tensura fic for the week. That's not to say I won't work or post chapters for this they just won't be the focus. So I'll write them should I have ideas or free time.