Hajin watched Loccy clutch the split apple while the explanation he demanded finally crawled onto his private panel.
[ Soul Form Conversion | The Veil Holds Female Souls from Many Living Species ]
[ Nonhumanoid Soul: Human-Compatible Vessel Reconstructed | Conversion Requires Additional Mana ]
He read both rows twice while her new fingers hunted for another way to stop the fruit escaping.
'A hare went in, a body built to match mine came out, and my core paid for every extra part.'
That finally explained the brutal drain from earlier, though understanding it gave his scorched channels exactly zero relief right now. Knowing the cause of a beating never once made the bruises hurt less, and these bruises lived inside his mana.
"Okay, mystery solved," he announced, jabbing a finger at nothing anyone else could see, "the System rebuilt a whole human-style body around her soul, and that's where the extra mana went."
