[Its last user was the latter.]
Kanbe Hikaru did not respond.
He simply reached out and gently stroked the smooth bony surface.
"If there's a chance, I will tell your story to his grandsons and granddaughters."
Kanbe Hikaru said, "When they grow up and are able to lift you."
[Hiraikotsu: Favorability +5]
[Current Favorability: 82]
[It... it is a little moved.]
Continue.
Kanbe Hikaru took a deep breath.
He began to tell a story.
He spoke of his experience transmigrating to this world, how he turned from a corpse into an Oni Samurai, and how he had walked step by step to reach today.
Hiraikotsu did not speak.
But its favorability was rising.
...
The moon rose, and Kanbe Hikaru looked at the numbers on the panel.
[Current Favorability: 97]
Just 3 points short.
He thought for a moment and pulled out Yura of the Hair's comb from his robes.
"Look, this is a demon I recently subdued."
He placed the comb next to Hiraikotsu.
"From now on, you'll be colleagues."
[Yura of the Hair expressed her protest. She didn't want to be colleagues with a pile of bones.]
[Hiraikotsu: It glanced at the comb.]
[It told you that the Demonic Qi of this comb is not pure enough and needs to be purified.]
[Yura of the Hair got even angrier.]
Kanbe Hikaru smiled.
[Hiraikotsu: Favorability +3]
[Current Favorability: 100 (Perfect)]
[Congratulations, you have unlocked all bonds with 'Hiraikotsu'.]
[Special Ability Unlocked: Bone Soul]
[Effect: A fusion of Bone Hardening and Bone Proliferation. You can freely control the hardness, shape, and growth direction of your own bones, and you can control their 'movement'. Your bones can grow and protrude from any position in your body, and can be freely shaped outside the body.]
[Hiraikotsu conveyed a final message to you: 'You are a good person, even though you aren't human.']
['Now, let me lend you a hand.']
Kanbe Hikaru looked at the giant bone boomerang.
It began to glow.
A yellowish-white light overflowed from the bone surface, climbing up his arm, preparing to seep into his skin—
Then.
It stopped.
[Fusion Failed]
The light lingered on the surface of his skin for a few seconds.
Then it slowly receded back into Hiraikotsu's body.
[Hiraikotsu expressed confusion. What's going on? My ability can't get in?]
Kanbe Hikaru looked at the warning on the panel.
Yet there was no panic on his face.
He had also expected this long ago.
The ability obtained from Hiraikotsu was, without a doubt, a structural change of the body rather than a change in essential attributes.
It belonged to Physical Transformation, not Materialization.
And within the scope of Physical Transformation, Six Transformations was already the limit.
This was something he had known three months ago.
The Six Transformations corresponded to the six limbs that a living organism could autonomously control.
And his Six Transformations,
Each transformation corresponded to a part of the body.
Theoretically, it was impossible to add another transformation.
To some extent, this was why he only had six types of abilities even now.
It wasn't because he had only completed the walkthrough for six 'artifacts', but because this was his limit, not the system's limit.
But—
"Who says one transformation can only correspond to one ability?"
Kanbe Hikaru didn't panic at all; he truly had thought about this problem long ago.
Six Transformations was the limit, but the content of those Six Transformations was not fixed.
Just like how a person has two hands but can have ten fingers.
A single hand can also use ten fingers to make countless gestures.
One transformation could actually accommodate multiple abilities.
The prerequisite was—those abilities must be of the same type.
And it just so happened that among the 'transformations' he had previously obtained, there was one regarding bone.
—Shield Bone Transformation.
That was the ability he obtained from his fifth transformation; it was a change that made bones hard to form a natural shield.
And what were the abilities brought by Hiraikotsu?
Hardening, hyperplasia, and... Soul.
All were related to bones.
All were of the same type.
"Then, let's just proceed with the fusion."
Kanbe Hikaru closed his eyes.
Fusion was not addition; it was multiplication.
"It is about merging the new ability into the old transformation."
The yellowish-white light surged once more.
This time, it did not attempt to open a new channel.
Instead, it followed the existing meridians within Kanbe Hikaru's body and found the path belonging to [Shield Bone Transformation].
Then.
Merge, overlap.
Then, sublimate.
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