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Chapter 135: Disappearance

Chapter 135: Disappearance

Emilia: —So Algol's behavior has been rather... sporadic? Hmm, I think I can understand what you mean. Puck too had a habit of coming and going. Sometimes for days.

Trying to avoid the subject that was still the elephant in the room, that was incredibly hard to do given the topic which Emilia and YN discussed.

YN: Well, Algol usually just seems to leave me high and dry at the worst times... But not always. It's maybe a fifty-fifty chance when I need them. But uhhh...

Crinkling his pant legs in his hands as he sat by Emilia's bedside, YN eventually felt forced to sigh in defeat.

It's too hard to just not say anything at all.

YN: Emilia-sama... I'm really sorry about Puck. If this is really too difficult of a subject to talk about, we can—

Emilia: —I-It's really not! It's sort of helping, if anything. I've already accepted what's happened... but that doesn't mean I can stop being sad about it...

YN: I can understand that... I'd be extremely sad if Algol left too, but Puck was sort of like a father figure to you. I can't imagine what that must feel like...

Cradling the broken pyroxene crystal that still hung from her neck, Emilia looked at it for a second before responding.

Emilia: There are a lot of differences between Puck and Algol, but there's a lot of things that make them similar just because they're spirits. Like, they both need a crystal to return to when they don't need to be manifested in their physical form. For as powerful as Puck was, he could only keep his form from dawn to dusk. Algol I'm sure is no different. That might be why they don't appear at times when you need them. Without a crystal to store themselves in, they're reeeeeeaaally unable to regulate their own mana.

YN: So I really need to get on that then, huh? I recall Julius having six for his six spirits. He hung them from his belt.

Nodding to YN, Emilia confirmed that fact to him.

Emilia: Many spirit arts users hang their contacted spirit's crystal on them in the form of jewelry or simply in a pouch. Mine had to be of peculiar quality to house Puck. I suspect Algol being a full fledged spirit and not a quasi-spirit like Julius' will need a higher quality one as well.

YN: That's understandable. I want to find them a nice one. But, something still makes me curious... How is it that Beatrice doesn't need to sleep like Puck does? Does she have a crystal of her own that she just keeps hidden?

Is Beatrice like some kind of magical girl that needs to keep her soul gem free of impurities???

Giving YN a weak expression in reply, Emilia struggled to give him an answer.

Emilia: Beatrice gets her mana from everyone in the Mansion... She siphons off some of it here and there from the residents... She then stores it in the Forbidden Library.

YN: I guess that explains why she was always so gungho to steal mine or Subaru's mana... But how did Puck and Beatrice both manage to have actual bodies? Every other spirit I've ever seen is just a speck of light...

Emilia: Very powerful ones are able to manifest a form... I remember the former Great Spirit of Fire was a flaming horse of sorts...

Opening his eyes wide at that, YN figured that the origins of such phenomena were indeed rare.

Sure, I know two spirits with physical forms, but one is in the Mansion of the most powerful magician in the Kingdom, and the other is contracted to Emilia, who's a candidate for the throne after all...