NEET Received A Dating Sim System Part 1 (ch.1-200)

Chapter 168 - Spirit's Arrival!

Today was the final day of the scheduled duel.

This meant that Okubo Yoshiaki was certain to attack tonight, otherwise he would be considered to have forfeited by default.

After several days of working hard at [Visualization], Seiji's [Spiritual Power] had already reached 39 points! His Spiritual Power was now equivalent to a Spirit-branded Retainer's.

Natsuya signed a contract with him so that he could become her temporary Spirit-branded Retainer.

Since he was just supposed to be a bystander, the president wasn't going to share a large portion of her Spiritual Power with him, nor was she going to summon a powerful spirit for him, or use any taxing Mana support spells on him, but... a Spirit-branded Retainer was still a Spirit-branded Retainer!

Even the lowest level of Spirit-branded Retainers was already considered formidable among Spiritual Ability users.

According to Natsuya's explanation, the term "Spiritual Ability user" referred to the special group of people that had Spiritual Power and were capable of using their Mana. There was also a simple, widely used measure of power, which ranged from levels one through to nine.

Level one was considered a dirt-poor idle fish, while level nine was a wealthy scion... yep, there was no problem with understanding it like that.

Even the lowest-level Spirit-branded Retainers were at least considered level two, which meant that they could crush most dirt-poor... whoops, ordinary Spiritual Ability users. The slightly stronger Spirit-branded Retainers could even reach level three.

Although the power level system for Spiritual Ability users only took Spiritual Power and Mana level into consideration and had nothing to do with actual combat ability, having more money... er, having more Spiritual Power would doubtlessly result in a higher combat capability, which was why most Spiritual Ability users' combat strength were equivalent to their power levels.

Even so, it wasn't considered abnormal for a level-one Spiritual Ability user to defeat someone at level two, as there were always exceptions. If an idle fish was desperate enough, it could take out an ordinary player.

That's why you shouldn't look down on idle fish!

Cough, Seiji had accidentally gotten too excited.

At any rate, Seiji was looking forward to becoming a temporary Spirit-branded Retainer and wanted to experience what it was like to become even stronger.

His summoning... contracting time was scheduled after lunch. This way, he would have some time before evening to get used to what it was like to become a Spirit-branded Retainer.

At lunch, Seiji ate together with Shika as usual.

He didn't mention the topic of the upcoming duel at all and instead focused on chatting about "Brother Monogatari" with Shika. He hoped that this way, she wouldn't be too worried about him.

Shika noticed his intention and cooperated by not mentioning the upcoming duel either.

But there was one thing that she had to do.

Seiji was preparing to leave after they finished eating lunch.

He paused when Shika called out to him. "Brother Seiji... this is for you," she said.

Using both hands, Shika handed him a red protective talisman with gold letters embroidered on it. Seiji looked down and saw that it said "Keep Thy Owner Safe."

"This... where did it come from?"

Seiji accepted it with quite some surprise.

"I made it... I asked Houjou-san for the materials to make it."