Key

The moment the forum opened, Ryota was overwhelmed with a wave of messages.

　　Queen Bee: "Shiro-chan, what is the progress in solving the death crisis? Did it work?"

　　Queen Bee: "Shiro-chan?"

　　Queen Bee: "Why don't you talk anymore?"

　　Queen bee: "..."

　　Queen Bee: "Hey! Talk back!"

　　Queen Bee : "If you do this again, I will ignore you!"

　　Queen bee: "..."

　　Queen Bee: "Respond quickly when you see it! If not, I will consider you dead."

　　...

　　Seeing the series of messages, the corners of Ryota's mouth twitched.

　　Only then did he remember that he had promised to remind Misaki after the death incident was successfully resolved.

　　As a result, he gets delayed due to the Kayako problem, and has another adventure halfway through, and completely forgets about it.

　　But the flow of time on Misaki's side is also a bit strange, why does it feel fast and slow?

　　When he added Hayasaka Ai's forum friend in the previous safe house, this message was not delivered.

　　(She must be angry, right?)

　　Seeing the light screen, Ryota hesitated whether to reply to the message or not.

　　If he sent a message now, if seen, he definitely wouldn't be able to escape the scolding.

　　Or... keep playing dead?

　　After thinking about it, Ryota felt that it was better not to run away.

　　The little girl cared about him very much, and he didn't even reply to the message, which was a bit unreasonable.

　　Shiro: "It's safely resolved."

　　Shiro: "Sorry, I've been too busy lately. I just finished the Grim Reaper incident, and I met a fierce ghost again, it was really dangerous to solve it. I was busy, and I didn't see your message until now, sorry."

　　Shiro: "I'm fine here, don't worry. By the way, how was the problem on your end resolved? Has the person you wanted to save recovered?"

　　After sending three messages in a row, there was no response from Misaki.

　　Looks like the forum is not she does not see the forum.

　　Unfortunately the guild doesn't have a message notification function, and can only be seen after actively opening the forum.

　　Seeing that Misaki didn't immediately respond, Ryota let her go instead.

　　It's true that avoidance is embarrassing but rewarding.

　　He sent a message to Hayasaka again.

　　Shiro: "Hayasaka, did you know that ghosts drop transparent crystals after being killed?"

　　After sending, Ryota took out his phone and sent another email to Hayasaka, reminding her to go to the guild forum.

　　After a while.

　　A message appears on the forum.

　　Smithee A. Herthaka-chan: "You won't get the key? You are lucky!"

　　Shiro: "Keys?"

　　Smithee A. Herthaka-chan: "This is the basis for spiritual training. After killing a relatively strong ghost, there is a chance that the ghost will be condensed."

　　Hayasaka begins to give Ryota the essence of extraordinary power in this world.

　　Simply put, there is something called "spirit" in the world.

　　Between the real and the unreal.

　　It is also known as [Ether], [Mana] and so on.

　　Spirit is the source of life.

　　Because what builds and forms the soul is the spirit.

　　Like air, spirit fills the space between heaven and earth.

　　And unlike the air, the spirit also exists in the space of the universe.

　　In theory, because the soul is composed of spirit particles. So absorbing a lot of this kind of thing can make your soul stronger?

　　The answer is yes.

　　But humans have no way to absorb spiritual particles to strengthen their own souls.

　　The human soul does not have this quality.

　　However, since the emergence of the [Red Advent] phenomenon, ghosts have slowly appeared in the world.

　　The limit of this rule is violated.

　　Ghosts can absorb human souls to evolve continuously. In fact, they are absorption spirits by nature.

　　Because the soul consists of particles of spirit.

　　And when a ghost with powerful strength and an extremely stable spirit body is killed.

　　This ability to absorb spiritual particles has a certain chance of manifesting in crystal form.

　　When humans absorb these crystals, they will acquire the property of absorbing spiritual particles.

　　This is equivalent to opening a psionic system with a key.

　　Ryota understands.

　　In Xianxia novels, a simple metaphor is that killing ghosts has the opportunity to uproot spiritual roots.

　　Smithee A. Herthaka-chan: "Of course, not everyone can absorb the key. The conditions were harsh. If ordinary people absorb it, their soul will only collapse directly under the influence of the spirit, and there will be no second result. "

　　Smithee A. Herthaka-chan: "As for who can absorb the key, according to the information I got, it seems to be related to whether or not the spirit is strong. Of course, this kind of potential doesn't just depend on talent alone, like as the two major alliances, there is a way to breed people like that."

　　Shiro: "Spirit? Doesn't that mean that after adding the spirit attribute and holding the crystal, we can all activate the psionic system?"

　　Smithee A. Herthaka-chan: "In theory it is, but I don't know how strong the spiritual attribute is."

　　Smithee A. Herthaka-chan: "I only know that on the side of the Kendo Alliance, those who have cultivated sword intent are qualified to absorb the lock."

　　Shiro: "Sword intent?"

　　What's that?

　　Why did the atmosphere suddenly change to a fantasy fairy tale?

　　Smithee A. Herthaka-chan: "This is a special attack, like a sword slash, that not only deals physical damage, but also has a very slight mental hallucinogenic effect. It feels like the embodiment of a strong will."

　　Smithee A. Herthaka-chan: "Someone mentioned it on the forums. It seems that once the spiritual attribute value exceeds 100, a similar ability will be generated."

　　Shiro: "100... My spirit's attribute is now 60, after breaking through 100, I can give it a try."

　　Shiro: "Can psychics kill people and absorb souls? After all, they inherited the characteristics of ghosts. This aspect should be more dangerous, no?"

　　Smithee A. Herthaka-chan: "It is possible, and absorbing souls is many times faster than simply absorbing spirit particles."

　　Smithee A. Herthaka-chan: "However, doing that would be suicidal! Actively absorbing a different soul is the same as inheriting someone else's personality, memories, hobbies, feelings, and will be self-destructive."

　　Shiro: "Is that so, no wonder ghosts don't seem to have any consciousness, they only know how to let go of hatred and attack humans."

　　Smithee A. Herthaka-chan: "Yes, the ghost itself has no consciousness, which is equivalent to abandoning the self, leaving only the law of killing, so that it can continue to integrate other people's souls."

　　Shiro: "Thank you Hayasaka, this information is very valuable to me."

　　Smithee A. Herthaka-chan: "I'm glad I could help you."

　　Smithee A. Herthaka-chan: "I'm very sleepy, I'll sleep first. I will contact you tomorrow if there is anything to do."

　　Shiro: "Okay, good night."

　　Smithee A. Herthaka-chan: "Okay, good night."

　　After exiting the forum, Ryota took out a transparent crystal from his pocket, looked at it for a while, and was a bit lost in thought.

　　Didn't expect the key to unlocking the psionic system to be this?

　　"The [Red Advent] phenomenon creates ghosts, and ghosts create psionic systems… This world really is full of secrets!"

　　Ryota is like a cat, he is very curious.

　　At the same time, he thought of the Ming Hong Sword, and suddenly felt a little helpless again.

　　Ming Hong's sword was bought for 30,000 points. It hasn't activated its military system yet, but a free psionic system has arrived first.

　　Now, he only needed to go on one more adventure, earn some points, and raise his spirit attribute to 100, then he could cultivate spiritual power.

　　So which one to choose?

　　(Forget it, there's no point in getting involved with this kind of thing at this stage. After all, I'm lacking the state of both systems right now. Alas, let nature take its course.)

　　After thinking it over in his mind, Ryota calmed down, leaned back in the chair, and rested.

　　The night outside the car window gradually deepens.

At 11:30 pm, he finally came home.

　　The driver respectfully opened the car door for him, watched him walk towards the fence, and then drove away from the residential area.

　　Ryota entered Shirogane's courtyard and glanced sideways.

　　The previously destroyed wall has been repaired.

　　However, his broken bedroom was not finished.

　　In order not to disturb the other members of the Shirogane family, Ryota didn't ring the bell or knock on the door, and jumped straight from the ground, and jumped into the bedroom on the second floor through the broken window.

　　Then he walked lightly towards the study room that Miyuki had tidied up earlier.

　　There is a new bedroom.

　　But as soon as he entered the passage, he glanced towards the stairs and found that the light in the living room on the first floor was still on.

　　Ryota was stunned for a moment, and immediately walked towards the first floor.

　　After arriving at the living room, the figures of Miyuki and Kei came into view.

　　The two of them were studying at the dinner table, and there were several reference books on the table.

　　Kei's sleeping time was normal, although Miyuki was usually a bit late, it was due to a delay in studying due to his part-time job, so he needed to make up for it at night.

　　Now that the summer work was over, it made sense that neither of them would be staying up late.

　　Maybe waiting for him to come back.

　　"Cough…!" Ryota coughed breaking the silence in the living room.

　　Both of them were immediately attracted.

　　"Nii-san?" Miyuki was the first to stand up.

　　Seeing that Ryota had no obvious injuries, he had a relieved look on his face.

　　"You're finally back! Wait for me, I'll heat up the food."

　　"No, it's late, don't bother." Ryota hastily stopped.

　　Too bad Miyuki had already gone into the kitchen, and said as he did:

　　"Soon, wait a moment."

　　"Why are you so sure I didn't eat…"

　　Ryota reluctantly pulled a stool from the dining table and sat down.

　　"Didn't you say you were busy all the time?"

　　Kei raised her head and glanced at him, her tone slightly cold.

　　Obviously, still angry with the previous phone call.

　　He even said that he could hug her after he came back… Doesn't this man know that a hug means "intimacy between a man and a woman" in Japanese!

　　"I haven't had dinner yet."

　　Ryota saw that Kei was a little angry, so he asked:

　　"What's wrong, Kai?"

　　"...There isn't anything!"

　　Kei blushed slightly, subconsciously changed the subject and said:

　　"How did you get down from the second floor?"

　　"Because I was afraid to wake you up, I didn't knock on the door, and emerged from my room earlier."

　　Ryota smiled and said: "It's just that I didn't expect you to stay up this late."

　　He admitted he was a little touched.

　　But Kei immediately asked in an unpleasant manner:

　　"That's the second floor, right? And there is nowhere to take it, how do you do it?"

　　"Use a jump, just jump off the ground."

　　After Ryota finished speaking, he saw Kei's gentle face.

　　There was slight surprise in the girl's expression, and curiosity in her eyes.

　　Maybe because she really wanted to witness it with her own eyes, a sight that could only be seen in movies.

　　Ryota couldn't help but tease his beautiful step sister:

　　"Kei, are you curious? Do you really want to see it?"

　　"...NO."

　　"I can also conjure cool weapons out of thin air."

　　"Boring, are you still small?"

　　"It is a conscious weapon. Not only can it respond to people's consciousness, it will also take the initiative to attack when touched by someone it doesn't like."

　　"..."

　　Kei's expression changed slightly, and she looked at Ryota.

　　The temptation in Ryota's eyes wasn't too much hidden: "As long as Kei doesn't make an indifferent face at me and smiles at me more, I'll give you anything you want to see."

　　"...Boring."

　　Kei immediately slapped the pen on the table, and quickly put away the reference book.

　　Then she glared at Ryota, turned and walked towards her bedroom.

　　"I'm going to sleep!"

　　Miyuki came out from the kitchen with food, he said with a strange expression:

　　"Where's Kai?"

　　"She sleeps."

　　"Nii-san can eat first, and I'll help you heat up the bath water."

　　Miyuki walked towards the bathroom.

　　Ryota looked at the hot food on the table, and turned to look at the busy Miyuki.

　　There is a very warm feeling in the heart.