These black spheres could still be dealt with using magecraft.
So Aozaki Touko directly fired a magical bullet and shattered the sphere.
"Bang!"
The sphere burst apart.
"Mm?!"
Yet she discovered that the sphere had not exploded.
On the contrary, it seemed to contain many things within it.
"Spices...?"
They were fragments of some kind of spice.
"—This is bad!" Though Lord El-Melloi II was dangling in midair, he happened to witness the entire process.
"Aozaki Touko once drank a drug that hindered memory, and that drug was formulated by this apothecary... Those drugs probably have other effects! Hmm..."
Before Lord El-Melloi II could finish, he covered his mouth.
The flight was so bumpy that he nearly threw up.
"What is it?!" Irena hurriedly asked.
Come on, he couldn't just stop halfway through!
"Most likely, once she smells another drug mixed into the air—hmm—it will use her body as a seedbed, causing plant seeds to grow all at once—hmm—"
After saying that, Lord El-Melloi II covered his mouth with his hand.
This was truly awful. He was just about to throw up.
"Hmm..."
Meanwhile, Touko indeed felt something beginning to spread within her body.
"You, stand over there! I will make, make that ultimate beauty manifest!"
Mao threatened Aozaki Touko.
But Touko wore a bright smile. "—Otherwise, I'll die here, is that it?"
"That's right! Th-those roots have connected to your h-heart, heart, and all your vital i-internal organs. I-if you try to dispel the magecraft, I'll rip out your organs t-together with them. E-even with an excellent Magic Crest, you'll die right then and there..." Mao sneered.
"That doesn't mean much. I never had a Magic Crest to begin with, so I'd die easily anyway."
The roots pierced through Touko.
But Touko also inscribed some kind of writing onto