"Big sister." Mash's question made the siblings Macarios and Adele look at each other, then nod. Adele then took out a dagger and cut her left arm.
"Miss Adele, what are you—? Senpai, heal her!" Seeing blood flow from Adele's arm, Mash hurriedly called to Ritsuka to use healing magecraft.
"It's fine. It'll heal soon." Adele stopped Ritsuka, who had been about to step forward and use healing magecraft on her, then raised her left arm. The wound on it was visibly healing at a rapid pace.
"This is Demeter's Kleronomia." Seeing Adele's left arm restored without a trace, even the blood gone, Mash and Ritsuka immediately understood.
"That's right. It still hurts a little, but the wound heals, and by tomorrow even the lingering pain will be gone. So there's no need to worry about it at all." Adele smiled.
"Even if we're torn apart, crushed, or burned, we can return to normal. We are perfect anytime, anywhere," Macarios added.
"Yes, exactly. It never changes. Any injury can be healed. That is how we were modified. By regularly consuming ambrosia and nectar, and through the power of Demeter's Kleronomia, which maintains living bodies, the people of Olympus gained bodies that would never fall ill and a pseudo-Undying Body. No one dies, and no one can kill anyone. Only the gods can exercise their power and grant humans death," Adele continued after her brother.
"Um, excuse me, did I hear that right? You two said pseudo-immortality, didn't you?" Although she had heard Macarios and Adele's words with her own ears, Mash still looked utterly incredulous.
Unlike Ritsuka, who had come to magecraft halfway through her life, Mash had been born in Chaldea. From the start, the people she had interacted with most were Magicians, so she knew far more about