Beauty was a kind of magecraft. That was what Shen Fei had said during an earlier conversation with Lord El-Melloi II. Quite a few Magicians believed that gazing upon beautiful things could make one beautiful as well. Whether Magicians or ordinary people, everyone yearned for beautiful things. Just like love at first sight—it could only happen between handsome men and beautiful women. Surely no one fell in love at first sight with someone ugly.
Of course, beauty was not limited to people. Environments and objects could be beautiful too, and people generally loved beauty. Just as people liked living in pleasant surroundings, no one would willingly choose to live in a sewer.
Antiques, artworks, and the like—people pursued such things because of their desire for beauty. Thus, a group of Magicians who pursued beauty had emerged within the Clock Tower.
In Lord El-Melloi II's words, beauty was like a resonance spell. By appreciating beauty, one felt as though one's soul and spirituality had been purified. That was the true nature of the beauty people perceived.
The Yggdmillennia Family stood at the forefront of this path. Every generation, the family created a Golden Princess and a Silver Princess to publicly display their pursuit of beauty.
However, this display was the most perfect in all their history. Even Aozaki Touko, standing nearby, stared at the Twin Princesses in shock.
In the Moon World, beauty was also a powerful formula. Just as when the Twin Princesses had appeared, the people in the hall had completely lost their composure. If someone had attacked then, few present would have had any chance to fight back.
For a magician to act, they had to activate their Magic Circuits. Yet all the magicians had been stunned by the Twin Princesses, so activating their Magic Circuits had been