Even those compatible with Spirit Crystals had to lay the groundwork for Five Rivers Shiori to absorb them more easily.
Thus.
Looking at it this way!
The fact that Nio Hashigo and Yoshino Himekawa were already in their twenties or thirties made them all the more valuable.
They had relied on their own strength to avoid falling into monsters and had continued on until now, earning the qualifications to become the true members of the harem.
As for the others.
Including Kurumi Tokisaki.
In truth, they had merely benefited from others serving as stepping stones.
You could say that the Origin Spirit was pitiful.
But you absolutely could not pity her too much!
Wasn't it precisely because of her selfish desires that she had deceived so many ignorant girls? That was her sin—using the girls' lives as stepping stones to create the prosperity of today.
Now, all ten Spirits had gathered.
All ten Sephirot had masters.
Five Rivers Shiori had finally reached the most suitable age as well.
If Little Griseo had not descended so abruptly, causing the invincible Origin Spirit to encounter an enemy from the heavens...
Then everything that followed, every single thing, would have proceeded according to the script.
Forging bonds, forming connections, sealing powers... and then! Staying together.
Griseo spoke.
She looked toward the Origin Spirit kneeling on the ground.
No...
She should be called Miss Mio Takamiya instead.
In her current state, she had completely abandoned the dignity of the Origin Spirit.
She was merely Mio Takamiya.
Mio Takamiya, a widow.
Nothing more!
Don't think she was being kind.
Willing to share the person she loved with other girls.
Even if those other Sephirot and other Spirits were, in a sense, daughters she had created with her own hands.
That was useless too!
Containers were