Aleister's Revenant Ritual

Aleister extended her hands. Having wiped them with Harmonizing Spirit Medicine Paste, she slowly grasped the girl's spirit.

As faint purple light flickered in her eyes, the power of transcendence spread between Aleister's hands, gathering into a mass of radiance and forming a faint nebula.

She carefully seized the spirit and placed it back over the girl's original body.

Aleister had to be extremely careful—the power she wielded was simply too strong now. Even with the isolation provided by the Harmonizing Spirit Medicine Paste, it was difficult to avoid injuring the girl's spirit completely. Even so, the spirit curled up... like a plastic bag being grabbed in a windy place.

When the spirit nearly overlapped with the physical body, it gradually relaxed and unfurled like rehydrated seaweed. Yet it could never fully overlap with the body, and the boundary at the edges remained blurred.

"Give me a gold coin."

Aleister called to the Mirror Demon. "One that's been in circulation for a long time."

She no longer asked whether the Mirror Demon was still there—she simply issued a command.

And the Mirror Demon was quite used to it.

A flash of golden light suddenly appeared before Aleister, accompanied by a low voice. "This is an ancient coin from the Herasul Empire period. It has been six hundred years since its minting. If that isn't enough, I can look elsewhere..."

"Ah, it'll do."

As she spoke, Aleister placed the gold coin on the young woman's forehead and tapped it lightly.

Immediately afterward, Aleister extended her hand and formed her fingers into a blade, making a cut in each of the four directions through the air. Then she made a motion as if dipping her fingertips in water and sprinkling it, doing so four times in succession and flicking the droplets onto