Chapter 566

He's handsome with fair skin, so I'd give him an eight or nine out of ten. Of course, he himself would be a perfect ten.

His aura was so powerful it seemed to solidify, giving people an immense sense of pressure.

The sound of a hard impact just now came from his full-body golden armor. Although others might mistake it for gold plating, he knew it was made of pure gold.

The carvings on it are intricate and the patterns are exquisite, with a dazzling golden light shimmering in the light.

He secretly regretted it; if it weren't a product of magic, it could probably have sold for quite a bit of money.

As he rudely marveled at seeing him in Hayato for the first time, the man opposite him narrowed his bloodshot eyes in displeasure, his broad forehead wrinkling beneath his blond hair. "Woman! What are you doing staring at me like that!"

"..."

Sakurakoji Talent's breath hitched, his thin, taut veins throbbed, and he clenched his teeth, almost bursting into a tirade.

Oh well, I'm used to it...

Hey! Woman!

Seeing that he didn't react, Gilgamesh even more annoyed, and his tone suddenly rose. "Before I get angry! You'd better confess why you've been waiting for me here!"

Sakurakoji Talent raised his eyelids in surprise, slightly astonished. "Oh~ you noticed?"

To be honest, I wasn't that surprised. After all, even a normal person would be suspicious to see someone so handsome standing in this deserted place in the middle of the night, but he didn't seem to notice...

"Finally willing to speak?"

Gilgamesh scoffed, "Who do you think I am? Before me, the King of All Things, the sole ruler of the earth, do you think your petty tricks will work?"

"Or is it because you're somewhat attractive... no, quite attractive?"

At this point, he fell silent. Even he had to admit that the other person was more outstanding than any human he had ever seen, capable of sitting at the same table with those disgusting goddesses.

If Sakurakoji Talent could hear his thoughts, he'd probably just laugh. How could an ordinary person from ancient times, exposed to the elements without any skincare or maintenance, possibly compare to him? Unless they had some kind of protective magic.

"Could it be that they knew of my existence and came specifically to offer themselves to me?"

Gilgamesh laughed wildly, "If that's the case, then so be it. Judging from your extraordinary temperament and self-awareness, I will grant you this honor! I will allow you to marry me and become my queen in this world, serving by my side!"

Hearing his outrageously arrogant statement, he felt a strange sense of familiarity, a connection, but why... was that statement directed at him?

Huh? Getting married? To him?

Nobody ever told him that the King of Heroes was gay.

Wait a minute, think about how many emperors in ancient times had homosexual tendencies, maybe... wait, could he be bisexual?!

Thinking about Enkidu... it seems quite possible!

Holy crap!

He snapped to attention, his previous nonchalant attitude vanishing instantly, replaced by heightened focus.

What should I do? I really want to beat him to a pulp right now...

However, making a big commotion here doesn't seem like a good idea... He looked up at the sky "weakly and helplessly," letting out a breath tinged with despair.

"You scoundrel! You ignore my words time and time again! Are you taking advantage of my favor and becoming arrogant?"

"If that's the case! It seems that before I teach you how to please me, I must first teach you what pain is! What hierarchy is!"

Gilgamesh's eyes widened in fury, his ruby-like eyes bulging like a thug's.

Okay~ okay~

He helplessly shrugged, forcing himself to calm down.

He wasn't saying this outright, but getting angry at a lunatic a million times Ouka Mai was truly pointless. The mental fortitude he had cultivated through years of hardship wasn't meant to be broken down by someone like this.

"Anyway, could you come with me for a moment? Gilgamesh, the 'Invincible, Noble, Almighty, King of Kings' Hero King?"

"Hmph~ Have you finally figured it out?"

Gilgamesh curled his lip, the golden arm armor covering his arms clinking together. "It's alright. What do you want to do?"

"I'd like you to come with me somewhere."

He glanced around but didn't see any ordinary people hiding in the shadows spying on him.

If a fight breaks out here, the affected area might be quite large.

He also wanted to see the power of the Ea.

Where do you want to go?

The other person's voice was calm and steady, or rather, even if he knew what wicked schemes the other person was plotting, he was completely unconcerned about the cunning of an ant.

"A place where there are hardly any people."

His eyelids were slightly lowered, his aura flowed, his silver hair was stirred by the breeze, and a layer of multicolored radiance appeared around him, covering his body. Under the mysterious and magnificent radiance, his face looked like Elf of an elf...

He then raised his right hand and softly called out, "Michael!"

Chapter 509 I really want to be human~

"Your form has changed. Is that your ability?"

Seeing his transformation, Gilgamesh's lips curled into a wide smile, his gleaming white teeth revealing a wicked and arrogant grin that was both dangerous and resolute, and he couldn't help but feel excited.

"Suddenly being dragged into this place during the war, I thought it was some Tomoyo with nothing in it, but it seems that's not entirely true!"

"Interesting! Looks like I won't be so bored anymore!"

"That's hard to say."

Having changed into her Astral Dress attire, Sakurakoji Talent, whose original aura had become even more transcendent, raised her eyes and smiled lightly, secretly curling her lip in disdain.

Still laughing! I'll beat you so badly you won't even recognize Enkidu!

He waved his arm, and along with the other of the two props that had disappeared a few minutes earlier—the Ratziel —sliced through the air with a sharp, piercing sound.

Michael's exclusive Angel item, Michael, allows him to freely use its power after fusing it with the Six Spirit Crystal within his body.

That's right, the colors that Kanau saw were the Spirit Crystal inside his body and the colors behind them.

After his failed suicide attempt, the person he communicated with within his body was, in a sense, the remnant consciousness of his other, even earlier in time than Sakurakoji Luna, his silver-haired "mother"—the Primal Elf, also known as "God," Mio Takamiya...

To understand why things turned out this way, we need to start with his soul's journey, which is a long story...

In short, he possesses an extreme will to survive. During his time travel, he happens to encounter a world where, after killing ten "daughters" and collecting the Spirit Crystal, he learns, after many years, that resurrecting his lover is hopeless. He finally remembers that his initial underlying purpose was to have someone kill him so that he could commit suicide for love. This confused and desperate person...

[Note: This can be understood as a timeline similar to the protagonist group's speedrun in the first playthrough of Date A Live. Mio knew from the beginning that reviving her lover was unrealistic, but the Elf weren't so fragile that they could die easily, so she could only live a muddled life. However, in the first playthrough, Tohka's Spirit Crystal was destroyed by Mio using Ain (the Angel of Nothingness). This belongs to the timeline that wasn't destroyed, and the reason will be explained later.]

The rest of the story is easy to understand: the "soul" and the Elf hit it off immediately, and the Elf packed all 11 Spirit Crystal, including its own five-colored Spirit Crystal, into the soul.

After reading the soul's past life memories and arriving in this world, she carefully selected a family for him with an excessive amount of "family love"—this family was practically his biological mother!

As for the lady of the house and the boy, why do they happen to have the same silver-white hair as her...? Only God knows.

Of course, all of this had nothing to do with the consciousness and thoughts of the "soul body." He had no idea about any of this before and could only passively accept his strict mother's arrangements.

But things didn't go smoothly from there. Soon after handing over the Spirit Crystal, Mio Takamiya, who was dying with only a part of her consciousness still functioning inside, discovered that things were going badly.

--Or perhaps she had already guessed this, and it was part of her plan.

Unlike the other nine Elf besides "Ten", she is a primordial Elf, and the Spirit Crystal is her true form. No matter how damaged her body is, as long as the Spirit Crystal remains intact, she is not truly dead.

Unless, of course, her Spirit Crystal gains another owner.

Under normal circumstances, that would definitely be impossible.

As everyone knows, even ordinary Spirit Crystal, once touched by humans, will be ravaged into berserk monsters by endless pain because they cannot withstand the power within, let alone the crystal of her, the strongest Elf.

As his soul and body merge, even though she uses the miniature, omnipotent power of the law to firmly bind the spiritual energy within his soul and prevent it from leaking out... as time goes by, his soul will be constantly transformed and sublimated by the spiritual energy he comes into contact with all day and all year round.

Similarly, the same applies to his physical body, which is in contact with his soul.

This was the root cause of his illness over the past decade; it was a harbinger of his descent into monstrous madness.

His earlier prediction was correct; without any intervention, he would become a monster before he turned twenty.

Fortunately, he hadn't been without a backup plan. After reading his memories, she guessed a potentially useful method: leveraging the combined forces of timing, location, and people.

"Heavenly timing" refers to a world completely devoid of imagination.

Geographical advantage: a safe social environment for development;

People: All the characters in her works who share similarities with her.

Therefore, based on her previous work experience, she designed a system that was completely opposite to the previous one:

By using the suppression of the heavens to slow down the erosion, and by taking advantage of the far greater capacity of the characters who possess the same world power than ordinary humans, spiritual energy is reversed and flows into their bodies according to their favorability towards him, reducing the burden on his body and buying him time to grow and develop enough to solve the problem on his own.

So why couldn't the characters from the Kintsugetsu System help him progress? The answer is simple: his body originally belonged to this category, and he had already exhausted this world power.

The power of others was used to divert his spiritual energy, while his own was used to slow down the rate of erosion. Otherwise, let alone a more serious situation, he might have already perished.

Kissing Rumin was ineffective, which was also the result of her deliberate design; it's more advantageous to disperse the target group as much as possible.

Unfortunately, despite having a great background and family, there's one major problem: he went abroad to develop his career at a very young age.

When she was a few years old, she couldn't develop feelings for anyone, and besides, she had never met anyone else. When she got a little older, she was taken away directly, leaving behind the only place with "healing medicine".

The hardest thing, and something Mio Takamiya never expected, was that because of his childhood illness, he had become a complete shut-in, severing all contact with the outside world. In any case, she couldn't be blamed!

If he had been a little more outgoing, he would have known what kind of world this was years ago, at least a few years ago, and could have suffered less.

Of course, even if it seems precise and perfect enough, this plan is not something that just anyone can do.

If it were an ordinary person's will, they would probably give up treatment and choose to die shortly after birth.

His ability to persevere with superhuman willpower until now is a necessary condition for her system to function.

As for why the affection system only works on women, is it due to her personal preference, considering he's a boy, or path dependence...? Let's leave that aside for now.

Besides using the aforementioned method of reversing spiritual energy to slow down the process, there is another key aspect of her plan that can greatly accelerate his progress. In fact, everything before was just laying the foundation.

That's right, it's another ten Spirit Crystal, or more accurately, nine, because the "ten" portion also hasn't been refined and purified yet.

By activating the other nine Spirit Crystal and making them willingly become his subordinates, he can not only use this power to fight against hers, but also gain more self-defense and combat abilities.

While refined Spirit Crystal can be absorbed directly, there are still some risks involved. Moreover, having been recycled for many years, they have acquired some minor issues. To re-integrate and use them without side effects, a special opportunity is needed.

In this regard, she took a simple and direct approach, using the old method: once the level of affection was reached, she would directly construct a spiritual energy corridor through kissing, using the other person's memories and emotions to painlessly guide the Spirit Crystal and promote fusion.

In the safety model she constructed to prevent unruly children, this process also requires the assistance of Mio Takamiya's awareness.

Before communicating with Takamiya Hitoo, she was in a low-energy, suspended animation state, her only function being to maintain internal stability. She would only actively awaken and intervene in special circumstances.

The one who healed his body at that time was not Mio Takamiya, but the passive ability he gained after completely fusing with the Spirit Crystal: the rebirth power of "Healing Flame". His super-fast recovery ability was also thanks to this.

Currently, he has four fully fused Spirit Crystal: "Nine" unlocked because of Hoshino Ai, "Six" unlocked because of Ouka Mai, "Five" unlocked because of Shiina Mahiru, and "Two" unlocked because of Kasumigaoka Utaha.

Hehehe~!

Haha~!

Upon hearing this result, Sakurakoji Talent couldn't help but burst into laughter.

He never expected that he would be such a lucky guy!

He only drew four times, but he already obtained two of the three strongest conceptual Spirit Crystal! Of the other two, one is a mental sound skill that is very convenient for daily use, and the other is a life-saving skill!

If this doesn't count as European, then what does?!

Although it didn't have the most convenient and versatile "three" combination, it's still quite good. If used properly, there will rarely be enemies that you can't handle.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have disregarded Gilgamesh.

If he wasn't absolutely certain of victory, to ensure his safety, before going up high to attack the opponent, he would first kiss a few more people to increase his fighting strength.

The battle may be temporary, but the principles of righteousness will endure forever.

After the truth came out, Sakurakoji Talent had very mixed feelings about the outcome.

On one hand, he was overjoyed to have gained power and skills; on the other hand, he was speechless that what had caused him so much suffering for so many years was his own desire to become a happy human being and his mother!

Although it's unclear why Mio Takamiya could see his spirit form while others didn't, it means that he was Elf from the very beginning, before he was even born!

Others choose not to be human in order to gain greater power, but he rebels against the Heavenly Gang so that he can be reborn as a happy human being!!!

His body went limp, his eyes lost their light and went completely black—he was truly... at his wit's end.

Despite countless calculations and coincidences, the result is surprisingly not bad.

But the pressure and price he's paid over the years to be a good person have been immense, truly immense...

Not only have they suffered for so many years in vain, but they've also accumulated a visibly growing emotional debt...