Desire had personally admitted to Shade that the [Skin Object Hall] had used this divine artifact to battle her ancient self. But now, these scissors clearly no longer possessed such tremendous power.
Aside from being used in rituals and for making skin objects, Shade's rough assessment was that these scissors possessed absolute destructive power against any flesh-and-blood lifeform with "skin." In other words, thaumaturgies such as Stone Skin or Metal Skin effectively offered no defense at all against these scissors.
As long as they could touch the surface of a living being, no defense could stop the gentle snip of these scissors. Though the effect could only breach the protection of the skin and had little impact on the deeper flesh beneath, this rule-like destructive ability was still immensely significant in Shade's view.
This did not mean Shade intended to fight enemies at close range by stabbing them with scissors. He felt he could use these scissors for spellcasting, treating this divine artifact as a spellcasting focus akin to the Ceremonial Sword—Night Watchman—or the Scepter—King of the Covenant.
Though he had not tried Moonlight Slash with the scissors, given his current mastery of that thaumaturgy, it was not just scissors—even flinging out a leaf would allow him to imbue it with the effect of a slash.
Although these scissors came from the [Skin Object Hall], no one disliked them for that reason. Instead, they took turns examining them and offering their own theories. Though the divine artifact's power had faded, its status was still beyond comparison with ordinary objects.
Shade believed it should have other abilities as well, but he would have to explore those himself.
"So, that Mermaid."
Siris hesitated, and Shade nodded:
"Yes. It took its skin object away. I saw it appear in the form of a