I Became a Spirit in Date A Live, but I Refuse to Date

That color, and that healing ability—there was no doubt about it. The flames on Kotori belonged to her!

"See? I told you she'd be fine, didn't I?"

Lingmeng gently patted Shido's shoulder, signaling for him to calm down.

Looking at Lingmeng's casual expression, Shido asked in confusion.

"Lingmeng, did you already know Kotori had this ability?"

"Well, more or less?"

Lingmeng gave an ambiguous answer.

Actually, it had all been speculation on her part. After all, Kotori had just told Shido, "Give me my power back for now."

And when they sealed Yoshino, Kotori had said that Shido's Healing Flame was a Spirit's ability.

Putting those two things together led to this conclusion.

Well... fortunately, Lingmeng's reasoning had been correct.

If her reasoning had been wrong, that would have been another story.

Zhongsheng: "Today is Kotori's birthday, so I wrote an extra thousand words. Happy birthday, my dear little sister (my dear wife)?!"

A perfect counter

"My, my, it seems I underestimated you. Things just keep getting more interesting."

Recovering from her shock at Kotori's return from the dead, Kurumi wore a thoroughly intrigued expression.

"Let me warn you beforehand. I'm very strong."

Kotori gave a light snort and raised Camael.

"Then... let's keep fighting!"

Kurumi likewise raised her Angel, and their battle resumed.

The battle that followed could only be described as a drawn-out affair.

The general pattern went like this—

Kurumi kept summoning large numbers of clones to attack Kotori.

Meanwhile, Kotori swung her Angel and wiped them all out.

Although Kurumi occasionally used bullets with special abilities,

her attacks were either blocked by Kotori or forcibly healed by her Healing Flame.

After several exchanges, Kurumi hadn't inflicted any damage on Kotori. Instead, she had been injured by Kotori's wide-area attacks.

Judging by the situation, Kotori had