I Became a Spirit in Date A Live and Refuse to Date

Isaac nodded in satisfaction.

"I spent quite a bit on bribes to get those people to agree to let our DEM Wizards join the AST. Well, those are minor details.

If we want to openly use Realizers in Japan, the best way is to join the local AST."

As he spoke, Isaac shifted his gaze back to the photographs on the desk.

Photographs of Element Make, Princess, and the boy who used Spirit powers lay there.

"Shido Itsuka...?"

Isaac murmured in confusion.

For some reason, this should have been his first time seeing the boy's face.

Yet he felt strangely familiar, as though they had met long ago.

But thinking about such trivial matters now would only waste time. Isaac smiled again.

"If those three really are connected to Ratatoskr, shouldn't we give them a greeting?"

"A greeting?"

"Exactly. An extraordinary greeting. Something like making them experience heart-wrenching despair and undergo a complete Inverse."

Isaac gave a meaningful smile as he spoke.

"Ugh~ Lingmeng, is dinner ready yet...?"

On the sofa in the Itsuka Residence's living room, Tohka hugged a life-sized Kinako Bread cushion and called weakly toward Lingmeng, who was cooking in an apron.

Lingmeng answered while stir-frying the food in her pan.

"It's cooking, it's cooking. You've already asked ten times, Tohka."

It wasn't that she didn't understand how Tohka felt, but she couldn't possibly prepare every dish in a single second.

Then several more voices came from behind Lingmeng.

"Heh heh heh, who would have thought? My familiar has even mastered the culinary arts. Truly fearsome."

"Amazement. I never expected you to know how to cook, Lingmeng."

"Lingmeng's cooking... is really delicious..."

"Right, right! Yoshino was just as shocked as you when she learned Lingmeng could cook!

She looks so unfeminine, yet her cooking is surprisingly