After seven repetitions, the green crystal began to turn counterclockwise.
He had just put the crystal away when screams suddenly rang out.
Edward looked toward the sound. More than a dozen pirates were clutching their stomachs, rolling around on the deck and screaming.
Edward looked at Lilith, who was still handing out apples to the pirates, and asked in astonishment, "...Lilith, did you poison the apples?"
Red Hair, who had just taken a bite of an apple, hurriedly spat out what was in his mouth, then silently tucked the apple into his pocket.
Lilith shook her head blankly. "No."
"Then why..."
Before he could finish his question, he saw Lilith casually pick up a stick from the ground and turn it into an apple.
All right.
I'd completely forgotten. Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration: Transfiguration couldn't produce food-to be precise, you could certainly turn anything into something that looked like food, but this "food" was all appearance and couldn't actually be eaten.
If swallowed, it would return to its original form.
In other words, these pirates rolling around in pain probably had glass, wood, stones, and all sorts of other things in their stomachs right now-what a terrible thing to do.
Edward suddenly remembered the fruit juice Lilith had given him earlier. "Lilith, that fruit juice we drank... you didn't make that with Transfiguration too, did you?"
"No~ Audrey packed that for Miss Lilith before we left."
That's a relief.
Edward breathed a sigh of relief and cast a Stunning Spell on the pirates. "Red Hair, take care of them."
"All right."
Edward then took Lilith by the hand and walked aside. "Lilith, don't use Transfiguration to make food anymore."
Her eyes immediately went wide. "Why?"
"Do you know that you can't eat transfigured food?"
"Huh? Why?"
Edward thought for