"Click-"
Just as Dio was rambling on, a familiar clicking sound interrupted his courting of death.
Dio froze at the sound and turned to look at his shoulder.
The Doll was still there.
"Mumuzawa, haven't you dismissed it yet?"
Dio asked in confusion.
"Not 'it,' but 'her'-though even if you tell me to dismiss her, Master Dio-"
Mumuzawa first corrected Dio's wording with what seemed like a hint of displeasure, then immediately continued in a hesitant tone, "I don't know how to dismiss her either. Other than entering her body again, I don't seem to have any other options now."
"Wait, what do you mean, entering her body again?"
Dio looked as though he had heard something utterly incomprehensible, his face full of question marks.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you. It's a long story. After I lost consciousness-"
Mumuzawa suddenly realized that she had yet to tell Dio about her experience entering the Doll's body, so she hurriedly began recounting everything she had gone through from the beginning.
It took quite a while before Mumuzawa finally explained the whole experience clearly.
After listening quietly, Dio looked at the Doll on his shoulder and sank into thought.
Manipulation can even do something like this? But then again, this does count as a form of manipulation-
In that case, Mumuzawa's ability has a very high ceiling. From what I can see so far, this method of manipulation has practically no range limit.
If she can craft a sufficiently powerful Doll, fighting at long range without any delay will be child's play for her. I just wonder whether damage to the Doll in that state would affect her actual body-
Something suddenly occurred to Dio, and he said, "If you can't take her back, doesn't that mean she'll have to keep following