(My throat hurts, I feel weak, and I'm coughing. Tsk, I'm getting a little frustrated. Lin)
Just as Eriri sank into self-doubt, Utaha Kasumigaoka crossed her right leg over her left beside her and said with a slightly troubled look:
"So if I want to strengthen my abilities, I have to hypnotize Sorcerers at the same level or even higher?"
"Are you sure that isn't asking to get myself killed?"
Although she now knew how to improve her abilities, Utaha Kasumigaoka could not feel happy about it.
Unlike Eriri's seemingly useless "Transformation," which mostly lent itself to mischief and framing people, her Mind Reading and Hypnosis abilities were difficult to improve through unconventional methods.
Aside from her increasingly healthy, arguably excessively strong body, she had no abilities suited to direct combat.
Hearing Utaha's answer, Luo Shu shook his head.
"If you want to get stronger quickly, how could there be no price?"
Come to think of it, both Utaha Kasumigaoka's and Eriri's abilities were poor for direct combat but extremely useful for support.
Transformation allowed Eriri to impersonate anyone, while Utaha Kasumigaoka's Mind Reading and Hypnosis could easily extract all kinds of confidential information.
In a sense, Ishaha, the Demon Warlock who had repeatedly possessed other people's bodies, had met his downfall at Utaha's hands.
Considering how helpful Utaha Kasumigaoka's abilities would be to a department that also had to keep dangerous life-forms in custody, Luo Shu had to consider helping her fight her battles.
And since Utaha would have his help, Luo Shu naturally could not leave Eriri behind. At the very least, he had to give her some opportunities to maintain an appearance of fairness.
"Improving your abilities really is a problem for you two."
Although improving abilities only required points in the system's eyes, Luo Shu had