[In the end, you accepted the current Kamo Clan Head's seemingly absurd yet utterly shrewd deal with an extremely calm air, as though it were only natural.]
[To you, it went without saying that this deal offered certain gains with no risk of loss.]
[Compared with securing the absolute political support of the entire Kamo Clan without bloodshed, merely teaching a young child who had just mastered Blood Manipulation was no trouble for you at all. It could even be called an inconsequential side move.]
[Through your subsequent interactions, you learned that the legitimate son whom the Kamo Clan regarded as its entire hope for the future was about the same age as Megumi Fushiguro. Both were still children who had yet to lose their childish innocence.]
[At that age, however gifted he might have been, he could hardly undertake much substantive development or intensive use of Blood Manipulation.]
[After all, the physical limits of human physiology stood there like an iron gate. The total volume of blood in a child's body was simply too small, too fragile.]
[The most fundamental and fatal weakness of Blood Manipulation lay in its stringent conditions: it could only manipulate the user's own blood.]
[You had even imagined that if this Cursed Technique's ceiling could be broken, if its user could ignore that restriction and directly interfere with and manipulate all external blood containing moisture and iron... then this ability's rating would undoubtedly rise by a terrifying, geometric magnitude.]
[Imagine a rapidly shifting battle to the death: the instant the two sides met, you would not even need a preparatory movement. You could forcibly reverse the flow of blood inside your opponent's body, or make the blood in their heart instantly boil and crystallize, inflicting devastating physical damage on the enemy from within.]
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