Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

The outline of Lina's fingertips is blurred.

It is true that there her hands are blurring the boundaries separating her body from the outside world, even though fingers exist.

Her fingertips, which had lost their boundaries, gradually turned black and into shadowy shades, and, at that time, I thought, something flew away from it.

Lina's hand was missing a tip from her wrist and instead, that remote Thing was running around her as she twirled around.

"… Success, you seem to have succeeded"

That's what Isaac said.

Lina seems to have succeeded in the Differentiation, its initial, partial Differentiation.

But the person so told is not responding to Isaac's words.

No, I can't, you're right.

His eyes stare at the blurred void, and his skin is stained with sweat.

They probably thought it was pretty tight.

"... are you all right?

When I ask, Isaac snorts.

"In the beginning, everyone is like that. You just have to keep it up for a while and get used to it... but you've" differentiated "into something rare again"

That's what Isaac says, staring at Lina's "differentiated" Things.

Me and Lorraine paid attention to that, too.

"Hmm... cat, right?

That's what Lorraine said, so I'll observe that, too.

It's a cat, no matter how you look at it, with a long tail on its elegantly curved body, on its standing ear.

It just feels like its shadow has become 3D, not like a cat that exists in reality.

There should be glowing eyes in the dark or mouths with red tongues peeking, but neither of them exists in that cat.

The whole body is pitch-black, including eyes and mouth areas.

"What doesn't look real is, oh is that what it is?

curious and asked Isaac,

"You can do it like it's real if you get used to it. Here."

That's what he said, "differentiating" his fingertips.

From there, then, unlike what you just showed me, a being jumps up that is no different from a bat that exists in reality.

I have eyes and mouth, and when I approached him, I saw hair growing.

You won't be able to realize that this is a "differentiated" Isaac without being told.

Isaac continues.

"But here's the easiest shape to make"

At the same time, the bat lost its fine shape and the whole thing turned into a pitch-black shadow.

It's similar to the cat Lina's putting out.

"Hmmm. Sounds interesting... I'd like to try it too but I can't do it for a normal person on a boulder..."

Lorraine is going to regret that.

It would be a little scary if a normal person could do this.

Well, it could be fun.

Or whether Lorraine is a normal person in the first place is somewhat debatable......

Of course, I can't tell him that in person.

"I'm afraid you have to give up there. Oops, looks like you're approaching your limit. Mr. Lina, can you hear me? If you hear me, try putting the cat back on your fingertips… that's what I think."

When Isaac told Lina that, Lina did not respond in particular, but the movement of the shadow cat moving around her changed.

There was a little distance until earlier, but slowly approached Lina and jumped up towards its fingertips.

And as she approached Lina's wrist, the cat gradually lost its contour as a cat, and assimilated to Lina, and when she realized it, her hand was back at the tip of Lina's wrist, where there was nothing.

At that moment, Lina, who was staring at the void with a blurred look, lost her power to collapse, so me and Lorraine rush over to support that body.

Lina had a rough breath and looked pretty tired.

"Hey, you okay?

"Shouldn't you lie down... Lina"

When me and Lorraine talk like that, Lina sweats, but she answers firmly.

"No, I don't know... because it just feels like after a very hard run... Rest a little and you'll be fine. Probably..."

After a short walk?

Is that all that drains your health?

Are you unnecessarily tired because you are not used to it?

Well, probably because I'm not used to it.

The vampires Vampires who came out of The Labyrinth of the Crescent Moon were also quite tired, but not as much as Lina is today.

To some extent, they probably had to do that because they were used to it.

Still, as Niv had pointed out, there seemed to be limits......

This doesn't mean you won't follow any damage, the all-powerful ability.

"In fact, what do you think? If you rest, will you recover?

When I ask Isaac, he snorts.

"Yeah. It's the first one, so you should keep your rest for quite a while, but you'll be fine with it after a while. However, you need to practice more than once, so you need to repeat it before you forget your senses."

Does that mean I have to do it again before I get tired?

Maybe it's a pretty tough practice.

That said, I still don't know how hard it is...

I wonder what it felt like in the first place?

I thought so. I ask Lina.

"So, Lina, how do you feel about your first" differentiation "?

I'm sorry I'm tired, but I don't even seem to feel like a conversation is possible, so I ask.

Lina then said,

"Right...... I'm a little confused. You're certainly right about the feeling of looking at something else with your right and left eyes... Besides, do you think I feel like I have two? It's both me, but you're thinking of something else because you look at something else and you're somewhere else... it's hard to recognize that the whole thing is me..."

... I don't know what it's like to be human anymore.

No, I'm not human either, but it seems impossible without experiencing all this.

Lorraine is nodding funny-looking, and she looks like she made a lot of question-attacks, but doesn't seem willing to go that far to Lina, who is now exhausted by boulders.

Anyway, Lorraine's questions go on pretty fine.

We need strength to hang out.

"Anyway, Ms. Lina has thoroughly completed the first phase, so a few exercises will also allow her to do the overall 'differentiation'. He swallows pretty fast. It's a promising future."

Isaac nods deeply and says that.

The future is promising... I guess it's the future of vampires "vampires.

Is it the Demon King or something?

There shouldn't have been a demon king of vampires "vampires, so maybe you could go for it.

Lina watches a few handsome men with naked upper body lined up in front of her as she pours people's blood into a glass like wine in an ancient castle behind the mountains and laughs......

... strange image came to my mind.

Does it look surprisingly good?

... No, I'm joking about boulders.