Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

"... has this happened"

That's how Lorraine shrugged as she saw the results.

I feel satisfied with the results, even if I don't feel somewhat emotional or even stunned.

"I can't really tell the difference from the usual..."

In contrast, I couldn't be more convinced.

In the cup in front of you is a slime that fought and won.

Earlier, it was pinky, but now it's roughly as big as my thumb.

That's because it absorbed the magic of the winning opponent's slime and so on, but the scale of its existence increased.

That's all I know.

It's just that it's even normal.

If demons compete with each other, they can absorb the power of the victorious opponent.

At that time, it is not known what part will be enhanced.

However, it is still a common perception that so-called local power increases slightly.

What's more, I feel it on the ground.

Defeating other demons raised magic, temper, and so on, and besides, the body itself became more robust, and the physical ability itself was also felt.

Well, I may be the exception because existence itself is extremely rare, but it is confirmed that such phenomena occur even when normal demons fight each other.

So nothing seems particularly surprising about the phenomenon that just happened in front of us, the strife between slimes, and the absorption of power.

But Lorraine says.

"Sure, you can't tell from a glance, but the absorption efficiency of magic is still pretty good. In my case, I have a demon eye. It is intuitive to know how much power is absorbed if the common demons contend with each other. Compared to that... between the slimes that have just been done, it's extraordinarily efficient... well, it would be subtle to say it by mouth, so I'm keeping track of it with experimental instruments."

That said, he shows me the display boards of the measuring instruments that were installed at the side of the experimental bench.

It was set up before we let slime fight each other in the cup.

By the way, they didn't make these themselves by Lorraine.

I've never even seen it in a magic warehouse, but it was taken from the Empire and said it was an instrument commonly used in the Tower and College over there.

So it's a magic tool for researchers and educational institutions, and it's not something that the general public like me can buy.

Whether it means cone or price.

It's just that you can't help but have it to keep track of your experiments, and naturally Lorraine owns a lot of those instruments.

Nevertheless, even if they show me something like that, that's the only thing the general public knows how to look at, but I have no problem with that.

I've been with Lorraine for a long time, and I haven't been attached to that experiment once or twice.

Naturally, there was no way that the assistant had ever been helped to install or record the instrument itself.

They are well taught how to read and can understand the display without any problems.

According to that......

"Sounds pretty efficient indeed... compared to the normal one..."

I was also handed a record of doing the same thing without a cup, so compared to that, it's roughly more than triple as efficient.

It's a horrible story if just holding a cup simply makes you stronger at that rate.

If I had this when I was Bone Man Skeleton... it would mean that that overlapping struggle would have been a third.

"Oh...... of course, this isn't the only time I can definitively confirm the effect, but it's quite something. We'll try the same thing a few times."

So me and Lorraine used the slime that Edel and the others had gathered, and we let the slime fight many times to place our bets, and then we recorded the effects of the cup.

As a result, it was found that the effects of the cup still increase the absorption efficiency of magic power by roughly three times if a demon defeats a demon.

From there on, let the slimes, once huge, fight each other in the cup in the same size….

"... you can't do any more on a boulder. The cup is like a bath of slime."

Po Bing, the object fits perfectly into the cup.

To begin with, the slime, which was only pinkie-sized, had now grown to egg-sized.

Of course, it's the result of letting him fight extensively in the cup.

The Adeles have caught roughly twenty slimes, but now, there's just one more thing that fits in the cup and another one outside, the same size.

So this is what happened when we kept letting each other absorb magic.

"When this happens, I want these guys to fight and be alone."

I said that because I thought it seemed easier to manage.

"Even so, I can't let you fight in the cup anymore. I just have to get Slime to fight while he grasps this guy... how do you make him listen?

"When they say that..."

Until now, if I just threw it in the cup, I would have fought on my own, but if I let you grasp the cup, you can't do that.

Slime is also a demon capable of hardening parts of its body, so he can grasp the cup himself, but there's no way he'll do it where we command him.

"... shall I be your next of kin?"

I shrugged like that, but Lorraine shook her head to the side of this.

"Then the magic will flow from you. That's where" Existential Evolution "may evolve, and something may change the race. Bye......"

Well, sure, that's what kinship is all about.

It makes people corpse eaters and corpse ghosts, and even Adele can tell, but it raises their abilities a step or two above their original state.

That's because magic and so on will flow from me, which is likely to happen if I become dependent about this slime as well.

And when that happens, the objectivity of the experiment will not be maintained.

Therefore, this proposal is rejected.

"When it does... what do we do?

When I asked, Lorraine seemed to think a lot, but at the end of the day, she said:

"Again, the best way to make demons listen to instructions would be to beg for instruction from the main office"

I mean, you're my stepfather.