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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Kabur & Silavin
Training to suppress one’s Divine Presence was important, but since Kousuke would not be going anywhere other than the Administration Floor for a while, he put it off for now.
Then he decided to check if he had obtained the new power, which was the main issue in the first place.
In the sanctuary, there was nothing specific that he was able to do, except meeting the World Record of this world.
He did learn to adapt his soul with his body, but this was not a useful power, as such things rarely happened in the first place…. or so he thought.
That would be confirmed when meeting with the Black Wolf.
And so, he visited the Black Wolf on the 81st Floor to re-confirm the discomfort he had felt before.
Not surprisingly, Nana was by his side and he had already started to play with the fluff.
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“…Nn?”
“…. Nn?”
“How’s it going?”
Shrein asked Kousuke, who tilted his head while petting the black wolf.
Shrein followed him because she wanted to check the Administration Floor of Amamiya Tower as well as her own Tower.
“I’m not certain. I sense that it hasn’t changed since the last time I was here, and I feel like I’m missing something…?”
“Hmm… Peach’s fortune-telling said there was a trigger in the sanctuary, right?”
“That’s right.”
Kousuke nods his head, since he didn’t get anything specific.
“In the first place, when I was in the sanctuary, I was sleeping all the time… Hmm? Sleeping?”
Kousuke muttered quietly so Shrein wouldn’t hear, and suddenly remembered that he wasn’t just sleeping.
“No, wait, don’t tell me…”
He was skeptical about it himself, thinking it was almost impossible, but he still tried out what he had been doing when he was still in bed in the sanctuary to the black wolf.
Then, sensing something unexpected, he immediately removed his hand from the black wolf.
“Hahaha… Seriously!”
What he sensed by touching the black wolf at that moment was an uncomfortable feeling between the soul and the body.
It was something that Kousuke had sensed in the Divine Realm.
However, he did not expect to feel it from another being.
However, what he was feeling was a similar discomfort to what he felt before, so there was no mistaking it.
“Hmmm, that said, I don’t know what to do about this, none of us do.”
Shrein saw Kousuke starting to mumble to himself, but she left him alone as usual and smothered the wolves gathered around him.
She knew from previous experience that it was better to leave Kousuke alone until he gave up than bother him.
When Kousuke was lying in the sanctuary, all he did was adjust his body to his altered soul.
However, what Kousuke felt from the black wolf now was that the soul was not matching the body, which had increased its skill level.
This means that the soul should be altered to match the body.
However, he had no idea what to do, even if he wanted to match the soul with the body.
Kousuke thought about this and suddenly wondered what evolution was about.
He then came up with the hypothesis that evolution involved the soul changing to match the skill level of the physical body.
“That’s a good hypothesis, but I don’t know how to make it evolve in the first place…”
Kousuke muttering to himself while petting the black wolf looked rather funny to an outside observer, but no one pointed that out.
The black wolf being stroked was feeling so comfortable that it was in a state that it didn’t want Kousuke to stop.
Kousuke was thinking about this, and before he knew it, his eyes were closed.
When he opened his eyes to realize this, he suddenly felt something strange in his eyes.
“…Nn?”
It was the right eye that felt strange.
It was not the left eye that he always used to look at statuses.
He thought it was unexpected and tried to use Divine power like he did with his left eye.
He used it carefully so that it would not be like when he used <Left Eye of God> for the first time.
Then, as expected, something was displayed, similar to a status.
<Evolution Sprout>.
“What’s this?”
The same text appeared on the status, but nothing more.
With only this display, he had no idea what it was.
He thought he might have set the Divine power too lightly for the first time, so he checked again with a little more intensity.
<Evolution Sprout
Missing Condition: Enlargement of Soul Vessel>
“Hmmm… I’m getting more and more confused, eh?”
There were more things he could understand, but there were also some things that came up that were even more confusing.
First, from the name <Evolution Sprout>, he thought it was a state of trying to evolve or fulfill the conditions for such a state.
That would mean that the next missing condition, a condition that was not sufficient to evolve, is indicated.
However, he did not know what to do to expand the vessel of the soul, which was the condition for the next deficiency.
So, as before, he strengthened the Divine power in the right eye a little more.
<Evolution Sprout
Requirements: Enlargement of the Soul Vessel (Need to prepare a vessel to accept a more suitable soul).>
“Nope, I still don’t understand that.”
He was hoping to come up with specifics on what to do, but he was apparently still too optimistic.
Unfortunately, putting even more Divine power into his right eye did not change the display any further.
In the end, he only found out that there was something missing in order to evolve, and that it could not evolve until he prepared the missing requirement.
“Soul Vessel Expansion…”
He tilted his head and thought about it, but could not come up with anything.
“It doesn’t seem to be going very well, does it?”
Shrein spoke to Kousuke, who had been thinking about it for a while.
“Well, I have no idea how to expand the vessel of the soul.”
“Expanding the Soul Vessel? What’s that?”
Kousuke explained what he had just seen to Shrein, who was suddenly taken aback by such a thing.
“I see. In other words, you are saying that the Soul Vessel will not evolve unless it is expanded.”
“Well, that’s what it says. Do you know what it is?”
“No, I don’t understand.”
“Yeah, right?”
They both tilted their heads, but in the end, they couldn’t figure it out.
“I thought I would be able to use it because it’s a new power, but the effect was kind of subtle.”
“No, that’s not true, you know? It’s not normal to know when one is on the verge of evolving, right?”
“Is that so?”
Kousuke tilted his head at Shrein’s advice.
“Your senses are definitely paralyzed. Is it because of your frequent meetings with the Goddesses?”
Kousuke looked away from Shrein, who gave him an exasperated stare.
He had a feeling that something was on her mind.
“Well, fine. What’s more, what do you need to do to expand the soul vessel?”
Shrein, who originally had no intention of going deeper into the subject, deflected the topic herself.
Or rather, she decided to return to the main topic.
“Yes, well… I mean, it’s so vague, I have no idea, you know?”
“Well, that’s the way it is… Speaking of which, how were the other individuals?”
“As for the black wolves, they were the same.”
“I was hoping that there would have been some differences.”
He didn’t just pick anyone to show his affections, obviously, he made sure to check everyone, one by one.
Not only the black wolves, but also the white wolf lineage.
But so far, it was only the black wolves that reacted to his right eye, and the white wolves did not respond at all.
All the black wolves that did react had the same display, so in the end he couldn’t tell what he needed to do.
“It can’t be helped. It was too much of a nuisance to try to figure it out with only the black wolves in the first place. Let’s go look at the other dependents.”
In the end, he concluded that it was too reckless to try to understand the black wolf alone, and decided to walk away from the 81st Floor this time.
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