27 Green peppers
(Leonora) Keep your voice down, or do you want us to be discovered?
(Aisha) How do you want me to calm down? You stole one of the best guarded treasures in the whole kingdom, and you didn't invite me to participate!
(Leonora) For the last time, I didn't steal it, Irma did all the work, besides we return it after we see if Camille has any affinity.
(Aisha) but that's cheating, if you wanted the sage stone we could have made a plan to steal it, using Irma is taking the fun out of it.
It took me almost a whole hour to calm Aisha down, to be honest I knew this would happen, but I thought that since Camille was here Aisha wouldn't complain so much, at least for future reference I know that's not the case. In the end I managed to convince Aisha to calm down only after promising her several rather annoying things.
At least I was quick enough, and ordered Irma to take Camille away, so she is completely oblivious to our whole discussion.
When I finally manage to calm Aisha down, I tell Irma to bring Camille, when she arrives I open the chest, and show her the sage's stone.
(Leonora) Put your hand here, it will burn a little, but please hold it.
(Camille) It's ok.
Camille, puts her hand on the stone and makes a slight grimace from the pain, but does not move her hand away so her statistics appear floating in the air.
[Camille Croiss]
Mana limit. 8,000/8,000
Magic contracts.
Right hand.
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Left hand.
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Magic affinity.
-Magic essence
Spells learned.
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Abilities.
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Hmm, she has a lot of mana, and can make contracts with both hands, but the most interesting is the essence magic, it is a very strange magic that allows you to manipulate the soul of things, it is a rare magic and difficult to explain, but it allows you to do things like see and identify the magical essence of things, create existential bonds between 2 beings, and although she has few attack spells, the magic that can damage the soul of a being, is quite devastating, she can definitely be very useful to my plans.
Camille removed her hand, to which Irma applied an ointment for the burn, and put a bandage on it.
When Irma finished bandaging Camille, I felt a little sorry for the pain she had to go through, the use of the sage stone has the side effect of heating up to the point of causing a slight burn, there is another easier way to see the person's magic stats, but making it will take some time, the good thing that we already have it's rarer material, a piece of the sage stone.
After Camille's condition disappeared, Aisha hurried to place her hand.
(Aisha) I want to try it too.
Aisha places her hand on the stone, and her stats are revealed.
[Aisha Lenua]
Mana limit. 3000/3000
Magic contracts.
Right hand.
-Blood magic/index finger.
-Fire magic/middle finger.
-Shadow magic/ring finger.
-Kinetic magic/pinky finger.
-Magic affinity. Blood magic.
Spells learned.
-Blood paralysis. 300 mana/50 per minute
-Puppet of blood. Depending on the target/one tenth of mana per minute.
-Coagulate. 200 mana.
-Accelerate pulse. 100 mana/20 per minute.
-Explode heart. 2000 mana.
-Create fire. 10 mana.
-Flare. 250 mana
-Control temperature. 100 mana/10 per hour.
-Attenuate fire. Depending on intensity.
-Create shadow. 50 mana
-Shadow zone. 100 mana per cubic meter/ one quarter per minute.
-Remove sense. 200 mana/ 10 per second
-Shadow discharge. 500 mana
-Move object. 20 mana per kilo/tenth mana per second.
Skills.
-Detect lies.
What is this status? I didn't tell you to learn shadow magic, and where or how did you learn Explode Heart? What have you been doing behind my back?
(Leonora) Aisha...
(Aisha) Ops! sorry, I've been reading a little bit here and there.
Well anyway, she can still be useful, but there's something strange about the status, Aisha in the game is supposed to only have 2000 mana, and by contracting, fire magic, shadows and kinetics, would lower her limit by 1000, so she had double the usual mana? It's strange, I should check other states to make sure?
I told Camille to check her room and I set out to check my status, It's not like I'm interested in having magic, moreover if I have mana I wouldn't use it, magic is a waste of time, I'm not anxious at all to check my status, and I don't want weird magic either, but if I have it maybe void magic, or space magic would be fine.
Yes, I'm not anxious at all, I put my hand on the stone and feel the heat under my hand, the stone seems to react slowly.
The letters slowly begin to appear in the air.
Will you hurry up!!
The state finally appeared.
[Leonora Croiss]
Mana limit 10/10
Magic contracts.
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Spells learned.
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Skills
-Immunity to poisons.
-Witch's poison.
-Neutrality to beasts.
Aisha, covered her mouth to suppress her laughter.
(Leonora) You laugh and I kill you.
(Aisha) puff, well Leo, you have 3 skills, and being immune to poisons sounds very useful, but what's witch poison?
(Leonora) I don't feel like telling you.
(Aisha) ok Leo, I'm going to my room, we'll talk tomorrow when you're in a better mood.
Aisha left the room, and as soon as she closed the door I heard her let out a loud laugh.
(Leonora) WHAT'S SO FUNNY!?
(Aisha) sorry Leo, I told a joke to myself that I didn't know, well see you tomorrow.
That bitch, she'll pay me back, whichever way it is, it's weird that Aisha has more mana than usual, I don't check people's statuses every time, is possible that people had different statuses in other lives and I've never noticed it?
However it is, I take the chest with the stone, and I bring it to Irma.
(Leonora) Irma, take a piece small enough to be unnoticeable and large enough to use the [Eye of Truth], and then return the stone.
(Irma) As you command young master.
Irma was about to close the chest but I stopped her.
(Leonora) Irma, put your hand on the stone.
(Irma) As you command young master.
When Irma put her hand on the stone, it changed color from white to a coppery color, finally the status appeared.
[Irma]
[Impossible to evaluate]
I guessed it, both her and Eris are impossible to evaluate, but in her case the stone changes to a Lila color, I know there are other people out there that are impossible to evaluate, the protagonist is one of them, but in her case she has the ability to see and show her own state, and the color that dyes the stone is gold, I've never understood the meaning of the colors and never found them relevant, maybe it was a mechanic of a possible third part, but the sequel was so disastrous that it almost bankrupted the studio, and the colors became meaningless in the story.
(Leonora) it's okay, Irma you can take it away now.
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The next day I woke up early with the first rays of the sun, I got dressed in silence and when I opened the door Irma was standing in front of me.
(Irma) good morning young master, would you like me to prepare breakfast?
(Leonora) I would appreciate it.
(Irma) As you command young master.
As Irma was turning away, a perverse idea occurred to me.
(Leonora) By the way Irma, I have a special craving for green peppers, let the whole meal be based on that.
(Irma) As you command young master.
I let Irma go to work, and I go to the foyer where I start writing a letter, I cross out words, tear sheets, rewrite and rewrite until I have something I like, finally I put the letter in an envelope and put it in my clothes, then I will send it.
Irma tells me that the table is served, so I ask Aisha to wake up, she gets up and sits down in front of me, soon the food starts to arrive at the table.
Little by little the table fills up with steaming and appetizing food, green bell pepper soup, green bell pepper bread, hamburger meat with green peppers, eggs with bacon and green peppers, green bell pepper pancakes, green bell pepper gratin, green bell pepper salad, green bell pepper chicken, and for dessert green bell pepper ice cream.
Seeing the table Aisha gives me a look of hate.
(Aisha) You are very mature Leo.
(Leonora) I don't know what you are talking about.
I take a green bell pepper pancake and give it a bite, it tastes just like it sounds, but I have been in prison several times, and locked up in towers and dungeons for years, where I was lucky to eat anything that wasn't too rotten, so I have learned not to be picky about food.
Ah by the way, Aisha hates green peppers, as a side note.
Camille joins us shortly after, as Aisha tries her best to remove the green peppers from her food, and gives me occasional hateful looks, she knows she can never ask Irma to do anything that overwrites my orders, so she has no choice but to eat.
The meal was progressing, and I looked at Aisha again, I think I really made her angry, it isn't good to make Aisha angry, she is very competitive and spiteful, so I know she will return the joke.
~~You two are the same Leonora, that's why you're friends.~~
I categorically deny any slander directed at me, but however it is, she and I have escalated the banter to the point where it gets out of control, so I think it's time for me to behave like the adult I am, and be the mature one in the relationship.
(Leonora) Aisha, we're even now, let's just leave this here, and then we can go eat something normal.
(Aisha) Oh, are we even Leo? I don't think so in the same way.
(Leonora) Aisha, please, you made me feel bad, and I made you eat green peppers, I say we're even.
(Aisha) It's okay Leo, if you excuse me I'll forget about it.
(Leonora) I'm not going to apologize, if anything you should apologize.
(Aisha) Me apologize? You know how I hate green peppers.
(Leonora) And I don't like to be laughed at, so you apologize first.
~~And here dies the mature adult woman.~~
(Aisha) It's not my fault that with your mana you can't even light a candle.
(Leonora) It's not my fault either, that your mother forced you to eat green peppers every time you did something wrong.
(Aisha) At least my parents are alive and aren't scum.
(Leonora) At least I didn't wet the bed until I was 7.
~~Okay, this is starting to get out of control.~~
(Aisha) At least I don't have a problem with alcohol.
(Leonora) Says the gambling addict
(Aisha) I at least want to play legally, and not cheat in every game.
(Leonora) Says the one who cheats in everything else, now she blames me for her lose playing clean.
(Aisha) You... You want to fight?
(Leonora) Come closer, I dare you.
~~No one is going to stop them?~~
(Camille) Wait, don't fight!
(Both) SHE STARTED!!
(Camille) ah this... miss Aisha, you know that Leo feels bad to be laughed at right?
(Aisha) Yeah well, maybe I was a little mean.
(Camille) and Mr. Leon, you know that Aisha doesn't like green peppers, and maybe you went a little far, plus I didn't know half of this food existed.
(Leonora) Well, maybe I went a little far, I admit it.
(Camille) So, if you're both sorry, can you apologize and continue to be friends?
(Both) But I...
(Camille) if you're BOTH sorry, you can apologize and still be friends.
Aisha and I shake hands.
(Aisha) I'm sorry Leo, I didn't mean to make you feel bad.
(Leonora) Sorry Aisha, I won't make you eat green peppers again.
(Camille) Come on, hug.
Aisha and I hugged, while Camille looked at us with a big smile on her face.
She is my best friend, and a very spiteful person to have as an enemy, so this is the best solution to everything, although clearly I had nothing to apologize for.
~~And so, a 6 year old girl proved to be more mature than you.~~
Shut up.
