Volume 22 Chapter 7, Minor Operations

Granting Lirica a blessing went off without a hitch.

Since Kousuke had originally sensed a connection between himself and Lirica, he was able to grant the blessing without any problem.

All that remained was to see if Lirica would accept the blessing properly.

Kousuke was relieved that he had successfully granted a blessing. .

After all, it was the first time he had given it to someone other than the Tower members, so he was a little anxious about it.

“Are you okay?”

Kousuke asked Lirica, who was still in a daze after being given the blessing.

“Eh? Oh, yes. I’m fine.”

Lirica answered, but her gaze was still unsteady.

Kousuke, confused, looked at Sylvia.

“It will probably be fine. It’s only because she’s confused about many things since she’s accepting the Divine Power for the first time.”

By many things, she meant that it took time for her head to sort things out, as well as her physical body.

“Is that how it is? Huh? But aside from Sylvia and Floria, who had blessings from the beginning, Peach and the others weren’t like this, right?”

“That’s probably because they were trained in using Divine Power.”

If she was able to use Divine Power, she would not have ended up like Lirica was now, even if she accepted the blessing that was Divine Power itself.

“How long will it take to recover?”

Alec asked Sylvia, out of curiosity.

“I don’t know. It’s hard to say, it depends on the individual. I don’t think it would take that long…”

Sylvia tilted her head and replied.

“I apologize for the trouble. I am fine now.”

Not long after Alec asked, Lirica answered and bowed her head.

Sonia looked at her with concern, but Lirica assured her once again that she was fine.

In fact, the kind of fatigue she felt earlier was gone as cleanly as if it had been a lie.

Physically, there was no change at all from the usual.

So much so as usual that she almost forgot that she had received a blessing in the opposite direction.

“Yes. Don’t push yourself too hard.”

Kousuke said so, but Lirica shook her head like it was outrageous.

“I’m really fine!”

“Okay. I understand.”

As Lirica was gaining momentum, Kousuke also brought his hands in front of her eyes and gestured for her to stop.

Seeing that she finally stopped, Kousuke continued.

“So, do you have your Crown card with you?”

“Crown card? Of course, I do.”

A Crown card was the best proof of identity in the Tower.

It was common practice for all Crown members to carry it with them at all times.

Lirica handed the card from her pocket to Kousuke without thinking.

“Oh, thank you.”

Kousuke received the card and made a gesture of playing with it.

“What are you doing?”

Alec asked Kousuke, but Kousuke, who seemed to be concentrating on something, did not answer.

Peach answered his question instead.

“If they renew the card at the counter as it is now, they will find out that she received blessings, so he was most likely tampering with the card, so it would not be shown.”

“Tampering… Can that really be done?”

The Crown card was supposed to be highly regarded as an ID card even outside the Tower because the contents of its status could not be changed.

It was common knowledge that it was impossible to do so easily.

“Normally, you can’t do that…”

“Let me tell you something, only Kousuke and Isnani can do something like this, you see?”

Floria added with a nod.

“No, I don’t think Isnani would be able to do it either. Only Kousuke-sama can do something on this level.”

“I see.”

Alec only nodded reassuringly and did not pursue the matter any further.

He thought it was only natural that Kousuke could do it.

“Is it because Kousuke-sama is a living god, after all?”

Sylvia shook her head at Lirica’s direct question.

“No, it’s not. It’s for a different reason, you see?”

“Is it a delicate subject to discuss?”

“No, not really, and yeah, it was not because he is a living god~. I could have done it even before he became a God.”

Sylvia, Peach, and Floria, all Tower Management members, thought so.

“If it’s Isnani, she can probably rewrite it herself. But the next time it goes through the Engraving Device at HQ, I’m sure it will cause an error.”

Kousuke added as if to follow up.

As if on the verge of doing so, he held out the card to Lirica and continued.

“Like when you display the status, can you channel the magic power… Yes. Thank you.”

Lirica did as she was told, touching the card and letting the magic flow through it.

He took the card back in his hand once more and went back to working on it some more.

This time, however, it didn’t take much longer, and he quickly finished the task before presenting the card to Lirica.

“?”

“Well. I’ve finished rewriting it, so you can use it as usual now. As for the blessing, it’s only visible to you.”

“Oh, thank you… What’s this? There seems to be something wrong with the numbers…”

After receiving the card and looking at the status, Lirica noticed that some of the skill levels were different from when she looked at them before.

“Oh. There were some changes, so I rewrote them as well.”

At Kousuke’s words, the members realized what Kousuke had done.

He used his left eye’s power to check the status and then rewrote the card.

“Why is it that you can rewrite the card and Lord Isnani can’t? I thought I heard that you were also involved in the development of the card.”

Alec asked Kousuke what he wondered.

“That’s a simple story. She doesn’t have the authority to rewrite it.”

It was true that she didn’t have the authority, but Isnani wouldn’t have done it either even if she had been given the authority.

The reason.

“If one tries to force a rewrite without authority, the contents will blow up. In addition, it records the magic of the person who created the card and the person who tried to rewrite it.”

“So the next time they attempt to renew the card, they will not be able to use their card again.”

The early result would be that the magic of the person who attempted to use the card fraudulently would be put on the blacklist.

The unfortunate situation would be if the card was lost and then used in such a fraudulent manner, but this would equally blacklist the card.

This was why the system required early reporting of lost or stolen cards.

“I wondered why they were so strict about lost and stolen cards, so it was because of that.”

Lirica, who was listening besides him, nodded her head in agreement.

The Crown card was handled more strictly than the guild cards of the public guilds in other cities.

This was because of certain considerations.

No matter how hard they try, once they were on the blacklist, there was no way to get rid of it.

Some adventurers who took it lightly at first fell into such a situation, and their cards have not been reissued.

Having seen such instances, such things rarely happen now.

“So, back to the blessings…”

“Ye, yes!”

Kousuke said nothing more to Lirica, who stood upright.

He learned that if he said anything, the conversation would become more complicated than it already was.

“It’s up to Lirica to decide what kind of power will manifest with that blessing. Try different things.”

“Okay.”

“I’ve given the blessing to several people, but no one has been able to use it specifically yet. Maybe Lirica will be the first to use it.”

“Oh, no, that’s impossible!”

Lirica vigorously shook her head from side to side, but as for Kousuke, he really thought it was possible.

Without any strange preconceptions about Kousuke’s power, she might be able to use it to her advantage.

It was with this expectation in mind that he decided to give Lirica his blessing, but he didn’t dare to tell her because he felt that if he did, it would probably backfire.

Kousuke was looking forward to seeing the result, since the form of the blessing might change depending on how Lirica thought of Kousuke.