I had a really long night with Shiori, and after making breakfast for her, I came back home. I need to quickly grab Mukuro's corrupted Sephira to deliver it to Shiori it will be the final guarantee that Shiori will be ready to destroy the world.
Shiori seemed much better after our night together. I can't say she fully approves of me or is 100% with me, but she's clearly more "free" to accept what I do without too many problems.
It seems that my "proof" of trust in telling her first before she found out on her own has helped a lot in this regard, and with that, I'm getting closer and closer to ending this world.
There was also the "hot night" I gave her she always ends up liking it, which makes her even more susceptible to accepting what I say or do.
My plan now is to make Shiori lose control of her powers, probably using DEM for that, since Isaac is so interested in me and Shiori. I'll likely put myself in extreme danger.
As I let Shiori watch the scene, it will make her lose control of her powers, and a spirit without control will simply start to destroy everything basically, I'll make Shiori invert with all the powers she currently has.
This will almost certainly lead to the end of the world. I just need to calculate well how to do this, and also eliminate the competition, because it's certain that both Ratatoskr and DEM will try to interfere with Shiori.
And I also have to think of a countermeasure to make Shiori return to normal after destroying the world, because I still want to take her with me.
"Brother, what are you thinking about?" Mukuro asks while we're at the table together. After returning home, I invited her for a "conversation" I need to somehow try to get the Sephira from her.
But since her soul has merged with the Sephira, she would now feel it if I just tried to remove it. So I must make it clear that I'm going to take it and convince her to let me take her Sephira from her body.
Because no matter how much she likes me, if I try to kill her, obviously she would retaliate, and taking her Sephira is equivalent to killing her.
However, no matter how much she trusts me, she obviously won't just let me take her soul out of her body. I think about the best options I could use Belial, but if I just summon him now, it would seem strange.
And I'm not sure if I could still prevent her from noticing, even with Belial's help, because she's now very strong, and could realize she's in an illusion since she's as strong as me.
"Mukuro, I have something serious to talk to you about. I hope you listen carefully to what your brother has to say and make the right decision," I start to speak, thinking of the excuse I can invent to deceive her.
It needs to be as natural as possible, or she'll notice it's a lie, because she's become disturbingly intuitive after inverting, and that same intuition is one of the reasons she's problematic.
"Yes, tell me what it is and I'll listen carefully," she says with a smile. Honestly, I find it bizarre how she practically never blinks I think she only blinks when she wants to, so she's changed from automatic to manual action because she's a dead body.
So naturally, looking into her lifeless eyes is not a pleasant thing, I think even at school many avoid staring at her face, looking down or looking away.
"I need to remove your Sephira from your body," I say transparently. She obviously gets agitated she knows very well that her current Sephira is her life, and if it's removed, it's almost the same as dying.
However, as I had warned her beforehand, at least she doesn't react by trying to run away or attack me, which is a good start.
"May I...know how this would help you, brother?" she asks, not denying, but rather seeking how it would help me. Perhaps it means that as long as there are benefits for me, she'll give it to me.
'I have to be careful about what I say,' I quickly think of a good reason. It has to be something that Mukuro alone is unable to do, but that can also be done with her Sephira.
"Is there a problem, brother?" she asks, seeing that I'm thinking too long about the answer I'll give her. I quickly think of something and tell her.
"No, it's just that I don't want to worry you, so I'm thinking if it's a good idea or not to tell you about it," I say with a good excuse for my delay, making me seem concerned about hurting her.
"You can tell me, brother! I'll help you with anything you need! You can be sure that if you tell me, I can find some way to do it!" she says with conviction. And as I imagined, the lie to get her to give me her Sephira has to be perfect.
'Seal...her ability after inverting is quite different,' I can use this fact she has no way to return her Sephira to its normal form, so I can talk about something that requires her original sealing ability.
"Sister, I need something that unfortunately you are unable to provide me with at the moment. I need your original ability to seal things, but since your Sephira has inverted, it is incapable of that."
"Even though you have some similar things, I still need the original, and I believe that if I remove your Sephira, I'll be able to restore it to its normal form and then get your help."
I tell her, adding the equation so that she sees that there are "reasons" for me to return her Sephira to her body afterwards.
"I know your soul is in it, and that if I remove it, it's almost like killing you. But as soon as I purify it, I'll return it to your body and thus get your help," I lie to her in a way that seems real.
"Brother, but what guarantees that you'll succeed?" she says with doubts, but without distrust it seems more like a genuine doubt.
"Are you doubting me? That's a bit disappointing. I thought you trusted your brother to solve the problems," I say in a "hurt" tone because of her brief lack of trust.
"Oh no, no, no, I'm not doubting you, brother. I'll help you, I trust you, you can take my Sephira for now," she says nervously because of what I said.
'Bingo...' I knew using her feelings could make this conversation more successful.
"But brother...what do you plan to use the sealing ability for?" she asks, but I already have a prepared answer that I thought of along with the talk about needing her original sealing ability.
"I need to seal a spirit that's trying to ruin our lives together, but unfortunately it's too important to kill," I tell her, using us as an excuse.
"It's just that this spirit has an important duty to fulfill while alive, so the plan is to seal it until it's no longer a problem to our life together."
"O-Okay! You can do it now!" she says all excited. It's obvious that if something threatens our life together, it's a problem, and with a bit of luck, this will be resolved without problems.
"Great, sister," I get up and go to her, hugging and kissing her. She gets nervous about this, but kisses me back.
"You know I love you, right? Thank you so much for being so understanding." She blushes and averts her gaze embarrassed by the situation as I start to form barriers to quickly take this from her before she changes her mind.
I really don't feel anything doing this to her it's really ironic how different it is with Shiori. They are quite different, and it's hard not to compare the two, although I prefer Shiori a thousand times more than this untamed girl.
Removing her Sephira is much more difficult than removing it from other spirits I could even say it's wild, as if the Sephira reacts against coming out of the body. Honestly, this makes me question if it's really a good idea to put this unstable thing in Shiori's body.
I can only hope that Shiori's "protagonist aura" will help her in this regard, and of course hope that nothing happens to her it would be terrible if she had problems because of this unstable Sephira.
After almost an hour, I manage to remove her Sephira, while her body collapses to the floor. I hold the Sephira, which seems even more different than in the beginning now it's a completely black, twisted crystal.
It has a strange Euclidean shape that is even difficult to describe. I don't know why it changes like this and I don't care now I just need to put this in Shiori and everything will be close to working perfectly.
But it's still early I want at least one more month to further increase Shiori's love for me, so I'll keep it and only later put it in Shiori.