"Yu, the magic book of the contract is complete. We can begin. Let's go to our room; it's time to help you retrieve your voice and emotions."
Watching the three figures depart, Haruna went to watch the excitement. After their figures disappeared, Kurumi spoke to Yu, who was drinking tea. Hearing Kurumi's words, Yu's body visibly trembled, then she nodded and stood up, walking towards the room. After setting up a barrier at the door, Kurumi also turned and walked towards the second-floor room.
"Don't be nervous, Yu. I've prepared all of this beforehand. Don't worry, nothing will go wrong."
"So, let's start with the preparations."
Kurumi said with a smile, looking at Yu, who was sitting in the middle of the room, a little uneasy.
"Now, take off your armor and all your clothes. Yes, all of them."
Don't misunderstand, this wasn't Kurumi suddenly having a loli complex outburst, but a necessary ritual. If clothes were worn, they would instantly be vaporized by the high concentration of magic power. It was better not to wear them. Additionally, the contract on the magic book would be directly inscribed all over Kurumi and Yu's bodies, and clothes would still affect the inscription process of the magic book.
"Don't worry, I've also set up 20 layers of barriers in my room, so it won't affect the outside, and I'll help you suppress it."
Seeing Yu hesitate, touching her armor, Kurumi explained to her. Yu wasn't shy about undressing, as she had bathed with Kurumi quite a few times recently. She was afraid that her own rampant magic power would harm Kurumi. But after Kurumi's explanation, she nodded and began to take off her armor piece by piece.
"Balance Contract • Chapter One Activate."
As Yu began, Kurumi took out the magic book and started to activate the first chapter. Following Kurumi's command, a complex magic circle slowly emerged on the cover of the black magic book. If Li Jiayu were here now, he would be surprised to find that this magic circle was at least fifty percent similar to the magic circle for his contracted summoned beasts, but it had been modified to have a completely different function from that summoning circle.
"As expected, begin absorption."
As soon as Kurumi activated it, Yu had already taken off her armor and clothes. The rampant magic power instantly began to surge around, even causing the internal barriers to creak. But all of this was within Kurumi's plan, and it also saved the time of injecting magic power into the magic book.
Following Kurumi's command, the magic book flew into the air between the two of them, quickly beginning to collect the magic power in the air that was as thick as liquid. As the magic book absorbed, the viscosity of the magic power in the air began to decrease, but the magic power on Yu's body was still gushing out, as if it wanted to form a cocoon to wrap Yu. Seeing this situation, Kurumi quickly extended her hands, pushing the magic power around Yu aside, and then firmly grasped Yu's hands with her own.
"Synchronization start."
Kurumi's clothes were all vaporized by the rampaging magic, even her underwear and the black tights that hugged her slender legs. Kurumi's alluring body was thus revealed before Yuu, but at this moment, both of them were concentrating intensely on completing the contract, and neither paid attention to the other's sudden exposure.
Her hair was blown up by the violent magic, revealing her heterochromatic eyes, usually hidden from view: a golden clock-like pupil and a beautiful ruby-like pupil, directed at Yuu's pure, transparent, sapphire-like eyes. At this moment, no emotions could be seen in either of their eyes, but their expressions were very serious.
Guided by Kurumi, Yuu slowly began to inject magic into the Grimoire. The Grimoire instantly flipped open its pages, and the previously blank pages began to show one magic circle and rune after another. The two stood hand-in-hand for an unknown period of time. When the magic circles on the Grimoire became brighter and brighter, approaching saturation, Kurumi knew it was enough.
"Yuu, it might hurt a bit next, you have to bear with it."
Kurumi said, comforting Yuu with her heterochromatic eyes, one gold and one red. Hearing Kurumi's words, Yuu's eyes showed determination, and she nodded to Kurumi.
"That's right, every time you use Spirit Words and heal others, you have to endure extraordinary pain. This little bit of pain should be nothing to you!"
Looking at Yuu like this, Kurumi said with a mix of heartache and relief.
"Engraving begins."
Kurumi slightly raised her head to look at the Grimoire floating above their heads and gave the command.
As Kurumi's command was given, the Grimoire flew from above their heads to the junction of their clasped hands, and began to frantically flip its pages, finally stopping on one page.
On this page were two identical magic circles. The magic circles on the page emitted a beautiful light blue glow, and this glow slowly turned dark blue as time passed, finally becoming a blue-white color. At this moment, the magic circles slowly peeled off the page, overlapped, and then flew to the backs of their hands, settling down.
"Hmm~~~~!"
The settling of this magic circle made both of them groan in pain, but more pain was yet to come. This magic circle was ultimately to be engraved not on the body, but on the soul. Only Zeus, the King of Gods, would dare to do such a thing; anyone else would probably have their soul shattered. Yuu herself was a person of the Underworld, millions of times stronger in soul than a human, and her soul's resilience was a hundred times higher than even her own kind in the Underworld, which is why she produced an endless supply of magic that she herself couldn't control.
That's why Kurumi dared to engrave the contract on both their souls; only this method could help Yuu regain her voice and emotions, and control her rampaging magic.
As the magic circles settled, the Grimoire began to frantically flip its pages again. This time it didn't stop, but one rune and character after another began to pour from the Grimoire into the magic circles on the backs of their hands.
The runes pouring into the magic circles began to crawl over their bodies. Those runes, like ants, began to cover their entire bodies: calves, thighs, lower abdomen, chest, arms, neck, and finally even their eyes. If someone with trypophobia saw this, they would probably go crazy instantly.
"Drip, drop."
From the beginning until now, neither of them had made a sound, but the fragrant sweat dripping from their bodies proved that they were not at ease. The pain had caused the sweat on the ground to form a small puddle, but the engraving continued.
After an unknown period of time, as the runes scattered by the Grimoire became fewer and fewer, and finally no more runes emerged, it symbolized the end of the ritual.
The flying Grimoire began to crack and slowly turned into ashes, disappearing before their eyes.
The runes on their bodies also slowly permeated their skin, disappearing from the surface. Finally, after the magic circles on the backs of their hands faded, Kurumi knew the ritual was complete.
"Yuu, it... it's over now. You can try to speak."
Watching the magic circles disappear, Kurumi's face was a bit uncomfortable from the pain, but she still managed a faint smile. If any man saw Kurumi in her'sweaty' state now, he would probably instantly turn into a beast and pin her down on the bed for a good time. Kurumi's flushed and alluring appearance at this moment would move even women, let alone men.
Hearing Kurumi's words, Yuu slowly let out a breath and tried a little.
"No magic fluctuations, it really worked, Kurumi."
Sensing no magic gushing out, Yuu happily called Kurumi's name, not caring about her unclad, sweaty body, and began to make various sounds.
"I'm here, but let's take a bath first!"
"Mm! As you say, Kurumi."
Hearing Kurumi's suggestion, Yuu's face showed a happy smile, which made Kurumi momentarily stunned. Yuu's smile was so rare; it seemed this sacrifice was truly worth it. Although she felt more uncomfortable than giving birth to a second child, Kurumi believed that if she had to choose again, she would still do it. She absolutely had to save this poor child.
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