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Rinnosuke: *running-* HA! *Smashes the Disclaimer apart like glass with a YinYang orb!*
Chapter 11
Day X, Unknown Time.
Sasuke Ito's Journal, Entry 7.
To think, this was what it was the entire time. Looking back on it, it should have been obvious that this was the root of the cause.
The shop owner's ill life in dealing with bothersome women; the Mountain Youkai's female population supposedly wanting Rinnosuke; it's all this thing's fault.
Keeping it on my person will only be a temporary solution, though. I should keep its existence a secret and figure out how to dispose of it for when the need arises.
Due to my condition, I cannot do magic myself (unless you count my innate wind abilities and manipulation of my life force as magic, but I wouldn't seeing as they function so differently). Because of this, I cannot be certain about the nature of this thing.
Following my recollections, the subtle feelings given by the energies gathered before me, as well as listening to my instincts, it's not a magic spell but something similar. If I had to describe it in the common tongue, I would refer to it as something darker, deeper, and more chaotic than real magic. Something less ingenious and more instinctive; less versatile but more powerful.
It's like a Tengu's innate ability to control the wind, but since it's something else other than wind, no Tengu could hope to use it. And it's not something we could reproduce using sorcery.
Regardless, as far as I can tell from observing the "spell" (for lack of a better word), it has an area effect. If I am right, it enhances the attractiveness level of any male inside the projected invisible field from the perspective of any female of the same species. When a male leaves the field, his attractiveness gradually, but quickly, decreases until it he hits his original level.
Actually, it's worse in the shop owner's case. At first, it seems to only make someone of your species fall in love with you. But since the shop owner is half human and half youkai, it's probably making both human and youkai women wanting him. Although if that's the case, that doesn't explain why Marisa was assaulting me, unless she was simply enchanted by the mere appearance of the shop owner.
Fortunately, if the hybrid stays away from this shop, he'll eventually stop being insanely attractive to women. Unlike the shop owner, I will not affect them for one reason; women are not attracted to me to begin with. If by some unlikely chance that I am attractive to any woman, I will only have youkai women desiring me since I am only a full-blooded youkai. And since I am not initially as attractive to women as the shop keeper, I'll never reach his popularity level even comparing strictly youkai women. That said, if I want to avoid poisoning the minds of those around me, or want to avoid making a too suspicious of impact on the change of opinions the female populace has of me, I do not need to worry about taking this thing into my care.
I don't know if there is something else that will trigger the moment I deal with the source of the non-magical supernatural power, so I will refrain from destroying it. The only alternative I have is to remove it from the shop and study it until I can safely destroy it.
It appears that for the first time since before I lost my memories, I will be paying more than a formal visit to the magical research lab.
Why does it feel like the Youkai of the Dusk is present?
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From the Author:
Alice: So... this is the halfway point?
Sanae: More like the two thirds point.
Marisa: Either way, this chapter was going to be something special, right?
Sanae: We were supposed to have audience ask questions so that we could address everything they needed to know next chapter.
Alice: We were also supposed to ask for requests on random quips from the audiences that we could use in the next chapter.
Sanae: Instead of simply ripping off an Anime Abridged series?
Rinnosuke: I do smoke Marijuana, it's goooooood stuff.
Marisa: Yeah, like that.
Rinnosuke: *shouting from background* Man, I ain't never gonna get laid.
Marisa: Maybe you would if you would stop resisting my advances.
Rinnosuke: Thisficisafanbasedfictionandnothingmore,sopleasesu pporttheofficialrelease. Yougotit? Youbetterknowitbynow,I'vebeendoingthisforayear.
Sanae: Okay, that's enough.
Rinnosuke: Eat me! Don't forget to write!
Alice: Now you're just being gross.
Sanae: *whispers* Says the girl who constantly sleeps with the proofreaders.
Rinnosuke: What are you going to do? Get that girl who can stop me? What was her name; Miss McDoesn't Exist.
Marisa: *raises the Hakkero Mini reactor* Take this! My new finishing move: FINAL SPAAAAAAAAAAARK!
Rinnosuke: Oh shi-*is blasted away*
Thank you, proofreaders Achariyth1, and DokturProfesur.
