Author Note:

Damn, it getting longer and longer for me to update a single chapter and rewrite. With the previous pace of 1 month per chapter and 1 week for rewriting at least 1 chapter, I had a doubt to reach the end of the story before my life does. Well, I'll try my best to get to my usual pace maybe I could if I did.

Anyway, this chapter is long. When I write the first section it surpised me too see that I have reach 3k word count only for that section. That made me asked myself "Did I put too much thing in it?", And of course I did. After editing (Sending it to my grammarly overlord) and reread the chapter count it is reduced a little bit. BUt even with that there still a lot of word, LOL. If you spot that I add too much detail just tell me.

First of all so I don't have to repeat it. "Thanks for all who review the story" now onto the review:

Nixolas Zinn: Yeah, you're right about where I missing some sentence or broken word. Cause I feel it too, but since I don't know any better usually I decided to leave it alone and continue the story first, then forgot to fix it later. I'll try my best to reduced some of it tho.

NXTtrain: It's quite hard for me to give my character a fixed traits, since he was there for me to have an excuse for touhou character to come and easily go. So sometime I getting mixed between his character and the touhou character, please tell me when that happen too much.

Marshall817 & NovaOfBeginning : Look, it's updated again, Uhm...sorry for taking so long to update this. As for Nova I told you that I could get it done on one week, well it seemed I underestimated the word count. It seemed editing a 6.5k word count for a week is not enough for me (And of course me being lazy didn't help it too).

Guest: I never plan for my story ... Wait I did, but it is only for the general direction thought. For the detail I always write without thinking and hope for the best (that mean hope I'm not making more mess that needed to rewrite, lol).

Now that long rant has been done, I hope you enjoy this chapter.


"Just fly, my past self said. It will be easy to find, my past self said. Man, fuck that guy! I really should not listen to him when he was too excited." Iyan complained to himself.

After hearing Rumia exploit from the adventurer, Iyan got too excited to the point he immediately goes out to the sacred mountain without brought a map or asking for direction. Because of that, rather than reaching the place, he is getting lost in the mountain range. Not only that, Koishi's tendencies to go somewhere without his realization made things worse for him.

At one time in his travel, Iyan had an intention to transformed back from Koishi, then find the mage relying on Star's skill. Only to be stopped from doing it when he saw a wyvern swoops down a nearby camouflaged monster. He decided that it's better to be Koishi rather than be a wyvern food.

After wasting hours going around the mountain range without a map, Iyan decided to go back to the kingdom. On his way back, he spotted an adventurer party at the foot of a mountain. Iyan was curious about their intention in this place so he landed near them.

"Now that we're here, what kind of magic you want to get from the elder mage?" Said a man holding a hammer behind his back.

"I will get regeneration magic. I don't have a lot of MP, and I waste a lot of it using heal." Said a woman in a nun robe.

"Regeneration magic using a lot more MP than heal, you know." Said a man holding a spear in his hand.

"I know, but this is what my party said they need. So I will ask that from the elder mage." Said the nun.

Iyan was delighted that their intentions seemed to match his. Now he just needed to follow them to find out where the old mage lived. But he had to transformed back first, after all, if Koishi decided to goes away from these adventurers, it would be bad for him.

Before he transformed back, Iyan moved away from the adventurer party. He did this to avoid startled them from his sudden appearance.

After he deemed far enough from the party, he transformed back to himself. After that, he activated Star's ability to find where they are and Koishi to avoid monster attacks when he tried to catch up with them. Since Iyan did not go too far from them, it was not long for him to reach them.

When near them, he found out that none of the party members has detection skills. Even when he got close to them, no one turned around and realized that he is following them. Because of that, he decided not to deactivate Koishi's ability to avoid awkwardly talking to them and their suspicion toward him.

In the middle of their travel, the party that Iyan followed stopped in a junction, One goes right toward a cave, and the other goes left to a mountain path.

"Are we really going to use the mountain path?" The hammer man said.

"Yeah, is not that what we agreed earlier?" The spearman said.

"Well, true, but I have a bad feeling using the mountain path. Can we use the cavern way?"

"The cavern is way more dangerous, especially with the rumor that the rock dragon is becoming active."

"But.."

"Look, I know how your bad feeling is mostly right. But we can't do anything if we encounter that dragon, and we did prepare for using the mountain path."

"I guess you're right. We can't go back after going this far, right?"

"Yeah, the dragon is known to reject those who give up midway, and our client will be the one who got disadvantage because of it."

Even with that said, the hammer man still doubting to continue using the mountain path. So the spearman continued talking, "Cmon, don't get cold feet now, as long as it is not that giant wind wyvern, we could beat anything in this mountain path."

"That's true. Let's hope that giant wyvern won't attack us."

And so they decided to use the mountain path.

Iyan must admit they are pretty brave to choose this path. This path is so narrow that no more than two people could pass at the same time. If someone slipped here, then it will be their death.

Due to the narrow path, they made a single line formation. With the nun in the middle, the spearman in the front, and the hammer man in the back.

The danger of the path they took is not limited to the terrain only. Sometimes wyverns passing by up in the sky and the giant wyvern that they don't want to get attacked appeared on top of the party. The appearance of that wyvern made the adventurer party scared while Iyan was amazed by it. Fortunately, the giant wyvern did not come down and only passed them. After the big wyvern appearance, there is nothing much happened on the way.

Though in the middle of their travel, Iyan felt concerned for this party. His detection skill caught up a few monsters stalk them, and yet this party looked oblivious to it. He wanted to warn them but worried that his sudden appearance could make them surprised and slipped from the narrow path. Because of this, he regretted not to show himself earlier. Since the monster only stalk them Iyan decided to warn them later when they are no more on the narrow path.

Though it seemed his worries were unnecessary. When the monster getting closer to the adventurer party, they could detect them and prepared to fight. What showed up is a monster that looked like a giant lizard with a rock scale on its back. There are three of them at the front of the party and three at the back.

"Six rock Gek ambushing us. Whew, I guess this is why you have a bad feeling." The spearman said.

"Hah, you are joking. This much is not a problem for us." The hammer man said

One of the lizards in the front of the party is running toward the spearman. When it got close, it pounces at the spearman. The spearman reacted to it with a side sweep at the jumping lizard and throwing it off the cliff.

"Look up!" Iyan said to the hammer man in the back.

He was startled by the sudden sound near him. He tried to find where the sound is coming from.

"Stop looking around! Look above you."

He followed the command and saw a lizard-shaped mirage sticking on the mountain wall, and then it immediately jumped at him. His reaction is the same as the spearman. He swings his hammer sideways and throwing the mirage off the cliff. After the hammer man did that, all of the rock gek that ambushed them scattered and run away.

"So that was their leader." The hammer man said.

"Woah, you hit something earlier?" The spearman said.

"Yes, it is an invisible Gek."

"I never knew you can detect that monster."

"Thank to a voice told me to look up I spotted it. Did you not hear it?"

"Sorry, to focused on the front."

"I heard it, is that voice belong to the dragon and he is protecting us?" The nun said.

"I don't know. Never heard the dragon protecting anyone. If that is the dragon doing, then we better hurry to say thank you to it." The spearman said.

With that said, their travel toward where the elder mage lives continue. After the ambush, nothing happened again. They safely walked and reached the cavern entrance where the sacred elder dragon lives.

"At last, they reached the destination. My leg is going to give up if I need to walk more than this." Iyan thought.

"Are we won't get rejected by the sacred dragon?" The nun said.

"We move fast, careful and no one hating each other so I think we safe." The hammer man said.

"Well, let's go inside and see whether that dragon will reject us or not." The spearman said.

"Well, suck to be you guys even if I got rejected by that dragon, I could sneak up on that dragon and meet the elder mage behind it."

Then Iyan followed the group inside the cave. What awaited them inside the cave is a large silver scaled dragon lying on all four like a sleeping cat while looking at the adventurers.

"So you are done talking in front of someone house."

The dragon's mouth not moved, yet Iyan could hear a feminine voice directly said it to him, and it seemed the adventurer party received it too.

"We are very sorry to disturb you, and we are grateful for your protection in our travel." The hammer man said.

"Protection? Ah, it is not me who protects you. I never care for what happened to the human along the way to here. It is someone else who helped you, and that someone is currently with you."

"So I have been found out," Iyan said after deactivating Koishi skill.

Just as Iyan thought, the party was surprised by his sudden appearance. The hammer man and spearman are looked angry at him. Iyan wondered why they are getting mad at his sudden appearance.

"Since you are not realizing that he was always with your party, therefore I will not permitted the three of you to meet the mage."

Now, Iyan know understand why they are angry at him.

"Please can you reconsider? I must get the regeneration magic for my party, please!" pleaded the nun.

"My decision is final," Then the dragon stood up on all four. It then released a terrifying aura that made all of them trembled with fear. "But, if you want me to change my decision, then how about you try using force."

The hammer man hurriedly kneels, "We are very sorry for her rudeness. But we will refuse your generous offer."

The nun wanted to protest more, but she was silenced by the spearman stare sharply at her.

"Wise choice," The dragon sit down again while keeping her head rose, "But if you give up now, your client, the lady over there, will feel wronged. What you will you do for her to fix that then?"

"We will give back 500 silver coins of her that she used to pay for us."

"Is that all of them?"

"No, she pays us 750 silver coins, but we have used some of them for preparation of this travel."

"Hmm," The dragon looked at the hammer man intensively. "It seemed you are not lying. Fine, I'll accept that. I will add another condition that you are going to protect her until you reached the kingdom."

"Yes, we will."

Then two magic circles formed in front of the adventurer party.

"You two step into that magic circle." The dragon said while pointing at the hammer man and spearman.

The two of them did what the dragon told them.

"Both of you promised with your life on the stake. That you are going to protect her and give her 500 silver coins."

"Yes, I promise." Both of the hammer man and the spearman said in unison.

After they have sworn, a bright dragon head icon showed up on top of their head.

"You two know what will happen when you break the promise, right. Now, all of you can leave."

"Wait a minute! Am I need to leave too?" Iyan screamed.

"As for you, stay here. I had some other plan for you? Let's wait until they are leaving." The dragon said while pointed with one of its claws toward the adventurer party.

Iyan was happy when the dragon told him to wait, but he was worried about what the dragon had in store for him.

"I hope that dragon will not request impossible things like fighting it. Then again, even if I failed, I could always sneak up by being Koishi."

After the adventurer leaving the cave, the dragon started talking to Iyan, "Did you know why I told you to wait?"

"Let me guess. You want to test me."

"You are close, but what I want is not a test but a challenge. Before I tell you what my challenge is, I want to ask you when did you start to follow the group?"

"At the foot of the mountain."

"As I thought you are following them long before I could detect you. I have pride in my detection skill, yet you could goes this close without me detecting you. That's why I wanted to challenge you. If you can get on top of my head without me noticing it, then I will let you meet that mage. If you lose, then you are going to leave this place."

"Then before the challenge begin, can I asked you to close your eyes and stop using your detection skill for a few seconds?"

"Fine, I will only do that for 10 seconds only thought, and it starts from now."

The dragon closed her eyes and started to counting out loud.

"No time to waste then, transform Koishi, yes."


"10, ...wait. Why did I counting again? Hmm, because I want to sleep?" The dragon yawned. "Ah yes, it is because I want to sleep."

Then the dragon lay down on all four again and lowered her head. Before she could close her eyes, she could hear a voice on top of his head.

"Hey dragon, would you want to become my pet."

"What, how? When do you get there? Who are you?"

The dragon confused when she suddenly saw a girl on top of her head.

"That is not important, if you are becoming my pet then I could have a cool dragon pet like that hermit. So please become my pet."

"This is the first time someone can get this close without me noticing it. I guess I should play along with her." The dragon thought. "Are you sure you can take care of me as your pet?"

"Yes, I can. If I don't know about something, I could always ask my sister since she has a lot of pets."

"Her sister has a lot of pets? Does she means that her sister has a pet dragon too?" The dragon thought. "Could you tell me where your sister is?"

"She is in Gensokyo."

"Where is Gensokyo located?"

"I don't know," Then Koishi looked at the cavern entrance. "Oh, it's noon now. I should go and see the Buddhist monk again. Bye dragon"

The dragon then saw the girl suddenly got confused and looked around her surrounding.

When the girl looked at her head, she looked happy and said, "Oh, I won."

"Won?" The dragon was confused as to why the girl suddenly said that. "Wait! I just remembered why I was counting earlier, I challenged someone to get on top of my head. So are you the one that I challenged?"

"Yeah, that was me. Now that I won, you would let me see that elder mage, right?"

"Of course, but can you tell who is your sister is?"

"Sister? What sister? I don't have any sister."

"But you just told me earlier that you have a sister."

"Wait, did we have a conversation earlier."

"Yes, it's about you wanted me as your pet."

The dragon then saw the girl got surprised and fear.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. Sometimes I do random thing when inside this body?"

"This body? Wait, are you some kind of a body-snatching monster."

"NO! I'm a human."

"You're a youkai."

"Well, yes I'm a youkai now, but I'm a human with skill to transform into someone else."

"So what you wanted to say is the previous person that talked with me is not you?"

"Yes, the one who talked with you is someone else and she had a sister, while I'm not."

The dragon paused for a second and processing the information that she got from the girl.

"So you have the skill to transform into someone else, and that person could control your own transformed body. At the same time, you could control your transformed body too. First time I heard a convoluted skill like this. You must be a human summoned from another world."

"Wow, I never thought that my secret got exposed like this. I should be careful with telling people my skill from now on. But yes, I come from another world, and this transformation is the skill that I got. Can you please not tell anyone about this?"

"Okay, I'll try not to tell a lot of people then."

"Wait, you will tell someone?"

"It's an interesting story. It is going to be hard for me not to share it with other people."

The dragon grinned. She was amused to see that the girl on top of her head got frustrated.

"Ugh, fine, you can do whatever you want. Not like it's a dangerous thing anyway. Now since I won your challenge, you will permit me to meet with the elder mage, right?"

"That's my promise. If you want to meet the mage, step on the teleport magic circle behind me."

Then the dragon saw the girl flew down from her head. She stared in amazement when the girl is transformed into a guy before he stepped on the teleport magic.


After Iyan stepped on the magic circle, he got teleported to the front door of a small house. With no hesitation, he opened the door and going inside the house.

When Iyan saw the inside of the house it felt so cramped for him. Many shelves full of books filled the living room, leaving only a little space in the middle. In there, he saw a bearded mage in wizard clothes stirred something inside the cauldron.

The mage stared at Iyan while not stopping stirred inside the cauldron, "Hmm...A visitor? I never thought to get a visitor this time and a rude one at that."

"Ah, sorry. I should have knocked first."

"Yes, you should. Anyway, I can expect what you want, but sorry, this time you will not get anything from me."

Then a familiar feminine voice speaking directly to Iyan and the mage mind.

"Can you give him what he wanted?"

"You. I thought I told you not to let anyone come to me today. Why are you letting someone come here?"

"Do not get that mad. I am letting that guy because he is a summoned person from another world with an interesting skill."

Iyan frowned. He did not expect the dragon to spill about his identity this soon.

"damn that dragon, If only I have enough power to shut her up, I will."

"A summoned person, interesting. I read from a book that they always have a unique skill, so can you show it to me?"

"I can, but before I show you my unique skill, I want to have the Abandonment Food spell first."

"Quite an interesting choice of a spell, but fair enough, I can give you that. The skill book is on the shelves at your left in the third row from the bottom and has a yellow cover."

While the mage told that, Iyan had started looking at the shelves. Following his instruction, Iyan found a yellow-covered book.

"This one?" Iyan showed the book to the wizard.

"Yes, that one. Just open it, and you will get the spell."

After Iyan opened the skill book, two panels popped up side by side in front of him. The first one mentioned a new skill acquired, while the other one about Patchouli is unlocked.

"Now I give you what you want. It is time for you to show me your unique skill."

"Wait for a second, I need to prepare something first."

Iyan opened the status panel to unlock Patchouli's clothes first. Then he placed his magic bag on the ground.

"Now, I have done that. It is time for me to transform. Transform Patchouli, yes."


Patchouli Knowledge a magician that lives in Scarlet Devil Mansion. Known as the unmoving great library, she rarely spent her time outside the library inside the mansion.

Then her surroundings immediately changed. Initially she got confused, but when she looked around it seemed her library got smaller somehow. Then she heard a male voice, something that she never expected to hear inside the library.

"Interesting, so your unique skill is mimicking someone and getting their skill. I am jealous of how easily you can get those useful skills, while here I am trying to get some of your current skills." The mage inside the room said.

Patchouli wondered why the man suddenly said that. Though not long after that, she gained the memory before her transformation.

"Now, I can see why you said that," Patchouli said while holding her head with one hand. "Still, it's quite irritating. Someone changed into you, and then all of your hard work becoming his without any effort."

"Huh, Here I thought you will brag it to me. I guess even you know how hard it is to gain a new skill."

Shortly after that, Patchouli could feel some magic trying to connect to her body, she repelled it since she can't trust it. While the mage suddenly getting confused.

"Wait, is that true? and he can resist your telepathy? Hey, uh...Are you the owner of that body and not that man?"

"Yes, I'm not him," Patchouli said while looking around the library. "You have a bad hobby collecting cursed books. Are these books just to trap a rat?"

"No, they are not for trapping rats. Those cursed books are for hiding the real skill book and giving a nasty surprise to anyone who read my book without permission."

"That's what I said earlier. It must be nice to have a rat that doesn't have good knowledge of magic. That black rat never falls for this kind of trick, not even when I put a good bait for her."

"Please, take me as your disciple!" The mage suddenly pleaded.

Hearing the plead, Patchouli looked at the mage, which is now kneeling on the ground.

"I am not interested in taking on a disciple, and you are not that much interested in me earlier. Why you suddenly wanted to be my disciple now?"

The magician stands up, "Well, at first, I thought you are still the same person as before. So I thought even if I asked you about how to get the skill, I bet you wouldn't know. But now that I'm sure that you are not the same person, then you must know how to get all of your skill."

After the mage saying about skill Patchouli got curious about what skills she had, "Open status."

Status | Items
Name : Patchouli Knowledge
Race : Youkai Magician
Level : 15
MP : 6650 / 6650
AGI : 116
STR : 137
MAG : 745
INT : 655
LUCK : 65
PHY Def : 220
MGC Def : 545

Skills:
- Elemental Magic MAX [+]
- Other Magic [+]
- MP Renegeration MAX
- Magic Manipulation
- Flight
- Danmaku

Patchouli remembered how to find out the detail of status from Iyan's memories, so she touched her skill panel.

Elemental Magic MAX

A skill that make the holder capable of using all elemental magic.
Current level effect:
- Greatly reduced MP usage of all elemental magic
- Greatly increased magic output of all elemental magic

MP Regeneration MAX

Passive skill that increased MP regeneration.
Current level effect : 80% MP will be restored per minute.

Magic Manipulation

The holder of this skill capable to manipulate mana their will.

When Patchouli touched Other magic skill, no explanation showed up. Then she remembered another thing from Iyan's memories, touching the [+] will causing the panel to show up another list.

Other Magic [-] :
- Abandoment Food Spell

Elemental Magic MAX [-] :
- Wind Magic
- Earth Magic
- Water Magic
- Fire Magic

Patchouli was intrigued when the list on elemental magic showed up. It did not mention all of the elements that she could use. So she cast one of her wood element spell to create a little plant on the floor. Her attempt was successful on the first try, but there was discomfort when the magic activated. Then she used her metal element spell to create a small metal ball on her hand. Like earlier, she succeeded in casting the spell, and the feeling of discomfort is there too.

"Hey, could you cast your magic?" Patchouli asked the mage

"What kind of magic do you want me to use?"

"Any elemental spell that you could do."

Patchouli stood still as she watched the mage thinking hard. She wondered if the mage in front of her misunderstood something. Before she could tell the mage to hurry up with casting the magic, the mage cast a simple fireball on his hand.

"What took you so long to cast that simple spell?"

"I remembered that my past master told me I could impress a magician with a complex spell. At first, I am going to use that. But I doubt any of my spells will impress you, so I decided to cast a basic magic something that I have mastered."

"I never care about the magic itself. It is the mana flow that interested me. Now, Could you change the element? "

Without complaining, the mage turned his fireball into a water ball. Patchouli looked at the magic, then ordered him to change the element again. It continues until every elemental magic is cast.

"Interesting, are all person in this world has the same flow every time they cast magic?"

"It depends on the person, I think. Is there something wrong with my flow?"

"Not really. Yours is the same as mine. Our flow comes from inside the body to where we wanted it to go. But when it is about to go out of our body, it goes back inside then only after that it goes out, and the spell is showing up."

The mage was shocked when he heard what Patchouli just said, "I never feel my flow acted like that, but since it is you who said that, then it must be right."

"So that means you don't know why the flow is like this. Well, that's a little disappointing. I hope I will meet someone who realizes this in the tournament or at least seeing some interesting magic."

"Are you going to participated in the tournament at the nearby kingdom?"

"Yes, that is the plan of this body owner, and I think it is a good place to see mage with their spell."

"Then I will offer myself to be your referrer."

"Is there any advantage of you being my refferer?"

"There is, a lot of people wanted to join that tournament, but not all of them can't be accepted. So they only choose someone with a great magic skill or having a history of being creative with their magic. You may be qualified for your skill, but you are a newcomer, so they do not know you. You coming this late to registering yourself is not helping the chance to join the tournament either. I bet they had concluded everyone who will be joining the tournament and will not reconsider their decision. But with me as your referrer, I will make sure you are joining that tournament."

"I take your offer then. Is there anything else about the tournament that I need to know?"

"Well, there's a participation fee of 5 silver coins, but I bet that man, the previous body owner, has prepared for it. Anyway, could you wait here a little bit? I will prepare for my leave." After the mage said it, he got out of the house using the door behind the room.

After the mage leaving, Patchouli taking the magic bag that Iyan's put on the ground before he transformed, then toss it aside to her pocket dimension.

While waiting for him to come back, Patchouli decided to read a book that the mage had. She took one book from the shelves behind the cauldron. When she picked it, some of the dust collected on the shelves scattered and goes toward her.

"*Cough* Are he never ... *Cough* clean up ..*Cough* this place?"

Patchouli's coughing continued, and because of her asthma she had trouble breathing. She looked around the place, trying to find some herbs but found nothing. Then she recalled from Iyan's memories that there is an item tab from the status panel.

At the item tab, there are some of her magic books and her clothes listed in it. Patchouli ignored those items and scrolled down fast to find a herb she knew could lessen the symptom. Unfortunately, she found no herb listed in the item tab. But, she found something even better than that, though the name made her chuckled a little bit.

Eirin's shady drug (3500)

A drug made by the former lunar sage Eirin Yagokoro. The ingredient to make this drug is secret known only by her. Despite its name, this drug is very effective in curing any illness. It can also increase body resistance for 8 hours after consumption.

"If that doctor sees this *cough* she will be furious."

Patchouli touched the drug image and confirmed when there is another panel showed up. After that, a single capsule floating in front of her. Then she grabbed the capsuled and looked at it closely. She still hesitated to drink the mysterious capsule that appeared out of thin air. But because her situation was not getting any better, and she was not in her own real body, she decided to drink the capsule.

After she swallowed the capsule, her mana becoming restless. Shortly after that, she could feel that she become more energetic, and breathing becomes easier for her than before.

"Are her medicine work like this? Quite an uncomfortable feeling being unable to control my mana."

Not long after that, the mage return from the back door, and he carried a giant bag on him. When Patchouli looked at the mage, she couldn't help but think that he looked like a kappa carrying their oversized bag.

"I'm ready now. Should we take the shortcut, or you want to sightsee this mountain first?"

"Do we have to walk using your shortcut?"

"Sadly yes, it's still quite a long way before we reached the kingdom. But you don't need to worry, I have prepared everything for our travel."

"Can we just use the dragon to fly us there?"

"Ah, Uhm, That dragon is quite stubborn about that. I don't think she will let us ride her."

"If you can make it becoming your cat, it won't be that hard to make her do something else."

Before the mage can said anything else, Patchouli turned around and made her way toward the teleportation magic circle.


In the dragon cave, they were greeted by the dragon that was standing on all four. The dragon looked angry.

"That dragon could hear anything in the house. I think she is mad at us right now." The mage whispered to Patchouli.

"I heard you wanted to ride me, right? Just to let you know, I will not let anyone do that! Even if you use force, I will never let you ride me!"

"I will not force you, nor I will fight you. I just got curious why a dragon, the most prideful creature according to the book, is okay being used as a cat by a human. There must be some reason why you are doing this."

The dragon looked at the mage with contempt. The mage shaking his head furiously, hoping to convince the dragon that he does not know anything about this.

"So does that mean you want to make a better offer than him in exchange for riding me?"

"Yes, that's my intention. So what is his offer nyway?"

"It's quite simple actually, but a little bit shameful for me to tell," The dragon paused and use her appraisal at Patchouli "Wow! I never knew anyone that could block my appraisal magic. You're way better magician than him."

"So will you tell me what is his offers now?"

"Ah, yes, sorry. Like I said before, the reason is simple. He helped me curing my body with his regeneration magic."

"That's it?"

"Yeah."

"You can't use any restorative magic, and because of that, you need someone else to help you with it?."

"Oh no, I can use healing magic and regeneration magic, but that will make my body ugly to the human."

"Are you can't use that magic properly?"

"Not really, in fact, in terms of effectiveness, my healing magic is so much better than him. but the side effect is quite troublesome, so can we leave it like that."

Then Patchouli racked her brain to find a better offer for the dragon. She was confused about why the dragon has more effective magic and yet still relied on the mage. She needs to correctly guess what the side effect was before making her offer. But the lack of info and the dragon's unwillingness to tell her made it hard for her.

Before she could arrive at her answer, the mage shouted at the dragon, "Can you just told her! Look, she got confused trying to find that out, or you want me to tell her?"

"Fine, The side effect of me using my regeneration magic is because of the dragon's weird body quirk. When we dragon uses any healing magic, our scale will change color into whatever magical talent they had. In my case, it will turn my scale into black since it seemed I have talent on black magic."

"That's all for the side effect?"

"You may think it is not that bad, but its awful side effect in this world. It is all because, in the past, many black scaled dragons join the demon king army. Because of that, many humans see any black-scaled dragon as evil. I could fight with many humans and win, but I couldn't fight every day without rest and win. That's why I accepted that mage offer to heal me and changed my skin. If only those other black-scaled fools try to learn human language and clear the misunderstanding or at least not destroying any human settlement after the war is over. I won't have a hard time with my black scale."

"Then I could offer you a change of how your body works so you could use your healing magic without the side effect?"

"You can do that?!"

"It depends. Can you first showed me how you use black magic?"

Then the dragon spitted out a dark ball to the cave wall.

"Can you use something that cast continuously? I can't watch the flow correctly if you do it just once."

So the dragon did. This time she is using a small but continuously dark breath.

"You can stop. Now I want to see you using healing magic to yourself, like before use something that will continuously casted."

The dragon thought what magic she could use that satisfied the condition, "This going to be hurt. I hope you really can change my body."

The dragon put her hand toward her neck and closed her eyes. Then she ripped out one of her scales, causing her to roar painfully. After a while, it got regenerated and replaced with a darker scale.

"Just as I expected, when you use your healing spell, it has the same flow as your dark magic. With this, we can trick your body to change it. Now, use any magic that you want your scale to turn into."

The dragon had a little doubt at Patchouli's word, but since this is the only chance to change how her body works, she got swayed to believed in Patchouli. She considers what magic she will use and concluded to use light magic since it won't change her current scale. Like before, she used her breath again.

Patchouli carefully investigated the dragon for a short while. Then she created a magic circle below the dragon.

The mage and the dragon were surprised when they saw the instantly created magic circle. Around its border, there are some rune characters that both of them didn't know. Then Patchouli made the more confused when she started reciting something in a language they never heard.

"It's done. Now try to use your healing magic again."

The dragon was shocked. She couldn't feel anything different, nor could she see something happening when Patchouli using her magic.

"Are you sure you have done your magic?"

"I did, just try it and see for yourself."

Now The dragon had more doubt than when Patchouli said that she could change how her body works. But since the dragon had gone this far, she decided to continue trust in Patchouli's word.

Just like before, the dragon forcefully ripped one of its scales. This time, the scale that regenerated had a brighter color than the other.

"It worked?!" Both the mage and the dragon said in unison.

"Impossible! What is that magic? I am not sensing anything from it!" The mage said.

"What kind of magic did you use? In my long life, I am never heard or seen this kind of magic!" The dragon said.

"This magic is something that I learned from a summoned demon, so I doubt someone in this world use this kind of magic. The effect of this magic could change someone's talent, so I heard from the demon. But, it had quite a different feeling when I cast it here rather than in my world. Fortunately, it seems the magic still worked even with that in the way. Anyway, now that I have fulfilled my offer, you are going to let us ride you."

The dragon that had lost her composure calm herself down, "Certainly, I will not break my promise. I will take both of you there with me."

While the dragon got calmed down, the mage still got restless, "Wait, can you please tell me more about the previous magic. I can't even feel any mana flowing into the previous magic. Please can you tell me more in detail what kind of magic is that?"

"Try to learn more about magic again and try to find an error in your way of thinking. You are probably more focused on getting a new "skill" without even trying to ask yourself where the skill comes from or why a skill makes you capable of using magic. Now, can you get on this dragon? I want to quickly see how you people in this world using magic with this kind of limitation."

Having been lectured by Patchouli, the mage got silent instantly and obediently follow her order. With both of them now on the dragon's back, the dragon flew toward the Mashi Kingdom direction.