I am a Type-Moon comic artist!

That feeling of being moved by life made him feel like he wanted to cry.

Fantastic!

"Hmm? What's wrong, brother?"

"No, it's nothing." Kurokawa Kazuya waved his hand, still not quite recovered by breakfast time. However... he noticed something strange: ever since the beginning, his cat had been staring at him...

He couldn't understand the cat's expression, but he felt extremely uncomfortable.

"Hey, you..."

After dropping his younger sister off at school, Kurokawa Kazuya squatted down and looked at his pet cat, saying, "You...you can't possibly understand...no, I should say you don't actually have any intelligence, do you?"

"Meow meow meow meow—"

"Hmm... he doesn't seem crazy at all. Am I just imagining things?"

Kurokawa Kazuya stood up and narrowed his eyes slightly... However... he had previously treated it as an ordinary kitten, which was why he hadn't paid any attention to it. But... what if it really had intelligence?

No... I'm probably overthinking it.

Kurokawa Kazuya rubbed his head and walked towards his studio upstairs.

Has the power of ripples allowed me to float?

However... even so, I need to be more careful from now on. I had never even considered the possibility of a cat possessing intelligence before.

But now I'm already thinking about this kind of thing. Thinking about it carefully, my cat hasn't been trained or anything, but it is indeed a little too well-behaved... Was it trained before coming here?

Of course, it's more likely that these are just my own wild guesses; this cat is just well-behaved and doesn't have any intelligence at all.

"Meow meow meow meow—"

"Hmm...it really is crazy."

"Meow (tsk!)" Little Flower gritted its teeth... What could it say? It had already said it all. It claimed to be intelligent, so who could blame it if you didn't understand?

Its two previous statements were, "That's right, I am wise, you finally understand." and "Who are you calling crazy?"

However...

Kurokawa Kazuya couldn't understand cat language.

Lacking this capability, the message failed to be conveyed.

Time passes—

Every night, Kurokawa Kazuya enters the world of dreams, using the time within those dreams—calculated in "years"—to practice the Ripple Breathing technique before facing DIO...

Although, due to his inherent limitations, his Ripple at that time wasn't much stronger than Jonathan's at the beginning, and was even weaker than Zeppeli's, that was only in terms of quantity! In terms of technique, he had absorbed the experience from the comics and was much stronger than them!

His idea was simple: first, practice Ripple, an ability that could be used in reality.

Then, once you've mastered Ripple, put on the Stone Mask from the dream world, become a vampire there, and practice your vampire abilities. That way, if something happens in reality that requires you to have great power but you don't have enough Ripple, you can put it on anytime and immediately unleash the vampire's top power!

However... that's what he said, he only faced DIO once... and he failed that time too.

Although he severely injured DIO, he still died first.

He planned to test the power of Stone Mask after completely defeating DIO next time, but now—there was something else.

My younger sister, Kazumi Kurokawa's teacher, is coming to visit our home.

Chapter Forty: Restraint

"Ding-dong-"

Sawada Kanako rang the doorbell, then took a few steps back to confirm once again that this was indeed the home of her student, Kurokawa Kazumi.

During this period, she has visited many students' homes one after another. From being nervous at the beginning, she can now handle it with ease.

According to Kazumi Kurokawa's information.

She lives with her brother, which means that her main purpose in coming here was to meet Kurokawa Kazumi's brother, a man named Kurokawa Kazuya...

My classmates say this person is likely a cartoonist.

I heard there's a cartoonist on JUMK with the same name as him.

Thinking about all this, she automatically pictured a stereotypical fat, nerdy guy.

She felt a little nauseous... and even had a slight reluctance to come. However, for the sake of her student, she came anyway, but she put this family last in the list of visitors. Perhaps she'd gotten used to it after seeing so many people...

perhaps...

click -

The door slowly opened.

Kanako's heart skipped a beat, however—

Completely different from what was expected...

The door, though open, did not reveal any light. Instead, a person, almost as tall as the door, stood there, blocking her view.

"So high..."

She couldn't help but marvel inwardly. She was 151 cm tall, but the person in front of her seemed to be several heads taller than her.

However, he doesn't give off a pillar-like feeling; instead, he looks very handsome and strong.

Could this person be...?

"Um...excuse me, are you Mr. Kurokawa Kazuya?"

"That's right... At this time, you must be Kazumi's teacher, Sawada Kanako, right?"

"Huh? Hello." Kanako bowed and said, "I'm Kazumi's teacher, hello, Mr. Kurokawa."

......

"What's wrong?"

"No, there's nothing there." Ryougi Shiki, who was in the middle of a kanji lesson, turned her gaze from the distance back to her textbook and sighed inwardly, "Let's continue."

"Well... now I'll explain this poem..."

The teacher was explaining the poems of a Chinese poet named Du Fu, but she didn't listen at all.

This would not have happened before.

But for some reason... I feel a little unsettled today.

"...style...style?"

"Um... Teacher, is there something you need?"

"...That's enough for today." The old man, who was over eighty years old, shook his head helplessly. He could tell that Shi had no interest in continuing to learn today, but... he didn't intend to delve into it or say anything else.

He wasn't a member of the Ryougi family; he was invited to teach Ryougi Shiki.

However, he was generally aware of the Ryougi family's affairs, though he couldn't possibly treat the girl in front of him like a normal child of her age.

But... I still feel sorry for her.

So young, yet burdened with such a heavy responsibility.

“Yes…I understand, thank you,” Ryougi Shiki said, bowing.

"Hmm." The old man nodded, opened the door, and left. "I'll try talking to your father and see if we can cancel the afternoon classes as well." As he spoke, he slowly turned back. "A holiday...something is still necessary, isn't it?"

Ryougi Shiki was stunned for a moment, but before she could say anything, the old man had already closed the door and left.

As expected... there were no kendo lessons that day...

Her father, heeding his teacher's advice, gave her a day off.

but...

For some reason, she always felt a little uneasy...

"What... happened?"

Ryougi Shiki's inner thoughts—

Deep within... individuals that neither Ryougi Shiki nor Ryougi Ori could discover... their true origin, representing the existence of the origin, has awakened.

This existence, perhaps, can be distinguished using a root cause approach.

Now, she's awake.

Although I didn't take control of Ryougi Shiki's body...

"So you've made your move... the planet's suppressive force." Root-style chuckled.

Ryougi Shiki... this suppressive force has been watching her, or rather, it has been watching her all along.

Although she could have hidden it from the Counter Force if she wanted to, she didn't have such thoughts when she was first born, and the Counter Force had already discovered her at that time.

It's too late to hide it now.

However, aside from the inhibitory force, it's still possible to conceal the other abilities that allow one to see the past and future.

Therefore, most of those people did not notice the existence of Ryougi Shiki.

However—Kurokawa Kazuya is not like that.

Unexpected, unpredictable, unknown.

Ironically, this unknown has a very good relationship with Ryougi Shiki.

In other words, right now, in the eyes of the Counter Force, among those who might end up with Ryougi Shiki... Kurokawa Kazuya actually has a considerable chance of being with her.

Especially in the mysterious world, age is not a big issue.

However, if one obtains Ryougi Shiki... then it's equivalent to having everything... for the world, it's equivalent to having all the power, whether it's destroying the world or rebuilding it.

Therefore, the Counter Force could not stand idly by and watch itself be threatened with death. Originally, in the Counter Force's mind, Ryougi Shiki's side should be someone who was without desires but could control her... But now, before that person has appeared.

The unknown has somehow intruded...

Precisely because it is unknown, anything is possible. The inhibitory force cannot possibly believe in this possibility...

so...