A supporting character in a romance anime? I became a god using a rat talisman.

“Take this.” Kero’s expression turned serious. “This is the key to the seal. It’s the medium connecting you to the magic of the Clow Cards.”

As Kazama Chiba reached out her hand, the moment her fingertips touched the key, a warm current shot through her arm and into her brain.

That's not an illusion, but rather some dormant power being awakened.

"Repeat after me!" Xiao Ke shouted, "This is the incantation for forming a contract! You must infuse it with your magic!"

It cleared its throat and solemnly sang:

"Key that conceals the power of darkness, reveal your true power before me! You with whom I made a pact, oh, right! What did you just say your name was?"

"Kazama Chiba".

"Chiba, who made a promise with you, commands you! Release the seal!"

Kazama Chiba looked at the small key in her hand, feeling incredibly embarrassed to shout such lines at thin air—it was practically public execution.

But he still took a deep breath, lowered his voice, and read it out in an almost monotone tone.

"The key that hides the power of darkness..."

"Show me your true power! Senba, who made a pact with you, commands you!"

"Release——!"

As his voice fell, the key in his hand suddenly burst forth with a dazzling golden light.

The light did not scatter, but instead stretched and deformed rapidly like liquid.

As the light faded.

A pink bird-head staff appeared in his hand.

Kazama Chiba's eyes twitched slightly as she looked at the girlish color scheme and the enormous wing decoration.

"...Aren't there any more masculine styles?"

"What are you complaining about! This was designed by Clow Reed himself! It's adorable, isn't it!"

"That was designed for elementary school girls. Change it for me."

Kazama Chiba's fingers gripped the staff tightly, her voice as cold as if ice shards were falling.

"Do you want me to walk around the streets with this thing on my person? Or do you want me to be arrested as a pervert?"

Xiao Ke swallowed hard as he looked into Qian Yu's murderous eyes.

"But this is the pre-set appearance; there's no way to change it."

"Then let's use magic to change it."

Qianyu's eyes turned extremely dangerous. "If you can't change it, I'll dye you pink to match it."

Faced with this blatant threat, Xiao Ke yielded once again. While it couldn't change the staff's essence, it could still cover its appearance with an illusion.

It muttered "a straight man who doesn't know how to appreciate" while waving its little paws.

A flash of dark red light appeared. The once pink and lovely staff instantly changed its appearance.

The pink staff was stained with a deep matte black.

The original golden bird head turned into a dark red metallic texture, and the pair of pure white wings transformed into jet-black feathers like those of a bat.

In less than three seconds, a villainous, dark version of the bird-headed staff was born.

"...Are you satisfied now?" Xiao Ke muttered, "He looks like a villain."

"now it's right."

Kazama Chiba waved her arms twice with satisfaction.

Fortunately, this profession isn't like the magical girls in the other movie, where there's a forced transformation where you have to wear an embarrassing pink tutu.

Xiao Ke floated beside him and said:

"Alright, now you're officially a Cardcaptor Sakura! Since you have the 'Wind Card,' let's try using it!"

It pointed to a pile of empty boxes on the bookshelf.

"Concentrate your mind, use your magic to communicate with the consciousness of 'wind,' then tap the card with your staff and call out its name! If you're talented enough, you should be able to create a small breeze..."

Kazama Chiba ignored its nagging.

He held the still-warm Wind card between his left and right hands, gently touching the back of the card with the beak tip of his staff.

"Wind, become chains!"

Kazama Chiba gave a low shout and swung her wand forward.

"The Windy!"

The next second, the semi-transparent elf emerged from the card, waved its hands, and created a gust of wind that caused the items in the room to sway and tilt.

"How is this going?"

Xiao Ke flew over and circled the whirlwind that was still spinning in the room twice, its expression more interesting than if it had seen a ghost.

"...It seems a bit weak. Although the magic power is indeed insufficient now, 'Wind' is one of the four elemental cards! How could it only have this little power?"

Kazama Chiba maintained his staff-holding posture. The spirit blinked innocently in front of him, then shrank back into the card as if it had run out of power.

The card floated down, wobbling, and he caught it in his hand.

Kazama Chiba retrieved the card, and the whirlwind dissipated.

"Maybe it's because we haven't worked out together yet."

He calmly offered a plausible but ultimately flawed reason, without revealing any flaws.

Sure enough, while the Rat Charm gave this card life, it didn't provide her with enough mana to drive the card's full power output.

Without a true source of magic to support it, is the effect still greatly reduced if it is driven solely by the power granted by the Rat Talisman?

While its power is indeed impressive, it is, after all, genuine magic.

Just use it

"It seems I need to devise a special training plan for you."

Little Ke, unaware of the truth, floated onto his shoulder and looked at him with a sympathetic gaze.

"At your current level, forget about acquiring other cards, you'd be lucky if you didn't get bitten by stray dogs when you go out."

Kazama Chiba: ...........

Chapter 7 Mirror Plate

Then Kazama Chiba began to tidy up the room, which had been left in a mess by the strong wind.

Cerberus, on the other hand, flew to the mirror and began to admire his own appearance.

“I said, Qianyu.”

While fiddling with the swaying tail of the mouse with its short paws, Xiao Ke complained in an extremely picky tone:

"Where did you buy this cheap mirror? Why is the image delayed? My reflection is half a beat behind when I make this cool turn! This is an insult to my perfect figure!"

???

Kazama Chiba stomped on the last deformed delivery box, pausing for a moment.

Leaving aside how these two completely unrelated terms got connected...

A mirror isn't a live stream, so where does the delay come from?

And isn't the mirror on his side?

There wasn't a second mirror in his room.

Halfway through her thought, Kazama Chiba suddenly turned around.

In front of the wardrobe door with the "Neon Genesis Evangelion" poster, two identical yellow winged lions were floating.

The one on the left, still in the pose of hands on hips and wiggling its butt, looked back at him with a bewildered expression.

The one on the right also maintained the exact same posture, but its movements were noticeably slower than the one on the left, like a buffering, choppy video.

.........

Dead silence.

Kazama Chiba's gaze swept back and forth between the two lions before finally settling on the cube-shaped Rubik's Cube on the corner of the table.

Without the slightest hesitation, he grabbed the Rubik's Cube and suddenly exerted force with his wrist.

"call--!"

The Rubik's Cube, made of hard plastic, hurtled towards Xiao Ke, whose movements were slightly delayed.

"Oh my god!"

The little guy was so frightened by this sudden outburst that he instinctively covered his head and ran away.

"Snapped!"

The Rubik's Cube didn't hit Xiao Ke. Instead, just as it was about to touch the tip of his nose, it was grabbed and crushed to pieces in his palm.

"Whoaaaaaah! What the hell is that?!"

The real Xiao Ke was so frightened that his fur stood on end, and he sprang backward like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

"Oh dear, we've been found out."

The little guy who wasn't hit stopped imitating, and the silly, cute expression on his face vanished instantly, replaced by a cold and mocking smile.

The real Kelp screamed, its fur standing on end.

"Holy crap, what the hell?!"

Xiao Ke observed as she flew.

"Could it be a mirror plaque that can replicate anything?"

"Shouldn't it have run far away? Why is it still hiding at home!"

"Looks like a clever guy who likes to play dirty tricks."