The day.

  Ryuji came to school as usual.

  During lunch break in the , besides Yukino and the others, two new faces had joihem—Nanako and Mimiko .

  The two sisters sat oable, casually swinging their legs, looking very rexed. Even uhe curious gazes of the irls in the Service Club, they didn't seem the least bit nervous.

  After all, they had experienced much more inteuations when they were with the Panxi. This was nothing to them.

  "Alright!" Ryuji stood up and cpped his hands, drawing everyone's attention. "You've probably seewo before—Mimi and Nana. They're with me now."

  The others had seen the Hasaba sisters before when they had e to ask Ryuji for help, so their presence wasn't a plete surprise.

  "Hello," the two sisters greeted. Though their tone wasn't overly friendly, it wasn't hostile either. It was more of a ral, no-nonsense kind of greeting.

  Given that they had once followed Geto Suguru, who preached that non-sorcerers were no more than monkeys, it was uandable that they held a certain pt for ordinary people. It was ingrained in them.

  After a brief pause, the irls in the Service Club introduced themselves politely.

  "Hello, I'm Miko Yotsuya."

  "Hi, I'm Hana Yurikawa. You call me Hana, and I'm also Ryuji-kun's girlfriend!"

  "…"

  The rest of the introdus were much simpler and less forward pared to Hana's bold decration.

  "A sorcerer?" Nanako and Mimiko only paid attention to Miko, Hana, and Mai for a brief moment before dismissing the rest.

  After all, the Hasaba sisters were sed-grade sorcerers, so they could sehe cursed energy within Miko and the others. It wasn't strong, but it was there.

  Yukino and the others were smart enough to pick up on this. They noticed the sisters' subtle disdain for non-sorcerers, but they didn't let it bother them. They remained calm and posed in their seats.

  Seeing this, Ryuji expined, "These two followed Suguru Geto for a while, and they still believe in his idea that non-sorcerers aren't human, just monkeys. It might take them some time to ge that view."

  Ryuji wasn't oo cim he treated sorcerers and non-sorcerers equally. In truth, he only cared about the people around him. But he didn't go as far as to exclude non-sorcerers from the human race.

  "I never said I wao ge it," Nanako, the older sister with blonde hair and a bit of a rebellious look, couldn't help but mutter, clearly still holding onto her beliefs.

  "Hm?"

  Ryuji didn't say anything more but shot her a look. The kind that said, *You're with me now, so you follow my rules.*

  Mimiko, the younger sister, quickly tugged on Nanako's sleeve and looked at Ryuji apologetically. "We'll ge. Slowly."

  Nanako wasn't truly disobedient; she just had a bit of a defiant streak. Now, under Ryuji's gaze, she fell quiet and looked away.

  "Good." Ryuji nodded, not pressing the issue further.

  Then he looked at the others. "Anyway, the Hasaba sisters are both sed-grade sorcerers. If any of you have questions about sorcery, feel free to ask them for help."

  The sisters had trained under Geto Suguru, a special-grade sorcerer, so their foundations were solid. They would be great teachers for newers.

  "Them?" Nanako and Mimiko blinked in fusion, looking around. When Ryuji said "everyone," he really meant everyone in the Service Club.

  "Wait, but they don't have the qualifications to be sorcerers, right?" the sisters asked, puzzled.

  They wouldn't refuse to teach, but if the others didn't have the potential to bee sorcerers, then teag them would be pointless.

  Ryuji simply crossed his arms and smiled, not answering directly.

  However, Yukino and Utaha, being as sharp as ever, quickly caught on.

  "Ryuji-kun, does that mean you've found a way to give ordinary people the ability to bee sorcerers?" Yukino asked, her eyes widening slightly.

  After all, Ryuji had mentioned something like this before.

  "Of course!" Ryuji responded fidently. Over the past few days, he had perfected his trol over the Idle Transfiguration, a teique capable of altering one's body at the soul level, enough to solve the problem of qualifications.

  "Huh?!"

  "This is impossible!"

  Nanako and Mimiko were in disbelief. They had never heard of anything that could give a regur person the ability to bee a sorcerer. It was always something you were either born with or without.

  Ryuji didn't bother expining further. He raised his hand, and the power of Idle Transfiguration began to form around it.

  "Idle Transfiguration is a teique that modify the soul to alter the body. The main differeween sorcerers and ordinary people is in the brain. If you ge an ordinary brain into that of a sorcerer, then anyone bee a sorcerer."

  After hearing Ryuji's expnation, the sisters were left speechless. They didn't know what to say.

  "Who wants to go first?" Ryuji asked, ign their stunned reas and looking around at the group.

  "I…" Utaha started, but Yukino quickly stood up first, beatio it. "I'll go first."

  She approached Ryuji with a serious expression.

  "Don't worry, everyone will get a turn!" Ryuji reassured the others. After all, the process didn't take long.

  He gently touched Yukino's forehead, and the power of Idle Transfiguration activated. In an instant, Ryuji could see into Yukino's soul and made the necessary adjustments.

  The process was quick, taking only a few minutes. When Ryuji removed his hand, Yukino slowly opened her eyes.

  Everyone, including Nanako and Mimiko, watched closely.

  "It doesn't feel any different," Yukino said, looking slightly fused. She couldn't sense any big ges in herself.

  "The real ge happens when you try to sense your cursed energy," Ryuji expined with a smile.

  "I see."

  Yukino nodded, uanding what he meant. She had paid attention when Ryuji taught Miko and the others how to trol their cursed energy, so she didn't need much guidao start practig on her own.

  "Oh, by the way," Ryuji added, "unlike sorcerers born with the ability, those who undergo the Idle Transfiguration transformation are sidered 'acquired sorcerers.' This means it'll be harder for you to awaken an ieique."

  In other words, ieiques were like natural talents, if you weren't born with o was difficult to ma it ter.

  "Hard, but not impossible, right?"

  "Exactly."

  Ryuji didn't deny it. Though being an acquired sorcerer was generally sidered inferior to being born with the ability, there were always exceptions.

  "Maybe one of you will surprise us and awaken a teique. Even if you don't, it's not the end of the world. Sorcerers have plenty of ways to fight without needing an ieique."

  In fact, many talented sorcerers hadn't awakened ieiques but were still extremely powerful. There were other teiques like the New Shadow Style or simple domain manipution. There was also the *Falling Blossom Emotion teique from the Zenin family, which could ter domains.

  These were all teiques that didn't require innate abilities and were still highly effective.

  "So, even if you don't awaken a teique, don't get disced. With my es, it won't be hard to find you some powerful abilities that don't rely on ialents."

  It was all about who you knew, after all. Ryuji wasn't above using his influeo get what he wanted. If someone didn't give him what he needed, he'd just take it.

  "Very reliable!"

  "That's right! With Ryuji-kun here, we have nothing to worry about!"

  "Hehe!"

  The girls ughed, reassured by Ryuji's fideheir trust in him was clear.

  Seeing this, Nanako and Mimiko felt a little envious. But Ryuji wasn't the type to py favorites.

  "What are you two jealous of? Don't fet, you're mioo," he said, notig the look on their faces.

  "…"

  After a brief pause, the two sisters smiled and heir loyalty now firmly pced with Ryuji.

  "Alright, up!" Ryuji called out as Yukino moved to the side to start practig gathering cursed energy.

  "It's my turn!" Utaha stepped forward eagerly.

  One by ohe rest of the girls went through the transformation, gaining the ability to bee sorcerers. Those who weren't present didn't o worry—Ryuji could always transform them ter. With the Idle Transfiguration teique, it was as simple as a wave of his hand.

  As the girls basked in the joy of their newfound power, Ryuji turned his gaze toward Nanako and Mimiko.

  "What is it?" they asked, feeling a bit uneasy under his stare.

  "I'm just w if Idle Transfiguration remove the curse on you two."

  "Curse?"

  Nanako and Mimiko were both stunned.

  "We're cursed?" Mimiko asked, looking fused.

  They had never sidered that possibility before.

  "Have you never wondered why, even after being sed-grade sorcerers, no matter how much you train, your strength hasn't improved?" Ryuji asked, crossing his arms.

  "Uh…"

  The sisters had always thought that they had simply reached the limit of their talent. But now, hearing Ryuji's words, it made them resider.

  "So… we've been cursed this whole time?" Nanako asked, still processing the information.

  "Exactly. It's called the Curse of Twins," Ryuji expined, not holding anything back. He briefly told them about the curse, how their talents had been split between them because they were twins, which was why their powers had stag a certain level.

  "Is there a way to remove this curse?" Mimiko asked hopefully. Both sisters wao keep improving, and if the curse was holding them back, they were eager to find a solution.

  "Well, the most straightforward method is… out of the question."

  The sisters didn't need Ryuji to eborate. The simplest way to break the curse would be for one of them to die, allowing the other to i the full talent. But her they nor Ryuji would ever sider something like that.

  After all, both of them were his now, and losing even one was uable.

  "But I'm curious to see if Idle Transfiguration lift it," Ryuji mused aloud. He gestured for them to e closer.

  The two sisters exged a ghen stepped forward without hesitation, standing before Ryuji.

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