When Ves exited the System Space, his entire demeanor drastically changed.
In reality, virtually no time had passed. Neither Major Jankowski nor the Elegant Rage noticed that Ves had secretly spent hours inside a completely different space.
Enlightened by knowledge related to withering curses, Ves had painstakingly deconstructed one of them and made many alterations based on other theories and reasonable inferences.
His work was anything but clean or elegant. Ves lacked the immense knowledge and experience of his mother, so he encountered many difficulties in trying to rework a mysterious means of attack that he only understood on a shallow level.