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Cynthia continued to sulk in her 'nest' of pillows after watching Emilia's 'demonstration', and no matter how the crimson-haired girl tried to coax her, it didn't seem to have much of an effect at all.
The raven-haired girl still found it a little hard to believe that Emilia had managed to not only 'store' one of her abilities as she had, effectively bypassing the so-called 'cool down', but had also managed to do modify it to such an extent that they could hardly be categorized the same way again.
Although Emilia was only able to create and keep only two of the beads she had previously made at a time, each of them could hold a particular 'form' that could be 'applied' to herself at any time.
Whenever Emilia's eight-hour cooldown was up, she could now either change the form stored inside one of these beads, or shapeshift her physical form.