After singing songs of who knows how many, Caelum is now thinking of some small philosophical things, just small thoughts.
Like, how humanity can learn anything that they desire but themselves. They will inevitably try to understand the secrets of the universe, to see what it makes the world tick. For them, everything is but a stepping stone for their sin of curiosity, to build themselves better and to go against the very thing that created them. All for the sake of the freedom that they selfishly covet. But even if they can learn the secrets of universe, they can never learn the secrets of their existence, their very selves. For everything that they can do, they can never understand themselves, for they deny themselves. Laughable, for humans to save themselves of everything but themselves. To rise to better the ways they can fall by their their own hands.
Yeah, just some small thoughts. Nothing biggie.
Caelum's use of self defense was appropriate. He definitely did not use excessive force.
"I was just born this very hour! How could you?! My beautiful face has now been ruined..."
"Cover yourself in a bag, that'll make you perfect."
"..."
Definitely not. Probably a little physical discipline. But definitely not emotional ones.
"Can you not sit on me?"
"A chair shouldn't speak."
Even when the grimoire spirit isn't physical, Caelum can still touch it. Making it so that Caelum is sitting on the spirit like a discounted chair from a dollar store.
"Fine, i'll stop with killing humanity! Just stop this!"
"What I want is the grail."
"Like I said! The grail fused with me! I can't give you something that's gone!"
"Want to experience kissing a brick?"
"Please! I'm sorry! I'll do anything!"
"Grail."
":("
The pain of being used as a punching bag and unfortunately, he still is not content leaving without having the thing he is here for.
Just before the spirit could experience being a ragdoll for nth time. She spoke, trying to delay the play.
"Why do you even need the grail for!?"
"It's authority on souls."
Even with the unsatisfactory answer to that question, the spirit saw something that'll stop the very-innocent-and-not-so-painful-game.
"I have an authority on souls! I can be used for souls! I absorbed the grail, I'll bound myself to you, I can be a substitute for the grail!"
"For real?"
"Yes! It's true!"
Caelum squinted his eyes at the spirit of the grimoire, trying to see a lie. In return, the spirit shook in fear. Heck, she's actually vibrating than shaking from the amount of fear about the beatdown.
Well, she's not lying, Caelum knows that. He's just messing with her. Lmao.
"And how do you bound yourself to me?"
"I'll be similar to a sacred gear, binding myself to your soul."
She's sweating profusely. Trying to arrange her words to not get a Jin Kazama combo if this merciless guy got upset.
"How would I know that you wouldn't do something funny to my soul?"
The advantage of having the grail is having control of souls, power to give life to things and bringing an almost instantaneous death sentence to another.
But having something such as that with a will can be very dangerous, if left unchecked. Something with a will and that power of having power over souls and having it reside on his soul is not a very smart thing to do, obviously.
The spirit shakes her head.
"I'm not idiotic to challenge that thing. I don't want that thing inside you to erase me."
Oh? She must be talking about the system then. That explains some things.
Maybe that's why she tried to convince me instead of forcefully possessing me then.
"Hm, fine. Then come inside."
Hehehe, come inside, hehehe... My mind is tired, bros...
Without any flare or any drama, his vision came back to his humble abode.
Seemingly no time has passed. The car outside the window was at the same position when he was flashbanged mercilessly.
"Hey girl. You there?"
Remembering that sacred gear users can interact with their sacred gear spirit, he called out to his.
'...I am...'
A quiet small feminine voice replied to him.
Oh no, the voices inside my head is slowly becoming more and more. Wonder how they'll interact with eachother.
'...It's difficult to talk to you. It's like there is something trying to dampen my connection..."
Must be the system again. Can be used as the answer to everything, FR FR.
"That's the system, the same thing lurking inside me that spook you."
Why tell somebody else about the system? Because he knows the system can do something about it. Why so sure? Because the system spook the Pokémon evolved grail, so the grail do funny things to people with funny thoughts.
'...No... It's not the same...'
Huh. Is this a situation similar to Kurama and Naruto, White and Ichigo? If so, then that's too damn generic. Or maybe not? The year should be 2020 when I died and that's been over twenty years of the release of the last of the big three... Damn, it's been a decade. I miss my last life.
'This one feels natural, divine and machine-like. But the other one that didn't let me take over you was primitively protective.'
Oh no, I'm becoming shonen.
"Ignore it all, with my decades of living and nothing bursting out of my chest or something trying to take over me. I'm sure it's all fine and safe."
'...If you say so...'