Chapter 33 (volume 2)

"Good morning Ryusuke, yesterday I may have lost against you but I will not lose the next time we fight, my partner." Kyuusyou greeted Ryusuke with her usual smile while she was doing a jojo pose.

"Good morning Ryu-chan, I hope we can save this doomed world so that everyone can see a bright future ahead, my partner." Griseo spoke while imitating Kyuusyou's pose jojo.

"Yes, good morning to you both." Ryusuke greeted them normally. This was not the first time that he was greeted in this way and this probably will not be the last.

Logos they sat on their chairs in the classroom.

'Now that I stop to think, Griseo always ends up imitating other people, right? I don't remember very well about some information from the game about the Flame-Chases but it seems that there is some kind of instability in Griseo that makes her imitate others, I don't know if this is because of your MANTIS genes or if it is psychological. But in this last month that she was at school, the only person she was imitating sometimes was Kyuusyou, but Kyuusyou didn't care much about that, in fact she was even happy that someone accompanied her in these Chuunibyou behaviors.' Ryusuke thought as he vaguely remembered some information about Griseo.

'But speaking at Houraiji-san ... I feel like I'm forgetting something, I know it's something from yesterday but I can't remember, it's on the tip of my tongue, but what is it?' Ryusuke was trying to remember something important from yesterday but he couldn't remember what it was about.

Time passed and Ryusuke was already on the steps of the temple that was his home. When he finally arrived he remembered what he was trying to remember.

"Oh, it is! Because of Houraiji-san I forgot to check if I have Natural Stigmata." Ryusuke finally remembered.

After he entered the house he greeted Yae Sakura and he went straight to his room, there he took the black katana that was Jizo Mitama.

{ Hey, why did you get Jizo Mitama, shit kid? } The Herrscher of Corruption asked curiously when she saw that Ryusuke was about to use his powers. This time it didn't look like he was going to use it to make fun of some politicians.

"I just want to do a little experiment, it's no big deal." Ryusuke spoke while he closed his eyes to focus on the use of Jizo Mitama.

Herrscher's eyes of Corruption contracted when she heard the word "experiment", it is not wrong to say that Mobius left a severe trauma in her after everything that happened in the previous era.

Ryusuke began to use the powers of Corruption to check his body. He kept his eyes closed for about 30 minutes before opening them again with a smile on his face.

"Haha, this is it ... I have a natural Stigmata." Ryusuke got up and celebrated.

Ryusuke then held out his right hand and concentrated some Honkai energy on the palm of his hand and a few seconds later a black knife with blue lines was created.

This knife was created by the power of Ryusuke's natural stigma. Natural stigmatas were created from studies on Herrschers stigmatas, so it is also not wrong to assume that some natural Stigmatas may be inferior copies of Herrschers' true Stigmatas.

An example would be the stigmatas of the Kaslana family. These natural Stigmatas grant a great increase in resistance to temperatures. Normally members of the Kaslana family do not naturally awaken the MANTIS genes from their genetic code, if they awaken their sleeping MANTIS genes and do not have a strong enough willpower they will lose their humanity and their rationality and be reduced to nothing more than irrational monsters that they only think about destroying Honkai. In order not to depend too much on the genes of the Kaslana family, they received their stigmatas that increase resistance to temperature. That way they would be able to use Judgment of Shamash  power for a few seconds before they died.

The stigmatas of the Kaslana family were probably based on the Herrscher of Ice Stigmata from the previous era.

As for the stigmatas of the Schariac family, Ryusuke didn't know much about them. The only thing Ryusuke knows about the Schariac family is that Cecília Schariac's blood was considered the perfect weapon against the Herrschers, but he didn't know exactly why. The only thing he knows about Cecília's blood is that Otto did experiments to strengthen the effects of Cecília's blood to the point that she had some health problems, how not to leave Schicksal headquarters.

Considering the information Ryusuke had about this family in the game, he can assume that the stigmas of the Schariac family can nullify Honkai energy in the blood of women in that family. The Schariac family was almost entirely composed of women. But the Honkai power-canceling power must be very weak, this stigmata should only serve to prevent its user from dying from excess Honkai energy in the body.

Considering this assumption, Ryusuke believes that the Schariac family stigmatas were based on the Herrscher of Binding, although they can only affect themselves.

Now talking about Ryusuke's Natural Stigmata again.

When he created that knife he naturally understood which Herrscher that Stigmata was based on. Natural Stigmata were based on the Herrscher of Reason.

The power of the Herrscher of Reason is to build anything he can understand. As he is the first Herrscher to appear, he is underrated as the weakest Herrscher, but in fact he is the Herrscher that has incredible potential.

If the person who is the Herrscher of Reason is someone mediocre then that Herrscher will be just an initial boss.

But if the person is someone extraordinary who knows how to exploit the potential of that Herrscher, then that person will be absolutely strong.

Assuming that the Herrscher of Reason is able to understand all the Divine Keys, what do you think would happen? He could recreate and use each one.

What if the Herrscher of Reason is somehow able to fully understand the cores of the other Herrschers? He would be able to replicate and use the powers of the other Herrschers.

Making a ranking of power over the Herrschers, Ryusuke thinks that way.

First is the Herrscher of the End. Ryusuke doesn't know exactly what her power is but she must be absurdly powerful because she is the last Herrscher to appear.

Second is the Herrscher of Binding, this Herrscher can easily oppress the other Herrschers using his power and his range is absurdly large. The fully awakened Herrscher of Binding would have an effective range of at least 200 km. Perhaps it can even further expand its area of effect.

And third is the Herrscher of Reason. The reason he is in third place is because his power depends entirely on the person, if the person does not have a very high level of understanding then he will be mediocre at best.

( Author: guys, imagine if Shiba Tatsuya had the Herrscher powers of Reason. How absurd it would be. )

Because it is a natural Stigmata, power is very insignificant compared to the original but still has potential.

When Ryusuke awakened the natural stigma some information was added directly to his brain. This information was about the creation of weapons and some knowledge of the Previous Age.

Swords, spears, shields, armor, halberds, there was also information about revolvers and other firearms, Ryusuke now had diagrams and knowledge on how to create these weapons. Sometimes natural Stigmata came with some knowledge of the Previous Age.

Ryusuke undid the black knife, the knife turned into blue particles. He started to create something else.

Ryusuke used his Stigmata again and a blue glow came out of his hand.

And what came into your hand was a black Desert Eagle with blue lines.

Ryusuke then raised his left hand and decided to create a glass cup. And the result was a success.

"It is good news to know that my Stigmata can build things other than weapons. I still need to understand the limits of my natural Stigmata." Ryusuke had a satisfied smile.

{ The power of Binding, my power of Corruption, and now you have a natural Stigmata with the power of the first Herrscher ... you are really a lucky bastard, aren't you, you fucking kid? }

The Herrscher of Corruption was very surprised by the awakening of Ryusuke's stigmas and she felt very envious about his luck.

Over the years she has seen how absurd his luck is. So she really expected that he could have a natural Stigmata numb in his body but she never expected that he would have such a versatile stigma.

She doesn't want to admit it, but she is a little jealous of him. If she had really had that 1% of his luck, would she have had a different life than she is living now? Would she have managed to save her older sister?

Before Ryusuke could answer Herrscher's words of Corruption he heard another voice in his mind.

[ Host greetings, my congratulations on awakening your natural Stigmata, I am the awareness of your natural Stigmata. I currently don't have a name. ]