Guide to tamming vilanesses-Chapter 55: Fairy Powers

"So this is how things are..." Shin murmured, but not in his usual calm tone.

Even while Lilel explained everything she knew, he kept training. He had brought several pieces of gym equipment into his room and was bench-pressing with all his strength.

His face was red from the effort. His lungs burned, empty of air. Veins stood out along his arms as he forced the bar upward one last time.

But his muscles gave out.

The weight slipped.

However, before the bar could crash down on his chest, a small figure darted forward in a flash of light.

"Honestly, you’re hopeless without me." 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Lilel grabbed the bar midair and lifted it as if it weighed nothing. Despite her tiny body and delicate wings, she held the heavy metal steady.

The small fairy toed with the metal weight a little bit, just to show off. Then she carried it off to the side and set it down with surprising ease.

Shin lay there for a second, catching his breath, staring at the ceiling. The little fairy floated in front of him, turned proudly in the air, and puffed out her chest.

"You’re welcome," she said, brushing imaginary dust from her hands. "If I hadn’t been here, you’d be flat as a pancake."

Shin rolled his eyes. "Weren’t you the one who basically forced me to train until my muscles stopped working? And did you get stronger?"

Lilel had been growing stronger day by day. Just that morning, they’d discovered she could carry 150 pounds, and that had seemed to be her limit. Now she was holding that same weight as if it were nothing at all.

"Of course I did." She crossed her arms. "And don’t forget, I’m the one who gathered all that information." She hooked both thumbs toward her chest. "I’m incredible, aren’t I?"

He watched her brag in silence as she floated in small circles, clearly enjoying herself.

"I am strong," she continued. "And useful. Very useful. So never call me useless again!"

"Are you still mad about it?" Shin asked.

"Yes, you owe me an apology!" she snapped. She floated right in front of his face and leaned toward him, placing a hand on her hip and forming an angry pout.

It still unsettled Shin, watching her behave so much like his beloved. Even so, he wasn’t stubborn enough to keep picking a fight with an ally.

"You’re right," he said at last. His voice had returned to its usual steady tone. "I’m sorry."

Lilel froze mid-air. "Huh?"

"I underestimated you," he admitted. "You’re incredibly powerful. And even though we don’t know what my secondary system does yet, it’ll probably awaken eventually. When it does, I’ll benefit from it."

"User, I’m also sorry for choosing her appearance." Lilel brought a hand to her chest and offered a small smile. "But I had just been born. There were too many memories to process at once. And grabbing me like that was cruel." She pouted again.

"Okay, okay. Sorry," he muttered. "Anyway, my sister’s supposed to invite me to that group date soon. So it would help to know the limits of your powers. What can you do?"

"I’m not entirely sure," Lilel admitted, brushing the question aside with a small shrug. "Everything I know is from what I’ve tested myself. I can’t move more than ten meters away from you. I can carry things. And I can fly."

"Then I think we should test that," Shin murmured.

They started simple.

Shin picked up a wooden chair and handed it to her. Lilel took it easily, hovering a few feet off the ground without strain.

"Too light," she said.

He added weight to the table. She lifted it all, wobbling slightly in the air but quickly stabilizing.

"Still fine."

Shin narrowed his eyes and dragged over more of the heavy weights scattered around his room. Each time he had to bend down and pick one up, his muscles screamed in protest. He’d really pushed himself with training lately.

"Try this." He placed more weight.

For a brief second, Lilel dipped lower in the air. Then she steadied herself and rose again. Her wings beat at full force now, and her face tightened with the strain.

"I’m fine. It’s nothing!" she insisted.

The way she refused to admit her limits stirred old memories in Shin. That same stubborn pride. That same need to prove herself.

But there was no point pushing the test any further. He had a good estimate of her strength now.

Lilel could easily kill any normal human.

And the only other system user they were likely to run into was John, who wasn’t particularly strong.

"It’s enough," Shin said, putting a few of the weights down. "Now, why don’t we test how you would perform in combat?" Shin suggested.

To begin with, he let her attack him. However, this proved to be ineffective. She was light. Really, really light.

Lilel was ten inches tall, so Shin had expected her to weigh at least five pounds. But she didn’t even weigh one. In fact, it was so little that his kitchen scale couldn’t measure it.

Force equals mass times acceleration, so it didn’t matter how fast she could punch. With almost no mass behind it, her attacks caused virtually no damage. Still, she could lift Shin, even if it was difficult because of his weight.

Shin didn’t understand how she could lift things while having effectively zero mass. But systems were magic. Not everything had to make sense.

And she could lift very heavy objects. So her best fighting strategy would be either dropping things on people or literally lifting the enemy and letting them fall from a great height. With her being invisible, that could be terrifying.

"Now, let’s see how you react to being attacked," Shin challenged. He balled his hand into a fist and swung, aiming directly for the fairy.

Lilel was easily fast enough to evade the blow, but she held her ground, waiting for the impact. However, the moment his knuckles were about to graze her, a translucent field flared into existence around her tiny frame.

His fist struck the barrier and instantly recoiled. There was no jarring sting, no crunch of bone against a solid surface, just a clean, absolute redirection of energy.

A fraction of his own momentum sent Shin stumbling backward, yet he felt no pain. It was as if the "impact" itself had been deleted.

It wasn’t like hitting a wall, because there was no painful kickback. But it wasn’t like hitting thin air, either; the rebound was physical and firm, forcing him away. It was a sensory contradiction, a total negation of force that left his hand feeling strangely hollow.

Honestly, Shin would rather never feel that again. It just felt wrong. But he still had tests to do.

Lilel stared at herself. "Oh! I’m incredible, I didn’t know I could do it!" She smiled happily.

The glowing field faded as quickly as it had appeared.

"You didn’t cast that?" he asked.

"No. I think it reacted instinctively to the fact that you tried to hit me."

He stared at her more seriously now. "It’s automatic, then... what a powerful ability." Automatic defenses were extremely overpowered, because they worked even if the user was unconscious, and sometimes... "Could you turn around and close your eyes?"

"Yes," Lilel agreed, already guessing what Shin wanted to test.

And after some tests, Shin was almost sure of it: her shield was an omniscient type. Those were very rare skills that activated whenever something tried to harm their user, whether the user was aware of the attack or not.

Not only that, if Shin pretended to punch her but intended to miss, the shield wouldn’t activate. But if he moved to gently pet her while secretly intending to hurt her, the shield flared up instantly.

There was no way to run more precise tests, but it really did seem like an omniscient skill. And considering Lilel had been attacked before and nothing had happened, she had probably just awakened that power.

Unfortunately, she couldn’t grant that ability to Shin yet. Still, it was likely that once his secondary system began functioning properly, he would gain access to it.

"Now we should test how strong it is. Drop something heavy on me," Lilel suggested. "The shield is good, but it’s useless if it’s weak."

Shin’s expression flattened. "Absolutely not."

"It’s fine," she insisted. "Even if I’m crushed, I won’t die. I’ll just reappear."

He studied her face. She didn’t look afraid. Just curious. Shin knew she probably wouldn’t die. As long as the user was alive, a system couldn’t die. Still, being crushed by something heavy wouldn’t be pleasant. And there could always be risks.

"Are you sure about that?" he asked.

"Yes."

Shin hesitated, then dragged over the heaviest weight he had brought. However, it did nothing to her.

They tested everything they could find in the room, but nothing had even the slightest effect on her. In the end, all they could do was give up on testing.

Then, the next day, Yumemi came to ask if Shin would want to go to the group date. He immediately agreed, and things were in motion.

John was definitely planning on using the group date as an excuse to drug the girls, after all, he worked for HEAVEN, and this was one of the ways they collected Sluts.

But Shin wouldn’t let this happen.