After exiting the chat group, Souta turned his attention to the Divine Spark.
His heart pounded with excitent, his eyes filled with anticipation and eagerness.
After all... he was about to beco a god! The temptation was simply too overwhelming.
So overwhelming that an ordinary person might even be willing to eat dirt for it.
Of course, compared to the average person, Souta had a much steadier mindset.
After all, he was already immortal, capable of manipulating ti, generating fire and ice, creating matter, regenerating his body, punching with a force of four or five tons, and sprinting 100 ters in three seconds—just to na a few!
Having accumulated so much power, his ntality had been tempered ti and ti again, allowing him to handle temptation with a bit more restraint.
Taking a deep breath to calm himself, Souta wasted no ti and addressed the system.
"System, use the Divine Spark."
No hesitation.
The system imdiately complied with his request.
A radiant light shot out from his phone, rging into Souta's body.
He felt as if a new organ had ford within him—a strange sensation, but not an uncomfortable one.
Then, as if bathed in warm sunlight, a cozy, soothing warmth spread throughout his entire body.
The warmth slowly seeped into his very soul, forming a space within it—a realm between the real and the illusory.
As the space took shape, Souta suddenly felt as though his perception had beco sharper, clearer.
It was an indescribable feeling, but it was as if his ntal awareness had surged dramatically.
Or perhaps... his spiritual strength had undergone a massive leap.
Even with his eyes closed, Souta could now sense every detail of his small apartnt.
His body had developed a new organ—one that could receive and process information before feeding it to his brain.
And faintly...
Souta heard soone calling his na.
The voice echoed inside that illusory-yet-real space within his soul.
"Could this be what they call... a Divine Realm?"
Souta closed his eyes and focused.
Imdiately, he beca aware of a new instinct—the ability to imrse his consciousness into his soul space.
Following this instinct, he took control of the space within himself.
And suddenly, the voice calling his na grew louder!
Souta sharpened his focus, listening closely.
A vivid image appeared in his mind—a stylishly dressed woman in her twenties stood outside an apartnt door, glancing toward the security lock as she muttered,
"Souta, that guy's turning into more and more of a shut-in... Hasn't stepped out in months. So sad. Four plates of stead goose heart!"
Souta: "..."
He imdiately recognized her—it was his neighbor.
They were acquaintances, but their relationship was fairly indifferent.
But hold on a second—was she really talking smack about him behind his back!?
How could she just casually roast him like that?!
Souta was so furious that he began to tremble. His entire body broke out in cold sweat in the middle of sumr, his limbs turning ice cold...
A mont later, he withdrew from the listening state and reopened his eyes.
It seed like he could disable this ability whenever he didn't want to hear anything.
"I can hear people calling my na... So this must be linked to faith?"
Souta suddenly felt intrigued.
He imdiately grabbed his system phone and tagged Kurumi.
Souta: "@Tokisaki Kurumi. Kurumi, try calling my na."
Tokisaki Kurumi: "???"
Tokisaki Kurumi: "Souta?"
Souta: "Not in the chat. I an out loud, with your voice."
Tokisaki Kurumi: "Oh my, Souta-kun, what a bold request. You want to call out to you?"
Tokisaki Kurumi: "This kind of thing... should be said in private, don't you think? Whatever voice you want to hear, I can do it. I'll make sure it tingles you to your very core~"
Souta: "..."
Altair: "..."
Rin Tohsaka: "..."
Rin Tohsaka: "@Souta. You and the group mbers... have this kind of relationship!?"
Souta: "Don't misunderstand! Kurumi just likes to joke around."
Souta: "Anyway, since you're all here, try calling my na. I just used the Divine Spark, and apparently, I can sense when soone calls . Give it a shot, and let's see if I can hear it."
Rin Tohsaka: "Divine Spark!? Wait... You guys finished the mission!?"
Souta blinked.
Co to think of it...
He and Kurumi had only discussed Honjo Nia in the chat. They hadn't actually ntioned whether they had completed the mission.
Souta: "Yeah, we finished it. Shiroyasha has already returned to her world."
Altair: "Congratulations. Kurumi-san, your wish has finally been fulfilled."
Tokisaki Kurumi: "Thank you."
Tokisaki Kurumi: "@Altair. By the way, Altair, I have a request."
Altair: "What is it?"
Tokisaki Kurumi: "I've received a solo rescue mission. To complete it, I need to deal with a guy nad Isaac. He's the founder of DEM Industries, which has been hunting Spirits. Killing him alone won't change the bigger picture, so I'd rather just alter his mory and have him clean up DEM from the inside."
Tokisaki Kurumi: "Altair, didn't you recently gain mory alteration abilities? Upload a few one-ti-use cards, and I'll buy them to test them out."
Reading this, Souta felt speechless.
He hadn't expected Kurumi to prioritize hunting down Isaac over finding Honjou Nia.
He'd thought she was just joking before.
But this decision was certainly efficient.
DEM's headquarters had a fixed location.
Isaac's position was obvious.
Compared to searching for Honjo Nia, dealing with Isaac was much easier.
It was the classic "I can't solve the problem, so I'll just solve you instead" approach.
Souta silently mourned for Isaac.
Not that he had any sympathy for the guy.
Putting aside the five years of brutal torture Honjo Nia endured, Isaac was also one of the masterminds responsible for over a hundred million deaths.
He could go to hell a thousand tis over and it still wouldn't be enough.
Altair: "No problem. You've helped before, Kurumi-san, so forget buying them—I'll just gift you a few one-ti-use cards."
Tokisaki Kurumi: "No. If you personally hand them over, that counts as direct assistance, which violates the solo mission rules. Unless you had given them to before the mission started, it won't work."
Altair: "Understood."
Soon, Altair uploaded several mory Alteration Cards to the shop.
Curious, Souta checked their price—50 points per card.
Kurumi bought three.
Tokisaki Kurumi: "Thanks. Oh, and Souta, I already called your na. Did you hear it?"
Rin Tohsaka: "I called too."
Altair: "I called three tis."
Souta frowned slightly.
Three people had called him, yet he felt nothing.
As expected, there were limitations.
Souta: "Nothing. Looks like there's a range limit. I definitely can't sense calls from another world."
Tokisaki Kurumi: "My guess is that it's tied to your power level. You've only just obtained your Divine Spark and haven't even gathered divine power yet. Your range is probably tiny. But this ability will likely evolve over ti."
Tokisaki Kurumi: "Anyway, I'm off to complete my mission."
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