Chapter 169: Could He Really Become a Yu-Gi-Oh! Master?
Happiness is always fleeting; or rather, the concept of happiness is forever relative rather than absolute. This does not depend on a person's personality, but rather on the essence of life itself, which is greedy.
They will use any means necessary to survive and pursue endless reproduction for the sake of continuity.
From this perspective, the fact that many humans and sentient animals would give up their lives for something is actually a manifestation that defies the essence of life. They may have lost their lives because of it, but they have also transcended the limitations of life.
While Emiya and the others were enjoying a warm moment over dinner in their room, Fushiguro Megumi, on the other side, successfully waited for the moment his sister woke up.
He had waited hundreds of days and nights for this day, and had fantasized more than once about whether his sister would suddenly wake up one day, but in the end, that was always just a dream-like fantasy.
Fortunately, he finally reached this moment with Emiya's help. After a bout of weeping for joy, he explained the entire situation to his sister, who had been in a coma for a year.
Compared to her younger brother, Fushiguro Tsumiki, the actual victim, was much calmer. After comforting her brother, who had waited so long for her, she told him that he must properly repay the teacher who had helped him so much; such a good teacher was no different from an actual blood relative.
At the very least, compared to Fushiguro Toji who had abandoned them long ago, didn't Emiya's care seem more like that of an elder?
If it weren't for the fact that Tsumiki's body still needed recuperation, she certainly would have gone to give her thanks alongside Megumi immediately. As for the current situation... she couldn't exactly let the benefactor take the initiative to come to her, could she? That would be too impolite.
Thus, the task of expressing gratitude and repayment temporarily fell upon Megumi Fushiguro. Early the next morning, he brought solemn thanks once again, but Emiya still only expressed that he should first focus on working hard to improve himself.
Under such a premise, how could Megumi's training intensity possibly be insufficient?
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On the other side, Yaga Masamichi was also very interested in Romm's various inventions. After carefully testing their practicality, he recruited him into Jujutsu High without hesitation.
As for whether he could obtain official teacher status? That would depend on whether the Higher-Ups would grant that face. After all, it involves a formal position, so Jujutsu High couldn't just decide it arbitrarily.
However, even if it wasn't possible in name, they could completely give him the actual status instead. In any case, what Romm valued was not some title, but an environment where he could better utilize his talents.
The subsequent trial classes went quite smoothly, and the students were all very interested in the inventions Romm brought.
After all, they were still in their student years—the time of peak receptivity. Even Panda, who looked the most primitive, frequently played with his phone and browsed the internet, didn't he?
While these small inventions had almost no effect on improving the students' raw strength, they were more than sufficient for enhancing their safety and security. If Emiya were to incidentally use his own forging techniques to improve their quality, they might truly prove to be of great use at a critical moment.
As for the "black technology" that could capture Cursed Spirits using monitoring equipment, Yaga Masamichi prepared to first find an area within the jurisdiction of Jujutsu High to conduct a trial. If the results were truly good, then even if the Higher-Ups opposed it, he would do his best to expand the coverage to every place within his power. Because this was something that could truly provide more protection for lives.
Regardless of time, energy, or resource consumption... could these materialistic things really compare to human life?
At least in this era, one of the duties of a Jujutsu Sorcerer is to protect the safety of non-sorcerers as much as possible; this was originally one of the important rules established by the Higher-Ups themselves. Most ancient sorcerers wouldn't care about such things, as long as the secular rules remained stable within a certain range.
The irony is that the ones who currently care the least about such things are likely the Higher-Ups who set the rules.
From their perspective, the reason for protecting non-sorcerers isn't about protection itself, but merely to prevent the society they control from spiraling out of control.
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There was another point they only realized a few days later—that the utility of the "Prodigy Romm" was not limited to inventions, but lay in his unconventional, secular-transcending ideas—imagination, that most crucial imagination!
Throughout history, almost all Jujutsu Sorcerers have ignored its importance.
In fact, not only the application of the Reverse Cursed Technique, but also the development of Innate Techniques, the use of Heavenly Restrictions, and different variations of Barrier Techniques... which of these doesn't require the participation of imagination?
Especially for the development of individual techniques, those sorcerers who are not from established clans have no guidance or direction; how could there be any effect by simply drilling mindlessly in one direction?
For example, with Emiya's own [Forging], some people might truly treat it as a purely supportive technique and would never be able to develop the form of [Amaterasu: Flame Control].
After receiving Romm's help, the student who improved the most was actually Megumi Fushiguro, who wasn't doing too badly to begin with.
He has now shifted from pure technique development to the dual application of technique and the power of "Restrictions." Coincidentally, [Binding Vows/Restrictions] are the things that require imagination the most.
Ordinary sorcerers only treat it as a straightforward method, using things like "trading life for a power boost" or "trading the inability to use something for an outburst."
Slightly shrewder people merely change the content of the vow to "restricting power for a period of time in exchange for power at another time," or barrier techniques with limited targets like Kenjaku's.
In Romm's eyes—who truly understood [Binding Vows]—this was simply a waste.
However, he was very interested in Megumi Fushiguro's current changes to his technique.
Later, upon learning that these changes originated from a card game in Emiya's memory called Yu-Gi-Oh!, he immediately asked for the complete rules and the different effects of various cards.
Fortunately, that "Shirou Emiya" was truly a person obsessed with card games; otherwise, Emiya really wouldn't have been able to recite so much material.
The highly imaginative Romm completely mastered these rules within a single day. To help Megumi understand the concepts of conditions and restrictions, he prepared some test papers and questions for him.
For instance, a simple question like:
[If the opponent summons a Destiny HERO - Plasma, our effects are negated. Then, we also summon a Destiny HERO - Plasma. At this time, we activate Skill Drain, negating all monster effects on the field. The opponent then activates Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy our Skill Drain. So, whose Plasma currently still has its effect?]
If Megumi couldn't even figure out such a simple problem, it would be difficult for him to perfectly utilize the effects of [Binding Vows] in subsequent applications to completely crush his opponents with both intellect and strength.
Well, Romm even managed to create over a thousand different cards on his own based on the data Emiya provided to conduct simulated special training for Megumi. It can only be said that compared to Romm, who mastered Yu-Gi-Oh! in two days, Megumi Fushiguro—who took a whole afternoon just to successfully correct the summoning method of his shadow shikigami—was still too green.
Romm is currently using card battles to personally teach Megumi Fushiguro how to set up a field full of "hand traps" for an opponent and then slowly lure them into the trap. Whenever Megumi mistakenly believes he can win against Romm, the latter brings out a new strategy and beats poor Megumi to the point of being unable to fight back.
One can only say that if it were him, he might truly be able to become a Yu-Gi-Oh! master.
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