"Who are you?"
Faced with the voice suddenly appearing in her mind, Sakura's first reaction was fear, then she asked softly.
"Hmm? Algol?"
Aslan was also slightly surprised. He hadn't expected Algol, who had been sealed within the Demon Star all this time, to suddenly appear now.
"Correct, it's me—the most beautiful girl in Little Garden, AI-chan."
Algol couldn't help but speak up. For years she'd been sealed, always in a sleeping state.
If not for Aslan bringing her out, the seal's effects would have weakened, and she might have continued sleeping forever.
After all, Star Spirits couldn't die. Being sealed was just like sleeping for an extremely long time.
"Since you've heard AI-chan's beautiful voice, why not call for AI-chan immediately?"
Algol said lazily and casually.
After all, she was quite satisfied with her current situation. Whether Aslan called her or not didn't matter to her.
"Still, are you sure about this, AI-chan?"
Aslan asked with a confused tone. After all, Algol summoned as Medusa was extremely ugly.
Though her power was far stronger than Laius's, and the summoned Algol's form was far more complete,
It didn't mean the summoned Algol's appearance could come close to her original appearance.
After all, calling Algol by the name Medusa was already degradation for her. How good could her appearance possibly be?
"What do you mean? Are you not satisfied with AI-chan's beauty?"
Algol said angrily. People could be dissatisfied with her, but they couldn't be dissatisfied with her beauty.
"It's not that. I have no problem at all, but are you really sure, AI-chan?"
Aslan asked again. He was actually quite curious about what the summoned AI-chan would look like.
But the point was, Algol was after all a long-renowned Problem Child in Little Garden.
Under Athena's careful management for years, every person who held Algol so far had been reckless users like Laius. After all, the strong didn't need to summon Algol.
Why add unnecessary variables?
Algol summoned by the weak only had instincts, so she was easier to control.
From this, it was clear Athena was a very vengeful woman. Aslan didn't believe there wasn't some arrangement by Athena behind this.
"Of course. Quickly call for AI-chan. AI-chan can't wait to show her eternal beauty to a bastard like you."
Aslan couldn't refuse Algol, so he immediately summoned her.
Athena was still giving him face. At least Aslan could feel his complete dominance over Algol, even sensing Algol's thoughts.
So there was no need to worry about losing control or other issues after summoning her. At worst, he could recall her.
However, when Algol was summoned, she fell silent.
Before the light could even fade, Algol immediately returned to the Demon Star and was sealed again.
"You ugly woman!"
Algol said through gritted teeth. Just as expected, Athena was still that jealous ugly woman.
To ruin her beautiful face, Athena even used tricks like this.
"AI-chan will never forgive you!"
After cursing Athena briefly, Algol turned and warned Aslan.
"You didn't call me today, AI-chan."
Then she continued isolating herself within the seal. Saying "isolating herself" wasn't entirely accurate. More precisely, she was searching for loopholes in the seal, seeing if there was a way to avoid appearance degradation.
Algol could endure Divinity degradation, losing Star Authority, and even having her Divinity enslaved.
But there was one thing she couldn't endure—the degradation of her beauty.
Damn Athena, damn ugly woman, how dare she degrade Algol's beauty like this?
Even some beautiful Harpies were prettier than Algol.
"Oh right, don't forget to give Divinity to AI-chan's disciple."
Before isolating herself, Algol still remembered to remind Aslan. One important reason she awakened was Sakura.
Of course, this didn't refer to the Sakura of this world, but to all Sakuras across all world lines in the entire Type-Moon World.
Almost every Sakura's fate was extremely tragic.
Sent to the Matou family and thrown into the insect nest.
Became food for Death Eaters.
Sealed and soaked in Specimen.
Hunted by outer creatures.
Countless tragic futures, countless despairing futures, and very few happy ones—had accumulated unimaginable despair within the individual Matou Sakura.
And she, Algol, Demon Star Spirit, Original Demon—no one was more suitable to become the teacher of someone who had gathered this level of demonic energy.
Of course, Algol wasn't a casual person. If she weren't so restricted by seals now, why would she need to find a disciple?
Once she was free, she'd definitely make that damn ugly woman Athena regret it!
Once she had a Miko and an Agent, Algol would be equivalent to having a Four-Digit-level Avatar in the outside world.
With an Avatar, many things would become easier.
"Give Divinity? I don't know how at all."
Aslan said helplessly. He also understood that Sakura and Algol had excellent compatibility. Algol was even willing to voluntarily train her.
But the operation of giving Divinity—he'd never learned it.
He only knew that upon arriving in Little Garden, Little Garden's Central Core would converge and grant Spirit Status. In Little Garden, even a grain of sand had Spirit Status.
But outside Little Garden, it was hard to say. Generally, only existences that had caused major impacts on the world and had certain achievements possessed Spirit Status.
Or, they were born with miracles that couldn't be realized.
But these were existences that naturally possessed Spirit Status.
As for artificially granting Spirit Status, he truly couldn't do it. It sounded like a very unusual skill. Even Laplace Demon had no information on this.
After all, who would casually go around granting Spirit Status? Couldn't you just get it by walking around in Little Garden?
But if he let Little Garden's Central Core converge Spirit Status, it would only grant Spirit Status based on Sakura's current achievements and the information she carried.
Whereas Sakura's future experiences and demonic energy would be lost due to the convergence of six-year-old Sakura.
In that case, the demonic energy accumulated by countless other Sakuras from countless futures would be wasted.
This special Spirit Status was what Algol wanted Aslan to give to Sakura.
Granting the first Spirit Status by converging the despairing futures from parallel worlds and unifying them.
A Spirit Status like this, even upon arriving in Little Garden, wouldn't be inferior to a Demi-God.
After all, one important indicator of Spirit Status was Time Density. In other words, the density of your existence observed across infinite parallel worlds.
Clearly, Little Garden's Central Core wouldn't possibly do such an energy-wasting thing as observing all possibilities for every person.
Little Garden only observed Human History. Nameless people weren't worthy of being recorded in Human History.
So Time Density was more precisely the density of your existence within Human History that had the possibility to impact infinite parallel worlds.
Converging first was like you'd already compiled the report and sent it straight into Little Garden's Central Core's hands.
When they observed the world in the future and evaluated achievements, they'd naturally have an advantage when granting Spirit Status again.
"You don't need to worry. AI-chan will tell you how."
Algol said proudly. This was indeed only known to ancient existences like herself.
More precisely, Algol told Aslan a technique for granting Spirit Status, created by referencing how Little Garden's Central Core converges and grants Spirit Status.