The training session concluded around six in the evening.
However, the girls did not leave.
They still gathered at Rosen's house.
Unable to resist their requests, Rosen taught them the methods and insights of Atomic Slash, but whether they could learn it depended on their own understanding.
If not, at least diligence could make up for lack of talent.
Dinner was still prepared by the girls helping in the kitchen.
Fresh ingredients, combined with decent cooking skills, can bring out the original flavor of the food.
Although it wasn't the girls' first time eating it, after a day of intensive training, everyone's appetite was better than it had been at noon.
They devoured the meal like a whirlwind, burping ungracefully.
After this, Rosen also prepared to update their ability values.
....
Contractor: Yotsuya Miko
Rank: Low-level Divine Messenger
Strength: g222 → e412
Endurance: g265 → e455
Dexterity: g245 → e425
Agility: h178 → f378
Divine Power: e489 → c689
Skills...
....
Contractor: Yurikawa Hana
Rank: Low-level Divine Messenger
Strength: h165 → f385
Endurance: h07178 → f368
Dexterity: h134 → f334
Agility: h102 → f312
Divine Power: d575 → b795
Skills...
....
Contractor: Sakurajima Mai
Rank: Low-level Divine Messenger
Strength: g274 → e434
Endurance: g238 → e458
Dexterity: g249 → e429
Agility: g274 → e484
Divine Power: f371 → d561
...
Contractor: Zhoufang Youxi
Rank: Low-level Divine Messenger
Strength: h124 → f354
Endurance: h105 → f305
Dexterity: h101 → f311
Agility: h100 → f300
Divine Power: h198 → f398
...
Contractor: Kato Megumi
Rank: Low-level Divine Messenger
Strength: i0 → g255
Endurance: i0 → g211
Dexterity: i0 → g245
Agility: i0 → g238
Divine Power: i0 → h156
...
After seeing the updated ability values, Rosen couldn't help but be surprised by the current growth rate.
After all, he had even complained at the beginning that the potential of these heroines from slice-of-life anime worlds was definitely not as high as that of protagonists from battle-oriented worldviews.
However, looking at it now, it seemed he was proven wrong.
Basically, the average attribute increase for each person was around two hundred.
Even the newcomer Kato Megumi's ability values were like this.
Except for Divine Power, every attribute increased by more than two hundred.
"Could it be that after I became stronger and lit up a quality point, it could also feed back to my dependents?"
After much thought, Rosen confirmed this sole possibility.
Otherwise, besides "accumulating slowly to burst forth," there was nothing that could explain their rapid increase in power.
"They're all Gs," Kato Megumi complained, looking at her attribute values.
"It's a bit of an unlucky letter."
"What's so bad about G? My last ability update was all H, and I even thought my ability values could expose my true nature," Zhoufang Youxi said, leaning over to take a look.
"But speaking of which, your attribute boosts are much stronger than ours were back then."
Yotsuya Miko and Sakurajima Mai also leaned in.
Kato Megumi was just a newcomer who had recently joined.
This training camp was her first battle in her life.
And in just this one day, every attribute increased by more than two hundred points.
She recalled her and Mai-senpai's situation back then.
After their first time slaying a spirit, they only gained a pitiful few dozen points.
If their growth rate hadn't also increased recently, they would have started to doubt whether they had any talent for combat.
"Could it be because we ate dragon meat?" Yurikawa Hana analyzed.
"It has some relation, but not much. The reason you can become strong so quickly now is because of me."
Rosen chuckled softly.
Speaking of this, Rosen felt it was a great pity.
After all, even now, he had only lit up one quality point.
And this quality point was on Esdeath in another world.
But he had contracted five girls here, yet not a single one could meet the standard.
"Could it be that our contract has restored the power of the Divine Lord?" Yurikawa Hana asked curiously.
"If that's the case, then the Divine Lord must contract more new dependents in the future, and we must also work harder!"
Yotsuya Miko also nodded: "That's right, after all, the meaning of us becoming dependents is to make you better!"
"Don't just consider me, you should also consider yourselves more."
Rosen laughed wryly.
"After we signed the contract, our future life only has one goal, doesn't it?" Zhoufang Youxi raised an eyebrow.
Rosen chatted with them for a while.
Then, when the topic of new dependents came up, Sakurajima Mai suddenly remembered something.
"Actually, when I was traveling with my mother, I met some rather special evil spirits, and also a little girl named Baoyue Xiaoxiao."
"She's just an ordinary person, but she possesses the power to exorcise evil."
"I met her at night. When I found her, she was fighting an evil spirit. I passed by and saved her."
"Huh? Besides us, are there other people in this world who can see spirits?" Yurikawa Hana asked in surprise.
"Hmm, actually, I was very surprised at first too. I even asked her if she knew Rosen, but obviously, she hadn't heard of that name, and besides, she doesn't live in Tokyo, but a small city called Hachioji City."
Sakurajima Mai shook her head.
Seeing her mention that name, Rosen's memories flickered, and he quickly recalled the origin of the name.
Baoyue Xiaoxiao came from the anime "Dark Gathering." She was born with double pupils and could see spirits.
In her childhood, her parents were framed by spirits and both were killed. After she survived, she accompanied her cousin Baoyue Yongzi and used her power to subdue spirits until she found the culprits who killed her parents.
And the culprits who killed her parents were an evil god nurtured by a group of evil spirits called the Soul-Snatchers.
Named "embryo of dawn."
Rosen also recalled the Shindai family, the enemy force of the Suo Fang family, which Zhoufang Youxi mentioned after he resolved the Suo Fang family's troubles.
The Shindai family is also recorded in Dark Gathering.
They are the leading century-old family in the island nation, and within their clan, they worship an evil god named Taisui Xingjun.
By using the contract with Taisui Xingjun, the Shindai family continuously annexed other families and expanded their own industries.
The sudden rise of the Suo Fang family naturally became a thorn in the Shindai family's side.
After normal business confrontations failed to yield results, they resorted to crooked schemes.
When he first met Zhoufang Youxi, the evil spirits preparing to attack her might have been from the Soul-Snatchers, or sent by Taisui Xingjun.
Goodness, it all connected.
And just then.
Sakurajima Mai's phone suddenly rang.