Hmm.
Even if I wanted to hit on her, with my communication skills being completely nonexistent, could I even hold a decent conversation with this little sister?
Honestly, I'm not confident at all.
Plus, judging from the surveillance I've been doing, her communication skills seem pretty low too — not as bad as mine, but still.
Actually, she's a bro-con yandere.
Isn't the difficulty of establishing communication already sky-high for a normal person?
And you want me to do that?
Seems pretty hopeless, doesn't it?
That's what I agonized over for one hundredth of a second.
The little sister made her move.
Draw! Magic card activated!
...I just kind of wanted to say that.
The little sister cast a spell.
Hm?
Is this Poison Magic?
And it's a pretty high Level too?
She's completely intending to kill me, isn't she?
A poisonous fog fills the room.
Well, magic like that isn't going to work on me.
"Hhhyup!"
Oh, shoot.
Natsume-kun is making some weird, too-normal breathing sounds.
He's dying, he's dying.
I'll use him as a disposable piece eventually, but having him die on me now would be inconvenient.
I intervene in the spell's construction and break it apart.
Poison Magic is a system-derived original spell, but breaking it down is something even I can do.
I just can't use it myself.
It's a strange feeling — being unable to use something I could before.
I'm getting a little nostalgic.
"Hhup, hhup!"
Oh man, he's dying, he's dying.
I administer treatment to Natsume-kun, who's gasping like a carp washed up on land.
While I'm doing that, the little sister comes charging in with a short blade.
This is bad.
This kid has way too much killing intent.
Well, that blade isn't going to reach me.
"Huh!?"
The little sister's body freezes in an unnatural position.
Welcome to my spider web.
The little sister was ensnared by the spider threads strung out in front of me, rendered completely immobile.
Capture complete.
Oh wait — this girl's actually pretty capable.
She instantly realized her body couldn't move, and she even figured out it was because she was restrained by threads too thin to see.
Cold energy erupts from the little sister's body.
She can use ice magic too?
Her plan is to freeze my threads and shatter them to break free, I take it.
Too bad.
Before my apotheosis, maybe it would've been a different story, but right now, nobody in this world besides Kuro can do anything about my threads.
And Kuro is currently half-sealed in another dimension.
Therefore, she cannot escape from my threads.
Before my apotheosis, my threads were weak to ice, though.
Hehehe.
Don't underestimate my current threads.
Threads and poison — that's essentially what I am. Threads are a vital part of my identity.
And I would never neglect to improve them.
My current threads have already half-surpassed the realm of physics. The threads themselves have become half-dissociated from reality — a hybrid of matter and space.
It probably doesn't make much sense just hearing that, but essentially I'm constructing a super-miniature thread-based world.
To destroy these threads, you'd need the power of spatial destruction — simple physical force and magic alone won't cut it.
In theory, brute force alone could do it, but you'd need the physical attack power of some super vegetable alien-tier being to manage it.
As the room temperature plummets, my threads remain completely unfrozen.
Realizing that continuing to freeze them is pointless, the little sister shifts her target to me.
An ice spear forms in front of her and is launched at me.
For reference, the distance between me and the little sister is roughly one meter or less — extremely close range.
Normally, at this distance, you couldn't dodge a spell fired right in your face.
Normally.
"What!?"
The little sister is shocked.
All I did was open my eyes.
And that alone was enough to shatter the high-speed ice spear harmlessly into pieces.
I may have overdone it with the Evil Eyes.
My split bodies kept enhancing them for Strength, and as a result, all sorts of functions got crammed in whether I liked it or not.
One of them: automatic interception of attacks that enter my field of vision.
Built on the application of the Repulsion Evil Eye, this function automatically repels any attack that enters my sight, regardless of my own will.
Moreover, my field of vision has no blind spots thanks to an application of my X-ray vision.
In other words, I can intercept from any direction.
If this auto-targeting ever misfired, the damage would be terrifying.
Like blasting away the Demon King because he came in for a friendly pat.
Well, I intentionally disable the function when I close my eyes, so it's fine.
"Hhyih!?"
Oh dear.
Function number two — Terror Induction — kicked in, didn't it?
My apologies, my apologies.
My eyes are just too overwhelming for a girl with so little life experience.
The same Terror that made even
It's too much for a kid.
Oh well.
I've gone and done it.
Oh well, this is Natsume-kun's room anyway, and he's the one who'll have to clean it up, so whatever.
Just like with the little vampire girl, I'll be kind and pretend I didn't see anything.
Let's do that.
Oh, Natsume-kun — are you alive?
Not frozen to death?
I give the body lying near my feet a light nudge with my foot.
He made something like a groan, so he's alive.
Yeah, as long as he's not dead, I'll take it.
The little sister, restrained by the threads, can't move even if she wants to, and she's shaking her head back and forth in tiny, frustrated movements.
Oh boy, did I permanently engrave trauma into her?
Well, if so, that's fine too.
Rather than explaining with words, making someone obey through fear is the more efficient approach.
Especially with someone like this who's quicker with their hands than their mouth.
Seriously though, what is with this girl?
Trying to kill me on the spot.
Is it because I protected Natsume-kun, who was her target?
Please stop.
Yamada-kun, your sister is way more extreme and dangerous than you think.
Be careful so you don't get stabbed someday.
No, I'm dead serious.