"You should know that you are not a pure-blooded Magical Garment Girl. Your mother was a human, and the special trait you possess is restraint against curses. I don't need to explain what the Queen of Villiers is good at, is it?"
What Raize said about Haruna's special trait was absolutely true, without the slightest falsehood.
In the original work, after Chris seized Haruna's magic power, she removed her own curse. But in reality, how could the Queen's curse possibly be so easily undone? Even an S-rank Megalo could only supress it temporarily.
Haruna could not be described as merely a simple mixed-blood. She was fundamentally born to counter the Queen of Velliers.
"If you still don't believe it, then come and try it yourself."
In order to prove that his words were not false, Raize cast curse magic learned from the Compendium of Fafnir's Curses. A curse that would cause a person's body to enter a near-death weakened state took shape in Raize's hand.
This was the curse with the smallest power and the smallest cost in the compendium. The others would require a considerable price to cast.
From an ordinarily invisible perspective, a slender, ominous black thread as fine as a strand of hair swayed in Raize's palm. After Haruna looked at it with her magical vision, her body trembled. Having seen much as a member of Velliers, she naturally understood that this was a curse of no low level.
"This curse will cause a person to enter a near-death level of weakness. With your special trait, it won't be of much use against you. Do you dare to try it?"
Raize also explained the effect of the curse in his palm. As long as this black thread existed, silently reciting the target's name and thinking of the target's appearance would activate it.
"...Hmph, then I'll try..."
Tears gathered at the corners of Haruna's eyes. This kind of blow was no small matter to her. That stubborn expression that looked as if she was about to cry gave Raize an inexplicable feeling that he was bullying a little girl.
If this curse truly took effect, then her special trait would be fake.
But was she truly still doubting it was fake now? There might be a little. At the very least, this final move by Raize would become the last straw that crushed the camel.
Raize calmly looked at Haruna, then silently recited Haruna's name in his heart. The curse power in his hand instantly, in Haruna's tense vision, seemed to teleport as it immediately connected to Haruna's body.
Crack!
Haruna, who was staring at her own body with magical vision, trembled, because after the curse connected to her body, the residual magic power within her instinctively fluctuated once, causing this curse of no low level to collapse and dissipate.
"...Everything is real, I..."
Haruna covered her chest with her hand. The last trace of luck was completely crushed. Her special trait was not false at all. She truly was, as Raize said, Ariel's final weapon.
If that was really the case, then did her very birth also have something to do with Ariel, as a weapon specifically targeting the Queen of Velliers!?
Seeing Haruna's hollow and bewildered gaze, Raize stood up and walked in front of her, bending down to stare directly into her dim eyes, while Haruna only looked up at Raize with lifeless eyes.
"Doubting the meaning of your own existence? Now that you know the truth, are you still going to let others arbitrarily treat you as a puppet to be used? Are you that kind of person?"
Ripples appeared in Haruna's dim eyes. Was this genius really supposed to live according to what others called the final weapon? With her mission being to target the Queen of Velliers?
That kind of thing...
"Haruna, you should be a genius, not a weapon. The special trait you possess belongs to you yourself. How to use it should depend entirely on your own will. With your personality, you should think this way!!"
Raize forced Haruna into a corner, staring at the girl in front of him with those cold eyes, and spoke in an extremely forceful tone.
Being used by Ariel as a weapon against the Queen of Velliers? She could go to hell.
From today onward, Haruna was no longer allowed to be any kind of Velliers Magical Garment Girl. She could only exist as a member of the household.
Since he had already become enemies with Ariel, Haruna, an existence extremely important to the other party, Raize would absolutely not hand her over to that woman.
Hearing Raize's forceful words, Haruna also figured some things out. Her eyes regained their light, but no longer had the former strength and liveliness. Looking at Raize, she said somewhat dejectedly, "If I stop being a Magical Garment Girl, what should I do in the future?"
It was time to choose a side. Should she continue being Velliers Magical Garment Girl, ignore Ariel's matter, and remain as usual? Haruna felt she could no longer do that.
After Raize said it and it was verified, this matter was like a thorn stuck in her heart.
If she did not become a Magical Garment Girl anymore, what should she do? Haruna felt both nervous and expectant as she looked at Raize in front of her. What was she expecting...
In response to Haruna's words, Raize stepped back and took out from the storage space the symbiote containers storing Venom and Carnage. In Haruna's astonished gaze, he directly devoured both symbiotes into his body. These two symbiotes instinctively sensed danger and tried to resist, but such futile effort was useless against Raize.
After one second, the devouring was complete, and his physical abilities received a considerable enhancement. Raize's own cells roared in extreme excitement, because symbiotes also possess the power to replicate a host's abilities, and their other abilities were also somewhat similar to Blacklight.
Once a symbiote attaches to a host, it can use genes to replicate the host's abilities, such as Deadpool's self-healing and Spider-Man's superpowers, but replication requires a certain amount of attachment time.
Moreover, it can even strengthen the host's genes to multiply the host's abilities. Ordinary abilities can reach dozens of times amplification.
Blacklight was even more domineering, directly invading, assimilating, and finally evolving. The symbiotes' abilities were quite compatible with it.
However, Raize's own virus had been assimilated by Kirby's power, and he did not know whether it could still be called the Blacklight virus.
"Stay here forever, and become mine!"
After devouring the symbiotes, Raize had a trace of wicked smile at the corner of his mouth. He pressed forward again and came before Haruna, smiling as he stared at the stunned girl.
From the moment Raize inexplicably took out strange objects and merged them into his body, Haruna had not quite recovered her senses and did not understand the reason for Raize's sudden actions.
But when Raize once again came close to her and said such extremely misleading words, her face immediately flushed red, and even the ahoge on her head stood straight up like an antenna.
"Stay... by your side, become... you..."
Haruna's pretty little face was red like a bright apple, and even her speech became stammering and extremely incoherent.
Raize's extremely misleading words completely threw Haruna's heart into chaos, but Raize's original intention was not what Haruna imagined.
Since Haruna was of great importance to his enemy Ariel, there was no way he would let her escape.