Besides Electronic Manipulation, Katsuya, the leader of the Ultimate 5, also dropped a purple trait.
[Psychic energy (Purple): Control psychic energy to attack enemies. After deep development, multiple usage methods can be derived.]
Tatsuma was not unfamiliar with the psychic energy trait. When he first defeated Teruki before, he had obtained a blue psychic energy trait once.
Among the newly obtained more than four hundred traits, there were also quite a few white and green psychic energy traits. In a sense, psychic energy was the superpower trait he had the most of.
However...
"It's not very useful."
After playing with the psychic energy trait for a while, Tatsuma threw it into the inventory, to be used for upgrades and whatnot.
He didn't lack attack methods.
Swordsmanship for close combat, magic for ranged attacks.
Coupled with Senjutsu as support, his combat methods were already very rich.
Instead of wasting time developing psychic energy, it would be better to spend that time practicing swordsmanship.
"It seems I can upgrade traits again."
After organizing his gains, Tatsuma found that the low-level traits in his arsenal had reached a very large scale. Converting proportionally, he could gather a total of 11 purple traits.
"This time, I'll upgrade [Immortality]." Tatsuma quickly made a decision.
In terms of training, the various traits that accelerate strength gain and Automatic Training 9.0 were already enough for him. Instead of further accelerating his training speed, he prepared to first improve his combat ability.
Among the few purple traits, the one that would give him the biggest boost in actual combat was Immortality.
Immortality has two trigger conditions.
One is that his own will has not collapsed and he still maintains enough desire to fight.
The other is that his energy has not been exhausted and he still has the ability to recover from injuries.
The former went without saying. After long periods of training and multiple battles and killings, Tatsuma had honed a sufficiently firm will.
As for the latter, after having energy accumulation and Energy Accumulation Physique, Tatsuma's energy reserves, which were originally a weakness, had leaped to become an advantage.
Combining the two, Immortality will become a powerful trump card comparable to Senjutsu.
[Trait upgrade successful, congratulations on obtaining the red trait Immortality.]
[Immortality (Red): Consume a certain amount of stamina or energy to quickly recover from injuries in a short time.]
Like Senjutsu, the trait description for Immortality basically didn't change.
However, after experimenting with Immortality, Tatsuma found that his recovery speed had greatly increased.
Injuries that originally took 1 second to recover now only needed 0.3 seconds to complete recovery.
In addition, there were some hidden changes, such as the increase in Ki within the body, and the effect of Automatic Training 9.0 being further improved as a result.
"This is an unexpected pleasant surprise."
Tatsuma's lips curved slightly upwards, and a smile appeared on his face.
Although the extent of this improvement wasn't high, having it is better than not having it.
Closing the trait panel, Tatsuma, in a great mood, walked out of the room.
When passing by the kitchen, he found Rias still standing in front of the stove.
However, unlike before when she was spacing out, she was now concentrating on controlling Power of Destruction, wrapping a piece of lean meat within it.
Time slowly passed, and in the blink of an eye, three minutes went by.
Under Tatsuma's gaze, the Power of Destruction slowly dissipated, and a row of neat meat strips appeared on the cutting board.
Looking at this scene, Rias let out a cheer. "It worked! I did it!"
"Amazing! As expected of Rias-san!"
Asia was also very excited, clapping her hands vigorously.
"Huh? Tatsuma, you're back from exercising."
Just then, Rias finally saw Tatsuma standing not far away and called him into the kitchen.
"Come quickly and help me see if there's any problem with the meat strips I cut."
"I don't think what you did is called cutting meat strips."
After failing to hold back a retort, Tatsuma used chopsticks to pick out a few of the meat strips.
"Also, your control over Power of Destruction just now wasn't precise enough, these few pieces aren't neat."
"Eh? Is that so?"
Rias leaned in and carefully examined them, finding that there really were some differences.
"What a pity. I thought I had succeeded. It seems I still need to try a few more times."
"Instead of practicing the precision of your magic, I think you should cook."
Looking at the meat strips that had already piled up into a small mountain on the cutting board next to them, Tatsuma reminded her.
"Just now, when I passed by the living room, Koneko was already spacing out from hunger."
"Huh? It's already this late!"
Rias pulled out her phone and glanced at it, only then noticing that the time had already reached past seven o'clock.
"I'll go to school first."
Tatsuma, who had already eaten breakfast, said goodbye and came to the school's Student Council office.
Finding Sona who was working, Tatsuma returned the long magic tool column used to release the barrier to her.
Sona asked, "Didn't you just borrow it this morning? You used it up so quickly?"
Tatsuma nodded. "Yeah, I just came back from the United States."
"???"
Why did you run so far away early in the morning?
Looking at Tatsuma, who was smiling but silent before her, Sona suddenly had a bad feeling.
However, after hesitating for a moment, she still didn't ask the question and changed the topic instead, "The time for the bet with my fiancé's side has been set, it's this weekend."
Tatsuma asked, "Do you need me to help you? Even if things go wrong then, don't be afraid, I can help you overturn the other side."
Sona rubbed her forehead somewhat helplessly. "That would cause a big commotion, wouldn't it?"
For some reason, she suddenly thought of her troublesome older sister.
During remote communication yesterday, Serafall seemed to have said something similar.
"Don't worry, I won't lose. With your help training me these past few days, my chess skills are already beyond what ordinary people can compare to."
"It's good that you have confidence."
Tatsuma nodded slightly, thought for a moment, and then asked, "After the marriage is dissolved, do you have any thoughts?"
Sona asked, "What are you referring to?"
"Things like moving in and living with me."
"..."
"Why aren't you talking anymore?"
"Um... I haven't quite reacted yet."
Sona rubbed her forehead and, after hesitating for a moment, asked, "Is this a confession?"
Tatsuma nodded without hesitation and admitted it, "You can understand it that way."