It's been almost a month and the days have followed relatively normal, Shiori was quite depressed and angry about everything related to Kotori, their relationship was completely thrown in the trash and Shiori even asked if she could live with me.
Of course I denied, saying that unfortunately I couldn't let her live with me for the next few months, but said that in a few months she will be able to come live in my house.
In any case, it would be terrible if Shiori and Mukuro fought, especially in Shiori's current unstable state, Shiori is like a time bomb and the Sephiras within her, even contained, still react to her bad emotions.
I can feel slight waves of Reiryoku constantly leaking from her body, probably because it's a lot of power contained at once and her emotions create breaches for this energy leakage.
But fortunately this didn't cause many problems and the amount is so low that it is not detected by others, although Kurumi apparently also felt it, so I guess the spirits who are good at detecting Reiryoku can notice it.
Aside from the fact that she is leaking energy due to being emotionally disturbed, no other problem is noticeable.
So I used this 1-month time to calm her down and have several encounters, and with that her love for me started to increase a lot, after all, when you're emotionally unstable, you end up clinging to what makes you feel good.
And at the moment I am practically Shiori's savior and the only safe haven she has to lean on, which would obviously make her completely collapse if I disappeared.
With this, I can affirm 100% that Shiori has extreme emotional dependence on me, and that obviously will make her completely break down in case I abandon her. Of course I won't abandon her.
First, because I need her to destroy the world for me, and second, because even without wanting to admit it, I ended up liking her company, I can't say I'm madly in love or anything like that.
But it is a fact that I won't deny, I started to like her, so I decided to take her with me when this world ends, I'm sure Nix wouldn't mind if I brought Shiori with me after destroying this world.
In fact, I'm sure as a goddess she would love to have one more faithful, especially a faithful like Shiori who is carrying so much power within her.
However, this is something for the future, for now I will focus on what is in front of me and the challenges that still need to be overcome.
During this 1 month, my feelings and hers have increased, so now I have a 100% dependent Shiori, and I have positive feelings towards her.
I guess this is what we call protagonism, Shiori was even able to attract someone like me to her, although I think that doesn't matter much, I won't change who I am just because I see her more positively.
And I would still do everything the same if I could go back in time, in the end I would still make her suffer through others while gaining her favoritism and love through help and support.
After all, I still see myself as more valuable than the slight feelings I have for her, and I think I'll never really be able to put her above me in importance, but the fact that I have feelings for her is already impressive.
Especially considering that I'm destroying her life just to insert myself and use her for my purposes while hiding several facts from her.
In fact, one of the things that makes me like her is precisely because she is becoming my ideal type of girl, someone fixated only on me who would do anything for me, but who wouldn't get in my way.
Since someone who delays me in my goals is just an inconvenience, and Shiori is not the type to get in my way and although she has extreme feelings for me, she still puts me first in her life.
And since Shiori now has all her good feelings tied to me, I think I have to reveal that I'm a spirit, after all, now she can't let go of me even if I'm a bad person.
This is exactly what emotional dependence does, no matter how terrible a person is, if you are emotionally dependent on that person, you won't be able to let go of them.
So now that Shiori no longer has anything or anyone besides me, if I tell her that I'm a spirit and that I killed all those people, she won't know how to react, but she won't be able to abandon me.
Because for the current Shiori, abandoning me is totally impossible, she loves me, she no longer has a connection with her family, she no longer has friends, she doesn't even have a place to live since that house belongs to Kotori.
She no longer has a solid emotional support, she no longer trusts people besides me, she can no longer feel so many feelings for others to the point of hesitating in decisions that benefit others in a purely altruistic way.
Basically, the current Shiori is completely different from Shido, Shido is basically dead, it's impossible to restore him, all that's left is a girl with some mental issues of trust and extreme emotional dependence.
Which is great for me and my plans, anyway, it's not like I'm going to abandon her, so as long as she decides to stay with me and help me, everything will be just fine.
"..." Nibelcole also appeared, more precisely yesterday night, I had even thought that Nibelcole had died or something, but apparently she was just collecting information with great efficiency.
In fact, she was so efficient that it's impressive, she's like the search engine on the internet where you ask for something and the search engine finds that thing.
She came all excited calling me "dad" and saying that Isaac Westcott plans to go after Shiori for not having found me active in spirit form since I reduced my activities as a spirit to take care of Shiori.
It means that Ellen will personally go after Shiori to maintain the standard plan that appears in the anime, which is to make Tohka invert, I must say it took a while for this to happen.
It seems that both Ellen and Isaac are quite focused on me, of course Nibelcole also said that Isaac knows I'm a student and "friend" of Shiori, in other words, he's not really focusing on Tohka.
Although Tohka is one of the objectives, the main focus of messing with Shiori is to affect me, he expects me to lose control, but unlike a normal spirit, I would never lose control.
Even if Shiori is in danger, I have many methods to save her, and even if she receives a serious injury, I know she won't die because she has regenerative powers in her body.
And I also have myself, since I can simply reverse her injuries, so as long as someone is not dead, I can "heal" that person.
Unfortunately, I know I can't kill these two directly, both Isaac and Ellen have relevance to the plot that make them too important, so the focus will be on making Mukuro or Nibelcole fight.
I can also try to make Shiori fight, but this idea is too risky and I probably won't use it, because if Shiori is seen using powers of dead spirits or spirits she hasn't even had contact with, she may have problems.
But if I think correctly, I just can't "kill" relevant people, but nothing prevents me from leaving them almost dead to be killed by others later, so I can also fight and leave it to Nibelcole to kill Ellen.
In any case, it was a great thing that Nibelcole discovered, as it allows me to be a few steps ahead of Isaac.
Although Nibelcole doesn't know the dates they plan to act, so I plan to go on another date with Shiori and reveal the truth about me and everything I've done, and see her reaction.
Of course her reaction may be out of control, but Shiori is so predictable that I know more or less the reaction she'll have, and it won't be that bad.
In the past, it would undoubtedly be a very bad reaction that would destroy everything I've worked to build, but the current her won't have much trouble deciding to stay by my side.
She'll just be uncertain about everything and in the end she'll choose me because I'm all that's left to her, after all I made sure to eliminate any other route besides me, just for this moment.
And the fact that I reveal this will only indicate that I trust her, which will only leave her with more doubts, there are just a few points I still need to rethink and I also need to prepare the perfect encounter.
So that the encounter itself will also make her question her answer and guide her closer to my desire.