Attack on Heaven – Raging Waves (2)

When Ragna came up with the plan to create ‘friends’ appearing in “Spirit Adventure”,

Naturally, the people around him looked at him as if he had gone mad.

“No, Director. What on earth are you talking about?”

“Um… Ragna. I think chimera creation is a bit too much, no matter what…”

“…I think I roughly know what kind of misunderstanding you’re having, but it’s not like that.”

Ragna sighed and showed everyone the completed sample… that is, the ‘chimera spirit friend’.

And.

“Huh?”

“This is… a chimera?”

Everyone gathered here tilted their heads while looking at the sample.

Because what was in front of their eyes was not a life form created by human desire, born after terribly gruesome biological experiments as they had thought earlier, but.

It was a doll that perfectly imitated the appearance of a spirit from “Spirit Adventure”… among them, the most popular ‘Patemon’.

“Woof.”

Of course, it was a bit lacking to call it completely a ‘doll’.

Because the doll Ragna made acted like a puppy, showing affection to people and eating snacks when given, despite being an inanimate object.

But.

“…This is an ordinary doll.”

“What, I thought you had made something unethical when you said chimera, but you just made a doll and made such a fuss?”

If people in 21st century Earth witnessed a doll moving on its own and showing affection, they would have immediately called exorcists, but.

This is a fantasy world where magic and mystery are not only alive and breathing but taken for granted.

Like Hogwarts, where pictures move on their own, or dolls crawling around on their own was a very natural thing, so they could accept it readily.

“But why did the talk about chimera creation come up for making such a cute doll? Couldn’t you make this level of doll by yourself?”

Serika, who once learned magic at the magic tower with Ragna, asked with her head tilted, and.

Instead of answering Serika’s question, Ragna handed something to her.

“…Huh?”

The object handed over like that was something Serika knew very well.

How could she not know it?

It was an object she had become completely familiar with after seeing it several times during the recording work for the “Spirit Adventure” theatrical version.

“…Spirit Vice?”

That’s right.

The object Ragna handed to Serika was the magical tool ‘Spirit Vice’ that the ‘children of destiny’ used to evolve their partner spirits in “Spirit Adventure”.

“Wow… this is really well made…”

Serika fiddled with the Spirit Vice replica as if it was fascinating.

You could say she came to understand a little bit the feelings of people who buy related goods after enjoying watching an animation.

But, that was only for a moment.

“So what does this have to do with chimeras…?”

What on earth is the connection between well-made “Spirit Adventure” related goods and chimeras?

To Serika, who was floating question marks above her head like that, Ragna said in a casual tone.

“Inject mana into it.”

“…What?”

“If you don’t want to inject mana, you can press the button on the Spirit Vice. Since it’s made as a sample product, its performance may not be perfect yet.”

“…?”

At Ragna’s somewhat unexpected suggestion, Serika operated the Spirit Vice button obediently while bewildered-

Click-

“Wh-What?”

The next moment, Serika opened her eyes wide.

Because Patemon, who had looked like a winged steamed bun until just now, suddenly changed into the form of an angel.

And Serika knew all too well what this phenomenon meant.

“E-Evolution…?”

Evolution.

In “Spirit Adventure”, it was the phenomenon where the spirits’ ‘rank’ rises one level in response to the ‘power of the heart’ that children have.

That was evolution, and at the same time, it was the identity of the animation called “Spirit Adventure” and an all-powerful setting that drove children and adults into a frenzy of excitement.

But wasn’t that just part of the setting appearing in “Spirit Adventure”?

Why on earth did Patemon’s doll in reality suddenly evolve?

“D-Don’t tell me-“

“That’s right, as you guessed.”

Ragna nodded and answered.

“The reason for consulting black magicians who create chimeras to make something like a doll… it was to add the ‘evolution’ function to the doll.”

“…!”

No matter how much the magic of the fantasy world is an unreasonable power when viewed by 21st century Earth standards.

Nevertheless, it was impossible to completely ignore physical laws such as the laws of thermodynamics or the law of conservation of mass.

Even a magician like Aris couldn’t transform a teddy bear made of cotton into a Machine God from “Machine God Chronicles”.

However, if you think about it in reverse.

Doesn’t it mean that if you use magic well, it’s quite possible to ignore physical laws to some extent?

So after consulting with black magicians, they were able to complete the evolution function that ignores the law of conservation of mass to some extent.

“I worked incredibly hard to stuff the evolution function into the doll. Do you know how much precious material obtained from defeating monsters is in this small doll?”

So roughly, it’s similar to creating a fire-attribute greatsword using materials obtained from defeating Rathalos.

By the way, Ragna was a person who considered the greatsword to be the best among all weapons.

Because the greatsword was a romantic weapon with the meaning of ‘protecting the woman I love’ embedded in it.

Anyway, Ragna named this doll ‘chimera doll’.

Despite being a doll, it moves on its own like Skynet, can recognize people,

It evolves using the numerous monster materials inside its body as catalysts, and through that, it can even transform into different forms.

Isn’t this already a splendid chimera in itself just by looking at this?

Well, no matter how good it was, it was just a mere doll, so it was infinitely inferior compared to a real chimera.

As a price for adding this novel function called evolution, the cost of producing this ‘chimera doll’ rose to a really enormous level.

However, Ragna didn’t care much because he had no intention of mass-producing the ‘chimera doll’ anyway.

“I plan to sell these chimera dolls in a ‘made-to-order’ format from now on.”

“…Made-to-order?”

“Made-to-order… custom-made… special custom… you can call it whatever you like. The underlying meaning will be similar anyway.”

There are countless people in this world who raise pets, but.

That doesn’t mean that everyone in the world raises the same pet, right?

It was the same.

As a rule, if there are ten people, there are also ten kinds of tastes.

From now on, Ragna was thinking of building a made-to-order doll factory specially tailored to individual tastes.

“According to the setting, the spirits in “Spirit Adventure” can evolve into any form.”

So if we can sell dolls with the basic form of spirit that each individual wants, and the gimmick of transforming into its evolved form,

This was a product that couldn’t help but be a big hit.

But.

“There’s just one minor side effect. No matter how much I think about it, there seems to be no way to solve this side effect…”

“…A side effect? What is it?”

“The evolution-related magic is not yet perfectly completed, so errors occur from time to time. So roughly like this…”

“GUWAOOOO!”

As Ragna manipulated the Spirit Vice in various ways, Patemon suddenly transformed not into an angel but into a strange life form with tentacles wrapped around its entire body, and.

“…..”

“…..”

Seeing this shocking sight, Serika and Kaya were at a loss for words.

“This phenomenon occurs with about a 0.1% probability every time evolution is attempted. I call this phenomenon ‘dark evolution’, but no matter how hard I try, I can’t solve this. What should I do about this?”

“…..”

“…..”

Well, isn’t it just ruined?

Kaya thought this to herself while watching the tentacles of the dark-evolved Patemon wriggling, but.

Unfortunately or fortunately, her thoughts missed the mark.

Because.

“Ragna, Ragna! Is it really true that there was a hidden gimmick of dark evolution in the Spirit Adventure spirit doll I bought from you last time?”

“…What?”

“Damn! I’m so jealous I could go crazy. Dark evolution, isn’t it a hidden evolution where the spirit achieves a powerful power-up after being tainted by darkness! So tell me how to make the spirit doll dark evolve too. Should I pour out negative energy like the protagonist of “Spirit Adventure”? If not that, should I shout at it to evolve while holding the Spirit Vice?”

“…..”

In this world, there were far too many people like Kaisel who loved ‘turning evil’ to a suspicious degree.

‘Well, the Dark Knight King is cooler than just the Knight King.’

Honestly, you have to admit that turning evil is cool.

How can a man resist turning evil?

Right?