Chapter 136: Ninth Heaven's Nine Doors

Looking at the blue-haired girl in front of him, Shiro helplessly sighed. While perplexed, he asked:

"Why?"

"...Sensei. Is it wrong to be selfish?"

Sayaka replied while avoiding his gaze. During the past few days, he often mentioned how dangerous it could be as a Magical Girl, yet she didn't heed his warnings properly... all for her single desire.

"It's not. I answered you like this before, right?" Shiro replied.

"Then... I don't regret it."

She proceeded to look straight at him. Instead of her usual eyes, it now has a hidden charm, which is something similar to Shiro's max-level charm. With it, she can easily make someone fall in love with her.

Knowing her circumstances, it didn't take him long before he figured out the gist of everything.

"I would still fight against Witches for the sake of others. This is the price that I have to pay, after all. I would give the Grief Seeds to you, sensei."

Since Sayaka knew about his plans to cleanse Grief Seeds and turn them back into Soul Gems, she didn't hesitate to give them to him. At her roots, she's still a justice-headed girl.

"Don't forget to call me to purify your Soul Gem."

"I won't."

It was at this moment that Shiro realized that his teachings influenced her in some way. His thoughts is all about his own interests, thus it might've made her change her mind on something.

Her crush, Kyousuke, already has his hand healed when Sayaka asked a favor from Shiro. It's not troublesome, so he did it. Though, he didn't expect for her to make a wish to make him fall in love with her.

To be honest, Shiro thinks that this Kyousuke bastard isn't someone that deserves her. He saw how bad he treated Sayaka, even when the latter took care of him for 5 years STRAIGHT. He used her as a vent whenever he feels insecure and depressed about his lost talent.

Sayaka being Sayaka, she didn't mind it and understood him deeply instead.

Shiro also saw that guy talking with Sayaka's BEST friend, Hitomi, once when he took a look at him. From this, he must've deduced that the Hitomi girl confessed her love for Kyousuke on Sayaka, which led to her taking in desperate measures.

If not for the fact that Shiro had infected her with his mentality, she would've accepted the failure of her love instead.

Seeing the pained and desperate look from her eyes, Shiro chose to respect her choice and support her instead. In the end, this is what he taught. He doesn't care about some strangers, but he definitely would ensure his students' safety.

'Not again...'

Shelving the bad memories for now, he gave her some items that would help her current situation.

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Crackle-! Crackle-!

White flames were set ablaze around Shiro. The labyrinth's environment changed often like an oil painting, but it couldn't affect him due to to the anti-evil attribute of his flames.

'The fifth door.'

The moment he thought of it, he unlocked a 'door', the so-called 'limiter' within him. It allowed him to break through his current state, giving him a huge boost in his body and soul-related stats.

[Ninth Heaven's Nine Doors (SSR)]

Details: A special martial art created from a universe whose timeline is manipulated by a very special world will. The art consists of nine levels. By opening each 'doors', the user would experience a permanent increase in body and soul. However, the fifth door and onwards would only be in a 'semi-opened' state due to its overwhelming increase. A special ability would also be granted from the fifth door and onwards.

First Door (Opened): Body and Soul attributes x 1.10

Second Door (Opened): Body and Soul attributes x 1.25

Third Door (Opened): Body and Soul attributes x 1.5

Fourth Door (Opened): Body and Soul attributes x 1.75

Fifth Door (Opened): Body and Soul attributes x 2.00, Strong Healing Factor

Sixth Door: (Locked)

Seventh Door: (Locked)

Eight Door: (Locked)

Ninth Door: (Locked)

It is one of the most absurd techniques that he got from his random spin before. If someone else tried to practice it, they might take a week in the shortest, but Shiro is a monster.

With his max-level control stat and insane comprehension, all he took is a single day to practice it to the fifth door. Opening the sixth door and above is something strenuous and would harm him instead, thus he stopped on it.

Even so, the technique is already absurd in its own right. Simply put, it will increase his strength as long as he progresses through it. Moreover, the increases would stack instead of combining into one!

Once the fifth door is semi-opened, he could already receive a huge boost from it. Coupled with it being fully opened, it could be even higher. Plus the fact that it will stack, the increments would be higher than the stated amount in the description!

[Physique: 12,487 --> 22,703]

[Dexterity: 12,506 --> 22,739]

[Wisdom: 20,407 --> 37,104]

[Aura: 11,494 --> 20,898]

[Mana: 4,129 --> 7,508]

For starters, the technique worked in sync with [Six Eyes], allowing it to showcase more of its potential. This made it so that his Wisdom stat became the highest out of them all.

There's also the passive increase in all of his stats, making him stronger than before. Right now, he can overwhelm Kyoko with his stats alone!

Shiro wondered if he would need to use his trump cards at this rate, but he knew how strong his opponents would be. Just a terrible match up like Touka's reality bending powers is enough to render him weak, what's more if he's against Kyuubey, a literal god?

Overflowing power filled up his body. Though, Shiro's insane perception noticed an anomaly in it; his body began breaking down due to it. This is the reason why he didn't use the fifth door all the time.

Still, he's feeling bad today so he decided to vent it out through a Witch hunt.

"Sorry, young girl, but this has to be done." He murmured before he gathered most of his power in his right fist. He based this new technique of his from another absurd technique, but the latter would give him a terrifying backlash; thus he decided to keep it as his trump card.

His stats are balanced all throughout his body, so this doesn't mean that his punch would have the power of 22,703 Physique. This made it so that he would need to consciously gather it until he couldn't take it longer.

When a punch that could shatter a few mountains, or a half of a city, gathered in his right fist, he coated it with his white flames before using his movement technique coupled with [Space Jump].

In a blink of an eye, he's right behind the strange-looking robot, Gisela, the Witch of this labyrinth..

BAM-!

A sound akin to a dozen missiles exploding rang out in this place. Shockwaves made out of gusts of wind were created, which then bounced off in this labyrinth.

Coupled with the fact that the Witch is eliminated, it didn't take long before the surroundings went back to normal. While in mid-air, Shiro quickly deactivated the fifth door as he landed softly on the ground.

Picking up the Grief Seed on the ground, he noticed his bleeding right hand and injured body started to heal when golden flames started to envelop his injuries. Together with his [Strong Healing Factor] from the fifth gate, he went back to his uninjured state a few minutes later.

Tap-! Tap-!

Shiro looked above, only to see dark clouds forming.

"The objective on Madoka's wish isn't marked as "Complete" and there's the Walpurgisnacht coming more than a month later..." He paused before continuing, "This feels ominous."

He doesn't know if it's because of him having a bad day, but he couldn't shake off the ominous feeling in his heart.

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A/N: The way I computed his new stats is quite simple:

(Stat) x 1.10 x 1.25 x 1.5 x 1.75 x 1.1(Semi)/2(Fully)

That's why I didn't state a clear answer on the total boost; it wouldn't make much sense. If we try multiplying it with 7.1/7.6 instead of the formula above, we'll get a completely different answer. The gist on this technique is so that the multipliers stack, thus multiplying the already multiplied stats (Since the increases are permanent). Anyways, this technique is from Ending Maker, one of my favorite Action-Fantasy-Romance KR novel.