When Asakura returned to the Service Club activity room, he found that the girls in the room seemed to be dedicated to getting along with little Eriri, but the little one wasn't very appreciative of it, merely hiding behind Yuigahama Yui, avoiding the girls' good intentions.
"What happened?"
Asakura asked curiously.
"Just now, Eriri-chan drew a sketch of Yui."
Yanami said excitedly, "Look!"
Saying that, she shoved a sketchpad, seemingly from nowhere, into Asakura's arms.
Asakura flipped through the sketchpad, and what met his eyes was a sketch of Yuigahama Yui.
"Oh, this is quite good."
Honestly, to say how strong the technique of this sketch was, Asakura didn't feel much, but unlike the sketches in his impression, although the lines didn't seem particularly numerous, it surprisingly perfectly captured Yuigahama Yui's characteristics, giving a rather stunning impression at first glance.
No wonder the others were trying to get along with Eriri; her artistic talent was truly amazing.
Also, Asakura wasn't sure if it was his own illusion, but he always felt that this sketch of Yuigahama Yui had a subtle hint of suggestiveness…
Hmm, it must be an illusion. After all, Yuigahama's figure was indeed quite good, and it was normal for that feeling to arise when she posed in a way that slightly highlighted her figure. If little Eriri had drawn Yukino or Chihaya Anon, there definitely wouldn't be that feeling.
"By the way, what are you going to do about the curse on this child?"
At this moment, Yuigahama Yui also asked Asakura.
"Just as we initially discussed—" Asakura pulled out the plastic Hercules Cup ornament from his pocket: "Fight poison with poison."
"Although I wanted to say this before—" Yukinoshita Yukino put down the paperback novel in her hand and looked at Asakura solemnly holding the Hercules Cup ornament, which was smaller than a fist, and couldn't help but say, "Can something like this really grant wishes? From its appearance, it feels no different from a small toy bought at a temple fair stall…"
"That's because you, Yukino, are too slow in perceiving magic."
Asakura solemnly placed the Hercules Cup on the table, then began to chant under everyone's gaze: "Domok Saramo…"
"Is this the magic needed to grant wishes?"
Chihaya Anon had already roughly understood what had happened through the messages in the Magic Club community. She looked at the ornament in front of Asakura with interest and asked curiously.
"No, it's probably just Takuma-kun playing some kind of meme."
Asagumo Chihaya, who already had some understanding of Asakura's character, shook her head: "But it doesn't feel like a modern meme; perhaps only people from Hiratsuka-sensei's era would resonate with it."
Asakura, feeling a bit lonely because no one had commented, mumbled a few times, but in the end, said nothing—he always felt that complaining at such a moment would only make him look more pathetic—he reached out and gently rubbed the surface of the Hercules Cup ornament.
"I know this!"
Chihaya Anon said excitedly, "It's Aladdin's lamp, right!"
However, this time Asakura wasn't playing a meme; instead, he used this action to activate the magic within the ornament.
Thus, except for Yukino, who was a Muggle, everyone else more or less felt that the atmosphere in the activity room had undergone some kind of change—incidentally, although Yanami was also a Muggle on the same level as Yukino, because she had formed some mysterious connection with Asakura, she also possessed some witch-like characteristics, one of which was being able to perceive magic to a certain extent.
My wish is for little Eriri to return to normal.
Asakura silently repeated this sentence three times in his mind.
But nothing happened.
Asakura froze for a moment, then, as if realizing something, he drew a finger through the air, dispelling a very thin layer of the magic, "Scale", that had always enveloped him, almost becoming a passive skill.
After that, Asakura silently repeated in his mind: My wish is for little Eriri to return to normal.
Sure enough, just now it was due to the presence of "Scale" that the Holy Grail was unable to read Asakura's wish, which was why there was no reaction.
Now, as Asakura's wish in his mind was silently repeated for the second time, the anomaly already occurred.
Little Eriri suddenly lit up like a large light bulb.
The next moment, her originally short and stubby body suddenly became slender (but her chest did not change), her slightly flat small round face now shed its baby fat, and although she lost some cuteness, she gained a bit of delicate beauty. Her milky-white, delicate skin didn't change much, just becoming a bit paler from often staying indoors compared to its initial rosiness. As a symbol of her mixed heritage, her blue eyes seemed to become even clearer, and her two small pigtails suddenly turned into long golden twin tails.
Interestingly, even the cute style of clothes the girl was originally wearing was proportionally enlarged along with her, surprisingly without any sense of incongruity, just feeling like a perfectly normal cute JK uniform.
"Woah…"
Yuigahama Yui lightly covered her cherry lips, letting out a surprised sound: "It feels like a princess from a fairy tale had her curse lifted, turning back from a child to her original self…"
Indeed, in her normal state, aside from her slightly modest chest, Eriri, purely in terms of appearance, truly gave off a princess-like sense of splendor.
"Takuma-kun, are you alright?"
Asagumo Chihaya looked at Asakura with some concern, worried that he might be affected by the curse.
After all, currently, it seemed that these so-called Holy Grail wishes always had some subtle after-effects…
However, after briefly assessing his own condition, Asakura shook his head: "No problem. This level of cursed item has no effect on me."
Actually, the curse did take effect at first, but the essence of this curse was still a type of magic intertwined with 'wishes'.
If it were attached to someone else, like (little) Eriri, Asakura would worry whether burning the curse would affect the other person's mind, as the curse and wish were originally one.
But if this thing fell on him, there weren't so many scruples; he could just snap his fingers and burn it away with the magic, "Candle".
Just as Asakura cleared his throat, wanting to say something to Eriri (big… big? Doesn't seem big) who still hadn't recovered from her dazed state.
But before he could speak, a 'ding' sound came from Asakura's mind.
[Quest: Get Bigger Completed]
Asakura was stunned for a moment, then felt a mouthful of old complaints stuck in his throat.
So that's what 'Get Bigger' meant, huh?!