At the same time, Kuoh Town.
After helping Orihime fix her house, Tatsuma teleported back to the Occult Research Club with Rukia.
After some interaction, Rukia quickly got acquainted with Rias and the others and blended in.
Leaving Rukia temporarily with Rias, Tatsuma went to the training area to check on Gasper's condition.
After confirming that Gasper wasn't slacking off, Tatsuma temporarily let him off.
After all, today was the first day of training, and he still needed some time to adapt.
After letting the cheering and celebrating Gasper go, Tatsuma opened his trait panel.
Unlike Ichigo, whose strength was calculated at Level 5 based on trait boosts, Tatsuma's strength level had another independent calculation standard.
Simply put, it excluded the boosts from traits and various equipment, and only looked at the basic attributes.
In terms of true strength, Tatsuma, using all his trump cards, could challenge the main gods of different mythologies.
However, before gaining various boosts, Tatsuma's basic attributes were actually only at the level of a High-Class Devil. This was why, despite being very strong, his strength level had been stuck at Level 3.
However, after long-term training, Tatsuma's physical stats were already very close to that of an Ultimate-Class Devil.
This wave of granting traits and receiving the breakthrough share from Ichigo allowed him to break through in one go and advance a significant distance within Level 4.
Of course, compared to the breakthrough in strength, Tatsuma was more focused on the new function.
Whether it was the trait upgrade function obtained upon breaking through to Level 2, or the trait imbuing function obtained upon breaking through to Level 3, both had brought great help to Tatsuma.
And after breaking through to Level 4, he had obtained a new function - Trait Fusion.
[Trait Fusion: Once a month, fuse two traits of the same quality. After fusion, there is a certain probability of increasing the trait quality.]
"Looks like it's not bad."
After checking the effect of the new function, Tatsuma opened his inventory and looked at the traits in his hand.
Undoubtedly, the most cost-effective way to use this function was to fuse two gold traits and try to get a rainbow trait.
However...
Energy Fusion, Time Stopper, Boosted Gear.
Looking at these three gold traits that basically had no synergy and operated independently in his hand, Tatsuma sighed silently, took a step back, and turned his gaze to the red traits. Compared to the limited number of gold traits, he had many red traits to choose from in his hand.
After a moment of thought, he decided to fuse Holy King's Sword and Demon Sword Controller.
[Trait fusion successful, congratulations on obtaining the gold trait Holy Demon Sword.]
Trait upgrade triggered!
Tatsuma's eyes lit up, and he clicked to view the trait.
[Holy Demon Sword (Gold): Swordsmanship Talent +4000, can use any Holy Sword or Demon Sword without conditions and negative effects, physical stats greatly increased when holding a Holy Sword or Demon Sword.]
After fusion, [Holy Demon Sword] not only inherited all the effects of [Holy King's Sword] and [Demon Sword Controller], but the effects were even boosted.
Equipping [Holy Demon Sword], Tatsuma drew Gram and experienced it.
The next second, his physical stats increased from an Ultimate-Class Devil to the Satan level.
"Not bad."
Tatsuma's face showed a satisfied expression.
[Holy Demon Sword] was worthy of its gold trait quality.
While greatly increasing swordsmanship talent, it also had the effect of increasing basic attributes.
Now that [Holy Demon Sword] and [Boosted Gear] were linked, Tatsuma's strength was far greater than before.
If he were to fight Toichiro again, he could just rely on his boosted physical stats to pound him into the ground.
And this was just the power of two gold traits.
Glancing at [Energy Fusion] and [Time Stopper], which hadn't yet played a role, Tatsuma closed the system panel and began to plan his daily schedule.
Basic weighted training, contacting Le Fay for magic training, learning different schools of swordsmanship, collecting and researching Time energy, trying to fuse different energies...
"Why are you standing here alone in a daze?"
"Scheduling."
After silently adding 'submitting tribute' to his schedule, Tatsuma looked at Rias walking towards him.
"Is Rukia's side arranged?"
"Yes, she will temporarily live at home and share a room with Asia."
"More and more people are coming, let's buy a bigger house later."
Rias replied, "No need for that much trouble, I'm planning to get someone to expand and renovate the villa."
Then she changed the subject and asked, "Shouldn't you find a personal secretary?"
Tatsuma nodded. "I have thought about that. In fact, I already have the first candidate."
Rias asked, "Who?"
"Sakiko."
"Sakiko? She is indeed good." Rias thought for a moment and agreed.
A secretary is a very important position, only someone who is well-known and trustworthy can hold it.
Rias had investigated Sakiko's background and knew exactly what kind of person that human girl was. For the sake of family affection, she was willing to abandon a rich life and share hardships with her father, never giving up.
Just looking at her personality, Sakiko is definitely perfect.
With such a personality, Sakiko, who has received Tatsuma's favor, will work conscientiously. Therefore, her work attitude can also be rated highly.
As for work ability, this can be trained manually, so there's no need to worry too much.
However...
"Sakiko's strength is a bit lacking." Rias pointed out Sakiko's fatal flaw.
As Tatsuma's strength increases, he will be targeted by more and more terrorists. To be Tatsuma's secretary, besides personality and character, strength also cannot be lacking.
"Don't worry, I can solve the strength issue." Tatsuma glanced at the trait inventory.
Isn't it just not enough strength?
This kind of thing can be obtained by spending a little more.