"Alright." You look at the heavy tome in your hands before you flow your magical energy through it, not to apply a concept to it, but instead to just reinforce the strength of the book so as to turn it into a small block that was as durable as steel despite all appearances. "This should be as strong as a block of steel, so... let's see." You toss the blade at the puppet, and in a flash that was so quick that it was almost impossible for you to perceive, the book missed the puppet entirely. It had been slashed into two pieces and the two resulting halves of the tome had been redirected with the stroke to fall around the puppet instead of still colliding with it.

"Fantastic!" Touko sounded very happy about the puppets capabilities. "I didn't even see it strike! Wakame-kun, do you understand what this means?" You look at the woman with a raised eyebrow, and she chuckles. "It means that your powers can do more than simply create the pathway towards a power, and if used correctly, can be both the key and the door that the key would unlock... or in other words, both the journey and the destination."

Part 44