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Roman looks at the young girl currently swimming in her clothes and asks, “Mil-tan are you okay?”
Mil-tan then blinks and looks down. She then realizes all her clothes are too big as they fell to the floor. Red-faced she fixes up her shirt that currently looks more like a dress due to its size. After getting fixed up she replies, “I am Roman,” she holds down her shirt with a blush, “Though it is a bit breezy ~ Nyo.”
Roman coughs into his fist and turns away, “Ah, I haven't worked out the kinks yet. I actually hadn’t expected someone would develop a full body transformation that fast.”
He had expected that to take a few months, not a single day.
Mil-tan just chuckles, “Hehehe, well you did say to pour our feelings into it and I’ve wanted something like this for a very long time,” she shuffles around, “Can I have a mirror?”
He smiles and projects a full-length body mirror in front of her.
She smiles brightly at her reflection and begins to inspect herself in wonder, “I love it… though is it permanent? I don’t think I can go to work like this. My transition was fine… but de-aging is a bit much ~ Nyo?”
Well, he designed the system to respond to one's desires so it shouldn’t be permanent unless she wants to stay like that, “Hmm, you should be able to change at will as long as you have the energy to spare. You simply have to want to change back.”
She nods sagely in understanding, “Humu, humu. I see, well we can do that later. For now, I want to enjoy being a real magical girl,” a phantom wind blows up her shirt and she holds it down, “Though I could use some actual fitting clothes ~ Nyo.”
Roman turns to find the djinn controlling the wind to blow up Mil-tan’s shirt dress. He rolls his eyes and turns back to his now loli friend and eyeballs her sizes so he can project some clothes. While he doesn't have the natural ability to identify people's sizes like his students he can guess pretty well without resorting to magecraft. He projects her some simple clothes and hands them to her, “Here you can wear these for now,” he then turns around to give her some privacy.
After a moment he turns to see his friend now dressed in a simple t-shirt and shorts combo. She gives him a cheerful smile and a thumbs-up, “They fit great ~ Nyo!”
He returns that smile with one of his own, “Good. Now how about we see about testing some things,” he waves for her to follow, “Now follow me and I can show you to my workshop.”
She nods and follows closely. She then notices the djinn and gives them a happy wave, “It’s nice to see you three again ~ Nyo,” Mil-tan then cutely glares at them, “Though it is rude to blow wind under people’s clothes ~ Nyo.”
Well, it isn't a surprise she noticed them as they weren’t being that sneaky.
The triplets chuckle a bit embarrassed at their earlier prank. They then bow in apology and Mil-tan nods accepting it, “I forgive you ~ Nyo!”
She then resumes following him and they soon enter his workshop. He leads her to the main interface and core of the system. He waves a hand at the cube-shaped core resting within its housing. He did also note that it seemed to be shining a bit brighter than earlier, “This Mil-tan, is the core that will manage every Memento in the future. Right now the two of us should be the only users but hopefully, that will change soon.”
“It’s so pretty ~ Nyo,” she replied transfixed on the softly glowing cube.
He gazed at it as well, “It is isn’t it?”
He turns his attention to the interface and opens it up and looks at how the systems doing and he finds that it’s operating better than he anticipated. The way he designed the core was to take a bit of faith from existing Mementos to power some of its functions, such as the data refinement programs. It seems the core had gained enough faith from Mil-tan to activate some of its functions. He hadn’t expected that to happen for at least a month.
He pulls up the list of Mementos and finds her on it as well. He then looks through her Memento data and finds the now activated subsystem manager has already begun to compile the data from Mil-tan’s transformation into a new subsystem. That particular program was meant to manage functions that were auto-generated from user data or those that were manually made.
He then looked at the overview of her Memento and saw that some of its ‘disk space’ was filled already even when she hasn't installed a charm yet. The developing subsystem most likely filled that slot. It seems she only has enough space for six charms as one of the ‘slots’ was being used. She had a lot of slots available right away with seven compared to his five. He still doesn't have a baseline yet but he feels the average should sit around four with Mil-tan being an outlier due to her immense passion.
After looking through the data he can safely say everything is working as it should, "Well it looks like everything is in working order," he closes the interface and turns to his friend, "Now how about testing some charms?"
She nods giddy and follows him to a table filled with a variety of different objects, from mundane objects to some minor magical trinkets he made in his downtime.
He picks up a calculator, "I recommend dedicating a slot to something that can perform calculations as most human magic needs math. A normal calculator will get you far based on my initial testing."
She nods and the shuffles around a bit, "Umm, how do I do that ~ Nyo?"
He chuckles, "Just call it out. I believe I made it so it feels natural," he puts his hand out and his Memento, still in the form of his Chaldea pin, appears in a flash of light.
She eagerly nods then closes her eyes to focus. She takes a breath and brings her hands to her chest and a softly glowing pink orb enters her cradled hands. She grips the orb and the tiny wand within grows until it can properly be held. With a flourish, she brandished her wand.
“So what now ~ Nyo?” she asked shaking with excitement.
“You just do this,” he picked up an old pocket watch he got from an antique shop and held it to his Memento. With a flex of will his Memento lit up and the watch was absorbed and filled up one of his four remaining slots.
He lifted his Memento and it shifted into a pocket watch that was now Chaldea-themed, “See that simple. You just have to want it to be absorbed,” he dismissed his Memento and waved a hand at the table, “Now from what I checked you have five ‘slots’ available to use for charms. After slotting in a charm you should get a feel for how many more you can safely do.”
She nodded, walked over to the table, and picked up a few different objects. A calculator, a ribbon, a gold bangle, and a laser pointer. She held her wand up and absorbed the items into her Memento one at a time. Her wand shifted a bit but remained more or less the same. She then took a look at some of the more magical things and pointed at some of the various crystals, “What are these ~Nyo?”
He picked up one of the marble-sized crystals that held a flickering flame, “These are condensed magical energy of various types. This one is fire aspected and I have a few others here. I have them this size as any bigger might prove too much for a fresh Memento.”
He had tested that earlier with a larger chunk of a condensed mana crystal and while he could absorb it, it would have taken up his remaining slots. He figures a stronger Memento could get it down to a single slot in time but for now, marble-sized crystals are his go-to. The crystal marble of pure mana he slotted in earlier had offered a boost to his natural mana generation and increased his ability to shape raw magical energy by a decent amount. The best way to describe it was giving himself an affinity towards mana that fine-tuned his natural generation and gave him better instinctive control.
She hummed and picked up the various crystals and ended up attempting to decide between pure mana and ki. She eventually placed the ki crystal down and slotted the pure mana crystal. She shivered and blinked as her magical senses most likely got kicked into overdrive.
And to make sure she's fine he asks, “Mil-tan are you okay? I know the pure mana crystal boosts one’s affinity toward magical energy, so it might be a bit overwhelming.”
She shakes her head, “No it’s fine. I was just a bit surprised that I can suddenly feel all these new things and I think it adjusted my senses? Because I felt a bit of overloaded but it settled quickly ~ Nyo.”
Roman nods and explains another of the base functions, “Well they also can react to subconscious desires and as it caused you some pain it likely automatically dialed its settings down.”
She nods, “That sounds about right. I also had a question?”
“Yes?”
She looked down at her clothes, “Well these are made out of magic right? Well, can you make me another set so I can absorb them and maybe make my own outfit ~ Nyo?”
He opened his mouth in surprise before giving the idea some thought. That would work now that he thinks about it and he’s a bit surprised he hadn’t included it in the base design. That’s also what those peculiar mystic codes the Second made did as well. Now that singularity was a bit of a trip now that he thinks about it again. He shakes those thoughts away and projects another outfit for her to absorb.
Mil-tan grabs it and absorbs it and blinks in surprise, “Oh! That didn’t take a slot ~ Nyo.”
It didn’t? Well, that actually makes sense as the transformation subsystem likely recognized her wishes and integrated the spell into its base functions.
She then glowed and her outfit changed into that of the main character of Milky Spiral.
Mil-tan looks over her newly created outfit with a frown.
Roman tilts his head at his friend's frown, "What's wrong Mil-tan?"
She grips her wand, "It doesn't feel right to use another magical girl’s mantle now that I have my own magical powers," she raises up her wand with a serious expression, "So I must make my power my own ~ Nyo!"
She glows brightly and her wand and milky spiral outfit change in a shower of light.
As the light settled her outfit was revealed. It was now a sleeveless collared crop top, long fingerless gloves, and a skirt stocking combo in different shades of pink and gold. She also had a number of gold bangles on her arms and legs. To top it off she had a flowing pink veil-like ribbon that floated around her. Her wand had taken on a more sci-fi look surprisingly but that was likely a Nanoha influence. Actually, now that he gets a closer look it's similar to Chrono’s Durandal.
He smirked and pointed to her wand, “Nanoha?”
She chuckled and rubbed the back of her head bashfully, “Hehehe, Yes. The way you described the Mementos reminded me of the Intelligent Devices ~ Nyo.”
He mirrored her reaction and turned away embarrassed, “Ah. I might have gotten inspiration from Nanoha as well.”
She giggled, a light tinkling sound that radiated happiness, “Your such a nerd, aren't you Roman?”
A light smile found its way to his face, “I suppose I am but what’s the point of having magic if you can’t have fun with it right?”
She nodded happily at that and gave him a thumbs-up, “That’s right ~ Nyo!”
He turned his attention back to the table of materials, “Hey you should still have a slot open right? Why don’t you pick something that might help with your outfit? Magic constructs can be durable but it depends on what material it uses as a template.”
She nods and goes over to the raw materials he has set up. After looking at the various metals and fabrics she grabs a bolt of silk. She gives it a feel and she nods finding it satisfactory. She lifts her wand and absorbs it. Her outfit shimmers as it takes on the properties of the silk and she lets out a sigh of happiness, “Ah so silky ~ Nyo.”
He’s actually kind of jealous as that probably feels wonderful. He places a hand on his chin and thinks about slotting in the Transformation subsystem once it's ready. After all, transformations are really cool.
Mil-tan then furrowed her brow and asked, “Roman it feels like the ribbon and the silk want to fuse?”
“Ah! That's one of the functions I didn’t expect to show up yet. It’s what happens when certain charms synergize. They can then fuse taking up only a single slot and grant the benefits of both,” he sighs, “Honestly Mil-tan some of these functions I expected would take a few weeks at minimum to access, and here you are speeding through all of them.”
She just chuckles bashfully, grabs a compact mirror, and absorbs it into her Memento now that she has a free slot. She then begins to play around shifting her wand into different shapes.
After seeing Mil-tan play around for a bit he asks, “Hey Mil-tan want to practice some magic?”
She appears in front of him so fast one would think she teleported and nods quickly, “Please ~ Nyo!”
“Okay then just follow me,” he leads her to a more empty part of his workshop and expands the space once more. It doesn't strain space this time as he no longer has a football field worth of ritual to worry about. He still wants to have a dedicated workshop and thankfully Makeda scheduled an appointment with a realtor in a few days for an excellent plot of land that has a leyline running through it.
Mil-tan’s eyes sparkle at his display of magic and he chuckles as he projects a few target dummies. He waves to her, “Well how about you give it a shot. I think that laser pointer you absorbed might give you a way to use your innate magic and the pure mana crystal should give you enough instinctive control to pull it off.”
She nods, closes her eyes to focus on her magical energy, and after a moment her eyes snap open now brimming with determination. She aims her wand and the red jewel glows and a bolt of magical energy fires from the center blades of her wand nailing one of the dummies and blowing a chunk out of it.
Mil-tan then hops around glowing with happiness, “I did it! I used Magic ~ Nyo!”
They continue testing for a few hours with Mil-tan making stunning progress with shaping raw magical energy. It seems she had a natural talent for it before adding on the Mana affinity she gained from absorbing the crystal. Eventually, the time comes for her to return home.
Mil-tan gathered up her clothing and Roman stood off to the side to give his friend some privacy. Roman leaned against the wall waiting. A flash of light later and an okay from Mil-tan he returns to see his friend has returned to her adult form fully dressed. He did note her androgynous features smoothed out and appeared more feminine. It seems her transition was sped up by her Memento.
She looked into the mirror from earlier with a smile. She saw him in the reflection and turned around and asked, “Hey Roman want to see my transformation ~ Nyo?”
“Go ahead,” he replies a bit giddy as he can’t wait to see what his friend came up with.
She smirks, flicks her hand out and a pink compact mirror appeared with a flash of light. She then strikes a pose and shouts out, “Memoria Change!” her compact glows brightly and she is consumed in pink light.
Her body glows pink and shrinks down. She flips her now pink hair to reveal her smirking face and glowing pink eyes.
Her clothes turn into pink and gold motes of light that form into a long flowing ribbon and several gold bangles that float around her. She punches and kicks the bangles into place. The ribbon then spins around her entire body in a whirlwind of magical energy and her outfit materializes from the raging storm of magic. The ribbon then forms a veil around her. She grabs her floating wand and strikes a pose, “Miracle Magical Mil-tan!”
She then hops around cutely, “Hehehe, I’ve always wanted to do that ~ Nyo!!”
Roman claps, “Good job! That was very good!”
Mil-tan bows, “Thank you!”
She transforms back with much less fanfare and waves him goodbye.
Before she leaves he tells her, “Oh, and we can start having magic lessons soon once I tell my students.”
She gives him a thumbs-up, “Sounds good to me. In the meantime, I have a lot to learn ~ Nyo.”
She then struts out of his apartment happy.
Roman lets out a content sigh before heading back to his workshop to take a look at the data Mil-tan created. He finds it’s quite a bit for only a single day and he works on personally refining the Transformation subsystem so he can install it on his own Memento. It doesn't take him that long since Mil-tan’s desires had refined it to a decent level already but he puts a few tweaks to streamline the process, such as limiting the energy output so others can use it effectively since not everyone has the burning passion Mil-tan has.
However, even with his tweaks, he did note that there is a minimum threshold one needs to meet before one can transform. He meets them but he imagines the kids won't for a while.
He settles on his Halloween outfit as the outfit base so he can have a tuxedo mask theme going on. He considered just using the Mages Association uniform but he wanted to be a bit extra. He still remembers Da Vinci’s excited face when she handed him the outfit… and now he’s reminiscing about her. He wonders if he will see her again one day.
*Memento Research Updated*
Charm data updated - Charm Slots, Charm Types, Charm Combination
New subsystem created - Transformation
A.N. Mil-tan speed runs some of the functions of the Memento system because of her intense desire to be a magical girl. Roman is surprised but rolls with it anyway.