The noise around her ears finally quieted down, and Jean felt a sense of relief.
Of course, in this space where souls and consciousness intermingle, there is no such concept as "around the ears"; to be precise, it was the feeling of malice being output directly into the brain.
Although it hadn't been able to cause Jean any harm from the beginning, having someone constantly crying miserably in her mind was particularly annoying.
Imitating the way Lia released her divine might that she had seen before, and referencing the clear releases of pressure from her memory—such as Haki from One Piece or Spiritual Pressure from Bleach—she roughly summarized a method driven by a mixture of spiritual power and life force.
After all, spiritual power and life force were powers that Jean was quite skilled at using, and the final result was quite good, creating a pure white space within this pitch-black world.
It felt quite a bit like Byakuren Hijiri, the large-breasted demon monk, converting the Makai into the Hokkai; one wonders how Mrs. Shinki would feel about a chunk of her Makai being gouged out.
Maintaining this state, she optimized her energy efficiency while continuously diving deeper.
There was no sense of time, and she didn't know how long had passed, but when the last piece of darkness beneath her body was dispersed and purified by Jean, the magic circle at the bottom of the greater grail was finally revealed.
Sakura was lying in the center of the circle, and it looked as if her magic circuits had already connected with the magic circle of the greater grail; perhaps this was BB's objective, and if the greater grail were forcibly destroyed, Sakura likely wouldn't have a good outcome.
"Do not underestimate me, Master." Just as Jean was hesitating, Medea's voice came from the jade disc in her hand: "This matter is well within expectations. The extraction and transcription device I created is no ordinary tool; it will not harm that little girl during the process."
Knowing that Medea would not deceive her, Jean confidently brought the disc close to the center of the magic circle and injected magical power into it.
Accompanied by the shining emerald light, the basic structure of the entire greater grail began to gradually decompose and disappear, while the same patterns appeared on the jade disc.
As the process continued, Jean only felt relieved once she saw that the line connecting to Sakura's magic circuits had disappeared, and Sakura had not suffered any harm.
She moved over and carefully checked Sakura's body with her spiritual power, while simultaneously preparing defenses on her own body to prevent any surprise attacks, before gently picking Sakura up, preparing to finish the job and return once the jade disc finished recording.
Just then, Sakura opened her eyes, wrapped her arms around Jean's body, and kissed Jean directly on the lips.
'Ah, this.' This maneuver caught Jean completely off guard. In fact, Jean had been on full alert before picking up Sakura, and upon seeing Sakura move, she had been prepared to defend and counterattack at any moment; even if Sakura had suddenly stabbed her, Jean wouldn't have been surprised, but she truly hadn't expected this.
Warm, smooth lips and a soft, playful tongue; although it wasn't their first kiss, the last time had been too perfunctory, so Jean hadn't been able to experience this wonderful feeling back then.
However, the problem was that Jean certainly wouldn't believe that this behavior was a sincere expression of Sakura's feelings; nine times out of ten, it was the work of that trashy BB.
"You thought correctly, Senpai. You didn't expect this move, did you? In this space of spirit and soul, your White Wind can no longer block my interference." BB's image appeared in Jean's mind.
"So, what are you trying to achieve by setting such a trap?" To buy herself as much time as possible to mobilize her spiritual power, Jean started chatting with BB.
"Hmph, hmph, hmph, that is of course to escape this cage!" BB said, hands on her hips, looking very smug. "I discovered it the very first time I met you: there is an extremely complex set of programs inside your body. This is what's called a System, right? I presume you use it to travel between worlds."
Then, BB pointed her index finger this way and declared: "Now, the Universe's Super Invincible Almighty AI, BB-chan, is going to hack this program! From now on, BB-chan will also be a Super AI that can freely travel between worlds!"
'Ah, this person probably misunderstood something.' Jean thought to herself. Although there was indeed a system inside Jean's body, it hadn't essentially been of much use, and it was completely different from those things in novels that could directly ascend to heaven and enter the earth; it was utterly useless.
As for traveling between worlds, that was the power contained within the commission letter inside the spatial pouch, which had absolutely nothing to do with the system.
But before Jean could explain, BB turned into a stream of information and invaded Jean's mind.
Jean simultaneously mustered a large amount of spiritual power to resist BB. Although pure spiritual power wasn't very efficient and holding the stalemate was exhausting, she managed to barely prevent BB from going any deeper.
Just then, the system suddenly popped up a message: 'Let her come. By: D'
Although this 'D' fellow was usually unreliable, at this moment, it was very reassuring.
Feigning a lack of spiritual power and pretending to be defeated after some resistance, Jean deliberately reduced her supply of spiritual power bit by bit, while simultaneously revealing a hint of pain and resignation in her surface consciousness, which was the skyscraper of emotions.
BB, not suspecting a trap, gathered her strength in one go, broke through Jean's resistance, and injected her existence into the system inside Jean's body.
"Hmph, hmph, hmph, it's a great victory for BB-chan! Eh, who are you? What is this? Ah..."
In Jean's perception, BB, deep within the system, saw a huge phantom of 'D', and then a large number of translucent tentacles began to wrap around her body.
She didn't know how AI data could be wrapped by tentacles, but regardless, Jean just watched with relish from the sidelines.
'D' was also full of interest; it had been unknown how many years since anyone had dared to invade its system.
Now that a fool had finally come, it definitely needed to be well-educated (toyed with).
By the time this high-definition uncensored blockbuster ended, BB's eyes were rolled back, her hands were making V-signs, and she was in a state of complete dehydration.
"Speaking of which, it used to be popular to have little fairies or similar things inside systems; I'll leave this little one to you." A satisfied 'D' turned to Jean and said.
"Ew... I don't want it." Jean looked at BB with a face full of disgust; this thing would definitely be troublesome.
"Full disposal rights are yours; the kind where you can do anything to her."
"Deal!" Without the slightest hesitation, Jean agreed. Getting this greater grail had been so troublesome all because this person was causing trouble. Now that she had the opportunity, naturally, she would settle old scores; if there were no grudges, watching a movie was also fine.
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