Dame Wasp's Hypothesis

[ — Status Screen —

Dame Wasp: But, Master, you must—for my sake.

Ace: Rose, what do you mean? Give me the details.]

Learning about the Curse Concealment Art, Ace immediately decided to hurry to the lakehouse and begin practicing as quickly as possible. Even without Emi boasting about it, Ace knew that Nakamura Ninjutsu was unparalleled in the game Cosmic Combat. Her family's ninjutsus allowed the ninjas of the Nakamura sect to stand toe-to-toe with powerful alien races and cosmic beings who gathered at the cosmic arena to determine the strongest.

As for Mandy, he could tell her that something urgent had come up and that he had to return on his own. He felt she would be relieved to hear that, especially considering how she clung to him while fending off Janice and Delores' teasing—or, more accurately, their sexual provocations.

He couldn't help but feel that the actress and manager duo were tempting him into committing a crime. Unfortunately for them, after experiencing Emi's unrealistically perfect body combined with her innate sexual arts, his tolerance to such provocation had significantly increased. Still, the real thing had its own charm—not to mention their bodies were enhanced by curse energy, erasing mortal flaws.

Be that as it may, he never expected one of his Toy Summons to ask him to return to Janice's villa, especially after he had miraculously managed to escape without exposing his identity as a cursemaster. Knowing Dame Wasp, he was certain she must have a reason and waited for her to explain herself.

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Dame Wasp: Master, after you granted me full authority to design my new body for my second enchantment, I have been collecting and studying various curse-crafting techniques and curse-tool forging arts posted on the Curse Web. Among them, I discovered techniques and arts for identifying the abilities of unowned curse tools. These are the same methods the Steel Song Society relies on to double-check the abilities of curse tools they harvest from newborn cursemasters. 

Dame Wasp: Those techniques and arts rely on the principle of using the original cursemaster's or cursesmith's blood, hair, nails, or DNA materials to identify the tool's abilities.

Dame Wasp: Master, when I saw Janice Jane—the talented actress who brought the character Betty Rose and Dame Wasp to life on the big screens, making the movie series an international sensation—I had a sudden inspiration. What if I were to use blood, hair, or nails from Janice Jane as a material for my second enhancement? I believe that, if nothing else, it would greatly increase my chances of successfully undergoing the enhancement.

Ace: Rose, how sure are you about this? 

Dame Wasp: For now, it is just a hypothesis, Master. However, if the Cursed Toybox were to accept Janice's DNA along with other materials during my second enhancement, I believe that would be enough to prove my theory correct.]

When preparing to animate Emi, Dame Wasp and Ace conducted tests on their Cursed Toybox to better understand the principles behind its functioning and to increase the compatibility rate between a curse core and a toy. While they were unable to uncover the principles of the Toybox's enigmatic curse ability, their efforts were not without gains. 

They observed that when they prepared materials for the Cursed Toybox to animate a toy, the cursed clown would omnisciently sort out the toy and its add-ons, rejecting anything that didn't belong. After rigorous testing and validation, they concluded that their Cursed Toybox wouldn't accept just anything as part of a toy or its add-ons. They didn't know how it worked, but they were never able to trick it.  

Therefore, Dame Wasp wanted to use the Cursed Toybox as the final judge of her hypothesis that using Janice's DNA material in her second enchantment might lead to something unexpected—or at least increase the odds of successfully undergoing the enhancement.

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Ace: I find no reason to rebut your hypothesis, Rose. Good work. If you continue like this, we might have a capable cursesmith among us.

Dame Wasp: Master, your words are kind. I will work hard to be worthy of your praise. But does this mean you will be returning to Janice's place?

Ace: No, not unless I have mastered Emi's Curse Concealment Art to a sufficient level of proficiency. There's no rush—Janice isn't going anywhere. I will think of something to get you her DNA material before we begin your second enhancement.]

The hypothesis proposed by Dame Wasp was too attractive to dismiss without giving it a fair shot. If she were correct, at the very least, he would have found a way to increase the success rate of animating a toy or advancing a toy summon. The prospects of this were worth the risk of entering the tiger's den to collect its shedding fur.

Curse cores that matched the abilities of toys with overpowered character designs were rare and hard to come by. He couldn't afford to gamble when it came to using them for animating toys and advancing toy summons created with them. Therefore, if there were ever a chance to figure out a way to increase the success rate of animating a toy or advancing a toy summon, he would take it despite the risks, as the potential gains were tremendous and worth it. This was a gamble he had to take.

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Ace: Speaking of which, how far has the creation of your new body progressed?

Dame Wasp: Master, they said they can deliver it by tomorrow evening. 

Ace: That's quick.

Dame Wasp: Master, I only asked them to make the silicone face mask and the wig for Dame Wasp's Nanoweaver form. I plan to recycle metals from the auto salvage yard, using laser ablation to create magnetic nanoparticles, and then craft the closest version of my Nanoweaver form.

Ace: Hang on, Rose. Let me catch up! Laser ablation—where are you going to perform it without drawing attention?

Dame Wasp: Emi and I were thinking of building an underground lab at your uncle's ranch.

Ace: Why don't you just pollute and maybe burn my uncle's ranch while you're at it? Have you two gone insane. Tell me you're kidding. 

Dame Wasp: We plan to use Barrier, Silence, Storage, and Purification talismans to keep the disturbance and pollution to a minimum. Master, trust us, we've got this.

Emi: Master, fighting!]