Power of Creation

Since Elena has been downgraded to the status of female, you no longer feel like she is a suitable candidate to help you catch ghosts. In fact, of all the girls, she frequently comes off as the most innocent and feminine, despite having formerly been boy. Aurora is a strong matriarch, Ariel has degraded into a free love slut, Grimhilde is a cum guzzling addict, Belle is a lesbian pervert, the maids are uncouth cowards, and Mulan is a childish and prideful monster.

Perhaps Kida could have helped you out, but it is certainly too late tonight to run back and get her. For the first time since you came to this world you find your harem lacking. There are still tons of girls that need to be added. The mature sister, the refined woman, the sportsy girl, just to name a few off the top of your head.

Fortunately, the mansion is quite accommodating. It appears to have almost twenty bedrooms, so it gives you plenty of room for expansion. The kitchen and dining room look to be large enough to accommodate a family of thirty or forty. There are five bathrooms, which will become very important as the female presence grows. You’ll have to reserve one bathroom for yourself and force the girls to share the other four.

Of course, you are having these thoughts as you are walking through the mansion. In the end, you end up progressing through the mansion alone. The baka maids managed to start a few lights in the main room. They are open torches, and you worry a bit that a fire could be started. You immediately start swapping them out with magical lightstones.

You don’t buy the stones, of course. You simply create them with magic. You have no clue if other noble families have access to things like light stones. Well, the noble family that had previously lived in this house clearly didn’t since there are numerous sconces along the walls. As you make your way around in your first official tour of the mansion, you drop a magical light ball into each sconce. As far as you know, the lights should last forever. At some point, you’ll need to swap some of them out with lights that can be switched or dimmed. Well, since they use the infinite resource of magic to light themselves anyway, it’s not like you can’t keep the mansion lit all night.

“Get Oooooout!” Your thoughts are interrupted by a low rubbly voice.

“Ah… so there is a ghost.”

Of course, you expected there really is a ghost. If the baka maids had seriously been jumping at shadows and gotten you all worked up over nothing, the punishment game for the four of them would have made their previous experience look like foreplay.

Outside, those very baka maids suddenly get the shivers and hold each other closely, not quite understanding why they have a feeling as if they have just dodged an arrow.

“Get Oooooooouuuut!” the voice speaks again.

“Ah, make me.” You respond, attempting to goad the ghost on.

A second later something flies out of the darkness. Had you not tweaked your reaction time to superhuman levels shortly before coming here, you might not have been able to stop it. Instead, you casually reached up and catch the silver object. It is a knife that has been flying directly at your head. You don’t have the hang of catching knives and have actually caught it by the blade, but your hands are more or less cut proof given your high defense so you merely put the knife away into your inventory with a wave.

However, had you been a normal human, or even the you a few hours ago, that seriously could have killed you. This ghost is not playing around. Not only did they delay your homecoming, they actually tried to kill you too. This freaking ghost…

“Leave! Leave Now!”

The voice’s tone doesn’t seem to acknowledge their thwarted attempt to murder you. Perhaps the ghost doesn’t care whether you live or die.

Another item flies out from the dark and you catch this one as well. This time it is an icicle. You drop the icicle and allow it to shatter on the floor.

This is starting to annoy you a bit. You have been walking around for ten minutes now and the ghost isn’t showing himself. Instead, they are trying to attack you from the shadows, only throwing things from a far distance so you can’t even get a look at them.

“Fine, I’ll just bring you to me.”

You create a spell to summon the nearby ghost and immediately activate it. A magical circle appears right in front of your feet which starts to glow. A moment later, you hear a screaming sound as light bursts from the circle. A form slowly appears in the center of the circle and it stares down at you with a hateful glare.

This is… undoubtedly a ghost. It was certainly dead, transparent, and floating in the center of the room. Rather than a beautiful female ghost, it was a middle-aged man.

“Damn… my flags were off this time.”