My Glasses Will Be Able to Conquer the Whole World, I Suppose

nd of Gift is it?

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I tried various things that night, and to make sure the cat wouldn’t wake up, I kept on stroking its fur.

First of all, I figured out that I could suppress the emission of light from the Shining Lens at will.

Conversely, it’s possible to make them light up if I wish them to.

Next, I understood that the letters, Sand Walk, that emerged from the Shining Lens, could not be seen from the naked eye.

I can understand that they look like letters, but they’ll be blurry and unreadable.

I thought it was just because they were dazzling at first, but that was not the case.

Even after giving it time to let my eyes get used to the brightness emanated by the Shining Lens, I just couldn’t read the text no matter how much I tried.

But when I put on my glasses and stared at the text, even without using Darkened Lens, I could read the text clearly.

Therefore, if I have my glasses on, and put a different pair of glasses on someone else, it’s possible to extract information from the other party.

… And if I can extract it from Demon Beasts, then it should be possible to get this information from people too.

So, basically, if I put my glasses on someone who doesn’t know their Gift, I can ignore the three core rules of Gift registration and acquire their Gift anyways.

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Next, I learned another important thing.

Since the cat was sleeping, I was able to try various things out.

And in the process, I spent some time staring at the cat’s mouth and saw its amazing fangs.
At that moment I really thought to myself, ‘She really does eat humans, doesn’t she?’

In any case, one of the Gifts I had registered, was ‘Appraisal Eye’.

Normally, it’s possible to use this Gift to learn information about the target, such as its name, value, usage and other similar information.
How much information you obtain depends on your own pre-existing knowledge and on your magical power.

However, Gifts that my Glasses reproduce are considerably less effective than the original.

In the case of Appraisal Eye, it would only show information that I already knew about in advance.

It was a shame, but there was no reason for me to ever use Appraisal Eye.
I had thought it could be a useful type of non-combat Gift, but it had turned out to be worthless.

Until I discovered Forced Information Disclosure, that is.

I had never thought that Appraisal Eye would come up in this kind of situation, but… Forced Information Disclosure does not depend on my knowledge.

Even though I did not know about the existence of the Sand Walk gift, I could still Inspect and register it just fine.

In that case, what would Appraisal Eye tell me if I were to look at information provided by Forced Information Disclosure?

It was purely conjecture on my end, but I figured that in this case, Appraisal Eye might rely on the cat’s knowledge instead of on my own.

After all, with this ability, I can read Gifts that I don’t know about.
It’s not my knowledge that is letting me read the Gift, but the cat’s knowledge.

And so, I decided to use Appraisal Eye on the cat, and when I did it, a simple explanation of Sand Walk appeared.

Sand Walk: No footsteps, no footprints.

That was all the information I obtained.

When considering how simplistic it was, it’s possible that this was the cat’s own way of perceiving its Gift.

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Taking advantage of the fact I could do whatever I wanted, I tried doing a few more tests, but that led to the cat almost waking up.

It seems like I got too excited…

I hurried to the bed and pretended to be asleep for a while until the cat calmed down and seemed to go back to sleeping soundly.

At this point, I started wondering about what were the exact rules behind this new ability.
Under what conditions would Forced Information Disclosure work?

Glasses don’t need to be worn specifically on the face, after all.

It feels like an action that is plain wrong to me, but it’s possible to hang glasses on any part of one’s body.

So, I tried hanging it on the cat’s front paw… But it had no effects.

I then tried the front and back legs, but it also gave no results.

I could make the glasses glow if I wanted them to, but Forced Information Disclosure did not activate.

I also tried hanging it on the cat’s torso, but I also got no results.

Then I tried the tail, the ears, base of the legs, on the neck… And no matter which place I tried, Forced Information Disclosure would not activate.

At this point, I came to the conclusion that the glasses had to be put on the face to activate this ability.

… But do they need to be normally put on the face? How about putting them upside down?

I could activate the ability this time, but the letters were displayed upside down, so it ended up just being pointlessly hard to read like that.

There was no point in doing this, so I decided I would never do it again.

Then I tried it on the cat’s forehead and… It worked.
Forced Information Disclosure activated.

Does it need to be near the eyes, then?

I put it over the cat’s head this time to test, but the result was no good.

I also tried closing the glasses before putting them on the cat’s forehead, and I also got no results.

Therefore, the condition to activate this seems to be, to wear the glasses on one’s face.

So, for example, it’s not possible to use Forced Information Disclosure by pressing the glasses against someone’s back, then leaving immediately after obtaining the information.

Forced Information Disclosure requires wearing the glasses.

Mmmm… It’s a pretty harsh restriction.

That said, the more I think about this… The more I’m unsure about what I’d even want to do with this kind of power.
Its burden is way too heavy…