[Kazuya felt some hesitation, but after a moment, he reached down to his belt. There, a small closed console had been hanging from where it'd been clipped to his belt loop. It was a dark blue colour, and its surface was pitted with small scratches, scuffs, and mysterious dark stains or scorch marks. Obviously battered but, definitely still functional]
This, my future husband, is a COMP!
[Kazuya held it up dramatically, before flipping it open and turning it to show William the two screens. There was a menu on the bottom screen, though some of its icons were greyed out]
It's a cheat system that allows normal, mundane humans to fight on par with the strongest of demons - indeed, you could even stand up to Lucifer with this! I know, because I did it. Anyway, what it does is... well, everything.
[Kazuya leaned forwards, over the coffee table, to make sure that William could see better as he began pointing at individual parts of the COMP's menu]
Some of the options are greyed out, because Cerelia messes with the COMP's connectivity with its server, but basically, this top middle one is the important one. "Team". Now, the COMP has a function where you can make contract with demons and make them your own, though you can only summon two at a time, look, I'll show you.
[He selected the icon, and it came up with three images. There was Kazuya's profile picture, followed by his name, and on either side of him, there were two more names: Ongyo-Ki and Metatron. Down along the right hand side was a column of an obscene amount of demons, both well known and obscure, but strangely, all of them were greyed out. Yeah, Kazuya was unable to access them, because of the aforementioned connectivity issues. Stupid Cereals...]
This is my current team. Now, I may be able to summon demons, but I make sure that if I have to fight them, I can easily crush them. You never summon a demon stronger than yourself! Most important rule ever. Anyway, that's not the important bit, I'm not letting you have any demons in your team. The important bit is... this!
[Kazuya selected himself in the team set up, and a list appeared, with words like "Zandyne" and "Anti-Most"]
The skill list. With this, you can select high level magic spells, passive and active, and use them without having to do all that backbreaking study and practice. It's right there at your literal fingertips. There're loads too, look.
[He selected "Zandyne", and another list appeared, a large one with all sorts of spells. He went back, then selected the other one, "Anti-Most", and another list with different spells appeared, with names like "Repel Fire" or "Null Phys", or "Elec Amp"]
So you see? With this, you can stand on par with a demon. It helps that the COMP has a Harmoniser system, so if a demon comes at you? Nooo problem! The Harmoniser, erm, how to explain... I guess you can say it weakens the demon to the point where a killing blow just gives you a bruise. So if an Ogre comes charging at you, swinging his cleaver at you, it'll hurt like fuck if he gets you, but he won't be able to sever limbs or anything. Just cut you badly. Also, also!
[He went back to the main menu, and selected something else: Demonic Compendium]
This is pretty useful too. A list of all the demons, their lore, and their weaknesses. It'll tell you which spell you need to destroy them completely, and which ones they're strong against, as well as giving you a low down on what skills and spells they'd have. The COMP automates this too, so if you find yourself ambushed, it'll bring up the demon's profile and tell you mid-battle what it's weaknesses are. Hell, it even does it for angels and humans, so it might do it for anything here.
[He lowered the COMP then] And I'm gonna lend it to you, since it sounds like you need it more than me.
[And, more importantly, Kazuya didn't need it when he went back home. He could use magic without the COMP, thanks to Bel, and he could summon demons without it too, also thanks to Bel. Cerealia was different, since it felt like something was stifling Bel's influence to the point where Kaz had to rely on the COMP to summon Ongyo-Ki and Metatron, as well as cast the very high level magic spells, but so far he hadn't encountered anything in Cerealia that required him to need them. So, yes, sentimental value aside, the COMP was better off in William's hands than his own]
COMP TUTORIAL
[Kazuya felt some hesitation, but after a moment, he reached down to his belt. There, a small closed console had been hanging from where it'd been clipped to his belt loop. It was a dark blue colour, and its surface was pitted with small scratches, scuffs, and mysterious dark stains or scorch marks. Obviously battered but, definitely still functional]
This, my future husband, is a COMP!
[Kazuya held it up dramatically, before flipping it open and turning it to show William the two screens. There was a menu on the bottom screen, though some of its icons were greyed out]
It's a cheat system that allows normal, mundane humans to fight on par with the strongest of demons - indeed, you could even stand up to Lucifer with this! I know, because I did it. Anyway, what it does is... well, everything.
[Kazuya leaned forwards, over the coffee table, to make sure that William could see better as he began pointing at individual parts of the COMP's menu]
Some of the options are greyed out, because Cerelia messes with the COMP's connectivity with its server, but basically, this top middle one is the important one. "Team". Now, the COMP has a function where you can make contract with demons and make them your own, though you can only summon two at a time, look, I'll show you.
[He selected the icon, and it came up with three images. There was Kazuya's profile picture, followed by his name, and on either side of him, there were two more names: Ongyo-Ki and Metatron. Down along the right hand side was a column of an obscene amount of demons, both well known and obscure, but strangely, all of them were greyed out. Yeah, Kazuya was unable to access them, because of the aforementioned connectivity issues. Stupid Cereals...]
This is my current team. Now, I may be able to summon demons, but I make sure that if I have to fight them, I can easily crush them. You never summon a demon stronger than yourself! Most important rule ever. Anyway, that's not the important bit, I'm not letting you have any demons in your team. The important bit is... this!
[Kazuya selected himself in the team set up, and a list appeared, with words like "Zandyne" and "Anti-Most"]
The skill list. With this, you can select high level magic spells, passive and active, and use them without having to do all that backbreaking study and practice. It's right there at your literal fingertips. There're loads too, look.
[He selected "Zandyne", and another list appeared, a large one with all sorts of spells. He went back, then selected the other one, "Anti-Most", and another list with different spells appeared, with names like "Repel Fire" or "Null Phys", or "Elec Amp"]
So you see? With this, you can stand on par with a demon. It helps that the COMP has a Harmoniser system, so if a demon comes at you? Nooo problem! The Harmoniser, erm, how to explain... I guess you can say it weakens the demon to the point where a killing blow just gives you a bruise. So if an Ogre comes charging at you, swinging his cleaver at you, it'll hurt like fuck if he gets you, but he won't be able to sever limbs or anything. Just cut you badly. Also, also!
[He went back to the main menu, and selected something else: Demonic Compendium]
This is pretty useful too. A list of all the demons, their lore, and their weaknesses. It'll tell you which spell you need to destroy them completely, and which ones they're strong against, as well as giving you a low down on what skills and spells they'd have. The COMP automates this too, so if you find yourself ambushed, it'll bring up the demon's profile and tell you mid-battle what it's weaknesses are. Hell, it even does it for angels and humans, so it might do it for anything here.
[He lowered the COMP then] And I'm gonna lend it to you, since it sounds like you need it more than me.
[And, more importantly, Kazuya didn't need it when he went back home. He could use magic without the COMP, thanks to Bel, and he could summon demons without it too, also thanks to Bel. Cerealia was different, since it felt like something was stifling Bel's influence to the point where Kaz had to rely on the COMP to summon Ongyo-Ki and Metatron, as well as cast the very high level magic spells, but so far he hadn't encountered anything in Cerealia that required him to need them. So, yes, sentimental value aside, the COMP was better off in William's hands than his own]