Fortunately Liu Xi doesn't live at Omega House. Chiaki put her up in an just-off-campus apartment that's kind of nice. It's anybody's guess if Chiaki did that because she had a bad feeling about Omega House.





Noted.





The few spells Liu Xi knows are protective. She has been well told about the rule of 3 (if you cast a spell, it could come back on you 3 times worse) so protective spells are safe enough. She also was told that spells can turn against you if you don't know them well, so she is really scared of using them unless she's backed into a corner (i.e. her elemental power taken away) or unless it's a small and safe enough one to practice..








I think the 5 traditional Chinese elements are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water.

I got the Void part by stretching the definition a little - because of the Japanese elements of Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, and Sky. That "Sky" part is also known as "Void", or the absence of the physical, the abstract.

For Liu Xi's abilities, I doubled the two definitions. Metal and Wood can be the same as Earth (they come from the Earth), Water and Wind are nature elements so they're similar, etc. The only one that really stands out is Void, and that is both an element and a non-element.








After being imprisoned by her "grandfather", Liu Xi started to learn that she's going to have to temper her abilities so that enemies can't figure out how to use her for their own purposes. She's also starting to learn the potential she has for destruction, especially because half the elements she uses are nature-based, and nature tends to fight back when it's used.





I hope to see it soon.