chapter 1923: awkward yuki

we sat down in front of greenie, who was resting, yuki looked around the green plains, sighing for a moment, closing her eyes and relaxing.
"i also trained my divinity by the way... after i awakened my powers i got like three new ones."
"is that so? that's good to hear. i suppose they're about the spirits."
"yeah, one is about amaterasu... or something. and then one for each divine spirit."
"i see, so your spirits so far are the white tiger and the ice phoenix?"
"yep, there's another guy... two more actually, according to these two, the dragon and the turtle, but they have yet to show up..."
"hmmm, you grew pretty strong back in the first trial when we battled pandemonium's demonic army in that game of territories."
"oh yeah... i had grown to accept myself! it was kind of a weird experience altogether. it's like i met my own past selves, and we all merged together."
"wow, really?"
"yep, it was weird, but it made me feel much happier and better with myself."
"well, i'm glad... though that didn't seem to help with the grumpiness."
"what do you mean grumpiness?! i am not grumpy! i'm just a bit like this, it's just my personality."
"uh-huh..."
"don't uh-huh me! anyways, you probably already saw it but my super strong technique, the azure nova, is pretty good right?"
"oh yeah! that one miniature sun that keeps growing larger and larger? it was awesome."
"right?! i'm glad you recognize it! i've even devised a whole technique and arts around that power, it represents the awakened powers of my amaterasu past self."
"so that's how it is!"
as i heard her yapping, i let her sit down in front of me, while i sat cross-legged. she seemed tense though, so i gave her a massage on her shoulders.
"hm? w-what are you...?!"
"i'm giving you a massage, look at these tense muscles, you've been training a lot, relax." "o-okay..."
she seemed more tense than usual, indeed.
i quickly spread some positive energies into her body, and she grew more relaxed.
i also sensed her large soul, which resembled an ocean as it had grown so big after awakening her previous life's memories, or well, pieces of it.
"your soul is gigantic!" i said. "and with the spirit energy and divine power flowing through it, making a spirit core should be as easy as breathing."
"really?" yuki wondered; her little tail wagged around.
"yeah, alright, let's begin then," i nodded. "close your eyes, breath in and out, relax. i'll spread spirit energy inside your body and then use it to manipulate your own, concentrate it within a single point, and crystallize it. got it?"
"drake..."
i noticed her back became very red, she was embarrassed again.
"t-thanks for saying that..."
"ahaha, it was something i thought in the moment, don't mind it too much."
"hah, dammit..."
"huh? what's wrong?"
"it just... nothing."
"what? come on, you can tell me anything yuki."
"i... it just it frustrates me a bit... how you treat me, and it makes me a bit annoyed, sorry if i'm
a bit stupid sometimes."
"i-it's fine, you don't really need to say that about yourself. we're family, i know how you
are."
"i don't mean i'm irritated because you did something bad... you only and always do good
things... that's why i get a bit angry."
"but why?"
"because... because it gets harder and harder..."
"for what?"
"ugh, forget it. just continue already okay?"
"fine... but don't move anymore, alright?"
"sure, sure~"
yuki groaned, as she yawned a bit, simply deciding to just ignore everything she said before.
this girl really is quite moody, isn't she?
fluosh!
"there!"
the process didn't take longer than ten minutes though.
and once i was finally grasping everything, it took a second to crystallize it into a spirit core.
"w-woah!" flaaash!