As soon as the curiosity spirit fis performand the illusory water droplets faded, Chara had so many questions that she didn’t even know where to begin.

  Curiosity essence? What the hell is “essence”?

  Also, why was she dang?

  Wait, why am I thinking of her as a “she”?

  Did I just assign an amorphous cloud of mana a gender simply because it looked like she was dang?

  Tsk tsk tsk. Chara, how you still be assuming the gender of other clouds in the year of our Lord… Uh…

  Still, calling her “it” seems kinda rude, and callihey ssh them seems like too much effort…

  Oh well. Miss Curiosity, from today onwards, you are officially a girl~…

  gratutions…

  It was in such a way, that an unknown curiosity essence spirit had been arbitrarily assigned a gender without her knowledge.

  Hold on, if Curiosity is a spirit, the that mean I’m a spirit too?

  What kind of spirit am I?

  Feeling slightly more curious about her st question, Chara quickly focused on herself full of both nervousness and anticipation.

  [Spirit]

  Spirit… Why is it only spirit?

  Although she wasn’t sure what she was expeg, she still ended up feeling slightly disappointed.

  In the meahe curiosity spirit seemed perfectly tent to watch Chara swirl around in fusion and surprise, like an animal who had just seen its refle for the first time. Once she finally mao quell her rising number of questions, she looked up at the other spirit in apparent fusion.

  Seemingly notig her gaze, the curiosity spirit expiremely suctly, “Expl.”

  Uu— uwaaa!

  Seeing the little spirit nearly roll over backwards from just listening to her voice, the curiosity spirit nearly burst out into a fit of giggles. How cute~. This little one must have spawned only retly…

  Seemingly, she wasn’t stealthy enough because not before long, the smaller spirit was gazing up at her while looking very aggrieved. Uo hold back her emotions, this time she really did burst into a fit of childish giggles.

  Having had her fill of the silly baby, Curiosity began to i her surroundings. She agilely swept her gaze from one pce to ahhly bing through the entire cavern, leaving no stourned.

  In the process, the water element mana making up her body ceased its unscious swirling, ging to a more trolled rhythm. Appearing to have firmed something, the curiosity spirit narrowed her perception towards several particur areas. Without any forewarning, dozens of delicate mana tendrils spshed out from the whirlpool of curiosity and weaved into the surroundings.

  Suddenly, Chara could feel as the number of diamonds in her intuition quickly reduced. Before she could even realize what was going on, a mana tendril had already flht past her and nded on the diamond she was floating over. Startled, she witnessed as the tendril of mana was suffused into the precious stone. A small amount of mana shimmered ihe gem before she could no longer feel the presence of this oher.

  Wha— What the heck is she doing?!

  Once all the diamonds had been infused with her mana, the curiosity spirit elevated slightly before issuing a and in childish, yet mesmerizing voice.

  “Gather up.”

  Suddenly, as if the numerous diamonds had been kicked awake, they tumbled across the cavern floor and gathered inte pile in front of the greater spirit. Once all the remaining stragglers were present, she moved on with her and.

  “Form a line.”

  Without any signs of protest, the pile of precious stones swiftly separated from their pile and formed into a single file lihe curiosity spirit ied her handiwork. Not at all satisfied, she added a modifier to her previous order.

  “Ne in order by size.”

  The pile of precious stones quickly broke formation and reordered themselves frest to smallest. Finally pleased with the result, the curiosity spirit moved on to the st and oinerary.

  “Follow me~!”

  With o edict, the line of clumsy diamonds tumbled ly and lined up before their queen. Finished with her preparations, the curiosity spirit turned her attention bato the younger spirit and puffed up her mana in apparent gloating.

  In accordah expectation, the little spirit was looking around in puzzlement and shock. If Chara was still a human, her jaw would have already fallen off and hit the floor from how wide it en.

  What the heck?! When will I be able to do that too? Wait… I already did something like that earlier. But it was so much more quid effit when she did it… Am I doing something wrong?

  Once Chara finally came back to reality, she got startled and quickly sed her surroundings to see if she had missed out on anything important. Upon realizing that the curiosity spirit was floating right in front of her and had been watg her the eime, Chara felt very self-scious and blushed in embarrassment, causing some of her iridest mana to briefly ge color and disappear.

  After a short peel of bell-like giggles, the curiosity spirit floated a bit closer, making her feel very nervous. Then, in a much softer voice, the greater spirit issued her a gentle reminder.

  “You too.”

  The curiosity spirit floated away while humming in amusement. Before she knew what she was doing, Chara had already moved to the front of the sequend was following the other spirit’s lead as she moved deeper into the cavern.

  Eh…

  Where they were going, and why she had to follow, that is something only the curiosity spirit knew as of yet.

  maury