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"Hello…" Ignatius said shyly, as he approached Celica.
"Egg! With tail and legs?" Wondered Celica.
"Y-Yeah…" Ignatius nodded.
"He's Ignatius… He's a grumpy dragon egg. He might one day become a big one." I said with a smile.
"Woow! Dargon!" Celica said, while touching Ignatius, he was warm but not hot enough to burn to the touch. In fact, his warmth was comfortable and she ended hugging him. "Warm… Mister dragon, you're very warm…"
"W-Well, I am a fire spirit…" He sighed. "D-Don't hug me so much now, I might break… Haha…!" Ignatius forced a laughter as he flew away from Celica's grasp.
"W-Who's that?" Wondered Celica, pointing at Beelzebub.
"Oh, he's Beelzebub, a very grumpy bug!" I said. "Come here!"
"Ugh…" Beelzebub got near Celica, as she admired his wormy appearance.
"Bug!" She said, touching his head and caressing his smooth surface. "Heheh…"
"Sigh… Hey, look at this!" Beelzebub said, suddenly, he gathered darkness over his head and then created several tiny spheres of darkness, making them all rotate around his body while floating around Celica.
"Wooow!" Celica was easily amused over that simple magic performance.
Alice also joined in, using her light to contrast with Beelzebub. The performance was rather beautiful. Spirits are talented at controlling direct elements and make all sorts of fantastical lights with them.
"And who are you?" Wondered Celica, looking at Furoh.
"I-I… Erm, I am… Well, I am Furoh. I am a demon, not a spirit." Said Furoh.
"Really?" Asked Celica.
"Yeah, I look ugly, don't I? Haha… I am a Mimic Demon, we are rare…" Said Furoh.
"Oooh. I had never seen someone like you…" Celica said, sitting over the grass while playing with the spirits and talking with Furoh. "You're not ugly.. Don't be sad!"
"I-I am not?" Asked Furoh.
"No, you're a person too! L-Like Sylphy said… everyone is different but we are all people!" Celica said, as Furoh suddenly was hit with strong feelings, and began to cry through his various eyes.
"Oooh… Sniff… Little Celica, you're so nice with this ugly slob… Thank you…" He cried, as Celica helped him wipe his tears with Mister Teddy.
"Don't cry, Mister Teddy can help you feel better…" Celica said, as she rubbed Mister Teddy over Furoh's body.
"Haha… Don't worry… I-I wasn't crying or anything!" Furoh said.
"Ugh, what a crybaby." Sighed Beelzebub, staring from the distance.
"SYLPHYYYYY!"
Suddenly, Aquarina's voice resonated behind me, as I was interrupted from playing with Celica and my spirits by Aquarina and Zack, both running to my side. Celica looked at both with a bit of surprise, she didn't seem to have seen them before.
"Oh, Aquarina! How are you doing?" I wondered. Quickly unsummoning the spirits and calling them back except Furoh, as Celica was playing with his tentacles by stretching them around.
"Good! We just finished helping the new people, did you see? There's tons of different looking people! I was surprised each time. There was even a girl with fluffy rabbit ears, it was so cute!" Aquarina said. "Oh! Is she also with them?"
"Yeah, she's Celica." I said. "Celica, these are my friends, Aquarina and Zack!"
"H-Hello…" Celica shyly said. "Oooh…" Celica slowly walked towards both of my friends, looking at them, she was surprised over their appearance, perhaps.
"Nice to meet you." Said Zack with a smile while crossing his arms. "What's your tribe name?"
"Tribe?" Wondered Celica, she seemed to not know.
"Zack! Don't just ask her something like that, just refer to her as her name…" Said Aquarina. "Nice to meet you, Celica."
Aquarina was slowly growing more open socially. I sometimes couldn't recognize her based in how long she had grown. Easily speaking with others more openly and without being so shy… Although she was still slightly shy with Celeste, but I think that's because she got a killer stare that really intimidates people.
"Ooh… Nice to meet you too…" Celica said with a cute smile, she was missing a few teeth, but her smile was still cute. Was she growing her big teeth and changing her milk teeth? Well, I don't really know how her physiology might truly work compared to us.
"What's wrong?" Wondered Zack. "You're staring at us as if you're looking at a ghost."
"C-Can I touch you?" Wondered Celica.
"Eh?!" Asked Zack shocked.
"Heeey!" Aquarina said while hitting Zack's belly to make him feel embarrassed.
"Sure…" Sighed Zack. "Oi stop that!" Zack reprimanded Aquarina, as she quickly ran behind me and hugged me while giggling.
"Hahaha, it's fun to tease him sometimes." Laughed Aquarina. She clearly showed she was still very much childish.
Meanwhile, Celica touched Zack's skin and felt his hard skin. Zack was pretty strong so even his skin was hard like a rock. But still, she found it smooth even though his arms were filled with monster attack scars he had accumulated over his life as a hunter.
"Brown skin pretty…" She said.
"P-Pretty?" Asked Zack.
"Aquarina also got that skin, well, all of us from the Amazon Tribe, we don't have anything special about it! That's just how we are." Said Zack. "Why are you so fixated over skin?"
"Blue skin…" Said Celica, pointing at her arm.
"Yeah?" Asked Zack. "It's pretty too."
"Really?" Asked Celica.
"Yeah!" Zack said, suddenly lifting Celica with his arms like a little sister. "You're also super small and light! Are you a little feather or something?"
"Hehehe! You're strong!" Celica laughed while being lifted by Zack as he ran around with her, jumping around too, and making her excited. She ended sitting over his back, resting her two legs over his shoulders.
"I can see high from here!" Celica said, looking around the surroundings.
"Haha, you like the scenery?" Wondered Zack with a smile.
"Yeah… I never thought the forest and the grassy plains were so pretty from so high up here…" Celica said, her eyes shining brightly.
Seeing her happy is truly a bliss, Zack really fits the role of a big brother.
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