"Didn't I filter and preserve all the blood? Are you keeping it as a trophy?"
"Cough, cough, I meant something else. Forget it, this hot spring can cleanse itself anyway."
"Honestly, what are you even saying?"
She reproached him again. Thinking of everything that had just happened, her face became even more lovely and flushed:
"Isn't it all your fault? Who knew you had so many... tricks? But you worked hard too. The Yellow Moon is part of myself, the Red Moon's power comes from the hot spring, and you provided the Silver Moon. Just now, it seemed like I kept absorbing your Spirit Rune."
Her face reddened further, but since she could sense that Shade had not been hurt by it and had instead seemingly grown stronger as well, she said no more. After all, mentioning the subject made her recall the process of drawing in his Spirit Rune.
The demigod Great Witch thus closed her mouth, half-closing her eyes as she enjoyed these final moments of tenderness. Although advancing from Thirteenth Order to demigod had consumed some of the power of this "Moon Sanctuary," perhaps because the moon was full tonight, because she truly had only been one step away, and perhaps because of Shade as well, the hot spring's power should recover very quickly.
Although Shade had witnessed Chloe's advancement into a Demigod Witch in the "Silver Mountain Range," that occasion had not been nearly so intimate as this one. Just now, he could practically be said to have been completely pressed against Blaney's soul, witnessing her entire advancement process. That was indeed a strange way to put it.
But in any case, although he had only seen her take that final step, observing the instant a Thirteenth Order Witch ascended into a demigod from such close