The gray-green melody about to begin (4,000 words)

"Kusa!!"

Gloom had been struggling to figure out how to demonstrate rotation to Skiploom, too. Suddenly, it noticed the water balloon in its hands and immediately smiled, then looked at Dian with admiration. "Kusa, kusa."

Although Dian could not understand exactly what Gloom meant, he guessed it was probably praising him for being clever and amazing. Ah, what could he do? He was simply so brilliant that even he felt a little guilty about it.

He was about to say something modest about merely standing on the shoulders of giants when he suddenly heard a pop.

"Hana?"

Skiploom looked at the water balloon in its hands and tilted its head innocently.

"Ku... sa?"

Gloom blinked, then looked at the water balloon in its own hands and passed it over. "Kusa, kusa."

"Hana."

When Skiploom heard Gloom tell it to try again, it immediately took the water balloon. A stream of green light slowly seeped into it.

As the green light seeped in, the water balloon began spinning increasingly violently. The balloon's outer material could not withstand the sharply increasing strain and burst.

This time, the burst was even cleaner than the first, and more powerful.

Dian wiped the water droplets off his face, excitement rising within him.

He immediately brought over all the water balloons he had prepared earlier for Skiploom to practice with.

"Hana?"

Skiploom tilted its head in confusion. What was so hard about this?

It had already grown used to this while practicing Fairy Wind.

Besides, gathering life energy now was actually easier than keeping Fairy Wind contained.

As it turned out, Skiploom's practice with Fairy Wind really did help it make rapid progress through the gathering stage.

Although the tougher rubber ball caused it a little trouble, it only needed some time to adjust its life