Before long, Yui and Shobue arrived beside the Giant Lake.
"Shobue, please keep an eye on me..."
Yui asked the woman in front of her, then turned around and began taking off her clothes.
"..." At the sight, Shobue promptly turned away, a faint blush spreading across her cheeks.
"Gurgle..."
Only after she heard a splash behind her did she dare turn back to look toward Yui.
"What is Yui up to? Why does she have to take her clothes off just to dive?" Shobue grumbled under her breath.
She really does have a great figure, though...
Then she shook her head and carefully watched Yui in the water.
Actually, Yui was not naked. She had only taken off her outer clothes and was still wearing her underclothes. The only reason she had not worn her outer clothes into the water was that she did not want to get them wet.
"Gurgle!"
She slowly dove toward the bottom of the lake. A little while later, Yui settled into a seated meditation posture beneath the mud on the lakebed.
I'll try without the Spirit Transformation Technique first. She closed her eyes and cleared her mind, then released a wave of invisible Mental Energy from her body, beginning to draw natural energy from the lake water.
An hour later, Yui's Mental Energy slowly returned to her body.
The next second, faint, slender streaks of pale blue eyeshadow appeared around Yui's eyelids...
"Mm..."
She abruptly opened her eyes, but her pupils were no longer pure white. Instead, they had turned golden.
"This is..."
Yui felt the tremendous power within her body.
"It seems to be lasting a little longer this time." She sighed softly in wonder. Before, she had only been able to maintain it for five seconds at most. Now it was