(Maria's POV)

The next morning arrived quite quickly, quicker than I thought. The sun here though, barely reached these depths, but it did shine through the windows, it was a small, azure light that came from above the seas. I somehow miss the sun despite never being a big fan of it as a ghost. Is it because of the Divine Throne I took, perhaps?

Whatever the case, it was time to start another day here. I don't know how long we'll be staying in this Kingdom, probably no longer than a week. But for now, I think we should get ready to go take down the King of the Depths. After that, we could relax a couple more days and then quickly depart back home.

I already miss that old castle where we live, and also the nearby Dwarven Kingdom, and all our people living there. I can see them through my summons, but I just want to go meet them personally.

"Come on, time to wake up everyone, we can't just sleep forever here, the sun barely comes out of the window," I tried to wake up Partner, Nia, and Emeraldine, who were cuddling with

me.

"Ah... Did I oversleep? My bad..."

Emeraldine sat down over the bed, still looking sleepy.

"I want to cuddle some more..."

Nia wouldn't let go of me, hugging me even tightly than before.

"Hmm? It's morning already...? No way, we barely slept..." Partner yawned, showing her big vampire teeth while doing so. "Hm? Wait, what's that?"

However, as I was helping my cute girls wake up, suddenly, my shadows flickered.

And I felt something really powerful emerge from them.

Wait, is that Arachne?

Now that I remember, there was some commotion inside my Shadow Realm... FLUOSH!

My shadows flickered and opened, revealing Arachne crawling out of them.

However, her appearance was much more different than before.

She looked more... I don't know, grown up?

Before she looked like a girl in her eight years of age, but right now she looked like someone in their fourteen or fifteen.

Above all, her hair changed colors, gaining black and white colors.

Her eyes also changed, she grew six permanent spider-like eyes over her forehead, going along her two sharp crimson eyes, imitating the eight eyes of a spider!

Arachne walked into the window and saw the sea outside, she was very happy, her big eyes shining brightly.

"She evolved, right? She feels much stronger..." Lucifer commented.

"Yeah, I believe she underwent a new evolution, her Sin is constantly forcing her to transform and become bigger and stronger, I wouldn't say it's exactly a bad thing but... Well, it comes with a lot of drawbacks too," I sighed.

"Hmmm, Arachne, you don't feel sleepy?" Nyx wondered.

"Not much right now, I want to eat with everyone!" Arachne smiled, but then she yawned a

bit.

Was she forcing herself awake?

Damn, the sin is only getting worse...

Perhaps it should be about time I perform that ritual.

I had gotten that one book from Hel for this very reason.

A special grimoire of ancient times, held by old wizards that discovered and brought the sins

into this world.

This was the origin of the Calamities as we know them today.

I've been reading that book over and over again, and I've already memorized that special

ritual formation.

I have enough materials for it, mostly souls and corpses.

And I can use my own blood as a sacrifice too.

So the only thing left, is to perform it.

But the thing is, would Arachne be okay with me striping it away from her? After all, it is what

makes her so strong.

I will try to make it so the power she gained won't disappear but... Even then, she won't be

able to grow stronger so easily after the sin is extracted.

Would she be okay with that?

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