"U w a a a h! Now this is delicious!" I said, happily taking a bite off it. "Yum!"
The sweet taste was the real deal, and it was so spongy, juicy, and just delicious!
"Heey Master don't eat it all! That's not fair!" Partner complained, trying to steal my claw.
"Heheeh, no, it's mine!" I laughed evilly.
"No! Give me some!" Partner complained, as she started to try to steal my claw constantly.
"B w a h a h a h a! I'll eat it all! You can't do a single thing!"
Suddenly, I saw Nyx in the floor while I floated upwards, looking at me with puppy eyes.
"Ah… Okay for my princess anything." I quickly gave her the whole claw as she started devouring it.
"Nom, nom, nom! Wawaah!" She said happily, continuing to devour it. The claws was so big her entire little head fit inside of it.
"Come on, there's crab for everyone." Lucifer tried to calm Partner's hunger as she looked at Nyx while resisting the urge to steal her crab, giving her a large crab leg filled with meat.
"R-Right…" She poured some sweet sauce on it and ate it with shell and all. "Hm, the shell's so soft and crunchy!"
"Really?" I wondered, grabbing a leg, and giving it a bite. "Right! It is nothing as hard as I imagined, kind of like eating hard bread crust at most. No, it is more like soft eggshells?"
"Certainly the crunchiness add to the texture and flavor, but this sweet sauce you made is great. What is it called?" Lucifer wondered.
"I made it by fermenting beans with sugar and honey, I call it Unagi Sauce, though it is not the same…" I said while pouring more into the crab leg.
"Huh, your abilities are sure useful Maria! This means you can even produce wine , right? And cheese?" Asked Helga.
"Precisely. I can control the little bacteria that ferment things and turn them into other things. Yogurt, cheese, wine, you name it! there's tons of delicious things only made when they're fermented." I smiled.
All these things used to be part of my daily life back on Earth, but now I guess they're a very rare thing which I was missing.
"There's also this other salty sauce that is also black!" Helga pointed out. "Is this the same thing? Ooh, it is also slightly spicy, it has something special about it…"
"Yeah that's Soy Sauce with a hint of spiciness. That flavor is something they call "Umami" though it is just saltiness and spiciness combined." I shrugged. "With a bit of bitterness sometimes, depending in how concentrated the soy sauce is… Anyways, this goes well with anything. I prefer it over other types of sauces used on seafood… though nothing beats some nice lemon juice over a crab leg."
I poured some lemon juicy over the crab leg I was snacking on, quickly taking a few more bites, the critic flavor really went delicious when combined with everything else, and once poured on soy sauce and unagi sauce, it just became even better.
"Wow this is amazing…" Said Lucifer. "Maria thank you for making these sauces! I never thought I would be in love with food this much before."
"Aww, it's nothing for my baby husband!" I said, petting his head.
"D-Don't call me baby!" Lucifer blushed.
The dwarves quickly began to laugh at the scene.
"You must really love each other if you call each other like that." Helga smiled. "I also call my Myriad as my baby."
"Eeeh? Aren't I baby too then?" Partner wondered while stuffing herself with fish.
"Of course, you're my baby girl." I petted her head.
I quickly looked at Emeraldine as she seemed reluctant about it.
"T-There's no need for me, I wouldn't really… like being called baby." She said.
"And you're my baby girl too!" I hugged her back.
"This is embarrassing…" She sighed while feeling slightly flustered.
"Aah! Hug!" Nyx approached me as well, extending her arms and asking for a hug.
"Of course, you're the babiest baby girl here." I quickly held her in my arms as she gave me a kiss in my cheek.
"Uwaah! She kissed me…" I cried in happiness.
"It seem she's been having a lot of fun." Said Lucifer. "Unlike back home, there's no day where she's not happy. I remember there were some days where she was rather grumpy."
"Indeed, dragon children like adventuring. Staying stagnant in a place bores them." Said Brunhild. "Of course that changes once we grow up, we prefer being in a closed space, relax, and nap for a few centuries."
"I see! I wonder how she'll turn out at the end…" I sighed.
I quickly felt some branches lightly touching my back, as I found Root there. He suddenly had grown… extremely small! He was not bigger than Nyx now, and had an oval, egg-like shape with two tiny chick-like wings
And this was due to one of his newest Skills, [Spirit Embodiment]!
"Master, I am small, can I join, gygyu?" He wondered, looking around.
"Baby!" Nyx said, suddenly rushing over Root and hugging him with her tiny arms.
"Gyyyyhhh…! Y-Young lady please don't be so brutish!" Root cried as he was given rough love from Nyx.
"You've certainly gotten smaller, how's that possible? Does he has polymorph?" Asked Lucifer.
"I remember Maria said he had Body Shapeshifting?" Asked Emeraldine.
"Yeah but that skill can't help him reduce his body size, he actually became a Forest Spirit through the Spirit Embodiment Skill he gained. It is a way for him to become smaller and more practical at the time of moving around. Also he seems to gain the ability to fly and his stats shift, increasing his Magic and MP stats above his defenses or physical strength." I said while analyzing Root's transformation.
He had indeed become a cute and small companion!
Though… I think I am forgetting of someone else.