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The Yggdrasil Tree looked down at Ervas and Veronica and whatever they were doing. They were walking straight into the city of the Erveronians!
"Why? Stop! Agh! Don't go meddle with my precious people!" she cried.
Suddenly, as the group walked there, a crystal grew in the floor and spoke to them.
"What are you doing?! Where are you going?" it asked angrily.
"Wow! Is this the crystal tree thing?" asked Violet.
"It is really a crystal that speaks…" said Aura.
"C-Children?" asked the tree, looking at the two little girls.
"We want to go there and have a nice trip, so don't get in the way." Said Veronica.
"Yeah, we just want to go explore." Said Ervas.
"I don't know! How can I trust you? I bet you'll kill them all or something…" said the tree.
"How can you say that of mama?!" asked Kuro.
"Huh?!" the tree seemed surprised.
"I think you've being a bit disrespectful, we are not here to kill anyone…" said Shade.
"Indeed, we came here to explore the place, peko." Said Pekorina.
"You're the crystal tree they spoke us about?" asked Jason.
"Yeah dad she is the tree." Said Ervas.
"Wow, she's just a piece of crystal though." Said Aleksandra, Ervas' mother.
"No- Well, yes." Said Ervas.
"E-Enough! You're not taking a single step further, you're staying here…" said the tree.
"If you're so worried just come with us then." Said Veronica.
"With you?" asked the tree.
"Since how long have you not spoken with these people?" asked Aurora while raising an eyebrow.
"I have… sent oracles to them and… well… I…" muttered the tree.
"See? She hasn't even interacted with them! I bet even less with the bird squid people down there." Said Aurora.
"Ugh! Y-You…!" muttered the tree, growing angered.
"Come on, don't be a party pooper, join us in this one, we'll invite you to whatever food the people here eat." Said Veronica.
"F-Food?! I don't need to eat food…" said the tree.
"You're really so stubborn, just accept already and accompany us. This way you'll be able to keep an eye on us all the time, 24/7." Said Veronica.
"…Fine." Said the tree.
"But you're coming in a better shape than just that! Can't you take a similar form to us? Humanoid at least?" asked Aurora.
"…"
The crystal suddenly began to shape itself into a humanoid. At first it looked like a mannequin or a golem, but then it gained more and more realistic appearance, until it became the same as a person, a young woman… it even gained texture of skin and more, becoming a beautiful pale-white skin woman, with sharp silver eyes, and long white hair… she resembled an angel of sorts.
"This will do." She said.
"But get some clothes!" said Veronica.
"Oh…"
The tree quickly made up a dress and that was it.
"Are you sure that's fine?" asked Ervas.
"What's wrong?" asked the tree angrily, she looked like a domineering woman.
"No, nothing, never mind…" sighed Ervas.
"What? Isn't this a fitting appearance?" she sighed.
"Yeah, you're just stunning." Said Aurora.
"Aurora!" roared Ditoyle, looking at Aurora angrily.
"Ah! I mean… Not in any other way than in appearance, my Ditoyle is just way better at the end of the day." Said Aurora while nodding.
"You're so pretty! Like a doll! An angel, even!" said Amelia.
"Indeed, you're surprisingly stunning, peko." Said Pekorina.
"For being a grumpy old tree, you take into a pretty shape." Said Veronica.
The tree suddenly blushed a bit…
"W-What are you even talking about? Praising me won't get you anywhere! A-And this form is not pretty, it is just the humanoid form that came out when I desired to become like it… I had no power over it." said the tree.
"I see, so its like your own appearance then…" said Kuro.
"You're pretty and slender! Very tall!" said Violet.
"Indeed…" said Aura.
"Stop saying weird things…" sighed the tree while blushing.
At the end the tree gained the praises of everyone unwilling, and the group finally made their way into town, but were suddenly stopped by the tree again.
"Wait! Some of you have animal parts and… you're clearly no the same as them!" she said.
"Ah, don't worry, I don't think they'll make that much of a fuss." Said Anna.
"Yeah, look, they got some beast people anyways." Said Amelia, pointing at a pair of people with some beastly parts.
"R-Right…" sighed the tree.
"Don't tell me you don't even know how your people is?" asked Aurora.
"S-Shut up…" said the tree.
The group quickly made their way into town at long last. The entrance was a massive gate opened to the public- with a fee.
This divine realm was like a world of its own. People and society had made their own money and more, and they asked for a fee to enter, there were two guards, a man with short red hair resembling a male version of Veronica, and the other was a male with short white hair and sharp crimson-red eyes…
"Quite a big group… You're coming from a neighbor city?" asked the red-haired.
"Erm, not exactly, we came here from-" Veronica was just going to say the truth but was shutten up by the tree.
"We come from the neighbor country of Varinian, we are here to taste the sweets." She said.
"T-The sweets?"
The two men looked at Yggdrasil, her beautiful appearance was stunning, she looked like an empress!
"W-Wow…" said the white haired man.
"You're pretty, lady… you can go on and taste all the sweet you want with your friends, its on the house." Said the red-haired.
"Hmph… Thanks." Yggdrasil said, as she managed to get by wither looks alone.
"Damn, that's a ruler for you." Said Veronica.
"Indeed. She can get inside just by being pretty." Said Ervas.
"I think she doesn't even need to interact as a tree, using that form would be enough to enchant everyone in her entire divine realm." Giggled Aurora.
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