Chapter 1316 The Matriarch and Yoruichi part 2

Chapter 1316 The Matriarch and Yoruichi part 2

Yoruichi immediately secured Stralit and Benihime's surroundings with her own barrier but before she started, she looked at Stralit while thinking, 'These guys sure are underestimating me. Were they certain that I wouldn't notice this or just didn't care? Haaahh... Either way, a confrontation is unavoidable now. I should at least get some names for my request.'

Yoruichi turned around and said to the distant veiled woman and her aide, "I'm starting. Whatever happens, please don't approach."

She didn't wait for their reply and took out a cylinder glass tank of crystal clear steaming water just big enough for one person.

Benihime didn't need to wait for Yoruichi's instruction and for the first time ever since arriving in this place, she started moving Stralit's body and dunked her into the water after cutting away all of her clothes.

Corvina and Adrenna both frowned at the sight of their princess' naked body but didn't say anything and carefully observed what was happening.

Benihime's careless movement splashed some of the water out of its glass container which prompted Yoruichi to say, "Be careful. This is all I have."

Adrenna went towards the terminal that monitors the condition of the room and started reading through the data that was streaming into it in real time.

[So what is it?] Corvina asked through the previously established telepathic link after letting Adrenna inspect it for a minute.

Adrenna couldn't immediately answer. Her audible gulp surprised Corvina and made her ask again, [Adrenna, what's wrong?]

[Ah... I apologize. I'm just confirming if what I'm seeing is true.] Adrenna rekindled her focus, [That unknown substance contains a very massive amount of Spiritual Power. So much so that it won't be strange to think if that's the materialization of Spiritual Power itself.]

[...Our scanners are functioning properly, yes?] Corvina had no choice but to take her eyes off Stralit and took a peek at the terminal, [How is that possible? I can feel a substantive amount of Spiritual Power from it but far from what you're describing.]

[There's no doubt. Its appearance is deceiving. But even after looking through it, I still can't figure out what it's trying to do. Is she trying to mend her body by injecting Spiritual Power directly into the young miss?]

Naturally, even Corvina couldn't easily answer that and returned her sight to her daughter. However, she was sure that her aide's assumption was wrong. Very wrong in fact.

At each passing moment, Corvina's frown grew deeper and deeper as she slowly realized what's happening. Exactly five minutes after Stralit was submerged in the crystal clear water and saw that various parts of her skin started to scald she finally figured out what was going on, "...Could it be!?"

As Corvina loudly muttered in shock, she returned her sights towards the monitoring screen and looked for the exact values that would answer her questions, [There's no mistake...]

Adrenna only kept quiet and waited for the continuation of her words.

[That unknown substance is melting away Stralit's soul and body.]

[I know that... But isn't this how we always do things?]

[...Fair point.]

[And that bastard overworked me in our home world so let me mooch off this rich kid for a while.]

Yoruichi froze for a little bit before replying, [That's the real reason, isn't it?]

Benihime didn't give an answer.

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At the five-hour mark, the hot springs have already lost most of their effects but Benihime's cuts and stitches have also stopped appearing, signifying the end of the treatment.

Benihime lifted Stralit up out of the glass container for one last time before returning to her cane appearance.

Yoruichi instantly moved to catch her and took out a large towel to wrap her with it before passing her to Adrenna who already ran over to them.

Adrenna also took out more towels and blankets while drying Stralit with Magic. Although she tried to be discreet, it didn't escape Yoruichi's notice that Adrenna took some samples of both White Bone Hell and Blood Pond Hell. But Yoruichi responded as if she didn't notice a thing.

"What about this, sword? Cane?"

"Take it. I won't be able to separate them.", answered Yoruichi while cleaning up, taking everything that she took out back in, including the gunk that resulted from the treatment, "You can artificially inject her with Spiritual Power to replenish her stamina but I wouldn't recommend that. Instead, wait for her to wake up and feed her all the Spiritual Power-rich food you can provide her."

Adrenna picked up Benihime while slowly distancing herself from Yoruichi.

Once Yoruichi was done, she turned to Corvina and said, "I fulfilled my part. It's your turn."