( Yuuki's POV )
Upon receiving Tsubaki's information, I aborted my New Horizon ship and we flew in search of those mysterious ruins, this time, only Regina, Leen, Lucia, and the gynoids came with me, The ruins we found were a metal cylinder hidden in a frozen cave, again there was no obvious entrance to the place.
Yuuki: Now how do we get in here?
Regina: the entrance is at the top of the structure.
I looked where she told me and indeed I found the entrance, but before continuing I looked at Regina, it seemed that she had no intention of accompanying me, Upon entering the mysterious ruins I activated the familiar transportation platform, after being mowed down by dazzling light I saw a garden appear, in front of me was a two-story cottage, I approached and of course, another gynoid appeared to block my path.
???: stop, I'm sorry but you can't go any further.
This gynoid had pink hair tied to the side of her head, and a notable difference from the other gynoids was that this girl had huge breasts.
Yuuki: yeah I need to pass your compatibility test, I know how this goes.
???: ok then.
The girl stood in front of me and she grabbed one of my hands, she had a gentle smile on her face when suddenly she put my hand on her chest, A second later I removed my hand and let out a sigh, why is it always a perverted test?
Flora: um you passed, nice to meet you, master, my name is Bell Flora, please call me Flora.
Yuuki: great, Tell me what place is this?
Flora: This place is Alchemy lab, master.
I brought the girls who were waiting for me on the other side and then Flora gave us a tour of the place, which was basically a medical center, There were healing capsules like the ones we had in Kouten and it was also full of medicines and of course, since it is a place created by Regina there were also aphrodisiacs and things like that.
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After another successful exploration, we returned home and upon arriving Ranko immediately called for me and asked me to meet in the clearing behind the castle. When I found her she was now wearing clothes more worthy of a fantasy world, I wonder why she wasn't wearing them when I met her.
Yuuki: hey do you want something from me?
Ranko: I wanted to give you something, to celebrate our alliance and as an apology.
Yuuki: apology? about what?
Ranko: After talking to the girls and seeing what you have built, I think that you are not a bad person, all the girls have been good to me, well except for Mittelt.
Yuuki: She had a bad experience with another reincarnated, when you get to know her you will see that she is a sweetheart.
Ranko: Somehow I doubt it.
Ranko took out a blank blue card from her pocket, she sat down, and put the card in front of her, then she called me to sit down with a hand gesture, I did that and she started talking about her powers.
Ranko: my power is called [persona] have you ever heard of that?
Yuuki: I may have heard about that before, but I don't have many memories of my past life.
Ranko: yeah I've also had problems remembering certain things about my past.
Yuuki: probably something to discuss another time.
Ranko: yeah right, my power in a nutshell is my will given physical form, I can call on different [personas] with different abilities, and I can also use an arcana like this one to awaken a [persona] inside someone else, Furthermore, the stronger my bond with that person, the stronger we both become.
Yuuki: Sounds like an amazing deal, is there any downside to this?
Ranko: Well I have a limited number of cards and I don't know what kind of [persona] you will awaken but it's not like you're going to get weaker, I think.
Yuuki: ...very well, what should I do?
Ranko: Close your eyes and try to open your mind.
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I did as Ranko told me and after a few seconds I opened my eyes and found myself inside my inner world, Ranko was looking at the place in amazement but I was on the card spinning in the air in front of me, and when it finally stopped the image of a skeleton with a scythe appeared on it.
Ranko: that is the arcana of death.
I extended my hand but before I could touch it the cart exploded into particles of light.
Yuuki: Is that supposed to happen?
Ranko: I don't know, this is the first time I've done this.
Before we could do anything, a red moon appeared in the sky, and from there we saw a humanoid creature descend, dressed all in black with white gloves, He had a sword in his hand that was more like a long knife and some coffins were floating behind him, This [persona] stood in front of me and another looked at Ranko quizzically.
Yuuki: now what?
Ranko: Now it's time to test your strength!
Ranko looked for the biggest tree in the place and as she ran behind it, while she ran she yelled at me that a battle was about to start, I immediately transformed into my dragonewt form and the creature swung its sword at me, I stopped his attack with my claws and while I was blocking I spartan kicked the guy straight into a tree, when it crashed, a cloud of smoke formed and I was waiting for some reaction and at that moment Ranko peeks her head out from behind the tree.
Ranko: did you get him?
Yuuki: Don't ask things like that!
At that moment countless beams of energy came out from the smoke screen and I started to dodge duck dip dive and dodge all his attacks and when his barrage of attacks ended he flew towards me to stab me, I created multiple barriers in front of me and the [persona] penetrated a couple of them before stopping dead in his tracks.
The [Persona] prepared for another barrage, creating energy orbs around him and I created swords of light just like him to counterattack.
Yuuki: okay man, let's dance!