An Adventure With an Immortal Mosquito

Chapter 62: Antics and Smithing

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Rustle. Rustle.

Zip!

"Alright, I should be ready to go out now."

Ichor dusts the front of the winter coat he's wearing to take care of any remaining wrinkles on it. But it seems that there are barely any left in the first place, so the entire process only lasted half a minute before it was done.

'Blood! Why are you even doing this if you are going to take it off in the end?'

A voice suddenly sounds out in his mind, seemingly confused as to what's he doing right now. But he's already used to its appearance, so there's no major reaction to be seen aside from a raised eyebrow.

"First impression matters, you know? It's not exactly a proper thing to go meet the dwarven blacksmith while looking like a beggar on the side of the street."

'But you already met him once!'

"So it's the second impression, still important nonetheless."

Ichor chuckles at his own answer, as he turns around to the one he's talking to the entire time.

"But that all aside... Are you really going outside in that form?"

Standing in front of him is a teenage girl with white hair, vampire-like fangs on both upper and lower teeth, and wearing a black and white swimsuit that doesn't cover her waist, armpit, and legs. She also has a pair of black wing-like hairpins on each side of her head with something akin to an antenna coming out from each of them. 

But the most distinctive part about her is probably her pair of insect-like wings on her back, seemingly growing out of the clothes themselves, and the fact that she's a whole head shorter than Ichor, making her look like his little sister especially since her facial structure is quite similar to his own.

'Yeah! It feels a lot better than just being in your pocket, Blood!'

"... You do you, Crimson. But you're gonna have to wear this winter coat if you want to go outside in this form."

Yep, this girl here is no one else other than Crimson. Apparently, she drank Ichor's blood for three hours straight, taking in around 8 times the amount of blood in his entire body in the process, not only to replenish her lost supply of blood, but also to be able to transform into this form by taking advantage of <Blessing of Ichor> in its entirety.

It seems that by completely analyzing Ichor's entire biology using the blessing's exponential increase in comprehension, Crimson can now use it as a basis to transform herself into a human. There are some hiccups along the way, mostly because practically all of his Skills don't seem to be copied into this form despite the sheer understanding she has of him and the <Life Imitation> effect, but it ended up being successful in execution.

As for that swimsuit she's wearing, it is actually her transformed carapace that expands along with her transformation to cover her body. The black and white coloring is mostly due to her being able to only take on this form while <Shadow Twin> is not activated for some reason, so this is just a fusion of the two while they are both considered as one right now. 

And as for why the swimsuit has to look like that when it can look like anything else more decent... He doesn't have an answer for that in the slightest. Heck, not even Crimson herself does, so it's an enigma at the moment.

'But it's surprising that she made the base form of her transformation being a younger me, but genderbent instead of making something more unique for herself. Guess having a very limited reference about this did have a big hand in it.'