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Cirno 9

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As it turns out, Suwako had been a lake fairy who became a god, even though she introduced herself as a frog youkai. ‘How rude.’ Cirno thought as she floated out of the tramway, the crowd around her keeping a wide berth from the

Cirno had preferred when she could fly up to the shrine, but the Tengu became more territorial after the ropeway was put up and she had no excuse anymore. She pouted as she floated away from the crowd heading towards the main shrine where she could see Reimu's green counterpart talking about something or other.

If she remembered correctly the goddesses lived in the building behind the shrine with their... Daughter? She didn’t know exactly what their relationship was with the green girl whose name she didn’t remember.

Walking around the crowd and the main shrine, she could see the green girl catch her in the corner of her eye. Cirno waved a hand and stuck out her tongue at the forgettable shrine maiden. ‘The gods have more important things to do right now.’ Cirno said to herself as she exited the greenie’s field of view.

“You shouldn’t think such rude things about people, especially if they’re the kid of the person you're trying to cozy up to.” Suwako said, suddenly lounging atop a nearby rock, “So. What does Okina want?” she said as she drained the sake bottle she held in one hand.

“AH! Suwako!” Cirno exclaimed, waving at the goddess, almost toppling herself over in mid-air as she turned around. “I need help with my leg, Byakuren helped me a bit, but Shou said you might know more,” Cirno said rapidly.

“Well if you aren’t here on Okina’s orders, I guess I can help you, although I don’t know why Shou would direct you towards me,” Suwako said as she changed her lounging position.

“Well, Shou-senpai, said you used to be a fairy, and that you’d know a lot more about this,” Cirno says gesturing toward her half-stumped leg.

Suwako spit out some sake, looking embarrassed. “Is that so,” putting her bottle down she sat upright on the rock, scratching the back of her head she said, “Well guess I can’t blame her for being forthright and helping her Kouhai. The problem is just the leg right, so why don’t you do anything about it?”

“Huh?” Cirno asks, tilting her head.

“You're closer to a god now, how you appear is dependent on what you want.” Suwako said as she approached Cirno. “For example.” is a puff of smoke the Suwako Cirno was familiar with vanished, replaced by a beautiful woman towering over her.

“Wha-ha!” Cirno exclaimed, face redening at the appearance of the woman before her.

Continuing on, ignorant of Cirno’s reaction, Suwako spoke.“As a fairy who’s becoming a god, your abilities will expand in scope and power, for instance, while I am a nature deity, currently, I’m primarily a curse deity. Your case is a bit odd since I have no idea where your ice is coming from, but with some effort, I'm sure you can reliably draw on the concepts of summer, dance, or noh.” Suwako says, putting her finger down. “As long as you ease yourself into the domain and don’t do anything hasty that would destabilize you more control over your form will naturally come as you absorb more domains, or even other gods.”

Cirno felt a bit embarrassed now, realizing what the problem was. “So, say I…” she trailed off as Suwako gave her a glare.

“Yes, suddenly forcing through a burst of power, whether it be from a domain you're expanding into or one Okina holds something that would hurt,” Suwako said, in scorn that masked embarrassment and her own past mistakes.

“If that’s the case Cirno, you’ll have to manually readjust yourself, we have some good sources of ice on the mountain, and it’ll only get colder.” Throwing her hands up in the air she says “Knock yourself out, just remember that you owe me okay?”

“Thank you Suwa-senpai!” Cirno said snapping to attention saluting as she floated in mid-air, before zipping away.
“Ugh... Suwa-senpai.” It sounded dirty somehow, especially when coming out of the mouth of a follower of the backdoor god, she was considering keeping the older appearance to ward her off, but if it only attracted more of her servants it’d be useless.

Hopefully the little now half-fairy wouldn't cause too much trouble, they only had a month to prepare after all.

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Set 1 month before the finally, probably the last Cirno chapter I'll write, not counting for a finale and prologue PoV. I felt like better establishing her limits and introducing her properly to some characters she has connections with.