"Tada!"
Ria twirls.
A three-story-tall building, large enough to house an entire company of soldiers.
Ivory-colored, typical of the spire city.
Made of an inexplicable material that the magical city produces.
An assembly of small rectangular blocks, each roughly the width of Hikari's thigh.
Tiny runes at the seams hold the blocks together.
Hikari could sense their mana.
A doorway that spanned the height of the building, built just for her.
"Your new home, Hikari."
Hikari was at a loss for words.
Ria watched her reaction.
She thought she sensed happiness from her.
Or perhaps excitement.
But the giantess's face was unchanged.
She just can't tell.
"Nice."
She finally spoke.
"I knew you'd like it. Building blocks from the spire city. You had outgrown your previous home and had to find a cave. But at last, you have a proper place to stay. Come! Let's go inside. I have a lot more to show you."
Ria excitedly runs into the doorway.
Hikari follows her.
The inside was so spacious that it surprised even her.
Furniture scaled up to her size.
A bed, a couch, and shelves.
"Down here, Hikari!"
Ria waves to her.
Sword racks filled up with her throwing daggers.
Her handcannon. The barrel had been cleaned.
A crate filled with just under two dozen of her musket balls.
Pigeon-hole shelves stacked with her wyvern-skin sheets.
Her wyvern-skin boots.
The mud and gore had been scrubbed clean.
"Your armory. This is where you'll keep those humongous weapons of yours from now on."
Ria ran to the next area.
Rows upon rows of pigeonhole shelves stacked on top of each other.
Hikari's eyes lit up.
She pressed on the sheets of cloth.
They felt brand new.
Thick, absorbent pieces formed the socks.
The toughest pieces, a rough grey material, formed the bottoms of her socks.
"This is where you keep your clothes. It's not easy to deliver your clothes to your home in the hills with those bears roaming about."
A mirror on the ground beside her wardrobe.
Ria stood beside it.
It was taller than even her.
Hikari looked into the mirror.
"Did anyone ever tell you how beautiful you are? The knights who escorted me struggled to hold their thing in their pants as they looked up your back. They ran their horse into the tree more than once."
"What."
"Never mind."
Ria ran to the next area.
Hikari's bed: square pieces of bedding arrayed in a large rectangle.
"There! This is where you'll sleep from now on. I hope you don't mind sleeping on the ground. Makes it easy for the maids to replace your bedding."
"It's nice."
Ria jumped on the bed.
She bounced up and down, playfully hopping from tile to tile.
"See, it's really springy. Please don't jump on it like I'm doing, though. It holds my weight easily, but I doubt it'll hold yours."
Ria walked to the giant couch.
The legs were taller than she was.
"There, your couch. You haven't seen a chair big enough for you in a while, have you?"
A luxurious place for Hikari to sit.
Ria climbed up the ladder built.
She jumped up and down on the bedding.
"Try it, Hikari. I promise that it'll hold your weight."
Hikari turned around and landed on the couch.
Her weight flung Ria into the air.
"It's nice, isn't it, having a place to sit and relax after a workout."
"Nice."
Ria climbed back down the ladder.
"Moving on."
She jogged to the next area.
"Your new shower area. A pump and drainage system just for you."
Hikari cranks a lever; the mechanism hidden inside rumbles.
A splash of water comes out of the tap at the top of the pillar.
"Just don't crank it too hard."
"Yes, my lady."
A crate of vicious liquid nearby.
"Unfortunately, I couldn't find any alternative to the cheap soap that you have been using. I think you're quite used to the off smell."
"It's good."
"Come! We haven't even gotten to the good stuff yet."
Ria ran towards the center of the room.
A series of tiles were puzzled together.
Slots and empty sockets.
Leylines carved into the pieces.
"The mana circle shipped from the RazenHeir acarneum in Moradale. That's where our enchanters live and work, producing our imbued weapons. Now that we have a proper place to house you within the estate, we can bring it to you. It's also a great place to train your mana."
"Nice."
"Come along! We're not done yet."
Ria jogs to the next area.
"Your exercise mattress. Drainage lines below, so you don't have to worry about sweating all over it. Don't worry about abusing the bedding either; it's made to withstand your weight."
Hikari walks onto the mattress.
She bends her knees and jumps.
Thud. She lands with both feet on the mattress.
Ria shuts her eyes.
The mattress absorbed the force of her landing without leaving a dent.
"Nice."
"Now for the grand finale of your tour."
Ria jogs to the last area.
She started at the armor on the left of the entrance.
She ends in the kitchen to the right of the door, having completed a full round around Hikari's new living space.
Shelves containing her food supplies.
Grain bags. Wheat grass. Radishes.
"Ivory berries."
"Yeah, berries that grow on the walls of Moradale and the spire city. A plant that feeds on the mana of magical cities. They taste absolutely disgusting, but are essential to building a knight's mana."
Ria knocks her knuckles on a large steel pot several times her size.
"Your cauldron. The stove is below the ground. This one's much more fuel-efficient than the open-air stove you use out there in the forest."
Hikari peers inside the cauldron.
Newly cast. The inside surface was smooth.
"Oh, there's one more thing."
Ria walked to the shelf.
She tried to pull out one of the crates, but it was too big for her.
Hikari pulled it out with one hand.
"Palpferix herbs, a wild plant that is eaten by some of the biggest animals. A popular herb for growing muscle. It's on discount right now, so I bought a bunch in bulk. I thought you might like it."
Hikari stood up, looming over her lady.
"Hikari, what's-?"
"Crawl."