Chapter 27 - System!
After granting them thier names, Kenji decide to take them out shopping for clothes, but when he saw them in full glory of proper clothes and shoes, he was sure his heart was about to run away from his body.
Even the shop owner couldn't stay in their presence for too long, for fear of dying of cuteness overload!
After that, they had headed over to an inn and decided to stay there for a while, at least until Kenji buys a house in this town.
As the children slept peacefully under the moonlight that shone through the windows, Kenji felt a tug in his heart, as he saw them sleep with satisfied smiles.
Today had been the best day of their lives and they were incredibly happy about it. But unlike them, Kenji felt a bit saddened due to his thoughts.
Although he had been very happy today after the incident at the restaurant, he felt bad that: what if he hadn't died? Would he have met them? Wouldn't they have just continued running away from the slave traders in panic as they try to escape the harsh clutches of reality?
As he got off the bed and headed over to the balcony, millions of thoughts raced through his mind.
The midnight breeze brushed hard against his face, as he felt an overwhelming amount of pleasure to be able to breathe in so much air again.
When he had died he had felt despair and revealed to himself that he wanted strength, he wanted to gain revenge on his past co-workers
But there was only one problem: he was a weak animal tamer at the E rank and only good at cooking.
His mind then flashed back to when he fought the fire sprite. He was just lucky. While going shopping with the kids, Kenji decided to look up a bit on fire sprites and what he saw made him feel disheartened.
He had at first thought that: yes,he would be able to defeat a B rank after his encounter with the fire sprite.
But after reading up on them, he realized how wrong his thinking had been.
A fire sprite was a non-matter oragnism, only being able to stay alive due to the magical energy in the air.
They were not a creature of being or something truly alive, so they don't really have a proper state of levels, their powers are amplified with the amount of magical energy in the air.
[A/N:: I could also substitute magical energy for Mana from time to time, so please understand]
Due to that condition, even if a fire sprite is at the "A rank", if the magical energy in the air was low, then it's powers wouldn't even be over the level of an F rank! The only use of their ranks was to be able to know how much Mana they can capacitate in themselves to increase their strength to their ranking limit.
With this information, Kenji felt a tinge of sadness, for he knew that the place he had met Leo, Pheia and Leia wasn't an area with lots of beast and creatures, meaning the magical energy in that area was really weak. Even that mother rabbit was still stronger! Probably the strongest creature in that area!
Thinking about his death, a thought suddenly crossed his mind as a flustered look appeared on his face," Sh- Shreya?"
Suddenly, as he said that word, a bright fiery red light suddenly flew out if his head and landed onto his shoulder.
Seeing this, Kenji looked away, almost like he wanted to avoid eye contact.
" Don't you dare look away Makoto! How dare you forget about me only after dealing with some little kids?!" Shreya said, as she kept on nagging him further and further until Kenji finally blocked his own ears with his fingers.
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After Shreya finally calmed down about Kenji forgetting about her and ignoring her for a full day, he fianlly decided to say what was now on his mind," I'm sorry for that Shreya, but as you could see, I was incredibly busy with the kids. You did see that right?"
" Everything you see, I can now see, so I get it, but don't let it repeat itself, do you know how cramped your mind scape was with your overthinking?!" Shreya said, still looking a bit dissatisfied at her current situation.
" Okay, I promise not to let that happen again. But may I ask a question?" Kenji said, as his expression turned serious.
" I already know what you're going to say; how am I here? You thought I said I was dead?" Shreya said, already knowing what Kenji was thinking, and with Kenji confirming her words with a nod, she smiled.
" Well, you see, after you entered into the portal that took you back to the living world, I thought I could do that too and probably won't need your help anymore to save my daughter. But then, my soul was suddenly transported into your mind. something then took over my consciousness, and I started doing some kind of strange integration and memory searching in your mind, till eventually, I unknowingly bounded myself to you," she exclaimed with a sigh, as she shook her head.
" So like you're a part of me now?" Kenji queried, and she nodded in confirmation.
" If you're a part of me, like a part of my body, then what is your function. Like, what do you do?" Kenji asked, curious as to where this was all going.
" That's a good question, at the moment, I think I am now something your kind in your former world would call; A System!"
Hearing that, Kenji opened his mouth widely, it was so wide that a whole egg could fit inside," you know about my former world? And what did you say, you're my system? Impossible!" Kenji said, as he couldn't believe his own ears.
Wasn't he just a scrappy animal tamer? How could he possibly have a system like the ones in the novels? Is it possible?!
" Well, at the same time, I'm not really a system," Shreya said, disheartening Kenji's thoughts and getting him a bit annoyed.
" What? You're both a system and not a system at the same time? C'mon, pick one!" Kenji said, annoyance laced in his voice.
" What I mean is: think of me like a system. Except, I'm not a screen, but in the form of a phoenix. I'm a system, that's not a system,"