113 5.2 Himura Kenshin Made Up System (2/2)
Life Skills: Basic Blacksmithing, Basic Pill Making, Basic Herbal Medicine
Soft Skills: Cooking. Foraging. The rest was irrelevant in this era such as bike riding et cetera.
”Hmm, that's all I could think of right now. Such a pathetic system I had created in my mind right now. It is more like a collection of my own set of skills rather than a system but hell yeah, it's better than nothing right?”
I thought to myself as I lay sprawled in the snow and decided to go back to the group of Samurai. I dusted myself off properly, as I do not wish to think that I had been playing in the snow instead of meditating just now.
I walked back and the fire had turned to embers. ”Excuse me Samurai-sama, would you like me to add some more firewood?” I asked one of the Samurai who was kneeling with one leg on the ground.
”No need, we heard some noises just now and we are on high alert now. It may be some scurrying animals but we are not too sure yet.”
I nodded and understood their meaning well. I used my Third Eye as I scanned the surroundings and true enough, there was no threat and it seemed to be 3 hyenas lurking around.
”Don't worry there are no enemies around but 3 hyenas. I think I should add more firewood now and it'll scare the nocturnal Predators away.”
I casually added a few small sticks to it and when it caught fire I added thicker woods. The fireplace became a small bonfire and it lights up the surroundings.
Suddenly an arm grabbed me and a sort of low hissing voice sounded at my ear,” Listen, kid, are you sure it's 3 hyenas just now? I don't hear any yelping and all I could hear was quick movement around like as if there were some assassins around us! You trying to give our positions away, kid?!”
”Look, I may be 11 but I'm not as dumb as you think I am OK! Let my arm go or else...”
”Or else what kid? What you gonna do? Acting tough after Hiko saved you?”
I looked right into his eyes and said, ”I'm not acting tough, but I'm gonna do this!” I hissed back at the unfriendly Samurai and suddenly I gathered a small form of energy on my right hand and I gripped his forearm that was covered with leather armour. A wave of intense heat quickly travelled through his armour and he instinctively let my other arm go before he let out a loud yelp. He looked at the part where I had gripped him and 5 finger marks appear on his armoured forearm.
”Hey... Hey... What's the big fuss all about? Someone went forward and checked that it was just 3 hyenas not some assassins. And what's wrong with you yelping about like a small sissy girl, huh?”
Hiko was motioning to the other Samurai who seems edgy 24/7 and even the slightest sound made by a cricket he would think it was made by a Demonic Beast or something. The other Samurai went up to Hiko and showed his forearm.
”Look...! My armoured forearm. See what the kid do to me! I was holding on his other arm and I was just talking to him not to get cocky or something and he did this to me! He's a devil incarnation I say... Get rid of this kid, Hiko... He seems cursed right from the beginning! ”
”Himura-kun, come here. Did you do this to your senior? Look, his forearm armour has 5 little fingers on it and it still warm from the burn effect. Did you really do this?”
I came over and hung my head because I did the inevitable, which was using my powers to hurt others.
”Yes Hiko-sama, I am the one that did this to him. I am sorry and I should be punished. I shouldn't use my powers to hurt others. It's not that Senior here is trying to hurt me, but I sense a sign of hostility on his voice that I cannot take it and so I retaliated. His way of gripping my other arm also showed that he is belittling me even though I am just an 11-year-old kid. I am sorry Hiko-sama, and I am sorry I did that on Senior.”
”Haa... Haa... You really keep surprising me, kid. I accept your sincerest apologies and Senior, do you accept his apology or you intend to flog his ass when he gets to our village?”
The senior looked at me and said he accepted. However, his words were incomparable to his eyes that were watching me all the time, as if I'm going to burn his whole body next.
”Sigh... With many skills bestowed upon me, the more responsibilities I had to bear.” I sighed inwardly as I hung my head, bowed to both Hiko-sama and the Senior and went to sit on the hard ground with a tree trunk supporting my back.
The whole night went by without any incident except for some passing soul catcher demon that collects wandering souls to feed the host. It was eerie for someone with a Third Eye to see something like a snake floating in the sky and collecting people's restless souls. This was the first time I saw such happenings and it didn't happen before in Thailand or modern Japan.
Its time to break camp and head for the next destination. Some of the wood that I had prepared for the fire was not going to be wasted as a Samurai had picked some and carried it along on his pony. We had a quick breakfast and I extinguished the fire properly and headed to Hiko-sama and said I'd like to walk with those Samurai on foot ahead.
”If I am tired, I would ride on the pony with you Hiko-sama. At this moment, I feel alright and I want to exercise my body abit.”
He waved me off and I walked together with the Samurai who were on foot. There were just the 2 of them and the one that I had used my Kamehameha strength on, was also walking along.
I tried to strike a conversation with those two and the friendlier one introduced himself as Hide-sama, while the latter was Kami-sama. So, Hide-sama was the one who gave a roasted fish and onigiri to me the evening before. Kami-sama, with his face mask on, just looked on forward but kept his ears peeled as he listened to what I had been telling Hide-sama. As angry as he was with me last night, he was curious about my life back in the past village.