41 Booty, Melancholy and More Booty (1/2)

It had been a day since they started traveling and during this time they had only met either normal rats or demonic rats of the first tier. Thus the trip so far was relatively safe, most of the time Taku and Tino were cultivating, whilst the others stood guard next to the coachman.

During the last twenty four hours, Taku could feel his power slowly rising, be it in soul power or in his actual cultivation base. He found that every single time he exhausted his soul power, he noticed that when he recovered his level in soul power would have risen by a bit. Someone's soul power went hand in hand with that person's cultivation base.

The more powerful your cultivation base, the more powerful a person's soul power would be. In this world there were no techniques to increase soul power, the only thing you had were soul techniques that allowed you to attack, defend and control soul power but there were no techniques that allow to raise your level of soul power.

Somehow Taku seemed to be different, the more he exhausted his soul power, the more powerful he felt as he recovered his soul power. At this point he did not think too much into it cause he had realized long ago that he would go insane if he was to compare himself with this world's logic.

He really could not wait to meet Maka so that he would have the opportunity to meet Saru. Saru was the only person he knew who had knowledge with things regarding the soul. He was the one who had initially helped him to understand the predicament that his soul was in. The problem was that even if he did meet Maka there was no guarantee that he would be able to meet Saru. Not to mention that big, beautiful...ehem.

Traveling now he couldn't help but envision the three months he had spent with Maka and truth be told he would rather have been stuck with her in the carriage than these two sweaty mongrels. He had often closed his eyes, in an effort to remember her eyes. Even though he had seen her at only ten years of age; the man in him could never help but be entranced by her beauty and power. She was the one person who he would willingly raze a million villages if it meant spending just one night with her.

He immediately shook his head attempting to stop the feelings of lust from distracting him. He knew that the feelings he harbored for her were nothing good. He knew that if he was driven by lust only it could lead to something that he would never be able to live with. Even though in this world things like a pure heart did not coincide with cultivation, he still felt guilty because of his thoughts towards someone who was visibly on paper of course younger than him.

He had no idea why he was having these thoughts now, back on earth he could have any girl he wanted. It was just that back on earth he had no time for them, from running a business empire and trying to lead a stable life for himself, he had no time for any form of romance or lust nor was he interested.On earth his IQ was incredibly high but his EQ was very low. So it came as a huge shock to him that he could actually feel the way he felt now towards this one particular person.

The way he felt for her felt wrong, but from time to time he couldn't help but think what that one night with that luscious piece of perfection would feel like. Taku had a nagging feeling that if he got that far, he would be distracted from his training for a while. Sitting in the carriage he knew that he would not get any work done even if he tried, so he decided to step out and join the coachman.

”Aren't you a little bit too young to have such a troubled look on your face,” the coachman uttered, noticing Taku as he stepped out of the carriage.

Hearing this Tadi and Ranga who were already with the coachman looked towards Taku with questioning glances; Taku only sighed and went and sat beside the coachman and informed Taku and Ranga that they could go back inside if they wanted to cultivate.

Even though they both nodded Ranga had a very peculiar expression on his face. He was happy that at least he and Tadi would be inside but he wasn't happy that there were still two people inside the carriage which made him feel rather dejected.

As the two went inside, the coachman asked Taku the same question again, ”Aren't you a little bit too young to have such a troubled look on your face.”

Taku then goes, ”It's not that I'm troubled, it's just that a lot of things in this world don't make sense.”

The coachman replies, ”Isn't that a bit contradictory, seeing as how if something that you want badly doesn't make sense, it's still something that troubles you. Young men should be full of ambition, especially those at your age, you should be dreaming about reaching the peak of power. Things like logic and laws should not apply in certain situations, I mean look at you, you are only this young and you are already a member of the Ivory guard. In fact not only are you a member but you are a team leader. I know people my age who can only dream about joining the Ivory Guard. With your talent logic is something that's absent, seeing as how, someone so young is already at the peak of Tohwe level.”