43 Half A Man (2/2)

Ranga was incensed when he heard this, ”Do you think that this this King is a coward, that you have to use such words. This King was raised to protect the weak, to be righteous, so even if you had told us to go back home, I would still have gone to the front lines and disobeyed your orders.”

After finishing his words, Ranga stood up with a proud expression on his face and proceeded to grab Tadi and began walking with upstairs. At first Tadi tried to struggle but she knew that she was not a match for Ranga as she just obediently followed. As they entered the room, Tino was the next to stand up, and left and went into his own room to go and cultivate.

After the three of them left, Taku tried to go to his room but just as he stood up he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around and noticed that it was Nyasha who had stopped him and he had a mischievous glint in his eyes. He forcibly sat down and then Nyasha stood up and went and retrieved a couple of jars from the inn keeper. As he came back with them and sat down, Taku felt a faint aroma flood his nostrils. The aroma was brutish but at the same time sweet. He couldn't help but take a couple of glances tohordes the jars.

Seeing this Nyasha smiled, ”Today my brother is when I show you what being a man is like, I can tell that you are one of those waiting for 'the one' type of people, so taking you to the brothel is out of the question, but what I can do is help you turn into at least half a man.”

Taku would be stupid if he was not able to realise what was going on, he felt slightly hesitant as Nyasha passed him the jar but after a couple of breaths. He grabbed the jar himself and began chugging it down. He only stopped when the jar was about half empty. He looked towards Nyasha and noticed that he had a dead pan expression on his face. Taku scrunched his face a little as the alcohol passed through his system. He had chugged it down so fast that he had been barely able to taste it but now that it was settling in his stomach he wasn't quite sure if he was happy with this mundane habit that people here and earthlings alike seemed to consider a rite of passage.

It took a little while for the liquid to take full effect and even though neither of the two had spoken since, Taku didn't know why but at the moment he felt that it was really hard to hold back his laughter. Nyasha looked towards Taku, the glint in his eyes only growing brighter and noticing the look on Taku's face he was the first one to erupt into a pool of laughter.

The boy's kept on laughing for a while until Taku finally spoke up saying, ”I can't help but feel that this is a rather wasteful use of our time considering-”

”Honestly sometimes one would think there was an old man stuck inside of you trying to break through.” Nyasha spoke up cutting Taku in the middle of his speech, which shocked Taku quite a bit. ”Instead you should be telling me what about this woman Maka is so special, you have us all charging straight into battle.”

Taku snickered a little, now feeling visibly awkward but the alcohol had this freeing effect that made him feel liberated enough to say what he said next which surprised them both.

”I think I like her.”

Taku stopped laughing after that his eyes bulging out a little, which made Nyasha start laughing all over again. ”Relax man, you would think you had just seen a ghost, liking someone is perfectly normal. It's just a clear sign that your loins work and they aren't there just by design.”

Taku who was about to eat a bun he had left over from breakfast, choked as he heard the last part of Nyasha's speech.

”What I'm trying to say is now that you've taken the first step by experiencing bliss within a bottle, you really should do something about the other thing. I understand wanting to wait for 'the one' he he he okay, I don't support it but that's beside the point. You don't want to finally get her to give you a chance and be embarrassed by your lack of experience now do you?”

Taku now visibly uncomfortable took a large swig from the jar, he wasn't sure he likes were this conversation was going. It wasn't that he was worried about his lack of experience at all rather the opposite. He was worried about the intensity of his desire. With each growing day as he grew more powerful so did his want and need for this woman, he had not seen in years and the one thing that kept him up at night was the fear that when he finally did see her, he wouldn't be able to control himself. This just didn't make sense to Taku. Just why was he so obsessed with this woman? It was completely unlike him.

Nyasha noticed the growing distress on Taku's face, ”Okay, okay don't worry she will love you just the way you are and all that jazz, no need to pop a vein. Reminds me of my first time, she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, haha who am I kidding she was the most beautiful woman I had seen that day…”

Taku drowned him out as he let the alcohol drown out the rest of his senses.