45 Clarification (1/2)
All in all, the dinner meeting between the girls ended on a high note. The triplets had the little girls sleep while Aster was on the sofa and was turning on what Kamryn said was a compressible television device. He facepalmed at the sight of the jolly beauty. ”Kamryn, this isn't a compressible television. This is just a laptop. A laptop is not television that only displays shows, it is technically a computer that lets you do a lot of things.”
”Eh! Really. I didn't know that. The servant who handed it to me didn't explain. I only use it to watch drama shows.” Kamryn played with her long and red hair as she answered. She was resting on the sofa with her feet dangling in the soft armrest.
Aster paid no attention to the spoiled beauty. He didn't blame her because there are a few regions that really did not bother with the use of technology. The Valentine family must have lived in a more traditional setting. The only advantage of technology in this world is the long-distance communication, entertainment, and knowledge of the news.
People were free to approach technology however they want to and a lot choose to stay away from it. Especially the effort and hard work that cultivation needed, cultivators frowned upon it as a tool of indulgence and weakness.
The only people who get to enjoy these devices are the weak or spent normies and the ever-talented people that never really needed to put effort into cultivation. Aster sighed and indulged in self-praise. 'Talented people like me really have a lot of time in our hands.'
The laptop was just a shiny foldable rectangle with no other designs other than it being colored red. Kamryn's preference for the crimson color was observed as even her background screen was dark red.
'The Valentine family really adored love and blood so much that even their genes made their hair red. I wonder what made the Greene family have their hair colored green.' Aster made his hunch as the looks of the family tend to symbolize what they specialize in. 'The triplets must have some sort of connection with elves given that I could already tell their nature attribute of mana. This must be the reason for their late cycle, I guess. Elves have long lives and the triplets are just as slow as the nature elves development process. I can just find out later.'
Aster used the touchpad to control the cursor. He found a news application and had it play. The news in this world was widely dependent on their location and the range of the computer or television. Green Silk City was a border city, so he can still get the news that was coming from the nation of Skyfire. Relay towers were a great help to transmit and receive the transcript of data that travels through the smart application of various mana mediums. Computers and laptops have their built-in transponders to collect the magical images while television needed attachments such as a disk to bypass the signal.
Various headlines popped out with corresponding videos attached to them. They were all basically grim or depressing outcomes being explained in detail by avid reporters who took their career seriously since they can't make a name through cultivation.
The news about his complicated banishment was taken down by the virtue of propaganda. Not even a trace could be seen. Aster shared his findings with Kamryn. ”There is literally no updates to see or even traces of that news you saw. I guess I have to trust that my foolish old man keeps his vow of silence. It is not like their influence in this nation is that great anyway.”
He temporarily put that problem in the back of his head. The triplets have long arrived and eavesdropped on his statement. Aria was smiling but not entirely smiling at the same time. ”Aster, you are quite open to your past with Kamryn and you never really told us at all.”
”Sorry. It can't be helped since the fast transition of things within these three days that we met.” Aster did a quick calculation of the time now was exactly three days from when he met the green-haired siblings.
Kamryn was surprised. She looked towards him like some sort of love monster and became sympathetic to the trio. ”You only met in three days. Did he also force himself onto you and gave you a massage while you were passed out?”
”No. It was due to lucky circumstances, I guess.” Aria replied while they took a seat on the sofa that was being used by Aster.
”Now that we're huddled up. I can say that welcome to my harem and I guess it is time to truly introduce myself to you.” Aster closed the laptop and let it rest in the coffee table. Kamryn was still in her lazy position on the sofa while Plum and Aria pinched his sides when they heard him say 'harem.'
”Go on.” Eve found another spot and that was on the sofa opposite of Kamryn's. The leisure room was basically had an incomplete square formation of sofas.
Not feeling the pain from the light pinches, Aster continued on and said. ”Five or six days ago, I am the shameful young master of the Suns clan from the Skyfire Nation. I was hated by my family because they believed that I never had talent in cultivation despite my status as the rightful next patriarch.”