20 Days Gone By (1/2)
A month after I had both rescued the girls and evolved as a stronger person, life began to slow down for people of the Hyoudou household. While we were still on break, Issei and I were allowed to go out and play since Mom and Dad had work.
It was then I had decided to tone down my life a bit, for one I took a temporary break from getting stronger. There were multiple reasons for this 1) Understanding the power I had right now was a problem on its own so I had to hold off on gaining more, 2) As a 10-year-old I had already reached to a level of monstrosity for people my age, and 3) I needed to change my mentality.
Ever since I arrived in this world I've constantly been on the path to getting stronger. There were times though when I wasn't training like when I hung out with Irina, played with Issei, or went to school but even then I kept wondering how I'd get stronger. This was not a good mindset, I want to live an easy life and at first, I needed to have the strength to protect that. However, I soon realized that constantly pushing towards the path of strength while ignoring those around me would cause me to live a lonely life. Then what would I do, I'd have wasted part of my life only to end up alone and friendless.
Lucky for me I had people like Mom, Dad, Issei, Irina, Kuroka, and Shirone who were able to make me realize that my current mindset was unhealthy. I still remember Dad's words to me on my first day of elementary school.
Dad - No son of mine will live a lonely life!
Now I started to slow down a little. Rather than running off during the day and coming back at night to train, I cut my training time to 30 minutes in the morning and, that time was mostly spent on sparing with Kuroka, and Shirone.
Speaking about those girls when I checked their strength levels both were in the low-Ranking stage, but their tier levels were different. Kuroka was in the high-tier, while Shirone was in the low tier almost mid-tier. This was fairly reasonable considering that Kuroka trained far harder than Shirone did for 3 years.
Now back to my schedule after our daily spar, I would go out into the city to explore, and from my families perspective I would leave with the family cats, but when we were out of their sight the girls would turn back into girls.
If this was done in the first week of them being in the human world they would have shocked the populace with their cat ears but during this month I prepared a lot of countermeasures. With the assistance of my Sub Jobs [Black Smith] and [Rune Maker] I made the girls equipment to mask not just their ears and tail, but even their aura.
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Currently, Kuroka's attire consisted of a long black kimono with a red interior, a yellow obi, and a black choker on her neck. As for Shirone, she had a short white kimono with a baby blue interior, a light blue skirt, white stockings, a dark blue obi, and a white choker on her necks. Their outfits were similar to the ones they wore in the book the only difference was that they were still children rather than their more adult forms seen in the book.
Another change is the choker, those were shape-changing equipment I bought from the system and it looks like a collar when they were in cat mode. Changing the chokers design a bit I took the previous necklace I gave them and attached the emblem to the choker to give it some sort of design. I always see them handle those necklaces with care so I thought they'd like it... they did.
But being fancy clothes wasn't the only thing they had, inscribed into the cloth was an aura concealing formation. The formation was used to hide the fact they were Nekoshou, and hide their magical signatures.
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Other than that I also worked on trying to cure the poison of the Nekoshou, but I'm not getting much progress. Originally I was going to purchase some magic medical books to help me but they were really expensive! However, since I had previously spent most of my points buying materials for the girl's clothes, basic formation books, and formation materials my supply of points was less than 10 percent of what it used to be.
It took me 3 months after that of constantly doing mini-quests to try and earn points and for the required books to help my research.
[Basic How to Guide to Medicine Refining]: Shows the basic of how to refine medicine and prepare materials
[Magic Medicine Formula Book]: Contains the formulas of 1000 years of medical knowledge for both magical and normal medicine
[Poison Formula Book]: Contains the formulas of 1000 years of poison knowledge for most non-natural poisons
[Herb Index]: A glossary of all the worlds magical and normal herbs including their component uses (does not include divine herbs)
This knowledge was good and really helped me understand medicine and such but then another issue came up. In order to actually make the cure, I had to experiment with multiple herbs which I didn't have.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry after that, I had spent 3 months saving up point for the books so I had none to buy herbs. Once again I went on a mini-quest expedition and spent 5 months saving up points and buying both herbs and herb seeds.
I had specifically chosen herbs that contained components that had the possibility of being the cure and used those for my experiment. As for the seeds I planted them in my in the Eastern Sector of my Heavenly World and created an herb garden.