31 Goodbye My Smelly Self (1/2)

-Afternoon, Forest of Magic-

-Me POV-​

Listening when other talks.

It's the basic ethics of politeness toward other in a conversation.

That's also including 'don't cut off other people when word' and 'don't talk over each other when in a conversation'; it's rude to the other person you are speaking with and other people that are listening.

”It's a waste for a human like you to have such powerful weapon.”

But right now I'm tempted; I'm tempted to cut his monologue off because I already heard it so many times in this past day.

”Give me the weapon and your life shall be spare.”

…Now that I think about it, isn't that the reason why the good guys let the bad guys finished their power up monologue? Dude, that was just too naïve, or the good guys were just too arrogant, thinking they could defeat the bad guys even after they powered up to their next form.

”Or, I, the Golden Mane will end your pathetic life and claim your sword for myself.”

As for this situation right now, I do believe that I'm just being polite by letting him finishing his monologue, but now that I have some time to think, I now become curious at this guy.

I raised my hand.

”…Can I have a question?”

”Hmp, if that question is supposed to be your last word, then so be it.”

”…Why is there a Lion in a forest?”

”…”

[Lv.45 WereLion]

The one in question is standing In front of me, his figure tower over me, topless, yellow fur and scars all over his body, mass of muscle, lion face and glorious mane, brown color karate pants, and a barefoot.

”It made sense that if a forest animal Youkai or a Plant-based Youkai come out to me, but why is there a Lion in here?”

”…Let us fight.”

”…Sorry?”

”We have wasted enough time with our talk; Let us fight to the death.”

I narrowed my eyes while expression changed to one of disbelieve. ”Don't tell me-”

”Prepare yourself!!” he cut me off as he come rushing toward me.

”Seriously?!” as soon as I finished saying that I become serious.

I create a transparent Telekinesis Wall in front of me, but he still continuing his rush even thought he should be able to see the wall, I said that because it totally visible even with normal eye,

”ROOAAAAAR!!” he moves his body to do what I think to be a shoulder charge.

I brace my mental hold of the barrier for upcoming impact.

*BAMMM* he collided with the wall.

The shockwave of the impact shaken all the vegetation on the other side of the wall, but despite how powerful it look, I only felt a small mental tug that my wall has been hit with something.

”Hump! Typical magician trick, soon you will grovel on the ground after I destroy your little trick!”

”Talk big as much as you want, but I will only giving you 30 second to break my wall before I send you flying toward the Mountain, just like everyone else before you.”

”How dare you underestimating my strength! Mine is not the same like the other!”

”Yeah, yeah, you Youkai always come back if I didn't do this, claiming that 'I cheated' by defeating you people with trickery, now with this you can't complain that I never gave you a chance to fight.” I picked my ear as I said that.

”...Such Arrogant…” he started to tremble.”…Die Human!!”

His muscle start expanding, his face turned more vicious, and his claws further extended.

[Lv.53 WereLion]

'…His level increased…'

I start concentrating more with the wall for safe measure.

”RAAAAAAAHHHHH!!” He roared.

He rapidly slashes the wall using his claws, but I think 'rabidly' is more appropriate than 'rapidly' right now,

*CRACK**CRASH**SCREEEECH**CRUNCH**BAM**PANG*

Trees, ground, rock, leaves, everything else, and pretty much anything that's on the other side of that wall got obliterated by him.

'…Isn't this scene kinda looks like the one from Onepunchman, it was where he fought the lion guy, and he curb stomp him even while the other one keep slashing nonstop? Nah, I'm not him, I'm not dodging, and this guy also only slashing at a wall.'

Time keeps ticking as I thinking about random stuff and keeping the wall from broken at the same time.

He keeps slashing angrily at the wall; he shows no sign of slowing down, his look still how furious he is with me, but despite all of that, it was useless.

”Times up.”

Thought Acceleration.

Everything slowed down in motion.

Both of his hand coming closer to attack the wall, I push the wall forward, my action cause his upcoming attack to be deflected to the side, making him vulnerable for a moment.

And all I need is just that single moment to finish this.

I teleported beside him.

My hand touched his body.

”Good bye.”

I use Vector Change on him. Making his body went from 0 km/s speed into something else that made his departure accompanied with a sonic boom into the sky.

”DAAAAMMMMM YYYOOoouuuuuuuuuu~~~~~!!!”

And just like I promised, I send him flying into the mountain, the Youkai Mountain; I figured that the Tengu were the one that spread the info about me, so I show my gratitude by showering them with 'gifts' in this couple of days, literally.

”But in the end, the question still left unanswered, why is there a lion in a forest?”

I start looking at my surrounding.

”…Uwaah, this is awful.”

It's like a storm just walk in without warning and then it leaves a second later.

”*sigh*All character that could only blow things up can go to hell, the cleanup crew is the real hero of the story.”

I pick up all part of the trees using Telekinesis and gather them in one big neat pile of wood.

I fill the earth scar using other earth dirt and then I firm them tightly using Vector Change.

As for the trees splinter, I just thought a good idea to fix this.

I take out my katana, a normal Steel Katana mind you; I bought it yesterday from the System (50 IP), and I cut the splinter off from the tree. If you people wandering how it looks, I choose black color for its sheet and handle, and its handle have white colored diamond for its motif. Unimportant tidbit, my second favorite color is white, don't judge.

With Vector Change and Swordsmanship, I cut that part cleanly, making it into a stump.

'System, proceed to buy Nature Magic'

[Nature Magic Lv.1 = 8.000 AP, need user confirmation to continue]

'One level is all I need to do it, buy it.'

[Applying abilities to User]

Knowledge starts rushing in to me, and I immediately knew what to do.

I point my hand toward the tree stump.

I pour my something, probably mana, into it.

A second after I did that, a sprout start to grow on the tree stump.

I smile.

”This is the first time I use magic and I used it to grow a sprout instead of fireball, I think I should be proud that I'm different than any scrub out there.”

With that happy thought in mind, I repeat that process as I continue cleaning up the mess.

-Afternoon, Outside My House-​

After I finished cleaning that mess, I continue walking back to my house for lunch, if you guys asking as to why I walk instead of flying or teleport, it was because those abilities actually make you a lazy person, it make you never move your body enough, which in turn make you not healthy.

I remember this from a manga called ”Zettai Karen Children”, in one of its omake, they are comparing each other weight, and the heaviest of them all is the Teleporter, which I totally agree with the logic. And that's why I start walking from now on, but of course I still gonna teleport/fly if I'm getting surrounded.

But because I decided to walk from place to place, I need to go when the timer was at between 2 hour and 3 hour mark, and its actually work out better than I expected, I keep resetting the timer as I keep moving to different location and I got to curb stomp any weakling along the way. It's perfect.

”Hm?”

I snapped out of my thought because I already arrived at my house and also because I see someone crouching in front of it, near the house barrier to be exact.

”…What are you doing?” I asked.

That someone flinched and then slowly start to look back at me.

”Oh, Arah, how's it going-ze?”

It's Marisa. I bet she was trying to understand how my barrier works and then rob my house blind after that.

”…I'm fine, how about you?”

”I'm also fine-ze. Say, Arah, do you mind sharing how your barrier works? I'm really interested in it-ze.”

'No shame whatsoever, she's the queen of shamelessness. 'I thought. ”Gee, I don't know Marisa; someone might hear me explaining this stuff, and then they might start thinking to rob my house because of that.” I said it with very monotones voice.

”Then don't worry, I will come to help-ze.” she gave me thumbs up.

'Yeah, I bet you would help the fucking robber instead.'

”What?! You didn't believe me-ze?!”

Guess my faces said it all.

”*sigh* I'm not gonna told you it work, you can just figured it out yourself, and you want to join my lunch? It's about time after all.”

”Lunch? Of course, I never free food-ze.”

”Good, follow me through the front door then.”

After I said that, Marisa starts following me into my house.

-Inside the House-

”Wow, it's smaller than I thought and you have nothing inside your house-ze!”

”…” I start kneading the bridge of my nose. '…I'm trying really hard to remember why I invited her in just now, oh wait, it's because she's cute, I hate myself sometimes….'

”Sit there when the food is ready; just don't break anything when I'm preparing our food.”

”Understood-ze.”

I start moving toward the Kitchen, but stopped midway to turn back toward Marisa.

”…Oh yeah, any preference for any food you like to eat?”

”Japanese food-ze.” she said while she's going toward the bathroom.