Currently I am in Kuuko home. Kuuko is Nine tailed fox or called as Divine Beast.
She said about she don't have right to be called as Divine Beast, so she asked me to call her by name. Her attitude to me is very friendly. But I must careful, in story from my world fox is like deceive people.
When I looked at her eye I don't seeing any hostility or will to decieve me. Because of my past experience, I can seeing what other people thinking by looking at their eye.
Even if she look like good person(or animal) I cannot let my guard down. After all my ability to see what other people thinking is not perfect thing.
At least for now I still can't open my heart to her.
When I am making dialogue in my mind, Kuuko is looking at my direction with complicated face. Maybe my face look weird? but I am is very confidence about my poker face.
"You don't talk so much huh... in addition you don't show your expression in your face. It make you complete opposite from her. Even thought..." Suddenly Kuuko talking to me, but halfway it turned into mumur, unfortunately I can't hear what Kuuko said.
But she said something that slightly distubing and making it sense about Kuuko attitude towards me. Still, it better to ask her directly.
"Who is 'her'? is she somehow related with your attitude to me? are she important to you? you don't have to talk it if you don't want it."
After I finished saying what inside my mind, Kuuko thinking about something for several minutes. When she finished, she looking at my direction.
"What you say is half right and half wrong.
What make me to approached you are first human for several hundred years who visiting this place without any hostility. Furthermore you first human I see in my lifetime to sleeping peacefully in Divine Beast territory. This is what make you wrong.
But after seeing you more carefully, somehow you similiar to my old companion yet your personality is completely opposite from her. It make me interesting to you.
Because of that I am judge that, it better to make friendly approach to you rather than hostility."
Hostility? isn't Kuuko is Divine Beast? if I am not wrong, in fantasy world Divine Beast is ally for humanity or existence to maintenance world balance or maybe strongest existence par with Dragon or God. Are people in this world is stupid?
Or it somehow related with Kuuko saying she don't have right called DIvine Beast.
When I asked this to Kuuko, she said that not related with she don't want called as Divine Beast. Instead it because human wanted to 'tamed' her or kill her for creating magic item or something similar. As expected from human, they always filled with greed. It not like I don't have any greed, but I still can restrain my greed better than those people.
Well that aside, it better to ask information about this world to Kuuko. Even Kuuko seem don't go into town or village for long time, it better than not having any basic knownledge or information. And one more thing that important to live in this world.
"Kuuko I have a request. You can reject it if don't want to do it."
"Request is it? it fine as long not something unreasonable."
To live in this world I better learn it for my own safety. Even I still can't fully trusted Kuuku it better than dying again.
"Please teach me how to fight, I want to have ability to protect myself."
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And now Kuuko teach me about magic. I want to learn how to use real sword in this world, but Kuuko don't have any weapon and mainly fighting using magic.
By the way Kuuko right now take an humanoid form. Her humanoid form is beautiful women in between late teen and early twenties, she have blonde hair and gold colored eye similar with my right eye and instead human ear she having fox ear and nine tails fox.
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She right now wearing something like miko outfit and fox mask beside her face. She said that in past a summoned hero give it to her as present. it seem Kuuko is having friendly term with past Hero.
Back to main topic. Kuuko for now teach me knownledge about magic instead practice to using magic. She said magic is difficult control at first and it better to learn some basic knownledge.
"In this world Magic have several type :
1. Basic Element - Fire, Water, Wind and Earth
2. Intermediate Element - Light and Dark
3. Advance Element - Space and Time
4. Unknown Element - Body Enchantment, Rune, Summoning, Illusion and many other magic.
There case two element is fused and make another element, it called 'Elemental Fusion'. There example for it :
1. Fire + Wind = Lightning
2. Fire + Earth = Lava
3. Water + Wind = Ice
4. Water + Earth = Wood
When using Elemental Fusion, Mana cost is addition between two fused element.
But right now I want you to learn 'Mana Manipulation'. Before using magic, if you don't have Mana Manipulation you cant control your mana and unable to use magic.
I will pour my mana to your body, try to make it yours and control it"
And so Kuuko right now grabbed my hand and from it I feel something flowed to my hand. As Kuuko said I trying to make mana flowed into me as mine and control it. It bit difficult but after several minute I somehow can control it.
You learned "Mana Manipultaion - Level 1".
Somehow I heard robotic sound and something transparent appeared in front me. It remind me my status. But for now I better to concentrate to Kuuko lesson.
"It seem you succesfully leared it. You better to increase it to around level 3, you can use magic more easier around that level."
***
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3 day passed after Kuuko teach me about magic. Right now I am practice magic until my mana is empty. It was to leveling my magic and increase my mana pool. Mana pool can increace with skill obtained after several time using magic until mana exhausted.
And right now my status is like this.
Status: Name : Hibari,
Skills : Sword Mastery - Level 2 Matrial Art - Level 2 Crafting - Level 2 Cooking - Level 2 Sewing - Level 2 Unique Skills :
Magic : Chantless - Level 10 Mana Manipulation - Level 3 Water Magic - Level 2 Fire Magic - Level 2 Wind Magic - Level 2 Earth Magic - Level 2 Mana Increase(Small) - Level 2 Mana Regeneration(Small) - Level 1
I worked hard in these three day to leveling my skill because Kuuko said I still not ready for fighting monster.
By the way, animal that I see around lake I found 3 days ago is spirit beast. Different from monster, spirit beast don't attacked people indiscriminate.
It seem my current place is near Spirit Tree and those spirit beast have duty to protect it. They stiffen when see me at first but because they can't feel malice from me they regarded me as ally or neutral person.
When they see person with malice, they immediately attacked them with no mercy. I have my luck because they don't see me as enemy when I can't fight back.
Tomorrow Kuuko is going to have me fighting with monster, because of that I planned to trained more harder today to raised my magic level at least once.
When my Mana reached 0, my head is fuzzy and indicated me to resting my mind. Without any reason to resist I am rested to prepare my body for tomorrow.