Cain is sitting lazily as he looked up, totally ignoring me, who is struggling over here.
He really had no intention to give me any advice.
Without help from him, the only one I can rely on is myself.
The realization did not give me any peace of mind, but at least it is one step forward than doing nothing at all.
Let’s think for a bit.
My problem right now is that I can’t cope with my enhanced sense of hearing.
Who has the same problem as me?
Beasts, like wolves, have better hearing than ordinary humans, so let's use the wolf as a reference to solve my problem.
How can they cope with their sense
“…”
The answer is they don’t.
They were born like that.
Different from me, who used a potion to imitate their sense.
Cain said he wants to train my sense of smell, not hearing, so why should I deal with this problem that came out of nowhere?
Calm down; complaining won’t help with anything.
Let’s think about the wolf more, as that is the only reference I got.
I can’t be like Wolf because of our different bodies, but I can try to think like one.
Wolf is a beast, so what do they think?
Eat, shit, and procreate.
Short, simple, and easy to understand
Unlike humans who think too much
A human like me
“Ah.”
That is my problem.
I think too much.
Trying to categorize every noise I heard into something that I knew was an easy way to burden my mind.
Especially now that my senses had been enhanced
I close my eyes and relax my mind.
Don’t think
Let every noise that came from your right ear flow through and out of your left ear.
Just like when I heard my father lecture.
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With that, every noise that I heard became a background noise.
I let out a sigh. “Haah.”
Now that I have dealt with one problem, let’s move to the real problem at hand.
Training with my sense of smell
Different from my sense of hearing that I have trained for so long, I don’t know what to do with my improved sense of smell.
Even if it was improved, my smelling is a lot weaker than my hearing, so it did not overwhelm me or anything.
Once again, I looked at Cain.
Now he was sleeping against the tree.
As unreliable as ever
For now, what do I want to do with my improved sense of smell?
Of course it’s smelling time! That is what I am going to do.
Taking a deep breath, I try to smell every aroma from this area.
The scent of a tree, sharp, sweet, and refreshing
The scent of flowers, from light to strong, the fragrance is sweet yet subtle with a little bit of variance in each flower.
The scent of herb, a bitter aroma that stings my nose
How about my scent?
I start to smell my body.
It was a combination of earthy smell, salt, and a bit of pepper.
Is this how Cain always finds me!
Because I was reeking of the smell of spices!
I open my eyes and look at Cain; closing my eyes, I try to perceive his scent.
All I got from him is he smells like a tree because he was sleeping against it.
Basically, he was scentless…
How can he do that!
Taking a little rock nearby, I threw it at Cain.
He easily avoided it despite closing his eyes and looking like he was asleep.
“Already done? That was fast!”
He said as he opened his eyes and looked at me.
“Are you sure you were not a dog in your past life?”
“If I am a dog, then you are the dog father.”
I retorted while glaring at him.
He smiled and made a joke. “I am fine being a dog as long as I can get close to Lucy.”
“Spoken like a true loyal dog,” I mock him.
“That sounds like a compliment to me.” He takes my taunt as praise.
Refusing to give up, I continue my taunt.
“The only missing thing is the potion to make you a dog. How about you ask Lucy to make it?”
Cain, looking uncomfortable, said, “How can I bother her with a trivial thing?”
‘He really is hopelessly in love with Lucy.’
Better end this topic. “What’s next?” I said this because I am afraid of what he will do if I take things too far.
He got up and patted his pants. “Go home…”
“That’s it for the training?”
Cain stared at me with puzzled eyes before realizing something. “Oh, that is not what I meant.”
He pointed toward the direction of my home. “Going home is your test; do it while closing your eyes; use your nose as a guide to make it home.”
I got up and stretched my body.
“Sounds easy enough.”
“Heh heh, that was also what I said the last time when Mother trained me.”
I asked curiously, “What about it?”
“If I said it, the element of surprise will be gone, and it won’t be fun anymore.”
“Surprise? Sounds good enough for me. I started to close my eyes and use my nose in place of my eyes to ‘see.’
To get home I just need to remember the unique scent from my home.
What is the most unique smell from my home?
It is the pepper, of course.
This training will be easy enough to complete.
Using the scent of pepper that is still lingering in my body, I am walking toward my home.
One step, two steps, and three steps...
I stumbled and fell down on the eleven steps; walking with my eyes closed is kind of making me dizzy.
Is this the surprise Cain was talking about?
If he thinks this is enough to count as a surprise, then I am disappointed in him.
Surprise is something that moves your heart like crazy, like meeting a bear while strolling in the village.
That was what I would call a surprise.
Still closing my eyes, I did not immediately raise myself.
Instead, I sit up and start to think of this test.
At first, I thought this test was about finding my way home using my sense of smell, but it seems I was wrong.
This training also tested my sense of balance and direction.
While sense of smell can give me a vague sense of my surroundings, it still feels different from normally using my eyes.
With no eyesight, I can’t tell if I am going left or right, easily making me lose my way, and it also makes me walk like a drunk person, making this test harder than I thought it would be.
Even though this is not the surprise that I wanted, I think this test is fun enough!
I smile and get up, ready to start things again.
I raised my hand and shouted, “Let’s go home!”