"I..." The girl was clearly excited after she received the invitation but she seemed to hesitate once she looked at Aaron, "Honorable sisters, I'm willing to join the sisterhood under one condition." Snow had this stubborn gaze when she looked at Nina.

"Let's hear it then." The team-leader smiled because she already predicted this outcome once she saw how these two interacted earlier.

The girl held the boy's hand tightly before saying : "I must take Ron with me, he's always causing trouble for the villagers and I'm sure he wouldn't survive for long on his own."

'Damn it girl, at least save me some face in front of these beauties.' Aaron grimaced then rolled his eyes towards Snow.

"Tehehe... this kid is so cute." Lucy giggled then pinched one of his cheeks.

Heena nodded before joining her sister and pinched the boy's other cheek.

"Hands off ladies!" He struggled in saying these simple words with his lips stretched taut while thinking to himself : 'These four "Sisters" are really troublesome, I couldn't avoid their hands despite giving it my all. Am I still lacking in the Agility department.'

But these two mischievous women found it much more exciting to keep annoying the boy once he glared at them.

Nina ignored the troublesome duo and the boy who gave her a stern gaze as if to say : "Control your lackeys, mind you!" Then she said to Snow : "I'm afraid that can't be done," Once the team-leader saw the girl being overcome with despair she sighed, "But I can leave him under the care of one of my sisters."

"Really!" Said Snow.

"I wouldn't gain anything by lying to you, one of us has to stay in the village to recruit promising candidates anyway." Nina turned to look at her two sisters next before continuing to say : "That's enough! You two go and accompany this little sister until she packs her items for the long journey ahead."

"Mmm'kay..." Both of them answered in a lackluster manner before letting go of Aaron in such an annoyingly disheartened attitude.

'Oh fuck off. I'm not your toy! If I were in my manly and grown-up physique then I would've played you both all night until you scream.' He balled his fist to contain his emotions because both Lucy and Heena were giving him daring looks as if to say : "Go on, make your move."

Once they noticed how the boy controlled himself and didn't jump into action at their provocative gestures, the two ladies sneered at him playfully as if to say : "We thought as much, you just don't have enough balls."

Aaron grit his teeth in silence because right now he's a step away from blasting these two fine-looking babes with an Energy Bolt Skill to prove the exact weight of his balls.

"Huh!" He gawked once the expression of shock and fear surfaced on the faces of Lucy and Heena, especially when they took a few steps backwards and away from him while raising their guard against him.

"The curse!" Sera said.

Nina nodded her head before sighing : "Indeed, he must've got it from the abandoned ancient-well."

Snow fell to her knees and sniffled once she heard them, "Sisters please help little Ron, I'm willing to do anything." The girl couldn't hold back her tears at all while pleading for help.

Sera just sighed and kept her mouth shut.

Lucy and Heena gave the boy pitiful looks while chewing on their lower-lips, they felt slightly sorry for taking things too far when they teased him earlier.

"Get up sister Snow, we're far too weak to unravel a curse of this magnitude." Nina said.

"Then is there someone in the sisterhood who's strong enough and capable of helping Ron remove this curse?" The eyes of this girl were practically shining that morning when she asked this question.

The team-leader nodded inwardly in approval once Snow got the hint before she replied : "There's one senior who might be able to do so within our sisterhood-branch, and at least five who're certain to be able to remove it within the main-branch of our sisterhood."

"Let's go then, I'll prepare my things right away." Snow smiled in excitement before going into the house to get her stuff.

Nina smiled then shook her head while saying : "This little sister is so spirited, convincing one of these seniors to cure the curse wouldn't be easy."

Sera nodded and said : "Thankfully the curse would remain dormant for ten years or so, that aught to give Snow enough time to practice the teachings of our Whispering Sisters and grow stronger."

"And what curse is that?" Aaron suddenly asked.

His penetrative gaze pointed at Nina, waiting to pick the faintest of hints of her lying.

The team-leader felt a shiver on her spine once the boy stared at her and a layer of cold sweat covered her back, her very soul was startled by the intense threat of danger.

"Before I answer your question, let me ask you a something." Nina said.

The boy tilted his head slightly before smirking, "Go ahead."

She asked : "Who threw you in the well?"

He laughed and said : "I don't remember, something hit me on top of the head and all I can remember is my body crashing into the filthy water of that well." Afterwards Aaron sneered at Nina and continued to say : "I believe it's your turn to answer my question."

Nina squinted her eyes slightly before opening her mouth to say : "Soul-Void is the name of this curse. Did you climb out on your own?"

He asked : "What does that Soul-Void do?"

She gave him a sly smile before saying : "I did answer your question."

The boy frowned because she's taking advantage of his ignorance, "Yes I did." This time he made sure to give a brief answer to pay her back with a dose of the same medicine.

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The team-leader felt slightly annoyed when the information was minimized and scrunched her nose slightly in frustration, "Part of your Soul is going to scatter once you reach adulthood, you're going to lose the ability of reason and your actions would be driven by pure instincts."

'Soul!' Aaron wanted to say : "Are you perhaps mental?" But he remembered how he was transferred from his body on earth to this childish body in this strange and foreign world.

"How did you do it?" Nina interrupted his train of thoughts when she asked this question.

"By using pieces of my cloth to remove the slippery mold from the cracks between the cobblestones then sticking my fingers and toes there to hold my weight, sometimes I'd remove a few cobblestones and hang in their place for a while to rest when I'm tired." The boy intentionally said all that in a ridiculing manner before continuing to say : "If that part of my Soul is scattered, Is there a way to fix my Soul back to normal afterwards?"

"No," She tried to ignore his provocative tone of voice, "The loss would be permanent."

"I see." Aaron looked at the ground and fell into deep thought.

His actions resembling nothing of that of a child less than six years old to the eyes of both Nina and Sera.

Finally the boy raised his head and looked at Nina before saying : "Don't you have anything else to ask me?"

The woman smiled while thinking to herself : 'This sly kid.' But she still opened her mouth to say : "No. I don't."

"But I do." He said while frowning deeply.

Unlike earlier when it was an exchange of information, it somehow made him feel like losing to this beauty if he's the only one asking.

The team-leader smiled triumphantly before graciously saying : "I'll allow you to ask me one thing for free."

The boy fell silent for a few seconds before saying : "I'll owe you a favor if you let me ask twice."

"Hmm..." Sera gave the boy a strange look.

Nina found it amusing since the boy is almost certain to become a beast in human-skin a decade or so later anyway, what worth would that favor be when it happens.

Finally she decided to play along and said : "Ask away then."

"Other than having outside help when removing this Soul-Void Curse, is there anyway for me to get rid of it on my own?" Aaron seriously felt gratitude to this woman when she accepted his offer, after all he can't force her to expose anything against her will.

"This curse is simple for any member of our Whispering Sisters to remove, all it would take is a bit of time that's all." Once Nina noticed the confusion of the boy's expression she continued to say : "This Soul-Void curse is only lethal for males. Whenever we try to use the techniques we learned from the sisterhood to cure a female it's always a success, somehow it's the complete opposite whenever the afflicted is a male. The only ones to actually try and succeed in removing the Soul-Void curse from a male are the strongest few senior sisters from the main-branch of our sisterhood."

The team-leader smiled when she noticed how he cringed after receiving an answer that didn't relate to his question, at least not directly.

"The essence of this Soul-Void curse is that our teachings counter its wicked energy and fortify the special energy within the bodies of any female which doesn't cause any harm to the ones afflicted by the curse," Sera decided to make it simpler for the kid, "The opposite happens whenever we do the same to any male, the wicked energy of that curse keeps feeding on the special energy within the bodies of any male and keep growing stronger instead. In the end it awakens much earlier that it should and the afflicted mostly receive a merciful death."

Aaron nodded and said : "I do understand how it works, kind of." Afterwards he went on to say : "Those teachings of yours... I'm guessing that's something strictly for women. Is there an alternative? What makes you sisters so dominant against this revolting curse?"

"Our Souls are much stronger than mortals," Nina answered, "The alternative is for your Soul to reach a certain standard where the Soul-Void curse wouldn't be able to spread its roots anywhere within your Soul, unfortunately the teachings of our sisterhood aren't suitable for males."

Sera added : "But your Soul is pretty strong already, maybe it wouldn't be hard for you to gain more Soul power before reaching adulthood."

Aaron fell into silence again before asking : "Can you sense the power of my Soul?"

"En," Nina nodded, "Your Soul does have such a pretty color to its waves, it makes me feel calm just looking at it." She raised her hand and moved it at thin air as if to touch something gently.

The boy immediately decided to take advantage of this situation and added one AP to the Wisdom attribute before asking : "What about now?"

"Eh!" Both ladies were astonished once they noticed the slight difference in the waves being emitted from the boy's Soul.

"What did you do?" Sera asked.

Again Aaron added another AP to the Intelligence attribute, before he got to even ask anything he noticed the clear shock on both of their expressions.

"Was there a big difference this time?" He inquired.

Nina gawked before grabbing his shoulders while practically shouting at his face : "You still dare ask despite it being so obvious! Your Soul power increased by a whole one-fourth just like that. What exactly did you do?" The team-leader was losing her composure after witnessing this impossible feat.

The boy ignored her questions and asked : "How much more Soul power do I need before I'm able to remove this Soul-Void curse on my own?"

The beauty squinted her eyes at the boy while staring him down from a close distance before snorting and crossing her arms under her breasts, she decided to ignore him instead of saying anything to him.

Sera smiled faintly once she saw it happen before saying : "I'm not sure of the exact amount, but I'm certain that it would at least be ten-times more powerful than what you currently have."

"I see." Aaron said while doing his best to hide his joy from the two ladies.

Meanwhile inwardly he thought to himself : 'Isn't it just ten-times the current amount of Intelligence? If it's AP's, then I'm sure that I can earn those levels in no time at all. After all I'm a few years away from puberty!'

"Now for my second question." He said.

"Tsk. This shameless thing." Immediately he saw Nina looking away before clicking her tongue then said that.

"Heh," Sera laughed reflexively before getting a hold of her emotions once her team-leader gave her an annoyed look, "Little Ron. You already asked more than two questions earlier and sister Nina generously answered them all, yet you held back some answers from her."

"Humph." The beauty just snorted in agreement.

"That I did." He scratched his head abashedly while giving the pouting lady an apologetic smile.

Nina : "It's good that you know, now what do you want? Out with it already!"

"I just wanted to ask where are you taking Snow?" The boy opened his hands while shrugging his shoulders.

The lady ruffled his hair and made a mess of its wet strands while saying : "You don't have to worry about little sister Snow, the next time you two meet she's going to be a lot stronger than me. Just don't lose yourself to that curse before it happens."

Aaron nodded before saying : "Then I leave her in your care then, I'll owe you people another favor if you make sure that she's always treated well in your sisterhood."

Sera gave the boy a look of admiration before saying : "As long as she's dedicating herself to learn the teachings and grow strong, then nobody would dare bully little sister Snow in the sisterhood or anywhere else in the continent."

"Good," He said while removing his hair from Nina's intrusive hand and graced her with a frowning expression, "Maybe I'll visit her someday to ensure that, don't mind me being rude if you people treat her otherwise." Aaron added one of the three remaining Ability Points to the Wisdom attribute and the other two Ability Points to the Intelligence attribute when he said that.

This time Nina and Sera looked at Aaron as if he's a monster because his Soul power is more than two-fifths stronger than what it was a second earlier, not to mention that this happened after the boy just boosted his Soul power by one-fourth than it used to be a minute before that.

"We're done here." Lucy shouted once she exited the house and her two sisters sighed once they felt the tension in the air disappear.

"Sera. You're to continue monitoring the situation in the village as per usual and keep an eye on the candidates, your duty is to take care of little Ron while doing so." Nina said once Snow arrived.

Sera nodded and looked towards the boy who didn't show anything on his expression, the lady sighed inwardly because usually in these situation these little brats would bawl their eyes out crying whenever the Whispering Sisters took their relatives away.

What followed after was a string of commands from the girl to the boy on how to behave himself, how to treat big sister Sera when Snow is away, how to take care of the house she's graciously letting him sleep in.

Honestly Aaron felt like his ear would fall off from all the nagging and just thought to himself : 'Just leave already! Can't you see that I'm in a hurry to check how my Skills work?'