SC1 14.5 – Forced Breakthrough

After Yuko applied the cheap medicine on her back, Yunno closed her eyes almost instantly. Yui then sat next to her.

After looking at the two for a moment Yuko weakly said, “Yui, I’m sorry. It’s my fault.”

Yui immediately turned her gaze to Yuko and looked straight to her eyes. “Yui hate Aunt Yuko. Yui will hate Aunt Yuko forever.”

Yui said her words using her usual childish tone in half whisper, but I could feel her determination, and it seemed Yuko also felt it.

Yuko’s eyes flicker for a moment, and then she said, “You can hate me forever. I deserve it. But please don’t provoke your Grandma and get hurt.

I will try to contact Warrior Deitoro tonight and explain everything. I will convince him to take you and Yunno back.”

Yui didn’t answer. She looked at Yuko for a moment before turning her gaze back to Yunno, and her pain silently grow as she recalled the beating from Kazuyori. At the same time, I felt a dark seed started to form in her little heart. I instantly let out a deep sigh. Now, Yui also had potential to become calamity that could destroy the whole planet.

The possibility for the worst of the worst had just presented itself right in front of my eyes. If both Yunno and Yui became calamity, even the combination of all Blackwing’s elders would only barely won the fight, and half of them would die in the process.

Ironically, this scenario became possible because of a seemingly insignificant act from Kato. I wondered, maybe it would be better if I killed her back then.

After letting out a heavy sigh I put my attention back to Yui’s memory. After giving Yunno and Yui a last glance, Yuko got up to her feet and walked to the door. After she exited the firewood stash, Tanno said something to her, but Yuko said nothing in return. All I heard was her fading footstep as she walked back to main building.

A moment later Yunno slowly opened her eyes and put her fingers on her mouth to signal Yui to not make any sound. Then, she said in a gentle whisper, “Yui, come closer and listen to me very carefully.”

“Mhm,” Yui softly replied and then she lied down next to Yunno.

“We can’t rely on Aunt Yuko to contact Uncle Deitoro.” After a moment of pause Yunno added, “You have to escape and explain everything to Uncle Deitoro.”

“Big Sis,” Yui worriedly said. “What if Uncle Deitoro doesn’t want to take Big Sis back after seeing the token of prophecy from Wanderer Oracle, or even returning Yui to Grandma Kazuyori.”

“That’s what I worry the most, and that’s why you have to escape first.” Seeing Yui gave her a confuse look, Yunno immediately added. “After explaining everything to Uncle Deitoro, don’t go back here with him and just stays in the hut. Then, hide yourself somewhere where you can observe Uncle Deitoro’s return from a far.

If he returns to the hut without me, don’t go back to the hut. Stay in the woods near Toka Valley, on the third day I will escape on my own and go finds you. If we are lucky enough, maybe Big Brother Sanno will also leave the house with me.

Then, we will figure out what we will do after that.”

“Mhm,” Yui obediently nodded.

“I only need a bottle of water and a bit of food, so I will move everything else in my spatial ring to yours and you have to guard it.”

“But what if Big Sis doesn’t manage to escape?” Yui worriedly asked.

After a moment of silence Yunno determinedly said, “If I fail to escape and something happen to me, you have to survive on your own. Change your name, go to other town, and do whatever necessary to survive.

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Survive and get stronger day by day, that’s your highest priority until you are strong enough to control your own life.”

“Mhm,” Yui firmly nodded. “But Big Sis has to survive too even if you fail to escape. One day, Yui will came back to pick you up, and take revenge on everyone who put us on misery.”

“Mhm,” Yunno firmly nodded. “I will do my best to survive even if Grandma Kazuyori breaks my leg, and I will wait you here until the day you come to pick me up.”

“It’s a promise,” Yui said while tears started to streak down on her cheek.

“It’s a promise,” Yunno firmly said. “Now, I will explain how you should carry your escape.”

Wasting no time, Yunno explained the escape plan while moving food, snack, water, clothes, weapons, and pocket money she got from Kato to Yui’s spatial ring. Once she finished her explanation, she asked Yui to repeat it. After that, she kissed Yui’s cheeks before hugging her tightly.

When Yui refused to let her go, Yunno didn’t push her away. She just rubbed Yui’s back gently and patiently waited until Yui was ready to let her go on her own. And finally, Yui let a go her hug. After gently wiping out Yui’s tears, Yunno kissed Yui on the cheeks for the last time.

After that, Yui got up to her feet and with heavy steps she walked to the door. Right in front of the door, she stopped and turned her gaze back to Yunno. After Yunno encouraged her by nodding her head, Yui then put every drop of her focus to the escape plan.

“Uncle Tanno,” Yui said in her childish tone while taking out her kodachi. “Yui know another recipe. I will write it down, but please give Yui some waters. Yui is very thirsty.”

After a moment of silence Tanno replied, “What recipe do you have?”

“It’s recipe for peanut butter cookies.”

Tanno didn’t reply, but I could hear he opened the lock. At the same time, Yui walked back three steps and took a stance. Her right leg was one step forward in front of her body, while her left hand tightly held her kodachi next to her waist. Then, as the door was slowly opened she slightly bend her knee, and finally Tanno entered her sight.

“What are you doing?” Tanno creased his brow as he found Yui stood in front of him holding her kodachi.

At the same time Yui made her move. She propelled her body forward and in a blink of one eye she arrived in front of Tanno. Then, while rotating her waist she thrust her left hand using every drop of power she could muster.

Baaamm!

Tanno’s eyes instantly widened as the hilt of kodachi in Yui’s arm perfectly hit him in the gut, and it took one whole second before the damage showed its effect.

“K-euk…. You devi….”

Tanno couldn’t finish his words and fell to his knee while clutching his gut. Then, his body dropped to the side as his eyes rolled back. Tanno passed out even before his body hit the ground.

Honestly, the way how Yui defeated Tanno gave me a chill in the nape. The move she used was the move I used once on Kato, when we had night sparring. It seemed Yunno and Yui silently peeked on us.

However, seeing and performing a movement was two different beasts. It would require a lot of practice to master even the simplest attack movement. Yet, Yui perfectly copied my move in her first try by relying on half-mastered Wind Step. Moreover, her movement was swift and determined, like a movement from a warrior rich with deadly combat experience.

‘Her learning ability is truly too monstrous,’ I muttered as I put my attention back to Yui’s memory.

After dragging Tanno’s body into the hut and closed the door, Yui sneaked her way to the wall in the backyard. Unfortunately, one of my nephews saw her from the window on his room.

“Mother!” My nephew shouted out as loud as he could. “Yui tries to run.”

Commotion instantly broke out. In a blink Danno and my sister-in-law appeared in the distance. They ran as they could towards Yui, but it was too late. Yui had reached the wall in the backyard and with ease she used Wind Step to jump out of it.

Her landing was rather rough and she fell to her knee, but she could handle it. After that, she put her kodachi back to her spatial ring and ran to oak forest before climbing up to South Ridge, and darted over the ridgeline straight to south.

As she pushed herself beyond her limit, she gradually mastered Wind Step. Even so, Yui still tried to push herself harder to the point she fell several times because she lost her balance. Well, it was natural as in her mind she had only one thing. She had to reach the hut as fast as she could.

Then, the hut finally entered her sight and Yui pushed herself one more time and brought her Wind Step into another level of perfection. And as soon as she arrived before me she exploded into the loudest cry she ever had, while putting every drop of her hope on me.

‘I will not let you down,’ I muttered as I increased my speed. ‘I will torture those mother fuckers for you.’

A moment later, Sendai entered my sight and I felt a rush that I thought I had already forgotten.

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Author’s note:

Just in case someone wondering the set up for culinary tradition in this work, the MC will use the culinary diversity at modern Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea as the base for his culinary goal, which basically absorb almost all culinary tradition around the world, something that only a good country with good people will be able to do so.

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