SC1 2.3 – Selling the Harvest

As soon as they entered it, Yunno and Yui happily looked at the roof and every corner of the hut. Having their own hut truly made them very happy. Well, they had almost no material possession, so even this simple hut was like a treasure for them.

After taking another gulp from my bamboo tube I explained my second intention. “Yunno, Yui, I will teach you a breathing technique to strengthen your body.”

“A breathing technique to strengthening our body?” Yunno curiously asked.

“Yes.”

The usually quiet Yui also curiously asked, “Can it really strengthening our body?”

“It can,” I firmly replied and inwardly added, ‘It will also prepare your body before I can teach you martial art and rune art.’

Actually, what I was going to teach to Yunno and Yui was breathing technique to absorb essence called Dragon Breath. However, for now I chose not to tell them the whole picture yet, and just mention it as a breathing technique to strengthening their body.

“We will learn it as best as we can,” Yunno said as determination flashed in her eyes.

Yui firmly nodded before adding, “If we have strong body, we will become good hunter, and can greatly help Uncle Manno pay his school tuition.”

“Grandma Kazuyori will be very proud of us,”

“Yeah,”

‘Fuck me.’ I could only inwardly curse, as Yunno and Yui were very eager to please their vicious grandmother. ‘These two are too naïve, almost beyond saving.’

However, I couldn’t blame them. It was their nature. Moreover, the Unfortunate Sanno that they trusted so much had raised them that way. I couldn’t force them to suddenly change their naïf way of thinking. All I could do was broadened their horizon gradually, one step at a time.

As for now I would focus my attention to teach them the Dragon Breath. “Well, let’s started it.”

“Okay.”

“Mhm.”

I immediately asked Yunno and Yui to sit in a meditation position. The back was ramrod straight, legs were folded and crossed, lower forearm lied on the thigh, both palm right under belly, left palm under right palm while the tip of both thumbs were slightly connected. After ensuring their posture was correct, I asked them to close their eyes and breathe normally.

Then, by using Shadow Hand I made a light tap at every vital point along their essence circuit. As a result, the two gradually went into a trance as their essence circuit woke up from dormant state. Now, with every breath they would also absorb essence in the air, and their essence circuit would channel it into their essence sea.

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I estimated it took six months before Dragon Breath fully integrated to their body. After that, even with normal breath they would absorb essence. Well, I’m not in hurry, so I would let the process went in normal pace.

Then, while Yunno and Yui were in a trance, I took my time to go to Rokube. Of course, even if I had carved protective rune in the fence, I still couldn’t leave the two for too long. Fortunately, I could use Shapeshift to change my form into a grey Peregrine Owl and enabled a high-speed traveling.

Even if it was only an ordinary bird from my home planet, Peregrine Owl had a lot of useful ability. It had the speed, vision, flight endurance, and strength of an eagle, along with sensitive hearing, silent flight, and night vision of an owl. In short, it was useful for long distance traveling or scouting an area. Moreover, Peregrine Owl was the only Shapeshift I could use with my current level.

After circling above the hut a few times, I flew towards Rokube. Peregrine Owl had max speed 360 km/h, so in a few breaths of time I already arrived above Rokube. After looking back at the hut and ensure everything was alright, I silently landed in a roof of an old house.

My size was only a slightly larger than pigeon, so my arrival did not draw too much attention. Other than a toddler who was curiously looking at me, only a pack of mice realized my arrival, and they immediately ran into hiding.

From where I stood, I easily observed a butcher shop across the street. After ensure the butcher shop didn’t have visitor, I went into an empty small alley and shape-shifted back into human form.

Then, as soon as I arrived in his shop, Butcher Jin immediately welcomed me with a question, “Sanno, where is your eldest brother? Do they send you here?”

“No,” I honestly replied. “I come to sell my harvest.”

More or less, Butcher Jin knew the circumstance in Tadaoka Household, so he immediately frowned. “Your mother will kill you.”

“Do you want to buy it or I have to go to other place?”

My straightforward respond made Butcher Jin gasped. It was natural because usually I was very polite when talking to him, but he didn’t think too deep about it and said, “Let me check it first.”

Without delay I put yesterday harvest to the table, and Butcher Jin’s eyes instantly widened as pile of hares, pheasants, and wild chickens suddenly appeared in front of him out of nowhere.

“Sanno, how could you have a spatial storage?”

“Don’t waste my time and immediately check it.”

“O-okay.”

For people in Rokube, spatial storage was not an alien thing. However, other than warrior or rune master, only super rich people could buy it. Usually, it was in the form of spatial ring or other accessories, and only had small capacity. As for spatial storage that was integrated into a soul, only a few high-level warriors or rune masters had it.

Therefore, it was natural that Butcher Jin was very nervous when checking my harvest. I didn’t come from rich household, so he must be thought that I was a warrior, and it was not a secret that some warriors didn’t have moral compass. However, Butcher Jin’s tense expression returned to normal after he found that my harvest was in a very good condition.

“It’s rare to get a fresh kill. I will take them all.”

“Okay.’

Without delay, Butcher Jin weighed my harvest while I checked the current price for wild game. The list was written in the blackboard, pinned to the wall next to the scale. It seemed hare still had the highest price. Actually, if I cleaned my harvest into a ready to use ingredient I could sold it a slightly higher, but I don’t have the time to do it.

A moment later, Butcher Jin had finished the calculation. Pretty similar to other merchant in Rokube, when he had a big transaction Butcher Jin would write his calculation using a white chalk in a small blackboard, and showed it to the hunter or buyer who made the transaction with him.

“Warrior Sanno, please check it.”

Butcher Jin handed over his calculation and I immediately checked it.

14 hares, 43.5 kg x 6 monn = 261 monn

4 pheasants, 11.3 kg x 4 monn = 45.2 monn

2 wild chickens, 4.2 kg x 3 monn = 12.6 monn

Total = 318 monn 80 cent.

“I’ll take it.”

After a smile, Butcher Jin paid me. He used three coins of 100 monn, eight coins of 2 monn, and four coins of twenty cent.

Then, as I put the coins into spatial storage I asked, “Do you have spare traveler cloak, boots, scarf, and bamboo hat that I can buy?”

“I have and it’s in a very good condition.”

“Can I check it?”

“Wait for a moment.”

After going inside his house for about ten minutes, Butcher Jin returned with the thing I asked and I immediately check it. Coincidently, the traveler cloak was pretty similar to Akatsuki Cloak from Naruto. It was a black jet cloak with some red clouds pattern. Even the scarf and the bamboo hat also had similar color and motif.

Honestly, even though I loved to watch Naruto, it was still too embarrassing to wear an outfit from an anime. But I didn’t saw other option, so I would take it for the time being.

I calmly asked, “How much?”

“50 monn,” Butcher Jin firmly replied. ”It is 15 monn cheaper compare to when I bought it in Kamakura City five months ago.”

“I will take it.”

Good boots and good cloak were expensive, so I didn’t try to haggle. After paying it, I immediately wore it. Then, I used Mesmerizing Spell to alter Butcher Jin’s memory. Now, what would he remembered was that he made a transaction with a warrior named Deitoro, and not Sanno from Tadaoka Household.

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