SC1 3.2 – Hardworking Kids

After reaching some distance from the hut, I changed to Peregrine Owl and flew to nearby river. Other than taking large amount of water, I also took a few big chunks of rock, as big as a van each. Then, I returned to the hut as Warrior Deitoro.

From a far I saw Yunno and Yui calmly sat in the hut’s door. They immediately stood as I entered the hut’s yard, and gave me a wary gaze.

“Are you Venerable Warrior Deitoro?”

Yunno nervously asked while Yui tightly gripped the hem of her shirt.

“I’m, and you can call me Uncle Deitoro” I replied casually

“Is it really okay for us to call you Uncle Deitoro?” Yui curiously asked.

“It is,” I firmly replied. “Did Sanno have starting teach you how to read and write?”

“He did.”

“Inside the hut?”

“Yes.”

I immediately checked the interior of the hut, and skillfully pretended as if it was my first time looking at hut’s roof from inside. Then, I said, “It’s too dark.”

“But we still can clearly see.”

“Yes, but it’s still too dark.”

Wasting no time I carved Conversion Rune on the hut’s roof. The formula I used was the type that would incorporate the transparent trait of a glass into a wood or bamboo cane. The formula was not complex or required a lot of essence, so in a few minutes I had carved eight Conversion Runes. Then, I activated it and slowly but surely, eight bamboo canes on the hut’s roof turned into semitransparent like a blurry glass.

“Whooaahh…” With sparkling eyes Yui looked at the hut’s interior that now became brighter.

Meanwhile, Yunno curiously looked at the bamboo canes that looked pretty similar like long neon lamp. “Uncle Deitoro, how do you change the bamboo cane into a glass?”

“I use Conversion Rune.”

“Conversion Rune?”

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“Yes, as long as you know the formula, Conversion Rune will absorb essence from the air and use it to manipulate some traits on a material,” I calmly explained. “In short, I didn’t change those bamboo canes into glass, but manipulate it to have transparent trait like a glass.

Rune Master who dedicated their life in the way of art is heavily using Conversion Rune in their work.”

Yui who I taught didn’t have interest to my explanation, suddenly turned her gaze to me. “Warrior Deitoro, can Conversion Rune manipulate the bamboo cane to become like clear glass instead of blurry glass?”

“It can, but clear glass will enable people to peeks inside the hut from the sky, and it will disturb our privacy.” As Yunno and Yui nodded their head I continued, “I heard from Sanno, you two know how to clean bamboo cane.”

“We do.”

“Good, help me clean some bamboo cane then.”

Wasting no time I took Yunno and Yui to bamboo grove around the hut. Then, I picked the first bamboo cane and cut it using wind blade, and as I expected my wind blade became slightly sloppy. It was also far weaker in term of power and speed. Fortunately, I had lot of bamboo canes I could use to re-sharpen my Wind Blade.

At the same time, Yunno and Yui looked at me with widened eyes and dropped jaw. Well, this was the first time they saw someone cut bamboo cane using transparent blade he produced by making a slash using his finger.

“This is Wind Blade,” I calmly explained. “It’s just a basic skill, but very useful in many ways.”

“Can a warrior use it to cut a metal?” Yui curiously asked.

“High level warrior can use it to cut metal.”

Then, Yunno turned her gaze to me and asked, “Is every warrior can use Wind Blade?”

“No, only warrior with wind attribute can master Wind Blade,” I replied as I cut the second to fifth bamboo cane in turn.

After nodding their head, Yunno and Yui started their work. With ease I cut around 50s bamboo canes. Then, while Yunno and Yui cleaned it, I took out the big rocks I collected earlier. By using wind blade, I turned the biggest rock into a few blocks and a slab. To cut a rock, I had to put more essence into my Wind Blade. Fortunately, I had more than enough essence to get all the blocks and slab I wanted, with a surface as smooth as mirror.

Then, I made a mono-block sitting toilet out of a medium size rock. Well, Tadaoka Household and other household in Sendai already adopted flushing system on their latrine, but they still used squatting toilet. As someone who had enjoyed the comfort of sitting toilet from earth, I decided to adopt it in my own latrine, and use Mechanical Rune to replicate the mechanism.

As for the rest of the rocks, I used it to make pave block. Each pave block was 15x10x8 cm, and I needed lot of them. However, sun had reached its peak when I just made the 23th pave block. So, I stopped my work.

‘Time for lunch,’ I muttered as I checked on Yunno and Yui.

I was not surprised that Yunno and Yui had produced a big pile of ready to use bamboo cane. However, it pained me because the two never asked me if we already had enough bamboo canes or how many more we had to gather.

They also didn’t utter any complain even though sweats had drenched their clothes like a flood, while their stomach continuously rumbled. No wonder the Damnable Kazuyori picked them as a target for exploitation.

Wasting no time I called them, “Yunno, Yui, we will continue the job to collect bamboo canes tomorrow.”

“Okay.”

Yunno obediently replied while Yui nodded their head. The two then walked over to me.

“Show me your palms,” I said as soon as Yunno and Yui arrived in front of me.

The two didn’t immediately comply with my request, while hesitance was visible in their eyes. Wasting no time, I reached their hands and checked their palms. As I thought, Yunno and Yui had a lot of new blister on their little palms. I’m sure their wrist must be very sore too.

“Does it hurt?”

“It does,” Yui honestly replied with her childish tone. However, at the same time steel determination was clearly visible on her eyes. “But we still can continue to clean the bamboo cane.”

“We still need lot of more bamboo cane because I plan to build lot of constructions, but we will do it one step at a time.” After a paused I continued, “As for now, let me heals your hand using Healing Spell.”

Wasting no time, I used Healing Spell to heal Yunno and Yui. In an instant, their palm returned to normal state and as good as new, while they looked at it with awe.

“Whoaaa… the blister are gone,” The usually quiet Yui happily said.

“It’s not hurt anymore, is it?”

“Yes,” Yui replied. “The sore in our wrists and arms are also gone.”

“Let’s rest for a bit while enjoying snack.”

“Rest a bit while enjoying snack?” Yunno curiously asked.

“Yes, working hard without proper energy intake is not good for our body.”

I calmly explained, and it made Yunno and Yui looked at me strangely. Even if I had already told them that when working with Warrior Deitoro they would eat snack at noon, it seemed this kind of concept was still too alien for them.

‘Well, sooner or later they would get used to it.’

Without further ado I used Shadow Hand to move the ready to use bamboo cane to the hut’s front yard. After that, we went to prepare our lunch.

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