《Urban Adventurer》 Prologue The cab had flipped so many times that I had become disorientated before my head even sustained the concussion that had me drifting in and out of consciousness. I was fleetingly aware of the bloody taste in my mouth. I could feel it grazing my teeth and soaking my tongue My bones and muscles and joints and organs felt like they were being crumbled and smashed into a tiny box. My lungs contracted with such force that I was afraid they would fold into themselves. My torso and head smashed up against the cold iron while my arms and legswent numb. The world must have kept flickering its figurative light switch because my vision kept flashing from bitter darkness to blinding white light. The pain, God, why so much pain? Just when I thought I would die with the only sound that filled my ears was the crushing of glass mixed with the distinct crackles of my bones. Then suddenly, I heard a voice. "Doth thou want to live? or doth thou want to die?" W...Who? Rescue team? no... "What is thy choice?" The voice, rather than entered through my ear I felt like it echoed inside of my head. If I didn''t know any better, I would say that a god like entity had just spoken into my mind. And Iwould be reincarnated into another world.If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. "....a...i...." No good... my voice couldn''t come out. I couldn''t move myneck or my head, but I could feel someone was standing in front of me, looking at me overwhelmed by the despair. I want to live! I don''t want to die!! "I see, so thou hath already make thy choice." No... Under my body, I could feel the faint breath of my youngest sister... as for the second one, I knew she was somewhere near... ".....P...uh...le...se" Please, please! please!! save them first!!! Miku is still seven, there are still many things she hasn''t seen yet!! Sora... like hell, she will accept this kind of fate. And if she died I bet she would come back as a ghost and haunt me for the rest of my life. But even talking was too much forme right now. As the time went on my eyes became heavy and heavier. ......... When I regained consciousness I found myself in a hospital bed and who would''ve thought that a miracle would happen to us. In the crashbetween a cab and a truck, If one looked at the pictures that were taken on the site immediately after the incident, our survival sounded like a lie. With only minor injuries, after a few days had passed we went home and lying around doing nothing for several days until we started to feel better. But after the sudden accident I no... we changed. Introduction Morning, at a certain elementary school. A small girl with lightly tanned skin with short neck lengthed wood brown hair that also matched her eyes colour was walking at her school corridor toward her classroom. With a big grin and without hesitation, she slid the door open and shouted. "Good morning everyone~!!!" Every kid, the one that was cleaning the blackboard, the one that was sword fighting with their ruler, the one that was chatting, every kid stopped whatever they were doing and shifting their''s attention to the girl that was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt that covered most of her aqua blue shorts, Hattori Miku. "Beugh!?" But the one that greeted after her was a headbutt charge coming from the girl with chubby cheeks and black hair length went down to her shoulder blades and had a side parting that was swept to the right. The girl had a light pink flower pin, pinning back the hair which was on her left side, Niwa Tsubame. "Gwaaaah!!!" And tears immediately fell from her eyes as soon as she saw her. "*Sob* Miku!! *Sob* H..he is taking my pencil case!!!" Said Tsubame as she was pointing toward the tan skin giant boy with short buzzcut hair and a strange scar at the bottom of his right eye; holding a flower pattern pencil case up in the air. "You''re short!! this is a training so you can be taller!" Nodding for a few times with a satisfied smile on her face, "Hm, hm, what a warm welcome you guys have!!" Said Miku cheerfully. Moving Tsubame away from her body, Miku stood, pulled a rubber band out of her pocket and walked toward the giant boy, Gouda Kentarou. "What? You want to fight me?!" Said Kentarou as he gave Miku an intimidating glare. If one was looking, Kentarou had the body size twice of Miku; both on the width and the height. It was like looking at a monkey trying to pick a fight with a gorilla. As Miku was pulling her rubber band, Kentarou instantly closed his eyes but rather than a sharp jolt of pain on his skin, the only thing he heard was an awe from the other kids. "Woahhhh." "It....so coool!!!!" "From today onward you are our new boss!!!" Kentarou slowly opened his eyes and in front of him, he saw all of his subordinates had already surrounded Miku. Tying the right side of her hair into a pig-tail, Miku was showing off her X-shaped scar that went from the base of her forehead, cutting through her right eyebrow and resting right on top of her right eye-lids. "Khukhukhu, I have a bigger scar than yours so I am the boss of this class!!" Said Miku. "Now as the boss, I order you to return Tsubame''s pencil case!!" "Wha...what kind of rule is that?! don''t go making up your own rule!" Said Kentarou. "But, Ken-chan~ you are the one that made that rule." Said Boy A. "I did?! *Ahem* so what?! that rule isn''t valid anymore!" Said Kentarou. "A new rule! That''s it! the one that can take the pencil case will be the new boss!" "Whaat~? that''s not fair~ you''re like the tallest kid in 2nd grade~" Said Boy B. "Shut up! if you can''t do it then I''m still-" Couldn''t even able to finish his words, right in front of him Miku was leaping, leaping higher than she usually did, in a single momentum she took the pencil case away from Kentarou''s hand, and she didn''t stop there. Her body continued to launch into the air until her toe was touching Kentarou''s head and Miku was using it as a stepstone to do a summersault. Silence hung in the air like the suspended moment before a falling glass shattered on the ground.It stretched thinner and thinner, like a balloon blown big, until the temptation to rupture it was too great to resist. The silence was surrounding her trembled body like a blanket. "Gwaaaah!! Miku~~~!! That''s so cooool! *Sob* " Said Tsubame with tears flowing down from her cheek although deep in her heart she wanted to see that again. "Ho...how do you do that?!!" Shouted Kentarou. "D..did anyone see me?! Hey, hey Tsubame you see that right?! right?!" Shouted Miku. "I don''t know! I just jump and then my body suddenly go whoosh and then bam!!" Lunch break, at a normal middle school. The rooftop was crowded with people, and the chaos was so perfect, like a movie. There was the couple that was always making out on the left side of the roof, and about ten feet farther away, the cliquey girls. Opposite them, the cliquey jocks, and between them, the parade of geeks with their huge weekly magazines. There were the aerospace tech kids who never did anything but make paper planes and throwing off from the roof and the fashion kids that wheeled mannequins. And then there was Hattori Sora. Fifteen years old girl with petite figure compared to the other girls on her age. She was wearing her white button up shirt and navy blue skirt like the other student at her school, her tan coloured skin perfectly matched her long silky black hair. "Why can''t a terrorist just take over this school or something like that." Said Sora as she lazily looked to the schoolyard while munching a bread. "...Why would they do that?" Said Muto Anzu, a tall and slender girl with long flowing blue hair that hung between the middle of her thighs and her knees. "HAHAHAHAHAHA!!" And next on their side, they could hear a loud laugh echoed on the rooftop. "Oh my gawd. Hey, look at this!! God! this is hilarious!!" Said Konya Pinako, a chubby girl with unkempt curly peanut coloured hair. "This is like so, sooo stupid~" She continued as she showed her phone screen to Sora and Anzu. With a vein throbbing on her forehead,Sora stretched Pinako''s cheeks with an annoyed face. "Because of people like her!! Godamnit! Stop showing off your new phone!! You''re doing this on purpose, aren''t you?!" Said Sora. "And here I am getting stuck without a phone for ten days!!!"The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. "Oh? you''re not getting a new one?" Asked Anzu. Still stretching Pinako''s cheeks as she wriggling in pain, shouting andtrying to break away from Sora. "No!!! My father said my brother is the one that needed it the most!" Said Sora. "Like! what the hell?! Even though he only used it to play some stupid card game!!" "Den doh yu wan to borrow my old one?" Said Pinako. Letting off her hand from Pinako''s cheeks. "Yes!!!" Sora shouted with starry eyes. Rubbing her red cheeks. "Then~ let''s grab it right now!!" Said Pinako. "And after we take the phone we can go to Mac to celebrate Sora for getting discharged from the hospital!!" "So... we''re skipping again?" Asked Anzu. "Yup~ I mean just take a look at the weather!" Said Pinako. Sora looked up, the sky was one of those baby-blue skies, not the psychedelic candy-blue nor the washed out grey. The clouds were as puffs of radiant joy, ready to disperse into the wind, to travel the Earth. Pure reflected rays dappled and swirling with the skyas if inviting those born with wings to ride warm thermal air heaven-bound. With one glance Sora took a deep sigh. "Even though this is my first day at school." Said Sora. "Well, whatever, let''s meet at the usual place." Scattering, each one of the girls was heading to their classroom and taking their bag, heading to the back of their school but... "Huh? It''s gone?" Said Pinako as she began to rummage the bush, searching for the wooden crate that they usually use as a base to jump out of the three meters stone wall. "So now what?" Asked Sora. "I am not going back to the class." Anzu, without saying any word began to stretch her body, raising her arms and at ease grabbed the top of the wall and started moving her legs to push and pull body upward. "...Sora, you first." Said Anzu as she stretched her hand toward Sora. Silently nod, Sora was planning to jump to reach Anzu''s hands but... "Huh?!" Said the dumbfounded Sora as she was leaping over Anzu''s head in a single jump without running momentum. After school, at an ordinary high school. As the time passed on and the orange sunset began to fill the classroom, the ceaseless buzzing of the classroom and the unlimited amount of energy the students contained slowly decreased. One by one with a cheerful face they started leaving the classroom until I, Hattori Tsubasa, a seventeen-year-old boy with a medium build, honey coloured skin, medium short length black hair and black circles beneath my black eyes was sitting alone in the classroom. Weird. It''s too weird!! My first school day after the incident and the total amount of people who talked to me was one! And it was the teacher!! I was sure enough there were people who closely checked up on those who survived a huge accident, moreover shouldn''t a normal person would be curious to hear more about the accident?! especially the girl?! Hattori~ I saw the news that must have been really scary right? Said the black haired glasses girl with big boobs. Are you okay? I-its not like I care about you! Stupid! Said the twin-tailed small girl. Yo~ if you need something feel free to call me! Said the sporty short haired girl. That was supposed to happen, or at least I thought should happen, but in reality, they were only watching him from the distance. At first, I thought they didn''t dare to start talking with me, or they were just too shy but even after waiting for a long time, no one was talking to me. With a deep long sigh, I started collecting his things.Even though I already prepared the answer to their questions. Silently I clenched a piece of small paper, filled with questions and answers and silently put it into my pocket, trying to destroy the evidence of my wish fullfilment. That''s right, this is normal... because we normally don''t interact, I didn''t think they would suddenly treating me like I''m the man of the day. Yes, It''s not like I expected anything either.I thought as I was trying to get away from the reality.God... I feel so stupid right now. Once again, after a big sad long sigh I left the school and ending the day as usual, but somehow I couldn''t shake an uneasy feeling that I forgot about something, something important. "Watch out!!!" Shouted someone. Like a big fool, I turned my head toward the voice source and what welcomed me was a baseball ball, hitting right in the middle of my nose. "Guogh?!" "Sorry!! Are you fine?!" Shouted someone from the baseball field. Li...like hell I''m fine!! Iwas holding his nose, trying to stop the bleeding while crouching on the ground and trying to search for my glasses. "Huh?" Suddenly I realized I wasn''t wearing my glasses for the whole day, and weirdly enough, I didn''t feel any pain nor any blood coming out of my nose. "Can you throw it back?!!" Shouted the same person from the baseball field. Now I just realizing the uneasy feeling that I had was that I forgot to wear glasses, but weird... my vision was crystal clear, a 20/20 vision or maybe better. "Hello~ Can you hear me?" "Ah..." Getting dragged into reality by his voice, I grabbed the ball and threw it back to the baseball guy, but... an untrained kid I was, rather than flying straight the ball was flying up into the air, ten meters, twenty meters and it kept going higher until it became a dot on the sky before the gravity started doing its work to pull the ball back into the earth. "...Huh? Huh? Huh?!" I was so surprised until my eyes started twitching wildly, no... I wasn''t surprised by the fact that I could throw the ball higher than the school building, but by the fact that my eyes could still see the ball, the shape, the colour, the red lining, and the dirt. "Dude!! That''s amazing!!!" Shouted the baseball kid. "Oi! How about joining our team?" ??Does he just talk to me?No, does he just inviting me to the baseball team?! Me?! No, no, no, there must be someone else behind my back right now. But, I didn''t need to turn my head. I didn''t know how but I knew there was no one else behind my back right now. As the baseball guy and several other of his friends were walking in my direction, I was overwhelmed. Just when I thought that nothing special would happen, suddenly I got invited to the sports team. Too crazy, this kind of situation was too crazy for me. I didn''t prepare an answer to this kind of situation. Heck, in truth, I never thought I would get that kind of question coming out from the sports jocks like them. I was so overwhelmed that I started to run without answering their question, my feet were kissing the ground. Perhaps a little while ago I would have balked at idea of running so far and fast, but now I relished the prospect. I felt like my feet were made to run. My breathing was steady, my heartbeat was strong. And the faster I ran, the more I remembered about the accident, the voice I heard back then. Yes, that accident was weird, my phone was in my pants pocket, and it was completely obliterated, heck, my uniform was even reduced to pulp. It was just too weird that I didn''t have any major injury. But I just couldn''t remember the detail nor the conversation that I had with the mysterious voice. And the next thing I realized, I was standing in front of my father''s house, watching Sora hiding behind the wall, shaking her head, looking around as if she had a stalker stalking her. "...What are you doing?" Putting her index finger in front of her lips, she instantly grabbed my arm and pulling me into the wall. "Psst!! I think someone is stalking me." "Seriously?! E..erm... do I need to call the police? wait! are you sure about that?" With furrowed eyebrows. "Goddamnit! Just take a look at that woman!" Sora whispered, grabbed my collar, pulled me and forcing me to face at her stalker. Indeed, it was a woman, maybe she was in her thirty? no... she looked younger than that but at the same time, she looked old and wise. But what really attracted my attention was her appearance. The woman was wearing white long tunic reaching all the way down into her heels with the same coloured shoulder drapes and brown leather belt. Her hair was sunset coloured dreadlock and although she was standing a dozen meters away from us and yet I could clearly tell the colour of her eyes, it was silvery golden. "...Cosplayer?" I couldn''t help but muttered that word when I saw her silver coloured crescent-shaped tiara with white, pure white feather sticking out in the middle. And she was waving her hand to me... in which I replied it back. "You stupid!!" Sora shouted and doing a karate chop at my head. "Why the hell are you waving back to her?!" ...It hurts... even though a baseball ball that was flying straight into my nose didn''t hurt like at all. "...She seems harmless." I said as I rubbed my head. "Harmless?! Listen, you stupid virgin! she''s been constantly following me all day long!" Sora said as she tried to take a peek at the stalker woman. "Huh? where did she go?" She was right, the woman was already gone from our vision but there was one thing that was bothering me from Sora''s word. All day long? "Sora, lay low for a bit, will you? geez, this is your first day at school and you''re already skipping? mother and father is gonna kill you if they heard this." "So what? it''s not like they have the time for us either." Sora said as she constantly looking around, squinting her eyes, searching for the mysterious woman whereabouts. "Heh! seems like she''s gone." She said with a big smirk. Nonchalantly she opened the door and walked into the house, as I followed her from behind, just to make sure I locked the door. "WHAT ABOUT SANTA CLAUS?!" From the living room, I could hear Miku''s shout. Hm? Weird... I didn''t see any unfamiliar shoes laying around. "Gah!!! It''s you?! But how?!" Hearing Sora''s shout echoing from the living room, I stood and immediately checked what was going on, and like a broken record, I repeated the same words as she just said when I saw the stalker woman, sitting down in the living room as she nonchalantly drinking the tea. "Ufufu~ we shall talk again at later times, little wench." Said the stalker, and she shifted her gazes toward me and Sora. "Don''t beest shy, cometh, sitteth down, I am not going to bite thee." The Moon, The Hunt and The Wild Animals. Right in front of my eyes, I could see Sora was rushing straight into the mysterious woman, and without hesitation, she swung her leg right into the mysterious woman''s face but... "Guogh?!" But why the hell she was kicking me?! I was sure I stood at the entrance and Sora was in the middle of the living room, and yet here she was, with her leg kicking straight right into my stomach. "Oh my, what a high spirited wench thou art." Said the mysterious woman. "Hah?!" Confused, Sora was looking back and forth toward me and the mysterious woman. "But how?!" "Ufufu, now why don''t thee two joineth us?" With a snap from her finger, suddenly I was sitting in the middle of the room, Sora on my left side and Miku on the right. "First thing first, why don''t thee two said thanks to your brother?" "Thanks~" Miku stood and bowing her head while she said this. "But... I was standing over there." On the other hand, my other sister was blankly looking back and forth toward the entrance and her current position. Yeah sis I had the same feeling like you right now. And I was wondering how Miku could you stay calm in a situation like this and did you let a stranger entering our house?! I cradled my head in confusion, this wasn''t good, my brain had stopped working, there were too many questions, like too many even I couldn''t decide what I should do right now. "Ufufu~ as I thought, thou doth not remember anything." Said the mysterious woman. "No wonder you guys hadn''t contacted me." "But I guess that can''t be helped." Said the mysterious woman. "Then allow me to explain your situation." With a friendly smile, the mysterious woman was stretching her hand, showing off her palm to me and Sora. "C''mon you two, grab my hand." Nervously I reached out to her hand, my palm was wet and full of sweat from the nervousness alone. I meant... besides from my mom, Sora and Miku. This was the first time I made a contact with another woman, and a beautiful one if I must say, Ah... As I felt the smooth skin on her palm,I began to remember what was going on. I was bathing in my own blood, the amount... I was sure I was lost more than a lethal dose. Under my body, I thought I was protecting Miku, but the truth I was squashing her down, and Sora was getting stuck on her seat, hanging upside down. And I made a contract. In exchange for our life, without considering their consent, I agreed that we would become her follower. And as I snapped back into the reality, I felt someone was pulling my collar and lifting my body. "You!!! Why didn''t you ask me first?!" Said Sora. To be honest, words left my mouth either it was becauseof the amazement that she lifted my body, or because I got choked or because she asked something very stupid and unreasonable. Though, seeing her lifting my body made me remembered an important question. "Erm... Mrs Goddess, I''m wondering, did you do something to our body?" "Ufufu~ that''s only a small bonus for my follower." Said the Goddess. "And you guys have a duty to be fulfilled after all." Duty? huh... I didn''t know why but I was shivering when I heard that word. Though, another question popped up into my mind. "When you said you guys... is that only us? how about the cab driver?" I said as Sora was wildly shaking my body. "Oh... that''s a shame but god and goddess have their own limit, as for me, I can''t help those who have already died." Said the Goddess. "Then, why us? and what''s our duty?" With a friendly smile, the goddess spoke. "It isn''t us, but it''s you. but it has been a very long time since I see a sibling that receive my blessing, so why not?" "And about your duty, I''ll tell it when the time comes." Said the Goddess. "Now, why don''t you two sit down first?" Once again, with a snap from her finger both of me and Sora was sitting on the floor.Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. "Ufufu, now that''s more like it." Said the Goddess. "Little wench~ can you introduce me to your siblings?" Standing up, with a proud face Miku walked next to the said Goddess and clearing her throat. "*Ahem*Lief brother, lief sister. Here I act as the messenger to introduce the goddess of the hunt, wild animals, and the moon to thee." I could only tilt my head when I heard Miku spoke like that. "And I have many names, Artemis, Diana, Bendis and many more, feel free to address any of those names." Said Artemis. "Hey! Mrs Artemis! Do I do that right?!" Asked Miku. "Ufufu~ not bad for a first-timer." Said Artemis. "Then what about my reward?!" Asked Miku. "Ufufu~ then as the reward you''ll be the one to receive the first blessing between your siblings." Artemis was stretching her hand, signalling Miku to grab her hand, in which she silently followed her. Though, at first, Ithought there would be something like a big shine or magic circle or something like that. But a second later, Miku was shouting while showing off an adult thumb sized deer tattoo under her right wrist. Wait... Tattoo?!!! No, no, no that was too flashy!! And was they okay to receive a tattoo?! But even before I moved or asked for another alternative, she already grabbed our hand. For Sora, it was a bow and arrow tattoo and as for me, it was a crescent-shaped tattoo. And before I was able to protest or comment about the tattoo, she had already gone, leaving only a small note, telling us that she would send a messenger to us, and how to pray to her. "...Touch the tattoo while thinking about the symbol or calling my name three times." Was what was written on the paper. "P.S or you could just pray like the old day." "P.S.S For my offering, I prefer honey." "P.S.S.S Cookie is fine too." Truth to be told, once she was gone thousand of question suddenly rose into my mind, like why was she stopped using Shakespearean?! what was offering? and she didn''t tell the duty!! But.. no matter how much I shouted her names, she didn''t come back. In the end, I touched the tattoo and thinking about the crescent moon, a game like-screen appeared right in front of my face. There were several options that I could access, it was: Status, Blessing, Offering, Communing. My heart skipped a beat when I saw those options, curiously I touched the first option: Status. And instantly my lips curled up, I knew this wasn''t the right time for me to think about this kind of things, but I just couldn''t contain the hype when I saw the rpg-ish status screen. Health: 25. Mana: 7. God Point (GP): 0 Muscles: +2 Increasing physical power, increasing muscles mass, increasing health. Bones: +1 Increasing jump distance and power, increasing bones density, increasing stamina. Nerves: +3 Increasing running speed, increasing body control and flexibility. Vision: +3 Identifying weak spot, Increasing visual acuity. Hearing: +1 Increasing body balance, increasing hearing radius and sensitivity. Sensing: +2 Identifying mana and increasing mana perception range. Fortitude: +3 Increasing physical damage resistance, increasing stamina, increasing health. Reflex: +1 Increasing reaction speed, increasing thought process. Resistance: +2 Increasing magic resistance, increasing the ability to recover from negative effects. Knowledge: +2 Increasing magic power, increasing memory capacity. Charisma: +1 Increasing the ability to influence others, increasing the ability to increasing or decreasing magical presence. Meditation: +3 Increasing the ability to concentrate longer, increasing Mana. For me, the term of health and mana wasn''t something weird or unusual. And the rest of the status also gave a simple explanation, leaving God Point as the only big question and the numerical problem as the small questions. Next, I opened the Blessing screen. Blessing Snare Trap (Artemis): Create a magical snare trap made from avine. Mana cost: 1. I rubbed my chin as I thought blessing was another way to say it was a skill menu if this was a video game. "Oi! how do you do that?" Asked Sora. Silently I gave the note to her, and just as I wanted to check the Offering menu. "What''s Mana?" Miku tilted her head as she watched her screen. "Hey, Nii-chan what''s Charisma? what''s visual acuity?" "What''s muscle mass?" She continued. "Can I shoot a laser beam from my eyes?!" I turned my head, looking at her, watching her tilting her head left and right with a dozen of question mark flying out. "What''s thought process?" "How do you read this?" It wasn''t like I know the precise answer either... but I briefly explained about the function of each status to the best of my knowledge. "And visual acuity is the sharpness of the retinal focus within your eyes." "What''s retinal?" For each question that I answered, another question arose... yeah... I sucked on this kind of things. "Oi! How do I use the blessing?!" Asked Sora. "Duh... I have no idea too." "What''s a negative effect?" Asked Miku. "...Something bad, like sickness maybe?" "Oi, why is your health is higher than mine?!" Asked Sora. "What''s thought process?" Asked Miku. ...Seemed like this would take a long time to answer their questions. Preparation The buzzer of my phone vibrated like an annoyed rattlesnake living in my pocket. I scooped it up, spoke into it, and listened for a moment. It was the usual, my father had an emergency case he couldn''t leave and that meant bye bye family dinner, but I guessed this was a good thing, this would give some time to calm myself and arrange my thoughts. I took a deep breath, let it out, took another one, and breathed it out again. I needed a solitude to think about our excuses. And just when the gear on my brain started rotating, the noises engulfed me, completely stopping the rotating gear, rendering any logical thought or conclusion impossible. What was I thinking? On the top of my head, a raven with the feathers as black as tar stood. With its ebony beak, it repeatedly pecked my head, pulled my hairs, and paidno attention to the neighbour when it croaked for as loud as it could. Resting on Sora''s hand was a falcon with the feathers as grey as ash. With its golden beak and talons, it silently stood on her right hand, while creating crunching sound as it munched the chocolate cookies. And being hugged by Miku was an owl with the feathers as white as snow. It hadfluffy wings and a bulky head that made it look larger than the most owls, it wasthrowing its feathers into the air as it was trying to get away from Miku''s hug. So how did I can explain to my father we suddenly got three birds? Yes, with a single glance I knew it was Artemis''s messenger. Why? Because the birds literally broke into our house. The raven came by unlocking the lock on the windows and the falcon knew how to open the refrigerator and the cookie jar. Anyhow, I couldn''t think off any good excuses about how we got those birds, well it wasn''t like our father would come home tonight, so I guessed I had another day to think about our excuses. And as both of Sora and Miku were busy playing with their birds, I continued to explore the menu. Offering appeared to be a shop, the place where we could buy equipment or item, and God Point seemed to be the currency to buy those things. When I chose Communing, another screen popped up. Hattori Tsubasa communing time: 59 seconds left. Huh? Then what? Whatkind of feature was this? How about my messenger? Do you like it? Suddenly I heard Artemis''s voice rang inside of my head, just like the time when I was in the accident. It felt weirdif Ihad to say, hearing someone else spoke into your mind but it seemed Communing was where we could talk to her? Maybe in a sense, this was what she meant by the replacement for praying. Hello? Can you hear me?Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. I vaguely had an idea that Communing was the only way for me to talk to her. But with a limited amount of time and hundreds of question I wanted to ask, I sorted my priority. Yes, I can... then, can I ask about something? It is about using the Blessing, more precisely how to use the Blessing. There are several ways to use the Blessing and each one of it has their own perk. As she was explaining everything in a single breath, I was trying at my best to not question or interrupt her explanation while my thumbs were dancing on my phone screen. Just as the timer reached zero, I couldn''t hear her voice. And when I tried to use Communing again, it said Ihad to wait for another168 hours before I could do that again. Anyway, several things that I managed to get from her: Firstwas Chanting. By using Chanting I just needed to concentrate my attention when I wanted to use the blessing and chant the spell names, but there was a limit of how much I could save the blessing in this way. Second, it was Gesture. It needed the body gesture and depended on how fast my body could do the gesture it could be faster or slower than the Chanting. On the other hand, by doing Gesture meant I didn''t need to speak or make any unnecessary noises. The third was Material. When using Material I needed to burn the necessary materials to use the blessing and theblessing power could be modified by the quantity or the quality of the material I burned. And lastly, it was Formation. This was the longest and the most complicated method but this method would allow me to save the blessing and use it on a later time. So that¡¯s it,at least that was what I got in 60 seconds, and It seemed depending on the blessing types, some could only be used with one specific method while others needed me to use more than one method. Anyhow after I reread the method. I opened my blessing screen and checked Snare Trap. I could use it with three methods: Chanting, Material, and Formation. Just for the sake of my curiosity, I touched the Snare Trap for a few seconds until the letters turned red. " [Snare Trap] " As soon as I said that, I had a feeling that my whole body had lost some strength, and then my right hand began to give off a delicate light. I used my glowing hand to touch the floor. The light on my hand slowly dissipated into the floor and around 15 seconds later the glow was completely gone. Using the same hand I beckoned Sora to walk toward my direction. Even though she was complaining, she put her falcon and walked to me, seemed like both of her and Miku were to busy to play with their own birds. And just as her right foot touched the floor right around 1-meter away from my position, A circular rope made from a vine appeared right where Sora''s foot stepped, it was tightening itself around her ankle and tripping her down with her face going directly onto the floor, creating a sound loud enough to Anyway, it was a successful one I guessed? And in the span of 15 seconds, I could choose the anchor point, the rope length, the rope weight, its tightness and et cetera. In this case, the anchor point it was the floor, the rope length was short enough to instantly trip her and for the weight, I used the maximum weight, 40 kg. Speaking of successful, silently I turned around and creeping my way out of her face, but... "Oi, where are you going?" Sora said that with monotone as her face still kissing the floor. "...Making some dinner." I said in a low voice. And just as I finished my words while trying to run away.
Duty Content: Hunt the Outsider on your nearest area. Location: Between the elephant, the giraffe, the dog and the fish. Assigned to: Hattori Tsubasa, Hattori Sora, Hattori Miku. Reward: 100 Gp for each person.