Zeron Plum opened the envelope and took out the white piece of paper inside.
After looking at the words written on it. He folds the paper back inside the envelope and places it on the table before going back to sleep.
.....
Caawwk croak
The next morning,
Zeron Plum was woken up by the fowls and chicken noise as they alert the villagers that the sun is rising
Zeron Plum could hear noise from outside as the villagers went about their normal routine.
He got up from the bed and sat upright.
Zeron plum then creases his brow after smelling his clothes. "I am surprised my pajama didn't get destroyed by lightening"
Zero Plum was wearing the pajamas he wore to bed before being struck by lightning.
"Well I guess, none of this is science". Zeron Plum then stood up.
He has black curly hair, and eyes that always gleam with delight but if you look deep enough, you will notice that those eyes are fake and the real eye is like the night, very dark and deep
He is 165cm(5*4 feet) tall, has a wide shoulder with a sculpted physique, and is good-looking with fair skin.
Zero Plum looks at his abs and thought for a while before saying
(Although I regressed to my younger years I didn't lose my training).
(It's weird but I feel stronger than before)
He shook his head in dismissal of his thought, then clenched his right hand, and smiled saying good with an invigorating tone.
When Zero Plum was on earth, he was a practitioner of Aikido, Kung Fu, and Krav Maga, which made him one of the most dangerous men alive
He was also an expert in Tae Kwon do, jujitsu, and karate
Zeron Plum was particularly gifted in learning martial arts
Any martial art he picked to learn, he easily mastered it.
But the martial arts that gave him his infamy as the smiling demon was 'Krav Maga'
He developed his law with the martial art.
'Krav maga even the air can kill' was one of the heavyweight laws associated with the smiling demon.
Zeron Plum then laughed and said, "That chapter of my life is over". Now with a dangerous glow in his eyes, he breathed out slowly and said
"I want to fly"
Zeron Plum then continues by talking to himself.
"I can not understand what is written on the envelope, it is not Chinese or any writings I have ever seen"
"I cannot understand the word, should I ask someone among the kids to read it for me, maybe Sake?"
"No!, In this world I cannot trust anybody", nobody at all"
"I am in danger already, the three cultivators who brought me here, Sake called them cultivators, those three individuals, what did they want from me?"
"Why did they leave me here? What are they planning by taking me here and leaving me an envelope with gibberish writing?"
"Maybe not gibberish in a sense, maybe they thought I could read it"
Sigh~ "I hate being not in control"
"Well, I better go bathe and change"
...
Zero Plum walks out of the door of a three-story building.
He looks back to the sign hung on top which says 'Satin Resort'
Satin Resort is the best inn in the village which belongs to Sake Dad, The village head 'Sakuku Satin'
Sakuku Satin was a smart village head, he made the best use of his resources, which were the fields, to encourage poultry and farming, selling the excess to merchants.
Surplus of lands, which he made the wise decision of opening inns where merchants could sleep and rest and shops where they could restock
Sakuku Satin made the best use of its geographical closeness to the Wyrm mountain range which is the base of Sword River Association outer court to achieve this.
If not for the attractive features of the mountain range, only a few merchants would have been interested in the village and not like now, where they are much in the village.
(What a smart man to be able to develop his village efficiently) Zeron Plum thought.
(All his predecessors were pigs for a brain to waste the advantage, if not, the village would have already become a town or a city)
Zeron Plum smiled as he took in the view of the children who frolicked around with their peers and the villagers who were busy at work.
The villagers could be seen in fields attending to cattle, or in the shop attending to merchants, or In the outskirts of the village where farmlands are while farming
As Zeron Plum was walking and taking in the view, someone called him
"Zeron!"
He looked back to who was calling his name and he saw it was Chulan. She was together with Rale and Sake
"Huff Huff" Sake was breathing heavily.
Sweat was all over his body, his clothes were sticking to his fat skin.
Zeron Plum looked at him and then said "Oh Sake did you go swim in the pool?"
Sake gave him the stink eye, then said "All this is temporary, when I become a great cultivator, I will run a thousand miles without any effort at all".
"You will all see, maybe if I am in a good mood, I will reluctantly bring you all along as I swoosh swoosh"
Sake was exaggeratedly demonstrating with his chubby body. And seriously it was embarrassing
For him, I will say because Rale and Chulan are both having a good laugh. Even Zeron was smiling.
Imagine a fat guy trying to do acrobatics and you will get a little of the picture
Pam!. Chulan slapped the back of Sake's head making him stop his 'brilliant' showcase
Zeron smirked as he saw Sake flinching and as he walked towards him, he was murmured
"What a violent woman", I pity the man that will marry her, I know that I am going to marry a beautiful and gentle wife", not a tigress"
"Say you!!!" Chulan roared
She chased the fatty who was screaming
"I didn't say anything! I didn't say anything".
"It's enough," said Rale as he walked towards zeron
Chulan stopped chasing Sake, but she still gave him the dangerous eye
(Those two are going to be a good couple). Zeron thought with a laugh.
He then saw Rale who walked towards him standing a few feet away from him he cupped his hands and said
"Good morning Zeron", how was your night".
Zeron answered him by simply saying "It was good, how was yours". He asks back out of politeness
Rale then smiled and said "Good also, We went to the inn to look for you," The innkeeper told us you went out", so we have been searching all over the village for you".
"Looking for me?" Zeron asked
"Yes, we thought that since you are new here, you might need company", so we came to see you"
"I hope it's not a bother?" Said Rale
"No no". Zeron replied by shaking his head
He then smiled and said, "I do need company".
The three kids then showed Zeron around the village, pointing at the villagers and introducing them to him
They showed him the shops, fields, inns, farms, and every iconic thing in the village
There was the occasional Sake and Chulan drama which brought laughter to Rale and Zeron
.....
(Evening time)
"It is almost dark, we should go back "It is not going to come out," said Zeron to the three kids
They were in a forest, that was a kilometer away from the village
Why were they there?
It was because Sake said that they should go on an adventure.
Everybody loved the idea and when they thought about the kind of adventure to do
Sake brought up catching a wild rabbit and not the ordinary one because If it was the ordinary one, it would just be a waste of time and Zeron was sure he wouldn't have participated
Sake then assured the group that it was not a waste of time as they were all starting to feel tired because of all the working around that they did throughout the day
As, it meant for Chulan and Rale, as for Zeron, he felt full of energy even though he had toured the whole village that morning which was a large area.
Through the effort of the current village head, the village land was tripled as compared to before.
Zeron was still not sure of why he felt full of energy but he pretended to be also tired and because of his good acting, the trio never suspected
The rabbit that Sake suggested to catch was not an ordinary animal.
Its life essence has evolved past the ordinary.
It is a pre-awaken beast.
Pre-awaken beasts are those animals who ate spiritual materials such as rock, plants, grass, fruits, etc, and evolve
They are not yet demon beasts because they have not started tempering their body with essence energy.
They only acquire some special abilities without the inhuman constitution and special abilities that the demon beast has.
Sake by chance saw the pre-awaken rabbit in the forest. After much investigation with his father henchmen determined the home of the rabbit.
His father's henchmen tried to catch it but couldn't because the rabbit was too fast.
Sake regretted not being born with plenty of legs, so he could catch the fast rabbit.
He was so regretful and angered thinking that he missed such a sumptuous meal and let it slip past him.
That incident was still in his mind, so in a spark, thinking what a good idea, he decided to suggest catching the rabbit, thinking maybe, they might luckily catch it.
Because to him getting food is the best adventure
"Sake did you say that it is here?" Asked Chulan
"Yes I am sure my delicious meal is living here" replied Sake
The trio gathers together with Zeron, making a large circle with a hole in the middle
Chulan was staring at the tiny hole which looked like a rabbit hole with a tired face
Zeron then said, "If you both continue making noise, the rabbit won't come out". He told them
"Don't worry Zeron, the Swift Rabbit is a pre-awaken beast that is deaf, whose lack of hearing is compensated with its Swift speed" Said Rale
"That means that even if we shout to the world end, It still won't hear us" Sake chipped in from his hiding place which was along the line of the large circle they made surrounding the rabbit hole
Zeron looked at him and was speechless (Instead of hiding behind a fat and large tree, he is hiding behind a thin tree). Zeron could see him very clearly. 'The tree didn't do its job well'
As Zeron Plum was thinking about a new story he could write. With a title like 'The Fat Boy and the Thin Tree' or 'The Unlucky Tree its karma invites the fat boy whose weight wants to murder it and it tortures him as he rests his weight on it'
or 'Tree: So help me God'.
As Zeron was lost in thought
Rustle rustle
The sound of grass overturned, and from the hole a rabbit climbed out.