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Chapter 22 - First Step

5 years later

A young woman is sitting cross legged in front of a small wooden cabin on a rock, as if deep in concentration. If one were just a passerby and looked hard enough, some might say they could see the air densely around them. Causing distorted waves and distorting the view of her.

As time passes, second by second, a soft cracking can be heard, as if the rock was crumbling under an insurmountable amount of weight. After a few more moments, the stone underneath the woman shatters in a tiny and uncountable amount of pieces, looking like fresh crushed gravel.

The young woman, still sitting on the pile as if undisturbed by what just happened, let out a long deep breath, as if a weight had been lifted off her shoulders. Standing up, a soft, yet pleased smile played upon her lips, as if a joke that only she would understand had been said.

She stretched out, arms raised high to stretch her body as if she had been sitting in that position for many hours. Stifling a yawn, her eyes open to reveal her bright, intelligent and yet playful azure eyes, gazing upon her surroundings. As if waiting for someone or something to happen.

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'Ugh, I had to come back to this backwater southern village, just for one meager student! That person did not even have a Ki Core when I brought the first message. D*mn geezers, why did I still get told to come out here with this mandatory invitation. Whatever, I will do all I can to make this person feel unwelcome and just stay out of the way during the tutelage.'

The messenger groused in his head, full of disgust as he walked up the path to a cabin that he had visited five years ago. As he walked up, he saw a young woman, she had fair skin that looked as if it had been gently kissed by the sun, while her long black hair flowed freely down to the middle of her back in a cascade, shimmers of red dancing in her hair depending where the sunlight hit it. Though he was eager to see her eyes and body, he could not due to a blind fold and the clothes she wore covered most of her body in a flowy martial arts robe.

Irritated that he couldn't entertain his perversion more, he walked up to the young girl.

"I have a letter for the son of this house hold, he goes by Zarue." He spat his words with disgust.

As if surprised and curious, the young girl cocked her head to the side.

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Moments earlier.

While she was stretching and gazing at the horizon, Zarue sensed the Ki of someone coming up that path and had put her blindfold on, not bothering to tie her hair up.

She had watched the man come up the path with a sideways glance and could see the perverse thoughts that were going through his mind by the ways his eyes flashed.

Listening at how he spoke to her, she realized that he was too dense to not recognize that the young woman standing in front of him, was the same young girl five years ago that he insulted. Well then, time to have some fun.

"I see time has not made you any wiser or kinder mr messenger." Zarue said coyly, a wry smile on her lips.

As she finished her statement, one of the his eye's twitched. "Where is the son that goes by Zarue?" He asked curtly.

"The son? I do not know about a son, but I am the daughter, and my name is Zarue. My, my, you have not gotten the faintest clue, do you?" Zarue responded, playfully, enjoying the little game of the little man. Figuratively and physically, she was roughly two meters tall (six feet for some people), and she was taller than him. It made her giddy inside. The man in front of her, did not like this one bit, nor the fact that she was not cowering in fear of him. It was pretty boring, his Ki Core was weak, and he was exerting Ki pressure trying to force her into submission.

In other words. He was pitiful, and she had nothing meaningful to say to him. But, a prank or two would not hurt. Hehe~

"Scum! Know your place peasant! I am a noble! I have more Ki, I have more money! I can make your life hard for you! However, if you bow to me, and make yourself humble, I may take pity and treat you like a woman!" He laughed disgustedly. "Rejoice! I, a noble, and willing to humble myself to turn you into a proper woman." A wicked grin played on his lips that would disgust others and make them tremble in fear. As the man reached for his weapon, one hand wrapped around the hilt.

"Ha! You are a scum! I know you can not handle one step of mine! Let me prove it to you! You disgust me, you need to properly humble yourself. Lucky for me, with how you speak, no one will believe you! You disgust me, and I do not care how many of the likes of you stand in my way, all it will take is one foot step. Just one, to make you cower! With this foot step, consider your message delivered and I will make my way to the capitol." Anger seethed from Zarue's words, she had had enough from him, what a disgusting cretin. She would kill him if it were not for him being d*mn nobility.

With a crude and evil smirk on her face, Zarue took a small, soft step towards the messenger. As her foot hit the ground, a massive thwoom could be heard, shaking the ground all around them for a few meters. The rumble and shaking was so strong and made the messenger shriek in fear. His legs shaking as tears ran down his face as he feared for his life.

At that moment, the door to the cabin swung open, Vitriol and Regen rushing out.

"Zarue! What have we said about doing that! You scar-" Before Vetiol could finish her small tease, her smile vanished as she saw the messenger standing in front of them, only to burst out laughing at the sight.

The messenger had fallen on his rear by this point and had soiled himself, he had become a bumbling mess as if his mind had broken, fear written all over his face.

"Oh! Sorry moms! I was just taking my first step towards the capitol now to show the messenger how serious I was that I would soon be leaving. Teehee~" Zarue said playfully as she stepped back, revealing an indentation in the hard ground where Zarue's boot had landed, but no other hard impact was felt as she went inside. At this, the messenger squeaked one last time in fear before frothing at the mouth and fainting.

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