"What are you doing?" Mira questioned, "Today is the tea party conducted by Miss. Minami, why aren't you getting ready?"
Yuki was too tired to be bothered, while yarning she asked, "What does it have to do with you?"
Steam started to come out of Mira's head in anger for ignoring her presence as she was the daughter of the Hoshi family, "I wouldn't care normally but miss. Minami personally asked me to bring you to the tea party. So get ready and come with me." She got manipulated.
Yuki was too lazy to smile but mockingly said, "hehe, when did the young miss of the Hoshi family become a maid of Murata's family?"
Mira was already frustrated to speak to her, now it only added the fuel, "What did you call me?" she gave her a chance to change her words.
Yuki got pleasure in teasing her, so she patted her and said, "It's cute when you act all high and might," to mess with her. Yuki had a soft part for cute girls, as sisters, not like Katsuki.
Mira felt happy inside without her notice, she blushed and realized that, she became stubborn and said, "What...what are you talking about, get your hand off my head, you are messing up my hairstyle," and took Yuki's hand away.
"Ok, wait. I will bathe and come," said Yuki in delight.
Mira said, "come fast," while checking her hair and thought, 'why did I feel happy when she did that? She must be using some tricks, I won't fall for that.'
Yuki got ready but she was wearing a pant type of dress that she usually wears after reincarnation. Mira got irritated to see Yuki and thought, 'we are going to a tea party, not for a fight. Let's see how you get humiliated by others for wearing such clothes." As usual, Yuki would never care about what others think.
Aya was worried that she might get ridiculed.
They both went away.
The tea party was conducted in a big garden. There was a pond; next to it was a beautiful construction of Chinese style where people could enjoy their meeting with friends.
There were only young people below 30 years old with beautiful dresses and a friends circle for everyone in the garden.
Yuki and Mira just got to the entrance of the garden. "I will go in first, don't tell anyone that you came with me," Mira said rudely but then she got worried that Yuki would embarrass the Hoshi family and changed her mind, "no, no. You come with me."
Yuki felt weird not only for her words but also for the people who were going in looked at her with disdain, as most of them were only flowery people (who always feels like they deserve more in this world than what they have), they couldn't sense Yuki's cultivation and who could sense her didn't pay attention to her out of jealous. One more small reason for their looks was about what she did to Katsuki.
Yuki chanted, 'I won't be affected, my aim is inner peace.'
"Wow look, it's sister Megumi."
"She rarely comes out as she indulges herself in alchemy."
"Stupid, you shouldn't call it to indulge. It sounds like something perverted."
Then an 18-year-old beautiful girl came to Yuki, Mira saw her with admiration and complimented her, "Miss. Megumi, you are as beautiful as ever."
Yuki blushed by widening her eyes and thought, 'she is a real beauty. No, no. I just said I won't be affected by anything.'
'She is Megumi Mori,' system explained, 'Iron wall town's town lord's daughter, she is a 1st petal root chakra cultivator and she is a genius among genius until you opened your 1st petal.'
Megumi with a soothing smile opened her mouth, "thank you, sister Mira," then she saw Yuki, "Sister Yuki, I didn't attend your wedding, so I want to congratulate you now, congratulation on your wedding. Sorry I couldn't come to your wedding."
Yuki cheerfully replied, "haha, no need for that, that is a marriage in name but I am more interested in you miss," as she wanted to take her as an underling.
Mira got angry and said, "What are you talking about? You should be grateful that my brother even married a pipsqueak like you."
Yuki became serious by looking at Mira, "little girl, adults are talking, don't interrupt. By the way, where is that kid? Didn't he come to this party?"
Mira got confused and asked, "Kid? Are you talking about my brother?"
"Who else?"
Mira got surprised and asked, "don't you even know that my brother left to join the sword path sect. I think he left you here, do you even know that he opened his first petal?"
The sword path sect was the only sect in the Nilu kingdom.
As soon as Yuki heard it, she got shocked because if he was that fast, then he must be as talented as her. She felt like she missed a good underling.
Everyone who heard it talked, "look, she got ditched and she just realized that."
"Humph! She is so arrogant just now but looks how worried she is."
Yuki was so worried and asked, 'system, why didn't you wake me up to redeem the free 1st category item? 2 days' worth of free items were gone, damn it... no, Inner peace is important.'
Megumi got mad at people because when she was trash they showed disdain and even now when she became a genius they were showing disdain.
So she yelled at others, "everyone stop bad-mouthing her, sister Yuki is no means less than brother Akira, she opened her first petal 2 days early than him, none of you even felt cosmos energy when you were 14, you have no right to talk about their relationship, they are still too young."
Yuki got surprised by her support as she had already given up on thinking that there might be righteous people in this world and thought, 'she is a nice person just like the system,' and said, "miss. Mori, forget about that, let's talk about alchemy."
The system said, 'Host, how could you compare me to her, I am infinite times better than her.'
'Is someone jealous?' Yuki teased the system.
Megumi felt a little weird, "sister Yuki, you can call me sister as always, no need to be polite just because you are a married woman now."
'Ho! I called her that in a habit,' Yuki thought and said, "I just don't want people to give you disdain eyes for speaking to me."
"No one can choose whom I could be friends with," said Megumi, "I heard sister Yuki also started to practice alchemy, if you have any problems you can ask me."
Yuki got excited because she got problems in alchemy but didn't have anyone to guide her, so she asked, "really? Then please teach me how to divide my concentration into essence, heat and temperature. No matter how much I tried I am failing to condense the essence in time and it getting burnt away, as I don't have any guidance I waster 22 sets of materials already."
Everyone got dumb folded because one- They didn't believe her, two- 22 sets of herbs were nowhere near to give as much as the importance that she gave just then, usually alchemist wastes hundreds of sets before they could even make 3% quality pills.
Except for Megumi, everyone laughed like crazy and talked, "opening a petal at 14 is one thing but she said she not only controlled fire but also learned extracting essence in just 3 days."
"It will take a few years to control fire, then few years to extract essence, even miss. Megumi didn't start to extract essence, how can this little pipsqueak do it."
"Only an idiot will believe it."
"Really? Sister Yuki, you should be the one guiding me in that," Megumi requested in surprise. She believed Yuki.
Everyone *pfft* in shock and talked, "why did miss. Megumi believed it?"
"The pipsqueak is obviously pulling our legs."
Megumi knew the topics of essence extraction and condensing pills by balancing temperature and the heat was only talked by alchemists and Yuki looked genuine for her.
Yuki's face became dull with disappointment and said, "So you don't know?"
The system suggested, 'Host, you have to learn how to divide your attention.'
Yuki asked, 'How?'
'5000 angry points.'
It triggered Yuki's anger and shouted, 'If you are not going to tell then stop suggesting it over and over, I don't have that many points ok?'
"If you are stuck," Megumi offered, "I will take you to meet master Kanesuke."
"You have a master?" Yuki asked in hope.
Megumi replied, "No, it's a title given to him for his alchemy."
Yuki's face got lit up with excitement and said, "What? I can't believe there is a master-level alchemist in this town."
Megumi felt awkward and informed, "He is not a master-level alchemist; he is given that title for alchemy. He is a trainee-level alchemist."
Yuki suddenly got disappointed and with dissatisfaction commented, "What? How dare he use the title master alchemist when he is just a trainee? Doesn't he have any shame? If any master-level alchemist heard about this, they will cough blood with anger."
The surroundings became silent all of a sudden, Yuki got puzzled so she looked around and saw everyone had shocked looks on their faces.