"But your father-in-law is cultivating Mira right?" asked Yuki as Yuno said people should start encouraging girls to cultivate.
"What are you saying, sister-in-law?" Mira forcefully asked with red cheeks, "How is my father his father-in-law?"
"He is my little brother, how else?" asked Yuki in confusion then she understood, with a smirk "Ho! You have a crush on him ha? Then it makes sense if you get embarrassed. Ho! I shouldn't say it out, right? Sorry."
"Sister-in-law, you are doing it on purpose," Mira puffed her cheeks by narrowing her eyebrows.
With content Yuki patted her and apologized, "Sorry sorry, I will help you to get him. I am the one cultivating you 2, so he will listen to me."
Mira turned to side and faced fingertips of 2 palms to each other near her mouth, "I want to make him fall in love with me, not force him."
"Silly girl, love is a decision, not a feeling," Yuki continued, "if you think it's a feeling then that is just attraction towards him or maybe you thought..." she suddenly stopped and thought, 'no, I shouldn't say that she felt he might suddenly grow like me,' and continued, "forget the last line.
One day when you propose to him if he rejects you and you are the same Mira as now, then it is called love but if you get all depressed then it will be called the business of exchanging sweet words, pleasure and whatever you are expecting from him. So think carefully, are you loving him or just expecting a business."
Yuki thought, 'I better not put it as lust, though it is lust, people won't like to acknowledge the feeling they have is actually lust but not love.'
Yuno didn't have any reaction as his only focus was getting strong, Yuki gave an incredulous stare at Yuno. At least she used to blush when girls proposed to her in her previous life but here this Yuno without any reaction. Hats off.
Mira thought hard about what Yuki said, that was the first time someone described the love people usually had as a business of lust covered with a sweet word called love. If one loved someone, then they absolutely must not expect something from them.
In Yuki's terms, which she got from her mother in her previous life- love was not a thing to be shown to one person. If one thought they love someone then they just liked them. Only when one loved the entire universe then it was called love. Only a person who could see beyond the 5 senses could love.
Gakuto and his brothers came back and came to know what happened, "let's go to Seshi town, it is a small town without a branch of fragrance pill association," Gakuto suggested.
"Before that," Yuki interrupted, "father, father-in-law and uncle Katsuo, can you come with me to a side? I need to tell you something in secret."
Chisato's eyebrows wrinkled, "What is it to be said in secret?" As Yuki didn't call her husband.
Yuki's nose twitched but she took in soundless breath and replied, "don't worry aunt, it's not about money."
Chisato felt chagrin. The 4 went away. Yuki took them to the woods, "give me your ear dad." Gakuto bent down and Yuki whispered, "there are 3 people following us, it's better to distract them, we can't let our enemies know about our location as we are about to raise. One is on your left side back; the other 2 are on right side back."
Gakuto understood and notified it to Akihiko and Katsuo in ear. The 3 focused on Yuki, she blinked her 2 eyes while moving her head few inchs down as a signal, then she suddenly took 3 swords out, as soon as the weapons popped out in thin air, the 3 took the weapons.
Akihiko dashed towards the one person on the left and the other 2 towards the right.
The enemy took out their weapons but they were just trackers and were weak, as it was sudden they didn't have time to run and fought back. Yuki just heard sounds of blades clashing then their shouts for 20 seconds and the 3 came back. Yuki got confused with a bad feeling.
"This sword is well made, did your master give it to you?" Akihiko asked while cleaning the blood with a cloth torn from a dress.
"Wha...what did you do to them?" Yuki's mental balance got little unstable, no matter how strong her mind was, first time witnessing killing still was a fearful experience.
"Of course killed them, how dare they tail us?" Akihiko said casually while holding the sword at a clear visible distance in the sunlight, he had another knife to his belt which was not there before.
"Is this your first time so close to murder?" Akihiko by looking at Yuki's pale face.
"Yes...I guess," Yuki replied by rubbing her left forearm.
"Yuki, how did you know 3 people are following us?" Gakuto asked.
"My master taught a method to sense, I can't teach that," Yuki replied as it was the system that told her.
Yuki kept the weapons back in.
After explaining that to everyone they started their journey.
They reached the Seshi town just after the group couldn't see things properly around due to dimming of light.
The town was surrounded by wall, which needed 15 Yukis to stand on eachother to see what was on the other side.
"Even our town doesn't have a wall, father, is this really a small town?" Mira's eyes almost popped out with excitement.
"This town gets big beast waves for every lunar eclipse, so they built a 15 meters wall" Akihiko explained, "Iron wall town is on high terrains so we didn't get many beast waves.
Besides, our town lord is a piece of crap who even sold his daughter, why would he waste money on building walls."
"Then is this town lord good?" Mira asked with glowing eyes.
"This town lord has a good reputation about being the best town lord in people's opinion, he is a good and strict person," said Akihiko.
When they went to the gates, the guards stopped them in suspension as they were cultivators and coming at night, "who are you people?" A guard asked.
"We came from Iron wall town to start a business here as we lost everything there," Akihiko replied.
The 2 guards looked at each other as to how such powerful people would lose everything, then one nodded his head and then another nodded and went inside.
The remaining guard informed, "Please wait here, you are too powerful, we sent people to notify the town lord."
"The guards are strict but not rude, the town lord is really a great person," Yuki complemented by admiration.
The guard felt confused about how such a little girl could speak so mature, he fell for her cuteness and thought how wonderful it would be if he had a daughter like her.
The guard came back and reported, "you are summoned to the town lord's mansion, come with me."
They went to the town lord's mansion, it was called a mansion but it was another humble house just like other houses in the streets, they all understood how great of a person the town lord was by his simplicity.
"Only one person is allowed in," said the guard outside the house, "remaining can wait in this room."
"Then I will go," Akihiko stepped forward.
"Wait father-in-law," Yuki stepped 2 steps forward, "I will go."
The guards's grip on spear got losen by this little girl's courage to meet the great town lord Zenkichi Atarashi, even they wouldn't see directly into his eyes when he come in and go out.
Zenkichi heard Yuki from inside and interestingly permitted, "let her in," as he sensed her cultivation.
They opened the doors and Yuki walked in while her families' members stiffened by the base in his voice.
The man was sitting on the floor with folded legs reading reports of town, his shirt was half hands tightened with muscles and the skin that could be seen was all scared with claws and bite marks of ferocious beasts.
As soon as Yuki laid her eyes on scars a voilet color 2 meters height wolf came to bite her neck, in reflex she raised her left hand, the wolf bit her hand and vanished.
Then a beast that had long legs with slim body came and kicked her, then it also vanished, then more beasts came one by one but none of their attacks pained Yuki.
Every time a beast attacked her, Yuki noticed there was heavily injured soldiers, exhausted soldiers, soldiers who lost limbs.
Yuki's skin rejuvenation with goosebumps.
"Such a young girl with 2 petals, it would be hard for your father to find a husband," Zenkichi said as a joke while looking at reports but due to his voice, she felt like he found a boy for her.
"I am fo...fifteen years old and married, the other person also opened 1st petal at the same time as me," said Yuki to clarify his prejudge so that he would force her to marry someone else.
He closed the report and put it down when Yuki saw his face with 3 claw marks of the same attack, at that moment she felt like if he was called a man, he should be like him. His body was built very strong and big; in front of him, Yuki looked like a doll.
"Really? Then there must be a problem in your growth," his face was relaxed and a normal smile that always been there had shown, at that moment Yuki understood he was a friendly person but people get intimidated by his voice and figure, as some people in her previous life felt about Akira like that. She got relaxed.
"I don't know about that. My name is Yuki Kanakuba; I am a trainee alchemist, 2 petal essence cultivator. My family lost their wealth by betting on my alchemy skills and lost everything.
There is no flaw in my skills, it's just that I was exhausted at the time of competition, as I am young I didn't know how to sense energies and couldn't stop it."
After paitently listening to her, he replied, "That happened to me too when I was young. So you are the one who went against the fragrance pill association alchemist.
To tell you the truth, I have a bad opinion on that association as I tried to bring them to my town but they refused as it was not safe here, I can allow you to establish a business but I need a share in that, not for me but for town development."