Daishi Murata and Naoki Nakamura were sitting in the room with Hisamoto with depressed and despairing faces.
"How was it? Do you really think you can live peacefully after making fragrance pill association as your entertainment?" asked Hisamoto in the arrogance of crushing them.
"We know our mistake, please stop this, we are willing to compensate for that mistake," Daishi begged sitting bent over with his hands on his knees.
"Taking money directly will ruin the association's reputation, why don't you donate half of your family wealth in the coming beast wave in the campaign of protecting innocent people," Hisamoto said simply but it was a very serious warning if they didn't give it, he meant that their families would be destroyed in the coming beast wave.
"We...we will prepare for that," both Naoki and Daishi hesitantly agreed, they didn't have a choice after what Hisamoto was doing to them.
"By the way, my son is collecting harem of different sizes but he is missing a B cup, I heard your daughter Minami is a B cup and also she is into my son. She even came to my house to invite him to the tea party on that day. My son will come to your house in 3 days let her be ready. My son is particular in dressing style," Hisamoto said it casually like a totally normal thing for him.
Daishi's heart felt heavy, he closed his eyes tightly while his hand gripped the knees and he couldn't refuse when his family didn't get even a pill for a few days, their business partners abandoned them in critical dealings, their families fell into losses and currently running their families with their ancestors' treasures.
They both learned a valuable lesson that helping a bad person should be done 100% accurately otherwise, they would become slaves.
"I have many things to do, so you can take your leave," said Hisamoto, he didn't give any respect to them and humiliated them instead. He made them come whenever he asked and made them wait for hours before meeting them.
While they both were walking on the road Daishi remarked, "if only we supported Yuki on that day, she would have gotten rest and made a better pill. We supported the wrong people."
"No, we were wrong since the beginning, this is all the karma hitting us back and that little bitch is behind all of this. She was so full of herself on that day that made us doubt ourselves to bet on Kanesuke.
My son just asked her to sleep one time, for that she permanently damaged him. She preserved herself so well right? I will make sure she will get defiled by old dying men in front of my son. I want to look at the despair-crying face of that little bitch even if that is the last thing I could do."
Daishi couldn't believe what he was hearing, he knew it was their fault for messing with a little kid but Naoki didn't even recognise it. By looking at Naoki, Daishi realized how disgusting of a human he had became but he was too late to realize it, his daughter must be sacrificed for the protection of family.
Fumihiro went to Kanesuke's house with presents. The servants informed him that Kanesuke was making pills, "then you bring Megumi," he asked. The servant went to bring her while he sat on a chair.
After a few minutes Megumi who was completely broken came to Fumihiro, despite that, he smiled a happy smile and asked, "Are you satisfying master Kanesuke well?"
"Yes," she replied with a blank face.
"Don't be that down, if you could get pregnant and have Master Kanesuke's child, then our family can get an alchemist, if you cooperate with him more, he might teach you some alchemy too. You are doing this for our family's benefit.
It's a good thing you are beautiful and master Kanesuke won't get bored of you but if you smile he will be more interested in you. Try to become his first wife, seduce him well..." while Fumihiro saying these things even the servants of Kanesuke, who saw Kanesuke's worst sides, got disgusted with him for saying such things to his own daughter.
Kensuke came after 3 hours and Fumihiro waited for him all the while, "town lord Fumihiro, you know I am busy so I made you wait."
"It's fine master Kanesuke, I hope my girl is not causing trouble," said Fumihiro politely by standing up.
"Haha, don't worry, she is very obedient, she is the most obedient toy I had ever," Kanesuke praised in delight while sitting down and waved his hand, giving permission for Fumihiro to sit.
Fumihiro got happy for his praise while sitting down in humble and said, "That's good." Fumihiro knew full well that Kanesuke was humiliating him, Kanesuke was actually indulging in pleasure while he was waiting but he couldn't do anything.
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Fuminori couldn't keep the new family he created in place of the Kanakuba family because he didn't have any resources to give to the elders and all elders left the family to some other towns but he was still working for Kanesuke like a good dog in hopes of impressing him someday but he never got noticed.
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Yuki reached the Lepado forest. It was exciting to see many different kinds of creatures. There were 2 types of forest creatures, one was animal type and the other was beast type. Animals were normal animals and beasts were once animals who could cultivate spiritual energy.
They couldn't cultivate like humans, they could only eat herbs and other beasts that had spiritual energy to improve themselves. They wouldn't eat normal animals as it would be a waste.
Yuki was beating up the beasts around her to toughen her body that was part of training for her stamina. Eventually, she got bored due to constant fighting without a reward.
'There is a repellent liquid in 1st category shop,' the system suggested, 'it can disgust beasts below 3rd grade.'
'Nah, I want to have odds against me but sadly I don't get anything from fighting them, let me fight a little more.'
'That's because people collect herbs from this area, so you don't get much, they only left few herbs here so that they can grow more by spreading to harvest again, the host has to go deep inside to get herbs and the host destination is also there.'
'Stop addressing me in multiple ways, either call me host the entire time or call me you, don't mix them. Just address me as you casually, we are considered friends now.'
'Yes, host,' system never missed a chance to mess with her.
She got irritated and shouted, 'stop calling me that.' She went away from the beasts by going deep into the forest. Yuki asked, 'isn't there a function to detect herbs?'
'Yes, it required 1000 angry points for 1 km radius per hour for grade 1 herbs, for each grade higher the cost will be multiplied by 10 of the previous grade. Your benefit is, when you take for higher grades, lower grades will also be located and only the cost for highest grade herb is taken.'
Yuki sarcastically remarked, 'Ho! Thank you very much for such an offer.'
'You are welcome.'
It triggered Yuki's anger and said, 'I am saying it sarcastically.' Then Yuki suddenly encountered a yellow wolverine that was laying on a rock, Yuki became wary with little fear and stopped as soon as she saw it.
System explained, 'It's a yellow wolverine; it is a low 2nd-grade beast. You are no match for it but it's not making a move, take a D tour.' Yuki was a little shaken as it could just kill her with one hand.
Yuki took a D tour and with a relax she thought, 'thank goodness it didn't attack me, why didn't you warn me before?'
'I would have warned but you need to encounter dangerous beasts to get used to fear, as the wolverine was lazy now and combined with your padmam body soothing effect it wouldn't attack you, so I guided you to it.'
She totally accepted it because for Yuki people who made her tougher were valuable and she thinks they were the people who cared for her. People who spoil her would only make her lazy which meant it was they who made her trash.
'Then why did those low-grade beasts attack me? Shouldn't this body calm them?' asked Yuki while moving forward.
'Wolverine only hunts small animals or beasts and they are scavengers so they won't take risks. Your Padmam body effect added, it didn't attack you.'
'That's good then.'
She was going for a while and said, 'system, we are deep enough right? Can you tell me what the highest grade herbs found here are and how rare they are?'
'It cost 10 angry po...'
Yuki immediately said, 'use it.'
'Purchase successful, the highest herb in this place is a 3rd-grade herb and they are at least 1 for every 50 km.'
'Ok, use detection to detect 2nd-grade herbs within 1 km.'
'10,000 angry points used up successfully, activating scanning around 1 km to detect 2nd-grade herbs and below, the map will be sent to host conscious, the white dots are 1st-grade herbs and red dots are 2nd-grade herbs.'
Yuki became enthusiastic and said, 'Good, I will go in this direction.' Yuki started collecting herbs. She beat the beasts she encountered along the way but she never killed any beast because she was kind, she was a vegetarian.
She was kind in a way that anything could be toughened only by beating, making someone comfortable was a crime in her perspective after all.