For the next few days his adventures were rather quiet.
The next day, He got woken up by Amanda because she found him sleeping in the guest room, realizing that she forgot to show him his actual room because of all of the shenanigans from the day before. He nearly kills her out of a habit he developed while living in the wilderness. Amanda teaches him the magical wonders of coffee in the morning hoping he'll take his mornings more easily and not attempt to behead her with his bare hands again. She takes the rest of the morning to teach him how to mix medicinal herbs. She also took note of the fact that Vosh slept with his eyes open, which troubled her some what. She felt that it may be unhealthy for his instincts to remain in survival mode. As to why she felt so concerned, she simply stated to herself that she was responsible for him now.
Afterwards they took a bath and headed into the business district to get Vosh some armor to wear which Vosh declines after seeing the inferior stats to what he made in the wilderness, believing that he'll surely get an opportunity to make more. Amanda on the way to the guild had to slap him because he kept trying to use his [Multivision] to see random women naked, she lectured him sternly which he could only complain the he was "Just curious if all women have the same body proportions as you.". What he didn't say was that he was thinking of making his next avatar female in the next [Reality] if he can't find the prime author here.
He registered at the guild as a Rank 1 Adventurer immediately after taking a physical, magic, quizz, Intelligence and combat test. Apparently that was an amazing feat. Vosh however did not decide to change his [Job] yet, though he did see some interesting ones like [Voidist] and [Conceptual Magician] which apparently Amanda saw in her list of old and done [Jobs] but couldn't seem to remember what it was like, because it was from a long time ago.
Afterwards they went to slay a Goblin Dragon which was a rare but incredibly aggressive dragon species. Apparently dragons change [Form] during their incubation based on their surroundings, which is why it's been largely debated in the tamer community whether it's the dominant species or not, due it's extreme ability to adapt to all environments possible and large population not to mention the inherited strength dragons have. Which is some trivia the guild receptionist mentioned to them while they were handing in the unused materials of the Goblin Dragon. Amanda kept the stomach, blood, liver and kidneys for studying the diet of it. It was a rare species to study after all.
They went home and took a bath separately. Vosh studied some more and Amanda read a trashy novel she picked up on the way home called "World of Vin Vol.1". It was a rather old book too, the author didn't do a good job explaining the concepts so it took Amanda a while to finish read a single chapter. It caught her eye because it had similar concepts to what Vosh spoke of which she hopes she can understand even with the headache it strangely gives.
The next day Amanda, after cooking breakfast decided to open up the shop for the first time in a couple days. Before hand in the morning, she taught Vosh how to clean thoroughly and proper work etiquette which he picked up on quite quickly.
Surprisingly, customers love speaking to Vosh, especially older female customers who for some reason liked how oblivious he was to their flirting, under the impression that he was playing "hard to get", others who realized he seriously didn't have common sense enjoyed the idea of corrupting such an innocent young man was tantalizing. Of course, Amanda wouldn't let that get too far and on one occasion early in the morning have to chew out Vosh for using his [Multivision] for perverted reasons again.
At the end of the day, Amanda closed shop and felt exhausted more than usual. Thanks to Vosh she made a lot of money, however, constantly having to fend off cougars was really taking its toll on her.
She decided to take her annoyance out on Vosh by having him give her a massage.... Vosh seemed to enjoy doing it which pissed her off but it felt too good so instead she cursed his incredibly dexterous hands for wiping away all the anger, physical tension and frustration she had. Said this will be his punishment for stressing her out from then on.
They spent the next couple of their days alternating between adventuring and opening the store.
Vosh got sexually attacked by that priestess he broke and Amanda had to fend her off with a broom and get a restraining order (enforced by the guild since there is no government nor police in the city).
A couple other random cougars ended up trying to sexually harass Vosh inside AND outside the store. Apparently some of them saw him the first day he came when he was completely naked and wanted to try him out.
Amanda of course found masochistic women to be the bane of her existence and would not have them near her adopted child if they weren't buying items. There were also some horny gay men but they were surprisingly more civilized to a point that Amanda almost considered letting it happen since she thought Vosh would be in good hands. But Vosh found himself unattracted to men so he refused.
And in similar fashion, 5 months passed.
Amanda wakes up, still in the library. "Oh my it seems I fell asleep reading this incredibly confusing novel again." She takes it and throws it in a pile of books next to an incinerator. "It's like if a guy took Vosh's crazy [Void] logic then stretched it like play dough then had passionate gay anal sex with two different genders, only to find out the cup was green in capitalism. I have no idea what I just said, but it fits this crazy novel too well! And the dick jokes?! Why?! I can't believe this is my 4th volume no less!! Why is it so damned interesting yet so badly written??! It makes me want to go to a world where gravity is replaced by 3 different natural forces! How does that even work????" Though still upset at her seeming interest in this novel that has a weird plot, she gets up, stretches and walks out of the door. "I should get to my room to find a change of clothes before I teach that brat more about physics. Can't have him being distracted by the fact that I'm not wearing a bra."
She pulls a cup out of her [Sub-Space Storage] and then using the medicine skill [Chemical Blend:max] pours a cup of hot chocolate for herself using the ingredients from her storage. "To think, I can't walk around without a bra anymore because a pervert stalks the halls." She sighs heavily.
"Men." She says while drinking her coffee.
Amanda walks up the stairs and knocks on his room door only to hear no answer. "He's not doing weird things is he?" She thinks to herself, remembering what boys his mental age are like. He's also spent a lot of time serving the perverted women, "What if one of them taught him how to masturbate?" She shakes her head at the idea, after all she'd notice. "Yeah, I'd definite notice. If it's him there'd probably be sperm everywhere, especially if he even has a fraction of the sperm capacity a Giant has."
She remembers hearing rather gross rumors of giants and their mating season, they weren't included on [Atlatude] because they were much too big and even further beyond that they were incredibly messy.
When they pissed the urine would be hot enough to boil entire forests, when they took dumps, smelly but small mountains would form and when they ejaculated... It was enough to flood entire cities with white goo and impregnate all women unfortunate enough to be of a certain size.
Sometimes reports of apparently.... Large sperm would come along with the myth, but it was too absurd and gross to believe.
"No. Less than a 100th of a fraction. That would be enough to completely cover the room." She thinks to herself agreeing with the conclusion, then suddenly goes into a grimace while lamenting her thoughts "That damned book is influencing the pattern of my thoughts! Never before would I waste time thinking about something so cringeworthy!" She sighs then takes a sip of her coffee and walks up the stairs to check on Vosh like she always does.
She knocks on the door.
After a couple minutes of no answer, she opens the door to see Vosh writing in a notebook but completely focused to the point that her existence doesn't even register to him.
"Vosh?" She asks him.
He turns towards her, she sees dark circles under his eyes suggesting he didn't sleep last night or a couple more before. But you wouldn't be able to tell by his demeanor, he seemed quite ecstatic.
"Amanda I've finally done it! I've finally made an equation! Isn't it interesting??!!!" Vosh says
In his excitement, smiling ear to ear, Vosh rushes over to his pile of books to pull out a piece of already written on paper that he wrote on. It said:
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[Void]×½ = [Thing]
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"I have crafted an equation describing the process of which [Realities] like yours form. It still has a few kinks admittedly. Like numbers.... No numbers and I'm pretty sure I messed up a couple parts of the representation but I at least have the outline though not in detail at all! But it's progress Isn't it?!"
Amanda is smiling because she sees how happy he is about this and even though she can point out what other things he did wrong in this equation she chooses not to because she didn't want to ruin his happy moment.
She head pats him and says, "Yes, yes. It's indeed a decent equation. Good work."
Suddenly she feels a headache takes over her head that knocks her off her feet, far more intense than she had ever had before. She starts clutching her head and screaming in pain but drops her cup of coffee on Vosh's bed. Vosh manages to catch her right before she could hit the ground.
"Amanda??! What's wrong??!" Vosh asks her but gets no answer.
She passes out cold.
Later that night Amanda lays in her unnecessarily huge bed. She still feels a thrumming headache but there was something else at the back of her head. As if an itch or an urge to know something suddenly opened up in her mind.
But before she could think further, she looks around to notice that she's in her bed and though she saw nothing about the bed itself was different, Vosh, who was fast asleep on the other side of the 5 meter wide bed was definitely out of place.
"Why is he naked?!" She thinks but then remembers he recently started sleeping in the nude, saying something about his morning wood wearing out the stitches of his pants too fast. But just in case she checks her body for any.... Bad signs. "He might have the mind of a child but he's still a man at the end of the day."
She sighs in relief after feeling nothing wrong with her body, then feels a guilty for thinking so low of him. Maybe it was the headache and disorienting nausea still thrashing in her head and augmenting her thoughts? She can't seem to be bothered with figuring it out.
She stares into the ceiling, quiet as she ponders what she should do now that she woke up. She remembers she had some urgent things to do but doesn't think much about it after she turns her head to Vosh, because to her unsurprised self she found that his eyes were half open but she clearly can see that he's sleeping.
Wanting to take an opportunity to be close to him without him knowing, she rolls over to where he was which doesn't wake him up luckily.
She fixates a longing gaze into his eyes, his eyelids almost closed gave him a still sleepy look and his hand that was up to his face made him look cute to her. His pure white and curly hair dripping all over his face, to her it seemed like something out of the finest works of a top tier artist. If invoked a beat in her heart and a feeling of longing in her mind.
But what made her unable to look away from him, the thing that made her want to stay awake just to look at him longer were his eyes "I can't look at those eyes.... Without feeling something." The centre of his pupils were pitch black and the surrounding of it was a distinct dark grey. It was just reflective enough that it looked like a cat's eyes strangely and it contrasted the black hole like centre of his eyes.
"So beautiful." She accidental says out loud but doesnt seem to care much.
For a few months now she's been smitten with him. But of course, she'd deny it anytime anyone ever brought it up. It went against her morals in every way, "He's practically a child common sense wise and temporal wise an infant. Even if his body is that of a man, he's never experienced any other woman but me. If we got into a relationship...."
"Grooming" a term used in reference to adults teaching children how to believe, act or think in a certain way. In this case, she'd essentially be denying Vosh the experience of developing his own sexual taste on his own and may end up being with her forever (or so she hopes would happen if they did), seeing as that she's the only female Vosh has ever really known. It'd be one thing if he was even just a teenager who's already gone through a first crush and done various other things that would allow him to develop his idea of what a partner should be, but Vosh was quite literally a man-baby.
But she comes out of her controversial thoughts in an instant, once again noticing his blissful sleeping face that she wanted to look at all night. "I'm the one who kept mouthing about keeping personal space between us...." She thinks to herself but doesn't lament what she was doing, "It's my bed isn't it? I have a right to the things on my bed... Right?"
She suddenly feels the urge to touch his pink lips, gazing at them like it was the place her own always belonged, wanting to feel their texture if even for a moment just to satiate the curious urges within her.
Even though she feared what she may not be able to stop from happening if she did, nonetheless her emotions beckon her to move her hands forward and as they got closer, the voice of reason in her mind grew more and more silent as if destined to fade away.
But she regains her calm when Vosh turns over to the other side of the bed.
But then she looks at his back, it wasn't particularly broad but it was quite well defined. She touched it and it felt like her skin was touching the smoothest hot concrete she ever put her hand on. "He keeps his defensive skills on while he sleeps? I guess only someone like him with a Trillion mana capacity could do something like that. Its so efficient to level up the skill and stay safe.... Which is just like him." But with so many barriers up, she figured that what she felt wasn't his skin, but just a layer of the many barriers he likely has active throughout the night.
Her thoughts were in conflict, "I know if I asked him to be with me, he'd agree post haste and I've never been attracted to a man like this, even emotionally. I mean, I guess I'm a bit if a predator for the odd mix of innocence and intelligence? I'm really horrible." She makes an audible sigh, feeling like a paedophile despite not being attracted to actual children. She wishes she could gouge out the root of her carnal desires and light it on fire but realizes that the root of it was her own depraved mind.
To that extent she couldn't help but wonder why exactly she was even attracted to him in the first place. "Is it because he's an adult and still maintains his none apprehensive outlook on the world around him? I feel like that's close to it but I feel like it's not close enough...."
She just can't put her finger on why exactly she has feelings for this literal man-child sleeping so blissfully in front of her. "Ah. I think I get it. Its the unusual combination of child like behavior and incredible intellectual prowess, combined with such a manly body with strangely pure and attractive looks. It seems I had a type I wasn't even aware of." She then wonders if she had a type before in the first place, after all she hasn't bothered to make time for romance for a long time and focused on her carrier. Even previous relationships were just out of curious whims that she quickly got bored of.
Then she suddenly became concerned as to her constant worry about her trying to find out the root of her feelings for him, then sighs as she realizes it's just her nature as a scientist to want to know more.
Content with her conclusion, she goes back to getting an eye full of the object of beauty in front of her.
At some point she went back to sleep and had fantastic dreams of things she shouldn't perceive.