Mo was an okay student. He asked a few questions here or there and wrote down some notes, but he had a hard time answering the questions I gave him. Most of those questions required him to infer the answer based on previously given information.
I knew this would be something hard for him as he was not even passed the age where he would be considered a young adult. Still, I wanted to at least try and improve his critical thinking skills.
Time flew by as I was teaching him and before I knew it some of the maids were walking in the room cleaning a few things to prepare for the next lesson. I could see the relief on the boys face when he saw the maids but I did not stop the lesson. The look he gave me at this was clearly asking for pitty but he was sadly looking in the wrong place.
When the maids finished cleaning they did not leave and instead stood at the sides of the room waiting for the others to arrive. I even saw a couple of them pulling out note books and joting down a few more notes.
Soon the others started arriving and I ended the lesson I was giving the boy. I did not let him leave however as I turned to one of the maids that was not doing anything and asked, "Since the others are busy, could you please go get some water for Mo?"
When I pointed out that some of the maids were busy they stopped taking notes and tried to put there note books away, so I said, "You don't need to stop taking notes. If you found something helpful in what I said then please note it down. I just hope that you do not write down the wrong thing or interpret it in the wrong way."
The more experienced maids seemed to be adamant about posting the note books away but the newer ones went back to taking a few notes quickly. It was then one of the maids came forward to ask a question.
From here demienar and the way she was looking around, I was guessing that she was a new hire. The question that she asked me was about a clarification on some of the topics from the past few days. After she asked she seemed to realize what she did and started to shrink back.
Not pointing out what she was doing I answered the question and even clarified a little more. The way her eyes lit up was very cute. She then started to write down what I said in her note book very quickly.
When she finished her notes and stepped back the rest of the people arrived and I went to the front of the room to start the lesson. The boy wanted to run only to be stopped by his mother and sister and placed back in his chair.
Since this lesson did not necessarily need to you to understand what the previous lessons taught, I told the boy to go a couple pages ahead in his note book for the notes today. With that said I started teaching everyone about the most common mistakes and how to either avoid, fix, or counter them when making or reviewing a technique.
This went on until an hour before they would normally end. It was here that I chose to end the lesson today giving everyone an hour to ask questions. Raina had come back just after the lesson started and seemed to know enough about the lesson to help answer questions. She even made a few points that I did not even consider as most of my abilities to discover faults in techniques came from a trait I had and not experience.
When all was said and done we left the library for the dining room as it was slightly passed dinner time. Unlike normal the dinner this time was fairly spicy and I would normally have not eaten it, but since I did not know when taking a bite, I unintentionally discovered that my tolerance for spicy food had increased tremendously. I did not even figure out that the food was overly spicy until I saw everyone else start sweating and realized that they were already on there third glass of water.
Mrs. Xia then asked the chef who was standing there what he had done with the meal. He said that he only added a few wild peppers he found in the market which were rich in Qi and would be useful to the young Miss's cultivation. The young miss he was referring to must have been Lou Xia as I saw her face darken at this.
Curious about this I asked if he had any of these peppers left that he could show us. Getting a nod from Ms. Xia he left the room only coming back about a minute later. I was almost certain that if he took a full minute he would have lost more than his job.
When he did return and I got a glimpse of what he was hold I could not keep myself from laughing. The pepper I his hands was something that I recognized from earth. Everyone else was looking at me confused, so I said, "Does anyone recognize this pepper?"
They all shook their heads in the negative so I explained, "This is a pretty famous pepper on earth called the ghost pepper. It is the eight hottest pepper in that world. For someone who is completely ordinary and has not gone through any body tempering or other cultivation, it can cause them to have third degree burns in there mouths and throat. But that is only if they are not prepared correctly."
Mrs. Xia looked at me for a second before saying, "So if what you are insinuating is true, than there are other transmigartors or as you called them reincarnators in the world?"
I thought for a moment before responding, "There is a small difference between the two. That being a transmigartor will take over the body of someone who is recently deceased and most of the time that is with the permission of the person who's body it was previously. While a reincarnator is given a new life, either from the beginning or in the form of a new body in a different world.but yes that is what I am saying.
There is even evidence that there has been someone before my. Otherwise there would not be a Mansion like this or maids that are something like the French inspired maids in anime. That's not even including how some of the buildings in the Sect function."
Everyone at the table looked shocked for a moment before Mrs. Xia calmed down and said, "So how can we confirm wether or not this pepper comes from someone like you?"
"That's quite simple." I responded while turning to look at the chef and asking, "Did you manage to get another peppers from them?"
The chef nodded and flipped his other hand showing another pepper that was quite famous on earth. I was unable to hold myself back from laughing again as I explain, "That's quite the jumpfrom eighth. What you are holding is a Carolina reaper, which the last I checked ,was the hottest pepper on Earth."
The chefs face whent white after my explanation, so I said, "You just have to remember to use it in moderation because not only is there spice strong but so is there flavor. Though I am guessing you didn't do that with the ghost peppers."
The chef nodded at my words and Mrs. Xia agreed before asking, "You didn't seem to be bothered by the peppers. Is there a trick to eating them from your old world that we don't know?"
This question made sit there and think for a moment as I never used to be able to handle more then one ripe jalapeno and now I was eating ghost peppers like they were nothing. The only major reason I could think of was my fire type Evolution so I told her as much.
They looked even more confused so I explained that the reason why I ran through the house like that this morning was because yesterday after completing the body tempering stagei became able to evolve. I also explained that this evolution was me simply going from an unaspected Kitsune to having my first tail become attuned to the fire law. This also came with a few physical changes as well.
I then explained with some embarrassment about the warning from the system this morning and how I thought the best place to evolve was the shrine. Raina and Mrs. Xia only response was to tell me not to make this mistake again.
Nodding and trying to hide my embarrassment, I went back to finishing my meal which did not help as I was the only person eating now.