Yuna open her small home that look a bit broken.
"I'm home!"
"Little Yu is home.. how is the academy?"
An old yet strong and hearty voice greets Yuna who came home and declare her presence jovially.
"It was good Grandpa" I was slacking off the entire time
An old man who still look good, big and hulky, handsome with manly white beard came forward hugging Yuna in a tight bear hug.
"Uff… Grandpa, how's today business?"
Yuna breathlessly ask, pushing and trying to get out from her grandfather too tight of an embrace.
"The dessert you come up with was well liked and the business is booming unlike before"
Grandpa Orion put down his lovely granddaughter, he rub her head and said "Your little head really can come up with some amazing recipe"
"Hehehe…" Yuna wordlessly chuckle. She cannot say that the recipe come from her previous life right? So, Yuna just have to thicken her skin and shamelessly take the credit. She didn't know who came up with the recipe in the first place.
"Ehh… what smells so good?"
Yuna sniff around.
"Just a pheasant that was caught in the trap I set"
"Wow… Grandpa is awesome"
Grandpa Orion pinch Yuna cheek, mumbling "Cheeky flatterer"
"Hehe…"
The small house only has Yuna and her cheaply gained grandfather.
Her grandfather, a humble self made hunter had open a small shop where he sell bakery and the wooden toy he made at passing to catch the eye of the children and draw in the parents to buy more from his shop.
Being a hunter could not suffice the living expenses of himself and his growing granddaughter. So, he opened a shop early.
As an awakened, the far sighted grandfather already has the vision of needing to send his granddaughter to an academy to learn. Even if she does not awakened, Grandpa Orion still thought of sending his granddaughter to some academy to gain basic knowledge and not let her fall too far behind of her peers.
Thankfully, he opened the shop early enabling him to save some money and being able to send his granddaughter when she awakened.
"Grandpa, have you thought about the doll illustration I gave you?"
"Hmm…. I will have to buy some garments for those exquisite dolls"
Yuna as a doodle master in class especially during the lecture time decides to upgrade the dolls that her grandfather sells in the shop, copying the exquisite dolls and stuff toys from her previous world to boost sales.
Whichever world, money is always important.
Even if Yuna was muddled and daze when she found herself in another world, she still instinctively pursues a way to earn more money.
Money is the reason we exist, everybody knows that's a fact kiss kiss~
#Lana Del Ray
'They said that the cost of potion is expensive'
What if she got sick or her grandfather who got sick? her guardian get sick and they have no money to buy for treatment? It will be too late to cry tears of regret then.
Her body is so small, only nine years old. Yuna does not dare mingle in another world without adult supervision.
Even in her previous life, although shaming to admit, Yuna depend on a large part financially on her parent money.
When a person who freshly transmigrated gained a relative, they might and actually most of the time panic and try to reduce contact with them as much as possible so that the said relative will not find out that they are not the original.
But Yuna does not have such qualms. Her body is only so small and even if she suddenly have a change in personality, a large portion can be contributed to her being a child and its normal for children to undergo and develop their personality.
Even if it is an adult body that she transmigrate to, Yuna will still approach the relative actively because they can be the close confidant who can guide them in a new world she found herself into. At least, the relative won't harm her and she can gain a temporary safety.
"Tomorrow is Saturday and we don't have class, I'll wait the shop with you Grandpa and bake with you"
Although she could not help her grandfather in making dolls, hunting prey, or even sewing, Yep, her grandfather have many life skills. Yuna at least know how to bake and cook. A necessity for Asian female, force by the imposing mother to attract the male species and capture the stomach to conquer their heart and beguile them in a marriage.
Hais…. Asian daughter does not have it easy.
When night came, Yuna sat at the open area of the balcony.
The moon was bright and since it was summer, the night is not cold.
"Huu… Lets' concentrate"
Yuna close her eyes once again, this time, the song of cicada and the quite night ease her mood. The gentle blowing winds calm her down.
Yuna slowly probe the elements around her, she absorb them and try to enter a state of blankness while unconsciously absorbing the elements and filling her plate.
While absorbing, Yuna distractedly wonder about the colour of element.
'Water element must be blue, earth green, red fire, air sky blue….'
Instead of just filling in her plate, Yuna even started to move the element around her body, letting it flow on her blood stream.
'They said human body accumulate filth and dirt, maybe I can use the element to purify such filth'
Yuna thought simply and even distributed the element to flow around her muscles and organs.
'Make my nerves sharper and even my hearing and vision better'
Yuna thought run wilder and wilder.
She is a reader that never lacks imagination. Her thought active and her conscious although chaotic is uniform.
'Thought as one, thought as one, thought as one'
Already failing to concentrate in the afternoon, Yuna kept on chanting 'Thought as one' repeatedly and the elements that try to get away from her grasp or even go awry were repeatedly caught and directed to flow the way she want.
It was a miraculous experience to guide and do something close to supernatural or spiritual activity. It excites and exhilarate Yuna to no end.
The repeated process of trying to maintain order among the element exhaust Yuna mentally.
But…
When has she ever succumbed to mental exhaustion?
Although controlling different kind of element is taxing, Yuna feel that it was much more doable than working laboriously.
Her excited mood of being able to actually do 'cultivation' prompt it such that she still have enough energy to carry out the 'elemental cultivation'.
She who used to stay up late for three consecutive nights or most of the time only getting two to four hour of sleep when she is engrossed in a novel or when she is desperately trying to fill in a deadline exhausting her brain cell does not plan on succumbing to mental exhaustion so soon.
As a reader who has gone through all sorts of emotional rollercoaster when reading novels, exclaims that mental exhaustion is nothing.
It was nothing compared to depression and stressed.
Although mentally drained, Yuna still hold out the state of her so called 'Purification' for two hours while repeatedly trying to differentiate the difference between the elements that she absorb.
Only when Yuna feel that she was really going to black out that she stop her concentration and flop on the mat she lays on the ground.
"Huh…?"
Yuna who now seem to feel the slimy state of her body look down and almost freak out. Her body is covered in black like mucus.
Yuna feel the black mucus on her finger and sniff her body. But as she did so, it almost causes her to vomit.
It stinks like faeces!
Even though exhausted because mental drained is no joke, Yuna walk (Crawl) herself towards the water barrel that was put outside the house and started to wash herself.
The snoring sound of her grandfather rang loudly in the quiet night.
"…It must be the filth" Yuna mumble while rubbing herself repeatedly. It was so stinky Yuna suspect whether the stink can be removed completely.
She has read that when the male or female lead first start their cultivation and did their 'Qi' absorption, black filth used to discharge from their body.
"Let's assume that is the case, I should continue to do this every night"
Thankfully, she didn't do it on the day at the academy.
Imagining being covered in filth and stunk in broad daylight, Yuna trembles at such thought. It will not be a very good experience. As a normal person, she has a sense of shame ah..