"This fruits doesn't look sweet." Kai said. The fruit in question looks like a pear but it is three tmes bigger than the normal pear. Instead of thin chewable skin this one has a hard bright green skin that is similar to an unripe orange fruit skin.
"This fruit is mostly used to make cooling fruit juice. You are being deceived by the appearance my friend. This is one of the sweetest fruits in this kingdom." Victor said handing the fruit to Kai.
"Alright I will trust your judgement." Kai took the fruit and paid for it.
"This is the Brahn silk. It is the National treasure of the Brahn nation. They are so proud of this particular silk they named it after their founding father's name." A man shouted while pushing down a scrawny looking girl to the ground.
"Beat her up. A peasant like this dares to touch my clothes!" The man seems to have lost all reason but the most surprising thing is that he keeps looking at Victor and Kai's direction.
Kai looks at Victor with suspicion. Victor, noticing his glare coughs. "That is Gayle he has a bit of a crush on my human form. I usually just ignore him since he is basically a child but he likes to put on these little theatrics to gain my attention." Victor said with a flat expression.
"A crush can also affect third parties like this? It's quite childish but I can not stand and watch a child being hit by grown men." Kai said with a thich distaste in his tone.
He used his aura to take the child away from there. In a blink of an eye the girl is seated down next to Kai and Victor. "Are you a child?" Kai's first question to the girl is not if she is okay but if she is a minor.
The girl stood up and bowed. "Please... I have to get the medicine to my mother she is in labor." The girl is flustered and in a hurry.
"Stop right there. You stole medicine!?" The man came towards them with his guards and poinyed an accusatory finger at the child.
"Looking at your attire there is no way you can affirm medicine so you must have stolen it. And now you have dirtied my clothes so give that medicine as a compensation." The pompous man said. Everyone can tell that he is just bullying a child but no one wants to come out and defend the child fearing the consequences of going against a noble.
"Are you serious! A person is going to lose their life if this girl doesn't make it there in time. Are you that poor that you would even covet a peasant's hard earned belongings?" Kai asked with a slight frown. His handsome face draw in a lot of attention but when you listen to his tone, it is sharp and piercing.
"Eh? Lord Victor who is your friend that lacks decorum?" The man's eyes when looking at Victor with a touch of shyness made Kai see an opening. He turned to the girl while the man is lost in his awe for Victor and spoke to her.
"Little girl, you should go home and save your mother. This man wants to feel superior here in a small town using your desparation." Kai pushed the girl to leave but the three guards around the men stood in front of the girl preventing her from leaving. The firl froze in place panic visible in her expression. ²
"I don't know who you are but you are clearly out of your depths here is the territory of the Bunisin family. I happened to be the youngest nephew of the family head." The boy boasted.
"That is enough for you to kill a mother and her unborn baby on a whim? The Count family that is supposed to keep the people safe is instead pushing a family to death just because they can?" Kai asked sharply.
The people looked at the commotion seeming to also find the man's actions outrageous.
"The nobles are really cruel. The girl said her mother is in labor."
"Do we not count as humans in their eyes?"
"My god! He wants to take a poor woman's medicine."
Mummers of indignation sounded from all around them. The man and his bodyguards can clearly hear them.
"Let the girl go!" The tone of the commoners became aggressive.
"Yeah. This young master really wants people's lives if he acts like this."
Kai is surprised when the commoners started shouting at the young man even surrounding him. The man seemed apprehensive but wanted fo prove his power so he told his men to apprehend the girl but as they approached the girl, Kai took her and disappeared.
He appeared a long distance away with the girl "Go home quickly." Kai said to the girl who seems dazed by the speed she just traveled in a matter of seconds.
Kai snapped her out of her stupor with a slap on the back of her head. "Where is your home?"
"It is in the Bullfrost Village." The girl said but it is obvious she is very anxious about the condition of her mother.
Kai just looked at her foolish expression. "Point me the direction I will send you there." The girl did as told.
This is the first time Kai saw a village. It has a raw of stone houses and little kids running around the green grass playing. The girl's family seems to live a small distance away. Kai got the girl there but he didn't show his face to the family.
He heard the family members exclaiming in relief. Kai went back to the town but became dumbfounded by the situation there.
The young man had started insulting the commoners surrounding him so they started beating him and his guards who are just normal knights in training.
"Are you kidding me!" Kai took the man away from the group and the fight stopped Victor is just standing on the side watching.
"I thought you are on our side?" One excited commoner pointed at Kai and asked. "Are you also in the noble's side? Were you just making us fools before?"
The woman's tone is full of accusation making Kai look at her in boredom. "Calm your panties auntie. I only wanted to help a child, it is not my fault you are all so quick to commit violence." Kai said.
"How boring, why did you stop it?" Victor asked Kai who just threw the man towards the town guards and pulled Victor away.
He is about to leave the town when he heard someone shout "The two of you stop there for me!"
"May we help you?" Kai asked the man who has many guards following him.
"Please follow us to explain what conspired here." The man in the front of the many knights wearing the intimidating blue and yellow knights uniform of the Binusin family.
"My apologies but I don't think so." Victor said and turned to leave when the men surrounded them with clear intentions to keep them here.
"I am afraid I will have to insist." The leader said only to hear Victor chuckle and his demonic aura started leaking out.
But before someone noticed, Kai embraced him and gave him a pinch on the side of his waist. "This gentleman. Are bullying us with numbers?" Kai spoke to the man but he didn't let go of the flesh from Victor's waist.
"You may think whatever you like but you will not leave here without...." He didn't finish because he couldn't utter a word as his body went limp and he fell on to the ground. Not just him but everyone near them fell all around them.
Kai has a spiritual supernatural ability which is similar to a high level mental power. He used it to spread the paralysic powder while making sure it doesn't affect the two of them.
Kai took Victor who watched the people in curiosity. "What happened?"
"I'm an alchemist. A genius one at that." Kai took Victor away from the scene.
"You handled that well. Thank you for stopping me before I exposed myself." Victor said with sincerity.
"Are you usually temperamental?" Kai asked his friend. It is surprising that he would be triggered by such a small incident unless he usually doesn't interact with humans at all.
"Not usually. I must have lost my mind for a moment because they were disrespecting me in front of you." Victor held his chin with tenderness.
"You have such power over me. What do I do?" Victor sounded helpless and playful at the same time.
"Give in and let me pamper you. You will not be sorry.." Kai said in a coaxing tone.
"Tempting." Victor admitted but his expression harden suddenly and he changed the subject.
"I want to go back and calm myself from today's events. I will see you soon." Victor said with a somewhat pensive expression.
"Yes. See you soon." Kai disappeared from his spot. Seeing this, Victor clicked his tongue in annoyance.
Kai went to his home. The children are working diligently to get strong and this delights him. It means his efforts are not being taken for granted. Especially four demi humans, he is fond of them because they work harder than everyone else.
This week the three demi humans have reached level two of the peal body cultivation technique. It is said to cleanse the body back to perfection making it easier to draw world energies to it.
Kai checked them and is delighted to confirm the truth of their breakthrough. "These are your rewards." He gave each of them a high level blood awakening pill.
"Mr director, what do the pills do?" Gil asked looking at the pill curiously.
"I read that the power of a demi human depends on the purity of their bloodline. Because of their mixed species body type, the magic potential is limited and the two species even cancell each other's potential but if they are able to level up the purity of their bloodline, they can become unstoppable."
"Try the pills and come see me tomorrow. Get a nanny each to supervise before you take the pill." Kai said and looked at the many level one children, some of which are closer to level two.
"The cultivation is to bring your body into a perfect state to start cultivating aura or magic depending on your potential. If you have a potential to do magic, I will have someone teach you, if not, then you will learn the way of the sword. Or any other weapon until you master it." Kai informed.
"If you do well, you can go to join the imperial academy and learn there. Or you can get a job somewhere. You may also stay here and work for me if you want but you are not obligated to." Kai said making the children understand the importance of hard work after they have been taught so many things by Kai's servants.
"I heard most of you can already write a small essay. You will have to learn reading and writing to make it to the outside world without embarrassing me the orphanage director." Kai snorted coldly.
"If any of you has a question or a concern, you can speak to my servants. This is a communication device my number is already in there. I will give it to you for free because it is the most basic one with the functions of making calls to others with similar bracelets or using it as a space tool to store some items. The space inside is as big a a small room. You may ask your instructors on how to use them." Kai gave them something he can use to track and talk to them if a need arise.
"Thank you director." The children said in unison. Kai made these basic bracelets in his space factory to allow the children some entertainment. There are games they can use in there but they will have to figure them out on their own.
Currently there are three thousand four hundred orphans that Kai is housing and training for free. Kai has a lot of blessings which will be a shame to be buried without using it to change someone's life.
What Kai doesn't know is that there is a boy who will be the protagonist of a novel in his orphanage and he has just increased his future achievements by many folds.
After directing the children Kai went to check the progress of soil restoration. The soil will be able to grow crops now but Kai is extending the process just to soften the soil since is it very hard.
Kai will first plant suga cane in the far side of the vast land. He will use his space to make the suga by proceeding the suga canes using his servants. He will then use the suga to build a candy factory selling sweets and many more products he hasn't thought about yet.
Barth, Aaron and a girl named Jin are by far the most outstanding of the humans. Aaron is from the bach that came with Victor while Jin is a little girl with a tall stature and big assets where fleshy meat is on the human body. Jin was not this big when Kai had just taken over the orphanage.
She is gaining muscle weight because of the training and the meals she has six times a day. She has black hair and red eyes Kai can sense a strong blood from her so he decided to give her a blood awakening pill to see what comes out after.
The people from Binusin family sent a summon for Kai to their home. He knows it is probably because of the incident with the young man on the street so he doesn't want to go but the second time they sent a family butler.
"I have an appointment with the head of the Binusin family." Kai said when he reached the gate at their residence.
The guards did not look pleased to see Kai after his action of poisoning them all that day. "So you're the brave new orphanage director. I heard you're so scared of the monsters in the forest you raised a wall to surround yourself?" One guard said incredulously.
Kai didn't even find it amusing. He has to meet with the most prestigious person in this county but a mere guard dog is standing in his way barking endlessly.
He tried to move around the guard but all three of them stood in front of him blocking his path. Kai sent a simple spark that no one saw to make the large gates turn into ashes in seconds. He then moved to the side and entered the gate leaving the guards perplexed on what happened.
Kai made his way toward that mansion and knocked on the door. A maid opened the door and let him wait in a waiting area. 10 minutes later the doors to the man's study did not open. It seems he is using psychological warfare to put Kai on his place.
They even removed all the chairs so Kai will wait standing which is even more irritating. Kai is young and most young people are without patience. If Kai behaves disgracefully here it will give the Count an upper hand. If he waits obediently he has been put into his place by the noble making him humble his arrogance.
Kai didn't mind this old people's theatrics and waited. However, instead of standing he sat cross legged and started meditating. Time passed quickly both parties satisfied with their actions.
When Count Binusin came out of his office he found Kai meditating with a peaceful expression.
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