Before the Shojo of the Maba Village could attempt to run, Tim carried him to an inn in a flash, and the old man was left blinking, as a sudden realization struck him.
"You're the Express Tim!"
Tim didn't shy away from the truth, and removed his mask, "Surprise."
The Shojo of Maba Village wanted to run away, but he suddenly lost access to his Rei, and exclaimed, "What did you do to me, you villain? Just what kind of Tama did you use to block the Rei in my primordial space?!"
Tim chuckled lightly, putting on his sunglasses, "I thought you would know this since you are "educated"?"
Before the Shojo of Maba Village could say anything, Tim pulled out something from within his clothing, and said, "This is something I found out on my little adventure in hell. And judging by your expression it seems you recognize it."
[The Journey of the First Tama-Artist: First Chapter - Taken out.]
The morning sunshine descended like an amber Rain-bath on the spaced buildings, lighting up with a heartening glow in the wooden walls, gardens, outhouses, and the inhabitants of Kufu-Kafu Village were already up. It's not because they wanted to be this early, but they all didn't want to miss the rainbow cloud.
The sun is bright, but the rainbow cloud is mesmerizing.
I am not going to waste ink, and paper describing how the rainbow cloud looks, but all I can tell you is that if you happen to pass by Kufu-Kafu Village be sure to wake up a few minutes before sunrise if you don't want to miss this spectacular cloud.
The reason I'm wasting paper to describe the events of this day is because that is when the boy started following me, and just like other days I was arguing with the older people of the Kufu-Kafu village - they weren't really old but since I was 14, everyone around me looked old at that time.
"Listen, monk! The Buddha is a god!"
"Yesterday, I prayed to my child using the Buddha's name, and she was healed! That's only something gods can do!"
"The Buddha is almighty, and we should worship him!"
I sighed internally, these were the type of people I met every day. No one understood what the Buddha meant, and the more people who misunderstood me, the more I thought I was doing the wrong thing.
Putting that aside, I addressed the group of people who had gathered around me.
"If the Buddha is a god as you portray him as, what would be of his father; won't he be something greater?"
One lady answered, "The first human is the father of all us all. We are all here because of him!"
I chuckled at her words, and leaned on the tree behind me, asking, "Then why are there so many people in the world right now? It's been 500 years since he passed away from the world; such a timeline is not long enough to fill all the great continents with people to the point our leaders are now putting in a 2 child policy."
Before they could say anything I laid out the math for them, "The average woman stops giving birth at 55, and some of them stop at 40."
"Putting the fact that we are not allowed to have babies before reaching 16, we only have 39 years to have babies which is 468 months, and a person needs at least 15 months to take care of a baby from the beginning of pregnancy to 6 months when a baby starts taking other supplementary foods. Hence a person can only have 13 children per lifetime."
The group seemed confused, the art of mathematics, and Kojin had just been recently introduced to the world, so their confusion was only understandable.
As for us monks, a Daimyo introduced the concept, and I somehow understood it - maybe it was because I was young.
Clearing my throat, I added, "The first human is said to have lived 500 years ago according to what we have been told, and read. The second thing you must put to mind is that I have never heard or seen someone above the age of 70, and it's rare for people to reach 70 years in the first place."
The group muttered among themselves, but after receiving a glare from the boy next to me they closed their mouths.
Sighing at how the boy always wanted violence, I said, "Let's say that everyone reaches 70, then we all will be 31, 419, 919 that doesn't even compare to the large number of people in this continent!"
I smiled, and added, "Now, according to the World Law; incest is a sin punishable by being struck with lightning! Hence stop lying to yourself that you all related to the person you call the first human."
The boy next to me raised a brow, "So you're saying that there were people before the first human?"
I nodded, "I am not sure, there might have been people before the person we call the first human; this is just a conspiracy theory after all. However, I know that someone out there is hiding very important information from us."
If we have read the story of the first human carefully it says that he could put X-You Mountain in his palm, and observe it. I have never been to X-You Mountain, but a mountain is a mountain it can't fit in a normal person's palm."
The boy next to me was the first to yell, "Maybe, X-You Mountain is just too small..."
The boy's words trailed off at the end, realizing that he was wrong, and changed the subject, "What kind of being is this person we call the first human, a giant possibly?"
One of the audience corrected him, "From all the myths we have read, giants are the size of a mountain; not beings who put a mountain in their palms. Remember, there is a part in his story that records that he damaged part of heaven while working."
I nodded, "Yes, something tells me that the first human might be a Yōkai."
You reading this text, I am sure the person hiding information from the world will hide this text is found out, but if you find it, is the first human really a Yōkai...or something else?