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章節 367: The First Customer

Silence... Different from the anticipatory silence from earlier, the pub is now covered in awkward silence. Even those who are downed due to alcohol except for Bete all instantly woke up with mouths wide open.

Everyone's stare is congregated on the High-Elf which is the source of that seductive moan and now covering her mouth with a red face not knowing what to do.

During this time, they suddenly heard clicking sounds from the person who started all of this and gathered everyone's attention. On his hand is a black box with strange protrusion and buttons.

The man himself has a large grin on his face and said, "Yay~. I got something good~."

After saying so, Kisuke took back his camera and decided to leave. Signaling the girls, they all stood up and started walking towards the exit while ignoring everyone's stares. Yoruichi grabbed the unconscious Hestia via princess carry and followed everyone.

Seeing that Kisuke was about to leave, Riveria muttered while shaking, "W-what d-did you... do?" Her question pertains to several things including the function of the black box, his method of reducing her to this state, and his goal.

Before exiting the pub, Kisuke turned around and smiled, "Did you think that you could get away with those questions for free? Then let me tell you this, there's nothing more expensive than free. That man told you, right? Be wary of my prices and this is the price for those information and trying to trick me in answering your questions." He then followed his girls outside to go home.

The silence continued for a few minutes and Riveria was able to calm herself down sufficiently and stood up, intending to leave, "I'm going first." She hurriedly exited the pub to escape with a still blushing face.

"R-Riveria-sama!" "Riveria!" Ais, Lefiya, Tiona, and Tione and some other girls immediately chased after her.

Finn couldn't stop himself from asking anymore, "What was that?"

"W-who knows..." Loki replied, "But that's the first time I've seen Riveria make that kind of expression. I don't know if I should be happy or pissed that someone else pulled out that expression from her." After hearing Riveria's first-ever moan, she instantly sobered up.

"To reduce the prideful Elf just like that... He's a terrifying kid..." Gareth commented.

"I told you, right? That kid is dangerous." Loki added and Finn and Gareth indeed recall those words from her.

That night, Riveria didn't come out of her room no matter how much the others call for her.

The next day noon, Riveria finally came out but she pretended that nothing out of ordinary happened yesterday and when she caught someone talking about the events of the last night, she'll use her authority to send them to annoying errands or ask them to train by running around the whole Twilight Manor fifty times. Just an overnight, she became a tyrant.

However, not everyone is afraid to poke fun of her as Loki kept pestering her despite her bad mood.

While laying on the floor after being smacked on the head, Loki asked as she noticed that Riveria is getting ready to leave, "Where are you going?"

"To that man, Kisuke Urahara's place," Riveria answered simply.

Loki looked at her with a dumbfounded expression before descending into laughter, "Ahahaha! Great! I assure you that you'll finally break that guy's expectation! But be sure not to kill him~."

"No way I'm going to do that. I'm going there for a proper business."

Loki could only smile while watching her leave.

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Early in the morning, everyone woke up pretty early, including Hestia, which shocked everyone, "What? Is it so surprising that I woke up early!?"

"Yes." Everyone simultaneously answered.

"Ugh..." She can't really say anything back as she's living a pretty carefree life, "I'm going out to invite the blacksmith that I know. It might take some time, but it shouldn't last for three days."

"That long? Where are you going?" Kisuke asked.

"She's a very person so it might take some time to convince her."

"I see... Please be careful."

After breakfast and dressing up, Hestia went away with jolly steps.

"What about you girls?"

"We're all going to the Dungeon. I'll be leading them to the 16th and 17th floor where they could bash the heads of the Minotaurs to removed their lingering fear of them." Yoruichi answered.

"Then I'll be manning the shop today while I arrange some of the data I got from the Dungeon." Kisuke then gave her kiss to the forehead.

Smiling brightly, Yoruichi replied, "We'll be back early in the afternoon~." Before walking away.

However, instead of following her, the girls lined up in front of Kisuke, "I can understand Sona and Medusa... Even Aika and Koneko... Why even you, Kuroka?"

"I don't want to be left out, nya~! And besides, you should just accept me! You know I'm not going to let anybody touch me anymore, so you gotta take the responsibility, nya~!"

"Don't want to be left out? But you're in front of the line..."

"It's called preemptive strike, nya~. They're too slow."

'Well, it's not like I'm not expecting this to happen... I guess I'm blessed enough in this life to have everyone's affection.' Kisuke sighed and gave her a kiss on her forehead.

"Thanks, nya~!" Kuroka wanted to ask something of another level like a kiss on her lips but stopped herself since there's still a long line behind her. But before separating from Kisuke, Kuroka gave him a wink and said, "I'd like to schedule a session later~." She then hurriedly followed Yoruichi.

Kisuke has a feeling that they will be going all the way later and could only smile wryly, 'My first world problems...'

Kisuke then proceeded to give everyone a forehead kiss and watch them leave before leaving for his Candy Shop that he'll be manning for today.

The whole morning went without any disturbance which is good for Kisuke's research and bad for his business. But it wasn't until noon that an unexpected guest or customer arrived, "Oh my... I wasn't expecting this after what happened the last night... Good afternoon to you, Riveria-san."

Riveria blushed for a bit after hearing him mentioning the last, "Good afternoon to you too, Kisuke Urahara-san. But it's really hard to believe that you're not expecting me... After playing with me last night."

"Please just call me Kisuke. And believe me that I'm not really expecting you to come today. I predicted that you'll only come a week or two later. After all, what I did isn't very flattering."

Riveria's blush grew deeper and said, "Please stop mentioning the last night. It was also my fault for trying to trick information from you and I sincerely apologize. So please forget what happened last night."

'That's impossibel~. But since you apologized, I won't be mentioning it for about an hour~.' Kisuke thought but he didn't say it out loud, "What's the purpose of your today's visit, I wonder? I doubt it's for the candies on my shelves that attracted you."

Riveria is unsatisfied that she didn't get a reply of promise from Kisuke but set it aside for now and answered his question, "I'm here for a formal business... Regarding your magic..."

"I see..." Kisuke then stood up, "I'm about to have lunch. Please join me." He then invited her to the inner portion of the shop for lunch and private talks.

Riveria finally remembered that she hasn't had lunch or breakfast yet as she's too busy 'silencing' people in the Loki Familia and reluctantly agreed to Kisuke's offer, "...Thank you."


章節 368: Isn't Magic

Inside the living space of the store, Riveria looked around curiously and asked, "Did you came from the Far East?"

"Something like that," Kisuke answered vaguely and led Riveria to the dining area, "Please sit down. I'll prepare for lunch."

But instead of sitting down, Riveria asked, "Is there anything I can do to help?"

"You're a guest, Riveria-san. You can take it easy."

"Well, I came uninvited and you're treating me to lunch so maybe I could assist you with something."

"Thank you, but I can manage." Kisuke brought a warm tea for Riveria to help her wait.

Riveria didn't insist anymore and just sat down quietly and watched Kisuke do his work on the kitchen through the counter while sipping on her tea. And since it'll be boring and awkward to just wait in silence, Riveria initiated a conversation, "Forgive for asking, but where are your lo-... I mean the other members of your Familia?" She was about to say 'lovers' but figured that it was a bit inappropriate so she changed her question.

Kisuke didn't mind her consideration and answered honestly, "They're in the dungeon. They're aiming to reach Level 2 within a few days. Arshe-san should be with them too."

Riveria is interested in how Line joined their party and learned her magic, but she's more curious about another thing, "T-they're not yet Level 2 after that battle? How? That achievement should be enough to instantly push them to a level up."

"Because they're not yet satisfied... There's no need to level up if you can improve further at that level."

"But it'll be extremely slow and hard to gain more excelia after that. Since they were able to defeat Minotaurs, their status should be on top than others of the same level. It would be faster to just level up and gain more excelia easier."

"Riveria-san... They'll be only level 1s once and they wanted to gain every benefit they can. True, it's more efficient if they just level up as it'll really be easier that way... But you see, in considering the future, efficiency isn't always the answer. In addition, we really don't like taking the easy route if we can do better at the harder path." Kisuke then faced Riveria with a smile, "And most importantly, we don't care how others level up. We'll do what we think is best for us. Even if we take years for a single level, if that can help us in the future better, then we'll work hard for those few years."

Riveria's eyes widened hearing that. She then smiled wryly, "I'm sorry... I just realized how stupid that question was... What you said is true... One shouldn't compare oneself to others and just do their best in their field that they enjoy. And truly... Efficiency isn't about everything when getting stronger. It seems that my years of adventuring blinded me of something that should be obvious..."

"Well, I can't really blame you. With competition everywhere, you just have to get strong faster so that you won't be overtaken. And feelings of impatience due to some goals should have added to that. There are ways to get stronger faster but one should never get impatient."

"You're right... And you just reminded me of someone who's on the verge of impatience."

"Then you should immediately warn that guy... He'll only get killed faster."

"I'm always doing it... It's just that she's really too impatient to achieve her goal... And it isn't even a very good goal."

Kisuke knew that she's referring to the Sword Princess but didn't say anything about it, "Whether the goal is good or bad, it's only the person who has it can decide that."

Riveria looked at him with a dumbfounded expression, "Your words are like that of an old man who had already seen most of the world... Just how old are you?"

"Ahaha, please don't call me an old man~. I'm just a 17-year old business man~."

"..." Most of the time, Riveria feels like she's talking with a child when conversing with Kisuke, however, from time to time, it feels like she's asking advice from a senior. Shaking that out her mind, Riveria asked another thing she's curious about, "You said there are other ways to get stronger aside from leveling up..."

"Ah, about that, its- "Wait!" ", In the middle of his sentence, Riveria suddenly interrupted him, "I don't want to hear it without hearing about the price first!" She already learned from her mistakes... the hard way.

Kisuke couldn't help but chuckle thinking that he had traumatized the poor Elf of acquiring free knowledge, "You don't have to worry about that. It isn't much of a secret and you could just answer my questions in exchange."

"...No hidden charges?"

"None!"

Riveria sighed in relief, "Then please go on."

Feigning a cough, Kisuke continued, "Ehem... To tell you the other way to get stronger, let me ask you this first. It seems that all of the Adventurers that I came across are only relying on the Skills and Developmental Abilities they have to progress their technique... Why is that?"

Riveria tilted her head and rubbed her chin in contemplation, "Why you ask... Aside from relying on those, what else can you do?"

"Are you serious?" It was Kisuke's turn to be dumbfounded, 'Are they this reliant on the system? Isn't that pretty bad if you want to reach the higher levels? After all, the stats that each level provides isn't enough to fight in the higher levels.'

"...Yes... What's wrong with that?" Riveria is confused with his reaction.

"How do people practice combat?"

"Sparring and monster hunting. Either of those."

"...Are there no systematic art or school of martial arts being practice anywhere?"

"Systematic art? School of martial arts? I'm not very well versed with frontline fighters so I'm not sure..."

"Okay... I already figured it out with that answer." Kisuke wanted to do a facepalm but he's currently frying some chicken so he can't, 'So they went full practical and didn't even develop any martial arts? No... That's impossible... There should be some but it should be incredibly rare. I guess you can't defeat an Adventurer who devoted 10 years to reach a high level just with a master class martial artist who devoted his whole life to the art.

"What's wrong with it?"

"Nothing... Nothing is wrong about that... It's just that... I can't really easily explain it with words." Kisuke then looked around the room and decided to just show it to her, "I guess I have to sacrifice that cup... Please throw that cup to me." Kisuke pointed at the empty teacup in front of Riveria.

Riveria is still confused about his reaction and wanted to know what he wants to do, so without hesitation, she tossed the cup towards Kisuke.

When it's about to reach Kisuke, he raised the wooden chopstick that he's holding and as slow as possible, he cut the incoming cup into two using it before catching the broken cup with his other hand, "This is what I'm talking about! For your information, this isn't magic."

"W-what!?" Riveria couldn't believe what she just saw.


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