After a round of introductions, Yoruichi told Kisuke about the help they provided and Astraea's friendly relation with Hestia.
Thinking for a bit, Kisuke suddenly asked Yoruichi and Kuroka, "How many Elixirs do you have?"
"Just two.", answered Yoruichi.
"Three with me.", added Kuroka.
Since Kisuke couldn't access his inventory currently, he could only rely on Yoruichi and Kuroka's own inventories. However, since they're not 'Kisuke', they didn't amass random things.
Closing his eyes, Kisuke rubbed his chin while muttering for everyone to hear, "Hmm... That's a shame. I don't have enough to give you a box."
Hearing that, Astraea immediately panicked, "Stop that! Yoruichi and Kuroka already saved my children and that's more than enough!"
Meanwhile, Astraea's children were shocked at his remark, 'H-he really did think about giving a box of those Elixirs...', was what they all thought.
"Then how about this? You can request me any one thing and I'll personally fulfill it? Of course, under the impression that I'll be able to do it."
Shaking her head, Astraea replied, "You don't have to. As I said, what Yoruichi and Kuroka have done was more than enough and I still think that we're indebted to them."
Behind her, Mildred, Cecil, April and Liz all nodded in unison.
"Please accept it Astraea-sama.", Yoruichi suddenly chimed in, "This guy is one of the more stubborn people out there and won't stop doing this. Just accept it and you don't even have to request him anything."
Astraea thought about her words and indeed, she could just simply accept Kisuke's offer and forget about it. Sighing, Astraea finally nodded to the smiling Kisuke, "I gladly accept it. Thank you."
"If you ever need something, please don't hesitate to tell me~." For Kisuke, it was enough for her to accept his offer. In any case, if they were to come across a 'problem' they would certainly remember this.
"Now then, Astraea-sama. Thank you again for everything, but we have to leave now.", Kisuke suddenly changed the subject.
Astraea immediately disagreed, "Now? It's already afternoon and traveling at this time of the day won't be advisable. On top of that, you've just woken up and haven't even eaten anything. You should rest and regain your stamina first."
Kisuke stood up and looked outside, "We're fine. As you've probably noticed, Yoruichi and Kuroka are pretty strong and I do have my own expertise. We're also already behind on our projected schedule so we have to move on."
Yoruichi and Kuroka also stood up and started packing up.
Seeing Kisuke's expression, Astraea sighed, "Fine... But be careful out there. I would hate to hear of something bad happening to Hestia's children."
"Thank you."
Since they didn't have much, to begin with, Yoruichi and Kuroka were able to pack everything up within just two minutes. The Astraea Familia accompanied the three until they reached the gates of the village.
After saying their final farewells, Kisuke, Yoruichi and Kuroka took the direct path towards the city of Pandemonium.
Once they were out of their sights, Mildred asked Astraea, "Yoruichi and Kuroka are going to be fine, but won't there be some problems for that guy?"
Astraea smiled and answered, "They are going to be just fine."
"But for them to leave just like that... It seems that they're really in a hurry. Too bad... Astraea-sama has been looking forward to hearing about Ryuu-senpai from him as apparently, he knew more about her than those two.", muttered Cecil.
Looking at the direction of the far distant Orario, Astraea replied as a gentle wind blew her face, "Don't worry about it. We'll have more chances later on."
Astraea, however, knew that Kisuke was lying about being in a hurry due to being behind the schedule, but she also noticed that he seemed to be enduring something so she didn't force them to stay for a while.
"That's true...", Mildred nodded in agreement before turning towards her fellow Familia members, "Alright, let's go home and rest up early. Thanks to Yoruichi and Kuroka, we were able to clear the monsters within the surroundings of the village, giving us plenty of time. However, we should still hurry as this isn't the only village suffering from the increased number of monster attacks, so we should move to the next one early tomorrow."
" " "Roger!" " ", answered the three in unison before Liz suddenly raised a question, "How about the mysterious mist that suddenly enveloped the forest three days ago? We still don't know anything about it."
"Cecil already sent a letter to Pandemonium regarding this matter and other Familias within the vicinity should have too. A well-equipped Familia should arrive any time now to investigate so let's not worry about this unknown problem."
April, on the other hand, turned to Astraea and asked, "What about you, Astraea-sama? What do you think about this strange incident?"
Astraea shook her head, "I don't have any idea what it was. Maybe it was a rare kind of magic that went wrong or maybe something else entirely.", but truth to be told, Astraea had a feeling that this phenomenon had something to do with Kisuke, Yoruichi and Kuroka. But as usual, she didn't reveal her thoughts about them.
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Deep within the forest, the three suddenly stopped walking as Kisuke started bleeding throughout his body, "Crap... This is harder than I thought."
Kuroka wanted to touch him but stopped her hand mid-air, "A-are you really going to be fine, nyaa? You won't suddenly drop dead on us, would you?" Since she didn't know what was going on, she couldn't help but be extremely worried.
Kisuke only chuckled as his wounds suddenly started closing up as if the time was being rewound on him, "Don't worry. After that incident, I actually became a lot harder to kill. I presume that even if you separate my head from my body, I would still be fine."
However, after that remark, Kisuke flinched at the angry glare that he received from the two of them, "Even if that is true, please don't ever do that... Not even as a joke.", declared Kuroka. Both of them knew that Kisuke might really try severing his head, but between Yoruichi and Kuroka, the latter was much more furious due to the fact that she wasn't really used to Kisuke's dangerous antics.
Raising both of his hands in surrender, Kisuke replied, "Okay. I promise I won't do that." Not wanting to be in this awkward situation anymore, Kisuke immediately changed the topic, "However, thanks to my condition, I will have to relearn all of my daily activities like a baby. With that, you'll have to be my bodyguards, until I can fight back without accidentally killing my opponents."
"So how are you going to learn how to move around? By just simply walking?", asked Yoruichi.
"Of course not! There's no better teacher than experience, be it a success or a failure! So to start with, let's go bash some monster heads before teleporting back."
"That's learning how to run before you can walk, nyaa!!!", retorted Kuroka.
Editors:
28th00: Ah, if you’re an immortal regenerator, it quite literally is easiest to learn the most dangerous and fastest way compared to slow and methodical. No embarrassing Ryuu stories though, sadly. But hey, Ryuu would probably be happy to hear about her Familia being heroes to the innocent!
Alexander: Don’t ask me why, but I just imagined the scene of Kisuke getting ‘killed’ to tease his opponent and holding his head while saying, “Decapitation!!!…...Not.”, with the voice of Borat.
It took Kisuke a whole day just to prevent himself from self-destructing while doing his everyday activities. However, he estimated that it may take more or less a month to properly fight. Fortunately, even if he can't fight, that's only physically and studying techniques like Magic and Kidou would be a lot easier for him.
"How is it, Kuroka?" Yoruichi asked her cat friend who had been checking the state of the surrounding space.
"We've gone far enough away from the epicenter so the surrounding space has already stabilized. I can do my calculations properly now, nyaa. Shall we go?" Kuroka looked towards Kisuke who was currently laying on the ground while he waited for his wounds to completely heal.
"Yep. We should go," Kisuke stood up and a purple magic circle appeared below them before the three of them disappeared, reappearing in their rented house.
"I wanted you to make another base around here, but it looks like it won't be possible for a short while," Yoruichi sighed thinking that they'd have to put up with more 'guests' that won't easily leave them alone.
"That you don't have to worry about. Even if I can't do much with my abilities technically sealed, I can still make magic items to repel some pests. I just need some materials to start with."
Yoruichi stared at Kisuke before saying, "Right... I almost forgot... You aren't just a pervert and a Candy Shop owner."
"Hey! I'm also a Mercenary now! And a Magic Engineer."
"Please don't forget that you're also an Adventurer, a part-time Devil, a terrorist, and Funeral Director, Mortician or something, nyaa..." Since Kuroka knew that his sword called Benihime purifies souls and Kisuke's extensive expertise with souls, she just assumed he most likely dealt with dead souls before.
Yoruichi and Kisuke only smiled at her remark. Both of them planned to tell everyone close to them about their 'past life', but not anytime soon. Either way, that fact won't really change anything as it's not really important in their current relationships and would never be a factor of it.
Stretching his limbs once again, Kisuke made sure that he wouldn't randomly explode again and said, "Alright~! Let's go shopping! Let's make those pest-repellant items. Any requests?"
"I want something explosive, nyaa!" Kuroka first requested.
"I want something that would make someone kiss the floor," Yoruichi added.
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As they moved the streets of Pandemonium, many looked their way but none of them really bothered them. What's surprising though was they came across some members of the Aruna Familia and nothing happened.
Yoruichi and Kuroka knew how they usually act so they were shocked when all of them ran away from them, "This is really strange..," muttered Yoruichi.
"What is?"
"Even if they are the weak members of that Familia, they would still provoke their enemies for their pride, nyaa. So it's indeed very strange they would just run away from us without doing anything."
Yoruichi then just shrugged her shoulders and continued walking, "Well, we don't really have to do anything with them. If we deal with small problems similar to that every time, there would be no end to it. Keeping a bit of an eye on them should be more than enough. And if something were to happen, it doesn't have to be us to solve it... Though it would be different if a friend were to get involved."
Kisuke looked around to see where the materials he needed, "A bit of assistance is enough for that."
As they went through the market, the three both had a lot of monster materials and ores that are usually used for equipment crafting and their last stop was the area where Magic Stones are being traded.
Unlike Orario where Magic Stones were being strictly regulated by the Guild, Magic stones are being traded like normal monster materials as it's also used for Magic Sword manufacturing and powering of daily household items like lights.
Of course, deep-level Magic Stones are not being publicly traded as it was always at the hands of big and strong Familias and would only exchange hands between them. Since they have no use for it, Yoruichi and Kuroka always sold the Magic Stones they got to the Astarte Familia, Poseidon Familia, and the Alliance. As such, they almost didn't have anything Kisuke could use.
Separating from Kuroka and Yoruichi who went to get food, Kisuke saw something he could use pointed to a certain Magic Stone, "Boss, give me that."
But at the same time, another voice rang out, also pointing towards the Magic Stone he wanted, "I'll take that Treant Magic Stone!"
Kisuke looked beside him and saw a relatively small Amazoness that wears a mage attire. This is actually the first time he saw an Amazoness not wear those ridiculous articles of clothing as if they are competing who can show the most skin, "Hey, kid. What are you going to do with this Magic Stone?"
"Who are you calling a kid!? I'm already 19!" The Amazoness retorted.
"Hey, old kid. What are you going to do with this Magic Stone," Kisuke repeated his words, albeit a little bit different from the first one.
The small Amazoness stomped his foot in anger, "I said I'm not a kid! And what the hell is an old kid anyway!? It doesn't make sense!" However, the Amazoness suddenly saw something in Kisuke's hand. It was the Magic Stone she wanted and Kisuke already tossed a bag of coins towards the stall keeper, "Y-you...!" The Amazoness pointed at him with an unbelieving face.
"Thank you for your purchase," The keeper received Kisuke's payment before facing the Amazoness, "I'm sorry miss Tenestra, but this lad grabbed it first," The keeper knew of the Amazoness good reputation so he's not worried that a backlash would come his way.
With a grin, Kisuke said, "Too bad, you got too distracted, like a kid would~"
Tenestra gritted her teeth. She has been sharing all morning and this is the only Treant Magic Stone she found so she can't easily give up, "I'll pay you double the price you got it, please give it to me."
"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I also need this particular one so I'm not selling it?"
"You need that? Although it's indeed rare, it's useless for any daily appliances as they emit a nasty smell when the Magic Power inside them is consumed. Aside from weird Magic Swords or some experiment, I don't think there are any other uses for it."
Kisuke looked at the Magic Stone and replied, "Really? I don't really know about it. Then what about you? What are you going to use this for?"
"You don't know about that!? Then please sell it to me! I'll still double the price! I need it for my experiment! I'm telling you, the smell it releases is really nasty!"
Kisuke became interested as not many people have an interest in 'experiments' as Falna gives them everything, "Experiment? What experiment?"
That question, however, tickled Tenestra's passion. After all, no one was really interested in her research and experiments as they were too hard for them to comprehend them, "A-are you interested?" she asked before letting her mouth runoff.
Editors:
28th00: Ah, the magic amazon brat from the… yuri familia? Wild how many anti-amazon traits she has! This can only end in glorious hellfire!