Tale of Discovery

Chapter 76: Another Day ; Return

Waking up early morning, I feel the same weights I usually feel on my arms.

I'm genuinely surprised that Nao and Misa have yet to question my actions of sleeping with both of my little sisters.

Sleeping with Ayumi is somewhat acceptable, however, that shouldn't be the case with Sora.

Surely, they must have doubts, but they're not voicing them.

Focusing back on reality, I look at Sora who's asleep.

Shifting my hand to gently stroke her cheek, I whisper her name softly to wake her up.

A few seconds later, Sora gradually opens her eyes. The first thing she sees is me looking at her gray eyes.

Both of us know what the other craves for, so we both move our heads closer to each other and begin kissing.

After several minutes of tongue-action, we stop kissing and look at Ayumi who's still asleep on my other side.

Shifting myself over, I kiss her cheek to wake her up.

"Um~" Ayumi lightly groans as she opens her eyes.

"Brother Yu?"

"Wake up, sleepy-head. We've got another day of camping ahead of us," I softly say.

Ayumi reaches out her arms to me. Knowing her intentions, I move closer and embrace her while patting her head with my right hand.

I kiss her cheek once more before getting up and examining myself.

My clothes are rather ordinary... Perhaps I should go for a new look? But, what kind of clothes would suit me? Hm... I think I will go for something more 'modern-looking'.

Destroying my sleepwear, I create some casual clothes.

A brown windbreaker jacket with a gray shirt underneath it. For my lower body, I created dark gray jeans and dark-brown shoes.

After putting them on, I look behind me at my sisters, only to find them gawking at me with stupor.

"Am I handsome?" I tease them.

Sora just nods slowly while Ayu jumps up and runs over to hug me before exclaiming,

"Brother Yu is the most handsome!"

Chuckling, I caress her cheeks as I reply, "I'm the most handsome and have the cutest little sisters. The world will be mad at my fortune."

Ayumi giggles, as for Sora, she seems to find words satisfactory as a smile covers her face.

"Come on, let's go wake the others up."

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Whilst standing in the middle of the water stream, I use a bucket to take a quick bath in the cold water.

"Brother Yu, there is a crab!" Ayumi yells a few meters away from me.

Looking over, I see Ayumi who's wearing a swimsuit jumping around in the water while pointing at something.

"Stay away from it, so it wouldn't be able to hurt you," I tell her seriously.

"Um! Ayu will take care!"

Hah~ Good thing I came to take a bath here.

I'm currently naked, but I'm using Rework to make it seem like I'm not.

After a few minutes, I'm done bathing, so I walk out of the water stream along with Ayumi. I then go to the Arena to get dressed in a few seconds before coming back.

"Yu, come over here and check this out!" Nao yells a distance away from us.

I get on my knees to let Ayumi climb on my back before getting back up on my feet and dashing over to where Nao is, as Ayumi cheerfully squeals.

Reaching her side, I let Ayumi down and look at what Nao called out to me for.

"Rabbits!" Ayumi softly exclaims.

"Would you like to hunt them?" I suggest to Nao.

"How?"

"Like so," I reply before creating a pellet rifle.

Using Insight, I get a general idea of how to use the weapon before targeting one of the rabbits.

Pulling the trigger, while making sure to multiply the velocity of the projectile, one of the rabbits gets hit.

A clean kill.

The rest of the rabbits immediately scatter.

"No! They will run away!" Ayumi yells anxiously.

Shaking my head, I'm about to head over and get the rabbit that I shot, however, something incredible happens before I can do so.

The rabbits that had run away returned to exactly where they were before.

Doubting the reality of the situation, I shoot another one of the rabbits down.

This time, the rabbits don't even bother to run away. It's as if they don't seem to realize the danger they're in or what's happening to the others.

Hm... This is abnormal. Why did they suddenly return and become like this? I'm sure there is something that's making behave like this. What could it be?

"I want to shoot one," Nao all of sudden says.

Smiling, I hand over the BB rifle before lightly pecking her lips.

Gift:

-Insight

"What are you guys doing?" Misa says as both she and Sora come over.

"Hunting rabbits," I respond.

Misa looks over to where Nao is aiming the rifle and says, "Those aren't rabbits. They're hares."

Hares?

"What are hares?" Ayumi asks while tilting her head to the left.

"They resemble rabbits but are different in various ways. For example look," Misa replies while pointing at the hares, "they have long ears and are generally bigger than rabbits."

"And why do you know this?" Sora who's beside Misa asks her.

Misa replies, "My parents live in the mountains, so we encountered them when I was young. I wonder how they're doing right now... in another world different from this one."

Hearing her muttering, I say, "They're not moving, you know?"

"Ha?"

"Time is frozen in that world, so for them, not even a millisecond has passed."

"What's with that? Actually, what's with you?" Misa asks with a sneer.

"Me? Nothing special. Just your friendly neighbor God."

Misa seems like she wants to retort with something, but gets interrupted by the sound of a pellet being shot from the rifle.

Looking over, I see one of the remaining hairs fall over.

"It sure is weird, though," Misa says, "Hares don't usually group up like this. Not to mention the fact that they aren't running away even after being shot at."

Right? The second part of what she said, I understand, as for the first... Does she mean that hares live in solitary or as a pair? I can't think of any other meaning.

It seems like there is something wrong with the hares as I suspected. Not that I ever doubted the fact that they're abnormal, to begin with.

After this, everyone takes a shot in firing at the hares, apart from Ayumi. Too dangerous. To make up for it, I pampered her for the rest of the day.

As for the hares that we killed, I made sure to cook them well with Misa who demanded that I gift her Pyrokinesis, before letting the others near it, so that they wouldn't get infected by any diseases.

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We're finally back.

The camping trip was fun, but I prefer spending my time at home and grooming the Devils. I am curious about how much progress they've made during the past 2 days.

"Master!" Koneko hurriedly comes over as we're getting off the car.

I huge her petite body and play with her ears a little before asking her, "Is something wrong?"

She responds to my actions by hugging me back and nuzzling her head against my chest and saying,

"Missed you."