The Wandering of an Unstuck Stepbro: Multiverse Travel

Chapter 28: Free time

(Ryoto's pov)

A new day arrived, and as I didn't need to go to school today, I'll start the day by resting out my new abilities. My latest addition to my arsenal was fire and water bending. If I remember correctly, bending styles originate from different martial arts. Water is Tai Chi, earth is Hung Gar (style of kung fu), fire is northern Shaolin style of fighting, and air is Baguazhang, so the first thing I did was looked up Tai Chi and Northern Shaolin.

I decided to start with water bending as it was less destructive than fire. I wouldn't want to set ablaze our garden, especially now that Celine is living there.

I copied the movement from the internet. Thanks to one of my titles, I could copy some of the moves correctly, but it was only the first step. But then I remembered that I have a shop and what's more the price of the one-use items was reduced.

'Karen, how much cost the water bending scroll?'

Karen: "5000 SP"

'Buy it.'

I lost my hard-earned points, but it was worth it since now I have a trusted source I can learn from. I went to the garden to teat out some forms from the scroll. While I was there, I watered Celine, and immediately after, I started practicing forms from the scroll. I did only that for three hours without any break. I was practicing without my shirt as I would build up a lot of sweat during my training.

After my workout, I was full of sweat, and as I wanted to go inside and take a shower, a white towel entered my sight.

Mikan: "Good job, but do you need to be shirtless?"

Ryoto: "Thanks, and it is more comfortable without one."

I took the towel from her hand and started wiping off my sweat.

Mikan: "But I must say, I'm still impressed how muscular you've gotten."

She said as she was eating her popsicle.

Ryoto: "Mikan, don't you eat too much ice creams?"

Mikan: "I must have misheard something because I heard you saying that you want to cook your own food for a whole week."

She smiled sweetly, but her eyes were cold.

Ryoto: "...No."

She is lucky that she is the only one who can cook well in this household.

Mikan: "But why did you start training all of a sudden? From what I know, you are plenty strong already."

Ryoto: "It's always better to have some tricks up your sleeves."

She raised her eyebrow.

Mikan: "And your magic eyes that can not only switch up eyesight but also show illusions isn't enough?"

Ryoto: "It's better to be over-prepared than underprepared."

Mikan: "I'm mean, you're right but aren't you being too paranoid?"

Ryoto: "Lala is the first princess of planet Deviluke and daughter of the literal emperor of the Milky Way Galaxy. If anything, I take this situation pretty lightly."

Mikan: "If you put it that way..."

Ryoto: "By the way, where's Lala?"

Mikan pointed to Lala, who was sitting and watching my training. Seeing that I noticed her, she waved with a big smile plastered on her face. I walked up to her and patted her head.

Ryoto; "How long have you watching me?"

Lala: "Since you took off your shirt!"

So since the beginning.

Ryoto: "Why didn't you call me out?"

Lala: "You were so focused on your training that I didn't want to interrupt you, and watching you was kind of fun!"

Hearing that, I pulled Lala closer to me and kissed her. It was just a small pack on the lips, but it was enough to convey my feeling. Her tail wrapped around my leg as our foreheads were touching each other.

Ryoto: "Listen, Lala, no matter how busy I am, I'll always have time for you."

I said with a gentle voice as I could possibly manage.

I won't be like him...

Mikan: "Get a room."

Ryoto: "Good idea, Lala, let's go."

We started going into the house, but Mikan stopped us.

Mikan: "Stop!"

But to that, I only gave a smirk, and seeing it, Mikan realized that she was fooled.

Ryoto: "It seems that you're still too young to beat me, Mikan."

Mikan: "...I'll get you next time."

Ryoto: "Good luck trying, but I'm not going to make it easy for you."

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Since I finished my training and felt terrible that Lala was waiting three hours for me, I decided to take her on a date. We went to an amusement park, a standard date place.

We had a lot of fun, is what I would say, but after web-slinging so many times, a rollercoaster wasn't doing it for me. On the other hand, Lala seemed to have fun, but she was having fun no matter what. A hunted house didn't scare us at all, and Lala used her hologram devise to show real-looking ghosts scaring the workers.

During our date, we tried out many of the attractions. Some of them were boring, some of them were average, but all of them Lala wanted to 'upgrade', and that was the most fun. Lala boosted the booster (Fabbri), making bumper cars hit harder without endangering a driver. She didn't do anything with freefall strangely enough, but reverse bungee almost flew into the orbit.

As much as I had fun, I reprimanded her about using her machines without thinking about consequences and other people. She looked sad, but her mood quickly made a 180 as I grabbed her by the waist and pulled us with the web on top of a Ferris wheel. From there, we watched a sunset together, and as we sat next to each other, Lala leaned on my shoulder, and I put my head on hers. The date ended in success.

We returned home ate dinner, but before I could return to my room, I was stopped by Rito.

Rito: "Nii-san, can you help me with something?"

Ryoto: "Hm?"

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