Chapter 82 ‘Inventory’ and Possibilities

It took Kisuke two hours to get everything he needs and the sun is already setting by the time he reached home.

“I’m home!” Kisuke shouted tiredly and noticed that his mother is already home with her shoes on the shoe rack. ‘How are those housewives have so much energy. They almost squeezed me to death. I shouldn’t shop for a while to recover my ‘wounds’.’

“Welcome back.” Sakura took a peek at Kisuke while she is wearing her apron. She noticed the big plastic bags that he’s carrying and asks, “Groceries? And their’s a lot. Any guest coming tonight?”

“Well, probably. Please make at least ten servings for tonight.” Kisuke took off his shoes and carried the bags of groceries, setting it down on the dining table before taking out everything in it.

“Probably? I can cook for more, but what if they didn’t come? The food will be wasted.” Sakura asks as she helps Kisuke sort the ingredients for the dinner.

“I can take it inside my separate space for food. Just like what you saw when Ophis visited last time.” Kisuke beamed a smile towards his mother like he was bragging.

“That magic of yours is really strange. How did you learn it? I doubt there are books pertaining to stopping time inside an enclosed space.” In the past, Sakura is some sort of researcher as well. Although space and time magic isn’t her forte, she knew how hard it is to manipulate the two especially ‘time’ as there are no other people she knew who were able to stop it completely.

“I said it’s a time stasis for simplicity’s sake, but stopping or separating time from space itself is impossible… or maybe possible, I just don’t know how to do it yet. I added a rule where the energy transfer or entropy in the space I created moves slowly, 1,000 times slower to be exact, so it has the same effect of slowing time. But any more and the Mana requirement goes too high that the Dimensional Gap around it can’t provide it. It’s possible to stop the time of the target itself and not space, but doing so increases the complexity and energy consumption that it’s not very practical. Maybe for some emergency thing, but not for everyday use.” Kisuke narrated to his mother as he finishes sorting the ingredients for dinner.

Sakura stopped her hands and her mouth agape, “Did you know that a lot of geniuses in history tried to manipulate time but is only capable of accelerating or slowing it for a few times.”

“It’s either they thought that space and time are a separate thing and tried manipulating it individually or they used the slowing and accelerating effect on the space itself which is difficult. And I can’t believe that I’m the only one who discovered this. There are probably a few guys who were hiding their research results for their own gain, or maybe the higher-ups of each faction are trying to hide it. It’s not exactly a very good magic to spread to the public because even though it’s very hard to perform without proper and in-depth knowledge, it’s more dangerous than spaces without time manipulation as you can do some devastating things with it, like carrying an already activated large scale destruction magic that needs a lot of time to cast to drop it in some important city or place.” Kisuke kept talking, ignoring his mother’s shock.

“That’s a possibility, but I doubt that anyone can insert an already activated magic inside an artificial space and taking it out. Although some research on it is probably happening right now as it is a very good ace to have….. I knew that you’re smart, but I didn’t think that you’re such a genius… Maybe you could even take the world with that head of yours?” Sakura’s mouth is twitching as she replies and jokes to Kisuke. And the thought of someone might be developing the magic that’s capable of storing ritual-class destruction spell gave her shivers, ‘What the hell? Isn’t that too likely?’

“Hahaha. What are you talking about, mom? I’m just a handsome and humble candy store owner. Taking over the world? Too much trouble. I’d rather read some random novel on the internet.” Kisuke went up to change from his uniform to his usual attire plus the hat and wooden sandals.

Sakura just shook her head at her son’s attitude, but she’s feeling proud of his achievements, ‘I hope you can see this Ryouta. I’ve been observing him more lately and I knew he’s also a researcher at heart, but I can’t see any indication that he’s taking the path I took in the past. If he goes beyond to the point of doing anything just for knowledge, then I’ll stop him myself, even if it kills me. But I doubt that would happen as he has people who can accompany him on his journey, which is something I don’t have that time before I met you.’

He went down and saw his mother is already starting to prepare dinner, “Mom, I’m going to Aika and Koneko’s place and see how are they doing. We’ll return before dinner.”

“Be careful, and who are you expecting again?” Sakura busied herself and asked without turning around.

“Sona and some of her peerage members. I got into an argument with them.” Kisuke casually explained before going to the door.

“What? Is that fine? And why are they coming over if you had just a fight with them?” Sakura turned around in shock and chased him to the door.

“It’s not my fault, and knowing Sona’s personality, she’s probably coming to apologize.” Kisuke opened it and exited.

“I see.” Sakura sighed in relief as she too new how is Sona’s attitude because she’s been coming here almost every day and gets a chance to interact with her

“I gotta go. Bye.”

“Don’t forget to bring Aika home for dinner.”

Kisuke didn’t answer her and just waved his hand before closing the door.

He checked his surroundings and entered his Candy Shop across the street and went directly to the training ground. What welcomed him is Aika’s wailing while Yoruichi is chasing her and grazing Aika with her attacks… while in her white underwear.

Aika noticed Kisuke’s arrival and ran towards him, “Waaaahhhh!!!!! Kisuke!!! Save me!!! Yoruichi is more unreasonable today!!!!!” She did mind her attire when Kisuke saw it the first time and crouch to cover her body in embarrassment, but she was mercilessly hit by Yoruichi’s lightning by doing so and that didn’t feel too good. Over the time, she stopped minding Kisuke’s stare at her underwear because she got used to it and being hit by Yoruichi hurts like hell. Although she makes sure to only wear cute lingeries so as not to ’embarrass’ herself further.

‘She’s still probably pissed at what happened earlier.’ Kisuke used another Flash Step and arrived at Koneko’s position, ignoring Aika.

“Kisuke you bastard!!!”