Chapter 10: Night (part 1)
“Superconducting Wave—Thunder Cannon!”
With Aoxi’s roar mixed with excitement, a thumb-thick golden electric arc zigzagged out from Aoxi’s mouth, immediately blasting sand and dirt flying on the beach, making both her and Obei a bit disheveled and dirt-covered.
As for Sister La, before the sand and stones could reach her, they were blocked outside by an invisible power—simple external application of mental power.
“Cough cough, you red hair idiot…”
“Hey hey hey~ Stop stop! Sister La said today’s arguing time is already used up, you can’t scold me anymore! Right, Sister La.”
Knowing she was in the wrong, Aoxi quickly hid her small body behind Sister La, hugging the other’s waist and only poking out one head.
“Tsk!”
“Looks like you’ve already preliminarily mastered the power within the body, well done.”
Sister La gently stroked Aoxi’s head, brushing off the dust on top.
“Hehe~ No way, it’s all thanks to Sister La.” Whether it was Sister La’s head-patting technique being too comfortable or something else, Aoxi was uncharacteristically modest for once.
Obei watching from the side felt a bit envious, but still too shy to come forward; for her, doing such an acting cute-like behavior was quite shy.
“But since you have so much energy, Aoxi, go to the forest and chop some thin wood and tree branches and vines.
It’s getting dark, we also need a place to rest.” After saying that, Sister La lightly patted Aoxi’s head, signaling her to let go.
Aoxi understood, although a bit reluctant, she still obediently let go, saluted Sister La properly, then dashed toward the forest.
“Got it! Mission guaranteed complete!”
“Big Sister wants to set up a tent?” Watching Aoxi’s bouncing back as she left, Obei asked Sister La.
“That’s right, I remember that ‘Grylls’ mister on TV before seemed to have taught it.
Although our bodies now won’t get cold or sick, having some shelter is still good, you come help clear out a patch of open ground too.”
“‘Grylls mister’…” Obei took some time to react to who Sister La was referring to.
“Big Sister, I always feel that compared to me and Aoxi, your personality and habit seem to have changed even more from before.”
“Maybe, but our souls undoubtedly all originate from【him】, that point won’t change.”
Sister La didn’t want to delve too deep into this issue, just casually brushing it off: “If you feel I’m not like【him】, perhaps it’s because I inherited a side of myself even he didn’t know about.”
“Moreover, the moment the soul split into three, we were no longer【him】. The deed is done, no need to dwell on the accomplished fact.”
“Sigh~ Alright, sometimes I really envy that empty-headed guy Aoxi.”
Obei was a bit dizzy from Sister La’s “is【him】 yet not【him】”, then stopped dwelling on the personality issue.
At the forest edge, they cleared out enough open ground for three people to move around, then Sister La controlled flames to carefully bake the ground dry and harden it.
“Alright, now we just wait for Aoxi to come back.”
A few seconds later, Sister La withdrew the flames and pressed the ground with her hand, finding the dryness and hardness just right.
Watching Sister La skillfully use flames, Obei suddenly thought of something and asked: “Big Sister, these clothes on us are also woven by you with divine power, right? Why don’t you directly weave a tent with divine power?”
“Hmm? You noticed.”
Standing up and patting her hands which had no dust stuck to them, Sister La turned her head and explained: “But regrettably, divine power is ultimately just a special kind of energy, it can’t do creation from void.
The clothes on you are actually visual effects produced by the light and heat emitted from my flames, having temperature but no substance.
Don’t believe me? Try seeing if you can lift your own skirt hem.”
Obei tried, and sure enough, through the skirt she directly touched her own thigh.
“It’s real! I actually only noticed now!”
The touch of her own fingers on her thigh reminded her that what she was wearing wasn’t real clothing, making her secretly reflect on her own slowness.
“No, not right! Big Sister, when you came back from the forest, you used your skirt to carry food, I shouldn’t have remembered wrong.” Obei suddenly spotted the blind point.
“That one, yes, at that time I did use clothes to carry food back, you didn’t remember wrong~ ” Sister La’s tone was uncharacteristically playful.
“Then your clothes are…”
“The answer is energy density.” Sister La directly revealed the answer.
“The so-called ‘divine power’ is after all just a kind of energy particle; when compressed to a certain density, it undergoes a state change, just like oxygen turning liquid under 5.2 atmospheres of pressure.”
As Sister La spoke, she gently lifted her own skirt hem, its high-grade silk-like texture unmistakably revealed in the skirt’s slight sway.
“The reason this dress of mine could carry that food is through this method turning energy from virtual to real, then using some mental power to shape and maintain the desired form, and it becomes ‘real’ clothes.
As for the ones on you… sorry, you’ll have to wait until you master this method yourselves to change them; right now I can only guarantee the appearance and insulation.”
Sister La was telling the truth; it wasn’t that she didn’t want to make matching ones for the two little ones.
But just like liquid oxygen reverting to gas state after losing the pressure and temperature maintaining its existence, divine power detached from Sister La’s body would slowly return to its original state if undisturbed.
But fortunately, Sister La still had considerable control over this detached divine power; this kind of intricate control like embroidering with flames wasn’t difficult for her, though of course far from being as effortless as when inside the body.
It’s like harvesting radish: one is direct neural connection, the other is manual push-pull joystick.
“…”
Hearing Sister La’s method, Obei was speechless.
Like Aoxi, having already preliminarily controlled the power in her body, she naturally understood the terrifying technique hidden under Sister La’s simple words.
This god-like power control and the huge mental consumption to maintain it was pure fantasy to her now.
“N-No need to go to such an extent, right.”
“Perhaps, but I have my reasons too.” Sister La’s eyes lowered, as if looking at some nonexistent place.
“Remember what I said before, exploring other worlds inside the Millennium Puzzle requires massive divine power and mental power as support; this counts as preparation for opening those doors in the future—after all, maybe one of those doors connects to our original world.”
“I-Is that so.” Hearing this reason, Obei didn’t know what to say.
『As expected, Sister La is different from us; her gaze is probably already on the distant future.』
『Looks, personality, effort, talent, wisdom, foresight—perfect in every way, what a perfect superhuman! Aoxi come back quick! Sure enough, only with a mortal like you do I feel at ease!』
Just like that, merely separated for a dozen minutes, our little Obei started missing her cheap Second Sister.
Their relationship is really good~
In the forest…
“Hmm? Obei?（No concern）”
Aoxi, who was excitedly looking for trees, suddenly had a feeling, but after hesitating a bit, she continued looking for trees; maybe her feeling just now was wrong.
“By the way, why are all these trees so thick~”
Aoxi searched for a long time, only to find that the thinnest trees here were five times her thickness.
Helpless, she used Thunder Cannon to blast off two bamboo and take them back.
“Sister La only said thin wood, didn’t say it had to be trees; bamboo is wood too~ Bamboo bro ah bamboo bro, blame only your neighbors for growing too well.”
Jumping up to casually tear off a few vines from the treetop, Aoxi prepared to go back and report.
And the bamboo which is actually a grass family plant: “…”
“Oi~ I’m back Sister La, by the way this skirt you made is amazing, not once hooked on the way.”
Aoxi seemed not to have realized even now that the clothes on her were no different from colored drawing.
“Good you’re back, let’s set up the tent; we’re going to spend the first night in this world in this little tent.”
“Haha~ Saying it like that makes me look forward to it~”
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