"Damn it! Why did Junior Brother take that trash to her house?"
A young man muttered as he clenched his fist and smashed the wall of his house. He was the same man who tried to insult Ken in front of Elaine.
"That trash achieved the complete Skin Tempering Stage? So what? I have already achieved that six months ago."
"Damn it! That bastard is pissing me off."
His eyes turned as he angrily scolded Ken. He didn't even try to hide his voice, but it wasn't as loud as he expected.
"Hehe! I never thought I would see such an interesting thing. Mose, you look like a constipated cat."
A sly laughter came from behind.
When Mose heard that, he turned around angrily, but his anger disappeared when he saw the young man.
"Zephyr, what are you doing here?"
He questioned but didn't show any anger.
"I was just curious about your situation. Or rather, I saw something interesting. I heard you have been trying to court that girl for a year now."
"But someone just came and took her down with a single conversation. Just how bad can you be?"
Zephyr chuckled as he replied.
"He hasn't gotten her. She is just repaying him for his advice. That bastard learned the trick of Fire Punch and used that to get a free meal."
Mose angrily replied.
"Oh! It doesn't change the fact that he did impress her in one conversation, and you were trying to do for a year."
Zephyr smirked.
"He hasn't impressed her yet. She is just trying to repay her favor. Zephyr, if you are just going to waste my time, leave!"
Mose said as he opened the door of his house and walked in.
"Hehe! He is angry, seriously angry."
Zephyr chuckled as he turned towards Elaine's house and muttered.
"So, what exactly did that guy do to attract their attention? I hope you are not trying to do the same with them; otherwise, you won't live to see tomorrow."
...…
Inside Elaine's house,
Ken and Elaine were in the kitchen. Despite her insistence, Ken tried to help her in the kitchen.
They were cooking four different dishes.
Rice, Vegetable Soup, Chicken, and a sweet dessert.
Rice was the easiest to cook. While making vegetable soup, Ken and Elaine had their own preference between them.
But since Ken was the guest, Elaine chose to make a simple tomato soup with some tofu and peas.
On the other hand, chicken was Ken's specialty. He was already searing chicken in a hot pan with some oil.
"So, you are cutting onions, garlic, tomatoes, and chilly. Don't you need red pepper and ginger?"
"Nah, I don't use them in my dish."
Ken replied as he started cutting onions. While doing his job, he channeled some of his Qi and spoke.
"You know, even as a cultivator, I have to cover my eyes with Qi every time I cut an onion."
Elaine proudly placed her hand on her waist, which was covered with a white apron, and said.
"Then, I must be a better chef than you. Because onions no longer affect my eyes."
"Or, it could be because you are at the Blood Tempering Stage."
"Of course not! I stopped crying way back when I wasn't even a cultivator."
"Really? I thought you were a part of a big family."
"Yes, I am. Well, I am a part of the Rockshell Family. We are the Noble Family in the Lighting Sword Kingdom."
"But my mom taught me how to cook from a small age. She said a lady must know how to cook."
Elaine proudly replied while reminiscing about her mother.
"Oh yeah? Your mother must be a good person."
Ken replied subconsciously.
"Of course, she is. But why do you say? Just because my mother taught me how to cook?"
Elaine curiously asked while bending her upper body to the side while standing next to the kitchen counter.
Ken paused for a moment and nodded.
"Yeah! Most of the noble family focuses on training their child, whether they are boys or girls."
"I have rarely heard about a noble family's lady teaching her daughter how to cook when they can have hundreds of those cooks working for their family."
"Most of the time, Noble Family children are forced to train hard to achieve better results for the reputation of their family."
Elaine frowned upon hearing that.
She didn't know there was such a condition with a noble family.
'No wonder Alice and Julia always make excuses when I call them. So, they are busy with their training.'
Suddenly, her expression turned bitter as she remembered something.
'And, their cultivation. It should be higher than me as well, even though we joined the sect together.'
"Earth to Elaine! What happened? You were frowning too hard."
Ken waved his hand in front of her and asked. He was surprised by how unsightly her expression got when she was busy thinking.
"Sorry, I just remembered something," Elaine replied as she came out of her daze and apologized.
"Well, it seems like nobody told you about the noble family. As I said, you must have good parents."
Ken spoke.
"Yeah! But, wouldn't it be bad for my future? If I didn't have your help, I wouldn't even be able to use Fire Punch properly within a week or two."
"Much less master it within a month. I feel like compared to them, I am wasting a lot of my time."
Elaine replied with a bitter expression and pouted.
"Yes, you are. But who isn't?"
Ken subconsciously whistled as he remembered the memories of the two years that he spent practicing the Ancient Dragon Transformation Technique.
Elaine caught sight of his expression and raised her eyebrows
"Don't tell me you were also wasting your time?"
Ken instantly came out of his memories. He felt conflicted.
He wasn't wasting his time at all. He was trying really hard, but because of reality manipulation, he had to lie about it.
But who was he?
Ken Tenshi? Ken Grant? Ken Xin?
He was all of them. He was Ken Tenshi and Ken Grant in another world.
In this world, in this new life, he was Ken Xin.
Thinking about it, Ken smiled and said.
"Well, I can't tell you the answer, but a month from now, you will understand."
"Huh?"
Elaine looked surprised but also captivated by his smile.
Ken was her ideal senior brother. He was doing his thing and saw her mistake, and decided to help her.
He didn't ask for anything in return, and even when she looked down on him, he just continued helping her.
More importantly, with his white hair and blue eyes, he looked really handsome.
So much so that Elaine was starting to feel good with every moment she was spending with Ken.
Even though they had only met twice.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Ken shook her shoulder and asked.
At this moment, he unconsciously utilized Touch of Passion.
His gifts could be triggered without his thoughts, but they would always be triggered at the right moment.
He didn't realize he had activated this gift on Elaine.
For a moment, what Elaine felt was a strong urge to express her admiration for Ken.
But since she didn't react immediately and Ken kept touching her, that admiration became stronger.
Until it turned into something more, something similar to love, but yet at that level.
Even her face turned extremely red.
Only then did Ken realize something was wrong and hurriedly let go of her shoulder.
'Wait! Did I activate my gift? Shit! What's gonna happen next? Will she throw herself at me? Should I do anything?'
'Damn it! I don't know a shit. Wait, wait, I can use those books' knowledge.'
Ken tried to really think hard until he realized what Grant read wasn't a normal love story.
No, no, they were Hentai.
They were what you could give to an otaku person with no charming capabilities.
Because even if someone was an otaku, as long as they had some charm, they didn't need to keep reading those shits.
They could get a girlfriend.
But there were more than eight billion people in Grant's world. Even if 1 percent of that population was that perverted, it would still be enough to create a market.
And that's exactly what hentai did.
Using themes that were beyond moral comprehension, they attracted those perverted youths.
And, one of them happened to Ken Grant.
In fact, Ken started pretty normally, but as his taste increased, things went abnormal pretty quickly.
So, when Ken tried to access those memories, the only things that he kept getting were inner voices that said.
'Holy shit! Put your arms on her. She is getting it. She is getting lustful.'
'Just kiss her and she will let you play with her body.'
'Damn it! You have Touch of Passion. Try to act boldly.'
There were no voices that asked him to keep calm.
Only the voices that wanted to enter the next stage of a relationship without even a relationship.