The conversation was supposed to end there as Clint got up and was about to walk away when he released a sigh and asked
"what do you think is his mutation?"
"mutates are people who were born with a certain affinity or resistance to laws and concepts of this world… on that note I think adam mutated to the air…" she said pausing to look at Clint's serious face before giggling.
"i am just joking, he is probably a frail child with a body that desnt tolerate mana, hence the armour, because no matter how I looked at it, it was sealed from all sides allowing no air flow, which would mean the suit of armour might serve as a life conduit, his connection to the perception of the outside world, like it's a filter…" she said still in thought.
"...that's all I have managed to come up with, its all still just a hypothesis though" she said
"makes me question his origin, I do hope its better than you think, don't stay up late" Clint said as he picked up Ra from where he fell asleep and walked into their bedroom.
Marie stayed up for a while for her own reasons before alighting to bed not aware that the person who they were talking about a second ago effortlessly heard the whole conversation unintentionally.
His soul sense was barely five meters, and although he had a lot of questions, he had made up his mind for the next day.
As for his eavesdropping, he had expected himself to fall into slumber after a few hours, but it turns out that for some reason along with his restricted soul sense was a larger soul essence to spare.
However he did not think he'd cross the six hours time limit, it was almost going to the eight hour and only now was he feeling like he'd bottom out soon if passive
And for his hearing, it was not his fault, apparently the mask converted all vibrations within a certain distance by some means to sound to his consciousness.
He felt he could tune this down or limit its range but he choose to leave it be for now since it was a passive skill, it probably had its use and then he slowly forced himself to drift into slumber hoping they'd actually wake him up when it was time.
Night fell, the stars lit up the night followed by the moon and while this was the rest time for some, it was the wake time for others, but soon it was dawn again.
Everyone in the house had to wake up early today to avoid issues and gain some privileges, and so the sun mustn't see them.
The first thing Marie did when she woke up was to break the news to Adam who calmly took the news in front him and agreed to depart with them and repay back this gesture but he also requested for something else in advance.
The knowledge of mana and its utilities in this world, although his puppet picture book memory gave him an image description of the effects of mana, it gave him a more better understanding of people than this mana.
Marie agreed happily to the request as before both were done conversing both Ra and Clint had freshened up quite a bit.
Marie had already done so beforehand so all that was left was him, however they were confused as to if he needed it, which he nodded and indeed even trees needed watering.
Adam was handed a piece of clothing to use to cover himself up and at least dress like a human even though he was a mutate as to what Marie told him.
She explained the idea they were going with and why it was so, to which Adam nodded.
The piece of clothing she gave him covered up most of his features leaving only his face, palm and feet showing.
And now after gathering everything in the house from produce to portable belongings, the family of four marched.
Only now did he understand his vibration feedback ability by his mask and how useful it was as immediately he stepped outside the apartment, it seemed he had peered his ears down to the earth only to feel a murky layer beneath the soil, that repelled his vibration and the feedback stopped there, he couldn't go deeper.
Switching on to his soul sense, he looked down and noticed this layer of water was flowing with a familiar stream of energy in the atmosphere, he understood a part of this meaning and turned off his soul sense as they marched on, from time to time Adam would use his soul sense on strangers that came within five meters of himself to note the similarities and differences between people.
And soon they reached the town gates with not much hassle and only had to pay an additional low grade mana crystal for Adam's head.
Immediately they got into the town, Marie separated from them as she headed out to sell her produce and Ra decided to tag along, her husband tried to call her back , but she paid no heed besides she already knew the address of the new apartment.
Now it was only Clint and Adam left, it was quite an awkward moment for Clint, but he decided to tough it through.
Adam followed behind him like some sort of bodyguard noting down more of the environment and people than Clint reaction regardless of the man being quite popular among his peers.
It took them up to an hour to get to their supposed new apartment from the gate, they had to navigate through some major and minor roads to get to market district where the house was at.
It was just an average one storey building building where the ground floor was occupied by some sellers.
As a matter of fact within this whole district the ground floor of most buildings were majorly occupied by sellers but still what surprised Adam the most was the architecture.
He was not someone overly knowledgeable in his previous life but anyone could tell that these were almost the same style depicted in movies as what the iron age looked like, except there was no steam train, steam engine vehicle or any sort of mechanical inventions rather it was quite dull.
This struck him confused because according to his memories, the puppet and its master were some sort of battle maniac for the nobles and magic was by no means normal.
Thinking of this made his head ache a little
Fifty years worth of memory and I still cant tell left from right, what is knowledge when it is fractured, discombobulated and hard to understand, I thought my ace in the whole would be these memories but it seems ill have to start afresh. Adam thought as he stared at the building lost in thought.
"I know its not the best, but its geographically convenient, plus the price and space was a discount I couldn't miss out on" Clint said as he noticed Adam lost in thought while staring at the building.
This statement brought Adam back to his senses as he noticed he had been staring for a while drawing some attention to himself from passerby's.
"its not bad?" adam replied
Clint was stunned
What do you mean its not bad, you haven't even seen the place. He thought but kept silent
"we should head in, the entrance is by the corner" Clint said as he held some of the belongings and they made their way to the entrance
Not surprisingly they had to actively enter the sellers shop, approach the lady who was the seller and unsurprisingly the landlady to request for the keys to unlock the mini gate blocking the staircase and go upstairs where they unlocked their door and made way to their apartment.
"tada!!, check out the place, how do you see it?" Clint enthusiastically told Adam who moved forward to do so
Although he had already seen the projection of the full structure using his soul sense, he still actively walked around the place.
In general it was quite the spacious place and comparable to a modern one bedroom apartment in size, it had a kitchen, a restroom and three rooms of moderate size and so it was …
"not bad" Adam said after his tour of the house.
Clint immediately became depressed after hearing the statement
Its either very difficult to satisfy this kid or those are the only words in his vocabulary. Clint thought
Soon after they immediately start unpacking the little things they carried…well Clint carried.
It was simply clothes after cloths, some utensils and little house equipment's. Nothing more, nothing less.
Adam only stared watching putting some kind of unseen, unaware pressure on Clint since he was trying to not falter in front of the kid, but that was easier said than done as he quickly realized…