"Good morning, Billy. Are you… be as well?"
The next day after leveling up his Language Skill, Billy already noticed a clear difference. A pretty big difference considering that he just made the skill just level up a single ti. Nevertheless, he also confird his previous assumption that the skill would level up by itself if he started to guess the aning behind his mother's words.
Language Skill - Lv 01 - 02/20 Exp
"I suppose this is for the best… you are in luck, mom. Your kid already feels embarrassed enough to do nothing aside from pooping himself, pissing himself, eating, and then sleeping all day. Causing more trouble than that, and I wouldn't be able to watch myself in the mirror."
Nevertheless, Billy found sothing interesting to kill ti until he is able to control his new body properly, which was to use the system. However, that day, his mother had other plans for him. He was already six months old, so she assud that it would be a good idea to take him outside the hut to see their village. While the timing wasn't that good, Billy didn't mind it.
Billy didn't know if he should feel good or bad, considering that the whole village was basically made of huts made of bamboo and straw. It was a sign that his family wasn't that bad financially, but it was also a sign that the village was either too archaic or too poor. While that seed like a problem, Billy soon lost interest in it when he began to see n and won walking around carrying spears. He could even see so kids younger than ten with short spears as well. Even those had so scars and showed that they had been training from an early age.
"I suppose this village focuses on developing a fighting style that revolves in the use of spears to fight… but since that is the case, why only a few people have steel in the tip of their spears actually?"
Billy found that most of the spears didn't have a proper tip. So were completely made of wood, while others had stones in them… it seed really weak but deadly if they pierce the right or the wrong spot.
Nevertheless, Billy had yet to learn the na of his parents. Still, since his mother went around the village showing him to everyone while grinning from ear to ear, he eventually learned them.
"Heya, Camilla." A thin but tall, dark-haired man who seed to be around Billy's mother's age said. "Is Drew working ... as usual?
While Billy missed a few words, he heard his parents' nas. While it was weird that they were pretty similar to the nas on Earth, he paid no mind to it. In fact, it was good that the nas were easy to rember.
"It has been a while, mother," Camilla said to a woman who didn't seem much older than her and was looking after so plants.
Billy recognized the midwife that helped his mother during the birth. He didn't think that she was his grandmother… she never visited, after all. Billy looked around and saw that his grandmother had quite the garden. However, instead of normal flowers, she had many types of herbs around her hut. She seed to be a healer of so sort.
"... Your kid is weak. You shouldn't take him outside so soon," the granny, who looked like Camilla's older sister, said.
"He doesn't fuss that much, but he is incredibly healthy," Camilla said. "Do you want to look after him for a day to confirm that?"
"And what are you planning to do during that ti?" Granny asked. "Your fighting days are over… once we give birth, we abandon the frontlines to look after the next generation until they can look after themselves."
Billy already knew that, but those words confird that his mother was once a warrior before he was born, and according to the tradition of the tribe, she had to look after him until he was strong enough. Billy looked in the distance and saw a woman teaching two kids how to use the spear, so he assud that his mother would do the sa at so point. Considering how much everyone had scars on their bodies, it seed that even strong people were fighting for their lives daily. So, Billy began to think that he should help his father beco strong. His skills should help him with that. However, Drew always shows up late at night and leaves early in the morning… not to ntion, he doesn't interact with Billy all that much.
Billy thought that he would spend the day outside, but his mother listened to her mother and then returned to their hut. Although he wanted to hear people talking more and learn other things, he didn't have to hurry.
Since Language Skill was leveling up by itself, Billy decided to make his level increase instead. He only did that because he didn't pay much attention to him when his father showed up, even when Billy stretched his arms toward him to give him mana.
"He wants to play with you. Why not spend so monts with Billy?" Camilla asked.
"... It isn't a good idea," Drew replied with his head down. "Father died when I was just a kid, and even though I spent so much ti with him, those mories only made feel worse after his death… It will be better if I beco a distant figure to him. At least he will be spared so pain in his life."
Things got darker in a very unexpected way. Now that he thought about it, Billy didn't see people with gray hair in the trine. Not even won… that that was a sign that they didn't even have the chance to reach a certain age…
"Mom never ntioned her father, and I am supposed to have two grandmothers…"
Billy had misunderstood a few things.. His tribe wasn't a warrior tribe by choice but by necessity. That made him realize that he truly will have to find a way for his father and mother to beco stronger before sothing happens…
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