FURES

After setting off, they headed northeast from their house. As they were walking to their destination Kai noticed that the more they walked more people he could see on the streets chatting or just wandering around. He didn't know why was that so and decided to ask his sister.

"Sister May, where are we going?" Kai asked while following his sister to unknown streets.

He has never seen so many people outside in this world, it was close to 50 men, at least, on each block which honestly confused him.

"Dummy... Did you forget about Aunt Cass's job? " Asked Meira and chuckled after seeing Kai's face of realization.

'Oh my god... how could I forget?! she is a merchant!' Kai nearly slapped himself on the forehead for making such a blunder.

'That does make sense. If she is a merchant we are probably heading to the city center, where all kinds of markets are, and that explains why there are so many people '

After 35 minutes of walking, they finally reached their destination.

It was a wooden house with a mini tower-like second floor but at the same time, it was a big store filled with all the goods one might need. People could be seen going in and out of it, some with satisfied expressions and some with exact opposite but still, the majority was former.

Kai and Meira looked at the shop for a couple of seconds and proceeded to the backdoor, with which they were supposed to enter.

But before that, Kai glanced at the exterior of the house one last time. It was slightly bigger than their house. Wooden walls were the same color as theirs, but the roof and tower-like second floor had a much darker color which intrigued him.

Knock! knock! knock!

While Kai was looking at the shop, Meira proceeded to knock on the backdoor to inform hosts of their arrival.

Soon enough, the door opened and revealed the little girl with a ponytail. She looked really cute in her white dress covered with flowers. She was slightly shorter than Meira, who was 152 cm tall and She had light green eyes and short dark hair.

"Oh... Umm... Who are you?" asked the girl and blushed slightly when she saw Meira's beautiful face.

'What's up with that girl? Why she seems so shy? ' Thought Kai when she saw her red face and awkward manner of talking.

"My name's Meira and this is My little brother Kai. " Meira Introduced herself and his brother. Which didn't say anything to the girl.

"Isn't he cute?" She Asked confidentially, pointing at Kai and making him blush in turn and even making the girl even redder.

"Urm... Umm... I-" The little girl trying to answer but was interrupted by an elegant feminine voice coming from the house.

"Celaine, who is on the door? " asked the voice, and Celaine replied shyly.

"Urm... They say they are Meira and Kai"

"Oh... let them in, and can you go back behind the stall and serve customers before I am done?" Asked Cass politely.

She had already come to the entrance and saw both Kai and Meira.

"Y-yes Miss, of course. " Stuttered Celaine awkwardly and left them alone.

Cass proceeded to hug both of them and caressed their hair.

She was a beautiful adult woman in her mid-thirties. She was so attractive Kai couldn't help but stare at her and especially at two giant mountains that graced her slim and seemingly perfect body. Her silky brown hair reached her waist and gave off a slight glow. Her sunlike yellow eyes added her aura of goddess making her seem unreachable.

It was an irresistible attraction coming from her that always captivated Kai, even when he was a child.

"Looks like you truly have awakened your core, my boy " Said Cass in a cheerful tone and then grabbed Kai to throw him in the air celebrating his extraordinary achievement. Then she hugged him so hard that he could barely breathe but still enjoyed the moment as he had his head in between those magnificent mountains that threatened to crush him.

As for Meira, she didn't mind the hugging session of his brother as she herself, was doing the same sometimes.

Then they claimed stairs and soon they were at Cass's real home, the second floor. Apparently, the whole 1st floor was store where she sold every kind of goods.

Finally, Kai was brought down to the floor and split up from Cass but he didn't really mind that as he already had the fun of the day and now was time for a business, it was time for him to understand where he was.

Cass noticed the twinkling eyes of his and just said "Ask away, what do you want to know except for the core awakening. Don't worry I am still going to tell you about it but what else are you interested in? " while sitting on the big leather chair and crossing her legs in a very womanly and attractive manner.

If core awakening was the only thing Kai wanted to know about Allaric would have simply told him. There was no reason for him to send Kai to Cass, but both of them knew that Kai was smarter beyond his age hence Allaric's decision.

Kai raised an eyebrow and wondered if he was so easy to read but still asked. "How can we travel from one planet to another?"

He was still worried about his cover being blown up but it was now or some years later after he learned how to read.

"Woow... I didn't expect that. it is quite complicated but I'll tell you simply and easily! We can do it by using portals! Portals are like doors that lead from place to place, in our case other planets. Portals can be made using space abilities which is super rare and even more complicated but some Fures have that skill"

"I'll tell you more. there are even dimensional portals that lead out of our galaxy and connect to another one, but people or beasts with that power are 10 times harder to find than space ability users " Said Cass blowing Kai's mind.

'What even are abilities? she didn't even say magic once!!! Does that mean there is no mana nor magic?! No! let's not go straight to conclusions. I should ask more about abilities and manipulation. '

He was confused and puzzled about all those abilities but truthfully, he was excited beyond everything. Even a thought of him using that kind of magic gave him an adrenalin rush.

"Can you tell me more about our abilities and my core awakening now? as it will be easier for me to understand what are you talking about. " Kai said with a cute puppy expression which caught Cass off guard.

She almost jumped at him for a hug but restrained herself before she could do the deed.

"Aham... Yes! Of course. So let me start with your hibernation and difference between male Fures and females" She then cleared her throat and started.

"As you know, In our race, boys after birth need to go to hibernation because their bodies can't function without sufficient energy which is their blessing because they get much stronger bodies and most importantly cores." She said with usual expression but soon it saddened.

"As for girls, we don't even have core awakening, not to mention hibernation. You see, When you awakened your core, you were given the ability to assimilate cores and gain one of its host's abilities. But we, women, have that ability from birth yet when men can get 10 we can only have 5-6. It is because men have more energy and capacity than us, women. "

Now Kai had a saddened face because he felt sorry for them for such fate. Even the world was discriminating against them not to mention what others could do.

But what Kai didn't know was that even though women were much weaker than men, there was no discrimination not even from high echelons because every male Fure treasured their women, even if they had to die, they would, to save any woman of their kind. No one knew why they felt so, it came naturally to everyone, and to say at least they valued women more than any race. That's why there were no attempts of R**e or any other harassment against women.

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Cass saw an uneasy expression of Kai's and decided to change the subject but was interrupted by a question.

"Is this true that we can steal someone's ability like fireball and nothing more?" Asked Kai with his still concerned face But his eyes were different, there was hope in them. Hope that answer to his question was negative.

Cass smiled at his question, she was impressed by his mature mind but still answered without hesitation.

"That's a really good question! If that was all we could do we would have died long ago. You see... most of the beasts and humans have elemental manipulation like water manipulation, fire, wind, space, lava, lightning, sand and etc. But beasts and some other races have their unique traits or talents as many say. for example Death spider or Nightmare bat. Spider has poison manipulation but also can control strings. as for the bat, it has darkness as its element but can also control sounds to some extent. That is what we call Unique traits or talents... We can even mutate if the absorbed core's host was strong or unique enough. for example, our previous emperor had mutated his heart after assimilating the dragon's core he defeated and gained DRAGON'S HEART, he could breathe fire whenever he wanted and it was so fierce it could even melt Rodium, not to mention the ability he gained alongside it. He lived 500 years because of it and was known as the strongest emperor after the first one."