86 Chapter 85.

"I don't want to do this Miss Gyoko."

My husband really got pushed around by that little girl. Maybe that will motivate him to cultivate seriously from now on. With a child like that, who you really can't tell what she's thinking, she will surely keep my husband on his toes. She's hidden herself deeply, but I've always known what type of person she was from the beginning. She naturally can't hide anything from me when I can view the akashic records.

That girl is really too kind though. She's willing to do or use anything for the sake of her cause. Her purpose in life is to change a single outcome in this world. That much is the truth.

"I'm serious, I've changed my mind."

That trauma of hers, is naturally related to what she has experienced in the future as well. She's simply sealed those memories away deep in her heart so she doesn't break is all. Prying too much into a girl's past… or should I say future, is rude though.

That kitten is the trigger that brings those memories close to the surface of course. It really is quite sad. She's decided to self hypnotize herself into thinking it's how cute it is that makes her faint just to avoid the inner demons in her heart, even when she knows the truth deep down.

"Please Miss Gyoko, can I maybe shoot for something a bit lower rather than this right off the bat? Aren't things escalating too quickly?"

Though husband has really done some unnecessary things by opening the Pandora's Box that belonged to that little girl. Thanks to that, the world line in this timeline has been split in two. It's all because of the cat that was summoned to this world. I suppose it's a new possibility that never existed before. This is what happens when realm gods get involved, timelines just become a mess in mortal realms. A single action like a sneeze by a lower realm god can lead to this butterfly effect.

"Miss Gyoko, are you even listening to me?"

"Of course I am Chu Yue, I was just thinking about something interesting on the side."

"You see Chu Yue, my friend's husband just adopted a five year old child with a bit of history behind her. It's the second child they have adopted into their family, the first child they adopted was a fifteen year old."

"A second child?! Five years old?!"

Oh? Did she catch on that quick? She's a sharp one after all, especially when it concerns my husband. She really is cute.

"Is the husband of your friend's strike zone that low?"

Oh? Was that what she was concerned about?

"No it isn't, rather, his strike zone is probably closer to the first child."

"Is that so? Hehehe. I see. I see."

That girlish bashful side she had was something my pride would never allow me to show in front of my husband as the older of the two of us.

"Miss Gyoko, are we really going through with this program? Can't I just shoot for something a bit… lower? Maybe closer to the ground?"

"Of course, of course we're going through with this. It was a bit rushed, but luckily you got through the basic training and were certified. We're all clear, this is the biggest chance you have to quickly rise through the ranks and make it big. You should really thank me you know. If it wasn't for all the strings I pulled, you definitely wouldn't get a shot at this gig."

"But, isn't this a bit ridiculous? There isn't even a precedent for a concert like this, I've searched everywhere and know it's never been done."

"Are you scared of the unknown?"

At first I planned this in an attempt to keep her as far away from husband as possible, but after a while, I found it more amusing than anything because she always got fidgety whenever the foreign idea of outer space was brought up to her. To one like her who had lived her life as a mere mortal, it was of course nerve racking to think about being unable to exert any force while drifting about without any control over where you wished to go.

It was a real blast when I had her undergo the simulated zero gravity training with a powerful fan. She broke down into tears after it was over. It was a surprising, but cute weakness I found in her. When she breaks through to become a saint, I'm sure she will look back on it as an extremely embarrassing memory. I'll naturally be there to poke jabs at her over it.

Naturally, one must get dirt on your rivals while you can. She even begged me in tears to delete the recordings I took on my phone afterwards. Of course I happily refused and shot her down.

"Kkkkkkkhhhhhh. Miss Gyoko, everything is in place. We can begin lift off at any moment. Please give the signal. Kkkkkkkhhhhhh."

"Eh? Wait. What? Already?! Wait. Wait. Wait! My heart isn't prepared just yet! Give me some more time!"

"Chu Yue, training waits for no man or woman. This is all part of your training. I even had them create a room on the ship specifically for some true idol training while we are on route to your next big gig."

"It will allow you to experience gravity up to one hundred times Earth's gravity."

Of course, that was a lie. I would just be manipulating gravity in the room secretly. I somehow felt that something would be missing if we went into space without a spartan training session like this before her gig.

When I looked over to the terrified Chu Yue trembling within her pink space suit I couldn't help but smile deviously. I'm not an evil woman or anything. This doesn't constitute bullying or anything, this is all in the name of training for her gig which we will arrive at in four days.

"By the way Chu Yue, you're really thinking of backing out after all the underhanded things you did to get here?"

"Underhanded? What underhanded things are you talking about?"

"During the stranded emergency crisis training in the desert with all the trainees, do you really think I didn't notice how you sabotaged all the other trainee's rations? You even went so far to contaminate their water bottles with laxatives and thought I didn't notice, right?"

"Hahaha? Who would do such a malicious thing in an emergency crisis situation like that Miss Gyoko? Besides, was it not you who said if I wanted to get selected to take part in this mission I needed to stand out from the rest of the crowd? How can I be blamed if I was the only one who luckily, no, miraculously left the training camp in top condition?"

She sounded calm, but I could tell she was a bit nervous.

"Hoh, I see, then going into space shouldn't be a problem at all."

"Wait! This and that are two separate matters!"

For a villainous child like her who even went so far to seduce the male who was most likely to be chosen for this mission, only to snap some photos to blackmail him and get him to resign, she sure is indecisive when the moment of truth is at hand.

"HQ, we're a go."

"I said wait!"

"T minus 15… T- minus 12. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. All systems are a go."

"Nooooooooooooo! Stop! I don't want to anymore!"

"Ehem. I repeat, all systems are a go."

"Damn it! Would you please listen to me?

"Houston we have liftoff."

"Can you stop ignoring me?! I said I don't want to go!"

"Kkkkkkhhhhhh. Is everything alright in there? Kkkkkkhhhhhh."

"HQ, don't worry it's just stage fright getting to her."

"Miss Gyoko, please stop messing around! Turn this ship back around and land! I changed my mind, idol work is scary! It's too scary!"

"You can't, that would be a breach of contract."

"What about the right to refuse unsafe work? This must be violating some sort of occupational safety laws, right?"

"Oh? I'm surprised you knew of those. You're quite studious for a child. However, you're an idol, not a human. Human rights no longer apply to you."

"What?!"

Krkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkr.

Along with the loud crackling sound of combustion, a strong burst of acceleration suddenly assaulted us. To me it was nothing much, but Chu Yue on the other hand was scared out of her mind and she screamed out at the top of her lungs.

"Kyaaaaaa! Ahhhhhhhh! I'm going to die! I'm really going to die! Stop! No more! Waaaaah!"

Messing with her really is too much fun. Ah. I almost forgot. I quickly pulled out my phone to record, I definitely couldn't pass up a chance to capture all her ugly moments crying with a runny nose like this. Truly, the perfect blackmail material, if I do say so myself.

"Kkkkkkhhhhhh. Miss Gyoko?! What are you doing?! This is a spaceship! You can't suddenly start using your phone! Kkkkkkhhhhhh."

"Tch. Relax HQ, it's on airplane mode. Even I know that much."

"Kkkkkkhhhhhh… it's... a spaceship though. Kkkkkkhhhhhh."

"Same thing. Same thing."

Sniff. Sniff.

"Miss Gyoko… you're not recording me are you?"

"Me? Never. How could I ever do such an insensitive thing?"

"This is the worst. I want to see master."

Tch. Can you not talk about wanting to see my husband in front of me? It's unpleasant. The only thing that made me feel slightly better was the fact she had no way to wipe up the snot and tears in her helmet until we were cleared to take them off.

Hmmp! Try to defy me in the future and see if I don't show my husband the dirt I gathered on you while you were weak.

After listening to Chu Yue weeping while curled up into a ball in her chair, along with the overly loud rockets for about ten minutes, we were finally in orbit and given the okay to move about freely.

It's about time, mortal rules are such a pain. When we were given the all clear, I got up, unbuckled the dejected Chu Yue and dragged her off to the training room I'd arranged for her.

"Chu Yue, you're to master singing and your choreography while undergoing intensive training with gravity fluctuating between zero g and one hundred g. This will allow your balance and stamina to reach new levels. If you're a true idol, something of this level is nothing, so don't give me that defeated dog look."

"But-"

"No buts."

"Tch. If it was Master, he would at least give me a reward I bet."

"Oh? You want a reward if you make it through training?"

"Of course I do!"

"Hmm? Are you really sure you want a reward? You know, I'm quite fond of giving out rewards."

The moment the words left my mouth, as if alarm bells were going off non stop in her head, she backed up to the wall inside the room and shook her head indicating she changed her mind.

"A reward from you is too suspicious. I want a reward from my master."

"Your master? Wouldn't that be me? I have been training you on the way of an idol for a while now, haven't I?"

Ah. Oops. I need to maintain a friendly smile. A friendly smile. I can't let a devious smile out here. Must resist the urge.

However, no matter how friendly my smile may have been, she was like a cat who had her tail stepped on. In fact, she looked more wary than ever the more I tried to keep up my friendly smile in front of her.

"You're going to hurt my feelings little Chu Yue. I was really considering giving you a reward you know. I even mentioned you to my friend's husband before and he even said he was really interested in meeting you."

She squinted her eyes suspiciously like she had seen through my ploy, but she still hesitantly inquired, "then as a reward, how about letting me meet that so called friend's husband?"

"Oh? I don't really mind introducing you."

"Nevermind, as a reward let me see your phone instead."

Tch. She's fast to realize not to let me have control over the reward.

"Eh? Why would you want something like that for a reward?"

"I just wanted to see the difference between our phones."

This kid… she's definitely plotting something. Is she trying to delete the videos I've been taking of her? Maybe she's trying to search for some dirt on me as well. Too bad for her, I've already uploaded the videos to the cloud, there's no way she will be able to get rid of the back ups without my password. There's also nothing on my phone that could be used as dirt against me anyways.

"Oh? If that's all you want, I suppose I can let you take a look as a reward."

Since there really wasn't much harm that could come of letting her see my phone, I figured it would be fine.

"Anyways, Chu Yue, we should begin with your training."

I backed out of the room and closed the door shut and increased the gravity to one hundred g inside the room.

Chu Yue who had her back against the wall fell forward and planted her face on the ground.

"W-what i-is w-with t-this?! Haaaah. Haaah. Hah."

"Chu Yue stop messing around and stand up."

Was starting at one hundred right away too much for her?

"I-I can barely even breath! How am I supposed to stand up? W-why are you starting with the bar so high?! A-are you trying to kill me?"

She looked like a corpse that couldn't lift a single finger.

If I did the math, her body weighed about seventy kilograms. To have that suddenly turn into seven thousand kilograms might have been a bit to much for someone from a mortal realm. I lowered the gravity to ten g.

At this level Chu Yue was able to stand on her two feet. This was about the level of what a trained human pilot in this mortal realm could withstand.

"Well? What are you waiting for? Get to practicing."

"Demon! Devil! Witch! Slave driver!"

Your complaints are music to my ears.

Within the first hour Chu Yue could only let out what could barely be called grunts through clenched teeth while practicing her choreography. What I found amazing though was the cultivation technique appeared to be even more effective under the pressure she was facing.

When I realized this, I decided to draw out her training even longer. I skewed her perception of time by manipulating the laws in her surroundings and formed a hyperbolic time chamber within the room. I made her feel like every ten minutes was only a minute. In reality, inside the room, time was actually ten times slower than outside the room. From her perspective four days would pass in there when in reality forty days would have actually passed inside the room. When she comes out, everything will match up and she will be completely unaware of a thing.

Husband just broke through to the transcendent realm, if I don't give him more pressure, he might start to get even more complacent and slack off in his growth. Those promises I make him can only act as motivation so many times before he grows numb to it. However, if his so called disciple is right on his tail I'm sure he'll try to keep up his appearance like he always does. Little Han isn't enough pressure to spur on his growth. What keeps him motivated is posing as some sort of unreachable existence far beyond others. It he is lacking the bare minimum of required strength, he'll have a very difficult time keeping his disciple fooled after all.

Though, this disciple of his would probably be more than happy to know they have the strength to forcefully push him down. Ugh. It's a dilemma, I want husband to get stronger through his own efforts, but I want to keep him to myself. To make him seek strength I'm making use of a potential rival and even helping her to the point that she may be able to force herself on him.

Am I stupid? Maybe I should reconsider. How about I go grab a suitor from the past and spur on husbands rivalry instincts like that? No, that's impossible, they all ran away. No man even dares lay a hand on me these days after all the trouble I've caused in the past.

While I contemplated over my problems and internal dilemmas, twenty days passed for Chu Yue. During that time, I gradually increased the gravity until it reached one hundred g. Somehow she even managed to master her death metal screams under these extreme circumstances while performing her choreography.

Seeing she finally reached this level, it was time to significantly turn up the difficulty. Right as she gracefully lifted up one leg I changed it to zero g.

"Wha?!"

She was caught completely unprepared, lost her balance and floated upwards off the ground while spinning in circles. Before she could finish what she wanted to say, I turned the gravity back up to one hundred g and she fell back to the ground with a loud thud, squashed on the floor like a bug.

"Chu Yue, this is all part of your training. If you can masterfully move your body as you wish, unhindered by any unexpected force, you will surely make a breakthrough on your path towards idolhood."

She didn't complain at all and just wordlessly nodded in understanding.

She was already a peak semi transcendent after the last twenty days of training. With training like this, if she mastered it, she would easily be able to become a 3rd realm transcendent realm. This was of course, only thanks to the mysterious technique disguised as choreography that I imparted to her. As a result, she would actually leap ahead of my husband and be far ahead of little Han at this rate.

I honestly didn't expect this to happen. This training was really all supposed to be a joke at first and a way to pass some time. Yet, somehow I ended up assisting in her cultivation to this extent in my husband's place.

I just wanted to bully her a bit, but I ended up helping her by accident in the process. Haaaah. Being a good wife really is troublesome.

(POV Chu Yue)

I was terrified at the idea of being launched into outer space at first, but I really didn't expect I could enter a training environment like this.

It's only been six hours since Miss Gyoko added this fluctuating gravity to my training, but I'm somehow already getting the hang of it. I really thought it would take me a few days to get used to something like this. I'm also shocked by how it only took me two days to grow accustomed to the absurd gravity she initially started me off at before she reduced it. I was sure it would take almost a month to reach that level. Yet, I somehow did it in only two days. Am I actually some sort of freakish genius? Was that why master took me in as his disciple?

Did he actually see such potential in me just from a cursory glance back then? Isn't master too amazing? How can he have such a discerning eye, to actually see through my everything in that fleeting first encounter? Is he actually some sort of monster?

I must definitely show master that my love for him is real. I definitely need to get direct tutelage from the person himself. I can't have him looking at me as a child forever.

I really can't wait until this training is over though. If I'm right and Miss Gyoko is master's wife and I can get ahold of her phone, I can surely get master's phone number. I can then have lovey dovey conversations with him whenever I want through text and over the phone.

Hurry up! Can't time go any quicker? Why do the days feel longer than ever? Is it because there is no sun to judge time accurately?

As my thoughts wandered towards my master, I entered a strange state where I lost myself in a world where only thoughts pertaining to the two of us existed. It may have just been my delusions, but it felt strangely real. Was this what becoming one with the world was like? I'd rather it be becoming one with one's master instead to be honest.

Master was in front of me and had his hand placed on top of my head as though he was praising me. Without realizing it my cultivation base was rotating rapidly on its own and strength was gushing throughout my body. In reality, I was still moving about to the choreography that was now ingrained within my body like it were an inseparable part of me.

Even with the gravity changing at complete random, my movements started to be affected less and less. My body also started to automatically adjust itself to any instantaneous change in gravity as if by instinct.

Like this, without noticing, I was in some strange state of enlightenment while my body moved without rest as I steadily broke through all my bottlenecks. When I finally came to my senses it seemed what remained of my four day trip was already over.

By this point, every move I made had a certain indescribable elegance and grace. My movements were far more refined and fleeting than anything I could have ever imagined possible. I sort of felt like a fairy, the only part that made me feel otherwise was the death metal scream I occasionally let out which greatly contrasted with the perfect picture I painted with my movements.

However, as inelegant as the screams may be, I could tell they played a large part in improving the cultivation technique I practiced.

"Tch. It's not quite at the level I expected, but I suppose you can get a passing grade at this level. Just barely though."

Even this isn't enough to enter her eyes? Haaaah. I examined myself closer and realized I was somehow a 3rd realm transcendent. Of course, it was shocking to me how fast I increased my strength, but when I thought about how strong my master could potentially be, I figured it might even be below his expectations.

After all that, I only got a pat on my head in my delusion earlier. What level would I need for my reward to be penetration in my delusions?

"Anyways, a promise is a promise. Here's your reward."

Miss Gyoko handed over her phone without the slightest hesitation like she had nothing to hide.

I went off to one side of the room with my back turned to her and quickly opened up her contact list.

What I found listed was, "Husband, Mom, Dad, My Avatar."

She only had four contacts which was pretty surprising, but one contact in particular was just as I expected! The single word husband confirmed all my suspicions. I opened up the husband's contact information and triumphantly memorized his phone number.

(POV Meg)

You've got to be kidding me! That's what she was after? Should I use Brick-kun? Ugh. But a reward is a reward. However, to let this little girl get one up on me. How can my pride accept this? I thought it was the dirt I had on her she was after, but rather, it was my husband's number instead?

Well, she was bound to get his number when she meets up with him in the future. There really isn't much point in wiping her memory if she's just going to eventually get it, now is there?

"Uhm Misses(lol) Gyoko, here. Thank you for kindly letting me see your phone."

I couldn't stop my lip from twitching, so I just wordlessly took my phone back and put it away while I watched her pull hers out and add a second contact to her contact list.

She wrote in for the name, "Future Hubby(Master)" and happily input his phone number in front of me for me to see.

This child was definitely getting cocky if she thinks I'll let her off with this. Was this her little attempt to take a cheap shot at me? Not that you know it, but should you really be antagonizing a goddess of calamity so casually little girl?

Whatever, she worked hard for forty days in that room, I should at least cut her a bit of slack. I was annoyed by the fact she entered that state of enlightenment, taking away from some of my fun in messing with her, but I still enjoyed watching her struggles before that point.

"By the way, Misses Gyoko, why did you hide that you're married? Are you hiding something from me? Are you maybe cheating on your husband when he's not looking?"

Oh hohoho. Little girl, are you trying to uncover some dirt on me? If you are, think again.

"No reason in particular, but speaking of my husband, I wonder whether my husband would like those videos I took of you. I'm sure he would find them cute. Hahaha, if my husband saw a video of me like that, I'd probably die of shame. It's a good thing it's not YOUR potential future partner or significant other you've mentioned in the past seeing those embarrassing videos of yourself, but rather MY husband that would see it."

Chu Yue didn't say a single peep after that.