113 5.2 Himura Kenshin Made Up System

"Hey kid, stop what you're doing, we are not going to camp here for a few days, you know. The firewood you had fetched could well burn for a few days. Here, go get yourself something hot to drink."

One of the samurai gestured me to get a drink after seeing me gather enough firewood to last through more than a few nights. I gingerly walked over to the fire and a small kettle was sitting near it. I poured myself using a wooden up and found that they had made green tea in it. The smell of the green tea was welcoming and there were also some roasted fish that had been caught earlier while I was busying myself collecting firewood.

The masks from all the Samurais had been taken off along with their protective helmets. I can see that Hiko-sama had a clean-shaven face, and he looked pretty young, almost mid 20's. His hair was straight black and through his eyebrows, it was slanted and this gives him a kind of permanent frown look. However, he looked pretty decent.

I took the cup of green tea with me and sat in front of Hiko-sama. I wanted to ask about his life experiences but I held back since I had transmigrated into this 11-year-old boy's body, and any question may incite suspicion. So I better stick with some boyish questions instead.

"How long would we need to travel in this weather? So the night would be safe for us to idle around and rest and continue our journey once day breaks tomorrow, Hiko-sama?"

"We can't put it as idle around, even if there were no signs of enemies, each of us would be taking 1-hour watch from 11 at night right till daybreak. There would be another 2 days at most to travel to my village and there will be a night to rest like this. Unless we would be unfortunate enough to meet with common enemies at night, then we need to break camp and push on. Why don't you take dinner, there's some onigiri if you like. "

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"Thank you Hiko-sama for your enlightenment and thank you for your kind offer of dinner. I would love to have an onigiri and right after, I would do some meditation."

"Haa... Haa... You really surprised me, Himura-kun. Go on ahead, ask for the onigiri dinner from Miroku-sama, and eat it with the fresh fish we had caught during your absence."

"Thank you again, Hiko-sama. I go on ahead now."

With that, I bowed and approached Miroku-sama who was busying himself by staking the fish he and his other buddies had caught using some slender sticks that he poked through the mouth of the fish right to its tail. He then poked it into the ground near the fire and let the heat generating from the fire slowly cook the fish.

Miroku-sama took an onigiri out from his side bag and offered one to me. I took it in both hands, thanked him and bowed slightly and ate there beside the fire as I watched the fish being grilled. He took one that had been cooked earlier and offered one to me. I ate ravishly as I soon discovered that this body of mine had not eaten for the past 24 hours or more and had been lying in the snow half buried until I got transmigrated in it.

Luckily the brain was not frozen over and I'd definitely become a pickle for life. The stickleback fish I ate was fresh and was well done and it accompanies well with the onigiri that I was eating. It was a staple food for Japanese with the rice that was shaped like a triangle. It could last a good 3 days if stored in a proper way.

The fish head and its spinal bones were so succulent that I devoured everything, leaving only the wooden stick that once held the fish up for cooking. Seeing me done with eating, Miroku-sama offered another fish and onigiri for me but I refused, saying that we still have a long way to go and I would like to meditate instead.

He laughed at me, for seeing a scrawny kid that eats so little and wishes to continue to meditate instead. He finds it a bit weird but he didn't take the matters too seriously.

After thanking Miroku-sama for his share of onigiri and grilled fish, I went near the stream, found a flat spot and began to sit in a lotus position. I was trying to find out if I am still able to perform the Kamehameha, gathering of the energies and perform Psi energy spheres by using this body.

After a few minutes, I am able to visualise myself gathering energies and capturing it within my two hands at the sides. I let it dissipate as I do not intend to openly show what I could do to any of the Samurais unintentionally. The rest of the practises also was successful as I was able to summon the Psi energy spheres. Even the handseals worked perfectly.

At least in this Leap, I still had acquired the skills I had attained in my previous few Leaps. I wonder what I would learn next as I sat there, searching for the memories deep within the recesses of my mind. The previous skills I had spoken to Hiko-sama was not a lie as it formed the foundation of what this Himura had learned throughout his life in the past village.

At least with the new set of skills, I could slowly increase its proficiency. Unlike some novels with a system, I had to rely on someone to access my skills. Even when comes to pill making or blacksmithing, I still have to access the memories and be physically in front of a furnace, a mixing pot, mortar and pestle and the apprehension of mixing certain herbs to make a herbal medicinal paste or pill.

"Sigh... Nothing is a free lunch for me in this novel. Others can simply have a system to check their progress and attain certain abilities just by touching, unlike me... Everything has to come from practice." I thought to myself as I wished that I had a system to rely on but there is always Max to rely on sometimes. But in this 19th-century era, where can I find a phone that doesn't even exist, that I could summon Max as and when I needed?!?

"So unfair... Sigh..." I relaxed from my meditative state and position and just lied flat on the sides of the stream spread eagles like someone who was about to make snow angels. Maybe I should make some snow angels since I am considered as an 11-year-old kid.

Laying down in the cold and hard snow, I began to arrange my thoughts just like how a system would be like:

Name: Himura Kenshin

Alias: unknown

DOB: 20th June 1849

Strength: Elemental Crown level

Spiritual Skills: Kamehameha, Fire Release, Rise of the Sun, Psi Energy Healing Spheres, Third Eye.

Combat Skills: Pugilist, Short Staff, Kusarigama, Kodachi

Life Skills: Basic Blacksmithing, Basic Pill Making, Basic Herbal Medicine

Soft Skills: Cooking. Foraging. The rest was irrelevant in this era such as bike riding et cetera.

"Hmm, that's all I could think of right now. Such a pathetic system I had created in my mind right now. It is more like a collection of my own set of skills rather than a system but hell yeah, it's better than nothing right?"

I thought to myself as I lay sprawled in the snow and decided to go back to the group of Samurai. I dusted myself off properly, as I do not wish to think that I had been playing in the snow instead of meditating just now.

I walked back and the fire had turned to embers. "Excuse me Samurai-sama, would you like me to add some more firewood?" I asked one of the Samurai who was kneeling with one leg on the ground.

"No need, we heard some noises just now and we are on high alert now. It may be some scurrying animals but we are not too sure yet."

I nodded and understood their meaning well. I used my Third Eye as I scanned the surroundings and true enough, there was no threat and it seemed to be 3 hyenas lurking around.

"Don't worry there are no enemies around but 3 hyenas. I think I should add more firewood now and it'll scare the nocturnal Predators away."

I casually added a few small sticks to it and when it caught fire I added thicker woods. The fireplace became a small bonfire and it lights up the surroundings.

Suddenly an arm grabbed me and a sort of low hissing voice sounded at my ear," Listen, kid, are you sure it's 3 hyenas just now? I don't hear any yelping and all I could hear was quick movement around like as if there were some assassins around us! You trying to give our positions away, kid?!"

"Look, I may be 11 but I'm not as dumb as you think I am OK! Let my arm go or else..."

"Or else what kid? What you gonna do? Acting tough after Hiko saved you?"

I looked right into his eyes and said, "I'm not acting tough, but I'm gonna do this!" I hissed back at the unfriendly Samurai and suddenly I gathered a small form of energy on my right hand and I gripped his forearm that was covered with leather armour. A wave of intense heat quickly travelled through his armour and he instinctively let my other arm go before he let out a loud yelp. He looked at the part where I had gripped him and 5 finger marks appear on his armoured forearm.

"Hey... Hey... What's the big fuss all about? Someone went forward and checked that it was just 3 hyenas not some assassins. And what's wrong with you yelping about like a small sissy girl, huh?"

Hiko was motioning to the other Samurai who seems edgy 24/7 and even the slightest sound made by a cricket he would think it was made by a Demonic Beast or something. The other Samurai went up to Hiko and showed his forearm.

"Look...! My armoured forearm. See what the kid do to me! I was holding on his other arm and I was just talking to him not to get cocky or something and he did this to me! He's a devil incarnation I say... Get rid of this kid, Hiko... He seems cursed right from the beginning! "

"Himura-kun, come here. Did you do this to your senior? Look, his forearm armour has 5 little fingers on it and it still warm from the burn effect. Did you really do this?"

I came over and hung my head because I did the inevitable, which was using my powers to hurt others.

"Yes Hiko-sama, I am the one that did this to him. I am sorry and I should be punished. I shouldn't use my powers to hurt others. It's not that Senior here is trying to hurt me, but I sense a sign of hostility on his voice that I cannot take it and so I retaliated. His way of gripping my other arm also showed that he is belittling me even though I am just an 11-year-old kid. I am sorry Hiko-sama, and I am sorry I did that on Senior."

"Haa... Haa... You really keep surprising me, kid. I accept your sincerest apologies and Senior, do you accept his apology or you intend to flog his ass when he gets to our village?"

The senior looked at me and said he accepted. However, his words were incomparable to his eyes that were watching me all the time, as if I'm going to burn his whole body next.

"Sigh... With many skills bestowed upon me, the more responsibilities I had to bear." I sighed inwardly as I hung my head, bowed to both Hiko-sama and the Senior and went to sit on the hard ground with a tree trunk supporting my back.

The whole night went by without any incident except for some passing soul catcher demon that collects wandering souls to feed the host. It was eerie for someone with a Third Eye to see something like a snake floating in the sky and collecting people's restless souls. This was the first time I saw such happenings and it didn't happen before in Thailand or modern Japan.

Its time to break camp and head for the next destination. Some of the wood that I had prepared for the fire was not going to be wasted as a Samurai had picked some and carried it along on his pony. We had a quick breakfast and I extinguished the fire properly and headed to Hiko-sama and said I'd like to walk with those Samurai on foot ahead.

"If I am tired, I would ride on the pony with you Hiko-sama. At this moment, I feel alright and I want to exercise my body abit."

He waved me off and I walked together with the Samurai who were on foot. There were just the 2 of them and the one that I had used my Kamehameha strength on, was also walking along.

I tried to strike a conversation with those two and the friendlier one introduced himself as Hide-sama, while the latter was Kami-sama. So, Hide-sama was the one who gave a roasted fish and onigiri to me the evening before. Kami-sama, with his face mask on, just looked on forward but kept his ears peeled as he listened to what I had been telling Hide-sama. As angry as he was with me last night, he was curious about my life back in the past village.