Chapter 157 I Hate This Bastard!
Keith silently recorded the time as he watched everything in his spatial dimension go at double the speed. In the first month, he had managed to increase the time from sixty minutes to eighty.
But now, that another month had passed, he had taken it from eighty to almost 110 minutes.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
He put aside his thoughts on mental energy and focused on the bees that had managed to repopulate into a full colony by now. In the past few months, he had also spent some mental energy on actively dispersing the seeds of the flowering plants.
Due to this, in the corner where the honey comb lied, there was a thick layer of different colored flowers around them.
He stared at the bees and let out a soft sigh, 'I wanted to experiment with mutations but I guess I can't do that until I reach a certain level of mental energy capacity. Time is the most important resource when it comes to evolution.' he thought.
He then made sure that everything was going well without any problems and retracted his consciousness back. Instead of sleeping, he waited for a few minutes before raising his finger slightly.
All he had to was give out a mental command and a small bullet appeared on top of his finger before it fell beside him.
'It works.' he thought, but he was excited for something else. He opened up his status screen and looked at the awakened ability that he had gained from Adam.
Ammo Summoning: Summon 9mm ammo and recover 50% of your mental energy through sex. Mental energy recovery can only be done once a day.
"Oh well, things will change tomorrow." he thought and checked what Fabian and Vincent were doing at the moment before he went to bed.
The next morning, he helped his sister with moving things to the carriage and took got his things ready so that he could move too. He headed over to Clara's place and was invited in by Amelia as Clara was taking a bath at the moment.
Once Keith sat on the bed, Amelia stood in front of him with a serious look on her face, "Hey Keith, I heard that the place you're moving to, has a lot of bedrooms. Can you like... let me stay with you guys? I'll kinda feel lonely here without Clara and I already miss her at work. Please? How much is the rent? I'll pay."
Keith nodded, understanding where she was coming from, but he smirked when he heard her talk about the rent.
"Six Zen." he said before continuing, "The church contributes 5 zen for the rent and I take care of the rest, so if you wanna move in with us, you'll have to pay rent too. Let's see.... we can split the rent between us by half, so that's ten braks."
Amelia's face went ashen when she heard the price. A few years ago, she wouldn't have batted an eyelid. But now it was a different matter altogether as she barely earned slightly more than one zen a week.
Seeing her stiff face, Keith chuckled, "Hehehehe I'm just joking. Go talk to the treasurer and ask him how much he's willing to give you for housing purposes. Just put that in and we're good but you'll still have to donate 10 braks for groceries and food requirements.
Rest assured, the meals will be lavish. I simply want my team to eat well, so if you want to join us, you'll have to follow our rules. Oh yeah, on top of that, everyone decided to take one room each and there's only five bedrooms, so you'll have to convince someone to let you sleep with them."
"I'll talk to Clara about it. As for the money needed for food, I'll pay that." she said as she didn't need to worry about rent anymore. With the current set up, she could save more than half of her salary, which was a pretty good deal considering the fact that she'd be able to live in a large mansion.
Keith shook his head, "Nah, Clara is gonna share a room with me. I'll talk to her."
"...." Amelia silently stared at Keith, frowning slightly as she felt kinda annoyed, "Then why did you tell me that I'd have to convince someone to let me sleep with them?"
"Just messing with ya." he said and noticed her leg shooting towards his precious jewels. His body instinctively moved and he stopped her kick with his knee, letting out a shaky breath as he stared at her bare feet that looked like heavy hammers at this moment.
He slowly looked up to see her staring at him with a complicated expression on her face, "Tch." she clicked her tongue before taking a few steps back.
Seeing this, Keith sighed and went back to the topic as he remembered about Clara's work.
"Oh yeah, take Clara with you too. She needs to get a letter signed so that she can officially cancel the pact with Timothy. I'll go get the money in a bit." he said and lied down on the bed, resting his head on the soft pillow.
"I'll take a nap until you guys get back."
Amelia silently watched him cover himself with her blanket and let out a soft, inaudible sigh before leaving the room. She felt conflicted about her feelings about him.
Sometimes, he made her feel like she was being played around with, like a toy. He called her a "Bro" a few times and she absolutely hated it even though she didn't know why.
'Is he really going to treat me like a fucking brother? Doesn't he even see me like a girl?' she thought as she turned her head to glance at him, taking in his handsome features as she tried to hold back a tear.
"Damn, I hate this bastard." she muttered under her breath and walked towards the kitchen, the frustration on her face apparent, but when she heard the sound of water splashing against hard tiles, the image of her and Keith's bodies intertwined in the small confines of the bathroom popped up in her head.
She felt strange and also felt a sense of longing, but she rushed over to the sink and splashed her face with cold water.