Everyone's affection values increased, especially Rina who accumulated to ten thousand. Jinyo didn't know before that relationship value increases or decreases would affect what. Now he learned it was unlocking item lists in shops. Hinting that Jinyo must prioritize relationship values more.

  After eating meals, Jinyo treated Rina through Divine Touch Hand technique. Her meridians recovered better when Jinyo's planar quality and skill proficiency developed. Treatment progress now at [11/100]. Affection values increased greatly every time using Divine Touch Hand successfully. But Rina would chase Jinyo out of rooms and not let anyone approach every time.

  In Jinyo's heart, knew well there was something abnormal every time using Divine Touch Hand technique. Rina would be sensitive, face flushed crimson and make thought-provoking sounds. But when trying on Naho, his younger sister had no reactions except praising it felt comfortable. Moved easily and reduced fatigue symptoms. As someone adhering to scientific principles, if identical actions gave different results, that meant abnormalities.

  Jinyo stored doubts deeply. Ran from mansion to Garden of the Sword. Pop ran holding hoes chasing to strike large field mice running in to bite and eat unharvested produce. Its level increased enough to fight low-level monsters. Plus with Nameless God's agricultural equipment, combat power high enough to handle monsters comfortably.

  Pop used copper axes to skin monsters. Separated bones and meat, storing for use. Useless parts were intestines and waste that processing would waste time. Keeping idle sent foul stenches. So dug ponds to bury as fertilizer. Monster hides were market demands, could sell exchanging for cash. Bones stored to sun-dry and grind using as raw materials making Earth Spirit Divine Fertilizer next time. Meat thrown into purchase boxes exchanging for spirit coins.

  Jinyo sowed seeds into seedling cultivation trays. New batch Immortal Rice seed bags from catalogs accelerated growth 500 hours with cultivation tickets. From small seed grains sprouted, breaking into green leaves in blinks. Pop lifted seedling trays planting into flooded paddy fields. Jinyo still had seedling cultivation trays not using plant cultivation tickets. Using plant cultivation tickets would get minimum quality produce. He wanted to know if letting them grow without time acceleration, what would produce come out.

  Second generation Exploding Potatoes and Happy Carrots did the same. Would have one rai using plant cultivation tickets and another rai letting grow naturally. Required minimum 120 days until harvesting produce.

  "Use 100 days plant cultivation ticket, distribute to Immortal Rice." Jinyo picked golden tickets as rewards from land upgrade missions. Spirit from surrounding areas pulled into Garden of the Sword. 5 rai Immortal Rice seedlings, 20 days per rai. But still not enough. Jinyo used remaining cultivation tickets accelerating time more until Immortal Rice aged 50 days. Dried spirit returned intensely to 18.

  Jinyo sat middle of paddy fields with most intense spirit. Used Nature Synthesis Technique while reading exam books. He registered to take teacher professional license exams scheduled 6 days ahead. It was necessary for filing to open sword schools. Sword schools or training halls like tutoring schools. But specialized schools for teaching sword techniques or martial arts. Wanting to open wasn't just pasting signs in front of houses to accept students. But must receive permission from Education Federation.

  Jinyo had no professional licenses either as tutors or teaching sword techniques. That he taught students at tutoring schools because previous owners helped Jinyo get temporary licenses for contract teachers but gave salaries equal to permanently placed special teachers. He already planned taking teacher professional license exams when having time. But got fired by new owners first.

  Teacher professional licenses for opening sword schools required 1-star hunter licenses and teacher professional licenses. Hunter exams would start 1 day after teacher professional licenses. Very exhausting 2 days for sure. But if it made Jinyo reopen schools, worth it. He already reviewed teacher professional license manuals, so not taking much time, confident. What remained was reading technique manuals received as rewards.

  [Punishment Wave (A): Advanced planar control technique. Use coupled with attacks. Create damage ignoring target's defensive power equal to planar Quality + Willpower X Skill Proficiency]

  [Double Impact (A): Advanced element control technique. Required having more than two elemental planar. Use paired with Punishment Wave. When critical damage attacks occur, will create damage ignoring target's defensive power according to number of elements used merging attacks. Damage will increase according to used element intensity multiplied by Double Impact and Punishment Wave skill proficiency]

  [Plant Science (S): Supreme magic technique. Grant life force to seeds or user's agricultural produce. Create magic creatures or magic weapons to help fight. Efficiency depends on Skill Proficiency + Nature Synthesis Technique + Cultivation Boundary]

  Whether Punishment Wave or Double Impact were dangerous techniques. Jinyo almost didn't survive from them. Technique manuals packed densely with knowledge already in Jinyo's hands. Plus he still had Flower Element and Moon Element added when eating Moonlight Carrots. Jinyo had conditions training Double Impact techniques but came with risks of Fire Element Interference in the future. He must plan training more thoroughly than ordinary people twofold if not wanting to return to being worthless trash again.

  Another reward was S-rank skill manuals so complex couldn't understand at all.

  "So difficult. Whatever it is befits A-rank skills. But never mind, nothing's harder than our family's signature techniques." Jinyo laughed. Song of a Hundred Flowers was S-rank difficulty sword techniques. If he successfully learned Song of a Hundred Flowers, A-rank difficulty techniques must be doable too. Jinyo studied manuals all night. He slept only 4 AM to 6 AM then woke cooking food. Read manuals as if sleeping fully satisfied all night. Moonlight status helped him have 6 more hours daily than others.

  For students who passed PhDs and sleep-deprivation project hells, sleeping 2 hours equaled fully satisfied 8 hours sleep—even greater than S-rank skills. Gifts God granted making nerds worldwide envious.

  "Wow, fragrant rice again." Ryse's eyes sparkled. Hot cooked Immortal Rice scents drifted to her bedroom since morning. Greedy girls almost jumped down from second floors to taste delicious foods. Gretel ran chasing closely behind his younger sister. Under sullen tense faces pretending tough. When sitting on chairs looking at milky white rice, he didn't know saliva dripped at mouth corners.

  "Gretel, control yourself a bit."

  "Not at all. I'm not greedy like Ryse."

  "Ryse doesn't drool like Gretel at all. Gretel's greedy child. See only eating."

  "Ryse's greedy. Greedy child. Fat child. Will grow into pigs."

  "Gretel's greedy. Drooling saliva. Retarded. Plus picky eaters too."

  "Both of you, if not stopping arguing, I'll make you eat only carrots and shredded cabbage." Jinyo saw both children's unattractive behaviors. He laid down swords that effectively stopped children staging boxing. Together stopped brawling, sitting with tearing eyes. Gazes intertwining sparking lightning flashes. Wars without words still continued and no one could stop them.

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  When Rina and Naho bathed and dressed walking down, morning meals began. In blinks when non-spicy curry scooped into mouths with hot fragrant Immortal Rice. Wars the two siblings waged less than ten minutes disappeared. Smiles and joyful eyes overflowing. Affection values bounced nonstop in Jinyo's windows.

  Curry with mashed carrots... worked.

  Because Ryse and Gretel clearly disliked eating vegetables, Jinyo took Happy Carrots to grind thoroughly. Went mixing with curry cubes, potatoes and pork.

  "Super delicious! If there's leftovers, selling is fine, Brother." Naho tasted curry, then impressed until tears flowed. She chewed cheeks puffed like hamsters holding seeds in their small mouths.

  "Right. Agricultural produce, if not rice, should have harvest lifespans, right? Taking some to sell would be better." Rina agreed with Naho's thoughts.

  "I also thought of selling some portions. But if selling too much, will be suspicious because Exploding Potatoes are plants no farmers could grow before. Naho, can you sell to William? Tell him got them from Babylon's Floating Garden."

  "Like this! Using that I'm a genius hunter who accidentally entered dungeons then dug abundant Exploding Potatoes, right? Befitting being my brother. Truly cleverly shrewd." Naho seized opportunities flattering her brother. She made blinking eyes looking at Jinyo as if expecting something. Big round eyes as if escaping from girl cartoons made brothers uncomfortable.

  "Understood. I'll give 5% as commission."

  "Yes! Love Brother Yo the most in three worlds. Why would my life need men when having such wonderful wealthy brothers like this? The better selling prices, the more money in my pockets. Wait, my child. Mother will make you plump and full like before again." Naho rubbed flat wallets. Nutritional deficiency diseases not having banknotes exceeding ten bills for half a month. Since grandchildren came living with her, had no time going out earning income. No, it was her weak heart that couldn't take eyes off children. Or was it because laziness sins where she found excuses not making herself go work?

  Being potato sales agents for brothers was dream jobs, wasn't it? Returning home in one day receiving money without investing anything whatsoever. The more negotiating expensive prices, the more profits she got. It wasn't glamorous like Naho thought. Negotiating profit shares from William called Ground-Dragging Fangs. No different from snatching meat from tigers' mouths.

  Jinyo didn't want talking with William, so sending Naho accepting responsibility instead—just that.

  Jinyo called Rina talking privately after breakfast time. He stuffed one thing to her. Thin-covered notebooks just a few pages. Inked with pen letters and anatomical movements. Young women's eyes widened using beautiful fingers flipping page by page. Explanations about movement flaws. Transmission through power connection points in meridians.

  "This is..." Manuals specially invented for Rina. Would be completely useless if these manuals fell into others' hands.

  "Sorry. It's slower than I thought by a lot."

  "Who said? Just a few days you could write things like this out. You truly befit being genuine geniuses."

  "Not really. I just took flaws the system saw mixing with sword technique understanding. Because Rina and I use same sword techniques. If others, I can't do it."

  "You... don't know anything at all." Rina unfurled smiles on faces. Gazes she used looking at him warmed. Young women hugged thin notebooks that during school days anyone had to scribble and draw until dirty. But for her, these thin notebooks had values surpassing anything.

  "Really thank you. I'll use them well."

  "If wanting to repay, hurry changing proficiency to Master before going to Zone 86 would be better."

  "If having two-three months, must definitely do it. Someday I'll definitely repay you." Rina hastened footsteps finding quiet corners on mountains. Swordsmen needed quiet peaceful environments training techniques. Jinyo walked back to mansions taking Ryse and Gretel playing at Garden of the Sword. Both cautioned must not disturb reading time. As for Naho, loaded Exploding Potatoes into her brother's old three-wheelers. She drove them into cities to shops buying and selling agricultural equipment or monster-related goods.

  One young woman shouldered two hundred kilograms potato bags with one arm. Big burly men in markets gaped, jaws almost falling to floors. Naho hummed comfortably not feeling it heavy or anything. She ran back to vehicles shouldering hundreds of kilograms monster hides alone. Throughout markets caused uproars. Not because of goods she brought selling but astounded by her elephant strength.

  "William! Come welcome customers quickly." Naho shouted calling her brother's school friends. She heard toilet flushing sounds loudly piercing ears. Before William would walk flicking shirt hems standing staring at hundreds of monster hide sheets with Exploding Potato bags.

  "What's this?"

  "Exploding Potatoes! I got huge windfalls at Babylon's Floating Garden. Slaughtered monsters abundantly too. So brought to sell to your shop specially. How's that? I'm amazing, right? The era of Naho Southerncross returned. Hmm, want autographs for collecting?"

  "If your autographs, even free I won't take."

  "Heartless! I'm like future millionairess."

  "With your intelligence, becoming millionairesses can only cling to wealthy husbands or worthless brothers. Chances you'll succeed as businesswomen... 0%!"

  "Want punches?" Naho smiled innocently brightly, raising bulging arm muscles threatening. She really wanted to know whether skinny-waisted small-bodied young men not exercising like him, days only sitting moving abacus beads, could receive her punches!

  "No thanks. Just happen to be very wealthy, having money to spend. Don't want hurrying to meet God when age not yet 80."

  "Give me one punch!"

  "Alright, let me see." William searched ten Exploding Potatoes placing on tables. Special-ordered glasses wore over handsome faces.

  William had no combat technique or hunter talents. He trained planar through techniques called Assessment Science.

  Others collected levels through killing monsters and consuming beneficial nutrients. Assessment Science would increase experience through assessing things. Observing tiny things ordinary people overlooked. Ten potatoes not differing in others' eyes. For assessors, just twins born from different eggs.

  William focused on Assessment Science. Flipped Exploding Potatoes one by one. His gaze stared intensely every minute. Silent quiet covering shops not good for young women with short attention span disease problems.

  "These Exploding Potatoes, did you personally collect from dungeons?"

  "Of course!"

  "Collected yourself. No helpers for sure?"

  "Yes, yes, yes."

  "Hmm..." William raised hands pushing chins looking at young women innocent and naive, unsuited to age. Fox smiles sprouted on faces. He surrendered to his own mischievous hearts when facing tempting prey.

  "Strange. Normally in Exploding Potato digging stages must have slight damage traces. But this is perfectly flawless. Sizes also big. Got nutrients and planar evenly every piece. Growth times still exactly equal. You know? Exploding Potatoes are random non-seasonal propagating plants. Finding hundreds of kilograms potatoes with consistent quality, you must be one-in-a-million lucky."

  "Hehe, well, people are just lucky."

  "Really lucky? I just gave Exploding Potatoes to your brother. Today you encountered 400 kilos good quality Exploding Potatoes. Not like produce collected from dungeons. Finding produce consistently at this level mostly only from farms. It's not that... that genius doctor discovered Exploding Potato cultivation methods no one ever did before, right?"

  "Crazy, how could that be? My brother's quite worthless. Days only clinging to younger sisters eating. How could he invent godly things like that? Haha." Naho smiled covering up. Screaming sounds in hearts echoed. Her now like ostriches pretending dead before grizzly bears. Muddy excuses, knew herself not smooth but absolutely couldn't admit! Naho's heart beat strongly almost bouncing from chests. Was this Jinyo's fault sending to meet skilled assessors or Naho herself speaking loosely?

  Brother Yo, I'm sorry!

  "Mm, just joking casually."

  "Huh?"

  "Just jokes. Just jokes. There are chances encountering many equal quality produce in dungeons. Gosh, Miss Naho is so lucky, truly befitting being Fortune Goddess."

  "Well, not that much."

  Thought I'd die! Naho thought she'd let great secrets slip into outsiders' ears. Naho looked at William who changed assessing monster hides instead. William announced buying all goods. 100 kilograms Exploding Potatoes sold for 300,000. Monster hides sold 200 per sheet because poor quality. Much damage.

  1,255,000 money transferred into Naho's accounts.

  Naho almost shrieked shaking shops. God help fried bananas. This was the biggest money since Southerncross families entered low points. Young women spread arms soaring from shops. Commission fees Jinyo promised her were 5%. Now Naho had 60,000 income without working. Equivalent to 2 months hunter profession income.

  "Who'll be millionaires? Me!"

  "..." William adjusted glasses pretending not seeing Naho's mentally retarded elementary student behaviors. He turned giving attention to high-quality Exploding Potatoes.

  There was one thing William didn't tell Naho.

  Exploding Potato quality Naho brought selling was higher than every Exploding Potato William ever assessed throughout life.

  No way they were Exploding Potatoes born in dungeons.

  "Genius botanist sir, are you playing price negotiation games with me?" William's heart pumped. Was this challenges or irresistibly tempting offers for sure? If he mistook, might lose huge profits receiving in the future. But if he decided correctly, it was wealth no merchants could refuse.