The Idle System (A LitRPG series Book 7): Family by Pegaz (good books to read for young adults txt) 📗

tried to get up. John stood up, walked over to the bear and kicked the back of its head, knocking it out. Looking over at Kelly, he gestured with his hand for her to walk to him. When Kelly reached him, John handed her his nano short sword.

“Where did you get this?” she asked, taking the sword with hesitation.

“I never leave home without it—you just don’t see it.” John tossed Kelly a wink. “I stole the metal from that friend’s family after the head of the family tried to arrange a marriage between me and his daughter. When we arrived in this kingdom, I borrowed the king’s blacksmiths to create it.”

John knew that she was actually inquiring about where the sword was kept, but he couldn’t answer her truthfully. Instead, he pretended to get the meaning of the question wrong and answer half truth about where he got the sword in the first place and hoped she didn’t care enough to ask a second time after correcting his feigned mistake.

The nano short sword he handed to her was a spare he created years ago after losing his original in an explosion during a fight at the Adventurers’ Guild’s auction house. However, unlike the original, this one wasn’t created with a fingerprint rune.

As John let go of the sword, he could see Kelly losing focus. He clapped his hands together in front of her face to bring her focus back to him.

“You lost focus for a while then. What were you thinking about?”

“The weight of the sword… it’s much heavier than I expected,” Kelly answered.

“You’ll get used to it in no time, but I want you to always remember something.” John knelt down and stared into her eyes.

“The sword is only a tool. It will never move, think, or act on its own. When it kills something, that’s because the wielder used it to kill—the sword didn’t have any say. Never think that you’ve got to use it to kill something just because you’ve got it.

“While it’s a weapon designed to kill, it can also be used to save lives, too. Its purpose is up to the wielder to decide.”

John then waited for Kelly to come out of her thoughts. After a few minutes, Kelly looked at John and told him that she was ready to kill the bear.

John gestured for Kelly to walk in front of him, so she would be standing over the bear’s neck.

With the sword in her hand, John could feel Kelly’s heartbeat quicken as he held her shoulders.

“Relax. The bear is unconscious, so it won’t feel any pain even if you don’t kill it in a single swing.”

He stepped back and watched Kelly as she kept staring at the sword. It would be a lie to say he wasn’t curious to know what she was thinking at this point, but he knew she wouldn’t tell him even if he asked.

John watched Kelly lift the sword above her head as she prepared to strike.

She then swung the sword at the beast’s neck, decapitating it with little effort, which surprised her.

I hope she doesn’t ask how we sharpened the sword. I don’t know how to explain that the sword has the molecule rune in it, making it able to slice through anything without much effort.

After killing it, she dropped the sword and stared at the bear. John didn’t know what was going through her head, but he could only wait for her to come to terms with her actions.

Half an hour later, John showed Kelly how to skin the bear and separate the meat from the bones. When they were done, they made their way home to cook the bear meat as a way to celebrate her first kill.

On their way back, John made sure there was no blood on her clothes as he made Kelly use a herb to hide the smell of blood. When Kelly asked why she needed to do this, John asked Kelly not to tell her mother that she killed a bear as he’d eventually tell her when the time was right. Kelly agreed.

Before they knew it, another fifteen years passed by.

Chapter 12: Changes

Fifteen years was a long time, even to most immortals.

Kelly had grown up and was almost twenty-one now. She still looked a lot like Sarah, but she was a bit taller and retained some of John’s features, too. However, John and Sarah looked a lot older now, but that was because their nano armour was altered to help them age. Without it, Kelly would’ve noticed that something was off since the villagers were growing older as well.

Their skin loosened a little, John created bags under his eyes, and Sarah eventually created a few wrinkles on her face under protest. They also added a few age spots on their arms and legs and slowed down their pace whenever they worked.

Throughout the years, John made sure Kelly kept up with training while also increasing the difficulty. He taught her how to handle various weapons, including secret specialty weapons used only by the most skilled assassins.

The village had also transformed. Thanks to John and Sarah, it had grown into a bustling town. People trickled in from all over because of Sarah’s medical knowledge and John’s training courses, both of which paved the way for hundreds of children to achieve their dreams of becoming knights.

Unfortunately, even with Sarah’s medical skills, the old man who was in charge of the village died a few years after they arrived.

He only saw the village prosper for a little while before he fell ill. Bedridden, he wasn’t able to see the village transform into a town. When he died, the whole village—including those who just moved here—attended a simple funeral for him.

The rest of the people John taught over the years were those who didn’t want to become knights but still wanted to carry out a knight’s job. They used that training to protect the town from wild animals, deal with the