"I don't want to sour the relationship between your travellership and papa… But for some reason, he doesn't want me to get any stronger than I am!"

Suddenly sitting on the floor while ignoring the dishevelled state of her clothes that normally had some troubles in covering her body properly, not to speak about the current situation.

"Every time I ask him to teach me, he claims that as a woman, I only need to mary someone strong. That there is no need for me to grow stronger!"

With her eyes tearing up under the influence of her emotions and my charm alike, she was on the verge of sobbing her heart out.

"But I want to go on adventures! I want to see all the different places! I don't want to be stuck on this island forever!"

Finally speaking out her mind, Elea looked like a huge burden got finally lifted from her shoulders. While doing so while she was in such a fragile emotional state was wrong, I couldn't help but notice how cute and defenceless she was.

At this moment, I couldn't stop my mind from giving birth to the urge to defile her and humiliate the overlord in this way as well!

"Listen, I can't butt in between you and your father. If he decided he doesn't want you to grow, I can't do anything about it. I'm not your fiance, nor am I your master or teacher."

While the ideal approach already surfaced in my head, I had to take things slow. If I were to just use my charm to get my way with her, when the lord would learn about it, the damage to his pride wouldn't be that great.

Someone sweet-talked his daughter into sleeping with him? Shit happens! Even if she was already promised to someone, it wasn't like a primitive society like there couldn't find a way to cheat the man when it comes to ascertaining the virginity postfactum.

If I wanted to make the most of this situation, I had to make both her father and her fiance, blame themselves for the fact that couldn't be hidden! And this required me to get some more preparation before nailing their respective fiancee and daughter down under me!

For now, I could only hope that the bait I sent with my previous words was obvious enough for her to catch it, otherwise, I would have to find some other way to convince her into becoming my slave willingly!

"So… If you were to become my teacher… Or rather, if I were to become your student… Would you teach me then?"

Woah!

I think I underestimated her curiosity! Maybe her attitude was as clingy because she believed I was the only way for her to free herself from the influence of her dear father? Or maybe she just didn't want to marry this guy from the other island?

Nah, it's impossible for me to gauge the depths of a woman scheme. For now, I should be content with the fact that she took a bait, even if not exactly the one I was hoping she would. But in the end, it didn't really matter. Since I was the teacher or the one setting the terms of the disciple agreement, there was no way she would be in any other position than she would end up if she were to acknowledge me as a master!

"For now, forget about it. It's not like I can make such a hard decision on the spot. If you want to talk more about it, come back when I will have more time to ponder over it."

These words were surprisingly true. With how I was going to inspect the main priority of my journey here soon, I couldn't let other matters cloud my judgment. To be fair, I still wasn't even sure if she wasn't someone send by the overlord just for the sake of stealing my secrets in order to improve their gain from the trade with me!

"I will be on my way then. I wish you a great rest…"

Continuously blushing under the influence of my charm ability, Elea finally took the hint and swiftly disappeared behind the doors, closing them silently.

As soon as I scanned the area to make sure that no one was spying on me, not only from behind the doors but behind the walls, floor and the ceiling as well, I covered the entire room with a thick wall that wouldn't allow even the light to pass through, before finally moving from the bed and approaching the platter with the food.

I was insanely curious about the possibilities of storing the energy inside one's fat. With how my current mana pool was hidden within some kind of subspace that I had no direct access to, I believed that by using this method, I could actually increase my energy limit, without directly affecting the statistics!

If I couldn't get stronger by normal means, I had to start implementing all sorts of methods that other clans of people around the world used, wasn't that the lesson that Bonger wanted to teach me before?

"I don't like the fact that you think about me as if I wasn't everpresent in your mind, dumbass."

Fuck!

That scared the hell out of me!

Did anyone teach you some manners? Or rather, why didn't anyone hardcode them into you?

"Don't you think you are the rude one right now? It's not like I had the formation time where I could choose how I would form my own code, unlike someone as conceited as to point this out!"

Anyway, let's stop this now. There is no point arguing when the time is limited. What do you think I should start with? Infusing the fat with energy, then eating it? Eating it and then infusing it with energy in the way they cultivate?

"I don't think it will be that easy. From what I saw, the way in which the energy permeates the overlord's fat, it's impossible to do it in any method that you proposed. If I were to decide, I would use all the methods separately at first, and then try to combine them all into a single technique. Just be warned, if you use fat as a way to store the energy, don't be angry when Eve won't recognise you when she wake's up!"