Chapter 4: Daily Life

~Tatsumi POV~

*Swoosh*

*Clang*

*Clash*

Today I and Ieyasu are sparing as usually with my swordsmanship and with his ax fighting skills as we try to compete with each other as usual.

Backing off to our sides and distance Ieyasu readies his ax as he points it in my direction as he tries to get me to slip off, "No way I'm making this easy on you Tatsumi! I will surpass you and make you go all out!"

Smirking at my idiot friend at his trademark attempt I got into my stance as I cheerfully mocked my friend, "Ha! You have to got to try harder than that to mess with me Ieyasu! Or are you still jelly that Master trained me harder?"

That seems to make him steam but it was all in good fun honestly as Master taught the three of us how to fight and hunt in the woods for Danger Beast Cores as they sell for a high price on markets.

Master taught us evenly how to fight and how to shoot a bow as well as demonstrated his abilities to us three at the time.

Although we did give him our hunts as he takes advantage of us as kids getting rich from our efforts the knowledge he did have was worth being his chore boy for the last few years but even so he was someone I looked at as a father figure at times.

Even though he must have worked with some dirty deeds under his belt he must have done some unspeakable things in his early years as everyone who stays in the Empire that long must have done something disgusting.

But anyway, back to the…

*Beep*

[Ding! Princess and SwordBae are online!]

Great just what I needed a distraction as I then see Hinata and Saeko appear as they wanted to continue talking about what the group chat is as I was busy training with my sparring partner and friend Ieyasu.

Princess: Hello everyone… Oh? Tatsumi did we caught you in a bad time?

SwordBae: From what it seems it looks like you are in a fight? Is it something serious?

As I was busy handling an attack of force from my friend, I can speak to my chat members through my thoughts something we soon discovered after a few days of testing what are the exact mechanics as we figured out that we can communicate.

We tried everything we can to discover everything about this chat group but there were other functions that we haven't unlocked yet it seems.

In the first part, we discovered that we can communicate through thoughts if need be in the chat group as well as the locked features of a gym, shop, lottery, trade, home, name changer, and travel functions of it all.

I already know what that name changer is and I NEED it.

We already assumed that we can travel to our respective worlds once we get travels unlocked but the problem here is that we can guess what the others are or what they provide us in what environment or the conditions needed.

Unfortunately, we're left in the complete dark of how to unlock them and there are no options in a quest like those I read in the past so this might be different.

But more so is how different Saeko and Hinata are compared to their canon selves but the strange thing is, however, is what we have in common is that we all differ from each other at least to our counterparts.

Hinata is already lost interest in Naruto for starters, Saeko having a hard time controlling what she calls her dark self-expressing her true colors of liking to inflict pain, and I'm a reincarnated person to which I haven't explained to anyone and probably never will in the future.

Whatever the case may be as I was busy handling my sparring with Ieyasu I was talking to my I guess friends or allies at this point about my current predicament.

EsdeathBitch: Sorry gals but as you can see, I'm quite occupied with my training against Ieyasu at the moment.

SwordBae: Now? From what I can tell it seems that the both of you… are going at it to harm yourselves…

EsdeathBitch: Yeah, if I'm aiming to become a General or someone in high status in the future, I would need the strength and power needed to get what I desire. So, going through painful exercises like these is nothing if I can't gain anything in return.

SwordBae: I… see…

While dodging another one of his ax swings at me I noticed how Saeko looked at me enviously while biting her thumb.

From what I can see it seems to me she needs to outlet her violent tendencies from listening to her story.

The text logs I read about her speak volumes of her character hiding her need for violence as she builds up for it. I can tell as she speaks about it from going too harsh with her club members as she tries to relieve herself.

Fortunately, thanks to her kind older sisterly persona people just forgive her too easily but I already know what kind of person she is from talking to her.

That was when Hinata brought us back to the subject at hand as she asks curiously about me in the current situation as I landed another blow to Ieyasu's stomach while holding his pain.

Princess: So Tatsumi is this person of yours an enemy or a friend from how your sparring is going?

EsdeathBitch: No, he's one of my friends in my village. His Ieyasu and Sayo is the one observing our match as were going back to training with each other during our free days to become the strongest.

SwordBae: I see so these are your childhood friends then. It looks like you three have a deep connection to one another.

EsdeathBitch: I mean we do we were all abandoned as babies in this village as we treat it as our home. One reason for another we were left here because of the Empire influence of selling or stealing babies to become soldiers so some people give away their child's in rural villages like these to escape from them.

Speaking honestly about how I was brought here it looks like the two were surprised at how calm I was at my speaking as I finally managed to land an uppercut on Ieyasu's chin as I spoke out, "And here goes the big one! Tatsumi Style uppercut of doom!!"

*Swoosh*

With that, I see my old chum up in the air for a few feet away as he landed hard on the ground as he sits back up again as he was gloomy about his defeat, "Aw man. Here I thought I finally got you, man. Ow! Did you have to hit my mouth that hard!"

Smirking at the idiot as I went ahead and reached forward with my hand as he grabbed it as I responded helping him up, "Nah man. If I didn't hit, you hard enough you wouldn't become a strong dude. But I think I should have eased up a bit man."

Ieyasu was shaking his head as he managed to get up from my help as Sayo comes along over with a medkit and she comes over to check us over as she spoke, "Alright you numbnuts. Let me see your injuries guys so that I can heal you."

We both nodded at that as we let Sayo take a scan on our bodies as we strip to our waist keeping our pants as Sayo examines the bruises on our bodies.

Ieyasu may be weaker than me but he's the one who can keep up with me at times where I try to improve, and these bruises are here to prove it.

Since I have some time free time, I see that two are talking to each other in the text logs as I begin to be involved with their conversation.

EsdeathBitch: Ok everyone I have your full attention now. So Hinata what was the reason again to call us?

Princess: Ah yes, we got distracted seeing you train that I almost forgot. Why I called you two here today is talk about how we can start to unlock these features that are locked?

SwordBae: Yes, there might be something more to them, but we don't how to unlock them? We were thinking on the lines that might be possible like doing certain conditions but…

EsdeathBitch: We don't know jack about our predicament at all is the issue. Even if they had conditions, we already tried tapping them and didn't respond or give us any notifications on how to unlock them. Trust me we tried that idea.

Yeah, we tried to see if there were conditions to activate them, but we came with nothing as the group chat didn't respond at all.

With that, we all talked about what we should do till it was finally late at night for the day as I'm already in my home with Ieyasu and Sayo already asleep as I couldn't help but think we're doing something wrong here.

No matter what we do we can't do anything till something happens.

Sigh…

No use in worrying about it now at least I can enjoy the quietness of the…

*Beep*

[Ding! 'LittleRed' has joined the Dimensional Group Chat!]

Well, at least this is a new development for the members to gather some new information now. Time to greet the new member.