Knowledge is power

At 7 a.m., Akira was dressed neatly.

Walking into the kitchen, he saw his mother and Yotsuba cooking breakfast.

"Where do you want to go?" Rena asked, she thinks it's too early to go out to play on the weekend.

"I want to play with friends in Kamakura, maybe it will be late when I come home." Akira lied without changing his expression.

"Why so far away?" Yotsuba couldn't help but ask.

"It's not far, only an hour's drive from Tokyo to Kamakura."

"Don't want to wait for breakfast first?"

"No need, mom. Appointment is at 7.20 am, and I feel bad if I'm late."

"Okay, don't come home too late."

Rena allows her son to go play, her son starts to grow up, she doesn't want to curb his freedom.

"I go first." Akira waved his hand.

Rena: "Be careful on the road."

Yotsuba: "Goodbye."

After saying goodbye to his mother and big sister, Akira put on his shoes, opened the door, and left.

...

"Your acting is quite impressive, Master."

Walking down the sidewalk, Akira heard Skadi's voice in his mind.

Skadi was still in Spiritual Body form, and she was able to communicate via telepathy.

"I don't like lying to my family either, but I can't tell the truth either. There's no way I'd say I'll go face to face with the enemy and fight until one of the two sides dies, right?"

"That just worries my family, it's better for them not to know. As the saying goes, ignorance is bliss."

Akira returned the communication by using [Thought Communication].

"Master has a point... Knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing."

Skadi agreed with Akira's opinion.

As Akira stopped looking at the red light for pedestrians, waiting for the green light, someone closed his eyes from behind.

His subconscious reaction was almost to slam the person behind him, but he restrained himself, for he felt no malicious intent.

"Guess who I am?"

Hearing the girl's voice, Akira didn't need to think for a second, and he immediately guessed the identity of the girl behind him.

"Riko Senpai, don't do this in public. We attract the attention of others."

"The answer is correct."

Riko withdrew her hand, walked in front of Akira, and gave him a compliment.

"Akira can always guess right, is it because you have an older sister of quintuplets, because it's not difficult to tell Ako and I apart just by sound?"

Akira looked at the girl in front of him.

Today Riko wasn't wearing her school uniform, her outfit consisted of a light blue blouse, shorts that exposed her thighs, and her hair tied in a ponytail as usual.

If Akira had to rate beauty from 1 to 10, he would give Riko an 8.

"I have known Riko Senpai and Ako Senpai for several years, it is not difficult for me to tell you apart." Akira shrugged his shoulders, and spoke casually.

"This is annoying... It wasn't like this before, why are your guesses always accurate now."

"Okay, don't complain. The light is green."

Akira walked across the street.

"Wait for me."

Riko chased after Akira with nimble steps.

"Evil Akira, you left me alone. What if I run into a pervert who is harassing me?" Riko said displeased.

"Don't joke around, Riko Senpai. If that situation occurs, I would instead feel sorry for the culprit."

"Akira doesn't care that I get harassed by other people?"

Riko pouted, seeing that Akira didn't care about her.

"Don't get me wrong Riko Senpai, you practice karate and judo. Ordinary people are not your opponent at all, I have faith in your abilities."

Akira has practiced various martial arts since childhood. He first met Riko at the karate dojo, but the two didn't interact much and their relationship was lukewarm. Not until he saves Ako and Riko from being chased by a mad dog.

"But what if the person who abused me is stronger than me like the one in the doujin? After all, a woman's physique is weaker than a man's physique."

There is no shame when Riko admits she reads doujin.

Akira's footsteps stopped, he took a necklace from his sling bag, and gave it to Riko.

"For you."

"A necklace? Why did Akira give me a necklace?"

Even though Riko is happy to receive a gift from the boy she likes, she is confused about why Akira suddenly gave her a necklace.

"If the incident that Riko Senpai mentioned really happened, hold tight to that necklace, and say my name. Then a miracle will happen." Akira smiled mysteriously.

"Akira doesn't think I can be fooled, right?" Riko felt like she was being played.

"It's up to Riko Senpai to believe it or not. If you don't want to, return the necklace."

"No, you have given this necklace to me. It has become my thing, I will not give it back."

Riko hurriedly kept the necklace, she was worried that Akira would really ask it back.

"I still have business, I'll go first."

Akira waved his hand, and left.

Watching Akira's back slowly disappear into the crowd of humans, Riko held the necklace with a smile on her face.

"I will show this off in front of Ako later."

Riko could already imagine her sister's jealous expression, when she returned to the house. She had forgotten his purpose for going out was to shop for groceries.

....

"Your luck is very good among women." Skadi's cold voice sounded in Akira's mind.

"What? Her Highness Queen Skadi isn't being jealous, right?" Akira said not seriously.

"Don't make me laugh, Master. That is an impossible matter, it is impossible for the Divine Spirit to love human beings."

"Then what about the love story of the best hunter, Orion, and the Goddess Artemis?"

"Orion was a child born between the sea god Poseidon and Euryale. He's not a pure human, so it can't be considered a human and goddess love story."

Skadi denied Akira's opinion.

"Whatever you say."

Akira is too lazy to argue, especially with women. The creature called a woman does not want to admit she is wrong, even though she is actually wrong.

There was a small smile on Skadi's beautiful face, if ordinary humans saw her smile, they would be captivated by her beauty and go crazy over her.

Then Akira will face the clichéd scene of an arrogant Young Master, who comes from nowhere, and demands that he hand over Skadi.

Luckily, this isn't China, the second generation in Japan is more polite and friendly, at least in public.

"Where are we going, Master?"

Skadi followed Akira as she walked aimlessly, and finally she couldn't hold back her doubts.

"We're going to an island far from here."

"Then why are you just walking around incoherently?"

"I'm not in a hurry to go, I let you take a look at modern civilization."

"Hah?"

Skadi didn't expect that the reason behind her master's walking around, was actually for her sake. She did see many new things in this world, which caught her attention.

Those summoned as Servants are provided with the minimum necessary information to allow them to adapt to any era.

No matter how ancient the Heroic Spirits were, they had to understand a number of concepts unknown to their time, and Skadi was no exception.

She had the minimum knowledge of the current era, but the difference between knowing and seeing with his own eyes was a different matter.

It's like someone knows the Eiffel Tower through TV, the internet, magazines, etc. But when seeing the Eiffel Tower in person, it has a different sensation than just seeing the picture.

This is how Skadi feels when she sees the affluence of the 21st century.

"The people here look very lively... They don't have to worry about being sacrificed to a giant when they are 25 years old." Skadi's tone was a bit low.

"This era is indeed better than the era you live in, but there is no war in this world. After all, humans have a history of war that is longer than history of peace." Akira said.

"Master knows a lot of things."

Skadi's depressive mood dissipated quickly, and her tone became as cold as before, with only a hint of gentleness.

"The more you read, the more insight you get." Akira smiled faintly.

"I agree, knowledge is power."

Skadi mastered Primordial Runes, she knew how important that knowledge was.

It can be seen from Odin who exchanged an eye for the sake of acquiring knowledge of the Primordial Runes.