Refining Control

Bringing the meat to her mouth, Kareena took a large bite and chewed slowly.

"How is it?"

Seeing her cheeks bulging cutely, I had the urge to poke them.

"Mmmm, it's tasty. But I prefer leaves and grasses more." She said while taking another bite.

Hearing what she said, I got confused.

"Leaves and grass? Umm... Kareena, as a human, eating leaves and grass is not healthy for you. Humans can't digest those things properly. And even if you can digest those as a human-sheep, I don't like the idea of you eating any grass or leaves. It's dirty. You should only eat vegetables or fruits, Kareena. If you don't have much of a liking for meat, I'll bring you fruits when I find any. But you should also try and get used to eating meat. Imbalanced diet is unhealthy."

"Really? But they're delicious! I love eating grass." Hearing what I said, she frowned, clearly disheartened.

"I know you do. But it's unhealthy for you. I'll bring you a few types of fruits tomorrow. You won't like leaves and grass anymore anyway, Kareena. A human's sense of taste and a sheep's are completely different. The taste of grass and leaves to a sheep is different from what it tastes like to a human."

As we talked through our meal, going back and forth a few times, she finally dropped the idea of eating grass and leaves or any other ideas she had that would be a little weird as a human. And by the time we finished, the heat of the day was at its peak.

"Looks like it's already afternoon. Since we have enough food for the rest of the day, let's focus on practicing magic together. It'll make it easier for me to hunt if I can at least use wind magic properly. Let me look into your soul, Kareena."

I said while looking at the still-pouting Kareena.

"Hmph." Her cheeks bulged as she reached out her hands towards me.

"Don't be sad, Kareena. I stopped you from doing those weird ideas you had for your own good."

Holding both her hands with mine, I moved the energy through my right arm and felt the extreme pain again.

"Kareena, I don't know what will happen. But this might be really painful when the energy flows through to you."

Moving the energy to my right palm, I pushed it through to her left arm.

"Does it hurt, Kareena?" I asked, watching her expression closely.

"Mmm, no, master. I don't feel anything."

Seeing that she was not in pain, I moved the energy along her arm and towards her torso.

"Okay, good. Don't let go of me, I don't know what will happen to the energy if you let go."

When the energy reached her torso, I saw nothing there—no core, no wind core or mana, and no soul core.

[There's nothing? Shouldn't there be like a wind mana core or something? Do they not need one to use magic? Is it just soul magi? Or am I just not skilled enough to find them?]

"What do you see, master?" Seeing that I had opened my eyes, she asked.

"Nothing, I don't see anything there."

"And what was supposed to be there?"

"I don't know. But I have a congregation of soul mana right where my heart is, so I thought you would have one too. Maybe like a core of wind mana there. But I don't see anything."

"Eh? So is that a problem, master? Am I sick?" Hearing what I said, she asked worriedly.

"What? No. It's not a problem and you're not sick. We can find out more if when I have more test subjects. But for now, let's try and increase our control over wind magic. When I move the wind mana and you feel that feeling again, try to like... amplify it? Then maybe I can control more wind mana. Stop if you feel uncomfortable, okay?"

"Okay master."

Seeing her bop her head, I closed my eyes and moved the wind mana out from Kareena's core, then through my arm. A trail of wind mana flowed from her core to the wind mana I was moving.

[Wow, is the mana increasing? Is she transferring mana to me?]

"It looks like the wind mana is increasing, Kareena. Stop if you feel tired or uncomfortable."

Making the wind mana that is now bigger than what I controlled before exit my right hand, the wind in the surroundings started to gather and became strong enough to push large objects around.

Opening my eyes and moving my right hand around, I try to split it and control it separately, but the energy I try to pull from the ball of mana dissipated.

"Kareena, stop. Don't push yourself. This amount of mana is already good enough for me to practice."

Seeing Kareena start furrowing her brows, I told her to stop. Now left with a fist-sized ball of wind mana, I try to compress it.

Compressing it as hard as I could, it was now three-quarters of its original size.

[Hmm, it looks like this is the best I can do for now. I wonder if I can puncture an animal with this. Wait, I should try to make it pointy.]

Trying to morph the ball of wind mana, I found I was not able to control the energy at a detailed level to be able to change its shape.

"I'm gonna try a few more things. While I try to refine my control over wind mana, please keep the fire running. And you should try to practice magic too."

Playing around with the wind magic for a few hours, I tried everything I could think of until the ball of wind mana dissipated until it was the size of a thumb.

"This is great, I think I can use wind magic properly to fight now. Looks like I can properly survive in this world now."

Bringing my focus back, I saw that it was now around late afternoon, I turned and saw that Kareena's face was red and the fire had gone out.

"Kareena? What happened? Are you okay?" Moving closer, I asked.

"M-master! I-I need to relieve myself, c-can you teach me how?" She stuttered, rubbing her thighs together.

[Oh shit, I guess she doesn't know how to do that in this form yet. I'm surprised she held it in.]

"... How long have you been holding it in? You should've just called for me. Can you stand up?"

Kareena shook her head. Carrying her up, I brought her to a nearby bush outside the cave.

"Okay, just take off the sweatpants, squat, and just stop holding back. You know the rest, right? Be careful. Okay? I'll keep a lookout and get some clean leaves for you to wash yourself."

"O-okay, master."

Getting some clean leaves nearby, I gave them to Kareena.

"Do you feel okay using leaves? We can have a quick run to the river to let you wash yourself after you finish wiping."

"Yes, please, let's go to the river master." She asked while looking at me after wiping herself and tying the pants.

"Okay, we gotta be quick, okay? Let's take a quick shower at the river too, since we're gonna have a special night tonight." I said while feeling my lips make a wide smile.

Hearing my words, she blushed with imaginable steam flowing out her head and nodded.

After taking my shortspear, we shortly arrived at the river with the sheep looking like they had lost all wariness against me.

Both of us stripped and washed ourselves at the river. Seeing Kareena's pale white skin and beautiful curvy body that was mostly covered by her fluffy white hair and looking at her bright crimson face, gazing at me with the orange sky as her backdrop, was a mesmerizing sight. I breathed heavily but stayed patient, knowing what was to come tonight.

[Damn, my wife is so fucking beautiful. I wish I could save this picture in my brain.]