Impressions Pt. 2

'What did the old man do to my new body again? A better body! I had no problems with it but my mana reserves are just ---'

"Caesar, your reserves are big for your age." commented Yuna who finished checking the measurement of my mana reserve with a mana measurement tome.

That's right, I had my mana reserves checked by these two lovely elven sisters at one of the secluded areas away from the residence as per my request and curiosity after they settled down in their respective assigned rooms. I asked Mom first for that obviously and she agreed provided that Yuna and Cara were with me. If you ask me why we're in one of secluded areas for this purpose, it's because of safety and other unexpected things that would or might disturb the innings of the estate.

"I concur. Not even I had that big reserve when I was your age, Caesar. Almost." added Cara who was done setting up what they call, training weapons, on the table.

Training weapons, these things were similar to the days in my past life, starting with .22 caliber firearms to serious ones including the World War 1 & 2-era rare rifles I purchased, captured, and kept for my personal collection. Here, there's a variety of swords, blades, different types of bows, crossbow, spear, and other polearms to choose from.

"Is that so?" I asked Cara.

"Yes." replied Cara. "It can be a good thing because you can do plenty of things with big mana reserves provided you have fine control and mastery."

'No matter what world, old rules apply, huh?' I jokingly thought, thinking about my training days in my past life and comparing it with my current life, before shifting topics as I changed my tone into innocent childish curiosity. "'kay, I'll keep that as an important reminder. Yuna errrr... Yuna-sensei, am I to pick and test one of them?"

The reason why I use that tone was to maintain an act of innocence from my age group and to enjoy my newfound youth. As you see, I was a soldier who used to be a military reservist before reverting back to military reservist. I was trained with weapons to do the duty for the betterment of the country and people's future. The moment I saw them, I knew at a glance that I had to pick them as my step one for one of the weapon types I'll be using, similar to a scene of a child trained by his teacher in preparation for something...you get the idea.

"Yes, Caesar." answered Yuna, smiling as she approached me and ruffled my hair while Cara smiled.

"Cool. May I know what's yours, Yuna?"

"It's twin swords." replied Yuna. "My teacher helped me in developing my swordsmanship style."

'Twin swords?' Twin swords, I usually had little interest in it because of what I learned from my past life's training. I hold no ill feelings towards it until the day the old man and the other gods gave me a view of other worlds that have magic. I only think of those twin sword-wielding characters having nice moves in games and real life. I do fight with bladed weapons but it's not always twin swords or two blades but two khukris in time of my active service way back.

"Wow, Yuna-sensei. It must be worth it."

Yuna smiled. "It sure is, Caesar. I still have a long way to go though."

'I can relate to that. The current emperor and majority of his wives were the top sword users in the whole country...that's some inspiration, a [BEEP] nice one.' I thought, noticing the fond smile of the younger twin sister as I then shifted my attention to Cara and asked her a question. "Cara-sensei, what about you?"

Suddenly, Cara let out a playful smile. "It's a se-cret🎵~"

'In the words of the guys from my former world, I quote, you're a sus! Why joke now?' I thought, more curious at the fact she played it off to a mere 5-year-old me. I mean I already had 6 secret 'things' solely known to myself yet when I looked at her younger sister, Yuna, Yuna's smiling slightly probably due to her older twin sister's playful reply.

Indeed, Yuna looked like she was about to laugh from her sister's remark.

'Let's see how you'll react to this, Cara.' With an act of innocence initiating and new ideas forming, for step 1, I put on a pouting face to express my act of disappointment and small tantrum. "No fair, Cara-sensei! You're teasing me!"

Going over to the table, I closely looked over the training weapons laying on the table.

Nothing caught my eye except sword, recurve bow, and khukri laying there.

I do have an interest in archery but I'm not as good as Jack "Mad Jack" Spencer-Churchill who showed me his archery skills using his longbow during our raids with fellow commandos in Europe. Also, if I were to take archery, the problem would be the ammo itself, the arrow as a whole itself, because from what I remember about it, it's the specs and how much money will I need for the thing including the bow. They did say archery was one expensive hobby to have.

With that in mind, leaving the recurve bow for now, I grasped two pieces of training khukris and looked at them with a safe distance more than enough not to poke my eyes.

'This is...' For such a training-type variant, from its craftsmanship, it's well-made as if it was brand new. It had something closer to magical enhancements in this world because from what my comrades and a couple of Japanese soldiers from my past life told me when I saw them playing a game called Dark So[CENSORED] during their day-off, magical enhancements were like additional effects that improves and affects an item in terms of durability and its specs. For this world, Anya showed me that equivalent term bearing the same word when we read her educational book together with Suzu and Sophia.

"A kukri, Caesar?" asked Cara.

As part of playing a small prank, I silently nodded without a word.

"Nice choice, Caesar." said Yuna. "Why though?"

"It's like the one from my dreams lately." I 'truthfully' replied, giving away a half-lie answer to them while maintaining the facade of a 5-year-old.

In truth, from my past life, it represented the lineage of the other side of my family. They were farmers then type of soldiers seeked out and hired by various countries including the Imperial States. All it took was the first emperor and the rest of his military officers impressed by my forefathers, for that side of my lineage to start by offering a settlement and citizenship. I really was and am proud to have that lineage even today.

I went on as I smiled at them both. "Also, it's because I'm a good slime🎵~."

"Pfffffft-"

While looking at Cara first because she's the oldest sister, I find myself amused and smiling back as she was about to ---

"Pfffffft hahahaha!! It's been a very long time since I heard that!" laughed Cara. "Caesar, are you perhaps..."

The way Cara looked and asked me combined with Yuna's worry, it became clear to me what she meant.

Smiling, I nodded and deployed two of my three revolvers for them to see.

These revolvers I wielded were automatic type. Having a barrel length of 6.5 inches, similar to the one I used in my former life, unlike the M14 EBR derivative present, these 'toys' given to me by the gods could fire various rounds no matter what to a point that it would be considered as high fantasy and magic logic based on my observation and checking its cylinder which at first glance could fit at 9mm type bullet but not.

Because I'm the 'controller', these things for now were unloaded. I am in no way seeing them as threat because Mom trusted and worked with them when they were adventurers.

With myself wielding my unloaded automatic revolvers without showing off, I pointed them at safe direction while smiling at these beautiful elven teachers of mine who were in my strike zone because of them being a lovely beautiful elf and myself, a closet otaku, interested in elf girls and more in this world. "Yes, yes, I am."