Quantum Leap Vol 8 Harris Treaty July 29, 1858

C012 Maltese Chocolates? That Chi Kong Better Not Be Funny, OK ?!

Oiiiii... There's another part that needs massaging and no one took notice of it... There... There... Right under your noses... Rub it and transfer some heat... I would soon recover for sure...hahahahahha.

Slowly, my eyes began to focus and I saw a person with jet black unruly hair staring at my face with his ever frown face... And I asked in a very squeaky voice like Mickey Mouse and asked, 'Are you in the real world, or still back there?'

"Back in time, kid... Back in the nick of time..." Hiko-sama answered and my eyes fluttered and I tried to rub my eyes with my hands and it felt so heavy that I ended up slapping my face with it.

" Harune... You are going to be alright... I'm going to be here for you, I'm always here for you anytime... I will always be by your side from now on... I'm never going to leave you."

Hearing that unmistakable voice, I tried to reach out through my blurry eyes and Izumi held my hand and place it to her face. God knows what will happen if she places it inside her kimono where her blossoming buds were. Hahahahaha...

My God, I just had a stroke of hypoglycemia... Which could prove fatal and I'm thinking of budding roses on Izumi's breasts. God will send His wrath upon me if I were to do such a thing with everyone around.

I asked for a can of coke and an offscreen crew appears once again and pop a can and inserted a straw and drank from it. HOT DAMN...!!! It feels great having an ice-cold coke in a can... Hehehehe.

After I drank half a can, Izumi sipped the straw and emptied the whole can and burped in my face. Haiyooo... How uncouth could she be at this time, during this chapter of my novel...?!?

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"Alright... Everybody back to their places... And action...!"

Damn that Mr Director... Always sneaking in and adding his scripts and there are walkways something wrong with this episode thereafter.

Alright... Where was I? Oh yeah, sprawled on the floor in the real world with almost all the side characters around me. I sat up and wiped the snot and tears that had fell from Izumi's face on mine and she immediately wiped it off with the sleeves of the kimono.

Hiko-sama was squatting on the ground and looked at me while adjusting his fake eyebrows the seemed to have lobbed sideways. Making him look half frown and half comical. I laughed at him and he quickly went over to a mirror offscreen and adjusted it back again.

Little Kaede was there and was holding to one big ass black pill that I had ever seen... "Little Kaede, is that a Maltese or what? You gonna pop that in my mouth?"

"Where did you expect? Up your rear end?" that's Mr Director ranting off the screen. I simply rolled my eyes at him and wished he's the one who got the hypo and not me.

"Yup, it's a Maltese. I got it from the character who was in the other set just now. He took it out from his robe and passed it to me to give it to you."

"LITTLE KAEDE...!!! Get rid of it now... It is not a Maltese... If you get something from that character, just dispose of it... Do you know what it is?!? It's an accumulation of dirt from his various parts of body...!? Ewwww...!! Throw it away NOW....!! And go and sanitise your hands... Haiyaaa... The character want to kill this MC or what...?!?"

"f**k YOU, CHI KONG.....!!!" I screamed at the MC who was on the next set beside us making a debut of his so called Reincarnated Something Something...HHUUAARRGGHH...!!!

Alright... Calm down. Back on track for this episode, or else readers would think I'm here just for the fillers. So I suffered from a small hypo that's all. No need to be in shock or anything.

The main thing is that both Hiko-sama and I had managed to clear the Realm of Mind or else he would be somewhere in the Dream World which I won't be able to explain since he would be meeting Roland Wimbledon in hundreds of chapter before Eleanor become a Flying Fortress. Hahahahaha

I cleared my throat and regained my composure... "Sensei, thank God you managed to get back here, or else I won't know how to reach to you."

"Yeah, kid. We jumped off to work immediately when we are in there. We hadn't taken any breakfast and once that Kayu-San left... We straight plunged into the Realm of Mind and left me there while you been scurrying around like a lite devil rat while pushing those heavy loads by yourself."

"Luckily you managed to say something gibberish and I managed to hold on to your sleeve as I logged off and back to the real world. If not then how? My share with the Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha will be gone in a blink of an eye... Kaput... Hastalavista baby...!!!"

"Yeah, please remind ourselves to have breakfast first. Those damn carts alone are heavy and those workers had dumped as much mud on it that we could make mudhouses with that. So how was the progress before I pass out, Sensei?"

"I've managed to load everything off the cart and onto the conveyor belt. We started right after 730 am. So now is 11 am and because of the fiasco, we had not taken a morning break at all."

"By the way, you had given everyone day off even the cooks...!! Izumi was her, basically melting her face on yours... And she had gone back to her house to make lunch for us. At least leave some cooks behind laaaa... If not how? If not for the 6 girls, we'd be eating out again from the tavern. Oh yeah... We also need to feed 120 workers who had given us mud today."

I slapped my forehead and called for Kayu-san and told him to get lunch for his workers first while I pick up the tab later. I forgot all about the off day today. So troublesome...

Kayu-san agreed and since today was the first blunder that was ever made, it was alright when he announced that their wives and girlfriends had prepared lunch from their homes and brought it over... Phew! I have forgotten that almost all these workers wives and kids were our employees.

I slapped my forehead again and noted of this in my sketchpad. It is too costly to make a blunder such as this.

I called for Saika, Miko and Nekoyasha to join us in the Realm of Mind after I felt better drinking the half can of coke earlier. When they had gathered, I explain the situation and they agreed to assist getting the bricks out into the real world and then to prep the road as midday is approaching fast.

After getting something sweet prepared by Izumi, we 5 went into the Ops Room and started to meditate and enter the Realm of Mind.

I brought along the sweet cake that was prepared by Izumi earlier with me and I munched happily as we all started to load the cooled bricks into the 3 wagons that we had brought into the Realm of Mind.

Carrying 5 people at a time right after I had recovered from my bout of hypoglycaemia was no joking matter. Luckily I had the cake made by Izumi earlier and helped to recover my shakiness thereafter. Although there was a high risk of going back into the Realm of Mind, the job of clearing the bricks had to be performed.

"How many trips did I make inside here before I started to feel faint? And how many carts altogether, do you remember, Sensei?"

"You came in 6 times, kid. I saw you like less than 5 minutes each time you enter and exit and you had brought in 5 cartloads per trip and that totals to 30 carts."

"Remember, we made about 195 bricks for every 3 handcarts, and we had about 30 handcarts, so it would total up to approximately 1950 bricks or more. Not too shabby... Not too shabby..."

And that happened before 11 am when I had 'pengsan'. Once we had filled the wagons, we soon logged off from the meditative state and back to our real world. There, waiting in the warehouse was more than 36 handcarts all waiting neatly in line to be brought back into the Realm of Mind.

"We just keep that for tomorrow, kid. There's no point in hurrying and then you get knocked out and scare everyone on and off this set. Don't have to risk yourself too much, health is more important than anything else."

I gave a thumbs up for Hiko-sama and we used the hoisting beam to get the wagons out from the Ops Room and into the main warehouse instead of pulling it using our strengths. Once we had done so, we locked up the Ops Room and had the workers to haul the wagons out and used a horse to pull to the 'road' that we intend to lay.

I went over to look at what they had done with initial bricks and was happy to see that it worked the way I had intended to see. Hiko-sama was happy too, seeing the results. The bricks were made up of a multitude of colours, bright red, dull red, brown, black, and a mix of the colours as well.

The riverbanks had not been touched by the workers yet since they had gouged the path that we had intended to make the road before. We would need to see how much mud it takes from the path to making an endless straight path before we 'destroy' the river banks.

Since the workers knew of their trade, they even decided to dredge the lower part of the river to make it deep enough for the life form to thrive underwater. Dredging the river would make it more worthwhile before they attempt to hit the banks.

Since these ideas were brought by them, kayu-san agreed with it since they would be able to produce more mud in this way for the process of the houses.

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When we had returned to the path the workers had laid, we were satisfied that they had made an almost straight path from the southern gate right to commoners' District.

Even though it would be such a waste if we were to dig into the commoners' path that had been set in stones and gravel, so we decided to leave it as it is. Why is there a need to destroy something already good enough to use, right?

"BAMM...!!!" A body slammed into me and hugged me as I realised that it was Izumi who was worried since I had blacked out during the bout of hypoglycaemia.

" Harune, I want to take care of you from now on...!" she exclaimed and the ladies who were around all looked sheepishly at me since Izumi had openly opened up her heart and pronounced her devotion to me.

The feeling of a warm body next to mine was something I could never resist and I wrap my arms around her waist and pulled her tight against me. Oblivious to the wide eyes stare by Miko and Saika, I simply said in a rather soft yet audible voice to Izumi, "You smelled great, I want to hold you like this forever."

Seeing this romantic little scene in front of them, Saika and Miko both felt warm flushes over their skins and faces as they both watched Izumi and me clinging to each other and neither any of them made an effort to pull us apart.

Enyo, who was nearby, also blushed as Riko crept near him and raised her arms and wanting to be embraced as well, suddenly ran back home and calling out for his father and asking Fujin to transform into a Bakeneko, which it can't since it was within the protective barrier of the village.