I Went Bald, and I Got Stronger Too

Late at night.

Mu Yu quietly wiped down his beloved blade, White Deer. A year had passed, and Mu Yu was no longer the little brat who had only recently been reborn.

Now, Mu Yu was completely like a swordsman born and raised in this world. The prosperity of his past life was beginning to feel somewhat distant.

Clang!

As he sheathed White Deer, Mu Yu still felt a faint sense of melancholy.

He felt that his path of cultivation had only just begun, yet Koshiro had told him that he had nothing more to teach him.

That really was...

"System, report my current abilities."

Yes, Master. Your current abilities are as follows—

Constitution: LV10. Tier: Ordinary. (Frail, Ordinary, Transcendental, Steel, Divine, Indestructible)

Petrifying Skin: An ability gained upon reaching the Ordinary tier in Constitution. It can make the skin as hard as rock, greatly enhancing defense and attack power.

Swordsmanship: LV15. Tier: Proficient. (Beginner, Proficient, Mastery, Swordmaster, Sword Saint, Sword God)

Iaijutsu: Draw and slash, kill with a single blow. Level: LV3 (Upgradeable).

Heroic Spirit Miyamoto Musashi. Level: LV40.

Over the course of a year, Mu Yu had truly grown far too much.

The two trees in the courtyard alone had been raised into towering trees by him.

As for his physical fitness and swordsmanship, if they were placed in his previous life, he would definitely have been regarded as a Sword God, or perhaps Superman.

But perhaps because there were too many freaks around him, Mu Yu instead felt increasingly small.

Was Mu Yu's growth rate not fast enough?

Of course not!

In Master Koshiro's words, one year of Mu Yu's training was worth ten years of training for others.

Yet Mu Yu felt an unprecedented pressure!

Over the past year, the battles between Mu Yu and Zoro had exceeded fifteen hundred. The battles between Zoro and Kuina had also exceeded seventeen hundred.

And the difficulty of the world mission had risen to thirty percent!

Thirty percent—Mu Yu did not dare underestimate it in the slightest.

In his past life, if someone said an exam only had a difficulty of thirty percent, Mu Yu would probably have laughed himself to death.

But when it came to the data given by the system, it made his heart pound with fear.

Over the past year, Mu Yu had deeply realized one thing—that the Singer God Clan and Earth's humans had completely different standards for judging things!

For example, a humble cleaner.

Just then, Mu Yu suddenly froze before saying helplessly, "Come out."

"Tch, how boring. My sneak attack failed again!"

Who else could have jumped out but Kuina?

Compared to a year ago, Kuina had changed far too much.

Perhaps because Koshiro's attitude had changed somewhat, Kuina was still strong-willed, but she had become increasingly lively.

It had to be said that the influence of one's environment was truly unimaginable.

Seeing the lively and Beautiful Kuina, Mu Yu felt rather helpless. "Kuina, please be a little more mindful. It's already nighttime."

Kuina's pretty face reddened slightly, but she swiftly and skillfully shifted the blame onto Mu Yu.

"Isn't it all your fault!"

Mu Yu was stunned. "How is it my fault again?"

Kuina wrinkled her delicate little nose. "Who told you to tell me the story of Nezha the Magic Boy last time? Now I can't sleep at night unless I have a story to listen to!"

Mu Yu said sincerely, "Sorry, I was wrong. I promise I won't tell any more stories from now on."

Kuina: "..."

Her little fists came down like raindrops.

Fortunately, Kuina was not the Delicate and Pretty, broad-backed, brawny type. Otherwise, even his Stone Skin might not have been able to hold up!

Saying he would not tell stories anymore was naturally just a joke.

After a year together, the relationship between Mu Yu and Kuina had advanced by leaps and bounds. They truly had a bit of that childhood-sweetheart feeling.

Kuina had lost her mother at a young age, while Koshiro was not the type who was good at expressing emotion. This had caused Kuina to be very "sensible" since childhood.

But a child was still a child, and their nature could not be suppressed.

Because of Mu Yu, this little butterfly, Kuina had become increasingly lively and radiant.

Especially in front of Mu Yu, she did not hide it at all.

Seeing Kuina's intensely eager expression, Mu Yu smiled. "Then today, I'll tell you the story of two princesses."

"Princesses? Boring! I want to hear the story you told me last time, about the Nightmare Tree trapping ten thousand swordsmen in a dream. It was clearly just a dream, but if they died in the dream, they would die in reality too. That was so amazing. Did the Two-Sword Style swordsman defeat that captain with the sword and shield?"

"How would I know whether he won or not? Didn't I say the dream ended just as they started fighting?"

Kuina nearly choked to death on the breath stuck in her throat.

So annoying!

"In the Kingdom of Arendelle, surrounded by seas on all sides and as picturesque as a painting, lived two beautiful and adorable princesses. The elder sister was Elsa, and the younger sister was Anna."

"What's so good about princesses? I'm not listening, I'm not listening!"

"Really not listening?"

"Other than stories about dreams of swords and blades, I won't listen to any other story. Absolutely not! Not even if you beat me to death!"

Ten minutes later.

"Eh? The prince was beaten up by the younger sister, Anna? That's so interesting! Hurry up, keep going!"

"Turns out you really liked it."

"What do you mean, really liked it? Hurry up, keep going!"

Mu Yu smiled and immediately continued the story.

As she watched Mu Yu tell the story so earnestly, Kuina could not help smiling, revealing two adorable dimples.

She had known Mu Yu for a year now, but she truly never grew tired of hearing his stories.

It was really hard to imagine that Mu Yu looked about the same age as her, yet knew so much.

Compared to Mu Yu, those bratty kids at the dojo were absolutely pathetic!

That idiot Zoro was the same!

If Mu Yu had not suddenly entered her life, she probably would still have been that overly serious little adult, imitating her father in everything.

The story of Elsa and Anna was not long, but Mu Yu told it vividly, and Kuina was soon completely engrossed.

Huff, huff~~ Huff, huff~~~

However, Kuina soon felt her eyelids fighting each other. Then... then she fell asleep.

Seeing that Kuina had already fallen asleep, Mu Yu was speechless.

Seriously, she had pestered him to tell her a story, yet lacked the patience to hear it to the end.

She really treated him like a tool!

And she was clearly a girl, yet she had no guard up at all. Seriously!

While grumbling inwardly, Mu Yu gently picked her up, took off her shoes, and covered her with a quilt.

Drowsiness was contagious. Before long, Mu Yu fell asleep too.

The next day.

Mu Yu was awakened by being hit. His mind was still a muddled mess when he saw Kuina glaring at him furiously.

"You big jerk! I never thought you could be so shameless. I... I'll never speak to you again!"

After saying that, Kuina slammed the door and ran out.

Mu Yu was dumbfounded.

What the hell was that about?

Then Mu Yu frowned and instinctively sniffed.

The next second, Mu Yu was startled.

Holy shit, was that the smell of blood?

Could it be that last night he... no, no, no! How could he possibly do something like that?

Mu Yu threw back the blanket and saw that his clothes, especially his pants, were still perfectly intact on him. He immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Then Mu Yu was speechless again. He felt that he had figured out the truth of what had happened!

But how was he supposed to explain this misunderstanding to Kuina?

That was the downside of a single-parent family—no one taught her even the most basic knowledge of bodily hygiene.

At the thought of having to explain something like "your period came" to a girl who had just entered puberty while bearing the label of "scumbag," Mu Yu felt that his life was utterly bleak.

It seemed he could only ask Aunt Sharon in the kitchen for help.

But for a boy like him to ask an auntie about menstruation felt so embarrassing!

Mu Yu instinctively tugged at his hair. When he saw a handful of hair in his hand, his entire mood instantly collapsed.

Oh no, was he really going bald?!

Mu Yu's body had been grown from a World Tree Seed and possessed some of the traits of trees.

And in winter, trees...

Wuwuwu, sorrow flowed upstream into a river!