My love game is too abstract

Yarrow looked at the panel, and the more he looked, the more he felt something was off.

If it had really increased so much, why wasn't there any reaction at all? Not even an ability.

It was then that he realized his talent pool had been updated, and three new talents had been added all at once.

So he just hadn't noticed it before.

He began to examine these three abilities.

[No Incantation Magic: No need to chant spells when using spells with three lines or less. (Now you can use a magic Gatling gun!)]

[Magic Mastery: Greatly enhanced perception of natural magic. (Not guaranteed to sense strange things)]

[Nimble Fingers: Proficient in skills such as sewing, handicrafts, and cooking. (Do you think this is the epitome of a virtuous wife and good mother? No, I can also hand-craft rifling.)]

"No Incantation Magic? No wonder she used levitation without chanting back then; it turns out she has this ability," Yarrow realized.

From these two skills, it was clear that Qiulisha had good judgment; Serena's magic talent was indeed one of the best among humans.

Thanks to her, he was now too.

So, was this real? Serena actually had a level four affection for him?

Yarrow looked at her again, noticing her indifferent expression, which didn't seem like it at all.

Could it be that she was a deeply hidden tsundere type?

"Hey, you, how long are you going to keep staring at me?" Serena, feeling Yarrow's undisguised gaze, said with barely contained irritation.

She frowned, her face serious:

"Let me tell you, even though I've decided to repay you, don't think you can get away with making any lewd requests."

[Serena is somewhat dissatisfied with you now. How should you respond to her?]

Heartbeat Options:

[I'm so sorry, I was just lost in your beauty.]

[I'm sorry! I was wrong, I'll kneel down and kowtow to apologize right now!]

[How dare a washmaid speak to her master like that? It seems you need some discipline with a stick.]

[Can I use your socks for a moment?]

Yarrow looked at the options, feeling this was an opportunity to verify Serena's attitude towards him.

He smiled faintly and said to Serena, "Sorry, I was just captivated by your beauty and lost my senses."

Serena was stunned for a moment, then revealed a strange expression, her eyes twitching as she pointed at him and said:

"Don't tell me you think saying such greasy and disgusting things makes you charming..."

[Affection -5]

As expected, the system was bugged.

"Yarrow is talking like a greasy old man."

"Oh, so this is what's called wishful thinking?"

Ji Xiaofei and Tao Hu said from the side.

"Enough, you guys, hurry up and pack my things!" Yarrow roared.

The carriage traveled for a whole day, and in the evening, it stopped outside a village near the capital city of Alexter.

This was White Cloud Village, also a necessary stop for entering and exiting the main city, with a blacksmith shop, an Adventurers' Guild branch, a small tavern, and villagers who would have exclamation marks over their heads at any time, asking you to help them with tasks.

Housing prices in the main city were astonishing, and with Yarrow's current income, he could only afford a small house outside the city.

"Finally back!"

Yarrow jumped out of the carriage, stretched his muscles, and looked at the warm and peaceful village under the setting sun, with wisps of smoke rising from the chimneys, children chasing and playing, villagers returning home from working in the fields with hoes on their shoulders, and adventurers traveling in groups looking for a place to stay.

After traveling for nearly a month, this kind of peaceful and natural rural atmosphere was indeed the most soothing.

The three beastkin girls behind him also jumped down from the carriage.

"Give me your hand." Yarrow turned around and extended a hand to Serena, who was having some difficulty getting off the carriage.

"I can do it myself," Serena said softly, but she still put her hand on his and got out of the carriage.

Perhaps because Serena used to be human, after being a bear for three years, she wasn't used to walking on two legs anymore and had to lean on a cane when walking.

Just as Yarrow was helping Serena out of the carriage, something fell from the sky not far away with a loud crash, raising dust and causing the horse to neigh.

Zexia, with her silver hair, stood up from the dust and patted the dirt off her body.

This caused panic among many people nearby, who fled one after another.

In the morning, Zexia refused to ride in the carriage with them, feeling it was a mode of transportation chosen by inferior beings; as a noble dragon, she flew.

So they had to agree to let her fly and follow behind the carriage.

"I give up on her, is she afraid others don't know there's a dragon here?" Yarrow said, rubbing his forehead in exasperation at such a high-profile entrance.

"Yarrow, Yarrow, where's our home?" Ji Xiaofei asked, tugging at his clothes.

"There, the one with the red roof on the hillside."

Yarrow pointed to the only two-story gabled building on the distant hillside.

That was his home in this other world, his little house.

There were currently twenty-eight years left on the mortgage.

But the pressure of the mortgage couldn't shake the warmth and tranquility that a home brought. He still remembered when he first transmigrated, he didn't even have a place to live and even ended up sleeping on the streets.

So Yarrow cherished the home he had now very much.

"So far, Yarrow's house is like it's been ostracized from the village," Ji Xiaofei said.

"I'm so sorry it doesn't suit your fancy! Do you believe I'll make you sleep in the chicken coop tonight!" Yarrow said angrily.

But that couldn't be helped; who told the land on that hillside to be so cheap?

He led everyone towards home.

"Oh, it's Yarrow, you're back from completing an adventure quest?"

Passing by a house, an old man with a white beard and a cane greeted him, with an exclamation mark over his head.

"Village Chief, long time no see," Yarrow said to him.

This was Old Joeck, the Village Chief of White Cloud Village, whose daily task was to stand at his doorstep and, if an adventurer came up to him, begin introducing the customs and culture of White Cloud Village, then ask if they would be willing to help him find his lost reading glasses on the mountain, and if they brought them back, they would receive a bottle of junior recovery potion.

"Hmm? Who are these girls behind you?" the Village Chief asked, looking at the four girls following him.

"They're Pokémon I tamed along the way," Yarrow said.

"Oh, that must have been hard work, well, rest well now that you're back."

Saying goodbye to the Village Chief and leaving, Serena approached him and asked, "What's a Pokémon?"

"Important partners," Yarrow nodded.

Serena looked at him suspiciously: "It doesn't feel like a good word..."

Returning home along the stone path.

Getting closer, the girls realized there was also a large vegetable garden surrounded by a fence next to the house.

"It's little chickens!" Ji Xiaofei ran forward, looking at the two hens leading several newly hatched chicks walking around in the fenced yard.

Perhaps as a member of the Great Foodie Nation, with a passion for farming flowing in his bones, Yarrow had tilled two acres of land near the house and planted various vegetables, and built a chicken coop next to it, producing fresh and nutritious eggs every day.

At this time, after not tending to it for almost a month, the crops in the field had sprouted out of the fence, and the eggs that hadn't been taken away had also hatched into chicks.

And the fat, wronged rabbit he raised had already gnawed around the vegetable garden, eating its fill and lying down in the corner to sleep.