I entered the elder's hall with steady steps and bowed to them all.
"Good morning everyone, as you people know the reason why I've called upon everyone here, let's start without any further delay."
The discussion started up with me mainly dividing the villages growth to a haven into several categories:
First, medicinal buisness and new business ideas will now occupied by the main village area which would be overlooked by Saigo san, one of the elders proficient in buisness and his brother, who's an expert in making medicines who was pretty fascinated with my journals and was very determined to go on with the idea.
Second: The village guards will train more people under my supervision to protect from internal riots and whatnot that downgrade the growth of the village
Third: Growth of new crops and wisteria trees surrounding the entire village to boom the buisness
Fourth: Kamo san, the blacksmith and Choi san, an engineer will be responsible for making machines by reading through the foreign journals that I have collected to help out the villagers
Fifth : Expansion of the village in the direction where the lands are now barren, making of colonies.
This did not happen in a single day, as it took me and the elders 2 weeks to come at the conclusion.
I finally left the hall and went towards the blacksmith.
"Kamo san?" " Yes Rai?Come in please, make yourself comfortable"
"No Kamo san, this will be quick. Would you be willing to teach me how to smith?"
"Sure, how about Tommorow afternoon?"
I decided on this, as when I was talking with the miners, I had got my hands on a very fine bluish metal, which I want to imbue on my gloves as it would improve my punch strength, and also make my hands stronger by the impact.
I learnt from the blacksmith and did smithing during my free hours after my training, which was overlooked by jigoro sama who gave me several obstacle paths down the mountain on a 3 month basis and custom dummy arrangements to clear through.
For about 2 years the village grew drastically and had literally turned into a haven. Jigoro sama also stepped in and helped promote the colonies for honest and struggling workers to live in.
When I was 15 years old, I decided to go to Tokyo for a few months to expand the medicinal buisness. Which did not hamper my training at all as I had already bought a place there (yes I got rich).
I expanded the buisness enough to gain attention from the medical schools of Tokyo who offered me a deal for supply of goods. I cleared the deal with them and proceeded back to Mount Kawanori as my birthday was approaching.
I reached the village to see it entirely different. I was welcomed by the people and greeted by the kids. The elders hugged me and thanked me for changing the way they thought and the village.
I reached home. Jigoro sama's estate was now my home. And I officially held him as my guardian.
"Sensei! Iam home"
Akira rushed at me, now very big and very strong. Followed by Jigoro sama hugging me tight.
Actually, they also surprised me by celebrating my birthday, after which I got so happy, that I started crying . We had a hearty meal and a peaceful rest after a long time that night.
I had grown very strong by now as I was defeating demons these 4 years , about atleast 30 of them.
Akira had become strong and the day came.
"Raijin. If you clear this final obstacle course, you can leave for the Final selection and as my successor of the Thunder Hashira "
I saw down the mountain, prepared with about uncountable amount of dummies, trees with X marks, rocks, spikes and traps .
I started off with the first form, using the final and 3rd forms on the way for multiple targets and finally reaching the end as I looked back at jigoro sama, who had tears flowing down his face and a smile too.