The sun was starting to go down and so the kids began to come back, they all had different ages, the oldest of them couldn't have been more than twelve and maybe thirteen.
These were the ones that would glare at him from time to time or look at him as if they were expecting him to do something.
Kazuma didn't give them much thought, after all, they were usually doing something that helped them bring back food so the rest of the kids could eat.
Kazuma didn't bother to think about it, the Soul Society was a giant and from what he had seen people did what they had to do to survive.
The rest f the kids that lived in the house with him, made him worry sometimes.
Some kids couldn't have been older than three years old and some were still babies that hadn't learned how to crawl yet and had to be carried by the older kids.
When they first arrived, he tried to convince the older kids to leave the babies behind when they went to town, but he didn't know how long he would be in this world and if the kids left the infants behind, then one day he would vanish and there would be no one to take care of them.
So he could only watch them leave and go into town every day.
The last one to enter the house was the kid that had been sent here by his teachers and when he finally entered the house Kazuma walked in.
As Kazuma closed the door he could see the tear, in reality, open itself again, there was nothing there, just a black empty void that led to nowhere.
Kazuma watched as the kids began to take out whatever they had bought, found, or stolen during the day and began to put it in the center of the house, next to the fireplace.
As usual, Kazuma walked to the middle of the room and used his Create Wood Skill, along with his Tinder Skill and Wind Breath Skill to make the fire that would keep them all warm for the night.
After he was done he went back towards the door and sat down before he closed his eyes and allowed himself to fall asleep.
He didn't know it but the soul reaper boy that he had allowed into his house was quietly looking at the fire that he created, the boy stared at it as if he couldn't believe what he had seen.
Even as the kids around him began to grab the food that they had brought with them and began to eat, he just kept looking at the fire, and without knowing it, when the boy began to concentrate his spirit energy.
"Tinder, wind breath, create wood." the boy repeated Kazumas words but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't get the skills he had seen Kazuma use to work for him.
Regardless of how hard he tried he couldn't get any of the skills to work, so in the end he had no choice but to follow everyone's lead and go to sleep.
A loud howl woke the boy and as he looked around to see if anyone else was awake, he found that he couldn't see anything anymore, someone had put out the fire or had allowed it to die during the night.
When he was about to stand up and try to wake everyone up so that they could run away he felt a tiny hand grab him.
"Don't." a little boy said to him as flashes of light were immediately followed by the angry howls of a Hollow.
For a long moment, there was nothing but silence, and then he heard the sounds of footsteps followed by the sound of someone dragging something.
The boy watched as the front door opened before the man that walked in closed it, he watched as Kazuma dropped the rope he was carrying before he sat down and went back to sleep.
When Kazuma began to snore, the little boy beside him began to talk.
"The monsters come from the hole and fights them at night, so don't worry." the little boy said to him before he began to snore.