I am about to reach the garrison in time, somehow. I was stopped by Armin’s homeroom teacher whose huge list of complaints didn’t seem to end. I shall knock some sense in Armin later, I could have been late on my first day!
As soon as I got closer to my destination, the garrison came in sight.
It was an enormous building in size. It was a little old but it seems the people there took proper care and maintained it pretty well.
This was the Stathford’s garrison’s main branch. Its main duty was to manage law and order within the town of Stathford. The garrison building was situated in the center of the town. It had about four to five floors. It was mostly built up with woods and Rocks. It almost looked like a palace. There wasn’t much of a defense for the building itself, aside from fence and a huge metal gate which was wide open.
Stathford was a pretty decent town that was situated in the outskirts of the Capital city, Elsewing. Many travelers and merchant traveled and came to eat and rest in this town. They usually put their market inside the capital city, but they retire for the night in the inns of Stathford. The inns of the capital city were quite expensive.
As the city of Stathford was situated inside the country, there wasn’t much of threat from enemy attacks. Which, was a plus point.
When I was about to enter the gate, two horse carriages drove and stood in front of the gate. I dodged it by hair strand and managed to avoid to be run under the horse carriage, thanks to my reflexes.
Seriously! This was outrageous if someone other than myself would have sustained serious injuries.
I need to give them a piece of mind! I am about to join the military police and this could be my first step to my duties.
But as soon as I got close to the carriage, I dropped all thought of disciplining them. I noticed the carriages which happened to belong to the headquarters of the state military police.
This wasn’t surprising at all. This society was filled with trash who do not follow their own shit laws but expect others to abide by it. I knew the military soldiers were reckless and carefree but I don’t want them to ever hurt Rose or Armin because of this carelessness. I would sure to make them pay hell.
The carriages door opened and a bunch of young soldiers came out. They all looked around my age. I guess they are the new soldiers assigned here, like me. Although I could tell that they came from an elite and prestigious army school.
There were about eight people, three of them were girls and rest were boys.
But they were pretty different than other normal soldiers. They all had kinda rich and proud vibes coming outta each of them.
It seems pretty hard to get along with such people.
Were they new soldiers assigned in Stathford garrison like me? They already were wearing their military uniforms and I was yet to receive one. Nevermind!
I don’t wanna stress about the indifferent treatment, anyway.
The people around the street started chattering as they glanced at these new young soldiers. I don’t know why they are getting so much attention.
Soon the proud bunch went inside the garrison building. They had stirred quite a commotion. I then entered the gate but was stopped by the security guard. I showed him my appointment letter and then he let me in. I guess there was no need for that proud bunch for a security check, unlike me.
I entered the huge doorway of the building.
The hallway had tall ceilings and vast flooring. People around here looked very busy. Some had military uniforms and some wore different uniforms that I wasn’t aware of. There were civilians too. I approached the receptionist, who was busy talking with other people.
The receptionist lady looked like a nerd. She had dark brown hair with uptied pony hair. She wore a formal dress with blazer and shirt. I don’t know what she wore in the other lower half as I couldn’t see because of the desk table.
She seemed to be quarreling with a man in front of me. I have no idea what they are talking about.
Even after I waited for a couple of minutes, it doesn’t seem their conversation will end anytime. So I barged in,
“Umm, Could you just help me out for a second, miss?”, I asked politely but with a loud tone with an aggressive approach.
The glasses girl and the man looked at me. Both had this pissed off look as if they would both soon lash out on me any second.
The glasses girl fixed her glasses as she looked at me,
“Sorry for the wait! But this bozo over here keeps on pestering to register his complaints, directly to head the division. Nevermind him! So how can I help you?”, she asked me.
I was about to reply,
“I just..”
“Hey! Don’t ignore me, I have the authority as a public citizen of this country…”, suddenly the man in front interfered.
The glasses girl got pretty angry and turned towards the man,
“As I said you can’t do that! You need to get the appointment letter and then only I could forward your request.”
This is getting nowhere!
I pushed aside the old fart away and stood in his place.
“I am newbie soldier appointed here today. Where should I go?”, I placed my question.
The old fart was angry at my actions and pouted in anger, I ignored him.
“Oh, so you are a newbie assigned soldier. You should have read the notice posted on the outside, did you not?”, she asked.
“Nope. Didn’t see any sorta notice, on my way.”, I replied back.
“That’s strange! I guess the elder maid again removed the signboard off the floor! That old hag! I had told her to restore the sign in its place, once she was done cleaning the floor.”, she leaned on the desk as she held her forehead. It seemed she had a pretty rough day. I would never want to be in her shoes.
She then lifted her head,
“Oi! Jordan! Show this man to the meeting room of the new guards' duty.”
A boy short in height and scrawny looking came from behind.
“Are you talking about the meeting room where the new soldiers were just taken, a while ago?”, the boy asked confusingly.
He seems a bit younger than me, around 12-13 years at most.
“Yeah, yeah! That's the one”, the nerd girl replied without even looking as she busy scribbling in the register.
“Come along!”, said the boy as he leads me.
We went upstairs to the third floor. The area was pretty spacious and tidy. The upper floors got more and more empty as we go to the higher floors. It seemed that the ground floor was the only crowded floor in this building.
After we walked in the hallway for a bit, we stopped in front of a door.
“There, this is the place where the meeting is being held.”, the boy said, “Everyone is already inside.”
Everyone? Was I late? But I should have a little more time to the appointed time.
I grabbed the door handle, hesitantly. I hope that I am not assigned with those proud bunch from before.
I opened the door and entered the room.
To my horror, my worst nightmare became true. There were the proud cocky young soldiers from the headquarters. I hesitated to enter for a second, but I still went inside anyway.
The meeting room was actually a lecture hall. The young boys and girls had already taken their seats. There were a lot of empty seats. The young brats didn’t sit all together which tells that they didn’t get along. As out of three, two girls along with a boy, who were seated separately from the rest of the bunch. They were seated in the corner of the room, whereas the other five took the seats in the middle of the room.
The third girl was sitting right in between the other four boys in the middle. She had this red crimson hair and a beautiful figure. She had also unbuttoned her top two shirt buttons so she could show off her cleavage. I guess the rest of the four boys seated beside her were head over heels for her.
She had this slut type vibes. I definitely not wanna associate with her and I should stay away from such girls. They are the harbinger of misfortunes. I don’t even know why she even enrolled in the military, to begin with.
I go to the front row corner of the room away from the cocky brats and took my seat. I could hear the soldiers who started gossip. I could feel their gaze. I shall just ignore them. That's what I thought, when-
“Hey! You there! What are you doing here?”, asked with a feminine voice.
I turned around just to find that the voice belonged to the slutty girl who was surrounded by the four boys. That was the last person I ever wanted to talk but it seems inevitable.
“I am a new recruit to the garrison. I was told to come here by the receptionist.”, I answered.
I shall be honest and keep my answer simple and short.
One of the boys from her group stood up,
“Oi! Oi! Oi! This isn’t a meeting for lowly peasants with guard duties! Only elites soldiers are gathered here. So why don’t you get your ass and move out of this room in this instant.”
Said the guy with a blonde hair and pretty boy face. I guess he belonged to some rich house for sure. His appearance and attitude just proved my point.
I wished I could step on his pretty face, for all I care! But I don’t wanna pick any fights and put myself in a spotlight.
I turned my face in front and ignored him.
“Huh? You dare to ignore me! What’s your name, you insolent rookie?!”, said the angry pretty boy.
I guess he just wanna impress, that slut girl by acting all bossy. I just hate such trash of person who gets off by ordering people around and ridiculing them.
“He is arrogant little twerp”, one of the four boys said from the slut's group.
“Such a lowly guard is given the same treatment as us, Elites! This is just insulting to us, the Elite soldiers.”, another boy added.
They just started to scream at this point. They just revolted and made commotion because I, a lowly new recruit who didn’t even received a uniform yet was being seated with self-proclaimed elite soldiers.
Only the other three people who were seated apart from the slut's group remained silent.
The pretty boy started to walk towards me. I didn’t turn back and maintained by demeanor. I faced the empty podium in front as I rested my back on the backrest.
“Hey! I am talking to you..”, he said angrily as he was about to touch my shoulder.
The door behind me opened with a slam.
Everyone turned towards the door, even I did.
There was the boy standing who led me to the classroom. He seemed exhausted and in a state of panic.
“Excuse my intrusion!”, he looked at me, “Please follow me! this was the wrong room! I am very sorry for my blunder, I hope it was no inconvenience.”
He apologized sincerely, but not to me. He apologized to the cocky soldiers in this room.
I got up from my seat to exit the room. I should be angry at the errand boy who led me to the wrong room, but I was not! I am actually grateful that I wasn’t assigned as the same group as this soldiers.
When I was about to leave, the slut got up and blocked my path. She kept one her leg on the opposite seat as she continued to block my way to exit. I thought she was just shy and cute acting type of a bitch, but she was actually a delinquent type.
I looked at her in the eye. She had this provocative smile. She played with her hair curls as she continued to block my path with one of the legs raised and placed on the desk on the opposite side.
Does she wants me to plead to move her leg? Or should I just push her away? Both the ways seemed troublesome.
“Excuse me! But I could see your panties.”, I said to the girl in her eye. I had my poker face on.
She suddenly got embarrassed with a tomato red face and quickly lowered her leg without any further argument and I straightly walked towards the exit.
“You lowly, scum!”
“How dare you! to say such a thing to a lady!”
Blah Blah Blah… started to grumble and complain were the followers of the slut.
“You pervert! Name yourself!”, demanded the slut.
I continued to walk towards the door. I shall just ignore her.
“How dare you defy me! I am the eldest daughter of Vandragg noble house and my father is the lord of this region. I shall- Hey are you even listening?”, she nagged on as I reached the door.
But all of a sudden, I was stopped by a tall and stiff looking old man in his 50’s.
He wore a formal black coat over a white shirt. A fedora classic hat, with oval glasses. He had pointy mustache and furrow eyebrows. He was tall and had a slender built body.
He looked at me with quite a displeasure and didn’t hide his disgust.
He seemed the one in charge of this room. I could just tell how much a pain in the ass this guy is to be dealing with. I didn’t make eye contact for a long time and went past by to exit the door, just then.
“Stop right there!”, he commanded.
And I stopped.
I didn’t turn my back immediately.
“The young lady asked you a question there!”, said the mustache guy.
I let out a small sigh and turned towards the slut. She sat on her desk with her legs folded, as she acted all high and mighty. Just her sight makes me wanna puke. She was pretty and beautiful with a hot bod, but it was all a waste just because of her twisted personality.
“My name is Desmond Heller. I am a new recruit to be stationed on guard duty. I hope we could get along, sorry for my behavior before. I am not used to interacting with people.”, I replied with an earnest answer.
All of a sudden everyone’s expression changed.
The slut groups boys started to mumbling with themselves as they glanced at me. Even the three young soldiers who were seated in the corner seemed to talk among themselves. The slut was also shocked and disgusted as well.
The reaction was totally not surprising at all. I was used to getting such reactions from people as soon as they hear my last name ‘Heller’.
“Are you, THE HELLER’s son? The traitorous coward hero, Heller’s son?”, she asked in a derogatory way.
I respond to her question with silence.
The silence lasted in the room for couple of seconds.
“Excuse me! Now I shall take my leave.”, I turned towards the mustache guy, “Sorry for barging in your meeting room. Hope, I wasn’t a bother, goodbye.”, I said with a smile.
“Get out! Already!”, said the mustache bastard!
I was being polite but he was just being an arse hole. After he learned I was, THE heller’s son. He was more offended for some reason.
I took my leave along with errand boy.
This was pretty a shitty start for my first day.
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