In the carriage on the way back to Acil’s house
Kuro’s Pov : After that shout Clara-san and Wills-san shut Haru up and we are on our way back to the mansion. Haru shouted because he was in for a shock as the official said that the age requirement for admission was 12. He has been whispering to himself on our way.
Author’s Pov: On the way Wills suddenly asked Haru and Kuro what they were going to do during their three years in the capital. “Aren't we going to go back?” asked Haru with a gloomy face. “It will be too much trouble to go back all the way, so how about you learn swordsmanship from my former teacher? Just so you know he was an S-ranked adventurer.” said Wills with a proud face. “I am in” said Haru in a loud voice after a sudden change in mood after hearing Wills say ‘S-ranked adventurer’. “If it’s no problem I want to go with Haru.” replied Kuro in a low voice. Wills nodded and then turned to the carriage rider and said “Head to the south near the city walls.”
In
front of a small store.
The four got down and Wills told the carriage rider to wait in a nearby place then turned to the three and said “Let’s go from the back to surprise him.” (With a cheeky mood).
He led them to the back and knocked on the door at the back. Then an old man with a frail looking body opened the door “Teacher, it’s me Wil--” said Wills as the old man hit his head with a rolled newspaper. “Oh it's you I thought it was another group of those idiots”, said the old man realizing that he got the wrong person. “How long do you intend to stay at the front of the door? Come inside,” again said the old man as he went inside as if nothing happened. Wills followed calmly knowing that talking about what just happened was pointless.
As they went in the three (not including
Wills that is) were shocked. The place was not small as it should be but
extremely huge. As they were staring at the room the old man suddenly realized
the surprise on their faces ,and said “This room was made by my daughter with her
unique skill [Space magic]. Come sit down and I don’t think Wills just came
here to say Hi, right?”. “Sensei we are meeting after atleast ten years are you
not even happy to see your student?” complained Gordon. “Unlike you I got work to
do so hurry up, we can leave the chit-chat for later.” replied the old man
coldly. “About that I have a request, please take this two children as your
students.” Said, Wills. “Ok, we will start next month.” Replied the old man
after thinking for a moment. “Huh?” Wills’ reaction.
In the carriage, on their way to
the mansion
“Dad why were you so surprised when he agreed?” asked Haru. “When I was learning magic in the capital he became a teacher at our school. But he wasn’t requited very easily; the Academy’s principal who i personally. He is rumored to reject almost every students. But he agreed so fast that I was shocked. (Sigh)” said Wills.
“Where is that place he mentioned?” asked both Haru and Kuro at once.
“Well, that’s a secret.” Said Wills
with a smirk as the cart drifted.
Kuro’s
pov: After returning us, Haru and I went to our room to take rest. Lying in bed
tired from the journey Haru asked “Kuro what do you think we are going to do a
whole month before training?” “I don’t have anything to do.” I replied as Haru thought
hardly on how to pass the whole month. “Can we go to the library which was on
the way?” I asked to Haru. We can but I don’t think there will be much to learn
about magic from an open library.” Haru said as he thought of only learning magic,
which indicated he was kind of hopeless as his mom said. “We don’t have
anything to do so I will come along.” Sighed Haru as we were both called down
for dinner.
Next morning
“We are going mom.” Haru said as we went out to the library. On the way we saw many shops and we also passed by the ‘Adventurer's guild '. “Oi look at that Kuro, it’s pretty large up close!” marvelled Haru as we got closer to the library. The library was quite large it had up to third floor and the outside was surrounded by small flowers and a fountain before the stairs. We went in and saw that many people were inside but the library was big enough to make it seem not crowded. We went at the front desk and saw a man, most likely in his twenties, who turned towards us as we neared him. “Pretty rare to see children here; write your name here and no need to do this next time.” The man gave us a sheet then we wrote our names and gave it to him. “Ah Kuro, I think, can you write your family name?” said the man as he gave me the sheet again, which Haru took and wrote 'Birdford' as my surname. “Oi Haru you don’t have to ---” “My parents have already discussed that you would use that name as your family name in the Academy ,and you don’t want to get reminded of the past ,right?” whispered Haru as he handed the sheet to the man. “Thank you Haru.” I said as we went from the desk. “Don’t sweat it. And what kind of book are you looking for?” said Haru ask we passed many shelves. “Something historical and about the current world, not magic based.” I replied, the last three words making Haru's face look like of a sad puppy.
As we moved on I selected a few books and Haru also did so but he only selected books on magic, as expected I should say. We sat near a corner the table was quite large and there weren’t many people. “Where did you learn how to read?” Haru suddenly asked. “I was taught by my mother. Haru, we haven’t even started reading and you are already starting to talk.” I replied. “What can I do, it’s too boring.” complained Haru. We then began reading our own selected books but Haru fell asleep quite fast and I continued. The sun was about to set when I finally finished and waking Haru up was the most troublesome work after that. After he woke up we rushed back only to be welcomed by Haru’s mother in ‘ANGRY’ mode. We washed up and ate our dinner after that we went to bed. Haru was fast asleep again even though he slept all the time in the library.
I must have fallen asleep too as I was tired after all the reading.
For the whole month Haru and I spent our time either going to the library or to the market with the three shopping monsters {Clara-san , Serele-san(Acil-san’s wife) and Lea the little one}. But the suffering of going to shopping with these three monsters was finally coming to an end.
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