The next day was the first day of a new week, a Monday. And Jai had promised Haku that he would train him. But since the little boy would be still at school in the morning, Jai and Darrion went to the southeast windlet branch to kill some time.
Baji had told them they would need some help anyways, so there they went.
“Baji had told me what happened, and I have signed you two in our branch for temporary windlet helpers.” Gilbert told them, showing them two papers with their names on it in universal characters.
“What is this paper and how does it work?” Jai asked as he looked at the paper on the counter.
Gilbert smiled. “It’s a permit for you two. And it works as, well, official authorizations for you to accept requests in this windlet branch. Now you can take the request on that board over there.” He pointed to the board across the counter on the other side of the room.
Jai looked surprised. “We can?&r
Haku put his books in his bag and waited until Teacher Komatsu stars the prayers.“Are you all done, children?” Komatsu asked. He was wearing simple clothes today. Starting from his brown working shoes, dark trousers, plain white shirt with many animal stickers on his front and back… The four-eyed teacher was smiling happily and didn’t seem like he was disturbed at all by the stickers on his top. And he wasn’t. This was a usual act done by him to help the children relieve some stress in the first day of the week.Besides, those were only stickers and could be pulled off easily. So he wasn’t at loss.The children shouted ‘Yes, teacher’, but there were still some of them who were shuffling books inside their bags. But they looked like they’re almost done, so he clapped his hands with a smile. “Well then! Let’s start praying!”He led the prayer. They prayed to the Great Fire Dragon of t
Jai stopped at the gate and parked the bike. “Wait here.” He said to the boy.Haku got off the bike and waited there on the street of this certain neighborhood. People were walking in the street, there were also some children playing tags… He didn’t really know where this is. He had never been here before. But he trusted Jai, so he waited there with Shoru.Jai entered the place and immediately greeted the receptionist. “Daisuke-san!”Daisuke was busy stacking some cards when he was startled by Jai, resulting in his castle of cards to fall off since he accidentally pushed one of it. He moaned in slight disappointment as he looked at his stack of cards that were now lying on the counter and floor.“Oof, sorry.” Jai apologized. He took the cards on the floor and put it on the counter.“Oh it’s okay, Jai-san.” Daisuke waved with a smile. “Just spending my time. It’s so borin
Two days later, in the morning.“Come on Kiyo-chan. Do it again. The flowers can cry seeing your water display.” An elderly woman in orange yukata said calmly.A girl in front of her, probably in her late teen, huffed. Sweats rolling down her face and her training clothes ruffled. “But I’m tired, grandma.”The elderly woman waved her index finger. “No, no, no. It’s only half an hour. Come on, young lady. The Komatsu girls must be strong.”Kiyo, the girl, sighed and rolled her eyes. “But the men are the ones usually out for a hunt. Not the girls.”“And you just want to let the patriarchs take control of this family more than they have? No. I will not have it in my family. By being strong, you can stand up to men and prove them that women can also kick some ass.” The old lady said confidently.Kiyo’s lips twitched downward, unamused. “Don’t men love meek
The group of four walked in the hallway of the Komatsu residence and stopped at a certain door.Rio knocked on the door softly. She faked a cough and called. “Haato-kun, it’s me Grandma Rio. I’m coming in.” Then she opened the door. But there was no one in the room.“He’s not here.” Rio said.“Then where is he?” Fu asked.Both of them looked at the only young man in the group. “Sen? Where’s Haato-kun?” Rio asked.Sen the in-law blinked a couple times before he stuttered. “He umm—Uhh, lately, Ishida-san has been coming over and asked about him a lot. She came here today, m-maybe she took him with her?”The three elderly stared at him. “Okay. But where?” Fu asked. “I don’t know who this Ishida-san is. You might want to—”“Oh Ishi-chan likes to bake. Maybe she brought him to the kitchen. Why don’t we g
A couple of days later…A female windlet happily jogged to the village of Letush in the morning. The sun was already up by this time, so it was not early morning.She greeted the villager guarding the gate as she entered and the villager waved back at her like they knew each other.She let her feet drag her among the village’s street. She stopped by the houses to deliver letters to the villagers and to wish them a good day. At one point, she stopped by a house near a well and she took her time to wait as the resident struggled to open the door.When it was finally opened, a girl with amber hair and beautiful green eyes appeared. She was wearing an apron and looking a bit sweaty. “Yes?”The female windlet realized why she took some time to open the door, and she apologized. “Sorry for interrupting your cooking time, miss, but I’m here to deliver some letters!”The girl giggled and opened the door a b
Jai and Darrion sat on the hospital’s waiting room while reading newspaper each.Another good thing about this kingdom was that it has two main languages after the war. So there were some papers that used universal language for their texts. That really helped Darrion because he could still keep up with some updates while Jai read the ones with Shouha language. As what they did before, they exchanged the information, and keep in mind whether there might be some places they need to go and check.Shoru was also with them, lying calmly on her side on Jai’s lap and just chilling. She was looking at people, and the nurses that walked by with their own business.They were waiting for Claude’s doctor to come out and give them the news. But it’s been fifteen minutes and the doctor was nowhere to be seen.Jai lowered the newspaper and put it aside. He adjusted his scarf as it was slightly lowered, and looked around. “Where the heck is
Shoru sniffed the paper in front of her and instantly recoiled. She moved her bottom and took two steps backwards. She then rubbed her nose as if she had just smelled something unpleasant.A giggle was heard beside the pup, and then Mika'w voice is heard, asking, "What's wrong, Shoru-chan? You don't like the smell of glue?"Shoru chuffed and whined, but Mika giggled some more. Whatever Shoru did, it was always adorable.Next to Mika was Jai. This time, Jai did not help Mika sort out the letters, but he was replacing Arata. Since Arata was given a new assignment, someone had to pitch in his seat to help ease his workload. It had only been two days, but Jai was already used to it.The entrance door opened and came in Baji. He looked a bit exhausted, showed by the dark circles under his eyes. But he pulled his shoulder length hair into a short ponytail to make his appearance still look presentable."Jai, help me out sorting this." Baji passed by him a
Haku took a rag and wiped the dishes that he had just cleaned. Hanabi came into the backroom with more dirty dishes and put them in the sink in front of him.“Haku. Why are you still here?” Hanabi asked.“I havent’ dried the dishes…” Haku said, putting the dried plate beside the rack and taking another wet plate.“Oh it’s fine. Let them dry by their own. Isn’t Jai waiting for you at the inn?” She asked while moving around to prepare new orders.Haku put the plate on top of the first one. “He said to meet at 3PM.”At that, both Hanabi and Haku looked at the cuckoo clock above the door. It was fifteen minutes to 3PM.“I have a few minutes.” He smiled at his grandmother.“Oh well… They didn’t come over for lunch. Have they had lunch, I wonder? Should I prepare lunch for them?” Hanabi asked, pausing her chopping to ask her grandso