The underground society continued its search; they searched almost every corner of the Great Elysia, but they never found the little guy.
'MY NAME IS AKIRION T...'
'What are you doing here? This is not a place for charity and orphanages; this is a young people's sword training place.' the master of the place said.
'I know that, sir; I want to train myself too.'
'Ohh, that's good for you (Akirion's eyes were filled with happiness, but...), you can train yourself all you want, but here, I train people; they don't train themselves.' Other kids started laughing at Akirion.
'Ohh, sorry, I said that by mistake. I meant to say I would like you to train me.
'Oh okay, where are your parents , who will pay for your training here?' Akirion's eyes were filled with tears; they started flowing nonstop like water in the river. Every kid started to feel so emotional after they saw Akirion crying. 'Hey, what's wrong? Did I say something wrong?' the master emotionally asked.
'No.'
'Then why are you crying?'
'Ahh, sorry' (he got rid of his tears). 'Just that I—I lost both my parents yesterday, and I'm all alone, but I can train here, and then I'll repay you in the future?'
'Ahh, sorry kid, but no…' Akirion turned back crying.
'Hey Mika, any news?'
'No sir, nothing yet; they are still searching.'
'Good! Please find that kid soon.'
'Okay, Sir!'
The mission continued; the soldiers searched a lot of places.
'WAIT!' Akirion's eyes opened in happiness; he turned around to see who said that, and he got rid of his tears.
'Yes,' he said in happiness.
'I've thought of something.' Akirion's eyes opened wider, and he got extremely happy.
'Yes, yes, tell me, what did you think about Sir?'
'Lyricos, come here.' [New character alert: >Lyricos<] (He called one of his best students.) "Do you see this boy? I want you to fight with him, got it?" He said that to Akirion.
'Yes, sir.'
'Wow, such confidence you have there, young man. By the way, stop calling me "Sir" always; my name is Thaneiros.'
'Okay, Mr. Than, Than…Thanei…'
'Hahaha, it's not that hard, Thaneiros, Tha - nei - ros, but you can call me Master even though you haven't succeeded in beating down my number one boy.'
'OKAY, MASTER!'
'Hahaha, okay, okay, here.' (He gave Akirion a wooden sword, while Lyricos was carrying his.) 'Now to the stage.'
The two went to the stage, and the others tagged along to support their friend. The fight started. Lyricos then called Akirion to attack first and also called him 'Boy.'
'{Huh, he called me boy? What is he, anyways? I'm supposed to win though, so I'll have to clear my mind.}'
Akirion ran to attack, and they started clashing swords (wooden).
'{Wow, this kid is good; he's fighting like a knight, a real knight. Even though he's not that powerful, he can defeat Lyricos because I was going easy on these kids, but it seems like the one who was training him was a pro, and he or she could have gone hard on the little kid…}.'
'Master? Master?' One student called out to his master, who was lost in thoughts.
'Mhh'
'What were you thinking about, Master?'
'Nothing really.'
'Ohh, okay, there are people at the gate.'
'Ohh, okay, TIME OUT YOU TWO?' The two stopped; Akirion went to the other side, while Lyricos went to his friends.
The master made his way to the gate and saw.... [Comment what you think he saw before you see below]. His eyes widened in a bit of fear, and he was forced to open the gate because he was already at the gate.
'{Wow, this kid was thoughtful; he locked the gate on his way in because I'm sure it was open. That's why he saw us. This is my mansion; what are they doing here?}'
'Sir, they didn't find anything; there's only one mansion left, and it's a private property; no soldier is supposed to step foot inside. "The guy is a swordmaster; he can definitely cut their heads off."' Said the assistant, Mika.
'Okay, okay, you can leave now; make sure they search that place.'
'Okay, sir, I'll send the command.'
'Good.' Mika gets out of the office.
Meanwhile, two of the training students went to Akirion; they started chatting with him.
'You traitors! You chose the newbie over me?!' The angry Lyricos said.
'Wait, you too? I hope I didn't destroy your relationship with that guy.' Akirion curiously asked.
'Naa, don't worry about him; he's always like that.' One of them replied comfortingly.
'I'll kill you during the second round, newbie, mark my words. Nobody takes my followers away from me, mhh.' He looks aside angrily.
Meanwhile,
'What can I do for you soldiers?' Thaneiros asked the people who were knocking.
'Sorry to disturb you, sir, we are searching for a kid. I heard that he got powers. I guess you know the king's order?' One of the soldiers replied.
'Hey, slow down. Firstly, tell me who you are.'
'We are the RPU…'
'Huh?'
'Residents Protection Unit, in short, no, no, in full, I mean in full. RPU, in short, hehe.'He breathes heavily, afraid of Mr. Thaneiros.
'Wait a second, all of you are searching for a young kid, and you are all from the unit?'
'No, those 5 guys behind are in the underground society, and the 5 of us are from the unit.'
'So, why didn't you reply to my other question?'
'Huh? Sorry sir, I have an ear problem; I didn't hear the full question. Sorry.
'Okay, so all of you got ear problems, huh?' They all nodded, agreeing that they got ear problems.
'Okay, I'll ask again. (They all nodded in fear.) So all of you here are after the same kid?'
'(They all replied together) YES.'
'But different missions,' another soldier added. 'The underground wants to capture the boy alive, and the 5 of us are following the king's orders to kill anyone who got super powers.'
'Wait, the King said that? Okay, do you know the kid that you are here to kill?'
'We aren't here to kill,' the underground soldier said, but the unit soldier started a quarrel; some wanted to kill, and some wanted to capture alive. Thaneiros closed the gate on their faces and said,
'Come back when you are serious; you should know something that you are searching for, and the ones that want to kill a poor kid, I'm coming with my sword.' All the soldiers left Thaneiros' house running for their lives.
'{Thank God I found a place to spend the whole day doing something; only a roof is left}.'