I AM AN ATHEIST

challenge

Walking through the narrow road, Xavier, Golu and Molu reached the house that was assigned to them.

Typically it might have been hard to find their home if Golu and Molu did not remember the address, the address was not too complex rather it was simple, the Gurukul had 6 narrow roads and each had a unique number assigned to them.

Their home was situated in road number 4 and it was 9th one from the Guruschool.

Remember that Guruschool is the tallest building, and it was surrounded by identical homes in the Gurukul and a house a had only a single room with a door at one side and a separate toilet a few metres away from it.

So it was not possible to get lost even when all houses are identical.

Herald was tailing them.

" Prince, don't mind me "

" Prince, you must not mind me"

" Prince, don't think me as a beggar"

" Prince, are we going in the right way ?"

Xavier was tired of hearing the blabbering of Herald, but thanks to his temperament, he did not lose his coolness.

But Golu, Molu were not the same, they continued to taunt Herald as follows

" Brother, should we scare this beggar away?"

" I have never seen such a beggar"

But the prince remained silent.

It did not take much time for them to reach their home.

After the prince, Golu and Molu entered the home, then the door was shut leaving Herald outside.

"Prince, please let me in"

"prince, please"

"prince, please don't be a heartless ruler and leave me outside"

"prince, please...."

Herald pleaded outside the door.

"Prince, I am willing to tell you whatever be the things that I have known about the butcher's attack right away"

Hearing Herald's plea as if the door itself satisfied with offerings, with a "tak" sound it opened up.

Herald did not delay, he was afraid if he took more time, the door might get closed again and he would not have any place to sleep.

So he entered the house as soon as it opened up without giving a second thought to it.

The first scene that the Herald saw upon entering the house was three people, they were sitting on the mat that was placed on the ground.

Prince was sitting in the middle, he was facing the door and his cousins sat next to the prince facing each other, it seemed that

the place opposite to the prince was left empty.

"Herald, come and sit here"

Patting the mat in front of him, Xavier said.

Herald had different thoughts in his mind, he wondered why the atmosphere was so serious, none of them had a little smile on their face, it was ok for Herald if the prince had serious look but he did not quite understand why these Golu and Molu wore serious expressions on their face.

Nevertheless, he still went ahead and sat opposite to Xavier.

There were currently four people sitting in a rectangular format in such a way that two people were facing each other.

Herald and the prince were opposite to each other similarly, Golu and Molu were opposite to each other.

All of them were sitting on the mat as the eyes of three people were fixated on a single person.

This person was sweating heavily from his forehead, this one is none other than Herald.

When Herald sat on the mat opposite to the prince, an unpleasant feeling took him over, Herald looked around to find the source of this feeling, he found it to be coming from his inner self.

The reason was something he knew, it is the gazes of the trio on him.

" Herald, tell me what do you actually know about the attack from the butchers?"

Prince opened his mouth in a straight forward manner, he asked the question directly without bothering about asking things such as how do you know? Why do you think it is true?.

Herald was thinking that while he looked as criminal, the trio in front of him looked as judges who would decide his future.

" Herald"

" Herald"

" Herald"

Xavier shouted out after he did not get the answer to his question, To Xavier Herald seemed to be lost in his thoughts.

"Herald"

"Yes"

Finally, Herald came back to his senses.

" Sorry prince, it was my mistake"

Herald apologized as he knew that he was wrong this time, becoming thoughtless especially during serious topic was not a good manner.

" continue, tell me what do you know about the attack?"

Xavier asked he did not mind it as after all spacing out was not a big deal.

" prince, first promise me that you would allow me to stay here"

Even though he came inside the house, Herald still had the fear of being kicked out.

Herald's request seemed to be simple but it enraged Molu, he stood up and unsheathed his sword and pointed it towards Herald's throat with a shout:" You beggar, how dare you to doubt my brother?"

" Molu, sit down"

Prince ordered.

Hearing Xavier, Molu backed away and sat back in his place.

None seemed to be affected except Herald, the reaction from Molu just made him understand he should think twice before saying anything out.

" I promise"

Xavier replied.

Herald understood that he had to speak, he had to tell everything he knew, and there was not a chance of lying or hiding the information.

" The thing is, I saw the butchers in the Gurukul"

" And where I saw them I could only show you "

Herald replied.

" Is that it?"

Golu said as his eyebrows twitched.

"Yes"

Herald confirmed, he did not want to prolong things either, so he said what he knew, of course, he did not say his thesis.

"you damn beggar, aren't you just spouting out as if you knew the entire thing "

Golu yelled.

"prince, that's all I know but I can take you to that place" Herald said.

" Brother, we should just kick this scammer out"

Molu suggested.

" yes, brother"

Golu supported.

But the prince did not say anything for a few minutes, in these few minutes Xavier thought a lot of things.

" prince, don't forget your promise, you promised me to let me stay here"

The attack from the butchers? The unusual food that was eaten by his cousins that made braver? Are these things related? If they are then how? If they aren't but still the attack from the butchers was something that hides a very big secret, If I uncover it, there might be a chance I can use it if my kingdom faces some unpredictable danger in future.

So I could only go piece by piece, first, let check out this location that Herald described.

These were some thoughts that ran through Xavier's mind.

" You can stay, you are staying with us from the day"

Xavier replied.

Golu and Molu were disappointed with Xavier's decision, they thought that their brother was over supporting this guy.

After having supper which was cooked by Molu, they prepared the bed.

Since there were no beds all of them had to sleep on the ground, thanks to late Foen's instructions, all of them bought their blanket and cushion along with them.

That night passed and the next day when Xavier woke up, as expected he found the Henry's Bible lying on his chest, this time he did not open the book.

He brought it along with him to the toilet.

You cursed book from the unknown God, you want me to eat the page, you damn books from gods talk about hell all the time, I will show you how a true hell feels like.

With an evil grin, Xavier muttered as he flushed Henry's Bible into the toilet.

After some time,

Xavier, Golu, Molu and Herald travelled to the Guruschool again.

Although they had gone through the trial, this was their first day in the Guruschool, their real training would begin from this day.

Xavier was especially feeling good and joyful after flushing Henry's Bible, so he carried a smile on his face.

As they neared the building, they heard a large amount of noise coming from inside the Guruschool.

When Xavier entered the Guruschool, the commission from inside died down as the people were looking at him.

Xavier was surprised, he did not know why they all are looking at him, he tried to think of the reason but he could not come up with anything.

All of a sudden, a young man wearing a leather armour appeared in front of him and asked:" Are you Dargon112? ".

This man was someone Xavier recognized, he was the boar4.

" Yes, I am" Xavier replied as he had no plan to refuse his identity.

By looking at the atmosphere in the hall, Xavier knew that he was going to face a problem, he had the choice to escape by refusing to accept his identity but he would not do such a thing.

" I heard you cleared l.v1 wolves room, is it true? "

Boar4 asked.

Hearing this question Xavier finally understood why all the people were looking at him, the commotion from before must have been related to the trial and his name as the best performer could not be missed out from the discussion.

" Yes," Xavier replied.

" Good Good, but I don't believe it"

" Take out the thing that you used to cheat "

Boar4 yelled.

"How dare you? "

When their brother got accused, Golu and Molu simultaneously yelled as they put their swords on the throat of Boar4.

Boar4 did not put the clowns beside Dragon112 in his eyes when he came here, but now he was surprised that these clowns want to cut his head.

At the same time, after looking at close quarters he recognised these two clowns.

" Did not expect that these cartoons are your brothers, well that increases the probability of you to cheat"

" Now take out the thing you used to cheat"

Boar4 talked while ignoring the swords on his throat as if they were non-existent.

Golu and Molu wanted to cut his head right away but they were hesitating.

The reason for the hesitation was rule 4 that they heard yesterday.

"Boar4, please don't mind the manners of my brothers"

At the moment, Herald stepped in and moved swords away from the neck of Boar4.

" Brother, I want to cut down this beggar "

Golu expressed his desire, he never liked Herald from the beginning, According to Golu, this Herald was leaching of his brother by using kind-hearted nature.

Herald shuddered a little when he heard this guy.

Xavier had to talk, he also realized he couldn't remain silent in such a time like this one.

" Golu and Molu calm down, I will handle it myself"

Xavier said as he walked towards the boar4.

" You accused me of cheating, then let me prove that I did not, I issue you a challenge"