Lost Samurai: Welcome to City of Hundreds.

Chapter 4 The Discovery.

It was Alan and Ria, both of them were friends of his, Alan was the person, who was studying under the discipline of another school, where he was sent to him for regular practice while fighting with each other and practising they grew closer and become friends, Harashi was not fully detached with the outside world, and the source of it was Alan and his stories about school and all. There were times Harashi had quite urged, to got to the outside world for an adventure, given the city was such a mysterious place and full of adventure, which was only a conjecture, Harashi made out of Alan words.

Usually, when a person talks about a certain place, they end up talking about the most beautiful and enjoyable part of it is the reason why people imagine other Cities to be beautiful, living inside that City, one is able to realise, that the world, he had been hearing is not completely true either. Finally looking at the girl by Alan side, her name was Rin, she was the only girl of his age he was acquainted with. She used to come to that house, to meet him from month to month, her kind nature and smile had been his lifesaver.

Even though they all had grown up, she and her smile has not changed, where the smile she held was a genuine one too. Harashi who could not smile naturally had learned forced smile which looked way too genuine, unless someone Is close to him, he or she would not be able to tell the difference at all. The one who had been living with the fake smile is the one who can genuinely see, the person in front of him is smiling genuinely, or was forced.

‘Genuine is one which makes me feel awkward, for some reason I felt awkward, unknown things started to revolve around my chest, and it became quite hard to breath in such a situation. I could not tell, why does it feel so, but one thing for sure was that my body was rejecting, and that is the reason why I felt, it was something very dear to me.’ Harashi thought, as he gazed at two of them, where his only wish was to learn from them, the thing he had been missing all this time.

‘For some reason, from my childhood I had been having real dreams, these dreams who were very close to reality, given everything inside the dream was something out of ordinary for me, I had never seen a school before that, then how was able to dream about it so clearly.’

‘I was afraid, I always believe that my grandfather will be able to deal with it, if it was something he had to face, and for the same reasons, I trained harder, to become more strong and to face it someday. The more I trained, the more solitude I become, and the feeling that I was not able to face it, grew stronger and stronger each day.’

‘That is why, today when my grandfather said, that my training was over, I didn't know what I can do, the only feeling which was left behind inside my heart, I wish to run away from it. ’

‘Why? I knew, what it means to be dead?’

“Welcome back Master, I was waiting for your arrival.” Alan smiled since he was able to see Kiri-San, where he had to speak it in such a manner. If not ‘Ha-ha.’

Rin walked toward Harashi, with a smile as she looked at Harashi eyes, for some reason, she was able to tell that, he was afraid of something, his master who is the strongest youngest master, was afraid of something. Rin was not able to accept it but today, his fear seems to be at peak of his heart, for some reason felt to let him pat his head and console him, but as a maid, she was not allowed.

Rin walked by Harashi side as she spoke in the kindest voice “Master Harashi, please come this way, I will take you to your room, please give your weights, on your body to those servants.” Harashi nodded as he took out the weight bands and gave them to the servants, Kiri looked at Rin who nodded her head, at which secretly acknowledged and left to be at her mistress side. Kiri had always been confident about Rin care, when it comes to the young master, Rin was someone who would never let anything out, for Harashi sake.

There were 58 maid’s, which were assigned to help out Harashi everyday life, after giving out everything, Harashi walked inside his room, while a hot bath was being prepared for him to take. The next morning it would be a different way for him, A school life he always dreams of is about to start, and the feeling he was having inside his heart, I was excited he had read about.

Since many times in sparring, with his grandfather, his grandfather always told him that he was having a blast, in other words, he was having an emotion called excitement. After some day’s, when he read about it inside some books, he started to categorise them as a word called excitement.

After entering the room, hot good coffee was prepared for him, Rin who is stood by his side served him a cup of coffee, where Alan had few things to take care of as he left, given Harashi and Rin were left inside the room. When for the first time he heard her say who shook his soul “Master, what are you afraid of.”

Harashi could not reply to that one single question, but that was not bad, what came after was a rush of a weird sensation, as if something crawl over his body, making him giddy and uncomfortable. “Nothing, I was just overthinking, but Rin, I had to give it to you, it was amazing that you were able to see through me.”

In the meantime, a lady who was dressed in Kimono, no it should be a girl in Kimono of Harashi age, was walking inside the mansion door, Harashi mother was looking at the girl, her name Sayaka, she was the daughter of her sister, she had been a daughter like a figure for Emithia.

“Oh! Look, my precious baby is here to see me, so you must have been missing me ha!” Emithia joked as she hugged the girl, who seems to be a little bothered, but was still smiling in her embrace. Sayaka was habitual of this setup, for how long she had been with Emithia, anyone would get used to it too, also she knew how much Emithia like her, and Emithia was very- very kind to her.

“I am not missing you or anything, please give me a break from your bear hug, I was here to see Harashi, given since childhood I had never met him before,” Sayaka spoke in a monotone voice, as he looked at Emithia and then looked at Kiri, who nodded at her politely and then started moving to escort them to the Mansion. Where on the other hand, after his bath, Harashi was quite bored inside his room, so he jumped out of his window to the ground and started running towards the forest area. Before jumping down and going to the forest area, he changed into a butler uniform, given he doesn’t want to attract the attention of maid’s, working around the area, and in the household their what hundred of butlers working.

So it was very easy for him to dissolve, in the surrounding is leave without getting noticed, by other maids and servants. If you are thinking, how he got the butler uniform, well that was quite easy, richest knockdown of Butler who was changing and took away the cloth from inside his locker.

As for the audience please don’t try to mimic this, given it is not good to knock down our own Butler. Harashi smiled as he kept on walking, toward the forest, behind his back he had that wooden sword, since he wishes to practice, those sword moves, he cannot calm down until he practised them twice.

Finally, he found a good spot, as he stood calmly and relaxed his mind, a smile was formed on his serene face, which his surrounding was empty, a special state of the zone was formed around him, given for him everything returned to stillness. When his eyes opened, as he looked in a certain direction, where he was able to feel, the footsteps of a person. Finally, a figure of a girl, who seems to be wearing Kimono and seemed to be lost, was walking toward him, Harashi smiled given Kimono, he knew she must be related to his mother.

When he thought, the way she was walking, was heading straight to a dumped area, which would be heading straight to river, if someone were to fall, she/he would be badly injured and other girl he felt, doesn’t seem to be a martial art practitioner.

He has to help her, given a Samurai is the one who had to help in need selflessly, right grandfather…

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