Chapter 3.
PART 1.
Hatori wakes up and realizes that he is still not back at his home.
Yesterday when he went to sleep, he decided that he would at least try to adjust to life here, as much as it angers him, and no matter how unhappy it makes him.
However, this adjustment did not go as smoothly as he had planned. Once more, he spent his entire day in the company of Raven and Josh, while remaining quiet, and letting those boys show him around the castle. (All the while noting how strange it is that they are not fed up with him already. But he gives two or three weeks; they’ll leave him too, just like every other boy of his age.)
His rather quiet behavior and the scene of Raven and Josh leading him around reached various people in the castle, and thus, Hatori has to endure a very uncomfortable lunch, as people keep talking about him and whispering about him.
It is a mercy that he could not see them pointing at him.
Someone might wonder, how exactly does he know that people are whispering about him? But they forget that he has a perfectly good pair of ears, and he can hear his name being mentioned repeatedly in the conversation.
Hatori didn’t mind the whispering much. But when someone came to him and began to belittle him, this is where he began to have problems.
“It is a good thing that we took you in.” Said a male voice. Raven and Josh already knew this man, judging by how they both tensed suddenly and began to put more force on his hands.
“After all, a boy like you might not have amounted to much. Your parents probably couldn’t’ even support you, so really, boy, you should stop looking so glum, and be grateful that you have been provided an opportunity by our grace—"
“Shut up!” Hatori suddenly got up and snarled out. He is not good with his tempore to start with, while this man has just pushed all his buttons, to ensure maximum angry output.
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“You think you’re so great? Well, maybe if you were so great, then you wouldn’t have needed a child to fulfill a prophecy, of all things!” All this yelling attracted the crowd of various workers of the castle. “But I swear. I’ll learn magic, and prove it to you all that I did not need your charity.”
“I’ll learn it, not to fulfill the prophecy. But to prove you all wrong, and teach you what a mistake it was to bring me here. I am convinced that I would have a great future in my world, and I’ll have it here in this world as well!” Hatori sits down with a huff, beginning to drink his juice. ‘And to bring much chaos as possible in the lives of these miserable people.’ He thinks to himself.
Somewhere in his heart, he also hoped that maybe learning magic might allow him to go home.
PART 2.
Porus receives the letter from his aid, and after dismissing him, he opens the letter.
The letter appears to be from the mage whom he called to train Hatori. The king smiled in satisfaction since the letter informs him that he will be arriving at his castle in just two days.
PART 3.
Hatori contemplates the information which he gathered on the school of the mages. He would have balked at himself in a normal situation if he saw himself as concerned about school. But since he is trapped in this world, he thinks that it would do him good if he starts to worry about these things.
Apparently, according to the information he gathered, the school doesn’t offer much in terms of science and technology, (which meant no computers, which is a shame, since Hatori feels his talent lies with those binary machines), with a focus only on the basics of language and magic.
He learns that the school will be beginning in three months, which means he has three months to catch up on the practical things. He wouldn’t be able to catch up on the theory, so he is not even going to bother with that. Instead, he would try to catch up practically and hope that would be enough.
(End.)