Chapter 60.

PART 1.

Hatori and his friends are putting up their tents provided by Zeko. Instead of sleeping in the car, they will all sleep outside in those tents, while the fire burns outside. Now they all realize what Zeko meant by camping.

“At least I provided you kids with a tent.” Said Zeko. “My own master made me collect everything from the forest, and build my camp by myself! I had to collect water, food, and wood for the fire by myself. You kids have it so easy.” And he went on and on in the same fashion for quite a while.

After some time, the kids treated it as background noise, preferring to talk with each other instead. They are currently telling each other about their experiences with babysitters. “And since I live in the castle, I didn't had any babysitters since I was five.” Finished Josh. “I do remember that the maids often took care of me, though.”

“Dad hired a military brat once,” said Raven. “Needless to say, the mother was very displeased.”

“I never had one.” Said Shin. “Though I think that people in the orphanage could use some, we caused a lot of problems”.

“I had Lucie.” Said James, “Enough said.”

Hatori shuttered. “Truly, someone has a deep hatred for you out there.” Said Hatori.

“Don’t I know it?” said James.

Pulling the cloth of the tent, Hatori begins his tale. “Zeko hired one for me recently. I never got along with my previous ones, so I knew how this would go as well.”

Five minutes later, Josh, and for once, James, are bent over in laughter, having dropped the wood after listening to Hatori’s recount. Meanwhile, Raven and Shin give each other a look. “Doesn’t he know what he did?” whispered Shin.

“Your friend is clueless.” Said Raven.

He is fully aware of what Shin is talking about. Why does he know that? Because he saw something which he really shouldn’t have. Truly, curiosity can be so dangerous sometimes.

PART 2.

Arriving at the castle, the group ends up seeing Avinash right at the entrance. “Well, well, well. look what we have here.” He said.

“You already know us.” Said Hatori.

“True, and that has to be the most unfortunate thing in my life,” he said in a mocking tone.

Hatori tries to remain civil with Avinash since he helped in the Academy when he needed to get away from older students. But if he continues to press his buttons like that, he might not be able to hold himself back.

“What, are you worried that you won’t have the free reign of the castle, since we’re back now?” asked Josh.

“As if. This castle belongs to me. I’m the future king! This country belongs to me. You belong to me as well!”

“That does it.” Said Hatori. “Hatori Eagle does not belong to anyone!” he declared and attacked Avinash.

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He wrestles him down to the ground. Helpless before his physical might, Avinash is overturned and receives a camel clutch right on the entranceway. While the wannabe king is busy declaring his vengeance, the people in the castle get the feeling that their lives are going to take a turn for the chaos for no reason.

PART 3.

Leaving Hatori to deal with Avinash, all four boys walk into the castle. Raven and Josh are used to living here, but for Shin and James, it is still a novel experience. “So, are you leaving?” asked Josh to James.

“No.” He replied. “I will leave for the Academy with you guys.”

Why go back to the miserable home, when there are yantras to be created? Shin is also not leaving. No one has raised a fuss about his presence here, so he decides to stay quiet and enjoy it as long as he can.

After they all settle down, Hatori and James begin to tinker with the yantras, after acquiring the basic set for experimenting. This is like the building blocks, where you get some drawn ideas to build stuff. But both these boys have no interest in creating basic ready-made things; they surpassed that level in the Academy last year.

They wish to build their things, and they decide to start from where they left off the last time. Meaning, they tried to create another set of combat yantras. Unlike their previous attempts, this time they were very successful in building them.

But they are not happy with just building two or three. “Hey James, let’s build an army of these. What do you say?” asked Hatori.

“…” The smile was the answer.

For now, they're only focused on combat. They will later develop specialized ones, for an army cannot survive on simplistic soldiers.

Unfortunately for them, they made a mistake due to the large quantity of the yantras they tried to create at once. The army goes rogue, leaving their room, and attacking the people in the castle.

Unlike in the Academy though, these were adult mages. A few toys are not going to represent a threat to them. So, their army was dismantled quickly. Thankfully, before they could be destroyed, they sent retrieving yantras to get the parts back and rebuild them again.

“Wouldn’t it be great if we could create yantras to carve a large number of other yantras?” asked Hatori. “There won’t be the same mistake then, since we won’t be so spread thin.”

“…!” James smiled once more.

PART 4.

“We heard what happened.” Said Sagar.

“I hope your back is okay,” said Akshat.

“Shut up!” Avinash held his back. “We’re not gathered here to talk about my back pain. We are here for revenge!”

“And what kind of revenge is it going to be?” asked Sagar.

Smiling, Avinash reveals the same kind of set that Hatori and James are using in the other corner of the living quarters of the castle. “You didn’t,” said Akshat, breathless from the sheer possibilities.

“Oh yes, I did.” Said Avinash with relish. “I declare war.”

“Victory to Your Majesty!” declared both Sagar and Akshat.

(End.)