It's morning currently, and as for today, its time for the boys to cook today breakfast with Claude while the girls group are cleaning the mansion. Well, first have to make sure the bedroom are all tidy up. Claude and I have told them that the first thing that they should do after waking up in the morning is to tidy up their own bed, so far they have done exactly that and today is no exception. Good. Afterward, it's time to sweep the floor and clean away any accumulated dust. Eventhough this mansion is smaller than usual, it's still a mansion and thus, dust tend to gather. Well, with how responsible Elise and Kara were, we quickly done it. As for the other three, they sure are taking their sweet leisure time to clean. And there Charlotte goes, using her water magic to quickly dry off the window, then playing around with those water, making a bunny shape. Well, since it is dirty, I quickly dispel her control, for which she started to sulk. Sorry Charlotte, your health come first.

Next up is the training hall, since it's relatively smaller than the mansion, we quickly finish cleaning it. Plus, I always clean up the training hall each day after those adventure start using it, so there's not much there to clean

"Breakfast ready!" [Zerolith]

"Lets go go go" [Mara]

"Mara, Zerolith, Farhah and Charlotte, don't run!" [Elise]

And this time around its Elise turn to scold them. I guess Rean and Elise really are a good elder brother and sister for the other, well time to step up my game as big brother

"Listen to Elise, or else I'll increase the amount of homework for you guys" [Ash]

"Ehh!!!" [Mara, Zerolith, Farhah, Charlotte]

"You guys better stop running!" [Kara]

Huh, even Kara panic a bit, plus she's copying my speech style, should I be happy?

As for today breakfast, it's once again a burned toasted! Well, time for another photo magic, and once again time to sacrifice my stomach for the greater good

"I bet our burned toast are better than yours!" [Zerolith]

"True!" [Singa, Savel]

"That's not true!" [Mara]

"Yeah" [Farhah]

(Both of the group are equally bad, plus don't compete whose burned toast are the best!) [Ash]

I wanted to tell them, but let just keep them for myself, plus they are slowly learning and improving, so a little lie won't hurt much, on fact will further motivate them

"Brother Ash, what time will you go and meet the merchant guild?" [Rean]

"Right after this" [Ash]

"Can I use the training hall?" [Rean]

"Sure, just make sure Grandpa Claude are there with you" [Ash]

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"Don't worry, I'll oversee his training" [Claude]

"I wanted to join as well" [Karon]

"Charlotte too, Charlotte too!" [Charlotte]

"Well, its looks like all of you are fired up for today, so how about we have a little competition, I'll be dividing you to two different group randomly, and let see who manage to clear out the training first" [Claude]

"That sound fun" [Singa]

After breakfast, they straight away go to the training hall. That's no good, they should at least rest for a while, but Claude say it's alright, he will make sure they rest first before training. Well, if he said so.

With some light clothing, I went ahead towards the merchant guild direction. Along the way...

"Did you hear what happen last night, the duke's son did it again"

"Poor girl, getting constantly harassed by him"

"Still, we are only a commoner, what can we do"

This seems ominous, all the passerby keep on talking about the duke's son and the poor girl, I wonder what happen, let ask the kebab stall owner since he is nearby

"You again huh... are those orphans alright?" [Kebab stall owner]

(Ohh, is this what they called tsundere...) [Ash]

"They are fine, plus they started to act like their age, which make me happy" [Ash]

"I see, that's good to hear" [Kebab stall owner]

"By the way, I keep hearing about the duke's son and some poor girl, so what happen?" [Ash]

"Huh? You don't know?" [Kebab stall owner]

"Well, I am a traveller" [Ash]

"I see, well to make it short there's this stupid son of a duke who is interested in a girl staff from the adventure guild, constantly asking her hand for marriage. But, its clear as day as to what his true intentions was, so the girl, making the right choice refuse the proposal. Angered by her act, he keeps on harassing both the girl and her family, and last night, it seems the harassment is more intense than usual" [Kebab stall owner]

"What happen?" [Ash]

"Well, I don't know much about what happen, not really a fan of gossiping around" [Kebab stall owner]

"I see, well thank you for the info. Oh, and 3 pieces of kebab please" [Ash]

"Sure, and come again this afternoon, I'll give some for those orphans as well" [Kebab stall owner]

"Sweet!" [Ash]

Well, let make a mental reminder to come here tonight. Still, an adventure guild stuff, should I go and ask anyone in the guild right now?

(No, bad idea, I mean I just started knowing them, so it would be bad if I enter and straight away asking such a sensitive topic. Plus... why do I suddenly care so much about this topic, and this feeling... I should ask the innkeeper and his wife, Alice might have told them something) [Ash]

With the next destination decided, I picked up the pace and went straight ahead to the inn, somehow, I get the feeling that all the neighbours around here are gossiping about the duke's son and the poor girl, and this might be me, but these people, they are also moving towards the inn. This ominous feeling, this is bad, somehow I don't like this feeling, I started running myself.

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My intuition was right! People gather around here, well I don't know what happen, for now let just enter the inn

"Excuse me, coming through!" [Ash]

And once I managed to get through

"What, what happened here!?" [Ash]

The figure of the innkeeper wife crying nonstop while holding his injured husband, the innkeeper still conscious, that's good

"Save... please help and save Alice" [Innkeeper]