Chapter - 10

Running together with the other children, Arthan finally discovered how numerous the young servants of his family were.

Everywhere His gaze landed on, the sea of black round objects from human head always there to bother him.

In the younger generation, the servant of Douglas house consists of three parts, handyman, maid, and soldier. Each of them has ten servants on it and made the younger generation already numbered thirty.

‘With these many mouths to be fed solely in younger generations, it would be a wonder if this family not getting poor and poorer by the day!

Why the heck did that crappy man choose this dumb thing when he abandoned me straight from the get-go! Fuck it!' Arthan grumbled in his head, uncomfortable seeing the contrast of both decisions made by his father.

da da da

Despite his grumbling, Arthan keeps running hand in hand with the other children and observes them more closely.

Huff~ huff~

da d-a d--

“… I can’t go anymore...” entering the second lap, many children were getting tired and slowing their pace, detaching from the leading group.

One lap of the cavalry training ground is approximately 2.5 km. So, it's only natural that they are tired and try to distribute their energy to survive the four more laps they need to go through.

Huff~ huff~

"God, I'm done... I can't go anymore..." many boys wail to their god and slow down their steps.

When many boys are gassing out and slowing down, Arthan can see the number of girls who run with him from the start has never dwindled.

They are all still trying hard to run at the same pace as the leading group, no matter how heavily their breathing has become.

‘The girls in this world are undoubtedly more superb than on earth!’ Arthan reminisces his school days on Earth and how many girls would begin summoning all animal kingdoms every time the P.E teacher ordered them to run.

huff~ huff~

da d-a da

“We can do it, Girls!” shouts a short-haired girl in the frontmost of the girl's group.

"We can do it! Girls!"

"We can do it"

The cheers from the girls' group dwarfed the boys' self-esteem. Especially the boys, who had left the leading group.

With the cheers from the girl's group, the war of dignity then commenced or should have commenced. 

Yet, because the dignity of man can't make the boys sore and aching feet move on themselves, nothing has changed.

Huff~ huff~

“I can’t keep going on, but brothers, keep going! Keep going! We need to win!”

“Yes, Brothers, we leave our pride on you!”

"Keep going!"

Entering the third lap, handyman boys and the soldier's number began dwindling even more and only left no more seven boys on the leading group; Arthan, Toby, Mart, Hebert and three other boys.

Meanwhile, on the Girl side. Only at the end of the third lap did their numbers start to dwindle down, further showing the contrast stamina differences between the two sides.

Clap! Clap!

“We got it, boys! We can win it! Hold it in!” 

"We can win it! Hold it in!"

Some boys from behind the leading group clapping vigorously for the boys in the front, hoping they could hold in their sore feet and keep going for the race.

"We are men!" yells Toby out of a sudden.

"We are men!" 

Toby yell becomes the cheers for the surviving boys.

Boys are simple-minded creatures.

If you question their manhood in from of girls, they will become berserkers, and when you question them in front of a woman they like, they will become gladiators readily.

And why is that? You will know it when you fall in love and lose your own sanity.

Love and youth impulse is the scariest-mix that God has created.

Nonetheless, enthusiasm and shame still can't beat fatigue and soreness in their legs.

da d-a d--a

And because of so, in the middle of the fourth lap. The boys' camp left only Arthan, Toby, and one towering boy.

Meanwhile, on the girl's side, they merely left with two contestants!

Victory by number, the three surviving boys and all the boys behind them, sighing with relief before shouting as loud as they can.

“WE WIN!!!”

“WIN!!!”

huff~ huff~

“We take our pride back! You three are our hero!” cries the boys behind the leading group.

“Phew~” Arthan and the other two boys let out a moan of glory.

They are relieved by the outcome and more after knowing the outcome will not change as they are reassured at the physique of their brothers in arm.

"Hey guys, my name is Arthan. How about you guys?" losing the reason for a rivalry, Arthan tries to befriend all survivors by introducing himself and asking theirs.

"You know my name, boss!" Toby replies insensitively.

Bam!

boing

"I'm asking the other silly, not you!" scolds Arthan, launching some kicks on Toby asses.

“Haha… like always, your group is lively! My name is Chad. In your term, I should be the boss of the other group of a handyman.” with a laugh, towering Chad introduces himself.

“To be more precise, his name is Chad, the tower eater. He is already so tall, yet he is still growing up continuously!” explains Toby looks envious of Chad's 185cm height at thirteen.

Hearing Toby's envy words, Chad just smiled. His face looks complicated and doesn't clearly show whether he feels proud or sad with his ever-growing height.

Waiting for some time, and couldn't hear the two girls open their mouths and instead, both were increasing their running speed and leaving the boys behind; Arthan was dumbfounded.

‘Geez…I merely ask for your name, not your number!’

"Toby, who are those two?" asks Arthan to Toby in sour voices.

"The one in the front is Belinda. She has the same title as us." before Toby could answer Arthan, Chad answered while pointing at the girl with long black hair in a ponytail.

“And the short-haired one? She looks fiercer than the first girl, why she was not the b—”

Glare!

Freeze!

The girl that Arthan points suddenly turns around and gives him a scary bone-chilling glare.

gulp gulp gulp

The three boys are all in silence, gulping down their saliva, not even daring to move a finger. They act as death prey and hope the predator will not care about them. 

Before long, as she did not find a living prey, the girl turned around and continued her runs.

"Whew~"

"She's Lana the tigress, but she only serves female cats." Toby suddenly threw jokes after letting out a sigh of relief with the other two.

'Oh, Fuck! This idiot!' screams Arthan inside his head.

Snap!

In the next second, Toby regretted opening his dirty mouth.

Swing

bam bam bam

The girl he called the tigress turns back and kicks him heavily in his left thigh, throwing him to the ground and continuously kicking at Toby buffy body.

“Boss!! Helps me!! The tigress gonna eat me!”

whoop! whoop! whoop!

Toby distress calls merely add fuel to the fire, and the kicks become fiercer.

"No! No! No! Not my butts!"

Hearing Toby stupid distress call, Arthan and Chad tacitly ignore Toby cries, ‘Stay safe…’

Scowl!!

After satisfied thrashing Toby, the fierce girl scowls at the speechless duo, “What? Both of you also wanted to get some?”

shake shake

At the taunts from the girl, Arthan and Chad shake their head without saying anything.

Not getting the predictable response and looking at Belinda got farther away. The fierce girl gives the duo some scornful eyes before turning back and running after her.

"Whew..." Arthan let out another sigh of relief after seeing her back, go further, far away, “Damn, she is indeed a tigress!”

“Yes, she is! She always hit, kick, or punch any boy whenever she wanted! Thus five meters around her is considered a danger zone. Your brother… really have guts!” admired Chad.

'No, he's not gutsy! He's just silly!' thought Arthan as he helped Toby stand up. After some dusting, Toby appeared still alive and kicking even after all those thrashings. 'A silly gorilla at that!'