Chapter - 6

rustle!

rustle!

The soft rustling sound of paper rang annoyingly in Arthan ears, waking him up from his sleep.

"eugh... come on..." moans Arthan while gently cleaning his eyes from boogers.

rustle!

When his body moves, a rustling sound of paper once again annoyingly rang in his ears.

Jolt!

Jolting his legs to get on sitting position, Arthan yells while turning his head to the left, "Come on, uncle! Stop the joke!!"

rustle! rustle!

Yet, no Topaz in his sight.

rustle!

Turning his eyes to the left of his pillow Arthan found the culprit. The culprit is a yellow paper with a metal key on top. 

“Is he gone?” after letting out this profound question, Arthan rage subsided like a deflated balloon.

In silence, Arthan scans his room.

His room is back to a pristine state, with no dent on the wall, no broken things litter on the floor, and not even a speck of blood he can spot.

Snore! Snore!

"Grrr!" the fat boy unwarranted snores disturbed Arthan melancholy and got on Arthan nerve.

"Cut your snore, asshole!’"Arthan threw a pillow at the snoring fat boy.

Pffthweep~

Yet merely the fat boy smelly gas, coming as the response.

“Sigh…What am I doing?” 

After letting out a deep sigh to stop his urge to kill the fat boy, Arthan then put the key in his pocket and read the paper.

[I had to go…]

"Eurgh... so corny, in the early morning! Why not just write that you are going to kill me! It’s disgusting!"

[At first, I just wanted to write the words above to make it look cool. But after taking the pen up, I don't know why I kept writing these shitty words that you must have scoffed at.

I'm not a good writer. Thus I will cut to chase.]

"You already waste three lines, idiot!"

[I don't know what is transpires in your mind, but I do know you are a good boy. Thus, I will entrust you with a manly job.]

“Heh…yeah, yeah. You really have cut to the chase.”

[House of Douglas had two heirs, but the firstborn is too lazy, so he is out of favour.]

“What kind of drama he wanted to concoct now? And I’m not lazy! I’m an efficient man!”

[Hereby,

I leave my task to you, find the firstborn and make sure he will never hate his fate and family. He is a smart boy. Thus he should know what you mean.

Tell him it maybe had been hard years for me to come under a nasty boy like him. But those years is also the most colourful in my life.

Tell him I'm happy to be with him, and those years weren't a waste.

Tell him I don't know if I could meet him ever again, but I hope he will never forget me and all his nasty deeds, especially.

And lastly, tell him that I take some of his treasure for mementos.

Be sure to find him! Because I can’t!

Topaz~]

At first, Arthan feels blue reading the message left behind by Topaz about him. Yet after he read to the end of the message, Arthan immediately became furious.

“What in the hell did this thief steal from me this time! Damn it. He is so old and kept stealing from a kid!”

Arthan keeps grumblings for minutes, trying to visit all Topaz seventeen generations ancestors to question them. What kind of blunder that they have done till they have such crappy descendants.

rumble rumble

With a protesting stomach, want it or not, Arthan needs to stop his grumbling.

He hadn't eaten since yesterday and with a gamey scent of meat in the air. It would be a miracle his stomach not protesting.

Sniff!

Sniff!

Following the smell of meat in the air like a German Shepherd, Arthan found a big open crate on the floor beside his bed.

Inside it was a loaf of rye bread, a small salt jar, and a huge ashy slab of meat wrapped in white cloth.

On top of the meat, there is another yellow paper.

[ I want to be ruthless and made you starved as revenge to you, but my wisdom as an elder holding me in from it.]

"Ugh... can you talk human!"

[I don't understand why you like ashy meat like this, but here it is, it’s my treat.]

“Your treat my ass!” scolds Arthan clenching the paper and then throwing it at the snoring fat boy.

This meat comes from his family's warehouse, so basically, this meat from the beginning is his own.

rumble!

Hearing the protesting sound coming back, Arthan quickly takes out his Bo staff and make it back to its original size.

“Deactivate talisman – Head cracker.”

The staff in Arthan hand loses its beautiful pattern and becomes an ordinary long stick.

Arthan then turned the middle part of the staff like he was opening a bottle of coke.

Little by little, Arthan's Bo staff began to split into two parts, and showing their hollow inside and what were they hide.

gleam!

Hidden inside their hollow was three large silvery gleaming needles. These needles weren’t some sort of weapons. At least, that was not the reason why Arthan embedded it with a controller talisman.

Grilling meats with one hand while the controlling fire was a hard job. But when both can be controlled, simultaneously with mind power, it will be an easy peasy job.

Thus contrary to what people in Harry town believed, Arthan's Bo staff wasn't actually a weapon but a place to store portable cooking utensils for him.

Although the usable space is quite small with the round thickness of the staff body merely around 10cm at the top of its form, Arthan is still able to keep a variety of spice mixes and several cooking utensils in every little compartment he made along the staff body.

rumble! rumble!

Impatient, after Arthan quickly took one needle, then put the staff back to its usual mini size. 

He then took the meat and its wrap from the crate and placed it on the bed to take the salt jar, pinch some salt and rub it delicately on the meat.

gulp gulp gulp

The meat was pale red because of the aging process, and its numerous pale white marbling as the source of the meat juices, merely imagining the taste already made Arthan gulp hard.

Arthan takes out the big needle and skewers the meat with it.

The meat was about 15cm thick and almost 40 cm long. And since the needle was only around 50cm long, it almost had no room for a hand to hold the needle after skewering the meat.

This needle can be controlled by Arthan using only his mind power, but he was reluctant and undecided if it was the time for him to show off all of his power.

Although his parents might have heard some reports from Topaz and his great-grandfather should know it too.

Regardless, in the new environment, when he knew nothing about it. It is best for others not to know much about his power.

'Hide that can be hidden and show what they already know, staff that could fly in the air is one thing, but a needle that could fly in the air is another thing altogether!' decide Arthan.

Taking leather gloves from the bag and red talisman paper, Arthan was ready for some action.

Arthan brought the skewered meat to an open place, where he fought his roommates last night and began to grill the meat.

“Use talisman - Sun Ball.” murmur Arthan.

Puffs!

With stove gas like bursting igniting sound, a golden orange ball of flame appears in front of Arthan.

The ball of flame under Arthan control keeps revolving around the meat to spread the heat evenly.

From time to time, Arthan keeps checking if the flames had licked all the meat surface or needed an adjustment.

Sizzles

Sizzles

In no time, the sizzling sound of fat plays their own seductive music in the room, and not forget to make things merrier the meat also exuding alluring nutty scent.

Arthan concentrated all his mind power to make sure the movement of flames and the turning of the skewer were in perfect sync in order to save the juice from being wasted.

gulp gulp gulp

Without Arthan noticing, there are four more pairs of eyes focusing on his sizzling meat.

Sniff! Sniff!

A fatty even goes so near to the flame, to sniffing the nutty smell emitted by the roasted meat closely.

His throat kept swallowing hard following the rhythm of sizzling sound.

Not only the fat boy. But the other boys also swallow hard in rhythm, especially when the juice oozes out every now and then before Arthan turns the meat around.

Whiff~

The scent emitted by the meat juices is too magical to ignore.

Puffs!

After minutes of grilling with a thought, the sun ball disappeared along with the talisman paper in his hand.