Oh Mr General!

77: Sato Plays With The Children

After his meal, Sato started to play with the children. The excited bunch all wanted Sato for themselves, leaving Sato quite helpless. In the end, he separated them into groups.

Firstly, there were children that wanted to roleplay. And so, Sato went for his forth meal of the day, an impromptu tea party.

"Big brother Sato, would you like some more tea?" A little girl asked Sato, while holding a pink plastic kettle.

"Yes please!" Sato had an angelic smile when playing along.

"Big brother Sato, do you want some cake? I can make it for you!" Another girl asked Sato.

"Of course!"

"What flavour would you like?"

"Chocolate cake please."

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Secondly, some of the children wanted to draw and do some practices. Sato went ahead to sit on the floor, beside their small table, and interact with the kids.

"Look, Big bro Sato! I drew a space monster!" A 5 year old boy shouted out proudly.

"Wow that looks so scary!" Sato acted scared when looking at the drawing. When the boy continued to draw, Sato looked at another boy who was thinking deeply. "Are you ready for the next question?"

"Okay! I wrote my answer!" The boy confidently wrote down on paper. "Next question!"

"Number 5, what is 6x7?" Sato asked inquisitively.

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Thirdly, by the time Sato had finished up the first two activities, it was time for the children to shower. Sato decided to help to wash up the boys. The place was set up to look like a japanese onsen shower area. Everything was open and a central bath zone that had a place for the children to soak.

Teaming up with the male helper and Butler Hank, the three man entered the shower zone and helped to clean the 8 boys up. The boys were very playful and naughty.

"Take this Big Brother Sato! Aqua Ball! Hwaaaa!"

"Ahhh! So ticklish! Hahahhahahhah stop!"

"No!!! I do not want to shower yet!!! I want to play more!!"

Without fail, the once dry Sato, had come out all soaked when he had come out. The good thing though, was that he had scrubbed and cleaned the boys up very thoroughly. It made him feel accomplished. Butler Hank too, was soaked from that shower session.

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The more exhaustive activities had finally come to an end. With that, came snack time. The government had allocated some budget to provision of basic necessities. However, when it came to renovation of the orphanage, they was close to no financial coverage for that aspect. The people could not really blame them because through out country Z, there were over 1000 orphanages spread across this large country.

Their history was filled with minor war conflicts that resulted in the country it was todat. Suburbs were gradually expanding because of the growing financial inequality between the rich and poor. Though, the country is doing well economically, that is because only the rich get richer and the poor gets poorer.

Aspects that were related to quality of living of the lower class, were neglected by the government to the lowest extent possible. They would only cover for their most basic human needs.

As the children ate their snack, Sato sat by the table benches and watched them. Though he was wearing wet clothes and he had used up most of his remaining energy, he felt satisfied and glad that he came. Everytime he made the orphans happy, the same happiness will reciprocate back to him.

"Achoo!" Sato sneezed. He rubbed his nose gently.

"Mr. Sato, I have asked Potter to deliver spare clothes to the orphanage, for you to change into. He should be here any moment. " Butler Hank said to Sato. When Hank left the shower area, he immediately called Potter for him to deliver the clothes for Sato. That was what made him a top-class butler in the world.

" Oh, thank you Hank. I appreciate it a lot."

Sato nodded slightly as he replied to the butler. Just like he said, Potter came within 5 minutes and he got to change into a comfortable sleeping pants and a sweater for extra warmth. The orphanage may be heated up slightly by the central heating, but it wasn't functioning to it's best capabilities. Some parts, like the dining area, was slightly cold.

When Sato changed finish, he proceeded to ask Hank and Potter. "Do you know when Gray is coming back from his work trip?"

"Gray should be on his way to Country X's private airbase now. The estimated time of arrival back in Country Z is 2100. Though, the timing may vary." Hank gave a detailed report to Sato. The flight from Country X to Country Z was only about an hour, showing how close the two countries were.

"Oh, alright that's good that Gray wouldn't be reaching back home too late." Sato worried lesser. Ever since he met Gray, he started to care more about this man. Though Gray never hid anything from him, there was this fog of mystery that surrounded his boss/friend. Till now, Sato hadn't figured out what exactly was that mystery. He couldn't bring himself to ask Gray too.

"Big brother Sato, I finished snack time. Can you read me a bed-time story now?" A cute little girl with two pig tails walked up to Sato and spoke to him nicely.

"Of course, sweetheart." Sato couldn't decline. He simply couldn't.

Just when Sato accepted, the rest of the children chimed in once again.

"That's no fair! I want big bro Sato to read to me!"

"Me too!"

"Me three!"...

"Alright alright! I shall go to each room and read it to everyone! Okay?" Sato tried his best to compromise, to which all the children finally quietened down. The nuns and mother Maria all shook their heads when they saw Sato's action. He was spoiling all of them so much.