I Own A Brothel In Another World (Ch. 1-196)

Chapter 6 - The First Training

At some point in their discussion, a servant knocks on the door. Some nobleman has requested an audience with the King.

The King informs us that the first instructor will arrive the next morning and we can start around noon. Everyone leaves with various emotions accompanying them. We separate pretty quickly and choose to do our stuff.

Not having much to do, I spend the rest of my time before the night comes checking out the books in my room since they are in Common. Unfortunately, they are all works of fiction. I leave a mental note to myself to ask for access to the library. There must be one in the King's castle, right?

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The next morning, I wake up, do some of my usual exercises, grab something to eat at the dining area and move out of the castle to head to the training grounds, a bit before the set time.

I arrive at a vast courtyard with many separated practice fields. Some just like rectangular arenas, some in a fashion of a shooting range, some with a lot of dummies or those wooden mannequins with many rotating sticks you often see in martial arts movies. Surprisingly, I'm not the first from our group here. Natalie is sitting on a bench to my right and writing something in her pocket-sized notepad.

I walk around to approach her from the front so that I don't startle her. Certain that she noticed me, I plop down on the bench and casually look around. After a few minutes, she closes her notepad and turns to me.

"You are not going to ask what I am doing, Teacher?" she asks with her soft melodic voice but as usual quite a cold one.

"I didn't come here to disturb you, just to wait. How are you faring... with all the stuff?"

"I still feel like it's a dream or something, but I know this is real. I hope everything is alright back at home. Father can be... really emotional and caring. Even more than my mother. Hopefully, he's alright..." she says while slumping her shoulders.

"He'll be fine. He is a strong-willed person. They'll get through this." I try to cheer her up, but some empty words of reassurement won't do too much good. "Look. It would be a different story if you were kidnapped or disappeared alone. With five people vanishing, they will definitely hold to the hope that you are all alright. No one would want to get rid of all five of you and anger a lot of bigshots, so they should think we are being kept away somewhere or something."

"Yeah... You are right. Thank you, Teacher," she speaks more to herself than to me, trying to believe my words.

"No worries. Just remember. I'll be always there if any of you need anything. And it's not like I'll be holding our classes in this world, so you can drop the official title. Carter is fine. Alastair too. Hell, anything is fine." I stand up, stretch a bit, and smile at her.

"Okay." She stares at me for a few seconds. "You are not worried about your family, Tea—Mr Carter?"

"My father is gone, Mother could rot in hell as far as I care, and my randparents are decently set up with the preparations I made in case anything happened to me since my dad was their only son."

I put my hands behind my head and assume a grim expression on my face when remembering that bitch.

"I have spent only like nine years at their place and haven't lived with them anymore for another nine. Gramps is tough so he'll be fine. Granny, I guess too. I'll still miss them of course. Besides that, I didn't really socialize with the world. You should be aware I was kind of a shut-in."

"Yes. Although no one would believe that, seeing how open you are in the classroom." She smiles faintly, but it fades quickly. "Sorry for making you remember the painful past. I didn't know."