After a few minutes of persuasion, Izayoi then agreed to his master that they must first buy a sword for him though he still feels unwilling in his heart. They are now on their way to the market and is now going down on the hill where their house is located.
The hill is far from the capital of Ratea which is the market and Arju is having a countermeasure since he is with a child, since almost all the children that lived in this place were sold as a slave even without their parents' violation some people from Ratea will kidnap those children to make money. You can count on your hand the people that you can call proper in this savage village. He also didn't let the child go here because of that reason. He already prepared a cloak for the little child and him being a boy can only make it a little easier though he still has to hide his face since they might mistake him for a girl since girls are much more vulnerable and have a higher chance of being kidnapped because they have a higher demand.
When they finally near the entrance of the village almost all the people outside looked in their direction. Most of them looked at the little figure walking side by side with the person that is extremely known to them.
They all looked savage, some of them have piercing in different parts of their face and some even have a tattoo of a criminal in their neck which looked like a choker. That tattoo will never be taken no matter what you do. How many lines on it indicate how grave one's crime is and the limit of it is up to five, which means if a criminal survived until four warnings if they had that many they must be executed no matter what the circumstances since they might endanger the people.
The little boy looked at them with curiosity since they are also looking at him. His master then pulled near him so that he won't be separated from him.
"Izayoi follow closely don't paced out" Izayoi looked at his master and just nodded since his master looked serious right now.
They continued like that until they finally stopped near one of the buildings. They then heard the rattling of metals which indicating that someone was inside.
Arju then went to the door while holding the hand of the little child. He knocked three times and then suddenly the noise stopped and replaced by the footsteps of someone inside which coming near them.
The door opened slowly which made a weird creak sound though it only shows a little opening. Suddenly someone peeked through that small opening.
Izayoi was quite surprised since he didn't think that someone will suddenly pop out like that out of nothing. The person inside is wearing googles and it is because he is still working just then and was also taken aback when someone knocked on his door. When he saw that this someone he knows he immediately opened the door wide enough for them to enter, and then they saw a man with a very masculine figure.
"Bernar sorry for the sudden visit, can we enter inside?" The man called Bernar saw the little boy and then he looked at the surroundings outside. Bernar then saw people hiding from one of the buildings looking at the little boy curiously, some even have mischievous smiles on their faces.
"Hurry" He then made them enter since this is not good if the little child is going to continue staying outside.
"Are you out of your mind Arju, why did you brought a child outside?" He was then asked by Bernar with an angry tone.
Arju was about to answer him when Bernar saw the little boy pull down the hood on his face and then he saw a beautiful face. He then glared at Arju once again.
"You are really stupid, look, the child is a girl, do you really want them to kidnap that child" Arju was stupefied, this guy, he really won't listen to him.
"Master, Am I a girl?" He was taken aback when the little boy asked him that stupid question but it is quite normal for him to ask since the little boy never seen a woman in his life even once.
He went near the little boy and pats his head.
"Bernar, this child is not a girl" Bernar was extremely shocked.
"Are making fun of me" Bernar is looking at him seriously and it looks like he doesn't believe him.
After a few minutes of explanations, Bernar finally believed that the little boy is really a male.
"Ahahaha, this is quite hilarious, hahaha, I can't believe that even the little child doesn't know that he is a boy" Bernar is laughing to his heart's content.
Arju cannot help but scratched his head.
"You cannot blame Izayoi since he had never seen one before" Because of his answer Bernar once again left out another mouthful of laugh that his stomach is hurting.
For some reason, Izayoi felt a little uneasy because of Bernar's laughing.
The little boy went silent and somehow he is relieved that he is not a girl though in the future this quite adorable question will definitely give him chills that he doesn't want anyone to know that he really did ask this question and whenever he saw this Bernard he will definitely feel irritated because he made fun of his innocent question.
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