To say that the blow was so fast that I couldn't react would be a lie, it was only my astonishment and lack of experience that allowed Charles to hit my chest and send me flying a couple of meters.
And even so, I only felt a slight scorch in the part of my heart, my body fell after being thrown several meters, the sensation when I hit the ground was as if I had fallen out of bed.
"Get up...", I heard Charles' voice, so I stood up effortlessly.
....
After a bit of practice, Charles gave me a few lessons on the theory of swordplay and hand-to-hand combat, although he seems a bit playful and looks to be between fifteen and seventeen years old, I must admit that Charles is really someone who knows what he is doing.
At noon, Charles invited me to have lunch with him.
"Ah, it's just what I need right now, I mean... I missed seeing Kamila", I said as I walked next to Charles.
"Kamila seems to be a maid who comes from the lower classes, unlike the other maids, she doesn't seem to have much support, I mean, her family is not influential... Sir Orc... Do you want to sleep with her?", Charles asks a question.
"Not necessarily...", I sighed, I'm not really interested in Kamila right now, my priority is to escape from Arlott.
"Why do the others kingdoms want to go to war against Arlott?", I ask my question, as I approach Kamila who is waiting for me with a plate of food on a table.
Charles sits down next to me and makes elegant gestures that I don't recognize, perhaps some noble etiquette.
"Maybe it's because of the non-human policy of the Arlott kingdom", Charles grabs a fork, knife and begins to cut the juicy meat from his white plate.
Non-humans?, my interest piqued, I looked at Charles who looks like some kind of femboy hero in shining armor.
"Ah, I forgot hahaha", Charles swallowed and smiled at me before gesturing to a maid.
"She will bring some books on swordplay and the current situation of the kingdom, just wait", that said, Charles paid no more attention to me and started to eat, I did the same while a slight expectation filled my mind.
In the afternoon the training was the same, just late at night, Charles takes some books that a maid brought and hands them to me.
"Dude, I hope you take this as some kind of help I'm giving you right now...", Charles smiles, he's a little too close so I take a couple of steps back.
I don't know why he comes so close, his perfume with a certain aphrodisiac smell makes something inside me wake up, I swallow saliva and righteously observe Charles's eyes.
"Hey, Charles... I've been thinking about it all afternoon, and let me tell you, if, uh, if...", I quickly shook my hand explaining, "I mean... I would like to sleep with Kamila...", I blushed slightly.
...
"Charles watches me for a bit before bursting out laughing, "Hahaha, bro, that, that's good, that's very good, I really thought you were, you know, a pillow-biter, a scorpion, I mean, a faggot", Charles nods his head with satisfaction, "So, Can you do me a favor?, there's a girl in your group, she... What's her name?, oh yes, Diana!!!, beautiful name... Can you help me get close to her?", I narrowed my eyes at Charles' words.
Why?
Why Charles just couldn't approach Diana like he approached me?, he doesn't seem to be shy or anything like that.
Although, when I look at him in a little more detail, Charles certainly seems to be a little flushed.
He likes Diana?, as if I would believe that, this is a prince, a man raised from an early age to be a man who rules a kingdom.
Although, just maybe...
I licked my lips lightly before looking into Charles' deep-set eyes.
"Where do you want her?", my words sound like a merchant selling his daughter, but, I simply don't care.
Charles' eyes light up with a bright, chilling shade of blue.... "What do you think of this place?, Could you invite Lady Diana to this place tomorrow at noon?", Charles takes a step forward, closing the distance between us.
"No promises, you see, Diana is like a stranger to...", Before I can finish speaking, Charles slips something into my right pocket.
"Come on, orc-friend... Sir Quasimodo, be magnanimous", whispers of a prince in love, hahahaha, What a stupidity!!, Charles blushes, I sigh in admiration, it is, beautiful, too beautiful, every inch of that beautiful face is sculpted to perfection, it is feminine, too much, too much for a rude and queer man....
"Alright, I will do my best, Prince Charles, now, I must withdraw...", I said with a stoic face before trying to turn around, but Charles' hand on my shoulder prevents me from completing my actions.
"Bro... thank you... make an effort in your training, I hope to see you again", were the sincere words of a prince I had barely known for a few hours sounded genuine.
I quickly finished dinner and returned to the hallway where my room is, always accompanied by silence and Kamila.
Kamila, she, she, she seems to be like my shadow, and being in deep thoughts, I didn't realize at what time I arrived at Huanca's door, some flirtatious and lustful noises are audible even from my position behind a closed door.
*knock* *knock*
I knocked on Huanca's door, Kamila already entered my room with the books Charles had given me.
There was a slight noise and rude words from inside the room before the door opened.
"Damn!!!, Who the fuck dares to!...", Huanca stopped talking when he saw me, a strange smile appearing on his face before he smiled broadly.
"But it's you Quasi!!!, come on in, I have some wine I want to share with you...", Huanca smiles, turns around and ignoring that he's only wearing a pair of shorts he heads to a closet.
Closing the door behind me after entering my sight goes to a maid with messy hair, a flushed face and teary eyes, she stares at me.
"Come on, it's necessary to curtsy...", I say after taking a step forward, the maid quickly seems to come to her senses and bows.
"Sorry for not greeting you, Sir Quasimodo...", I could see her cleavage and one of her nipples sticking out of her tight maid outfit as she bowed.
"Hahaha, Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?, Quasi, NO REVERENCE IS NECESSARY...", Huanca smiles before pulling out a finely crafted bottle from between her clothes in the closet.
"Actually yes, it is necessary to bow, I also like to be called Sir, instead of just being called Quasimodo", I pause and start walking to Huanca, "This is a different... world".
Huanca quickly walks to a small round table with two chairs, he sits in one as he begins pouring wine into two glasses.
"You, Retire for the moment!...", at my command Huanca's maid quickly fixes her dress before walking out the door.
"Hmph, you are cruel, What happened to the gentle and generous Quasimodo with the ladies?, I hardly recognize you trash, and to think that you once saved Caero from death...", Huanca smiles while waving the wine glass in his right hand and remembering the old times.
"You look like an old man reminiscing about the times of his youth", I said before sitting down in the other chair and pausing.
My face distorted with some reluctance and regret, I shook my head a little along with my right hand before sighing, my blinking feels like a second of death, a second in which I sleep....
"Aren't we?, I must be over thirty or maybe close to forty", Hunca smiles as she takes the wine.
"If you know that makes you a pedophile for sleeping with your maid?, she must be no older than ten seventeen or eighteen...", I raise an eyebrow before taking a sniff of the wine.
"Isn't it the same with you?, Quasi", Huanca smiles at me like a naughty child, "Tsk", I made a noise of annoyance with my tongue before bringing the glass to my mouth.
Sweet, a bit heady, maybe... no, very similar to Merlot but not as distilled.
"Don't compare me to you, I haven't even touched a single hair of Kamila's, I don't know why that girl acts this way, it's disturbing, a little creepy, but...", I moved a little closer to Huanca to whisper in his ear.
"Remember when I pushed a maid?, I mean, when we were just summoned to this hovel... she was Kamila's sister, I say she was because... she was decapitated and her head was brought to my room last night...", at my whisper Huance stopped smiling, his face became tense and he turned his head to look at me.
"I thought you would never say it, in fact, I heard your conversation with that guard... this kingdom is wrong, there is something behind all this that I don't like...", Huanca admits seriously.
I smiled knowing Huanca is no fool, "I'm going to ignore your dead-dog breath, then...", I paused, "What's the plan?"
Huanca's face distorts into a wide grin, the skin tucks around his eyes as well as his tetric stare could take the sleep out of any child's eyes.
Huanca quickly pulls some sort of folded paper from his pocket.
"Be amazed, Wasi, sorry... Sir Quasi", Huanca boasts as she quickly unfolds the paper, is... a map, is a map.
A slight smile forms on my face.
"Eh here, this is something I got thanks to my skills, by the way, you haven't attended the training with the teachers for two days, so you probably don't know...", Huanca squints with annoyance, "But, the people of the Arlott kingdom won't let us leave the royal city, they say we can't because, well, according to the guards we need to train..", Huanca makes a noise with his tongue.