Third chapter of the day. If you spot any spelling mistakes or when a sentence ends halfway, let me know so i can fix it.

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Chapter 3: A restless night and a busy morning

Jack escorted Curo out. When they exited the door, Jack gestured for the servant girl to come closer before saying, "This is Kana, she will be your personal servant. If you have any questions or need something, ask her, if she can't provide it, then at least she would let me know, so I can see if I can help you out with it." Curo took a closer look at Kana because even though he had seen her before, he didn't quite take the time to take a good look.

He realized that she was actually quite good looking. She was medium height, had long dark hair, emerald green eyes and her body was developed where it mattered. "Hello, I am Kana and will be in your service from now on." She cupped her hands respectfully but was a little confused about the situation. She didn't know what they talked about inside so she had no clue about what was going on. Curo on the other hand, lowered his head and apologized, "My name is Curo and I am sorry about giving you such a hard time before." Although Curo hadn't accepted this whole "successor" thing, he understood that he had practically no freedom of choice in the matter. From the style of the buildings, he could see that this place was far away from his home town and if he started running around randomly, he would most likely end up dead in the surrounding areas.

Even more so, this was the home base of the Shadow clan, the chances of him making out of here alive on his own were practically non existent unless a God took pity on him and decided to teleport him to a safe location. He decided to stay here for the three months and then he would probably leave. In his opinion, even if the Clan Master wanted to make him his successor, it doesn't mean that the rest of the clan would agree to it. Even more so that he was an outsider and abandoned child at that. They had agreed that tomorrow Curo would meet the clan elders and Curo was about 99% certain that the elders would object to this facade. Even in his eyes, this seemed like a joke.

"Would you escort Curo back to his room?" Jack asked in a polite tone and Kana nodded before cupping her hands respectfully. "Alright, I'll see you in the morning little fellow." Jack said while yawning, he started heading back to his own room. Kana had realized, that Curo is an important guest and respectfully started leading the way to the room he would stay at. When they reached inside the room, Kana said in a respectful voice, "We have arrived, if you need something do not hesitate to ask me and I will do my best to accomplish what you ask for, no matter what time it is." Curo looked at her with an intrested gaze, "When will you be sleeping that I could ask at anytime?"

Hearing that Kana was surprised, when she thought back to what she had just said, she realized, that she had basically claimed that she would not be sleeping at all and she would do anything he asked. Her face started turning red from embarrassment but before she could say anything to defend herself, Curo laughed, "Don't worry I won't be running away anymore and neither would I be asking you to do something for me in the middle of the night." Hearing that Kana was grateful about him not misunderstanding her and hurriedly said, "I thank the little master."

"Stop with the master, I am nothing more but a street rat, if you want to call me something, call me Curo." Curo said in a joking tone, during his days in the city he had learned to act very well. Even now, even though he didn't trust any of them and was always on guard, he didn't show it. They chatted for a few minutes and then Curo decided to go to sleep. When Kana heard that, she immediately started changing his bandages. When that was done, Kana decided to take her leave.

"I will come to wake you up in the morning. Good Night." She said that as she closed the door. When Curo saw that the door was closed, he waited for a couple of minutes before taking the blanket and going outside to the garden. As a person who had never slept on a bed, he felt weird sleeping on a bed, so much that he couldn't even fall asleep. He climbed onto a tree branch that was 2 meters thick and decided to sleep there. He wrapped the blanket around himself to keep warm and fell into deep sleep.

He woke up to a huge fuzz going on, he heard a lot of people running around and searching for something. When Curo opened his eyes, he was still half asleep. The sun had already risen and it was around 10AM. He jumped down from the tree and went inside the room to return the blanket he borrowed from inside. Since he wasn't accustomed to such things, he felt really out of place there.

When he slid the door open, he saw that Kana was on her knees apologizing to Jack who looked really pissed off. Curo walked in and asked, "What's all the fuzz about?" When Jack and Kana heard the voice, they immediately looked at him with relief written on their faces. Jack immediately asked, "Where did you go, I honestly thought you bolted again." Curo pointed at the tree he was sleeping on and said with a slightly shocked face.

"I was sleeping on the branch there, I have never slept on a bed, so it felt really weird for me. I couldn't fall asleep so I decided to go and sleep there." When Kana and Jack heard him, they were both kind of embaressed, Jack had initiated a clan wide search for him but none of them had looked into the courtyard, where you could have seen him just by glancing around.

"Well, now that you are here, you should change your clothes and let's go eat breakfast." "Yea, okey." Kana brought him the clothes that were prepeared for him and Curo changed into them, when everyone had left the room. The size fit perfectly, this left him puzzled.

When he went outside the door, to where Kana and Jack were waiting, he asked "May I ask, whose clothes are these? They fit me too perfectly." "Jack just gave a wry smile and said in a sadder tone, "Those are my sons old clothes, he was about your height in your age and the room is also his old room."

Curo didn't know what to say to that. He didn't know how old his son was before he had died but he guessed he couldn't be older than 15 or so. He didn't have time to dwell on it any longer as Jack and Kana ushered him into the dining room to eat a late breakfast.

Curo had never seen so many different types of food in his life, let alone eat them. He just sat there for a while and just stared at it. Jack was perplexed, he just said in a smiling face, "Eat while you can, we've got a long day ahead of us and you will need the strength." Since Curo had never eaten properly he grabbed the food with his hands and started eating it like that, Kana wanted to scold him but Jack gestured her not to. He understood from their talk yesterday, that he didn't know how to read, write, eat properly and so on.

He wasn't going to ask him to become a noble man in a night. Things like these were best done slowly over time. When they had finished eating, Kana cleaned Curo up and they headed to the main hall. When they arrived at the door, Kana backed away, it wasn't her place to join them in there even though she was Curo's personal servant.

When Curo entered the room, he instantly felt extremely oppressive pressure. He saw that all of the 24 chairs were filled with men who had greing hair. They all sported various visible scars and had an extremely fierce aura. They all eyed the little Curo, who just came in, with cold eyes. Curo had shrunk half his usual size from the intimidation.