Reincarnation Of Audemars

Alright, let's go to the girl's dorm. You said there are 3 girls left, right? Are they related to one another?" I asked as we were being ushered out and down into the other hall. When we opened up the door, the girls were having a pillow fight and lots of goose feather was scattered in the floor and some were still floating in the air. When the matron walked in, they stopped and were pretending to fluff their pillows and bedsheets in their beds.

"Tsk tsk tsk... It has been some time since we had done any spring cleaning, matron." said the tallest and presumably the eldest in the group.

"Huh...these 3 girls are the devil's offsprings. No, they are not related to one another and they are always full of nonsense such as this. Their parents left them here as their parents had given up their residency here and wanted to move out and start another family elsewhere."

"I don't know, that's what the people here say. Some say the parents had an extramarital affair and some say that they are part of the LGBT. However, these girls have been here ever since. Girls, come over here and introduce yourself to these good citizens here." the matron described how their parents were and beckoned the girls over to introduce themselves.

"Good evening kind sir and madam. My name is Ingles and I am 12 years old. This is Jane and she is 11, while this little devil is Kayla and she is 10. We are the Charlie's Angels and please don't mind us fluffing the pillows over each other's heads earlier."

"We are not the devil's offsprings but Kayla might be, I don't know. She would throw her tantrum whenever she wishes and we would spar with one another from time to time."

"If the department of social welfare comes in to check on us for any scratched and bruises, they knew we three loved to spar from time to time. We three had not been chosen to be slaves by the slave traders so we won't know how it would be like to be as slaves."

The three grinned at us and both showed a perfect set of teeth. I don't know why, maybe good teeth means they have better hygiene unlike those in medieval England where the serfs had blackened, unwashed teeth. Or coffee stains, whatever... Hah Hah Hah.

"Hello girls, my name is Audemars and this is Patricia. And if you are thinking if we are a couple, no... We are not a couple, yet, I suppose. By the way, that's the least important matter to be discussed, right now. Do you girls know how to start a fire without burning the whole house down?"

"I know... I do... Yeay Fire...!!" the girls began to jump up and down like little chimpanzees wearing girls' dresses and were raising their hands high in the air as if they would be getting candy if they gave the right answers. Hah Hah Hah...

I looked at Patricia and can't help myself wondering, "Were you like this when you're their age before? Jumping around, having pillow fights and so on?"

Patricia looked at me and grinned, and I saw another set of perfect teeth but with a piece of salad stuck between them. If only she knew I won't know what she would do. Would she pick her teeth in public or she would suck on her teeth instead and making that awful screeching and smacking sounds... So uncouth...!!! Yyuucckkss...!!!

"Alright, since you had seen these children, come over to my office for a discussion then." the matron gestured us to follow her back to the office. Geez... I haven't made a confirmation and yet this discussion is going to be a serious one indeed. Haiyooo...

"Alright, Mister Audemars, I'm not going to ask you how do you find those children because it seems that you are not a big bad wolf that is going to eat them for your meals. But instead, I need to know what are your plans for them since you are not into slave trading and not going to make them your slaves or anything."

"That's a real mouthful there, ma'am. I have my plans but right now the question lies with Pointus and I have yet to meet Joan because of certain things that I may need from her. I'm not sure what they would think of me because I would be somewhere in the middle of their profession." I explained since I wanted to use Joan's equipment as she is into alchemy and also need Pointus on where I could gather certain herbs.

"What is your profession, Mister Audemars. I am very curious indeed and we all knew that you had just awoken from your deep sleep for 6 months after the Battle of Qodegh ended. It is a bitter war that many people termed it as 'Battle of Widowers'. You get what I mean?"

"I'm a Herbalist and a Crafter, ma'am. You may take Pointus as my reference. Furthermore, I'm in between alchemy and a pharmacist so I might say that I'm a mix of these professions. Furthermore, I'm a crafter, meaning I am used to crafting something to improve the lives of citizens as well as their wellbeing and living conditions." I explained to her, with just enough information to just scratch the surface.

"Tell me more what did you do improve the lives of the citizens, their wellbeing and living conditions? I'm very interested because normally a crafter would only think about their own welfare and not others. This is the first time I heard from a warrior of such mannerism."

The matron leaned forward on her desk and peered deep within me... As if she was some kind of soothsayer or maybe there's dirt on my face that somehow distracts her. Hah Hah Hah.

So here I am spinning another trail of bullshit that would make other listeners be in total astonishment when they heard me out. "Long before I was brought into the Legion by the Ruler of Aermagh, I was living in a small town in an unknown part of this country. It is called Oddfish."

"I was an orphan because my paternal parents can't afford to have another baby in their household so I was brought to this person who loves children and living in a house that looked like an Old Brown Shoe."

"When I was 10, I was fortunate to be an apprentice for both a pharmacy and alchemist and one day I was playing with some formula and created some kind of bath soap that comprises using both the pharmacy and alchemist skills put together. They loved the idea and opened up a small establishment for me to run my own show."

"In two years time, I was able to buy my own house, have small farmland for both food and herbal crops as well as a small coop for the hens and some goats. I was managing this alone until I was so-called responsible enough to take care of some employees to run the business together. I was doing the process and some of the employees were mainly doing the packing, storing as well as distribution to other beauty and cosmetic shops."

"I had been to the Northern District and it seems that there is no beauty or cosmetic shops so I'm very interested in setting up one while I go about my tasks ad an Adventurer here." I paused for a short while to let these bullshit sink slowly and form beautiful scenes inside their head especially credits that seems to flow in from the air.

"How much do you earn a month, Audemars?" asked Patricia who suddenly seemed interested in the bullshit that's coming out of my mouth... Hah Hah Hah.

"By the time I left, the place was run by 6 Plant Managers, 4 regional managers, 1 head if department and treasurer and more than 2000 employees. After I left to join this Battle of Qodegh, I last heard that some goblins or monsters had overrun the town of Oddfish and it had been ravaged to fires and burned to the ground." I put in a sad face but I was smiling inside, knowing that if I acted as if I'm wallowing in my sad past, Patricia and the matron would definitely help another fellow orphan.

"Tch... Tch... Tch... It is such a pity, but that doesn't answer Miss Patricia's question, Mister Audemars." the matron said while she raised her eyebrows and looked like she got a shrunken forehead...

"I'm too shy to say since everything was gone. Frankly, I was just earning just about 10 to 20 thousand credits per month after deduction of all the salaries, overhead and operating costs. That profit is all mine after the main balances had been deducted." I said as I spread my hands on the table, cocked my head sideways and put on a sad face as if my goldfish had turned belly up.

"That's a lot of money there, Mister Audemars. 10k credits a month, you could surely live comfortably around here. By the way, I heard you had been farming in the forest for the whole day today, am I right? Well, don't be surprised, Ingmery have ears on the walls and eyes on every street on every corner here, so how much have you collected so far? "

"*Ahem*...just 10k credits, but these are my personal collections. I intend to hit another 90k before u could use it as capital to run any business. We need capital to run businesses, right? Not to mention employees, we also need to get the equipment and stuff." I replied innocently after I made a quick check on the wealth that I had after I grind those goblins and sold off 160 of the goblins planked shields.

"10k credits and you think it's not enough for you? It's as good to start any business here, Mister Audemars and you are telling me you need another 100k? You think you are able to do it within the next 10 days since you can achieve doing it from lunchtime to before dinner to acquire that much credits?" asked the matron in surprised since she earns slightly less than 1k credits to run the orphanage.

"I think I could be able to give you my answer for the welfare of those 4 children in 2 weeks time, would that be alright with you ma'am?" I tried to avoid any more discussions because having conversations with women seems to be probing me and stripping me naked piece by piece.

"That's all right Mister Audemars. The children won't be going anywhere because there's nowhere they are heading and it had been 2 years since the last one had left. If they were being adopted by you, let's say that for the moment, we would like those children to be around us so that we would be able to monitor their progress."

"I also want these children to be properly educated in either the public school or any firms of education. As long as they learn something beneficial, we would be fine with that." the matron said as she closed a book in her table and adjusted her glasses and tried to look demure and serious at the same time.

"Education my ass... Those who will be under my supervision would get the best livelihood ever... Hah Hah Hah..." I smirked inwardly and I accepted it as a challenge because ny me saying I'd give her an answer in 2 weeks we're not rebuked.

On with the show, Charlie Chaplin...