Chapter 16: (Self Edited) The Daily Life at the Main House
“They will laugh at you after entering the school, you know.” (??)
I was told that by a white-haired Jii-san as I was limping on the floor of the Dojo.
I had been associating with this Jii-san for three years. This Jii-san was called Soim Hao. He was one of the so-called Hou Household’s retired knights. He told me that he always went for the expedition when he was young.
However, when the only son under his care died and the grandchild reached the age, he handed over the position of the family head to his grandchild, but he went to heaven with Gouk.
After that, he was reinstated to be the family head again. So, while hoping for the great grandchildren, who was born recently, he lived a life of hitting me with a stick and locking my joints. The only one who was losing was me.
Soim was an elder whose age surpassed 90 years old. Even if he was such a Jii-san, he had grown old but there were refined muscles under the depth of his wrinkled skin. Because of forged techniques, he was terrible strong.
I got up and grabbed the wooden spear again. The tip of the white wooden spear was painted red, and it seemed to be used by children in training. The red tip meant the slashing edge.
In the case of Soim, he held a stick wrapped with straws and covered with animal skin from the top. It wasn’t considered to be painful even if I got hit, but because it was like a bamboo sword that completely hollow inside, it hurts when I got hit. As I expected, no matter what kind of stick, it still hurts.
I got up.