The World We Do Not Know - 98 Duties of a Captain

The other day Faust visits the ‘House Of Carlos’ amazing is the only word he can find to describe the house. It is so lively and huge. Almost three times bigger the size of Faust’s present house.

There are twenty-five soldiers in the entrance hall, playing poker, drinking and competing in an arm wrestling.

It seemed like a crowded metro station where your buttocks are getting squeezed from the person standing behind you and you cannot do anything about it.

After a moment of Faust in the crowded house, trying to ask the soldiers about Thorik. One of the soldiers recognizes the cloak that Faust is wearing. “It’s the captain’s cloak and it’s original too!” He says in excitement.

“I heard about him! He is the youngest captain in our house.” Another person with a bandana says as all of the soldiers recalls hearing about a young captain, starts moving towards Faust.

“Ehhhhhh you are so lucky!! It’s been twelve years for me and I couldn’t become a captain. Moreover, it’s another captain from our servant class! This calls for a PARTYY!!!!” The soldiers start celebrating in the name of Faust.

“By the way! Can I know where Mr.Thorik is? I was supposed to meet him here today.” Faust is trying to ask the group of soldiers who are ignoring him and his questions but keep drinking booze.

Meanwhile, Thorik enters the room with a female soldier. The female turns her face away from Faust with a ‘Humph’ upon seeing him. Faust is startled with her sudden behaviour, he doesn’t even recall ever seeing her face. But did not bother much, he is only focussed on getting the equipment he came for.

As they approached Faust who is standing in the middle of the room. The female soldier starts yelling at Faust in a foreign language. It surprised both Faust and Thorik as well.

She was pointing fingers towards Faust while yelling. “Omae wa mou shindeiru!” She ends with the line and goes back to the path she came from.

“Ignore her, she’s from a different city where they speak and learn only one language, their regional language. She cannot speak our language.” Thorik mentions to Faust.

He and Thorik starts talking about what Faust wants. “I can’t give you humanoids! You know right! Our house is also going to be in the purge, so we need resources on our side.” Thorik replies to the question of Faust about humanoids.

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After a brief discussion, Faust comes back to his building empty-handed. “Faust! Where is the equipment? Fab and Jonathan asks him being puzzled.

“They didn’t have what I wanted. They’re going to make them today and deliver it to us tomorrow.” Faust informs his squad.

“But we are going to do reality simulation training with their house,” Faust tells them beforehand. He succeeded in arranging a training stimulation for his house vs House of Carlos.

“Let’s work on our weapons and strategies before going to the training.” Faust suggests, and everyone gets ready equipping themselves with their weapons and armour.

Jonathan has an assault rifle in his hand, similar gun to AK-47. With a red stone on the handgrip of the gun. Along with a slim chain wrapped around his left arm.

He is wearing a black uniform. A black long sleeve top with red linings at the edges. On top of his shirt is a black jacket with half sleeves and round neck, the texture looks leather but the jacket is made from an alloy of lightweight metal fibers with animal skin.

Jonathan is also a martial artist for Tsumugi’s house. His speciality of weapon is chain whip! A chain with a small handle on one end and a sharp knife on the other end. The chain is coiled around his left arm to use it in close quarters. and to unveil it whenever he wants to.

Fab is holding a long semi-auto rifle, enhanced with red elemental stone which increases his marksmanship. He is also wearing a long blacktop and the armour jacket which is only covering his chest, exposing his abdomen muscles.

Rachel, on the other hand, is using a sniper rifle enhanced with green stone. She is wearing a sleeveless tank top covered by the same armour, but her armour is only covering the left side of her chest to her left shoulder.

Faust wears his usual cream coloured hoodie with the black cloak around him covering up to his waist.

“Wah! Faust! Why can’t you wear soldier outfits like us? Why are you still wearing that hoodie?” Rachel yells at Faust for always choosing hoodies over trendy outfits.

“Huh? Isn’t it cold? I feel so cold! I don’t know how you can be comfortable in that tank top. It’s barely covering your chest.” Faust replies back with sarcasm in a sleepy tone.

Tsumugi smiles at all four of them going back to their normal selves, perfectly looking ready to fight.

“Why are you sleepy Faust? Did you not get enough sleep last night?” Tsumugi questions him of his night-long sleep.

“I was up! Planning strategies… just couldn’t get myself to sleep.” Faust replies with a smile and everyone smiles happily for his passion and hard work.

“Let me be, I’m just a supporter anyway. Don’t keep your hopes high on me.” Faust takes out his purple katana from his portal bag.

“Wow! Wait! Did you get a portal bag from Carlos? And that sword?” Fab couldn’t hold back his excitement upon seeing Faust as a perfect supporter because now with his portal bag, he can store as many things as he wants.

Faust also takes out an armlet that has an empty space in the middle. Everyone’s been wondering why he would need an armlet. “I got this armlet from the house of Carlos.” Faust takes out a black stone saying that.

“A bl-bl-black stoneeee?”

“Faust! Where did you get that?”

“Don’t tell me!”

Jonathan, Fab and Rachel are surprised to see a black stone with Faust.

“What?” Faust asks casually puts the armlet on his arm beneath his cloak. “This is good now, people won’t be able to see it.” He ends it with a smile but his squad is still surprised, same with Tsumugi.