After taking his second bath, Cale walked toward his study. Everywhere he passed the servants flinched and bowed their head.
This sight was uncommon for Cale, the servants never gave him this much respect.
Usually they would just ignore or take another course, fearing to be called out.
Cale being at the center of it was very confused. He was frowing while passing them.
'They are more scared than usual. Is it because I didn't go out all day and now they fear that I'll cause a tantrum?'
Meanwhile the servants couldn't believe their eyes. The oldest young master, that always dressed up with all sort of luxury clothes, was walking around in his pajamas.
The reason they bowed lower then usual, was because they were shocked and didn't want to show their disbelieving expression.
'Only God knows what the trash will do if he sees our face now'
That was the thought that all the servants shared. So Yes they were scared but Cale's guess was a bit off mark; but well, who can blame them? They had never seen a noble walking around in his pajamas; they started to think that the trash had finally gone completely insane.
Instead Cale's thoughts were more simple. It was already afternoon and he was too lazy to go throught all the hassle for wearing noble clothing; especially if he doesn't need to go out the house nor meet his family or someone important. Cale really didn't care what those servants thinked of him and started to walk faster to his study.
Cale could see Ron waiting for him at the door of his study.
Even Ron was surprised to see his puppy young master walking around in his pajamas, but his benign smile never left his face.
But Cale could see his cold gaze inspecting him.
'How vicious'
Cale shuddered and tried to not think about it and entered his study with Ron.
'Hans has cleaned it thoroughly'
The study was sparkling. Hans did his best and the study had gone throught many rounds of cleaning as it was given a lot of time.
Cale sat down at the desk thinking of using all the information gathered in his two lifes to create a plan.
'First.'
He looked at Ron.
"Ron what is today's date?"
"Young master today is the 29th day of the 3rd month in the 781st year of the Felix Calendar."
"Mm, that is a problem."
"Excuse me?"
"Nothing."
Cale frowned, he had regressed exactly one day after the slaughter of Harris village, and the day before Choi Han arrives at Rain City.
He is really unlucky, now the first thing he had to think is how to not get beaten up by the punk.
'One time was enough.'
Cale needs a plan to not trigger the twisted Choi Han that will come to report what happened to Harris village.
'If I had regressed a bit earlier I could find an excuse to at least evacuate the villagers.'
He didn't care if the village was destroyed but the people were innocent.
"Sigh."
He sighed as he prepared himself to find a way to deal with Choi Han. But he could also see a chance to escape this place, Cale's eyes lit up.
"Ron a cup of cold water please."
"... I understand."
After Ron left and Cale was alone, he pulled out a great piece of paper and started drawing.
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He was so engrossed in it that he didn't notice Ron's return.
"Young master."
Cale flinched and raised his head to see Ron with a cup in hand.
"Ah... thanks Ron."
Cale took a sip from the cup and then started to frown.
'As expected from Ron. He always brought me lemonade even throught I hate it. It's alredy a miracle that he gave me cold water this morning. How nostalgic'
Then he started to smile as he remembered the past. But he didn't forgive Ron for leaving, even if now it's him that wants him to leave.
'This time I'll use him well. In the meanwhile I'll enjoy this nostalgic feeling'
Ron was observing his puppy young master, usually when he brought lemonade the old Cale would just throw it away. But this Cale was happily drinking it even if he didn't like it.
Ron knew that something was wrong today with Cale, and was suspicious of his strage behavior.
Then he saw what his puppy was drawing; he recognized it with a glance, it was the map of the Eastern and Western continent.
But an incomplete one, there were parts that weren't still drawed and there weren't many details.
He knew that his puppy started to draw it as soon as he left, but to draw almost all the map of the continents in this little time is already incredible.
Then he looked at his puppy young master that was frowning and smiling.
Yesterday Cale had gone out and returned drunk like always, but in the morning his youn master was different.
'Something happened. But what?'
He eyed his young master and the map. It seemed like he was planning something.
Cale felt the cold stare that Ron was giving him; he ignored him and continued to leisurely drink his lemonade and then he gave the empty cup at Ron.
He knew that Ron was suspicious of him, but who would think that he was doing preparations for the war that will start in two years. And that said war didn't involve only the Roan Kingdom but the entirety of the Western and Eastern continent.
That is also how he knew the map of the two continents, he also knows many details of said continents that aren't showed in any map as he had fought in many places before regressing.
"Ron don't disturb me and make sure nobody, even you, enters the study."
"Yes, young master."
Ron headed out with the empty cup with his usual benign smile. Cale continued to draw the map and put all the details that he knew from his previous lives.
When he finished drawing, the most detailed map of the continents was created.
Obviously there were things that even him in his previous life didn't know but he had the intention of draw new details when he found them.
'For now this is sufficient.'
Then Cale started to write a paper with coordinates.
'Coordinates of places that I need to go.'
Those places were very important as many where the ones that he read in the novel '-The Birth of a Hero-', and some are places that were hot topic in his previous life. (Not telling.)
After he wrote the coordinates he used his ability to record the map and the coordinates. Then he burnt the papers with the coordinates in the fire while putting the map in a safe place.
Thinking about his situation with his family he decided to stay away from them.
'I need a new home away from everyone.'
He took out new paper and started creating a blueprint of the Villa that will become his new home. Obviously he didn't want to pay for it as he would sca- *cought* ask his father to do it. (The Villa will be described in the future.)
After ending all the time consuming things; he started to create a small list of the tinghs to do while he is in Rain City.
And the first thing in the list was something that bothered him since he finished reliving his life. To be precise his last record before dying.
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Boom. Boom. Boom.
Cale could hear exposions with the screaming of people as background. His head was ringing and spinning; he felt dizzy and couldn't see well.
After a bit of time the ringing disappeared and he could concentrate and take in his surroundings.
There were corpes everywhere, blood and dead mana was all around him making him wonder how he managed to survive.
'What happened?'
He was confused and lost, wondering how they ended like this.
Then he remembered; they were going to have the final battle against the White bast- *cought* Star at Puzzle City.
But in the middle of the fight they were hitted by a dead mana bomb, he was lucky that the bomb didn't hit him but the others soldiers around him died in the explosion, he was lucky and got trapped underneath all the corpses blocking the dead mana to reach him. That was how he survived the explosion.
Clang. Boom.
Hearing more explosions he looked up in the sky. He could see the White Star fighting that punk, Choi Han, the "hero" of what remains of the Roan kingdom.
Sword aura and Ancient Powers were clashing, but even Cale could tell.
'The punk is losing again.'
In those twenty years the Hero group and the White Star group fighted a lot of times, and the Hero group lost a lot of times and the victories weren't exactly victories becouse they knew that the enemy let them win.
'What heros, they can't even protect people.'
Not that he was different as he couldn't save his family or fight properly. But he tried his best.
'In the end a trash will remain a trash.'
He couldn't do anything even after coming all the way here. He survived but he didn't have anywhere to return.
He only wanted revenge.
Cale glared with all his hatred at the White Star, the one behind his family, friends, companions deaths, the one that destroyed the world, the one that played with them for 20 years.
In that moment he saw it. the white star grabbed Choi Han with his hand that released smoke and said.
"Time is warped oddly for you."
Hearing the familiar phrase Cale was petrified, he had realized something.
'That bastard has my mother's power'
His eyes widened and at that moment he made eye contact with the white bastard.
The last thing that he saw was the fire that the white bastard shot toward him.
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Cale woke up from his record and frowned.
He didn't want to open that record again but now that his ability has returned he has no choice. Unless someone wakes him up so that the record will stop he can't stop it.
He didn't feel good reliving his death, he was still unstable. (after all it happened recently for him.)
Not only his death, but also thinking of his mother makes his emotions difficult to control, just like when he thinks of his Hyungs.
'Mother's Ancient power'
He knew that his mother had an Ancient power but it irritates him that that fuc***g white star bastard is using his mother Ancient power to destroy the world.
So the first thing to do tomorrow.
"Go to my mother's grave and read her diary."
'I'm sure that all the answers are there.'
With that thought he finished doing the list, record it and burnt it. Then he fell asleep from mental exaustion and satisfaction for his plan.
'This time I won't get beaten up.'
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Brother: "Why aren't you calling Ron an old man anymore?"
Author: "Because now Cale is more of an old man than Ron."
Brother; "Gasp."
Author: 'But it was fun calling him an old man'
Author: 'Now there are 3 old Mans, should I make Eruhaben-nim coming out soon?'