Chapter 10 Wolfman Barnabus

Chapter 10

Wolfman Barnabus

I have completed my morning business and currently I am sitting on the floor in a meditative posture, legs crossed.

I am trying to calm my mind and hoping that if I have mana, then maybe I can awaken mana detection or something.

Actually, I am just waiting for someone to open this room and just passing my time.

But this is also good. Now that I have a new good body, that is not destroyed by lack of exercise and bad habits, I want to keep it in optimum condition.

Also this and physical training will be necessary now that I am in this dangerous world.

After about an hour the gate was knocked and opened.

The one who came in was none other than my favorite uncle Robert.

He saw me sitting in that pose and gave me a weird look.

But I just ignored him and got up. Sadly no mana was felt today.

But my mind was very calm.

I waved my hand and greeted him good morning in English.

He also did the same in some giberish. After that he gestured me to follow him.

He took me out to the back of this barracks like place.

There was a well there and many soldiers were bathing in their underwear by using buckets and soap.

Of course all were men. It seems the place for women was built a little distance from there and was surrounded by wall.

After that Robert san handed me a towel and change of clothes and went away.

The clothes he gave me is a simple white shirt, an underwear and brown pants, similar quality to what I have now, just the colour is different.

I got in line for washing myself.

After washing was done I washed the dirty laundry too and carried it with me in my item box after secretly using it.

I think item box also might be an unusual skill so I want to hide it too.

Then I decided to go towards the courtyard where the soldiers were training. I think Robert san will be able to find me on his own.

I got there and observed the training.

The sun is just rising now and I was beginning to see things clearly now unlike yesterday.

In the courtyard about 20 men and 10 women dressed in leather armors were swinging swords. Some were practicing with spears while others were sparring with each other.

Philia san and Robert san are not here.

The people here are of mixed races.

I can see two beastmen who are male and they have wolf ears and tails.

There is also one with a horn on his head. No elf or dwarf though.

At some distance I also saw an archery range and also magic practice area similar to archery range.

The target dummies were made of straws.

But no one was practicing those.

I decided to appraise these people.

Doing so revealed that they were between age 16 and 35.

There are quite a few mixed humans and mixed beastmen.

Seems like races in these world are mingling very well.

Good, good I hate discrimination.

The people here are quite beautiful and handsome.

So it was not just Philia san and Robert san who were exception it seems.

But compared to them I am an ugly person.

Oh what am I saying, I am in a new body. I donot even know my own face now.

There was no mirror anywhere. And I forgot to look at myself in water reflection during bath.

My first day was so hectic that I forgot how I look. Hahaha....

Well I can do that later. For now lets get some exercise.

I entered the training courtyard, went to the place where wooden swords were lying and started choosing one.

A huge handsome wolfman was watching me from a distance . He is a macho hunk.

Earlier he was giving pointers to the other soldiers.

Lets scan him properly this time to remember his name.

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Name ..............Barnabus

Race .............. Wolfman

Age ................. 29

Gender............ Male

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Yup just like a prairie wolf, his wild looking long hair are mixture of brown and black.

He is about six and a half feet tall.

He has yellow eyes like that of a wolf and a brown tail too.His muscles seem to be blocks of forged iron.

How I know that, cause on the whole field, he is the only one who is not wearing a shirt or armor. Only leather pants.

He is carrying a great sword on his shoulder.

That reminds me, beastmen here have human face and just a tail and beast ear added to them and nothing more.

For now I picked an appropriate sword and went towards the soldiers who were doing running.

I did a brief stretching and I joined them in running laps while carrying my sword, around the ground. After about 10 laps.

I took a brief rest. This body has great performance.

I then joined the soldiers doing sword swinging practice and copied them.

Even though I was a complete stranger , nobody paid any attention to me except for Barnabus san.

Maybe they are scared of him actually or their dedication in training is top notch.

Barnabus san too should learn from them and stop staring at me already.

I am a self conscious man you know and I get nervous when people stare at me.

After I did swinging sword practice for a few minutes, I saw Barnabus san coming towards me.

Well this could be troubling.

After coming towards me, Barnabus san suddenly snatched my sword away.

"Eh!...Umm...."

Was he angry for using their training equipment without permission.

Well yeah probably. But something unexpected happened then.

Without saying anything, Barnabus san started slowly taking a pose and swing the sword slowly as if telling me how to do it.

I understood what he was doing.

He couldn't bear to see my amateur self, swinging the sword like that and then decided to snatch the sword to give me guidance. What an angel!.

Barnabus san you are so kind.

Seriously if this person was a girl I would have fallen in love with him for this kindness alone.

But why were you glaring though.

Is it the so called natural defect of eyes.

But how does he know that I cannot speak their language.

Have I already become a topic of gossip here?

Anyway I bowed to him and gesture to take the sword from him, which he gave easily.

I then tried to copy him as it is.

To my surprise I was able to exactly remember how he did it completely in just one go.

I then increased the speed of the swings with the technique Barnabus san taught me.

After seeing that, Barnabus san folded his hands, nodded twice in affirmation and went away.

How manly.

I then continued swinging sword for about an hour or so.

Then, I saw Robert san coming to the courtyard. This uncle never learns huh.

Now that I observe him carefully he is quite handsome.

He is a six feet tall slender human, black short hair that stand on their own, sharp eyes that are always vigilant and a face that depicts strictness and dutifulness.

I hope he is already married and not going for Philia san.

He then went to Barnabus san and after a salute, he started discussing something pointing at me.

You shouldn't point at people you know.

After Barnabus san seemed to have given him permission, he came towards me and gestured to follow him and I reluctantly decided to do so.

Hope he takes me to Philia san otherwise I will always call him uncle.

I have many grudges against him you know.

Like how he interrupted my date and then locked me in a room yesterday.

As I was following Robert san, I felt as if he was a little agitated and wanted to say something to me but was unable to do so because of language.

Probable it was about how I vanished from the bathing area.

Well that I had to, because I did not want to see bunch of men bathing anymore and also I was interested in training.

I want to meet Philia san fast. Its not because she is beautiful, well partly it is but I want to ask her about Lily's condition and also about when will I be released from here.

But unfortunately my wish was not answered.

The place that Robert san took me to was a canteen where many soldiers were having their food.

Along with Robert san I also got in a line, which seemed to be food distribution line.

But Robert san gestured me to eat and went away somewhere.

The line moved.

The system was similar to any university hostel mess.

Take your plate, move forward, the person serving the dishes will put them in your plate from the big container they kept on the shelves to the side of the line.

After getting one of each dish, go to the sitting area and sit wherever you like and eat.

I also did so. While doing so I was appraising the dishes.

There was bread, soup, salad and a curry of some sort, that contained vegetables and meat.

There was also sweet yogurt drink along with it.

Even here nobody paid much mind to me, even though I was clearly an outsider here.

Still I was being polite so that not to cause any trouble.

I bowed to everyone serving the dishes, while they were giving me the dishes.

After my set was complete, I scanned the area for seat.

There were two table where seats were empty.

So I had a choice. One was on a table where 5 girls were having their meal while having a lively discussion.

Other was on the table with 2 girls having their meal quietly.

No seat on tables with male group was empty.

What luck. Bad luck I mean.

My social anxiety is very bad especially if girls are around. Especially since all the girls are so beautiful here. What should I do?