28 Bulls on parade (1/2)

Harrison went back to the shack and looked at the weapons. He took a one-handed sword that he was most familiar with and went back outside. Looking at the well flattened arena he walked inside through the opening in the fence and tried to familiarize himself with the weight of it.

As he was doing so he heard footsteps approaching him. He turned his head and saw Rogun walking towards the arena. He ignored him and made the standard movements described in the book he had in his inventory.

Rogun stopped at the fence and didn't say a thing in the next ten minutes.

Harrison ignored him and pretended he didn't exist being stubborn.

'If you won't acknowledge I exist neither will I.' He thought to himself as his movements became more fluid.

'These are not movements of a 12-year-old kid. The technique is for beginners but even then the time it takes to reach such fluidity between moves can only be found in people who had swordsmanship classes since they were toddlers. This guy must be up to something with Sheina.' Rogun thought as he observed Harrison.

”Give me your sphere of translation.” Rogun finally spoke with irritation saying he would be rather anywhere else but here.

Harrison took the second sphere and handed it to him.

”How long have you been practicing the way of the sword and who is your teacher?” Rogun asked with authority.

”Four days. And I don't have a teacher. I learned it from a book.” Harrison replied truthfully.

”Do you think I am a moron? You! Took! Four days! To get such fluidity between movements?” Rogun yelled.

”Yes. Is there a problem?” Harrison asked.

”You!” Rogun got a hold of himself only because he was speaking to someone who saved Sheina's life and was Shalmoon's guest.

”Where do you have that book you learned from?” Rogun asked him to try to expose the lie.

”It's in my room. Shall I go get it?” Harrison looked at him with an annoyed expression.

”Yes. Go get it.” Rogun was annoyed by the kid's arrogance also.

Harrison went to his room and got the book out of his inventory and came back to the backyard while Rogun was inspecting the training swords in the shack.

As he walked back he showed the book in Rogun's hands before walking into the arena again.

”You! I swear I will spank you silly if you don't show me some respect.” Rogun said.

Harrison looked him dead in the eyes and replied while gritting his teeth, ”Respect is something you earn. It is not something that is given freely.”

”Well said.” Rogun said before in a flash he had Harrison over his knee and spanked him hard ten times on the behind.

”Do you respect me yet kid?” He yelled as he finished.

Harrison feeling embarrassed got even angrier.

”Go *uck a gorilla you silver monkey.”

”Do you respect me yet kid?” Rogun yelled as he finished another round of ten.

In the meantime virtual messages of masochist skill leveling up and energy consumption were flying at Harrison's face.

'You better kill me now because if I survive this I will pay it back for sure.' Harrison almost yelled this before he changed his mind fearing Rogun would actually do it.

”You look like a gray monkey and stink like one. So you must be one.” Harrison yelled instead.

”In all my years. Never.” Rogun yelled before another twenty smacks followed.

”Do you respect me yet. Do ya?” He yelled before throwing Harrison on the ground just as Sheina ran to them.

”What are you two doing?” She yelled gasping for air.

Rogun looked at her and replied, ”The kid needed to learn how to respect his elders!”

”And you need to learn how to respect other people's guests. I am sure he didn't deserve to be punished and embarrassed like this. Why was he disrespectful? You were antagonizing him from the moment you met him. I am not the same girl I was when my mother was abducted. I saw the way you looked at him like a lamb waiting for slaughter the moment we walked into the dining room. You were disrespectful to him and myself considering your judgment is way above mine. Trying to protect me from the world when you are almost never here. I was going to let it go because I respect you for what you did for my parents and not mention it. But now you do this? You were asked if you can teach him to use weapons and not to beat him into submission.”

Sheina went on a tirade as Harrison got up from the ground and dusted himself off. Rogun tried to intervene with some, ”But… But…, but he never stood a chance. He was like a giant bear being scolded by a schoolgirl. Harrison was smirking at him as he dejectedly stood there.

As Sheina noticed him smirking, she changed her attention to him.

”And YOU. I explained who Rogun is and what he means to my father. Even if he has a bad temper and is a little crass, sometimes he would have never raised a hand on you as our guest if you had not provoked him. Maybe my father left you with an idea that it is all right to provoke a bear. Even then you could respect him as an elder.”

”I am disappointed in the both of you.” She yelled at them before she left.