Enter the Registration office - I

Sebastian walked around the city while holding the map in his hand.

"Where the hell am I?" asked Sebastian to himself as he concentrated on the map.

He had a rough idea at first when he had started but now after reaching the civilian district, he was lost.

The civilian district of Abros has cramped up homes all stacked up together like a stack of cards. Although, the citizens didn't mind that at all. They received a fat income and also got a high-class status. Each of the citizens here has a family member working for the military here.

Although people who had permanent shops at the peasant district like Beatrice and her family who had a lower status compared to the civilian district. Hence, there was a threat if Beatrice's bakery didn't perform well or the civilians were unhappy with their service would likely be removed from the city along with their citizenship to be revoked. Some other people would likely be replaced with a new bakery.

Hence there was pressure on the shopkeepers to perform well and satisfy the customers, especially the civilians of this district.

Thankfully, the Magpie family had well bonded with the civilians on their good side.

"Didn't I just past by here?" questioned Sebastian to himself.

He once again made roundabout-turn and returned to the same place as before.

Anyone can linger in the civilian districts but the only problem was that it was like a maze. The houses had buildings with three-four storey houses stacked and closed to each other. People who weren't familiar with this area would likely get lost.

Sebastian then saw some group of young boys playing at the side of the road. They looked about the same age as Martha.

He approached the kids,

"Hey boys, could you help me out for a second? I need to know the directions to the Knight examination office."

The boys stopped playing and glanced at the stranger.

One of the boys stepped up,

"Get lost!"

Sebastian was baffled to hear the response,

"Excuse me? What did you just say?" he asked.

"I said go away, slave! Or I'll report to your master." responded the kid.

Sebastian was surprised,

"My master is Sir Knight Darius Pollard Brigande whose currently posted in the northern border but I am not a slave but his pupil-"

"Your master's name is weird. Hahaha" mocked the bratty kid.

His friends also started laughing.

Although, Sebastian didn't take this joke well.

"You don't know what you're talking kid." Sebastian closed in and looked him in the eye, "He has cool name than any of the other knights I ever heard. So stop laughing this instant."

Sebastian was a bit annoyed and his infamous smile resurfaced.

The kids all froze in terror, seeing his evil smile as he glared at them. The boys shivered in fear.

The youngest among the boys was the first to start balling his eyes out as he cried.

Sebastian was startled,

"Huh? What?"

The other boys started running,

"Help! Help me!"

"There���s a monster here." screamed the kids as they made their escape.

"Monster? What? Where?" asked puzzled Sebastian as he looked around him.

One of the boys threw their ball on Sebastian's face, but Sebastian managed to grab it with one hand.

"Wait, me?!" Sebastian squealed in surprise.

People started to gather around the place hearing the commotion.

'Not this again!' Sebastian quickly ran into an alleyway.

The people who came to kids rescue followed Sebastian into the alleyway armed with Broom and sticks.

Although, Sebastian was nowhere to be found. The alleyway had a dead end. People once again scattered to look for him.

Meanwhile, Sebastian was watching the commotion from a rooftop. He escaped while quickly climbing one of the buildings nearby.

Sebastian was born and brought up in Kald village located near the foothills of the northern mountains. He used to work as a chore boy at the northern military outpost since he was very young. The outpost was located in the harsh cold mountainous region with rough terrain and he used to come back and forth from that outpost every day.

Hence scaling the cramped tall houses in the civilian district was a no biggie.

Sebastian than escaped the area via jumping from one roof to another until he reached a safer place.

"Well then that's over, let's see where we are." saying so Sebastian once again checked his map.