Chapter 45 Use of the Village Entry and Exit Book

After we both saw the gate and uncle Tom there, we approached him to complete the selection to enter this academy. "Hello Uncle Tom, we both got here before midnight right?" I greeted Uncle Tom and asked if we had finished the Selection this time.

"Yes, you two have completed this selection and you are officially a student at Balaraja Academy now." Uncle Tom smiled when he saw the two of us.

"Because you two are currently students at Balaraja Academy, for now, we will wait for the other two until midnight, if they don't get here by midnight, then we will leave them and go to the academy," Uncle Tom asked us to wait for Frank and Gray before going to the academy.

"Okay uncle" we both answered and nodded our heads. "Uncle Tom, I want to ask something, is that okay?" I asked permission first before asking Uncle Tom.

"What do you want to ask me, Bobby?" Uncle Tom looked at me. "Why are you still accepting Frank and Grey, when only two people will be accepted by the academy from our village? Because Nanda and I have become warriors. I guess that would mean they won't be able to compete with the two of us in this selection right?" I asked why Uncle Tom still wanted to take Frank and Gray to the forest.

"Huh... I don't want to bring those two either, because you two are enough to fill the quota. But the academy regulations state that I have to bring any number of people who meet two criteria, namely having more than 100 kg of strength and being able to pay an entrance fee of 36,000 Dollars" uncle Tom sighed before answering my question.

"So that's why you still want to take them, uncle? Because of the academy regulations?" I also understand why Uncle Tom still took them both. "Yes, and I was very grateful when only 2 people were able to pay the money out of 6 people. Because it will only waste their lives and money if the six of them can meet those two criteria" uncle Tom sighed again.

The three of us waited for the two of them in front of the city gate until midnight. Midnight came, Uncle Tom sighed and said "Huh... it seems like the two of them didn't make it out of the forest safely" Uncle Tom looked at the forest.

"Then don't we have to confirm the condition of the two of them uncle?" I also asked uncle why we do not confirm their whereabouts.

"This world is like this Bobby" Nanda also answered my question. "You mean like this how Nanda?" I asked Nanda what he meant by his words just now.

"For example, if when I fought the Rabbit Beast earlier and you didn't help me, then I was killed by that Beast. What would you do?" Nanda also asked me what I would do when Nanda died when attacked by the Rabbit Beast earlier. "Of course, I will take your body to the city to be buried in this city" I answered his question while holding my chin.

"You are a good person Bobby, but I am not a resident of this city, do you think they will bother to receive my body and take care of it even though I am not a resident here?" Nanda also asked me whether people in this city would accept his body or not. "Are they not going to accept your body, Nanda?" I began to realize the intent of Nanda's question.

"Yeah, Bobby, a resident of this city, wouldn't bother taking care of someone who isn't from their area. You've hunted outside your village before, haven't you?" then uncle Tom also helped Nanda to answer my question and asked if I had ever gone out hunting before.

"Yes, I've gone hunting outside the village before" I also answered uncle's question that I had hunted out of the village before. "Then you still remember, right? before you left your village, the village guards recorded your name in their entry and exit book?" uncle Tom also started talking about the book that wrote the names of every Warrior who left and entered the village.

"Yes, they recorded the names of every warrior who came in and out of the village. Then what does this have to do with taking care of someone's uncle's body?" I asked about the relationship between the two things.

"Of course, there is, the book records every Warrior's name that leaves the Village, and if they return they must report to the gatekeeper to erase their name in the book, and when they die outside the village and their bodies are brought into the village by someone else, if their name is contained in the book then their bodies will be accepted. But if not, then they will not accept the body and let the body outside the village" Tom's uncle explained why the Warrior had to record the name of someone who came out in the book.

"So when someone dies outside the village and his name is not recorded, his body will not be buried in uncle's village?" I asked with my heart beating fast enough to Uncle Tom. "Yeah you're right, if that person wasn't a Warrior, then they wouldn't need to bring him inside to be buried, because surely his name wouldn't be in the book. Because the book only records Warrior names" Uncle Tom answered my question.

"Oh, so it's like that uncle. I understand now" I understand why they don't care about Frank and Grey, nor my parents. 'So that's why I never knew where my parents were buried, that's because my parents weren't Warriors and were just left outside the village' I know the truth about the fate of my parents whose bodies were only left outside the village and might have been eaten by the Beast outside the village. I clenched my fist hard and looked at Nanda.

I remember what Uncle Jason said when he saw Nanda coming to the selection to enter the academy in the village this morning. Uncle Jason said the two people on the right side of Nanda's father were Warriors who hunted the child of the Earth Bull Beast that caused my parents' death.

Nanda looked at me "What's wrong Bobby? You look a little tense?" he asked about a slightly different behavior than before. "Hmm? It's okay, I was just thinking of something. Oh, yes Nanda, may I know the names of the two people who were by your father's side this morning?" I also asked about the names of the two people who were on Nanda's father's side.

"Oh, those two, they are Warriors who followed my father from the city when he decided to live in Adiyasa Village. For their names, the first to have brown hair is Ian and the one with blue hair is Elga. They were both Level 1 Warriors with Uncommon Category. Why do you ask that Bobby?" Nanda looked at me with a question on her face.

"It's okay, I just felt that the two of them were stronger than the usual Warriors, it turns out they are Category Uncommon Warriors after all, hahaha" I answered his question while scratching my head and saying in my heart. 'Ian and Elga huh? I will repay you both and make your bodies eaten by the Beast outside the village later'