Paul's Letter

Roa scoffed, Doesn't he know how I usually treat him? How can he say something so shameless? ✩ 🎀 69shux.c❤m 🎀 ✩

Roa said slowly, "Don't look at me, I can't do anything about it either. Educating children is too troublesome."

Rudeus wailed, he could already see his miserable future.

He didn't know if his tutoring mission would be successful, he wouldn't be able to see Zenith for a while, and he couldn't even send letters now.

However, upon calming down and thinking, Paul's argument did make sense.

If Zenith continued to grow under the current circumstances, she might become the kind of childhood friend character who appears in those cliché R-rated games. The kind who always sticks close to the protagonist, becoming a satellite orbiting the protagonist as the center of her world, lacking any self-identity.

In the real world, such over-dependence would gradually fade as she interacted with friends at school and learned, but Zenith couldn't make friends due to her hair color.

Even in five years, she would very likely still be clinging to Rudeus.

Although Rudeus didn't care about that situation, the adults around him didn't seem to think so.

After thinking it through, Rudeus couldn't help but sigh. He understood, but accepting it was still too difficult.

Ghislaine and Roa watched the spectacle. Ghislaine suddenly asked, "What's wrong, Rudeus? Did you break up with your lover?"

Rudeus sighed, "I was just kicked out of the house by Paul."

Looking at the letter, Rudeus continued to read: "Regarding compensation, you will receive two Asura Silver Coins per month. Although this amount is below the market rate for tutors, it's quite a lot for a child's allowance. You'll need to find time to learn how to use money in town. Because if you don't try spending it normally, you won't know how to use it properly in an emergency. But then again, I feel like my excellent son could probably spend money well even without learning... Ah, but no matter what, you absolutely cannot use it to buy women."

Roa's eyes narrowed slightly, and he met Rudeus's gaze, both showing a knowing smile.

"Tsk." Ghislaine looked at their expressions and knew what they were thinking without them saying a word.

So this is what Roa was like.

He was truly deceived by his appearance.

Could it be that he was worthy of being Paul's son?

"If you can persevere for five years and properly teach the young lady reading, writing, arithmetic, and Magic, then as stipulated in the contract, the other party will pay the tuition fees for three people at Magic University as a special reward."

Rudeus continued reading: "However, after five years, Zenith might not be willing to stay with you, and you might also change your mind due to cooled emotions. So, we will have a good talk with Zenith on our end."

Reading this part, Rudeus felt terrible. What did they mean by "we will have a good talk"? But no matter what, it had already happened. His gaze shifted down again, stopping at the very end. Rudeus glanced at it but didn't read it aloud this time because it was stating the obvious.

[I hope that within these five years, you will stay in a brand-new environment, learn all sorts of knowledge, and achieve a leap in progress to the next level. Written by your intellectual and overly great father, Paul.]

Rudeus didn't want to say this self-congratulatory statement aloud.

He put the letter back in the envelope and handed it to Ghislaine. Ghislaine waved her hand, "Just read it aloud, you can keep this letter."

Rudeus looked towards Roa, his gaze asking if the young man wanted this letter.

Roa pouted and waved his hand, he didn't want Paul's trash letter.

Rudeus had no choice but to put the letter in his own pocket. He didn't really want to keep the letter either.

From this, one could see how bad Paul's reputation was.

After a moment of thought, he looked at Roa and said, "That's not right, Big Brother. It seems like nothing is happening with you; you're just learning swordsmanship from Ghislaine every day."

Roa said lazily, "As you said, I have to learn swordsmanship from Ghislaine every day, so how can you say nothing is happening? Come on, I'm very busy. I bear the fate of the family's rise and fall. If something unexpected happens to you one day, I can still help you with my powerful strength."

Rudeus nodded. This reason was well-founded and convincing. Not!

Rudeus exclaimed loudly, "Big Brother, that's too despicable! You're taking all the benefits. No, you have to contribute too."

Roa fell into thought. He couldn't help but frown as he thought of Eris's personality.

She wasn't exactly an easy person to get along with.

But just as Rudeus said, he couldn't just stay at their house doing nothing.

After a moment of contemplation, Roa spoke, "How about this? I'll teach for two years. While I'm here for the first two years, I'll teach Eris Magic, and you can teach her arithmetic and other things. Is that okay?"

Rudeus wanted to haggle further, to say something like teaching only Magic isn't enough, but Roa glared at him fiercely, and the thought of bargaining instantly vanished.

Rudeus thought about it, considering the pros and cons. His arithmetic skills were definitely quite good. After all, he had transmigrated from a small island nation on Earth in his previous life. In this world that didn't even have multiplication tables, he was practically a genius. So, it shouldn't be a problem.

As for Magic, although he was also extremely proficient, it seemed insufficient compared to Roa. Him teaching Magic would also be fine.

But he might not know that a nightmare awaited him. Knowledge was something the other party had to be willing to learn.

Roa didn't know if Eris would learn Magic, but she definitely wouldn't want to learn arithmetic.

At least, she wouldn't honestly go and study things like arithmetic.

Magic could be linked to novelty, so perhaps Eris wouldn't be too troublesome. As for arithmetic, wasn't that making things difficult for our future wildcat?

It was precisely for this reason that Roa pushed the most troublesome task onto Rudeus.

Looking at the beaming Rudeus, he thought he had gotten the better deal, but in reality, he hadn't. If one person taught both Magic and arithmetic, the other party might try to listen patiently. But if only arithmetic was taught, well, Rudeus would have his hands full.

The carriage traveled slowly. In the middle, Roa took a short nap out of boredom.

It was already dusk when they arrived. Buena Village was a day's carriage ride away from this large city.

In actual travel time, it was about six or seven hours. It was a bit far, but it also wasn't that far.