17 Thank you for accept me, Teacher.

Arthur, have some things that he thinks that will work. To put that in action he has to go back to his home.

At his home he took a quick bath and groomed himself, he still doesn't have facial hair, but he wanted to look nice. Subsequently, he chose his better looking military uniform and took some tools: a rope, two daggers, his wooden sword and compass that he got at birthday, a flint, a canteen and salted meat. After distributing all those around his pockets he took a feather and ink with some blank scrolls.

With a quick look on the mirror he saw himself as a stereotypical image of a student. Satisfied with that he direct himself to the Lame Horse. It is 14:30, Albert already was occupying a table on the pub.

Arthur walked to the table and greeted Albert, before siting too.

"So teacher, you investigate about me?"

Visibly annoyed, Albert answered "I didn't want to, but the curiosity was nagging me. So, you are the cripple son of the 'Beauty and the Best', the oddest household of this city. You went to the barracks to train with the army since five years old, did many commoners jobs and bla bla bla. So, what?"

"I'm glad to know that I could fire up your curiosity. My second uncertain point Teacher, was if you would want to dig about me." Arthur said, in a not so much flattering tone.

"You said that it was the second? Heh boy, you really could spark up my curiosity. What was the first one?" Albert said, while drinking.

"Well, the first thing I had to accomplish was to start to call you Teacher without you even notice or became annoyed by it. I thought if I could do that maybe you would slowly accept this as truth." Arthur said while smiling. Next Arthur raised his voice to make it just enough that lots of people at the pub.

"THANK YOU FOR ACCEPTING ME AS DISCIPLE, TEACHER"

At this moment all the buzz in the pub stopped. Many veterans wide up his eyes with incredulity.

"So Drunk-bert accept another disciple? Now I got why he is so nicely dressed"

"He is so young, but how luck he is. He came here yesterday and got away, I didn't know that he was called back"

"I'm uncertain if I envy or pitying him right now. Albert was always a strict guy"

"I know this boy, He is the Crippled son of Beauty and Beast who will take for teacher a Drunkard. What a funny development"

Albert was so stunned that he took a few seconds to understand what was happening. While he looked around, he saw many curious eyes and the major point. Calypso was look at him with a big smile and a weird look in her eyes. The special was a simple code for complete information about the boy.

She took a look before handing the info to Albert and take notice this boy are a good seed to cultivated. Someone who already suffered with public scorn and even so was striving to be stronger. More than that, Albert was a big friend and partner of her deceased husband. She always felt that he deserve a chance to fix his past mistakes.

So, she decided drop one more bomb in the air before Albert did something and, in the middle of the buzz a melodious voice said: "Oh, that's why he was asking around about this kid"

All the voices faded again, for god's sake, calypso herself was endorsing the gossip. This is the truth, it only can be the truth.

The story was made. This boy came yesterday and had a chat with Albert and prove himself to be a good seed. Albert, become interested and asked him to come again in the next day and after the boy gone home he even goes by himself to see the origins and know best the disciple that he wanted to take. Well, just look at the kids clothes and tone, it is clearly the behaving that a student have in front of his master.

Calypso already understood the craft social trap that Arthur have laid for Albert. But she knew him best, if this keep on he would take Arthur for a couple of days for test him and ditch him later with a lame excuse. So, she helped Arthur a nail the coffin.

"I understand everything now. Albert is the best teacher in town, and he wants to prove himself with a student at the next tournament. He will show to everyone in this world his greatness as a teacher from this boy. If you don't know this guy is the son of Beauty and Beast, the cripple boy who should have died. I am happy for you Albert, to take this boy to the tournament and shut up everyone who talked bad about his family and your teaching skills" Se said quickly and act as a very impressed woman.

Albert listening all that understood that now he was forced to take this disciple. He was not worried about what everyone was saying about him. But he IS a teacher, his medal of war hero was nothing in front of even his shittier students. Even the bastard pupil who wrecked his life bring to him a guilt of pride. He wants to be a teacher again, he NEED it.

But every one that come was subpar. Lazy, untalented, pampered, arrogant, too much servile, always he had a thing to nitpick.

Albert has to admit, the boy is a good Martial Artist material. He got his data, he knew his parents and his history. The boy didn't come to him to put his hands in the Meridian Cleansing Method, nor exactly to learn how to fight. He had gone secretly take a look for the kid when he was training yesterday with his mom. The boy is good. He even pay some kids to look what he was doing today and the guy has brains.

He rose his voice and with a defeated voice, he said:

"Okay boy, you outsmarted me. I want to talk with you and your parents tomorrow at midday. If we come to an agreement, you will be my student"