Believe in Yourself.

The person who caught me while I was taking the phone grabbed me by the holder of my bag. He was dragging me to the king's court room.

He was telling me, "The water that was gathered is going bad , and the valleys have become dry. No life can be found in Madras".

I mumbled quietly to myself, "M-Madras? The Madras from history? It is awesome. What is this? Then can I return when it rains again?"

The King said, "The last time rain fell was now three years ago."

I was astonished and asked, "Three years?".

Suddenly the person who brought me to the king's court pulled me and he kicked me on the calf so that I would drop down in my knees. The King drew the sword immediately and the tip of the sword touched my throat. He moved the sword and peeked what was beneath my hoodie that I was wearing.

He said, "Child from the Heavens? Unfortunately, I do not believe in things I cannot see. Presumably, if I do not like what my eyes see, I need to know the logic and principle of it, no matter how strange it is. Your top knot is unique, and your clothes are peculiar.....Are you from Pondicherry?"

All I could ask was, "Huh?". The guy who brought me to the King's court gave my phone to the King.

I said sadly, "Oh! my phone....".

He said, "The rain in this field. Exactly what is this?"

He showed me the wallpaper of my phone and asked me. I was finding the right words to describe it.

I said, "Ah, I think you misunderstood, but I am from the future through the rain."

The King asked, "The future?"

I said, "I know it sounds absurd, but this is not rain, but it is an app that tells you the weather."

He asked more confusingly surprised, "You can know the weather from this thing?" He pressed some button and it took a photo of him with flash. He got really scared, dropped the phone and screamed, "What?"

I got more scared and said, "I seriously hope its not broken."

He asked, "Where did it go, the rain that was falling here?"

I said, "I turned it off, so that the battery would not go out."

He yelled, "Talk in a way that I can understand!"

The guy who brought me here suggested the king, "How about you cut one of his arms off?"

The king agreed with it and said, "Ah, That is right."

I started to panic. I cried, "Ah! wait! This is a real sword! wait! wait!"

By the time I was telling, the person brought me here got a hold of my hand making it easier for the King to chop off my hand.

I yelled, "I-I am from future! I know everything!" Ask me anything! I- I am good at history!"

The moment he raised his sword to chop off my hand, I screamed, "Ah, Teacher!." I lied, "I am a mathematician, arithmatics!"

He surprisingly asked, "Really?"

I confidently lied, "Yes! Well.....yes!".

He spread the sheet, in which I did not understand the characters that was written in the sheet of paper.

He asked, "The sum of the short leg and the long leg is seven, and the difference between the hypotenuse and the short leg is two. I will give you two days to find the lengths of the short leg, long leg, hypotenuse."

I said, "What is this? I cannot read this....."

He asked, "You do not know ancient Tamil?"

I shook my head. He was about to take the sword from its holder. After carefully studying the diagram.

I interrupted him, "But this....." He looked at me, inserting the sword back to its holder.

I exclaimed, "Pythagoras." I quickly took the sketch pen from my hoodie pocket and started writing one, two, three against the sides of the right angle triangle.

The King asked surprisingly, "How can you write without the ink?"

I said, "Oh!, this is a pen."

I looked down at the sheet of paper again. I mumbled quietly, "What am I doing here? I did not even take the SAT....."

The King was still surprised and asked, "Pen?".

I looked at him and said, "x is three, four and five."

He snatched the paper from me giving me a surprised look. He asked, "Three, four, five? How can you solve this so fast when the scholar used three days to solve and still got it wrong?"

I said, "In the future, if you are a high school student, you can solve this."

He was surprised and asked, "You mean, "in the future, people voluntarily take higher education to study arithmatics?"

I said, "Yes.....Well, most people become high school seniors."

He said, "That is very incredible. All matters are connected to mathematics.Okay, High school student. You have to teach me all your arithmatic skills from now on."

I asked, "Huh? Are you being sincere teacher?"

He said, "If you teach me everything truthfully, I will exempt you from the punishments."

He called the Chief of high education. He brought something on the tray. The Chief of high education said, "Your Majesty".

The king handed me something that was in gold color. He told me, "I think you will be very useful."

I asked in surprise, "Me??"

He said, "You can leave when the rain comes."

I said, "If so, me too, Deal."

The guy who caught me and brought me to the King's court was a musician. He showed me a place to stay for mean time. He asked, "Payment."

I gave the only think I had, the thing the king gave me. I asked, "change."

He gave me a rusted vessel. I said, "I think I have seen this from my history textbook. Is this a rain gauge?"

He asked, "Rain Gauge?".

I asked, "Doesn't this measure the amount of rain?"

He sighed and looked at me. He said, "Drink with this or you can die from thirst." He was about to shut the door. I interrupted him with another question.

I asked, "Wait, the toilet?"

He pointed his head something behind me. I turned my head to see what it was. It was nothing but a small copper pot with a lid. He said, "you can do the big one in the yard at the back." After answering, he shut the door immediately.

He gave that payment to his mother and said, "This is the rent money until next month."

She said, "Alright, do not be late from now on."

Some small kid opened the side door and screamed joyously, "Akka".

I immediately closed the door. I sat in the corner of the room, I told myself that, "I do not have another place to stay."

Suddenly something dropped from the ceiling. It was a rat. I got so scared and I banged my head on the wall.

Next day, The higher education Minister brought me to the Minister's room and asked me to get changed to the senior student clothes. I asked, "These are a seniors' clothes...Ah, Teacher, Why?"

He said, "A "laugh senior" is a great job. His Majesty would not laugh no matter what you do. So do not do anything. Do not even try, you rascal."

I frowned and said, "But there are so many pretty skirts here.....".

He sat on a chair and laughed. He asked me, "How long have you been a senior? You are still looking for a dress? If you look like a girl, would His Majesty have you near him? You need to be thankful that you were born a man in Madras!" I was looking at the mirror to see myself.

As soon as he finished talking, I asked him surprisingly, "Huh? A man?".

He got up from the chair and yelled loudly, "Isn't a senior a man!" He is a man! Have pride! Have we sinned? A senior is still a man!" He suddenly turned me towards the mirror and said, "Straighten up your shoulder. Put your waist down! Gather your hands."

I mumbled surprisingly, "A senior?".

I entered the King's study room. When I looked at the left side , there was a small library. So I sneaked inside the little library to know more about him. I mumbled to myself, "I guess it is better to be a man in Madras.".

I flipped the pages but unfortunately it was all written in ancient Tamil which I could not understand. While I was taking a book from the top shelf, someone grabbed my right fist, turned me to face the person.

The King grabbed my bag and pulled me to his study room. He sat in a very big couch with a study table in front of him. I was sitting across him. He was looking at a sheet of paper said, "Arabian...Arabian.....". He kept the paper on the study table. He asked me, "They have their own characters, too?" I was really surprised that he did not know. But I suppressed my confusion because it was a historical era.

I asked, "Do you really not know numbers?".

He shook his head side to side. I sighed and said, "This man, seriously...". I took another new sheet of paper.

I said, "Then forget that and do this problem first." I started writing.

He said, "hey, teach me the formula first."

I asked, "What formula? You have to know numbers first.". He looked really pitiful. I controlled my frustration and said, "Then, start with this, and I will tell you after you take a test.".

He asked, "A test? I am famous for not getting any math problem wrong when I was a crown prince. Do you think I became King automatically?".

I asked liking his confidence, "Really? Then how about a finger flick if you get one wrong?".

He gazed at me, "But, talking about you. How can you stare at my eyes? You have no fear."

I asked, "How can I teach if I do not look at you?".

He said, "It is been a while since I faced someone like this. They are always bowing. You are saying a test? I should loosen up my hands?"

I asked, "Then, should we start?".