chapter 7 : lesson

first stella though that name was just a coincidence but when she look at the clothes he wear and the engraved on it as well the sword he was holding, her interest suddenly reached it's peak.

'there no doubt, this person is from earth, the same as me,' though stella who look at the book of histroy she just read and she only found a little about the man, that why when the teacher say to stella if she has a question, she know that was her chance to know.

"hm, why did tou want to know about him, ?" ask the teacher.

"it just his name is quite unique to me, and in the history book there no record or anything that related to where exactly he come from so i can only assume the he is someone from a land far away from here," say stella.

"i see, you are right about that, a lot of historian, come up with theory that the person was dead since there are no news about him, is like that person just disappeared from the world itself, that person is full of mystery, no one really know where he come from and the reason why he come here, but i know for a fact that first king trust him with his life, " say the teacher about the person stella ask.

'he disappeared huh, disappeared or he found a way back to earth,' though stella who try to come up with a theory as well, though she doesn't has any type of evidence to support her theory but she think that maybe that person come to this world in a completely different way from her.

'well, even if i found about how he come back, there is no reason for me to come back to earth,' though stella who remember her day as a boy name leon aubert, but he's already dead, no use to try to come back, even if she want and somehow manage to back to earth, how will the people in there react about her weird appearance, probaly that she will get captured and be experiment by them.

"then do you have any other question, if not lets finish this lesson today and continue the next time we meet," say the teacher.

"actually teacher can i ask about what happen to this estate, ?" ask stella.

"hm, what do you mean, ?" ask the the teacher back who seems to not understand what stella mean.

"hm, well i don't really now, how to put it in word but when i first meet miss sophia and young master barton, why did they only had 1 knight to escort them, why not at least had 2 or 3 to ensure their safety, i don't think that the duke doesn't has any money to hire some escort for his children," say stella to her teacher, who seems to understand what stella mean, it was a mistake for them to send only emile to escort them, but they don't have any choice either, is a good thing that stella was in that forest and brought them back in here.

"is because the kingdom right now is still low of manpower," say the teacher.

"low, what do you mean, ?" ask stella.

"a war that had already ended 6 month ago, a battle between the alliance force and the demon kingdom, we still try to recover from the lose we had," say the teacher who shock stella.

'a demon he say, don't tell me there also a demon race as well, so there are other race than human and beastman as well in this world huh,' though stella who listen to every word that her teacher saying.

"yes, even though that the alliance force win againts them, but we suffer a huge lost as well," say the teacher with a bit of sarcasm in his voice, clearly they win the war but the lose the got is even worse.

"what kind of lost that we sufffer, ?" ask stella who kind of figure it out about the lost of the alliance force.

"in the side of the dwarf they lost a lot precious and well known blacksmith, and high tier weapon, the elf suffer the destruction of their kingdom and the lost of the princess, when the demon burn down their home, the beastman lost their strongest warrior as well a few of their elite troops, while our 4 lancer are still alive that doesn't mean the we're okay, 1 of them is still in coma, and 2 of them got a serious injuries that until now their injuried as slowly healing, but the most of all that out of 30.000 troops that we send only less than 20% who manage to comeback," say the teacher who at that time only clench his fist, anger can be seen in his face, the war must be affect him as well.

'we lost so many,' though stella who at that time was shock with the fact how much they suffer such a lose, even after the assemble of the 4 race, the still manage to lose so much.

"and what about in the side of the demon, ?" ask stella.

"even though they lose the war, but we estimate that they only suffer less than 10.000 troops," say him who make stella grip her hand and that was when they we're combine their strenght, if they not do that, stella believe that they will lost from the start.

after the lesson stella went to her room, is a good thing that the duke even preparing a separated room for her, normally a servant such as maid will usually sleep with a fellow maid as well, that goes even for the knight, but stella was a special case where she was given her own room by the duke himself, say that is more convinient for her if she want to do her job properly in the future.

as stella lay down on her bed, she think about the lesson she got from his teacher and slowly fall asleep.

in the certain room in the estate, the duke was working nonstop, filling up the paper that keep increasing no matter how many time he finished one, his eyeleash was black, a confirmation that the duke doesn't get enough sleep in the past few days.

at that time he heard a knock on his door, "come in," say the duke then at that time 2 figure open the door amd reveal themself.

"how's the report about her, ergi, orba, ?" ask the duke who hope that he will get at least a good one, in the last few says he was working nonstop to finish the paperwork that was on his desk, usually his wife scold him for doing such a thing but righr now, his wife is not here, she was summon by the king for a meeting.

"hm, how am i going to say about this," say orba who at that time tap his chin to come up with a way to explain how miss stella performance in this few day.

"is she doing bad, ?" ask the duke who look like going to sigh, he knew that stella is still new at this kind of thing, so he doesn't has a high hope that stella manage to grab it.

"is the opposite sir, she doing a marvelous job," say orba who make the duke suprised, orba usually is not a person who give such praise, but if he really giving that kind of praise, it mean that individual must be worth the praise.

"she manage to catch up to the lesson that miss stella study in just short amount of period of time, i believe that in a matter of month that miss stella will likely surpass young master barton as well in term of intelegence," say orba to the duke who look a little suprised.

"and what about you ergi, how is her training, ?" ask the duke.

"miss stella has improve significantly my lord, just in a matter of week she manage to beat a few new knight that we just apply a few month ago, not only that she also manage to strike me right in the chest," as ergi continue her story, the duke gave a smile of satisfaction, clearly hearing such a news bring ease to his heart, at the very least his choice of picking stella under his wing, was proven to be very profitable.

"good, continue your work," say the duke to his worker, as he continue to write and finished his paper in his desk.