Hero Jentaka
Chp.22 Underground elevator

"Hey Nathan how about this." Sanji lashed a jewel the size of a child's head inside his shirt.

"You want to rent a locker?" A bank teller who served Xernathan earlier asked Sanji that.

"What's that locker?" Sanji raised his eyebrows confused.

"Yes he'll keep this stuff for a long time.." Xernathan snatches the jewel from behind Sanji's shirt.

"Hey you want to leave a five hundred gold piece of jewelry in this place, are you crazy huh?" Sanji does not attempt to take back the jewels his friend has given to the bank teller but he just asks.

"Are you going to carry that thing everywhere?" Xernathan shook his hand.

"After all, this is a government bank, they store a lot of treasures even thousands of years old monster gems.

Not even a few people who rent lockers in government banks to store swords and other types of heirloom weapons that have far value, even very much higher value than one jewel of your bear.

They'll just quote the rent when you take it." Xernathan explained that while exiting the bank. Return to the navigator pair waiting for them in front of a restaurant.

"Is this black sword an heirloom sword?" Theodore pointed to the sword on Xernathan's back.

Xernathan nodded. "This is my father's sword."

"Promise, you'll have to keep getting stronger and learn to use Qi and then take your monster jewel from the bank or else the locker rental price will become more expensive." Xernathan has given an explanation.

Sanji nodded in agreement.

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"You guys are so long, let's go in.." Raka said as she looked at the children already within a few meters in front of her.

Raka enters first into a restaurant with Riniin followed by Xernathan, Sanji and Theodorus behind him.

"The special menu for these three children.." Raka made her finger say to a middle-aged chef who was cooking.

The chef nodded. But instead of cooking something the middle-aged chef turned off the stove fire and walked towards the back door of the kitchen, asking the five people to follow him.

"What special menu also need a special room? I don't have any silver. I don't want to exchange my gold pieces for a meal in a place like this for sure the price of the meal will be very expensive." Theodorus put on a sullen look of face disapproving of Raka.

"Dumb shit, we don't want to eat, we're going to the location of the military elite's hidden entrance exam.." Xernathan explained.

Sanji's eyes opened wide as he listened to Xernathan's explanation. He also does not realize that what Raka told the chef was a code.

Xernathan again knew this place from his first life. The memory of Xernathan's first life helped this boy in any case during this time.

"Well, Theodorus, Xernathan and Sanji, I've done my duty to get you to this place." Raka shook the hands of the three children one by one.

"Thank you for saving my life to the point that you're in trouble too." Riniin who did not say much, as long as they heard the woman speak was just a word of thanks they heard.

Theodorus, Sanji and Xernathan replied with smiles on their faces. They are only happy when they help others. Moreover, obtaining valuable resources in the form of five hundred year old bear monster gems.

Xernathan and his three friends came into the room. While Raka, his wife and the middle-aged chef were outside the room.

"If you're going to come back next year I'll be very happy to serve you again." Raka laughed softly saying that.

"Thank you very much Raka. We'll be greatly helped by your help." Theodorus and Sanji answered in unison and waved at Raka and Riniin, who were followed by the door of the closing room.

Tass.. Xernathan hit the back of Theodorus' head and Sanji alternated with a slap of his hand.

"You are stupid, aren't you? If bang Raka says it would be nice to help us next year it would be the same as meaning we will fail this year." Xernathan shook his head in disbelief at the stupidity of his two friends.

Cheenghts.. They felt the room as if it was falling slowly downwards.

"This room is a giant elevator.." Xernathan explained to two of his friends.

They both understood.

"What kind of tests will we face?" Sanji asked looking into Xernathan's eyes next to him.

"For the first and second exams it might be a very tiring test." Xernathan explained, pretending not to know.

"Why do you think that?" Theodore raised an eyebrow. But Theodore never once blamed the words of Xernathan from the beginning of their meeting.

From the beginning of the meeting Xernathan was the most able to answer many of their questions along the way correctly.

In contrast to Theodorus who played too much and Sanji who was too naive on anything.

Xernathan swallowed. "Yeah.. As usual any exam will start with a test of one's physical ability."

"I agree, it makes sense.." Sanji says that while warming up lightly.

"Curing from the fight last night made my body ache.." Sanji stretches his entire joint.

Theodorus chose to follow Sanji's heating style. Xernathan chose to sit cross-legged in the room. The room that kept moving down deep into the ground.

A few hours passed, the three of them who were inside the elevator felt like they were getting mired deep into the bottom of the ground.

"Hey Xernathan.." Theodore awakens the meditating Xernathan by performing a breathing technique to restore the Qi lost due to an overnight battle.

Xernathan raised his eyebrows next to answer Theodore's call.

"In a moment, the three of us will undergo the entrance examination of the true military elite"

Theodore stopped his warm-up and sat down next to Xernathan.

"We don't know if the three of us will be able to graduate into the military elite or maybe we will all fail.."

"Or maybe I'm the only one who can graduate this year.." Theodore smiled broadly saying that.

"Cihh. You're so confident.." Sanji stopped warming up and sat down with them.

"Promise you always take my jokes seriously.." Theodorus looked at Sanji sharply. Sanji who heard that laughed awkwardly and scratched his head.

"Different from Xernathan.."

"Xernathan always smiles and laughs when I lie to him though. His eyes were shining every time I told him" The boy named Theodorus leaned his body against the wall of the elevator room.

"As if all my stories were very interesting to him, I really like to tell stories." Theodorus smiled but did not want to see Xernathan's facial expression.

Xernathan just kept silent not responding.

Of course Xernathan has a special reason why he takes such a stance. In front of them would be a very severe and torturous test hurdle.

Xernathan had experienced that difficulty in his first life through the entrance examination of this military elite and Theodorus was one of the people who helped him many things with pleasure.

Xernathan does not want to lose a friend like this Theodore. There will be many advantages to being close friends with people as good as him. Moreover, Xernathan has promised to repay Theodore's kindness in his life this time.

Just being quiet and laughing listening to all Theodorus's boasting was not a difficult thing for Xernathan.