The Town Of Shura

""Thank you for the food.""

After everyone finished eating their morning breakfast, they once again sang words of thanks to the Holy goddess of light for granting them the chance to have this meal.

"Both me and Lily are going to the park to play with friends," Liam said in an energetic voice.

Set free to spend the morning doing whatever they wanted, the twins quickly left the orphanage to go play with the other kids they made friends with. With their energetic personalities, it wasn't hard to quickly find victims to bully-er, I mean friends, to warm up to.

"I'm going to the liberty, piece."

As for Yuri, he also quickly left the orphanage, heading to the library to read more books or so he says.

'Who does this brat think he's fooling'

Using the library as an excuse is the oldest trick in the book.

He's probably heading off to fool around with all the little girls he seduced with his innocent face.

Unbeknownst to him, no matter how hard he tried to hide it, everyone at the orphanage already knew about his energetic personality. Still, fortunately for him, no one had the intention of doing anything about it.

With Yuri and the twins gone, the only ones left were Jude and Sera, seeing as there wasn't much to help out with at the orphanage they also decided to head out.

"Let's go" Jude turned to Sera before leading the way.

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A place of peace and the absence of war.

A place that is filled with joy and happiness.

That is the place known as Shura, the town where the orphanage is located and where Jude and the others live.

Ruled by Viscount Millize de Arden, who was once given the opportunity by the king of Targana to choose a piece of land from anywhere in the kingdom, he chose this rural land to live the rest of his days with his family in a piece far from political conflicts.

Although located in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by mountains, and with nothing much in terms of entertainment, due to its small size and population, the town of Shura had a sense of unity amongst the people, with almost everyone knowing each other and being fairly close to each other.

"If it isn't Jude and Sera, what are you two up to this morning?"

"Good Morning aunt Isabel" Jude smiled as he waved at the aunt who lived a few blocks away from the orphanage.

"Oya, Jude, Have you gotten a chance to read the collection I gave you? "

"Haha, no, Uncle Nyer, not yet." Jude laughed lightly as he brushed off the old man's questioning gaze.

The next person in question was an old man who did something for a living. As for what this something was, honestly, Jude had no idea. All Jude ever saw this old man do was chase the skirts of young grass.

As for the collection that he gave Jude, it happened to be a collection of the rarest pornographic books he had ever found throughout his entire life. Apparently, it was supposed to be his greatest collection, but unfortunately for the old fossil, soon after receiving his greatest collection, Jude proceeded to burn everything without leaving any traces behind.

As for why this old man was giving a 13-year-old child a bunch of pornographic books,

Don't ask, not even God knows.

Continuing on their walk, Jude and Sera proceeded to greet a few more people before witnessing something in the park that made the corners of Jude's lips twitch.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"HAHAHA, Eat Sh!t Motherf*cker"

"Lily? Liam?"

What Jude witnessed while passing by the park that Lily and Liam often frequented was a brawl, or more specifically, a one-sided beat down and it was Lily and Liam who were beating down on this one kid.

"Whoohoo Lily beat the living Sh!t out of him."

"Get him, Liam"

Surrounding Lily, Liam, and the nameless child who was getting the beating of his life were a bunch of other children who were cheering them on from the side.

"It seems like kids these days are quite energetic," Jude said as he watched the beatdown from the side. "They look like they are having a lot of fun."

What? The kid who is getting beaten the sh!t out of him is crying. Nonsense, those are tears of joy.

How could he not cry from having so much fun?

Also, it seems like Yuri isn't the only one who learned how to swear.

Who is teaching all these kids how to swear?

Seeing as there were no problems, Jude quickly wiped everything he had just witnessed out of his brain and continued his walk with Sera, only for the tip of his lips to twitch again after witnessing something completely unrelated to what just happened before.

"Hey, Auntie, you're looking extra pretty today."

"Ohoho, you're so sweet."

Instead of a beat down, this time what Jude witnessed was something too sweet for his eyes to see.

"Yuri? Eh, isn't that the auntie who runs the food stall?" Jude said as he watched the black-haired boy who barely reached puberty try to flirt with a middle-aged woman. "Did that brat get tired of playing with the young grass and instead started chasing after their mothers instead?"

"No, that doesn't seem right. That brat, no matter how shameless he is, would never try to chase the skirts of those more than three times his age."

"The auntie blushing must have been my imagination,"

Jude concluded that it was probably a side effect of his reincarnation.

Once again seeing as there were no problems Jude once again wiped whatever he just witnessed out of his brain before continuing on his walk with Sera.

As for Sera, it seems that she has been quiet for quite a while now.

Jude could tell ever since leaving the orphanage that she had been quite nervous. Seeing this, Jude couldn't help but sigh.

On the first day after regaining his memories, he was forced to play matchmaker. Well, it's not like he hated it. An ordinary life like this was one that he had always wanted, after all.

Finally, after greeting a few more townspeople on the way, they soon reached their destination.

Standing at the bottom of a small hill not too far from them stood a fairly large mansion, and although he had visited this place quite a few times, Jude couldn't help but feel dazed, not because of awe of the mansion but because he couldn't understand how a person could live in such a place.

The Arden mansion, although not as big as other Noble family mansions, currently has only two people residing within it, the first being Millize de Arden and the second being Julius de Arden. With only two people living in such a big mansion, Jude couldn't help but think of it as excessive and a waste of space.

Finally, after remembering his original purpose for coming to this place in the first place, Jude decided to begin his upward climb uphill, but before he could take his first step, Jude suddenly heard a casual yet dignified voice coming from behind him.

"Yo, what are you doing here?"

Turning around, Jude found himself faced with a dignified and elegant brown-haired young man.

"Yo," Jude said before smiling, "I came here looking for you."

It seems the person they had been looking for ended up finding them instead.