บท 35: Cleaning Was Never My Forte!

"Hey! Why are you crying?" The Saman asked.

Almost certainly; as far as one knows or can tell, despite having that haughty temperament...

I think she cares a bit to me?

That's what I felt at the moment.

"Hey! Why are you crying? I haven't punished you yet." The Saman said.

"Its nothing, Saman."

Seeing that it developed into something like this, the two guards slowly left in which the Saman interjected.

"Hey! the two of you! Did you do something to my Sulgo?" The Saman yelped as she suspiciously asked these two guards.

Her eyes cast a narrowing gaze, seemingly irked if proven right.

Which puts me into contemplation.

Don't tell me, even here that saying is true.

"That men are guilty until proven wrong?"

"Psh.. although that scrawny guard looked punchable in the face, I don't like to burden them. And this might actually become my chance to build a strong rapport with these two...

After all, from now on, I'll be staying here."—gradually accepting this surreal phenomenon upon my wake, and the things that followed. I calmed myself from the numerous thoughts that bug me.

"Our Dearest, Saman, you are wrong! They did nothing... I just pitied my two fellow Sulgos over there." Pointing the two Sulgos, Amaya and Aryan who are still kneeling in the small mound of mongo beans in that winnowing basket.

Killing two birds with one stone, I nailed it perfectly.

Well, it is me thanking those two for catching fish for me, after all, I used them as I please a while ago. And I feel bad that those two young ladies had to kneel just because of my incompetency of sneaking.

That, darn Gorilla! I didn't even have time to ask for further information about from where he came.

Does he think I'm a fool for not noticing that his identity is not that simple?

He probably came from a far away land other that Banwa—tribal community, he was saying about.

"Alright! You two leave!" The Saman bellowed.

Scratching the back of their heads, the two guards felt they suffered some indignation,

as each of them probably thought that they purposely had put the effort into catching those fishes in order to please the Saman, yet they got yelled at instead.

I chuckled as I wiped my tears away, returning to my usually calm demeanor.

...

After the whole ordeal, The Saman called me out.

The two Sulgo was now pardoned and the two of them cleaned the table of where the Saman had eaten her meal.

"Argus... you have some explaining to do!"

The Saman always as haughty as ever, sitting in her high horse. I mean in her pillow matt where tribal royals or people with some sort of prestige usually sat examined me closely as her brows were knitted closely together.

"What about, Dearest, Saman?" I replied.

"That!" The Saman yelped unreasonably...

"What that?" Totally oblivious to what this Saman is trying to imply I rudely yelled back.

"The nerve! You are now my Sulgo! You are not a Ranoan anymore!" The Saman being irked criticized my now lowly status.

Swallowing my dried throat, I began thinking about what she wants to imply.

"You are so hateful!" My thoughts were interrupted by that yell and what followed...

A flurry of words that buzzed at my ears, annoyingly like the mosquitoes biting my legs at the battlefield where I used to camp.

"Have you seen it?!"

"Why did you peeked at me?"

"What are you planning to do?"

And before I could even utter a single word, I was branded with a name I never had since my entire life when wholly added.

"You pervy bastard!"

"Did you saw it?"

"What I saw? I did not see anything, My dearest Saman!" I yelped denying her accusations and trying my best to claim my innocence.

"Whose Saman? I am not your Saman!" Then this Saman throws her tantrum.

"Our.. okay ours... My tongue slipped. Alright?"

"And besides, what would I see to a young girl who is still developing?"

I replied, speaking softly so that she won't hear it clearly while remembering her bountiful bosoms, splashed by the water from the lake.

I immediately turned red but tried to act unabashedly in front of this Saman who is almost like a daughter to me.

And besides, I already had a wife! Those tiny mounds won't be able to compare to my beloved wife... Hmph!

What did you say!" When the Saman heard what I softly spoke she erupted and suddenly stood up which caught the attention of the guards outside.

Sigh, these pesky bastards. Always at the beck and call for whenever this Saman yells.

No wonder she was this haughty.

And probably grew up spoiled!

If she is my daughter, this behavior won't be passed at me, I'll immediately correct her crooked tail.

I wanted to argue back but decided that it is pointless.

As I calmly breathed in front of the Saman, making my inhaling and exhaling pretty obvious,

Her flurry of words came to a halt.

"Alright, I went outside because I miss Toto." I softly said and the Saman looked away when I shifted my serious gaze towards her.

Well, that's the only reason I can come up with, and besides its actually partly true.

Although the main reason is so that I can measure up my surrounding vicinity.

Somehow I noticed the Saman's lips quivering, it is twitching.

Probably still fuming mad.

"Is that really the reason? You never went to look at my naked self in that lake?"

The Saman now calmed, asked in an unhurried manner.

"Yes..." I simply replied, avoiding the great disaster that could've fallen unto me, if I did not vehemently deny.

Based on what I have learned, anyone who saw the Saman naked, must die.

Or he had to marry her, but in my case, that would be impossible.

Death is imminent with this lowly status that I came to have.

And with that, I reached the climax of my second day in this newfound world.

Trouble seemed to follow wherever I go.

After being scolded to death, we three Sulgos sat together in a small table as we ate our meal which had gone long past the intended time.

We ate quietly and nobody uttered a word, I don't know why they suddenly acted cold to me.

But well, being punished for something they had no part with is greatly understandable.

After all, didn't I suffer the same fate?

As another sigh escaped from my mouth, that haughty Saman tasked me with cleaning her whole Kanya—Saman's Residence, including its floors which I am now painstakingly brushing...

[29] Using a Lampaso as the sun gradually kissed the sky goodbye and it became orange like that meal I prepared, earlier ago.

Cleaning was never my forte!