Find Me in 1000 Years

Work In The Inn

Why did he know about demigods? No man knows this except ....

"You're a demigod, aren't you? Because I'm also." Ejiro took off the pitingan and turned the man's body to face him.

He then pointed his hand at a shrub plant. A flash of light came out of that hand until it reached the plant. The plant also burned.

Ken rolled his eyes in surprise. "Oh, you're so great."

"You're better. You're from the future, aren't you?"

The short-haired man glanced at him. "Where do you know?"

"From the gold coins you gave Me Hua. There is a year that is still a few hundred years ahead."

Ken hit his forehead. "Ah, stupid. Gojo warned me" he murmured.

"Who's Gojo?" ask Ejiro curious.

"Eh, it's nobody." The short-haired man nodded.

"You didn't lose your memory, did you?"

"Oh .. no. Sorry." The atmosphere then looks awkward. "Eh, I better go."

"Oh, can I come with you?"

"What?" Ken looked at the man. "But you'll have an inn business. I'm always on the move, doesn't suit you."

"I've lived here a long time and just realized I'm not fit to live here. Everyone is getting older and I am not. I started to feel different until my mother told me about who I was. My father is not the father I know. I am different from my brothers who are growing older and I am not. Just my mom, she only knows my dad's a god but what god he doesn't know."

"Married to him when you don't know?"

"That .. accident." The cheeked man stared at the short-haired man fixedly. "I hate myself because no one wants me. My mom hates me because she should be able to abort me in the womb. That's why I'm looking for someone who's like me and wants to live with him."

Ken directly crossed his arms across his chest. "I'm a normal guy?"

The long haired man laughed. "What if we're friends? You stay with me and I'll teach you proper martial arts, but when you go, take me with you."

"But how's your inn?"

"You know, that woman sitting at the registration table? That's my nephew. My sister and I had the business but one day I'll give it to her if I go with you later. How's it?"

"But it's not good to be hitching a ride in your inn without helping you. Can I work there too?"

The man smiled a little. "Why not? Of course I can." He put his arm around Ken's shoulder and the two of them stepped towards his horse.

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Early in the morning, Ejiro introduced Ken to other employees as a restaurant supervisor while he only took care of the inn. Me Hua smiled happily as the man ended up working there. From now on he will often meet with Ken. From the beginning met the woman already liked him, let alone the man was very polite.

"Ok, now you have to keep an eye on the shopping clerk. Come on, come with me."

They rode on a wagon that was pulled by 2 horses. Ken was sitting in front with an employee, while the man in the codet was happy to sit in the wagon looking at the scene behind him.

It did not take long, the cart arrived at the market which was not far from the inn. They go to places where they shop. While his employees, pay attention to the goods purchased and brought into the cart. After they finished shopping, they returned to the inn.

Now it was Ejiro's turn to carry the wagon with Ken sitting next to him. The employee sat in the back on the side of the cart until he could hang his feet down while looking at the atmosphere of the city.

"Why do you carry a sword while shopping?" ken asked to see the man hanging his sword around his waist while he sighed with the horse.

Seeing Ejiro, Ken recalled his conversation with his mother at that time. He wanted to return to his birthplace and now he realized his mother's words were right. As time goes on, they'll find Ken weird for not getting older and feeling unfamiliar, as the man in the cheek feels now. The difference is, he has people who support him there while Ejiro does not.

When he arrived, the employee moved the groceries to the kitchen and the man with the messy bangs took Ken to the backyard.

"What do we want?" asked the short-haired man to see that there was a garden filled with bamboo trees there.

"I will teach martial arts using the sword. You seem to suck at this, don't you?"

"Eh?" Ken glanced at Ejiro while scratching his head. "Sorry."

The man gave him a wooden sword. "You practice with this first." Then he taught simple steps to get started.

Ken tried it too.

"good. Practice continues here until I come again."

"Eh, but ... What about the people who come to breakfast?"

"Today you don't have to take care of it. Tomorrow only. You're gonna start watching those lunches, how about?"

"But I haven't had breakfast?" Ken pointed at himself.

The man with the codet smiled amusedly. "Don't be afraid. Someone will bring you breakfast when you finish cooking. Any more questions?"

The short-haired man nodded. Ejiro ruffled the man's bangs so happy. It felt like he had a brother. Ken looks younger than him.

"Ah, Sir. Don't!" the short-haired man's protest brushed off the man's hands. He returned to tidying up his bangs.

Ejiro smiled broadly. "Do your training, because I'll check it out again later" he said. The man left Ken alone there.

Throughout the morning, the short-haired man practiced there. He attacked with a wooden sword from the front as well as from the side. "Heah! Haven! Huh!"

Me Hua delivers breakfast to Ken.

"Ah, Me Hua's. Thank you," said the man.

"Ken, let's eat first. It just so happens that the porridge is still warm."

Me Hua accompanied the man to breakfast, even practice. Ejiro notices Me Hua who is so loyal to accompany Ken. Ken can't stay. If possible they were fooled. Too bad.

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A week passed and Ken became more proficient with the sword. It turns out that Ejiro was once a samurai and became the guardian of an official. After that, he retired and started an inn business with his sister.

That morning at the market after shopping, Ken exited a store and accidentally hit an old man holding a bowl. His shabby clothes ensured that he was a beggar. The collision caused both of them to fall onto the front wooden floor of the store.

The innkeeper saw that and scolded the beggar. "Hey, if you use your eyes! How polite you are to bump into people in plain sight!"

It was indeed the position of the old man that was wrong for bumping into Ken from the side while exiting the shop.

"Don't do it, Li Nuo. This father is old. Be polite the same as older." Ken immediately sat down the old man whose hair was all white with his beard. He looked at the man's face. "Oh my goodness, are you blind?"

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