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The Magic Thief - v1c3p3

After leaving the study, Eckert thought about what the boss said. In the last few years, the boss had told him more and more secrets that he didn't known. He had already guessed that the boss was going to retire, but he wasn't very interested in the position. If the boss gave him the study without any conditions, he would be more pleased.

Eckert returned to the "classroom".

The "student" was sitting at his desk, doing the exam.

Eckert leaned over to take a look, the answers were pretty good. It showed that the kid didn't waste time in South Port.

"Alright, Raboy, stop for a while." Eckert said.

The boy looked at his teacher in puzzlement.

"I have already known what you can. I've arranged a careful learning plan for you." Eckert took a folded sheet of paper from his pocket and unfolded it before the boy.

"Get up at 6 in the morning, eat breakfast and learn manners of the upper class at 6:30. Start with a horsemanship or swordsmanship lesson at 7:30, drink tea at 9. You must learn this elegant movement, and it is your language lesson. Can you say the languages of Siba, Eley and Delizy? "

"A little, I can count, or say hello." The youth said.

"That won't works. You need to speak Siba fluently, the Eley and Delizy can be a bit worse. I'll give you a language lesson before going to bed at night." Eckert added an hour of language lesson on the paper: "It's entertaining time from 10 to 11 am, but it's not for you to play, you need to learn all the popular things in the upper class social circle, and the manners you should have with your new identity."

Cultural lesson begins at 11, I'll see what you lack for this knowledge. It's lunchtime at 12, after lunch you can rest for half an hour, religion lesson begins at 1 pm, I think you lack common sense in this area, painting at 2, politics at 3 and history at 4. You know nothing about these two things. You can eat dinner at 5, at the same time, take test of the learning achievement of the whole day.

"Machinery lesson begins at 7 pm, I'll teach you the principle of machine, how to assemble or destroy it. Physical training begins at 8, so you can properly digest the dinner. From 9, it's the second language lesson just added. You can go to sleep after 10, but before that, there's a penalty lesson. I have strict rules about your daily studies. If you can't finish, you will be whipped before sleeping, understand? " Eckert said.

The boy nodded again and again, especially when Eckert took out a pointer made by rattan from the top of the bookshelf, he nodded more rapidly.

"Alright, it's almost 9 am now. I'll ask the servants to prepare morning tea." Eckert pulled a long yellow silk ribbon in the room with a particular rhythm.

"But I just had breakfast not long ago, not hungry …" The boy said.

Before he could finish the words, Eckert's pointer landed on his left hip.

With a crisp slap, the boy felt scorching pain. He covered his butt and cried out in surprise.

"The time of punishment is not just before you go to bed, once you make a mistake, you will be punished, in order to remind you of it. Understand? " Eckster asked expressionlessly.

The boy nodded in fear. Stroking the area of the pain, he didn't want the pointer to touch him again.

At the moment, there was a knock on the door. Eckert opened the door. The butler walked in with a small cart full of delicate snacks, in the center was a silver teset and a jug of drinks.

Eckert picked up a stack of snacks and put them in the boy's hand with elegant movments: "Morning tea and afternoon tea are very important components of the upper social circle. If some people invite you to drink morning tea, that means they have accepted you into their circle. As for the invitation of afternoon tea, it means they have treated you as one of them, or there are important matters you can help with. Therefore, the tea party will be the first test when you formally enter the social circle. You must fully grasp the key points. Now take the snacks in your han … Don't be so rude! Follow me, watch and learn.

"When you pour the coffee, slow down. Don't bend, you're not a servant … Look forward, don't pay too much attention to the cup… When ask someone to drink coffee, your tone should be sincere, strong and clear… You are no longer a clerk, don't have to be so respectful. Just straighten your back and look at my eyes … Don't look at my chest, it would be rude if you met a lady. When you stand up, your movements should be deft. Don't hold the chair, it's very unreasonable, it's the privilege for old people… "

With Eckert's berating, the boy finally finished the study of his first day. He had never been so tired before. Even with all sorts of work that hunchback arranged him to do in the store, he didn't fell so tired. He felt like he was going to break up.

He was in an extremely nervous state all day long. His mind was filled with all sorts of unknown knowledge. When he made a mistake, the pointer would fell on his body, that made him more nervous and could not relax even more.

As the boy lay on the bed and stroked the wound on his hip, he still felt burning pain. He wondered if tomorrow's lessons would be harder.

But even though he had learned so hard, had to be careful of the pointer, lived all day long in an extremely tense atmosphere, the boy still felt extremely fulfilled. Because he had never been so immersed in the ocean of knowledge.

It's obvious that Eckert was an extremely knowledgeable man, even better than Mr. Madild.

There were a lot of things that Mr. Madild could only make out a general idea, but for Eckert, they were as simple as common sense.

The boy wondered when he can be as knowledgeable as Eckert.

However, he understood that the most important thing for him was to learn the lessons that Eckert taught.

If Eckert was as amiable as Mr. Madild, it would be perfect. The boy's only regret was the pointer and the pain on his ass.

The second day's lessons wasn't as difficult as the boy imagined. On the contrary, he could gradually adapt to this highly nervous learning. The only whip in the day was because he didn't have a good control over the horse during riding training. He felt wronged because he had never ridden a horse before. It was already quite good in the first time.

As he imagined, in the next few days, riding was becoming easier and easier for him, also the lessons. He even had the energy to spare extra time to learn some of his favorite knowledge.

The boy had grown accustomed to his new identity. When others called him Raboy Benedit, he would naturally take it as his own name.

But the boy was still full of doubts about his studies, because it didn't seem for serving anyone else, it was like being served by someone else. Eckert seemed to want to teach him to be an elegant and decent child from rich family, wandering around every day in carriage with servants, doing nothing, but enjoying the best things in the world.

Was it good for the master to train him into such a person? The boy was filled with doubts.

As time went by, the lessons of swordmanship and horsemanship were almost over. At the same time, the boy's performance in tea lessons bacame perfect and his severe teacher was unable to find fault. As for the skill of talking, with Eckert's training and the fact that the boy had seen all sorts of strange things in South Port, it made Eckert most satisfied in this aspect. Even the boy stood in the most noble group of nobles in the Franco Kingdom, he would be absolutely outstanding.

To the boy, Eckert was like a tutor or a private secretary, or some sort of man employed by the noble families.

In South Port, the nobles of Thethnburg would often be seen when shopping with servants. They always carried a peculiar man who was clearly different from ordinary attendants, but definitely not the master.

These people all looked the same. The same old slate, the same solemn and meticulous.

Moreover, these people had the same characteristic. They were all knowledgeable scholars.

They were more suitable to be called think-tanks or consultants than attendants.

In the stores, whenever the nobles noticed a fancy commodity, they would let these think-tanks or consultants carefully appraise them. Until these people gave a definite answer, the nobles would not pay the price.

In the boy's impression, these people would not take bribes. He had seen the manager secretly give money to those maids or butlers, but never to those think-tanks who were far superior than maid and butler.

The boy had asked the manager.

The manager told him that these people were real scholars, many of them even owned their own businesses, like Mr. Madild, the young master, who had been a private secretary to a prominent noble in Thethnburg, as did the old master. Many of the merchants had established contact with the nobles in South Port. In fact, this was the most quick and direct way for merchants to enter the upper circles. If they were able to satisfy the nobles and make close friends with them, it would be equivalent to having deep connections in the upper circles of Franco.

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