Next Morning~~~
Aryan woke up like usual, completed his morning routine work, and went downstairs for his breakfast.
Upon entering the dining hall he felt a change, something had changed there, something was off, but he couldn't figure out what it was.
While contemplating the changes he took a seat and asked Yoshino to serve breakfast. While he was waiting for the food to be served, Aditya and Anisa too came and joined him.
After a few minutes, Granny Kotori too came and took a seat near Aryan. Shortly after her arrival, Takeru and Yoshino served the food delicacies prepared by their family cooks.
Even while eating Aryan was getting a feeling of something was off, while he was asking for a second serving, someone spoke "Lil boy you have got quite a hunger there, must be hungry from the past few day's events."
White hair, purple eyes, fair skin, and a youthful face of twenty!!!
Aryan looked at the person, what he saw there hit him hard, hard enough that he blurted out "Nani the fu**, happened to you!!?"
The young man was none other than his dear Gramps, the Grand Elder former absolute ruler of that palace (now replaced by Granny Kotori).
His facial structure, height, weight, charm, everything about him had changed. No matter how he looked at him, he looked like a man in his early 20s!!!!
Aryan abruptly stood up, went near him, and asked, "Gramps is that you? No, I should ask is that really you??"
Grand Elder gave him a smile and didn't say anything, he patted Aryan on his head and said "Lil boy this is how I looks like in real."
Aryan "..."
Silence Part 1~~~~
"Nani!!! This, your real look!!!"
"Yes."
"Then how about how you looked till yesterday?"
"Oh, that I was using an aging art, to look old."
"Why? You look good like this, then why look like an old man?"
"Cough cough I wanted to look like an old man like those in old movies, with long hairs white beards....."
"Sigh...Let me process this information, so you and Granny Kotori look like 20 because...."
"Because both of us have reached the Seventh Stage Earthly Godhood."
"Oh, then the more you climb higher the younger you look."
"Yes my boy.", replied the Grand Elder.
Somewhere in his heart Aryan was feeling overjoyed. At last, after many twists and turns, he found a fact similar to his previous life.
The more you ascend higher in cultivation, the younger you will look. This was one fact from the olden times.
But little did he know at that time, that an extension of that fact has been developed already.
He went back to his seat to complete his unfinished food. Everyone present there took a seat except Takeru and Yoshino, who were serving them.
Aryan pondered and counted the number of people seated there, his pops, mom, and himself make the count three.
When added Granny Kotori and his doting Gramps to the count, it became five. After counting the total number of people seated he realized what he was feeling off about that room. It was the dining table.
Previously it was a four-person seater dining table, now it was a six-seater.
Aryan asked Takeru about it and he told him the whole story. According to him last night when everybody went to sleep Granny Kotori was setting up punishment for Grand Elder when he took the chance and successfully slipped from her clutches.
This enraged Granny Kotori, and she went into her hunting mode, making Grand Elder the prey. In their game of prey and predator, they ended up breaking some upper floors of the mansion and the whole dining hall itself.
Aryan frowned a little before asking, "So, the entire kitchen was repaired overnight??"
"No, Master Aryan.", replied Yoshino.
"Breaking a floor or two is a usual thing when Granny Kotori is around, so we have learned the use of time arts to reverse the damage."
Aryan thought for a while before replying, "I see, that's how it always works around here then."
He didn't show any other emotions on his face and quietly ate the rest of his breakfast. He had already decided not to get shocked or traumatized from the new interventions and changes of that era and to accept them without any hesitation.
And to his heart's pleasure, he successfully endured the first wave of time-reversal with his firm determination.
Now that all of them had completed their breakfast, it's time for the session Aryan was waiting for since the previous night. The introductory session, and the doubt clearing session as promised by his parents.
Aryan knew in his heart, that the truth of his family background will give him destructive shock all of 9.0 and above but as already mentioned he had decided not to get shocked or traumatized.
He kept chanting that same thing again and again in his mind till the beginning of the introduction session.
They were just about to begin their session when a servant came running and whispered something to Aditya, after hearing him out Aditya exhaled out a heavy breath and whispered something to Grand Elder.
After hearing him out Grand Elder too exhaled a heavy breath out and whispered something to Granny Kotori, following the chain Granny Kotori too exhaled a heavy breath and whispered something to Anisa.
Observing this chain of whispering followed by an exhalation Aryan was getting confused, just what in the world made them exhale out heavy breaths.
Aryan couldn't contain his heaven piercing curiosity and invited his last boss by asking, "Pops, Gramps, what happened? Why the troubled expression on your faces??"
Silence Part 2~~~~~~~
This time none of his parents answered, and Takeru had to intervene in their conversation to break the silence.
"Master Aryan, do you remember the Eastern Country's head?"
"The one who greeted Pops first, instead of me, and told he will not pay his respect to Gramps as he had been doing that from his childhood, you are talking about that person??"
"Yes, that person, do you remember he said you that your gift is on the way and will reach by that night?"
"Yes, I remember that part too, so what about it??"
"We were checking all the gifts offered to you by all the guests present that day, without unwrapping them through divine sense."
"Oh, for safety purposes??"
"Yes master, and when we checked his gift, we found a 7th Generation CLU Series Gaming Capsule inside it!!!!!!"