"Kein it's time wake up"
I heard a voice call me, I started to open my eyes and see Mio to the side of me, did my mom tell her to wake me up? Probably
"wake up please"
She said, the I sat up and rubbed my eyes trying keep them open, then I turned to her and smiled
"Morning, Mio"
"G-good Morning, miss Artoria said to wake you up"
She said, why is she so nervous? It is because I'm new here? Oh well
"Ok, now could you wait for me outside, I need to get dressed"
"Oh, right, I'll wait for you in the other room"
Afte r that she quickl made her way out of the room, then I stood up and saw that on a night stand near the bed there were some clothes laid out, then I walked to them and pick up the shirt
"I guess mom left them out for me"
Then I put on the white dress shirt, then I picked up the pants they were black formal pants, why so formal? And the black socks and shoes
"now that I think about were are my parents?"
Then I walked to my room door and opened it, Mio who was facing the other way turned to me
"Are you done?"
"Yes, by the way do you know where my parents are?"
When I aske that she got into a thing pose, and after a few seconds answer
"I think they are in a meeting with the elders of the household "
"There are elders?"
I said in shock, seriously how big is this household, then Mio llaughed at my shocked expression and continued
"Yes silly, there are 3 elders, Sander Arianiti of the main branch , Mark Arianiti and Simon Arianiti of the of the two side branches"
That explains a lot, so there are two side branches, so my father is part of the main branch
"What about your family?"
"we are just a survent family, we have been surviving the Arianiti family for generations"
Ok so that's why she's dressed as a maid at such a young age
"Wow, you a lot about this, impressive"
"we are taught who the members of the family are, and their importance so we don't disrespect the master family"
Seriously, being trained at such a young age about your social standing must be rough
"so what do we do now?"
I ask Mio but she just looked puzzled, maybe she could show me around this mansion
"Maybe you could show me around?"
"I wasn't told anything else, so why not"
Then we walked out in the corridor, and walked down the same we to when we came, and reached the stairs, I looked down them, now that I take a second the mansion looks even bigger that yesterday
"We should go downstairs because up here are nothing but bedrooms and study rooms"
"yeah sure, You know this place better than I do"
Then we went down the stairs, on the right there was the main hallway that lead to the front door, but on the left there was another hallway
"How about we go that way"
I said pointing to the hallway on the left, Mio nodded and we walked down the hallway after passing a fee massive windows we reached a room had no door but a huge archway that went up to the sealing
"this is a lounge area where guests are expected"
Mis said, then we entered to room, there were was a massive couch that went along the two sides of the room and in the middle there was a glass table, on the third side there was a door
"What about this door?"
"it's where the drinks and other things that are served to guests are stored"
I guess when you have the many to why not go all out and make room have that extra touch of extravagants, wonder how much this mansion cost to build
Then we went out of the room and heard the front door open, so we walked toward the main hallway, but we stop just before reaching it at the stairs from before
Who walked were two people in armor that looked like knights, and infront of them were three kids my age, two boys and a girl, the walked past us pretty sure they noticed us but didn't care enough to say anything
"There you two are"
We heard the voice of my mother, and we turned toward it and saw her coming down the stairs with Mio' mother
"Hey, she was just showing me around the house"
"Yes, we had nothing else to do"
We said, then my mom came close to me and adjusted my clothes, then Mio went to her mother
"Me and your father were in a meeting with the elder, and they asked to see you"
"is it because I have to meet my cousins?"
When I asked her that she made a confused face
"How did you?"
"I saw them come in and go that way"
I responded to her while pointing in the direction of the way they went
"We have to hurry"
My mom said, I waved to Mio and me and my mom walked toward the meeting room, we stopped at the door, I rolled up my sleeves a little past my forearms, then my mom nocked on the door
"you may enter"
We heard after a few seconds of waiting, mom opened the door, in the room I saw a big table on the back side of the table there were three old men maybe un there sixties, on the left side was my dad, on the right side there was Samuel, and on the front there were the three kids from before standing
We walked in, my mom and to the side, I walked toward there other kids and stood in front of the elders, I could see they expecting me to bow or something, but I'm not going to do that
"state your name"
The old man in the middle said, seriously? 'state your name' is really what you say to your grandson as your first words?
"you know it's pretty rude to aske someone for their name before introducing yourself first, but since I already know your names I'll let slide, the name's Kein Arianiti"
I saw his eyes twich, did I make you mad? And I could see my dad trying to hold in a laugh and I think my mom sigh, the three kids just looked at me in shock
" Moving on, as you have been told you are now a part of the house of Arianiti, we expect you to bring glory to the house of Arianiti and to not tarnish our grate name"
The second old man spoke
"And as of now you are in line to become the next head, all of you are, you four all have the same standing only you strength and merit from now on will better your standing or make it worsen"
The third old man spoke
"Further more, In a few days time you four will be taken to a dungeon exploration, were adventurers hired by the house will test your abilities as of now"
Then Samuel spoke
"if you all agree I would to see a see a friendly bout between my son and Kein, because he always wanted to have a match with someone his age"
Then he turned his gaze to me
"Would that be OK with you kein?"
"as long as my father agrees, then yes I'll participate"
Then he turned to my dad
"Fine, fine, go ahead"
My dad said, well this just got more interesting