3 Hours later.
"Hhaaha" Caesar woke up in an unfamiliar surrounding but the thing he was most worried about was his throat. It was totally parched and he was in immediate need for some water. He looked around and saw a beast girl wearing maids uniform sitting in corner of the room. Seeing her get up from her chair Caesar tried to speak but unfortunately no word came out of his dried throat. The maid seeing that Caesar was having difficulty speaking, hurriedly went toward him but mid way she stopped cause Caesar was trying to say something to her by using his hand. It took some time for her to understand what he was saying but she finally understood then walking near him, she took out a jug from her space storage and poured some water to him.
Caesar hungrily gulped the water in a second and asked for more. After drinking more than five glasses of water he could finally think clearly and took a good look around. The room he was in was a very luxurious one, his bed was big enough for five adult human to sleep in, the chandelier on the ceiling also looked beautiful, moreover every furniture in the room looked expensive as they were all adorned with gems.
"Who are you." asked Caesar.
"Hello my name is Clara and I am Miss Ramona's personal maid. You were asleep due to exhaustion and are now currently resting in my master's home. Please come with me, master asked you to come and meet her as soon as you wake up."
"Ahh that vixe- I mean Ramona, ok lets go" Caesar was going to call Ramona, a vixen but seeing her maid's eyes getting sharp, Caesar controlled himself.
Caesar tried to get up from the bed but he failed to do so, now that his thirst for water was satisfied he could finally feel the pain coming from every part of his body. Unknown to him, during training he strained his muscles so much that all the muscles in his legs, arms, back and abdomen were torn and just making a little movement would induce pain throughout his body.
"Ouch Ouch Ouch. Fuck it hurts,"
Caesar tried to relax his whole body and made slow movement. He slowly got up from his bed and tried to stand on his own two feet. Seeing Caesar struggle so much Clara reached out her hand and Caesar whose arrogance know no bound flatly refused her and tried to adjust himself to the pain by making small movement. After so much struggle Caesar finally made his way toward door, slowly but surely Caesar walk into the the hallway and after going through some distance Caesar had despair clearly written on his face. "Clara on which floor are we."
"Second floor." Clara replied back
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"Shit."
Once again Clara held out her hand and this time Caesar dutifully obeyed and took her hand. After five minutes Caesar was finally outside the door where he first met Ramona today and like the brazen attitude he had instead of knocking he just opened the door and entered the room.
"Helen what are you doing here." Surprise clearly written on his face. Helen was sitting just opposite to Ramona drinking tea with her.
Instead of Helen the reply was given by Ramona, "I called her here Caesar, from now on she is going to live here for some time."
Caesar now had a deep frown on his face, he replied coldly to Ramona."No that cannot happen, Helen is my personal maid and for sure I will be never giving her to you."
Hearing his reply Ramona now had a playful grin on her face, "OH MY is little Caesar so possessive of her maid that he cannot part away with her. Now I am wanting Helen more and more. What are you going to do."
After hearing her reply it was now time for Caesar to ponder over her question 'What can he actually do to Ramona.'
First Ramona is one of the oldest creature residing in the Rosehart estate, second she is a powerhouse Awakened. Third, her words carry equal weight, the same as current patriarch due to seniority.
The only thing Caesar could do was call her 'OLD HAG' or 'GRANDMA' but that will have disastrous effect on Caesar's life. He can barely feel his body just after one day of training but now if say those word to her then his barely bearable training is going to be converted into hellish training which Caesar absolutely didn't want, but was he ready to give Ramona her maid, 'absolutely not'.
"I can't do anything to you but still I will not give Helen,"
"Yes you can't do anything to me, it's good that you know your situation brat, especially when your mother is not here. Well joke aside, I am not taking your maid its just that you are going to start living here for the rest of the month."
"Huh, what, are you crazy why will I live with you."
Ramona clenched her fist in anger at blatant disrespect shown to her by Caesar, yet she somehow controlled herself and says, "Why don't you control that mouth of your Caesar or you are really going to die early."
Caesar heard her reply and murmured to himself with his voice so low that only he could hear, "Why don't you worry about yourself, who know how long will you live."
SILENCE
Caesar could see that his maid Helen face had turned pale and Clara had her eye wide open with her right hand on her mouth. Whereas Ramona looked the most normal with her neutral face, the only think that confuse Caesar was that he could see veins popping on Ramona's forehead.
Ramona let out awkward smile and said to Caesar with gentlest smile on her face "Caesar you know except for you everybody in this room an awakened human. Clara is an 'master rank awakened' while your own maid is a 'expert rank awakened' and I am 'supreme rank awakened'. You see all awakened have their senses heighten to different degree including their hearing and I AM PRETTY SURE THAT EVERYONE HAD HEARD WHAT YOU MURMURED JUST NOW."
Caesar was scared, really scared. Last time it was his mother who had saved him, after Caesar had unknowingly called Ramona an 'old hag' in last birthday party of patriarch as the patriarch had just turned 75 last year. But today it was different Ramona was the strongest person in the room and nobody was going to save him today.
So he did the only thing he could think of and that was to make a run for his life. He turned around and dash toward the door but unfortunately due to strenuous training he did few hours ago, all his muscles were torn and Caesar slammed head first into the door and then on the ground.
BANG! THUD!
He fell unconscious directly. Everyone present inside the room were flabbergasted on what had just happened. Helen quickly ran toward Caesar to check his condition. Caesar was laying flat on his stomach and Helen was trying to check if he had any external injury on him.
"He is unconscious." Helen said in worried voice.
"Clara why don't you take that brat to the next room and throw him on the bed." said Ramona with a cold voice.
"Yes Miss"
"Now Helen you may leave and bring all the necessary things that brat has into this house, you may use the last two room on the second floor for yourself and that brat."
20 MINUTES LATER
Caesar was currently laying unconscious on bed and Ramona was standing next him. Helen had already changed Caesar's training cloths and wiped his body cleaned from all the sweat and dirt on him.
Ramona after looking at Caesar for long time finally released a long sigh, she then gently lifted him in air by psychokinesis and removed his shirt. Caesar was now half naked. She placed her palm on his bare chest. Mana of pure red colour started pouring out of her hand and entered Caesar's body. The red mana reached every corner of his body, gently entering his muscles, bones, stomach, his internal organs and then flowing through his veins. After 5 minutes of continues checking Ramona finally retracted her mana from Caesar's body.
Ramona was in intense state of confusion, her facial expression was continuously changing, her eyes opened wide as she didn't know if she should laugh or scream.
Ramona walked outside. She was now in her garden and then she pulled out her communication amulet from her storage and made a call.
"Are you their Jonathan." Ramona said in a hurried voice.
"Yes Miss Ramona but why do you sound so anxious."
"Come to my mansion now."
"Ya , I will be there in 10 minutes."
"NOOO, you have to come now ,no wait tell me where are you now."
"I am inside my office doing paper work--." Before Jonathan can ask or answer anything the call was abruptly ended.
After putting some strength in her legs, the next second a huge depression was formed on the ground ruining the whole garden while Ramona herself was high up in the air. She let the magic flow out of her core surrounding herself with her red mana and accelerated directly toward the patriarch office where Jonathan was.
Jonathan was confused, first he got a call from his aunt and her voice sounded very anxious. Second she was not making any sense, she asked him to come to her mansion but then she asked him where he was.
"Guess age does make people go senile. Hope it does not happens to me." Said Jonathan in a tired tone.
While Jonathan was in his thought the door of his office broke open with a loud BANG!. Due to the sheer force a part of broken door directly came flying toward him but Jonathan just lifted his hand and that broken door was suddenly disintegrated into dust. Jonathan started surrounding himself with mana thinking that he was getting attack. Well the possibility of him getting attack inside Rosehart estate is nearly zero as there were many monsters residing in backyard of Rosehart mansion but his years of experience, wisdom and mostly his instincts made him get into battle ready position.
The game changer thing was his intuition which he had honed and sharpened over the years from life and death battle and his instincts were now screaming that the enemy was dangerous, nearly as strong as him 'A supreme probably'. Soon a silhouette walked inside. She had long black hair and black eyes with a perfect figure.
"Aunt, why did you came like that and broke the door, its made of expensive cherry wood." Said Jonathan with a confused voice while he had already retracted his mana.
"How many times I have to tell you to not call me aunt, and leave this small matter aside and first tell me who the hell Caesar Von Rosehart is." said Ramona with a calm voice.
Hearing her question Jonathan made a puzzled face. He had many answer for that question like 'Caesar was his grandson or he was son of Dale and Stella Von Rosehart or he was your great-grandnephew. Well she absolutely hate such types answer. But the thing to ask was that, was her question that simple, she too knew Caesar's relation with her and other family member, then the question she had asked was based on completely different basis. So Jonathan opted to give her the most reasonable answer.
"He is your great-grandnephew." Hearing his answer Ramona let her eye sharpen. Seeing this Jonathan just shrugged his shoulder and said "I am not getting what you are trying to ask. You too know who he is."
"Jonathan let me ask you this very seriously, was there some experiment conducted on Caesar or any children of his age." Hearing her question Jonathan made a deep frown and ask in a very cold voice.
"What do you mean, Caesar had always stayed inside the Rosehart estate and there were very few instance where he was allowed to go out and that to in protection of escorts. And about conducting experiment don't ask about such ridiculous things, just the idea to conducting experiment is enough to warrant execution of said person."
Ramona was just staring at Jonathan suspiciously and asked, "Then how, how the hell can you explain about Caesar's condition."
"What are you saying, even I don't know why didn't the orb of zengis didn't show his talent rank, that's the reason I send him to you so that he can train under you and you can find about his anomaly and stop any harm on himself or others."
"I am not talking about that, don't tell me you didn't check his mana core, you idiot."
Jonathan made a puzzled face, now he couldn't understand were this conversation was going. "What about his mana core, Yes I didn't checked it, what don't tell me its damaged or something."
"You dork his mana core is already half matured."
SILENCE . TOTAL SILENCE.
Jonathan took some moments to process Ramona's word, after a total of 3 seconds he finally understood what she meant but the problem was that he couldn't think of an reply to give. He was thinking that Ramona was playing some prank on him but seeing her serious face which was earnestly waiting for his answer he soon deleted the thought of her playing a prank.
"Are you saying that Caesar, that brat who is 12 - year old had his mana core half matured." To Jonathan's question Ramona furiously nodded her head in approval like a little kid.
"Ha Ha HAAAA HAAAAA ! you must have gone senile with you age aunt." Hearing his reply she didn't get angry cause she knew if Jonathan came and told her that a 12 -year child has a half-matured mana core then she would herself kick him in nuts for making such bad joke.
But the thing was that she herself checked Caesar and what she saw was definitely a mana core that had half-matured.
"Listen Jonathan I checked him and he definitely had half matured mana core."
With this it was now Jonathan turn to get confuse, If Ramona was saying that Caesar had a half matured mana core and her words for sure cannot be disregarded cause he knew that Ramona was more experienced that him, more stronger than him and of course more knowledgeable than him.
"Miss Ramona I can't believe you so please take me to Caesar and let me check it myself if what you say is true."
Ramona finally snorted and said "Fine, but if what I said is true than you are going to complete my one wish."
Jonathan hesitated, he knew that that chances of Caesar having a half matured core at age of 12 was impossible but the person telling him that was Ramona so after thinking about it for few seconds he said yes to Ramona's request and finally both of them left the office room and made their way to her humble abode. While they were moving Jonathan had gotten a lot of call on his communication amulets due to the stunt Ramona had pulled.
Every one was forbidden to fly inside the Rosehart mansion and Ramona just broke that rule and that to in a spectacular way by covering herself in fiery red mana and flying at supersonic speed. Well there were only two people inside Rosehart mansion who could possibly punish someone with a status like that of Ramona but for now those two individual were in closed training finding way to gain enlightenment.
Jonathan too said that it was an elder who was flying due to some emergency and thus resting the case then and there.
After few minutes both of them finally reached her mansion and made their way to the room where Caesar was sleeping.