A certain butler lineage

Walking as silently as possible, a newly recruited young maid walked through the large, gorgeous and yet eerie always of a mansion, she was tasked with checking of every windows were properly closed as well as the flaps, night was slowly falling and the unfamiliar manor was giving her the chills.

Passing a corner, she advanced forward without stop but suddenly stopped, recoiling in surprise and fear, she had not noticed at first but a man was standing in the hallway, looking at a painting, he was standing nearly immobile and wearing dark clothes, it was as if he melded in his surroundings, the mark of an experienced butler, he truly seemed like a furniture among any other.

The maid was new but she had still been told and presented the name of the other personel, as well as the occupants of course, this was Kathikon, the personal servant of the duke's and duchess's only daughter.

He was wearing a most basic butler outfit with a dark tailcoat suit, a dark waistcoat, a white shirt and long bow tie, alonside dark leather gloves and formal shoes, despite his good looks, at least to her, he certainly appeared creepier, it was only a vibe but the maid felt a cold sweat running down her back, the sheer intensity with which he was looking at that painting was paralysing.

Kathikon turned to the maid as he had felt her staring at him for a while now, his purple eyes looked straight at hers.

"Are you here to close the windows?" he asked in a neutral tone of voice.

"Yes" she spoke after gathering herself up for a bit.

"Then you can head back, I already took care of everything from this point forward, apart from this one right there" he spoke up before promptly, going back to staring at the painting.

She had no idea why but the maid was stunned and didn't move at all, staying at her position and still looking at the butler in front of her.

Then it occured to her that she should perhaps try to talk to him for a bit, he was a colleague after all, hesitantly, she walked up to him allowing her to see of tall he seemed when compared to her, sure she was a halfling but this guy seemed taller than usual.

"M-May I ask what you are thinking about?" she asked, trying to sound as polite as possible, even though her question was clearly intrusive, the butler didn't seemed to mind and spoke up.

"This is a painting of the founder of this family, if you will, he was the one to obtain a title from the king in his time, the one to start the success story of the Gandefer family" he said, the man he was talking about stood proudly in the center of the picture, looking like a man in his thirthies and wearing formal military clothing with a decorated chestplate and a red scarf across the chestplate.

"The man standing beside him is one of my ancestors, he accompanied him throughout his life and only died when his master no longer needed his assistance" spoke Kathikon with a smile of pride on his face, despite the smile his eyes remain emotionless.

"Ever since then, the heir or heirs of the Gandefer family would always be accompanied by a member of my family, devoting ourselves to making our masters reach their peak, failling to do so would be a disgrace" he said, never taking his eyes of the painting.

"It is my turn now, I must do the same for miss Polemi and to remind me of my duty, I sometimes come here to look at this painting" he concluded before turning around and closing the flaps and then window that was behind of him.

He lit a candle and looked at the maid for a few moments.

"Do your best" he spoke with an encouraging smile but it only frightened the maid, he lit another candle and handed it to her.

"Make to lit the entrance on your way back, the mansion must always be ready to welcome any visitors" he said before going the other way and soon disappearing from sight.

His steps made no sounds whatsoever, so as to not disturb anyone, he went to certain area that he would patrol for the night, the young miss was to become the senechal of this kingdom and could fend for herself but Kathikon was not one to take any chances.

Still, it was not yet time for her to endorse that role, she may be ready in the eyes of everyone else but for Kathikon, she needed to be much more, she needed to be the best she could be, he was willing to go far to achieve this result, very far.

As he was patrolling, a floating book appeared in front of him, the signature unique skill of his family a great tool, that could be used to gain a great deal of powers but was always used to tend to the growth of their masters.

A book relying on the wits and observations of the user, not any dimwit would be able to use to its full potential as one requires understanding to use it.

The pages seemed to flip indefinitely until it reached a certain pages, as it was the first of the month this meant that he could once again use that part of the skill and see if he had truly improved the technique detailed on the page, it was a tricky technique, one to allow someone to gather the attention and to inspire people, the young miss would see much use for a technique such as this one.

While the gathering attention part had improved, it seemed the inspiration part of it had not changed much, Kathikon had yet to truly capture the essence of inspiration, he was focusing too much on the buffs granted instead of the most important part, the people listening needed to be convinced and inspired by the words they heard, as he thought of this, it dawned upon him what he was missing, he had pushed too much on deceiving the auditor by talking to their logical side, he needed it to speak to their emotional side too.

Kathikon wrote inside of the book for a bit and soon dismissed the book itself, while the owner of the book could use the abilities described even if they were a bit faulty, for his master to learn it, it needed to be close in nature to a true system skill to be acknowlege as such, in a way, Kathikon was simply writing skills idea and the system checked if they were acceptable or not.