Daily Life 3 | Development

Kanzen smiled before giving the mother daughter duo a simple nod, in response to the respect and elegance they've shown him.

Everyone who had pledged their loyalty and trust to him, had been carefully taught by Sebastian and the others on how to properly act in their master's presence.

Even, so Kanzen being an easygoing person when it comes to people he finds worthy did not really care about such formalities and just goes with the flow.

Out of nowhere Kanzen unconsciously closed his distance with Alicia, before suddenly placing his hand onto her head giving her a gentle head pat, slowly caressing her silky smooth hair, a gentle smile on his previous nonchalant expression.

"Um, young ma-master!"

Little Alicia was taken aback, she was a bit flustered by Kanzen's surprising action.

She looked at her mother beside her, seeing her mother's proud expression, Alicia's previous bothered and worried expression was replaced by a determined look, a blazing determination suddenly bloomed inside her.

She looked straight at Kanzen's melancholic gentle expression his eyes glistening a majestic golden glint, that gave her both comfort and pressure.

Snapping out from his stupor, Kanzen immediately realizes what he had done.

He couldn't help but reprimand his self.

--- Damn, Alicia reminded me of one of my past companions.

Little Alicia's appearance and behavior made him recall one of his precious companions a little girl like Alicia, her name is Alice, a young girl he had saved from a collapsing and blazing building.

She later became one of his most trusted companions, one of the few that didn't betray him.

He didn't know what had happened to her after the betrayal, he forgot to asked Starlight.

[She tried saving you multiple times but failed, she built a revolutionary organization opposing the Union Council, but because of the difference in manpower that new organization she built eventually crumbles.

She died during an ambush, committing a suicidal last ditch counter-attack, detonating herself using every last bit of energy inside her body, resulting in the destruction of ten large and hundreds of small cities in the process.

Her detonation killed the five major people who had betrayed you, she's the primary reason for the humanity's instant demise against the Azure Titan Race.

The loss of 5 major powerhouses resulted in your world's instant demise]

Hearing Tina's recounting, Kanzen's expression look a bit more down, his melancholic expression became more visible.

He didn't snap in anger, unlike what Tina expected, so she called out to him.

[You better snap out of it now, Kanzen]

Hearing Tina's stern voice calling out to him, Kanzen immediately snapped out of his stupor, he looked around seeing everyone's unusual expression as they look at him, he quickly searches for the reason.

Seeing his hand gently and affectionately caressing Alicia's hair, his expression darkened.

He couldn't help sweating bullets as he looked at the flustered Alicia's before shifting his gaze to Flora.

However, unlike what he had expected to be her reaction, she was instead giving her little daughter a thumbs up a wide grin that reach her ears can't be concealed.

--- I didn't know what had happened to young master to act so melancholic and intimate to my daughter but, hehe-hehe… He should take responsibility.

--- Ugh, I did it again!

Reading through Flora's thoughts and hidden intentions, Kanzen could only lament in his mind.

Making excuses presently is dangerous, that's what his instincts are screaming to him, so Kanzen decided to comply.

He hoped that in due time Flora and Alicia would forget this ever happened.

He immediately let go of Alicia's head.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what had gotten into me."

He decided to apologize and clear the misunderstanding a bit.

"Yo- you worry too much yo-young ma-master, it's nothing really."

Little Alicia has a dubious expression, acting unaffected to Kanzen's earlier rude action.

Kanzen could only shrug.

Little Alicia, seeing Kanzen returning to his previous indifferent expression and behavior, has a dejected look on her face, as if someone stole her candy.

Kanzen could only let out a heavy sigh, an apologetic expression on his face, embarrassed glancing time to the still grinning middle age Flora.

Noticing his gaze, Flora's grin became more vibrant.

"Oh dear, you're a greedy one aren't you young master, you ain't satisfied with only my daughter you are also interested in the mother of hers. I wouldn't really mind, but I don't want my daughter to hate me~"

Flora teasingly whispered to his ears, also giving him a wink, this resulted in his ears turning a shade of crimson.

"Young master, you know my little Alicia is still a child."

Flora said in a stern tone, intimidating Kanzen a bit.

"Yeah, yes I know that's why I'm terribly sorry."

He quickly replied afraid that she might get offended if he took so long to respond.

"But you're also a child, so you two better get along, and a man should take responsibility, hehe-hehe~

*Cough*

He faked a cough to disperse the strange atmosphere, before quickly changing the topic.

"I've already prepared the needed materials, please use them."

Saying so, he raises his hand, he did not let her rebut him by changing the topic, promptly withdrawing the materials from his inventory.

Understanding Kanzen's intentions, Flora could only shrug.

But after seeing the mountain of materials before them, the mother pair duo's previous domineer thoroughly change as, a serious and professional aura is excluding from their bodies.

They then began doing their intended jobs, Flora pulled out a piece of paper and pen as they started planning and organizing the purpose, of each material.

The two began marking the materials, calling out people to carefully assist them in separating the fragile one's from the sturdy one's.

Kanzen sat at the side, letting the duo and the helpers do their respective jobs.

"Everyone lets get moving."

Ezekiel received Flora's approval called out in a loud voice, promoting everyone to move their asses to do the real work.

Little Alicia began assigning a specific task to each individual based on their skills, handing them the material they'll be needing.

Kanzen just observed the ongoing activity from the side, satisfied about everyone 's progress in the past 6 months that had passed.

"It should be time to get moving, is it big sis, Tina?"

[I will do what you desire]

…

[The Next Day]

Everyone had gathered inside Kanzen's mansion, a small conference hall has been assigned prepared by Sebastian and his entourage, in the middle area of the house.

Chairs and tables were carefully placed awaiting everyone's arrival.

"Hey, what do you think, young lord's announcement to have us gathered here?"

"Um, who knows, but what I know is the young lord meant no harm to us, so we could only stand by and wait.

Everyone began talking to each other, awaiting Kanzen, the host of the conference, to come forward.

*Sound Door Creaking*

The largest and most luxurious looking door in the house finally opened.

Kanzen made his appearance, to his left was the gorgeous Monica wearing a formal maid outfit, to his right is Sebastian wearing his formal butler outfit.

Everyone immediately stood up, bowing in respect before him.

Seeing everyone, even the children, act subservient in his presence, Kanzen could only shrug the back of his head, accepting their gesture of respect with a gentle smile.

"Everyone sorry to bother you, I've gathered everyone here as I am going to announce an important issue that would surely affect everyone's lives."

Saying so, Kanzen looks at everyone, from the elderly to the children gagging their reactions.