5 years old

for the past week the Greyrat family was busy preparing for their son's birthday

they did everything to keep it as secret from Rudeus

now is the day that Rudeus hit 5 years old, he had his eyes blindfolded by Lilia as she was guiding him downstairs

Rudeus didn't experience any birthday as Zarius or Ravi in their past lives

and he never had any birthday in this world either, so he thought that people in this world don't celebrate birthday, so he was obvious to all of what was happening

Rudeus : Aunt Lilia why are you covering my eyes

Lilia : please young master be patient

when they reached downstairs Lilia took his blindfolds off to be greeted by the happy voice of every body

All : happy birthday Rudeus

Rudeus was very surprised as he never expected this

Paul : you are 5 years old now, you are 1 step closer to being a man

Paul looked at his son with a happy expression

while Zenith was crying because of happinesses, she couldn't hold her self as she threw her self at him for hug

Zenith : Rudeus, mother is very happy, congratulations for your birthday

Lilia : congratulations young master

Lilia had this urge to hug him but she controlled herself

she been having those ridiculous urges sometimes, like last week as she kissed his forehead when he was sleeping,

she couldn't believed what she did, she was so embarrassed to death when she reached her room, but if she knew that Rudeus knowns what she did, she may really kill herself

of course she can't be like the others, she can't just hug him like his mother, even if she wanted to as she is just a maid, so all she can do just say a few words of congratulations

as for Rudeus his feelings were like a Storm, normally he would control his feelings but his soul is result of two souls merging together so any feeling he feels is doubled

Ravi and Zarius always wished for something like this, if it was just one soul that had they wish, then Rudeus could balance it and control his emotions,

Rudeus couldn't control his emotions as his eyes started to gather tears in them.

he started to cry silently, but he smiled and looked at his parents and maid with his smile that looked so bright and full of sheer happiness as he thanked them

Rudeus : thank you for celebrating my birthday, i feel so happy.

Paul, Zenith and Lilia looked at his smile and they felt like this was the first time he expressed his feelings earnestly

the party continued as they sing songs for him and playing games, even Paul was throwing some jokes occasionally until finally they gave Rudeus a knife to cut the cake to eat it.

after ending the celebration Zenith and Lilia took the dishes to wash them while Paul and Rudeus were still sitting on the table, rudeus was enjoying the aftertaste of the cake while Paul was rubbing his stomach as he was full

Paul : few~ man that was great

after cleaning the dishes Zenith came and sat down on the table besides Paul, while Lilia was preparing tea.

when Zenith sat down, Paul looked at rudeus and called for his with a serious tone

Paul : Rudeus... we need to talk

Rudeus was surprised by his father's tone

Rudeus : what is it father

Paul : Rudeus me and your mother are very happy and angry at the same time.

Rudeus was confused at what his father said, as he doesn't known what he did wrong to make his parents angry

Zenith : Rudy, please tell us don't you trust mother and father?

Rudeus : what do you mean mother? of course I trust you.

Zenith : then why did you hide from us that you are training? why?

Rudeus was shocked to know that his parents discovered his secret training, he couldn't believe that they found as he was car full when he leaves the house

as he especially choose the time when his parents engage in sex activities as they will keep going for hours forgetting about their surrounding

Rudeus : How did you find out

similar to Rudeus Lilia who was pouring tea for Zenith was shocked, because she couldn't tell that her masters have already discovered her young master

Paul : i had this idea for sometime, when we bath together and I look at your body I see that it's empty of any exceed fate but only pure muscles

Paul: and the only way to get that kind of body is through extreme training. I was observing you carefully when you reached 4 years to see if train or not. but I saw that you never did anything in the daytime aside from sleeping and reading books.

Paul : I was going to give up and just say that you have a special body type, but one day your mother was cleaning your room and she found a wooden Sword.

Zenith : me and Paul, when he told me about his doubts, we thought that if you don't practice in daytime then you must be at night time, so we would keep check on you when you go to sleep, eventually one night we discovered that you disappeared from the house, it wasn't long until were do you go to practice

Rudeus never took notice of his surrounding when he practiced, and his parents were very good at pretending they don't known what is going on.

Zenith : that being said, but Lilia how could keep this a secret from us too.

Lilia was as shocked as Rudeus, she never expected that they will discover them... looks like I was too naïve to think just because we left the house they wouldn't find out

Lilia : I am very sorry madam, it was me who suggested to the young master to train outside.

Zenith : don't try shielding him, I know my son very well, he wouldn't just do what you told him-

as Zenith was lecturing Lilia Rudeus cut her off

Rudeus : but why?... why did you wait till now to face me about it? and when did exactly find out

Paul : it was 7 months ago, your mother wanted to face you about it the day we found out but I told we should.

Rudeus : why?

Paul : its simple... I saw that the way you training was effective and I didn't want to disturb your progress... and also we didn't known the reason why you did hide it from us, at first we thought that you were shy but that quickly went down as we saw Lilia with you

Paul : then the idea of you not trusting us came down on us... we were planing on letting you do what you want, but that idea kept on bothering your mom, and she couldn't take it anymore, so we decided to solve this problem today... now tell me why didn't you told about your training.

Rudeus was shocked deeply by all of this as he never imagined this situation to happened furthermore his parents developed a huge misunderstanding, Rudeus snapped out of his shock as he started to think about the best answer to this, if he answered wrong he may damage his relationship with his parents

Paul and Zenith were waiting for Rudeus answer, while Lilia was nervous as she was trying to find a way to help her young master.

after 1 minute that seemed like an hour for this family Rudeus looked at his parents while taking a breath.

Rudeus : I wanted to surprise you

Paul, Zenith and Lilia were frozen in their place for different reasons, Lilia was shocked to hear this as she know the truth while Paul and zenith for not expecting this answer

zenith : to surprise us!? Rudy what do you mean by that?

Rudeus : I was talking with aunt Lilia one day and she told that father and mother are planing to train me when I am 5 years old...so I wanted to start practicing Earl on so you can be proud of me when I tell I have been practicing alone. I asked aunt Lilia to keep that a secret as want to leave the house and train outside at night, she agree to keep the secret but she refused to leave me alone in the night, and she took care of me when I was training... honestly you ruined my surprise for you as I was waiting for you to train me.

hearing all of this Paul and Zenith were shocked to hear all of this but as he finished speaking their anger and shock all faded away as they known that all of this for their sake... they felt bad for doubting their son like this

Lilia let out a breath of relief as her young master took care of the problem excellently.

Zenith went to Rudeus and hugged him, she couldn't control her emotions as tears started to fall from her eyes

Zenith : mother is so sorry Rudy for doubting you, please forgive me

Rudeus : it' s okay mom.

Paul : well, I can't wait to start training you

when Paul said that Zenith looked at as she wiped her tears off

Zenith : what do you mean you will train him?

Paul : Eh!! oi you promised that if we had a boy I will train him in swordsmanship

Zenith : forget about that, didn't you sense Rudy magic that night he has talent in magic. if I trained him in magic he will be stronger than anyone.

Paul : don't joke with, it is already decided that I Will teach him

Zenith : I will teach him

Paul : no me

zenith : I said me

as zenith and Paul were arguing about who will teach rudy, Lilia poured tea for Rudy who was waching his parent arguing as he and lilia were looking at them with an amused eyes

neither of them stepped back, they kept arguing for sometime until Zenith came up with an idea she turned around to look at Lilia.

Zenith : Lilia, you watched Rudy as he train... you will decided, which one of us will teach Rudy

Paul : I agree, you know Better. tell us which one of us.

Lilia didn't expected this, she looked at her young master who was drinking tea as if he was not involved in this before facing them

Lilia : should I be honest

Both : of course

Lilia : then excuse my rudeness... neither of you is qualified to teach the young master

Both : EH!!!

Lilia : I have witnessed the young master practice... be it in magic or swordsmanship...the young master have already surpassed both of you.

both : EH!!!!!!!

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don't complain about him being overpowered,

the knowledge of Zarius and Ravi are mixed together, so its possible to get strong this fast in two years.

I knew he is a child but the transformation in his 1st year that changed his hair and eyes color like Ravi in his past life gave him enhanced strength.

so it was easy for him to train as child

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