R&I 1 - 8 Applying to become a maid

"urg..." Ragnar regained his consciousness after two days of a deep sleep, he did not immediately open his eyes as his mind was still sorting out his situation.

With the combination of his past life memories and current life memories without any parts missing allowed him to realize that his past life memories were not inherited but in fact his own memories, the other problem he faced was how to act towards his mother and father.

He was realistic when it came to this since he knew he had habits from his past life which did not surface in his current life, and should it arise then it might bring about questions he would have a hard time answering.

"At least my name is the same, but the situation within the family is messed up. If I did not regain my memories ahead of time then who knows if I would be able to survive" Ragnar mumbled while sitting upright on his bed. His movements did not escape the senses of his mother and father who rushed into his room almost instantly.

"Ragnar!" Emilia cried out tears of joy when she confirmed her son was awake, she originally thought he would only sleep for a few hours not two days!

"..." Herman did not say anything and continued to look at Ragnar intently, it was unfortunate but he already noticed Ragnar's changes as a person's aura was something that can't easily be changed.

"Uhm..." Ragnar gathered the words to say within his mind while taking a breathe, hearing this Emilia looked at her son confused and Herman's narrowed wondering what his son would say or is it still his son.

"It's a long story to explain it to mother and father, but when mother unlocked my power source it also unlocked my memories from my past life," Ragnar said while swallowing his saliva out of nervousness.

"Past life? You--- are you really my son?" Emilia asked nervously,

"I am without doubt your son, it's only because I was given a chance to be reborn as your child with memories of my past life intact," Ragnar said with a wry smile.

"How can you prove it?" Herman asked,

"Other than sharing the memories I had with the two of you, I don't have any other proof since the God who reincarnated me is not of this world" Ragnar replied feeling a stinging pain while intense burden began to bore down on his heart at the thought he might be abandoned.

Despite the fact, the two of them were vigilant towards Ragnar, but the look of despair and fear in his eyes could not be reflected and their long years of experience taught them what Ragnar was thinking.

"Will you allow us to arrange people to scan your condition?" Herman asked straightforwardly, Emilia glared at him but she still understood his dilemma.

"Of course, I am willing to share my memories with you as well," Ragnar said before adding, "With only you two that is"

"Your cautious" Herman remarked,

"Well unlike the old me who used the Arcana Divination without realizing that it could bring calamity upon our family once its discovered," Ragnar said while sighing.

"That's the sacred gear name?" Herman asked

"It's appropriate to call it Divine gear, something above the class of Longinus. You could call it a God's artefact" Ragnar explained what he understood from the Divine gear, even he was shocked to realize that his previous self even managed to unlock one card already.

"Divine gear!?" Emilia asked out in surprise while covering her mouth shortly afterwards since her voice was a bit too loud for a moment,

"Yes, that was a gift the Goddess of Death gave me before I reincarnated," Ragnar said, his heart was still beating in fear of being abandoned. He knew to live alone would make things easier for him, but he could not ignore the many years of relationship he shared with his parents which were incredibly important to him.

"If what you said is true then it really will bring trouble, so what were you reincarnated here for?" Herman asked since he had some knowledge of legendary people reincarnating from time to time for a purpose which was why he could more or less accept the situation.

"Nothing, I was sent for no purpose and can live as I see fit" Ragnar answered truthfully,

Herman shortly left the room to call a friend of his whom he could trust, in the meantime, Emilia sat next to Ragnar on the bed glancing deeply into his eyes.

"Why did you tell us this? if you acted as you always have then you might have been able to keep this to yourself" Emilia asked, Ragnar, shivered a bit before he lowered his head.

"I could sense that my father already sensed I was different, and I also did not want to lie to mom and dad. I-- I don't want to lose this precious family" Ragnar said, Emilia could feel that shiver and the voice of her son coming from the bottom of his heart. She had no evidence but her intuition as a mother told her that her son was telling the truth.

"We will never throw you away, even if you get sick of us," Emilia said while pulling Ragnar into her embrace, gently she caressed his head allowing Ragnar to tear up a little, the tension he felt was slowly loosening allowing him to calm down.

Shortly afterwards a young-looking middle-aged man wearing a magician robe and hat appeared in the room beside Herman, he did not speak much and immediately used several spells to confirm that Ragnar was indeed Ragnar and not someone else who took over.

"It's fine, this is your son," The man said before packing up his tools, he did want to ask questions but chose not to as he did not want to sour the mood between him and Herman so he left quietly.

Emilia who heard this felt pride within her as she already guessed there was nothing wrong with her son, Herman also felt relieved that one thing was confirmed but now his son who changed was another thing altogether that he would have to deal with.

"We can sort out where to go from here another time, what I want to know for now is. What is your plans for the future?" Herman asked,

"I need to become strong, but when the time is right I suggest we leave this place and live in another country" Ragnar suggested to both Herman and Emilia's surprise,

"Why?" Herman asked,

"Father, from what I understood of the family's history which mom made me read. I can more or less deduce that the current Family head fears you, otherwise, I would have already been punished or killed just for duelling Stephanie" Ragnar pointed a few things he picked up from his previous self's memories,

"That's correct" Herman confirmed it, he wondered what his son was getting at.

"Right now, someone like father is nothing more than a thorn in the current patriarch's side. Especially since we are more or less in an era of peace" Ragnar said,

"Ragnar, you can't speak ill of the Patriarch" Emilia scolded her son as she erected up a soundproof barrier,

"No it's fine, continue," Herman said while looking at his son with interest, he wondered just what he experienced to analyse quite deeply with so little information.

"Considering the fact he can't touch you unless he finds someone stronger, he will likely target me and mother. For that I need to become stronger, considering Dad's position you can't always be at home. Which is why I believe leaving is a good choice" Ragnar said,

"Why would the patriarch be against us?" Emilia asked she was a firm believer of the first patriarch who promised that they can live peacefully but now her son said otherwise,

"It has been proven when one looks back at the historical records, those who rule tend to fear those who have more power. Especially the weak-willed kind" Ragnar said with a wry smile

"Yes, he is correct. I did not expect you to notice this and I too have already considered leaving but we will have to wait for a few years at least, I have to keep the promise I made to the first patriarch" Herman said with a smile before continuing,

"And since we have to wait, I will give you a menu to train yourself on top of your mother's magic lesson as well as your school that is starting in three days"

"Understood," Ragnar said with a determined look, seeing this Herman once again witnessed that it was indeed his son, the same look he had when he asked to be trained and he gave the condition.

Meanwhile, within a room in the far west of the world, a little girl was glancing at a floating liquid in the form of a mirror displaying the figures of several acquaintances of hers currently undergoing a test.

"Hmmm? To think she would go after them... Well, she will definitely be useful as an extra guard" Isis said while watching over Miya and Yume' s journey to Europe.

it has been a few days since Miya and Yume left Kouten, they had safely reached Denmark where the branch of the Weber Family was situated. It was quite unexpected to find this family who remained back in Germany despite the fact the main family left with the expedition and one could only wonder how they managed to survive.

"All you girls who applied to join our domestic department through recommendation should know one thing." an elderly woman wearing a standard maid uniform was standing in front of fifteen maids apprentices who applied to become maids of the Weber Family.

"If any of you perform below standards then I will send you away, no negotiations, no second chances so beware" the elderly lady finished it at that.

Between the girls were Miya, Yume along with another girl whom they realized followed after them when they were already on the plane but since the Goddess did not say anything then she must have approved it. Otherwise, Miya would not have hesitated to sent this troublesome girl back on the first aeroplane, this girl was #4 Karasuba.

"Don't be so scary Miya" wearing a similar maid uniform that suited her unexpectedly with her light grey hair tied in a ponytail and gray narrow eyes glancing at Miya whose eyes twitched.

"I have many things I would like to say about you stalking us, we don't need 'another' pervert. But I will let it go since the Goddess approved it" Miya said with a stern voice while looking seriously at Karasuba,

"However, you should know that we are on an important mission to get closer to the target without him realizing that we are there to monitor him. You best follow my orders, understand?" Miya said with a smile that was not a smile, even an illusionary hannya appeared behind her scaring the wits out of Yume while Karasuba became excited.

"Karasuba, what Miya said is true. I don't want to lose the last hope we have for our family" Yume said with a bright smile causing the excited Karasuba to calm down nodding with a smile.

"Understood, my lady" Karasuba said.

'It's a blessing that this blood-crazed woman actually listens to someone, otherwise it would have been much more difficult' Miya thought.

"Let's start with practical lessons!" The elderly lady clapped her hands and the maid apprentices were all led to different parts of the household under the leadership of veterans.

it was by fate, or under the Goddess' Isis's intention, Yume, Miya and Karasuba were partnered up together under a single supervisor and they were responsible for cleaning the corridors.

"Miya, you sure are experienced" the veteran supervisor who was monitoring them cleaning the tiled floors felt quite surprised at this young girl who was cleaning the floor as if she had been cleaning something similar for years.

"No, this is nothing much, I still have much to learn" Miya answered modesty while smiling,

"ah! Yume not too much force or you will break the window!" The supervisor ignore Miya in a flash when she realized Yume was applying too much force on the window.

"EH!?" Yume makes a strange noise out of surprise since she did not expect to be scolded so soon, she trained really hard under Miya's training but she still failed.

"Fufu, guess we have to schedule a special training tonight," Miya said with a dark smile causing Yume to shiver before holding her head down as the supervisor scolded her.

"Oi! Don't you go shouting at Yume all you like, lower being" Karasuba said with a growl as she leaked out killing intent

"Hiiiii!!!!" The supervisor fell on her butt as she pulled back in fear due to the overwhelming pressure of Karasuba's killing intent.

Pak!

"ouch!" Karasuba screamed out in surprise only to find Miya who beat her head with the broom to break the current atmosphere.

"I will report this to the head for sure!" The supervisor stood up with great difficulty before scampering off leaving behind a pool of discoloured water at the location she fell at.

Seeing this Miya sighed while holding her cheek with her hand, "How unbecoming of an elder"

"Hmph! Weakling!" Karasuba snorted,

"Karasuba! You must not be harsh to others, how else are you going to learn to understand my words?" Yume said while puffing up her cheeks at Karasuba who continued to smile finding her time with Yume being much precious compared to her other times.

Unknown to the three girls, another group of people were watching the entire exchange began to talk with one another.

"These girls are experienced," The man said, his meaning of experienced meant by killing. He was certain of this because of Karasuba's killing intent was reflected even on the video feed and the fact Miya along with Yume could withstand it meant they were familiar with it as well.

"Can we control them?"

"Perhaps, if we can't why not try to negotiate with them and find out why people like them would come here?"

"You mean hire them like freelancers?"

"Yes, if their interest aligns with ours then there is no need to make enemies with them. For example, we can send them to the Main Family and Southern African to spy on them for us?"

"That's a good idea, should they turn out to be killers then we will not be affected. Or if their sincere, we can get information about the main family before we attempt to initiate contact with them"

"That could work"

"I agree"

"I as well"

Shortly the whole conference room of men agreed to initiate contact with Miya and her group at a later time, but these people would have never known that they were playing in the palms of the Goddess who knew of their plans thanks to Kocho.