As the morning light shines the castle was illuminated by the sun due to the design concepts used while constructing the castle.
"mmm* a slight moan and sounds of tussling were heard in Zash's room as he woke up with a messy blanket.
"Good morning Prince Epis" a few maids said after seeing him get up and were assured he won't go to sleep again like he had been and was finally able to lie down in an normal bed.
"Mm?" Remembering to keep his act up Zash was surprised at how fresh he felt.
Confused Zash just looked at them and wondered what they were here for.
"Prince you must take a bath also learn to wear and prepare clothes along with other things let us take you towards the bathroom and wash you up" said an old nanny who was experienced in handling children.
'OH SH*T' was all Zash could think of and was carried into a Humongous bathroom which was sufficient to fit more than 100 people at the same time and this was Zash in his childlike body who found it a bit Amazing especially the Castle's design and various techniques used while constructing it while it was a bit common for him as he was levels above them all in this field but it didn't hurt to look at the workmanship of these people and above all never underestimate the power of an kingdom especially an Ancient powerful kingdom.
Letting go of the next part of his view Zash just blanked out as the maids cleaned his body and bathed him....
'I hope this never happens again!' thaught Zash as he was extremely embarrassed to this extent for the first time in his life.
As the bathroom doors opened Zash ran out as soon as the maids put a new set of clothes on him, and so he ran of course he wasn't alone as.
as soon as he got out he was accompanied by Benedrict who accompanied him by the shadows along with Hausa which surprised Benedrict.
"Why are you here you are more leaning towards assassination rather than guardian and and Swordsman..... Staying silent for a bit he thaught and whispered.
"Is it under 'HIS' orders ?'' Benedrict asked as silently as a mosquitoes buzzing.
Meanwhile Hausa said nothing and just gave him a silent nod.
As Zash ran here and there like a child going wild he passed various spots and finally stopped at a garden. Crashing on a bench after feeling tired and sweaty as a few gardeners saw him and braught him drinks which were of course checked by Hausa and only after his approval did they get the required permission to get into Zash's hands.
"It's refreshing seeing someone finally visit the royal Gardens it's been so tough maintaining them, they're so empty ever since Princess fell into eternal sleep." An elderly gardener said looking at Zash who kept roaming from time to time and come back on the same spot 'his' now biological mother used to be found of previously as well.
It gave them all a deep sense of nostalgia.
The sun was rising on landscape as it was a signal early morning are about to pass and Zash who had been running for the past 2-3 hours admiring the gardens was tired thoroughly when he spotted a familiar figure approaching towards him.
"Hello price Epis. How have you been ?" Havier asked as she came into Zash's view.
"Mmm" just nodding towards her Zash continued to look towards the surroundings and after a bit of awkwardness Havier took our a candy from her bag.
"Haha little guy remember this ? I braught books and study material for you. If you perform well you'll earn sufficient candies." Havier said with a twitching smile.
As all throughout hundreds of years this was the first time she was a personal nanny come tutor and for once didn't had any of her stuff related to doctrine around her except for her book which Zash previously unlocked and as the contents are extraordinary it's only the norm for her to carry it all around with her.
Now that exact bag full of medical supplies was filled with lots and lots of Candies and toddies and everything needed for a child's care nessities.
"Ahu*" making a strange sound Zash looked towards the candy with sparkling eyes and wanted to grab it but as soon as he went for it he was stopped.
"Now now prince you need to earn your rewards" Havier said smiling and kept the candy in her bag and stopped Zash in his tracks.
Looking at Zash she just booped his nose and said in an adorable manner.
"Will you look lt that ? Except for your skills, luck and excellent brainpower you're and entirely normal boy."
Meanwhile the 'Entirely normal boy' threw a first in the sky and applauded his own acting skills of course that was within his mind and not actual actions in front of Havier as Zash was excited for learning about this world and especially happy for capturing such a knowledgeable teacher for himself. He even felt like patting his own back as a defenceless newborn who had difficulty even moving had already did so much was entirely in itself an living miracle.
"Now.. seeing how sweety you are it seems like you had a fun morning, rest for a few minutes we'll be moving to the study room it's nice and cool there. " Patting his head Havier publicised her plans for the day which enlisted a few brakes and his schedule of course Zash pretended to not know much about what's going on around him and was in his own world from time to time.
Soon a few minutes had gone by as Zash kept looking at an ant's neat nearby watching them come in and go out collecting stuff and so on entirely normal stuff boys do which was relaxing to an extent.
"Well prince Epis we'll come here later tomorrow if you'd like for now let's go to the study room. Taking his hand Havier guided Zash who 'reluctantly' followed her.
Within the study room Havier taught Zash various things elementary schoolars are taught. Starting from basic speech which was difficult for Zash currently but still tried his best 'tp earned a few candies for his hard work'.
In all Honesty it wasn't any difficult task at all for Zash the alphabets and numericals were oddly similar to his old world's used ones only with a slight difference but it was easy enough to cope up with beginners level stuff.
At the start Zash started off lightly and started looking at the characters to try making it seems that he's looking at them for the first time and installing them in his memory forever and with a bit of 'difficulty' of handling his new body he was finally ready to start speaking at least with words but first he was going to test the waters right now as a newborn just started writing and speaking on the second day of his awakening is "Scary" even for Zash's "Standards".
Looking around he went towards Havier who previously seeing Zash's enthusiasm to memorize the characters in his memory left him to it and started studying the book of her ancestors, seeing this Zash too wasn't in a hurry to disturb her but after half an hour he eventually went towards her and gently tapped on her shoulder.
"Oh finished already ?" Looking towards Zash fondly she asked Zash again " Is there something you need ?"
To which Zash just pointed at the alphabets and started sliding his hand on the sidelines.
"!? Y-You want to write ?" Seemingly stunned at this revelation she asked Zash.
"You already memorized all the alphabets and numericals !?" Shivering a bit she calmed down and handed him a new set of ink pen which was specifically designed for noble royalties to comfort the holding points looking at Zash for a bit she thaught.
' I'll naturally find out if his memory and learning skills are good to such an extent in a bit'.
"Here take this here's how you use this...." Telling him the instructions about using the pen Zash sighed and wanted to facepalm himself as he too realised he was about to break his ' character ' by starting to use the brush without being taught about such a thing beforehand and out of context once again he just 'Woke up' yesterday being thaught about such a thing is not a possibility at all also most of the time yesterday he was with this teacher of his so for a cause she 'knows' more about him than he does, as a person.
Zash once again scolded himself and cheekily picked up the pen according to the instructions occasionally stumbling time to time and perfecting the entire process eventually giving others a natural feeling of a child leading things from the very beginning.
"Good! Very good. You are such a fast learner!" Patting his head Havier gave him a candy which once again 'motivated' him to do more work with sparkling eyes as he took a new sheet of paper and stared copying the exact set of alphabets and after a few purposefully bad trials Zash successfully wrote a bunch of sluggish characters and numbers stunning Havier and also the guards including Hausa and Benedict who were all trembling at the Literal Depiction of Monstrous talent which was before them Havier might not know this but Zash just took 2-4 minutes max and perfectly copied them altogether and even waited for Havier for about half an hour ! Such a monster is a Great threat to every single enemy out there and a huge Blessing to everyone who were besides such a Genius. Fortunately they were the later and were watching a great Monster in his starting stages !
Gulp*
All around the room sounds sounds of gulping could be heard breaking the silence Zash knowingly ignored them and went about 'Perfecting' the characters and numbers even making them artistic to an extent and every new work would be better than the previous as if an experienced painter getting better and better at his work after experiencing thousands and thousands of years of collective inspiration.
"These works are Marvelous !" Havier commented as just a single work from Zash would be enough to earn a commoner enough money for his 10 generations to live a comfortable modest life she knew at least that much plus a royal creator behind them especially a ' Freaky Genius like her student will not only raise their price but Multiply it by many folds!
"Hahaha! hahhahahahahaha! hahhahahahahahahahahahahahahhahah! I'll Guaranteedly go down in History ! Not for being a Great Doctor or surpassing my teacher but for being such a Monster's teacher !" At this point Havier had long lost it and didn't know what to do meanwhile Zash just facepalmed hard in his mind.
'Oh sh*It I went ahead and did something crazy again ! But these characters give so much space to try out so many things. I can't be blamed for doing a few artistic depictions'
Was all going through Zash's mind as he was picked up with a bit of difficulty by Havier as she grabbed his hands and spinned circles and seemingly getting the idea Zash too made a dumbly happy face and spinned happily seeing his teacher going crazy from happiness was one thing he didn't expected so soon ( Oh but you can be DA*N Sure he did expected it to happen at some point )
"Ahem* is everything all right ? " Ester hearing the commotion came into the study room once again and seeing a Crazed Havier and fearfully petrified guards amongst who some were so shocked they were literally pale from lack of breadth! As such he decided to break the silence and once again said.
"Cough* it's nearing 11:45 we eat around this time around seeing how my little brother his studying he must be hungry as well I heard he's been running around the garden, that too without having a proper Breakfast ! That can't be tolerated ! You need proper nutrition for your body ! " Ester said pleasingly and waited for Zash's response who sulked for a bit like a child who had did something wrong and was being scolded nearly on the verge of 'tears' which were easy enough to bring out with a child's body but to an extent that would be too much so Zash just kept it 'mild' for a bit.
"Ahem* I too know that bit it shouldn't be much of a problem and let me tell you his body needs just hydration right now rather than food and let me tell you your so called 'Perfect "Diet"' has many problems you nobles need to learn that eating humbly is good for your stomachs and the normal nobility food is bad for you "
( Search it up you'll be surprised to learn the stuff people, especially royals found it necessary to eat at their peak time. You'll be surprised even type the common ideas of "Dieting food in several such ages varied big time!)
"As such as I said he just needs to be supplied with a healthy dose of food from time to time and mostly liquid contents are necessary for the time'' saying so Havier shielded Zash.
"O-oh ok. Then I'll trouble lady Havier with educating our chefs too if you can. It's best if they learn a thing or two from you" Ester said not at all mad but made a suggestion for future betterment as a golden opportunity had presented itself before him.
"Sure. I don't mind and let me tell you the normal extents of Healthy Diet is entirely wrong at least from my Point of view. You'll be lucky to live off more than 60-70 years without major problems but yes you'll have many difficulties especially tooth related, digestive deficiencies,,,, and so on" at this point Ester was glad he had taken the opportunity to learn about such things beforehand. And while he had a few ideas on this issues an expert naturally know as a thing or two about such issues.
"I that case I'll have to trouble you. The food is being prepared right now do you mind giving the royal chefs a few pointers and removing or modifying a few things ? I'll be glad to put your opinions before them." Ester said earnestly
"Sure let's go" saying so she held Zash's left hand and Ester too held Zash's right hand occasionally the two lifted Zash from time to time as the previously sulking Zash calmed down and was enjoying the time he was lifted in the air by Havier and Ester. Due to his body being a natural 9 years old Zash felt similar excitement a child seemingly felt at that period of time.
As they made their way towards the kitchen Havier instructed the chef's on what's healthy and what is not and what quantities of food especially extremely sugary or gastrically allergies causing food should be made, prepared, and when to be served and how much a person can eat depending on his age and how to look at a person's digestive and health issues all things how they should be dealth with were properly instructed.
After listing everything out Ester found something surprising andd exclaimed with a twitching smile.
"Miss Havier if we follow through with your plans we'll save more than Half the money We use for Food for the entire Royalty and put more money on our military finance if this is implemented we can benefit greatly ! I'll put forward a request to make it mandatory ! I'LL also talk to father about this ! "
"Hmph* let me tell you you can save much more it's just royalties don't listen at all ! Not unless their life is on the line !!! Those Fat F*Ng Pig of a Human C***! "
Sss*"Miss calm down. PLEASE Calm down My brother is still not used to cursed and shouldn't be thaughts and more importantly a lady such as yourself shouldn't be using such cursed words aloud !" Epis reprimanded Havier who after looking at Zash and her surroundings calmed down still there was lingering anger in her eyes.
"Cough* sorry about that and as I was saying you could save much more if you let go of such elaborated eating habits and your bodies are also reliable on such things for sugar and an diet cannot be changed which has been used from childhood so suddenly a bit of time is needed to get used to let go of absence of such things even if they're eaten they'll not do much harm if used properly they'll do no harm at all ! Which is something I can guarantee if these methods are implemented for a long time and I can only suggest things at this point for this season's delecacoes and choices which chefs use I'll add more stuff later which can further decrease cost while giving you a proper nutrition making your body more Stable Health wise at least."
"Then again don't go spreading around this I wanted to spread this long ago but commoners and middle-class families don't deal with such difficulties only some fat pigs do. I also advise you spreading such good things to the outsiders for free as well."
"Seems like miss Havier has a few bad experiences about dealing with Notorious Nobles "
"You can say that those f----- ..... I'll tell you later just know that you don't need to pay me anything at all I am happy with my position as Epis's teacher and I cannot ask for more."
"But about this valuable information being provided free of charge is a great fraud towards your hospitality" Ester said not letting the matter go.
"Don't get me wrong I was going to spread the news first but as I said only a few fat Bast... Bad guys indulge in them as such I haven't spread it and I am quite fond of this Kingdom. Your family is 'Differently Good ' in a naive kind of way and it'd only be good for others to die earlier than you lot. As for the bad experiences and skirmishes with nobles I'll tell you later..." Havier said while trembling with anger.
'Sh*t Seems like a Fat noble really annoyed my teacher to an extent I wonder what happened. Oh well I'll eventually find out.
"Very well I'll put it as a favour in my heart then." Ester said earnestly.
"Has sure sure~ do as you like "Havier gave up at this point and just focused on keeping Zash happy and made their way towards the Dining Hall where Zash's now biological Father looked towards the trio with a bit of complicated look. Which soon which changes and he soon became happy once again.
As he got up from his seat and went towards the three and separated Zash from and fawned over him.
'seemingly he must have got news of my fast learning capacities. But that's wrong in itself Benedrict and Hausa haven't left me yet and even if he's doing it due to expectations a sense of father love is till present in his admiration. Seems like he's still being careful which is a natural given due to him expecting his son to wake up ever since his birth.' at this point even thinking made him a bit sick on his outlook towards everything and at this point he completely gave up thinking.
With a serene mind he just thaught this.
'while there are Many Many bad people. There are also just that many kind people who are kind to everyone but even more loving towards their own kin or their special person. I can't judge a person like my now current biological father who is before me was one for such uniquely positive feedback from a very cruel world'
Which once again rekindled the spark which told him to save this kingdom and direct this world towards a better path if possible of course he didn't an to do that forever and by himself at most after saving this kingdom he'll spread awareness and give this world tools to make a proper path for themselves. Not a perfect path but at least a proper stable bridge and a beautiful outline of a huge blank canvas as for how that canvas is filled he's not responsible for it in any sense at all after he's gone at least.
Hey guys sorry I couldn't write for a while going through life. I completely forgot about writing for a while seemingly with the attitude of writing it tomorrow I'm eventually wiring it RN. Expect a few quick chapters as a sort of make up for the time lost.
Hopefully the chapter is up to your expectations.
Stay safe and let's meet again later.