IDOLIZING CHAOS

Preparation for Contest! Crossed Hammer Pavilion. Part 1

  "Kid's, all of you are the hope for the Family, when you go out there, be safe be calm and think okay..... "

Aeries listened to the long talk the Earl gave and sighed repeatedly, 'Alas, one still can't break away from the chains of bloodline! Beneficial yet vicious... Although the Earl seemed like a cool and calm person, he still couldn't resist the Warrior bloodline calling for battle and contest deep within.'

 Truthfully the Earl's face was hiddenly beaming with a look of longing and nostalgia. At the end of his speech he even added. 

"Now that everything has been settled, pack your bags children of the Kriegars let's move... With speed and efficiency, HE HE, same way I know you'll do to the top position, right, right?" 

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Almost a week later....   In the royal capital. 

Carriages could be seen moving swiftly through the bustling streets, occasional laughter or intense quarreling could be heard in shops and stalls.. 

  Among one of these carriages, a nouvie riche kid, with bright eyes and flailing Azure hair was settled impatiently on one, with his bobbling head poking out of the window. 

"Aiiiya Young Aeries, you seem so piped up now that you've come to the capital, although it's a good thing, it shouldn't be directed to the wrong purposes remember" With careful consideration, the Earl had divided the kids into 3 extra large carriages with him and their guards flanking the front and back In another 2, he had, for obvious reasons as to bring closer the two, set Aeries and the brightest star of the Kriegar household Kane, in the same carriage. 

     Kane was a strong cultivator, already reaching the 1st level of the Martial Warrior realm and he also acted as the kids leader... He was a stout boy of 17 with black hair doning on a pair of determined blue eyes and slick jawline.... He looked majestic and valiant especially with the costly skin tight leather armor he wore, but this guy.. With all his pros He had one obvious flaw, he was thoroughly the perfectionist! Nagging everyone that tend to stray away from orders... In this case Aeries! 

 While everyone else thought Aeries was happy to come to the capital because he could meet the 3rd princess, the truth was very diverse... He had been in a pinch to sell his many weapons and armors and the capital had just open it's jaws to him.. He had seen large sized shops showcasing weapons while on the road making him giddy in excitement thinking about all the gold he would be making soon. 

  Finally, their carriages reached the designed mansion for them to stay throughout the contest. 

"Kids, every should move in ettique and comportment towards the registry grounds with some guards, follow closely behind Kane, he knows the way... Leave your luggages for the hired helps. "

"Which hired help?" Aeries couldn't help but ask, on their journey they had left all the maids in the family estate. Together with his mother and others.. They had only brought some guards and grumpy Charles and his two children together with them.

    "Oh.. Don't you see those people standing outside the gate there? Obviously they are here to be hired for those chores"

"En Father, just to be on the save side, I don't feel you should hire those helps .. The capital isn't our home after all, if you do they should be strictly checked!" Aeries replied 

"Wha... Oh. Fine son, I'll do whatever."

 Aeries sighed in his mind. He knew his father did not take him seriously and almost would never because of his formal actions as a slick pants. 

'But regardless can't you be more cautious.. With the cunning mind of the King, he would obviously send spies in the form of these hired helps... Look at them already waiting in the gate, they will definitely use this opportunity to search the luggages secretly'

 "Sigh"

  Aeries did not remind the Earl anymore, he could have chosen to show off his glamour and solve everything stopping the Kriegar Family with his wits, but he wasn't those mighty looking protagonist in the books he read. And to add more fire to the pot, he still had his own heavy troubles pressing on him like mount Tai. 

  After secretly ordering some guards to transport his and his father's luggages to their rooms he joined the cue for the registry. 

'Only what I can do to help.. Politics was never my forte in the first place. 

    The children like ducklings followed strictly behind Kane to the register. There were already gifted children from other houses and noble families waiting to register. 

"Oi.. Isn't that the famous 'Slick Pants turned Genius' Aeries, am sure his here to prove his love to the princess."

"Aiiya! Impossible for them to be together. Don't you know, the princess hiddenly likes broad chested boys with scruffs and muscles. As for this young brat.. She obviously won't put him in her eyes."

"Eh? What do you mean by well defined muscles, are you trying to point to yourself? Don't make me beat you death! Obviously the princesses would only like Shiny Knights, and I'm going to be one!" All the children hiddenly whispered while looking at each other with disgust and reprimanding faces.. 

  But the person with the most disgusting look was The Young Slick pants.. Aeries. 

   'Now am praying I didn't have enhanced hearing capabilities, this children.. Obviously under age yet wholly talking about Marry and Love like it's the only thing they know.. Aiya! In my former world little kids be little kids.. Should only think about School and making new friends and maybe seek attention from parents'

  Aeries was greatly mistaken, although the children were all older than him, youngest was 15 while the oldest were all 18, staying together in a group. Aeries had been a lonely Farmer I am his past while, and obviously he wouldn't hear about the new 'Trend ' of the world. Young children aged 13 openly dating, if he did he would have it was too funny.. 

   'What do you know? Obviously hasn't grown any hair in those places yet trying to emulate the old.. Go lick a lollipop and wait till you're grown before doing those things.. For now it's just a waste of your time and heart! '

     After standing all through the morning, They finally registered and collected their various token numbers. The number represented on one's token would serve as their serial number, the contest would officially start 3 days later, after everyone else had registered. Aeries was 54, he still looked at all the children from the Kriegar Family and thought hiddenly. 

 'Now that these ducklings aren't looking, time to go on an earning spree!'

"Right, Young Aeries, we were asking for all our numbers? What's yours? "

Aeries gritted his teeth angrily at that question.. 'Of all times leader Kane.. Why choose now to show your bossy attitude!'

 He sighed and showed his token number. 

"Right. Okay everyone.. Enter the cue let's go! " Aeries anger increased watching them act this way. 

'Am not a freaking child! Standing in line? Matching with decorum? This are things children do in nursery school!'

"Oi.. Ehm.. Kane. I wanted to go get my equipments.. Since am a lazy slick pants. I need to buy weapons and armor to protect me"

 'Who openly tells other that his is a slick pants... Can't you be more discreet in your way ward ways?' Every one thought incredulously.

"Well... Sorry young master, It's not my call to make or any of my brothers', wait when we get back we will all beg the Earl to give us some pocket money we could use. Okay. All of us are together in this too, no good weapons, no good armor"

 Aeries eyes flashed with suspicion. 'This kid, using those words to placate me yet hiddenly turn the others against me.' 

 More than once, Kane pointed to them being the unloved while Aeries was a pampered spoilt brat. First he said it wasn't in his or his brothers' ability, making all the rest seem close as brothers while Aeries was alienated and so he was tasking them viciously. he then said they will beg the Earl.. This would show that they were treated poorly while Aeries had everything. After that he said all of us are in this together, if it was the previous Aeries, he would have guffawed at that, causing all the other children to crunch their brows in anger.