61 The Day of the Duel

Day 11

8:48 AM

The Tower, Tony's bedroom.

You are in a deep sleep thanks to your last night projects. You have been up all night until 5 AM, but in the end, you manage to finish it all. Then the door open side open and a small figure with a plushie come in.

"Oniiiiiii-chhhhhhaaaaaa~!! It's morning~!! Wakey-wakey~!!!" (Esta) A sweet, cheerful voice enter your room.

"ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" you're still soundly asleep.

"Mmmmuuuuu!!! You're supposed to wake up!!" (Esta) she pouts her cheeks and slamming her both on your soft, comfy bed.

"I know!" (Esta) She places Mr Bunny on your bed and starts climbing on your bed. There was a bit of struggle with her height, but she made it on your bed.

"Yayyyyyyy~!!! I did it~!!!" (Esta) she bouncing on your bed which woke you up. But you decide to pretend to be sleep because you want to play with cute little Esta.

"Oniiiiiii-chhhhhhaaaaaa~!! It's morning~!! Wakey-wakey~!!!" (Esta) she is crawling her way toward your pretend sleeping face. You could feel her little hands and legs on your chest as she is shaking you to wake up. "Oniiiiiii-chhhhhhaaaaaa~!! Wakey-wakey~!!!" (Esta) you want to laugh from her cuteness, but you hold it in.

Then Esta presses her little hands on your cheeks and Swirling in clockwise on her left-hand anti-clockwise on her right hand. "Wakey-wakey~!!!" (Esta)

"Pfffff- I'm awake, I'm awake…" you slowly open your eyes and saw a loveable little creature on top of you.

"Yayyyyy~!!! I did it~!! I wake up Oniiii-chhhhhhaaaa~!!!!" (Esta)

"well good morning to you too….Yaawwwwwnnnnnn*" you're still a bit sleepy, but those cheerful smile had enough energy to energise you for a whole day. You then gently press both of Esta cheeks which make her face look like a fish.

"Aren't you just adorable…..press* press*."

"Mmuuuuuuuu, if you press too much, Esta's cheeks will break, and Esta can't eat anymore." (Esta) she tries to pull your hands away.

"And who told you that?" you slowly get up and pick up Esta in your arms.

"Mmmmmm, Uncle Helen said that Esta's cheeks so squishy they would break, and Esta would not be able to eat anymore." (Esta) she put her hand on both cheeks.

("Well, it more like she can't munch on these squishy cheeks since she had a habit on nip on any soft things.")

"Don't worry pumpkin if your little cheeks broke. I will fix in no time!" you look into her curious eyes.

"Reaaallyyy~?" (Esta) she til her small little head.

"Yes, Oni-chan is really smart!" you puff your chest.

"Wowwwww~!! Oni-channn, amazing!!!" (Esta) she is making yay gesture.

By the way, Esta-chan, wheres mommy?"

"She told me to wake you up~!" (Esta) she looked at you and gave a cheerful smile.

"Mm, say thanks to mommy for me, now I am going to clean myself, so I'll catch up, ok?" you peck on her cheek and put her down.

"Okieeeee~!!!" (Esta) she grabs Mr Bunny and runoff.

"Such a cheerful girl...….unlike, her mother/father." You walk toward the shower room. "Aisha anything new today?" you strip and enter the shower booth.

"Today you have a match with Lenna-sama this afternoon." (Aisha)

Afternoon? I thought it would be in the morning?"

"Yes, it seems the event has been moved by Saria-sama, and there seems to a message from her as well." (Aisha)

"put her on."

"Tony-san, I don't want to disrupt you so I will leave this massage to you. I heard from Helen you and Lenna are having an armour suit duel tomorrow. And the nobles will bring their children to tour the Academy tomorrow, and I think it would be great to let us watch your contest. So I told Lenna to reschedule both of your time o the afternoon. Thank you for listening to my selfish request. See you tomorrow." (Saria)

"Got it. Tell Saria-san the match will take place at the Academy's Colosseum this afternoon."

"I already send, master." (Aisha)

"Great, anything else?"

"Yes, there seems to be a surge of power in the western continent, around 4–5 PM." (Aisha)

"Show me the analysis." A hologram map of the western continent with a bunch of line chart and pie chart. You look at the tables while scrubbing your hair with shampoo.

"interesting....a unknow power source. The western continent is up to something, good thing I prepare. Hows the Blocker?"

"The Blocker is in place, master." (Aisha)

"Good, there is no way those churches will come through the wormhole this time." you turn off the shower and walk out of the shower booth with a towel on your waist, then you stand, and then the vent opens above you, blowing wind to dry you. Finally, you went toward the walk-in closest and wore a suitable cloth, the last check at the huge mirror, then you eagerly head to the dining room.

As you enter the dining room/open kitchen, you see Esta-chan sitting on the baby chair, enjoying a small slice of ham and cheese toasted sandwich. And Lenna is preparing her breakfast which to be a beacon and sunny egg. You did teach her a few of your world's dishes last evening, and you can't help to be amazed by her cooking skill, she got it on her first try.

"Good morning my lovelies!" you bend down and kiss Esta's munching cheek, and then you try to kiss Lenna but stop you by pointing her hot spatula.

"Don't even think about it!" (Lenna)

"yes ma'am….." you rise both of your hands.

"Now go and sit down, yours will ready soon." (Lenna) she continues to cook, and you sit down next.

"..." you start to humming and looking at Lenna cooking on the stove while. Then your eyes wander toward Esta's plate. A delicious looking mini toasted ham and cheese sandwich and the joyful expression of this cute little creature while munching.

"Here your ready…" (Lenna) she hands you a plate with 3 Crispy bacon, two toasted cheese and a sunny egg.

"Thank you, Lenna-san" you receive your breakfast and prepare to dig in. Then you notice Lenna is not joining in.

"Lenna-san? you're not going to eat?"

"No….I need to patrol at the south. There seems to be an activity down there." (Lenna) she unites her apron and walks toward Esta-chan.

"Esta, Mommy, will go to work now, so be a good girl, ok?" (Lenna) she kisses her daughter's forehead.

"Okkkk, Mommy~!!" (Esta) she waves goodbye to her.

"Do you need any help Lenna-san?"

"I can handle myself! Just prepare to lose later on." (Lenna) she walks toward the balcony

"Yea, Yea can you at least take off at the launch pad and not jump there please!!" she ignores you and jumps anyway.

"Sigh...….." you toward Esta, and she is looking at you as well. "is it yummy?" you point at her plate.

"Mmmm~!!! It super yummy~!!" (Esta) she nods

"I see, I see….then after we finish why don't we play, I got a surprise for you." you proceed to eat your meal.

"Really~!!?? Yayyyyyyy~!!! Play timeeeee~!!!" (Esta) both you and Esta continue to enjoy the meal.

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10 AM

After you and Esta finish the desert, both of you sat down and watched some kid cartoon (2-3+ show). One the reason you let Esta watch it because the show teaches the kid how to use and understanding about world modern culture Esta enjoy the show very much. When the main character of the show asks the audience to do a happy dance, Esta stands up and dances away, and she was extremely cute.

A few minutes later Aven and Anna come to visit.

"Yo!! Aniki!!" (Aven)

"Morning, Sensei!!" (Anna)

"Good morning to you too." You pat both of their head.

"Anna-neechnaaaa~!! Avennnn-niiichannnn~!!" (Esta) came run toward them. Anna opens her arms and receives incoming little Esta into her arms.

"What are both of you two doing here?"

"We heard you have a duel this afternoon so came here to play to kill time before the duel starts." (Aven)

"I don't really care about the duel, but I got nothing better to do, and I need advice on the tech subject." (Anna) she pats Esta's head.

"Oh come on Anna, we didn't come here to talk about your hobby, we came here to play." (Aven)

"What is there to play! We already explore most of the tower already!" (Anna)

"Then let me show you something interesting." The three look at with confusing eyes. Then you lead the children to a few floors below the penthouse and the room custom made for kids, and it was a massive children playing centre. There are Huge swirly slide, climbable robe and wall, bouncing floor, a pool of soft colourful balls, and all sort of thing that children would love in this facility but ten times bigger than any of your old world children playing centre.

"What is this?" (Aven) she looks at the structure with sparkling eyes.

"The Ultimate playground!!" you said proudly.

"The Ultimate Playground?" (Esta) she still doesn't know what those structures are.

"Yes! It the best place in the world to play!"

"Really!? Yayyyyy~!! Playtime~!!" (Esta)

"Come on! LETS GOOOOOO!!" you take your shoes off and run toward the play structures

"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHOOOOOOOOOOO~!!!" (Aven) she does the same and follows you. Esta copy both you and Aven; she does a cute scream and runs adorably after you and Aven.

"Sigghhh...….kids." (Anna) she takes off her shoe walk after them.

The rest of the morning you and Children play and had fun together in the Ultimate playground even Anna, who seems doesn't want to play end up enjoy herself more than you do. In the Ultimate playground, there is a hidden puzzle you design and whoever solves all the puzzle will win a prize (mostly candy), and Anna seems to love this part the most. And as for Aven and Esta, they love everything.

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12:56 PM

Academy Colosseum, VIP lounge

You walk through the portal with Aven and Anna at your side, Esta riding your shoulder. As you enter the VIP lounge you saw familiar nobles you meet before and some you never see before, there even children the same age as Esta. You can't see the difference if they were a boy, because all of them wear girly clothes.

"Ara, Tony-san you're here." (Saria) she walks toward you. You put Esta down and kneen in front of her.

"Your majesty, it's a great honour for you and your subject to witness my duel today." you reach for her hand and kiss it.

"We're the one should be thanking you, all of this, was build by you alone and now you listen to my selfish request. Please stand up." (Saria) she smiles at you. You stand up and look around and see that everyone was very thankful to you.

The Nobles to greet you and introduce their children. They were mostly at their teenage, and they look forward to attending the Academy when it is open. You could see it in their sparkling eyes; they really admire you. Esta quickly run off to make friends that are the same age as her, Aven also did the same, but Anna is a bit shy to the other kids.

"Tony-sama…." (Cassandra) as always she looks like one of those reverse cross-dressing girls. But she is a male.....so she dresses correctly?

"Cassandra-san, good to see you again." You reach out for a handshake. Cassandra quickly grabs your hand with her both hands and shake excitingly, which nearly make your whole body wobble.

("Holy crap she strong!!")

"What you did was incredible!! You build the whole Academy in just a few days!! And best of all their a lot of things I never see before such as the light above us!! There so many lights everywhere ever since entering the building, I'm amazed the whole building is not on fire yet! Tony-sama! How did you do all this !? and please teach me!!" (Cassandra) now she looks like a fangirl rather than a gentlemanly girl.

"Don't worry I'll be teaching at the Academy, so feel free to ask me for help and by the way where your friend?"

"Oh, Ma-chan? She right over there." (Cassandra) she is pointing at a group of Young adult Nobles who are chatting with each other. When Margaret made eye contact with you, she "Hmph!" and look away from you. Anna walks toward you and Cassandra after finish chatting with her new friend.

"My, oh my. Cassandra-san, Aren't you a little too old to be Sensei's student?" (Anna) she says in a sarcastic tone.

"Ahhh, Princess Anna-sama, it's good to see you again. And I hope you are old enough to enter the workshop. Ohohohohoh." (Cassandra) she is smiling, but her eyes are not laughing. Then you notice the electrical spark cashing against each other.

You slowly step back toward Aven, who is talking to her friend. "Pppsstt….Aven, what going between those two?"

"Ahhh, those two are like ice and fire for some reason. Even though both of them work on the same subject, they always disagree with each other opinion. Meh, I really don't care about it anyway." (Aven) she turns back to talk with her friend.

"I see.....well it is healthy to have a competition, but their age is on another level. I never see a young adult fighting six years old. Huh? Guess I now know how Grandpa Lee feels." Then your vision goes completely dark.

"Guess who?" (????) you already know the voice belongs to.

"This is a voice that must belong to the most amazing elf in the kingdom." You felt the soft touch on you back.

"Hehehehehe, you're a charmer, Tony-kun \u003c3" (Helen) she uncovers your eyes, turns you toward her and put her arm around your neck.

"Aaaaa, is it ok for you do this in front t of everyone?" you look around nervously."

"Oh it alright, most people are here is a close friend of the loyal family, we not it the public eyes, so it is good." (Helen) then you notice that nobody pay attention to you and Helen.

"By the way, what wrong with those two?" (Helen) she looks at Anna and Cassandra who smiling at each other, but the atmosphere tells the different story.

"I don't know....properly to do with engineers rivalry?"

"Ah yes, the son of the Raven house to be a master engineer like her whole family. Its such a waste of talent...…" (Helen) she looks a bit disappointing.

"Hmm? Is she good at it?"

"Nope, it the opposite. Her engineer skill succccckkkkkkk." (Helen)

"Wow really, I thought she was a genius or something."

"She is a genius, but in the art of combat." (Helen)

"Really!?"

"Mmm, back a few years ago, she and her friend Margaret joins Ava's groom candidate. And guess who the most win count?" (Helen)

"Cassandra…"

"Mmm, the match between Cassandra and Margaret match end with Margaret the victor, but I know that Cassandra let her win since that Margaret had a crush on my daughter. Then I did a little dig and found out that Cassandra never trains in any sort of combat skill in her life." (Helen)

"I see…..you saying she should be the warrior instead?"

"But she already chose her path, there nothing I can do about it." (Helen)

"I agree, anyway when the Academy opens I'll teach her the best I can."

"Yea, I know you would." (Helen) then you felt a tug on your leg. You then look down and see that Esta and all other children that same age as her.

"What Esta-chan?" you crouch down and gently pad her head.

"Oni-chan...is there any more like Mr Bunny?" (Esta) she nervously asks while holding the bunny plushie up. Then you notice that the children around her look at you with a "Pleeeeeeaaaessssssssssss" eyes. It seems they want a plushie like Mr Bunny.

"Ara, Esta-chan, do you all want everyone to have Mr Bunny like you." (Helen) she gently munches on Esta's cheek.

"Mm, it not fair for me to have Mr Bunny to myself, and I don't want to let go. So Esta thinks that if Oni-chan has more like Mr Bunny." (Esta) she said nervously but in an adorable way.

"Ohhhhh, you're a kind girl unlike someone I know.." (Helen) she pats her head and kisses again which Esta giggle happily.

"Yes, give me one second, ok?" you turn and walk toward the empty table while going through the crafting system. After spam on the crafting button, you put all kind of plushie on the table. There Lion, penguin, bear, rabbit, baby chick, and all sort of other cute animals in a different colour.

The children were wide open when they see a mountain of plushie on the table. Then everyone starts to gather around the table.

"Now then who wants one?" you turn around with a smile.

"Me! Me! Me!" The little ones raise both of their little arms into the air while jumping to get your attention.

("OH MY GOD THEY SO ADORABLE!!!") you just want to hug them, but you hold back that thought.

"Ok now everyone lines in order, don't rush ok, there enough for everyone." The children quickly form a line without an augment who first and who last, which surprise you quite a bit since every kid always want to first.

"Hello, there what your name?" you bend down to the little girl in front of the line.

"Lilly!!" (Lilly) she said in the sweetest voice.

"then, Lilly which one would you like?"

"That one!!" (Lilly) she points at the white bear plushie. You pick up the bear doll that Lilly want and hand it to her. She receives the bear and then hugs it as hard as she can.

"Do like it?" you pat her head.

"Mmm! I love it! Thank you, Mr!" (Lilly) she bows and runs toward her parent to show off her plushie.

"Who next?" You then continue handing out the plushie every child in the room, and everyone seems to love their plushie doll very much. The Nobles came to thank you for gifting their little one, and you told them that you were happy o do it since he refuses those pleading eyes, they chuckle in agreement. Then some of the teen and young adult come and ask you for one of those as well. You happily said yes and hand them one each.

A few minutes later, after you open an auto bar in the VIP lounge, which allow everyone to order any drink they want, from alcohol to juice. Saria and drink lover are all over the bar, and she demands you to build one in the castle.

It is now lunchtime, and the maids are severing pizza to the Nobles and their children to try from the first time. They instantly fall in love with the meal. Then a new figure enters the VIP lounge.

"Mommmyyy~!!" (Esta) she quickly gets up and runs toward Lenna. Lenna scoops Esta into her and lovingly kisses her cheeks.

"Is Esa a good girl today?" (Lenna)

"MM! Esta is a good girl~!! Today Esta has a lot of fun at the very, very, very BIG playground~!!" (Esta)

"I see, I see…." (Lenna) she kisses her daughter on her cheeks again.

"Hehehehehehehe~!!" (Esta) she happily giggles. Then Lenna turns toward everyone who happy joying their meal and saw you wave at her.

"Lenna-san, why don't we eat before we start our duel." Lenna nod since she was indeed hungry. She then walks toward the table where Saria, Helen, Anna and Aven is at.

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