During one of the conversations that Anton had with Phillip, Walter, Antonia, and Lucia, they told him that in their formative years, they had to work hard to make sure that the family wouldn’t discard them for soone more talented who could advance their family’s wealth since they had no mage powers and couldn’t contribute to the family using magic.
There was even a funny mont when they noticed Anton’s horrified look on the word “discard” and when his four friends from New Drennor asked what he was concerned about, he blatantly asked how many children had been killed who were found not useful.
The four laughed and clarified so things. When they said that those who weren’t talented would be discarded, they ant that they wouldn’t be in leadership positions but would be delegated as diocre family mbers, even if the children were direct heirs of the main family mbers.
“Of course, we will not kill our children if they are less talented! It just ant that positions would be rearranged! How barbaric do you think we are?!” Lucia exclaid.
“You did use the term “Discard”, so I thought you ant…that!” Anton exclaid back.
The four then told Anton that, usually around their early twenties to their late twenties, they would be given the freedom to indulge in life while finding suitable mates. That’s the main reason why the four were traveling to Rendindura, to see the world per se since they had been under restriction for most of their lives.
Even though there were huge advantages to being born as part of the nobility or at least the very rich, Anton was secretly glad that he had transmigrated as the son of a farr. At least Anders wasn’t expecting him to carry on with the family na since they didn’t have a family na being farrs.
Since now that they were nobles due to the reward Zalnothel had given to Anton and the fact that he had the capability to earn a huge amount of wealth for the family, he knew that if the world remained peaceful enough, there was a good chance that their family would be just like Phillip’s or Walter’s, or the two others in the future.
Anton did have an inkling that there was a much bigger chance that it wouldn’t co to that since he felt that during the next few years, the world would be very chaotic and all these peaceful tis that they experiencing were the calm before a huge storm. Even though he had no prophetic talents, he still felt that primal urging that he should beco strong as soon as possible since that was the only way he and his family would be able to survive in the coming years even though Antonia, Lucia, Walter, and Phillip kept assuring him that New Drennor and the whole Gale Continent for that matter was peaceful enough.
But Anton was wary about that since that was what he and his family thought about Zalnothel when they planned to settle there. Even his sister, young as she was, did not have any more delusions that they would be able to find a peaceful place where they could settle. She was now very focused on her magic, making sure that she had the power to protect herself and the family.
Everyone in the family was the sa, even the twins, Belinda, and Ramona, and Nemina’s daughter, Lunelle. Anton thought that the only one who wasn’t truly aware or did not care enough was Devon but he guessed that most young rcenaries would be the sa, taking the world as it was one day at a ti.
Anton then rembered the female bodyguards they hired to protect the girls. He felt that he was being snobbish for not even knowing their nas so he vowed to himself that he would talk to them more.
When he arrived at the suite, no one was there and Anton assud that everyone was in the Dining Hall eating dinner. He decided to not go there since he assud that they would be done soon so he retrieved one of the ready-made dishes from his inventory and ate dinner alone inside the family suite.
While Anton was eating, he was watching short video clips on the most famous short video clip platform on Earth. He still finds it weird that he was updated on the news, entertainnt, politics, and the state of the world of Earth because of the said platform but honestly, so of the clips were truly funny and the singers and actors were talented.
By the ti he finished eating dinner, the whole family arrived including his four friends from New Drennor. His father admitted to him when they were conversing with each other that he was a bit surprised that the four kept sticking to their family but Anton just explained to his father that they were just addicted to the television shows which was understandable since it was a brand new source of entertainnt for the bored rich friends of his.
“Anton! Where did you go?” Anna asked when they saw him at the table.
“I went to a deck frequented by regular passengers. It was huge and I t so young people my age. They were rchant kids,” Anton said.
“Why, are we not enough for you,” Walter jokingly asked.
“I’m seventeen,” Anton answered with a straight face.
Antonia, Lucia, Walter, and Phillip gaped at him and after a few seconds, everyone laughed.
“What?! Why is everyone laughing?” Anna asked, which made everyone laugh harder.
Lunelle took pity on Anna.
“Your brother just said that his friends were too old,” Lunelle whispered to Anton’s sister which everyone heard anyway and made everyone laugh more.
Antonia and Lucia snorted while Walter and Phillip just looked at Anton wryly. Anton changed the subject by asking if they wanted to watch television shows and as expected everyone did, even Selena who started watching without knowing anything since she started watching in the middle of the season. Apparently, Anders had been telling Selena what happened in the previous episodes.
“By the way, I told my new friends that we will conduct a Cosplay party after we’ve shown the third movie in the Lord of the Rings franchise,” Anton suddenly announced.
Anders then asked what a Cosplay was and he briefly explained it. Everyone was still confused so he showed so videos about cosplay conventions and parties since he didn’t want to bother explaining the event again.
“So it’s a masque ball but the costu will be based on the characters in the three Lord of the Rings films. Based on the video we’ve seen, there’s no rule in having the sa costu as anyone else, and there will be competition on who has the best costus?” Antonia summarized the event.
“Basically. We have to make sure that the prices for the winners will be attractive enough so that our custors will be enticed to purchase our tickets to the Cosplay event.”
Thankfully, it appears that the event highly interested Antonia and Lucia and they wanted to be the ones in charge of holding the event and even the prices for the winners of the best in costu competition.
They said that it was thanks to all the television shows that their family allowed them to see. The group then began an impromptu eting about the Cosplay event and everyone got involved. That ant that for that night, the television show viewing was canceled to the irritation of so of them like Anna and Lunelle who were commandeered by her mother to be the secretary and take notes of the points that were going to be discussed.
Unfortunately for Anton, he had to stay since he had to answer if anyone had questions about Cosplay and since he was the one who initiated the event, he couldn’t even complain.
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