Combat Maid Harem

"Call Humility over," Lawrend said.

"Fufufu. I will do so, Master."

Aezel gave one last look at Truf before leaving. She swiftly disappeared in a single moment.

"Did you believe that you can do it?" Lawrend asked Truf.

"...No…"

Truf felt intimidated seeing Lawrend in front of him. Their last meeting had a huge impact on his self-esteem. It was hard to accept that the person he should be killing was teaching him so diligently.

Truf thought about it a lot. He assumed that Lawrend only took him in as a show to the millions of observers during that day. Unexpectedly, Lawrend was serious about teaching him.

For Truf, he was too young to clear up the confusion in his emotions. On one hand, he was thankful and on the other, he was humiliated.

Truf diligently practiced magic in the past month. He followed Lawrend's idea and tried to put his four elements into a combo.

And then recently, he tried to practice insta-casting his magic under Humility's suggestion. He was doubtful when he heard it, but he still followed because she treated him nicely.

Only after seeing Lawrend and Aezel's facial expressions did he realize that he was tricked. Humility wanted to embarrass him in front of Lawrend.

"Humility may have told you to do it, but you should be able to do it if you tried. I can see from your face that you knew it was a bad prank from her. It wasn't impossible, actually. I'm a great example. I can insta-cast my Earth Mage-level magic but it weakens the strength of the spells."

Lawrend calmly stared at Truf and waited for his response.

"I didn't know it was possible… Can you show me?" Truf carefully asked.

It was still hard for him to ask Lawrend a question. He was seen as a god by other people and everyone in the castle greatly respected him. Not to mention, he still felt humiliated for learning under him.

"I can but it will be very flashy."

Just at this moment, two women wearing maid uniforms walked in. One was Aezel and the other was blonde-haired with a mature and sexy charm aura.

"Hehe. Did Little Truf get humiliated in front of Master?" Humility teased.

"Grrr! I hate you!"

These words were something Truf could only dare say to Humility. If he could, he would've thrown countless slurs towards Lawrend. Unfortunately, he was scared of him.

"Master can do it easily. As his disciple, you should be able to do it too," Humility casually responded.

She didn't think much of the young boy's anger.

"Disciple?"

Truf was stunned to hear that word. He didn't realize he was technically Lawrend's disciple since he was personally teaching him. It shook him and made him feel emotional.

His emotions toward Lawrend became more confused than before. It was the dream of countless mortals to have a powerful mage as their master. Since he was Lawrend's disciple, it felt surreal.

But of course, his anger was mixed with that. He didn't want to let Lawrend go just because he was his master.

"What? You want to let your revenge go?" Lawrend asked with a raised eyebrow.

He could easily tell from Truf's facial expression that he was starting to have doubts about his anger and revenge. He was like an open book he could read any time he wanted.

"No…"

"Remember your family and their sudden death. Would you really let it all go just because I became your master?"

"No… No…"

Truf balled his fists and tears flowed out of his eyes in an instant. It was an unstoppable dam that couldn't contain the pressure and volume it contained.

For the first time, Truf truly cried. He was in denial all this time.

He and his family were far from the direct impact of the two spells. But the shockwave ended up killing all of his family through sheer misfortune. He was full of anger at Lawrend and at the Blumin Emperor.

If only, if only, if only… they didn't fight at that time of the day. His family might still be alive. He knew he had to be strong to be able to get his revenge, so he stopped himself from crying at that time.

He bottled up his emotions until Lawrend broke that bottle with his words.

"Let it all out," Lawrend said and motioned for Humility to move.

Humility understood Lawrend and walked up to Truf. She kneeled down and embraced him.

Truf instintively returned the embrace and hugged her tightly.

"Ahhhh!!! Father, Mother, Big Sister, and Lil Sis!!" Truf screamed at the top of his lungs.

At this moment, Truf was shedding his childishness. He released everything in one go.

"..."

"..."

Both Lawrend and Aezel silently watched the whole thing in silence.

After a while, Humility was covered with snot and tears. Truf calmed down, and he fell limp into her embrace.

"Oh. He fell asleep, Master," Humility said.

"Take him to his room. Tomorrow, tell Ember to teach him."

"Yes, Master."

Humility left the training grounds with Truf in her arms.

"Let's go meet my children," Lawrend said.

…

The two disappeared with sparks of golden lightning in their wake.

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*

The door opened and Elena greeted them with a smile, "Master! You're done."

"How are they?" Lawrend asked as he entered the room.

In all simplicity's sake, Lawrend learned that his children were learning how to speak very quickly. They were similar to sponges as they absorbed every conversation they heard.

After checking on his children, Lawrend went to check on Ramiela. She was apparently in the Imperial Castle's dungeon.

*Slap*

"Hah! How does that feel?"

Lawrend and Aezel walked down the steps and saw an angel with pure white feathers scattered everywhere. Ramiela stood in front of her with a paddle in her hand.

"Eh? Master?"

Ramiela tilted her head back in confusion.

"Are you sure you're an angel?" Lawrend asked with the same confusion on his face.

The angel looked up with her cheek red. She obviously was hit with something just now.