Chapter # 5 confession

After school mom picked me up and we flew directly to my family mountain and damn it's still huge.

“listen here kessy we will only be here for a couple of days so do whatever you want while you have the chance.

“okay!”

No time to waste I have to meet the old man quickly.

“mistress Nicole , young master Kessler it is truly a good surprise you have giv...”

I directly cut off the housekeeper since it seemed like he would take forever at this rate

“we don't have time to waste i want to meet the ol......err grandpa quickly”

His mouth twitching the old housekeeper replied politely “of course please follow me youngest master and mistress can just consider herself at home.”

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In front of the great hall

“please don’t get too surprised at how the old master looks it’s been rough on him the last couple of years”

He said and opened the door to a shocking sight of an old man with a weird sly smile playing around with a bunch of 4 and 5 year old children.

“oh Jasy get down from there , Lety are you okay? Don't fight with each other kids and get along , ow stop pulling on my beard.”

It was a truly chaotic yet warm sight

“who is it hmmm isn't this my cute great grandson kessy come over and give grandpa a hug” I will pass on that thanks

“grandpa I have an issue I would like to talk to you about.”

“Is that so? but as you can see I am quite busy at the mo..” “it's about mom”

“I see.....” his attitude changed 180 degrees

“okay kids go and play with the uncle over there as grandpa's kinda busy”

It took a while but the room eventually got quite with only the sound of grandpa’s and my breath.

He spoke in a slight cold tone “so are you finally ready to confess?”

I blanked a bit and thought he was joking but I couldn't see any humour on his face.

I took a deep breath and began to speak

“hey grandpa I missed you, I wanted to talk to you about the issue of mom”

“ I thought I told you that there's no solution to her on this planet”

“ yes, that's what I came to talk to you about.I think I found a solution”

He looked a bit stunned by what I said but his face became a but grim so I hurriedly continued.

“does grandpa know anything about an organisation called the first sons?”

His tone became increasingly cold as he asked

“ how do you know that name and who exactly are you?”

I was secretly speechless damn the old man's got a sharp mouth.

“I am your great grandson Kessler but I guess you won't believe that so First I will explain to you why I am so much more mature compared to my others my age.”

Good his face became a bit less grim so that means there's a chance to trick him

“when I was born I was like any other kid my age...well, minus the hyper growth but when I was 2 years old i started having weird dreams........dreams of another life , the dream came randomly and had no common point between them but for some reason I understood and remembered them each one.”

“sometimes I dreamt of meeting people.....people whose faces I have never saw before, other times I dreamt of playing with other kids , growing up and learning.”

“ I gradually became aware that these dreams were very abnormal but I had no one to share this with and became very distressed”

At this point I put on the most distressed face I can fake and continued to bullshit.

“eventually I stopped having these dreams but in my last one I was 17 years old and was playing a game when everything suddenly became dark and then I woke up.”

hehe it actually became green but won't tell him heheheh i am so smart.

His stoney face slowly became gentler and he started to talk

“ I can tell that you're not telling the full truth but I will believe you since you’re my great grandson” d...damn did he figure that I lied at the last part? The old man scary sharp.

“I won't ask anymore how you know the name of that organisation since it seems like you're avoiding the topic.....so.....what kind of solution are you talking about and how is it related to the first sons?”

I sighed in relief since I actually didn't prepare an answer for how I knew the first sons.

“do you know of the project they are recently developing?”

“hooo you even know that? It seems like your parents really spoil you too much to even tell you about this”

that's rich coming from you.....wait my parents know? Damn things just keep getting more and more complicated.

“does grandpa know any details about what they developing?”

“how can I not? I am one of their most generous backer and has been financing them for decades”

His words were seriously too shocking to hear. so the kind grandpa is the one of the people responsible for the tragedy of empire city?

“does...grandpa really know what they're researching?” “isn't it a way to awaken the conduit gene that is dormant in humans?”

grit “so grandpa also knows the monstrosity involved in the procedure?”

“ehh doesn't it just take a huge amount of nuclear energy?”

I let out the deep breath I WAS holding sigh thankfully grandpa wasn't totally involved with the tragedy

“actually it uses a huge amount of life energy which is taken from tens of thousands of human beings”

“WHAT!!!” my heart nearly stopped at grandpa's sudden roar.

“grandpa didn't know?”

“ kessy are sure of this?”

“yes but the reason I came to talk to grandpa is because of this device......i think this may be the thing to save mom..”

“YOUUU!! are you actually willing to take so many lives to save your mother? Do you think she would accept such a thing?”

“no she wouldn't........which is why i won't take any HUMAN lives.”

“what do you mea...” “I want to activate the device in the amazon forest.”

“kessy......you would go so far to save her?”

“yes, even if I have to become the biggest sinner in history!!!”

“haah alright I understood your resolution boy but you definitely wont have to take another life.”

“what do you mean??”

“when did i say that you have to take life force from humans or animals? All you need is right underneath your foot” what?

It was as if a fog in my head was cleared and my thoughts gathered together into a terrifying idea...... beneath my feet? The earth? Boom

I .....don't need to kill anyone??? The weight I felt on my heart felt very non-existent right now.

“ thank you grand father “ those words were truly from my heart.

“don't get too excited yet we still have no idea about how extract the life force from the earth.” “that's true” my eyebrows gathered together into a frown.

“well, don't let that get to you we still have 3 years left, we can use that time to figure it out.”

His eyes became cold all of a sudden “Those bastards at first sons though ......will need to pay every single coin they took from me”

I suddenly felt that the first sons were really pitiful.

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“did you enjoy your talk with grandpa kessy?”

“yes mom grandfather was really cool”

“hehe, great, grandpa has been very lonely ever since my father in law....” at that point her voice became meaningless murmurs but I had already understood what she meant.

“don't worry mom I will cheer grandfather up!” she smiled gently at my words and ruffled my hair while saying “ thank you kessy ,thank you”.

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We came back the next day and every weekend after that ,except the next one ,I went to visit Abigail at her house and played with her.

When I met her family , especially her brother, I had a very serious suspicion but I quickly pushed it down as it was too ridiculous.

And from then on my relation ship with grandpa became great.

Grandpa even started teaching me the medicine ways of our clan and from what I read from our ancestral library the origin of the medicine profession is three other professions fused together.

Alchemy the art of converting seemingly useless things into the most useful of pellets which can be used for almost everything, whether it is building ,healing or even killing.

Biologia total understanding of living beings whether they are humans, animals , or even aliens.

Elementalistia the very basic path of all elemental warriors , it is divided into many parts, classes and ranks which are known only to grandpa and a minority of people on the planet.

It is said that the advanced path of medicine requires the perfect fusion of all of these respected professions and that all medicine masters are practically worshiped everywhere they go.

However in my family only the master of the clan who is my great grandpa has the qualifications to learn this great profession since it requires a certain cultivation rank in elementalism.

Thankfully though the basic parts of the medicine path only needs the biologia profession and that is the specialty of our family.

I learned that all paths are separated into 3 stages as a basic rank when one reaches the 3rd stage one can officially advance to the advanced rank and then the master rank, masters of any profession are true treasures that one can't become without the accumulation of many lucky occurrences and they are always treated with utmost respect wherever they go.

Grandpa, however only reached the 3rd rank and to advance to the 4th he needs to reach the 3rd rank in the two other professions.

even I after spending a year of continuous study I haven’t even reached the first rank as a biologus.

And finally grandpa told me that what I learned is enough and its seems I don't have enough talent for the family's medicine ways.

Sigh so even this time I can't huh

Even so that didn't stop me from racking my brain to find a solution to mom's problem.

If the ray sphere sucked people's life energy from them why can't it do the same for the earth? It can it just needs a much bigger explosion radius and needs to be blown up underground quite deeply.

Also it needs to be very far away from civilization.

And I found the perfect place for that .

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On grandpa's advice I took a break and started focusing on school and making friends.

So when I came back the first thing i did was to try to meet up with little abi and try to catch up, but I was shocked to hear that she moved to another city with her parents.

Its seemed like I wouldn't be able to make any new friends at school so I just went there to sleep and stayed at home to study.

And so I continued planning to save my mother and stop the tragedy from reoccurring.

Until something horrible came up.

When I came back from school, I found mom had collapsed.

My reaction was total panic.

I called dad, the ambulance, anyone I could think of.

Finally after getting her to the hospital and having her examined.

The doctor walked out of the exam room.

"Congratulations, your going to be a father, again."

I lost myself to rage after hearing that and accused dad of killing mom, but as I heard his answer, I was stumped and felt my eyes grow misty.

“Your mom insisted... She didn't want you to be lonely in the future.”

My heart broke into pieces from that and I found myself unable to hold back the tears.

That woman... No, my mother, I can't....... I won't let her die.

Steeling my resolve and shedding the last bit of hesitation from my heart.

I had to start the plan to take the ray sphere and its developer, the original Kessler from the first sons.