It was already midnight, when a mysterious person appeared in front of Johan's mansion. Security was still standing at the front gates while the last light of the pent house went out.

'Sh#t! This guy is the one who was our target? How am I supposed to check if she's alive or not? Dammit...'

After a few minutes the guy left.

...

The next morning, Johan followed his daily schedule. First training in the morning and academy directly afterwards. Then training again with Hwaa and the maids. To finish it off trying out new techniques and figure out ways to utilise his powers.

Only one week was left until the gate and he still couldn't beat Hwaa again. It was like the first fight was just a fluke. He had to find a way to beat Hwaa or he would not be satisfied. It was a good way to get actually stronger. Normally training would help one grow but actual hand-on-hand experience was something else.

The first he could think of was his grandfather. He was somebody who achieved the position of patriarch, so he had something to show. Since he had security on his property, they would obviously tell his grandfather if Johan went somewhere other than school or the training facility. So asking him for help would not only eliminate suspicion of him doing something wrong, he would also get valuable experience about combat.

That's also exactly what he did. After training with the girls he told one of his security men to give the manager of the main mansion a call and tell him to ask the patriarch for some of his time.

Finishing that up he went to his room and talked to Videl.

...

Today was a good day. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping and especially the Maid Convention was just half an hour away from Videl and Rachel. They were being driven there to look out for maids who would work for Johan in his pent house. The criteria he told them to watch out was simply to have no experience prior to them being at the convention. Meaning nobody they had any allegiance to. That was something he learned from the incident a couple days ago. He had to make sure that he could build trust quickly and with any of them having worked somewhere before that would only make them compare things between the two homes constantly. The risk of them leaking stuff was also higher. One more thing to consider was that they were pretty but that one Videl waved away quickly after blushing.

Soon they arrived at their destination. The Maid Convention was held in a giant hall. The reason was simply because normal people should have no access to the stuff Ranker's did. With tightened security there was no way for a normal guy to walk in.

The interior looked like a casual convention. Nothing was out of the ordinary. There were places to have a meal and also children's playgrounds. Overall it was more of a place to network for. Most people could only afford a maid or two anyways.

For the girls this was not the case, though. Their master was rich. He also didn't tell them to do anything else anyways. They went to the maid section directly and started asking for complete newbie maids. In total there were almost three hundred maids who had no experience and were looking for a place to work at. From these maids some were willing to stay at the mansion without having much outside contact other than family and close friends. A few were even alone anyways.

All in all Videl and Rachel managed to choose around thirty of them. That was also close to the number Johan gave them.

Arranging a meeting for them to visit the mansion they left for some food. The food stall had a long waiting cue as a lot of people enjoyed fast food on these kinds of occasions. They decided to stand in the line and discuss how they would grow their own food. Recently videos about pesticides and worms in food had surfaced on the internet. It was getting trendy again to grow their own food instead of relying on supermarket chains who grew cheap fruits and vegetables or even let them be imported.

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While they were talking to each other a young guy went up to them.

"Hey, young ladies. It's a pleas-"

"Who are you?"

Videl immediately interrupted him without even listening to his request.

"Ahm,... well, I'm Rex. As I was sa-"

"So, Rex, what do you want from us? Clearly we're standing in line and you're coming up to us while disturbing other people."

All of them looked around and saw people behind them staring back at them angrily.

"If you have nothing to say, please go back to your place."

Rex was irritated.

'Did I do something wrong?'

"Well, you're right. Hahahahha. I'll ask you later. Enjoy you're food."

He gave them a thumbs up and left.

"Weirdo. What did he want from us?", Rachel asked herself.

"Us. He probably wants to hire us as his maids. Look at the people around us. They're all wearing expensive clothes like dresses and suits while we have casual clothes on. He realised that we're also just maids that's why he came up."

Rachel looked at her flabbergasted.

'She... Has she become more mature over the past week?'

"What are you glazing at?"

"Hehehe, nothing. Come on, the line is moving up."

...

"Hmm."

Mike was listening to his goon. He went to Johan's house yesterday evening and found out that it was giant and full with security.

He hadn't told anybody about the fact that Johan was from the same family as his.

"Don't worry. If it can't be done at night, we'll just do it at noon time. He goes to Euros Academy. Figure out the first year students curricula and go to his house at that time."

"Yessir."

"Also make sure to take somebody with you. If the bodyguards notice something you might get in trouble. Put on a mask as well."

Mike not only had a problem with Johan having his spy at his house, regardless of the fact if she's alive or dead, but also with the fact that if something would get leaked, his father might get in trouble. He couldn't afford to do that. Contrary to his appearance in school, at home he was the son of Tristan von Parseval.

Tristan was a man who had a wide range of influence. He was one of the main candidates for the position of patriarch after Mattheus. Up until two years ago he was eager to get that posiion but suddenly he changed his goal post and since then he had only told him tom prepare himself for the patriarch role.

That was exactly what he was doing. Getting rid of the newly awakened so he could have that dream come true. The expectations were high but so were the rewards. Disappointing his father was also not an option. Especially if he recalled his memories of when he was younger. He used to get beat a lot if he didn't do something right.

...

"Mhmmm, so delicious. The burger tastes amazing plus the fries, wow!"

Videl and Rachel were sitting on a bench. The burgers had already arrived and both of them dug in immediately. While they were eating, Rex came up to them again.

"Wow, the burge-"

"Bro, don't you get it. munch. We're eating... right now."

His eyebrows twitched. It really hit him when the girl interrupted him again making it the third time.

"Well, you did say that I should come back again later. Here I am."

Videl looked at him with annoyance. She clearly had no intentions of talking to him but he just wanted to make this difficult.

"Alright. What is it that you want?"

"Ahem, ahem. It seems like you two... are maids? Well, I was thinking that you maybe wanted to bec-"

"No, we don't. We already work for someone else. Now, please leave."

They looked away and continued eating. Rexes smile dropped and his anger could be seen clearly.

"Hey, I didn't finish talking again. Is that how a maid should behave? Where do you work? Is this what they teach you there?"

Now, Videl was pissed as well. She was about to stand up but she heard the voice of her master.

'Videl, how is it going? Did you already find the maids?'

'My Lord. We indeed have found what you asked for. We're currently in an annoying situation, so please don't be disturbed if I answer a bit delayed.'

'Annoying? What's going on?'

'Yes, some guy is trying to hire us even though we told him that we're your maids.'

Johan became angry as well. No matter what they were his maids. On the other hand though, he smiled a little.

'I see. So you're mine then, huh?'

'Hu- That's not how I meant it! We work for you.'

'Well, if you say so. Anyways, ask for his name and tell him to come over. I want to talk to him.'

'As you wish, Lord Johan.'

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