Astrea family test

I arrive at the dining room the maid opens the door for me and say

"Good morning young master".

I need my head.

I enter the room my mom comes to me hugging me

"My dear child, Reinhard, happy birthday".

She says.

My mother still looks young even though she probably reached forty years old.

She is a pale-skinned woman who is considered to be very beautiful and attractive with lower-back length silver hair that has long bangs split into both sides with a medium-length braid on top of the rest of her hair in the back that she allows to flow freely, red eyes.

she wears a knee-length purple sleeveless dress, detached sleeves, and pumps.

"Mmm, mother, I can't breathe' I say while my face is buried in my mother's big chest.

I really can't get used to it even though when I was a child I was forced to drink milk from her chest it is still extremely embarrassing.

"Sorry, my child, I was too excited"

My mother really likes me, after all, I was her first child she has after years of wanting a child but still, sometimes her love is a little overwhelming.

She gets away from me finally releasing my face from her chest.

"Okay let's eat," she says.

There eating food at the corner of the table is my father.

My father is a tall slender man with an average build. Although in his late forties, light gray hair Along with his hair which he wears messily, Shiro also has a goatee and some stubble along his lower chin and upper lip.

always wore a pair of glasses with the chain adorned with beads & across.

He wore the issued black Coat & Heart-shaped rosary.

Unlike my cheerful mother, he is more like a cold person.

"Happy birthday Reinhard". He smiles at me one of his rare smiles.

"Thanks, father".

We all seat and have breakfast like a normal family enjoying having each other.

At the end of breakfast, father gets serious and says

"Reinhard come, we would have our Astrea family five-year-old tradition" He stands up.

What the hell is that? I haven't heard of it. I think

As my mother hear that her calm and happy face changed to a worried face.

"Dear isn't too early for him, he is still just a child". She tries to protest but my father doesn't change his decision.

"No, it is the perfect time we should check if he is worthy to be our next family head".

"Astrea tradition, what is this father?" I finally ask.

"Our family tradition is a test for the eldest son to check if he is worthy to carry Astrea's family duty as the protector of Britania".

I see so this most likely be a test to check my combat potential so I have nothing to be worried about.

"Fine let's go".

"Reinhard!" My mother says with a worried voice.

"It is okay mother I would be okay".

"Okay, follow me" he leaves the table and I follow him to the outside I see the knights who work under our family doing their daily training.

Our family is the knight family who protects the country but we can't do it alone after all there is a limit to how much a few strong people can do so we gathered all the people who had talent with a sword or have an attitude to a holy sword or have sacred gear in their body or even those who have a talent for magic.

Most are people from branch families but some people were regular people with those talents and came to work under us somehow.

My father and I enter the training ground every knight stop whatever they do and arranged in lines and welcoming us.

"Welcome, commander, young master"!

"Johan pick one of your knights". Father orders the man who seems to be in charge here.

"Yes, Marco come forth".

A good-looking blond-haired young man wearing a knight uniform Moving forward.

"Fight him and win". My father says to me.

"This is your test".