Caesar's Moon

Chapter 73: Chapter 72: Escalation part 1

On Monday morning within the Mizukai mansion, Raizan who was in his room, dressed with a red robe mixed with gold accent, stood in front of multiple holographic boards while sipping from his cup and spoke.

"Give me status report on our representative, Caesar Moon."

"Gladly sir." A feminine robotic voice sounded.

"As you can see, the video from yesterday of her fighting off five thugs has gone viral again." The voice continued as several videos of Caesar and the thugs appeared on the boards along with the ratings growing, "This video has made even more people want to follow Caesar and raised her status again as one of the biggest names in EBW."

"Caesar’s momentum has increased to the point that fans are demanding for a Caesar merchandise." The voice said as Raizan took another sip from his cup.

"If this keeps up, Caesar no doubt will become the biggest name in EBW." The voice continued while Caesar was doing her pushups in her home.

"Indeed. That is my wish." Raizan replied.

"Sir, if you intend for Caesar to become the biggest name in EBW while being under the family’s thumb, then shouldn’t you lean into the merchandise sales?" The voice asked.

"No. Not yet." Raizan answered, "While it is advisable to strike while the iron is hot, striking too early will bring unfortunate results.

She is still green in some aspects and needs time to evolve her skills."

"Once fans are swooned over not just by her controversies but also by how she performs in the ring, they will be more than happy to be a follower of Caesar." Raizan continued as Caesar was jogging outside on the streets with neon weights round her wrists and ankles, "Until then, patience must be exercised."

"After all, a patient dog gets the fattest bone." Raizan said as his irises glowed under the light.

Elsewhere in a certain house, a masculine shadow figure sat on the couch, staring at the screen of the phone in his hand.

"Calm yourself. This was only a minor setback." A feminine voice said.

"Minor? Did you just say minor?" The shadow figure asked, "This wasn’t supposed to happen.

I was supposed to be the one to face her this coming Thursday! Me, not Eren Brock! He doesn’t even wrestle on Thursdays, what is going on?!"

"True. The bulldozer Eren Brock wrestles on Wednesdays but for them to have him face the usurper on Thursday for his final match before he takes his leave of absence means something is wrong." The feminine voice replied, "Perhaps the Mizukais pulled strings for her to gain more attention, or I don’t know. But whatever it is, this doesn’t harm the plan in anyway.

Some of our faction members are considering if Caesar is worthy to be part of the group. I personally just like you know, feel she is not worth the efforts and time.

But in the end, if majority carries the vote, we will try to see if we can convince both her and her managers to join.

Until then, keep it low. Understood?"

The shadow figure stayed silent for some seconds before he gritted his teeth and reluctantly answered.

"Yeah. Understood."

Meanwhile as Caesar was working in the Balland and Barnes Bakery, carrying a tray filled with dough, she noticed several of her coworkers staring gathered at a certain spot.

Her ears twitched as she heard a familiar sound coming from that area.

"Consent in one environment doesn’t equal consent everywhere." Caesar’s voice sounded from that spot.

Caesar narrowed her eyes, walked towards that area and saw it was a video on the phone that was playing her incident with Ruz on the previous day.

Caesar’s face became filled with both confusion and disturbance as she was staring at the screen.

"Caesar!" A masculine voice called.

Caesar and several of the workers turned and saw the person to be Balland who had both arms crossed.

"Please come and see me." Balland said.

Balland then turned his back and walked away.

The coworkers stared at Caesar for a time before she followed after Balland; during that moment, the coworker Gura frowned at Caesar.

As soon as Caesar and Balland entered a certain room, Balland placed his hands on his waist and sighed.

"Can you tell me what’s going on? Like really, what is really going on?" Balland asked.

"Honestly, sir, if it’s about that video... I don’t know." Caesar answered, "I’m just seeing it right now. I’m trying to make sense of what is happening... Like how did that even get to the net?"

"So you’re saying you have no idea of what is happening?" Balland asked.

"No, I don’t." Caesar answered.

Balland shook his head, tilted his head down and sighed.

"This is getting harder and harder to deal with." Balland said, "That video has gone incredibly viral again just like the cafe discussion between you and Damien Bane before your match and your interview at the Dazzle magazine."

"Of course, some people online believe it was staged while some people were impressed." Balland continued as he raised his head, "Of course, I can tell it wasn’t. That name... Ruz... To think he’d go after you..."

"Ruz said you fired him because of that moment... The time he groped my behind and I almost beat him to death." Caesar said.

"Of course, I fired him." Balland replied, "I told him I’ve put up with a lot of his nonsense but sexual harassment is one of things I will not tolerate.

Turns out instead of reflecting on his behavior, he chose to go after you."

Balland and Caesar stayed silent for a time until Balland spoke again.

"You didn’t know you were being recorded?"

"No, I didn’t." Caesar answered, "I thought it was just me and those thugs. Were there hidden cameras? Was someone watching from their house? I don’t know."

Caesar exhaled and facepalmed herself.

"Gosh, just when I felt I didn’t need another publicity in my life, the universe finds a way to fuck me in the ass."

"So annoying." Caesar said as she crossed her arms.

Balland and Caesar stayed quiet once again until Balland spoke out.

"Just know by tomorrow , the bakery won’t be open."

"Huh? Won’t be open?" Caesar asked in confusion, "Is there any reason?"

"There are some things I need to sort out." Balland answered, "Nothing too serious. Nothing related to you or the Mizukais like before.

Just... I want to pay my daughter a visit. She’s asking me to come over and see her in the city she is in. She has delivered and she wants me to see my grandchildren... Twins."

Hearing that, Caesar’s eyes widened in both disbelief and happiness.

"Wow, sir... That’s amazing." Caesar said, "You’re a grandfather."

"Yeah. I am." Balland said with a gentle smirk, "Now I could give Gura charge of the bakery just like before, but I want everyone including you to take some time off to themselves.

Lord knows you need it especially with the amount of things happening right now."

Caesar smiled at Balland and bowed her head.

"Thank you, sir." Caesar said.

"You’re welcome." Balland replied, "Just take care of yourself. And try not to attract or cause trouble.

Remember the conditions the other families gave: thrive in EBW for a year."

Caesar nodded her head in response and Balland nodded back.

Later as Caesar was in a supermarket, wearing a midriff deep blue long sleeve top with black leggings and blue jeans shorts overlay along with blue jeans sneakers.

While selecting items to buy and placing them inside the cart, she was speaking in her mind.

"There will be no work from tomorrow till Balland finally comes back, my brothers are coming today in the evening and yet... I barely have the perfect welcoming prepared for them.

Most of what I had that yesterday was destroyed. What I have now is so little... Gosh."

"I’m excited for their arrival yet so scared." Caesar continued as the people in the supermarket subtly gazing at her, "Still... With what is going on right now, should this even be the time for them to come back?"

Caesar brought her head down and closed her eyes.

"Maybe it’s best... What am I thinking? I haven’t seen them for a while and I’m asking this?"

Caesar raised her head and continued selecting items

"Anyway, even if I don’t have much, I still have the concert money for the Black Sunday saved." Caesar continued speaking in her mind, "I still got other things ready to make this a beautiful memory for their midterm break before they go back to school.

Thats all that matters."

While Caesar was placing the items inside the cart, the door of the supermarket opened and a masculine figure walked in.

Some of the people in the supermarket that saw the masculine figure, began to whisper among each other.

"It’s him."

"Another one?"

"So we got two of them now."

A smile formed across the face of the man as he spotted Caesar taking items and placing inside her cart.

"Well, well, well, would you look at that! The usurper Caesar Moon, shopping in a place like this!" The man spoke out loud.

This made many of the people within the supermarket pause and caused Caesar to turn around.

As soon as Caesar turned, she saw the masculine figure to be a grinning fair skinned man with a high black ponytail hair that had a single yellow streak on the right side of his head along with a single large black bang.

The man had yellow irises and black circles round his eyes.

He wore small earrings along with a brown jacket, black inner wear, a wristwatch, gold chains, black trousers and black shoes.

"Excuse me?" Caesar said with a raised brow.

"Funny, isn’t it? The Mizukai pet is shopping in a place like this." The man said,"Shouldn’t you be shopping in a place a bit higher? After all, this place seems a bit too small for someone like you."

"Who are you?" Caesar asked.

"Ah. My apologies. My name is Cassius Gold. The gambit king as many call me in the ero-ring." Cassius answered as he formally bowed himself.

"So you are an ero-wrestler, huh." Caesar said.

"Yes, and your original opponent before it was changed." Cassius replied as he raised his head.

"Original?" Caesar asked in confusion.

"Yo, you recording this?" A fair skinned beastfolk woman whispered to the fair skinned human male beside her.

"I am now." The human responded as he brought out his phone to record.

"Ah, so you don’t know?" Cassius asked with a smirk, "I won’t blame you, though. It was confirmed today that there has been a change of plans.

I was supposed to be your opponent on Thursday but the higher-ups changed it. Replaced me with that animal named Eren Brock... The bulldozer. Which is odd because he wrestles on Wednesdays unless it is a pay per view."

"Okay....?" Caesar said with an arched brow.

"Many people... Well, ’I’... Believe that your managers... The Mizukais, played politics and made them change opponents just to give you more shine." Cassius said, "I was really looking forward to wrestling you."

"Well, sorry about that. I’m sure you’ll get your time someday." Caesar said with her usual plain expression, "Now if you excuse-"

"I’m not finished." Cassius interjected.

"There are many things I can tolerate but one of the things I won’t tolerate is when someone interferes with my plans." Cassius said as his lips partly parted in disgust.

"Let’s get something clear, miss Moon." Cassius continued as Caesar slightly scowled at him, "I-"

Before Cassius could finish his sentence, him, Caesar and several others felt a pressure so intense that it felt like they were punched in the belly.

Cassius and the others turned to the direction of where the pressure is coming from and saw a frowning dark skinned man with a red spiky slick back fade, red irises and goatee, walking forward.

The man was dressed in a grey hoodie and had a white inner wear.

From his waist down were blue jeans and black shoes.

"Speak of the devil." Cassius said with a smirk.

The intense pressure from the man made Caesar narrow her eyes as she had once felt a pressure similar until her eyes widened in remembrance; Caesar recalled moments after her interview on Friday where her and her female cheetah beastfolk flyer coworkers saw this man destroy a few people in a street fight before locking eyes with Caesar.

"Didn’t also think I would also see you in this place." Cassius said, "Eren...."

"Brock." Cassius continued as Eren Brock’s irises glowed.

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