Ten years ago, in the Bronze District, a great fire happened. Among those houses, a family of three lived. Unfortunately, only their child was found alive.
The child was found crying beside some parts of the ceiling, underneath it was a crushed lady. It was the child's mother, as for the father, he was nowhere to be found. The Police found out, that they had a fall out, and the father in question was the cause of the disaster.
The child was sent to an orphanage, but he never talked to anyone, he never ate, and he seemed to be slowly dying.
One day, a couple came, in search of someone.
"Is there any child here that goes by the name Frederick?", said the habdsome man.
The woman beside him, seemed to have a gloomy face, as if someone important to her just died.
"Honey, I need to quickly find my sister's child", said the beautiful lady.
"Don't worry, we'll find him. They said that he hasn't been adopted, in fact none of the couples that came here even took a glance at him".
"How am I supposed to be happy when you said that".
Click!
The door opened, and with it three people came in. Two of them were both boys, and one was a woman.
The woman pointed at the boy on her left and said "This boy here is named Frederick, as for the other boy, he's also named Frederick. But I don't you'll like him".
The woman walked closer to them and whispered, "He's cursed"
The woman pointed at a boy that had jet black hair and deep blue eyes, like the ocean. The other boy on the other hand, was wearing ragged clothes. He had jet black hair, and ruby red eyes.
The beautiful whispered to her husband, "Honey why is this lady so biased, that's my cousin's boy right there. The one with ruby red eyes, this eyes of ours run through our blood. They will always be ruby red so I know".
The handsome man nodded and said to the woman, "Actually we aren't here to adopt anyone, we are here to find a missing person, and that boy over there that you are calling cursed is that person".
The woman started sweating beads, she spoke, but as she did she stuttered "I... I'm so..sorry... for my rude behavior earlier"
A few minutes passed and the couple left with the ruby eyed boy.
Three months ago after Leo talked to her Aunt Lenny.
"Fred, do you want to meet your cousin? I'll let you, but you have to keep it a secret from him".
"Yes please Aunt Lenny".
"Well then, you'll have to act like his bodyguard".
"Whaaat‽ I didn't know I have to act like a bodyguard".
"Don't worry, in fact you don't actually need to act like a bodyguard. Leo doesn't seem like a person that needs such a thing. All you need to do, is act like his lackey".
"Aunt Lenny, I don't think I want to meet him anymore. I don't think I'll ever feel comfortable being with him, if he's that much of a spoiled brat".
"Leo isn't like that".
"Then what is he like if he isn't spoiled".
"In fact I'm actually the reason why you'll have to be his bodyguard, I couldn't think of any excuses so I just said you'd be his bodyguard".
"Oh right, what realm are you at right now?".
"Aunt Lenny, I'm at World Energy Fusion realm, second level".
"Good, I don't want you to fall behind Leo. He just started cultivating a month ago, and he's already at the same realm as you, but a lower level".
"Ho...ow... How is he able to do that, are you trying to lie to me Aunt Lenny?"
"No I am not lying, if you want to know how I knew. I can only say, it's a secret", said Aunt Lenny with a teasing smile.
"Aunt Lenny, I don't think he has a stable cultivation. We must make him start from the beginning, if he continues to cultivate like that, it might crumble in the later realms".
"Oh don't worry about stability, in fact his cultivation has a higher concentration than yours".
"How is that possible, the fastest breakthrough was five months, Aunt Lenny you are telling me he did that in a month"
"Yes that's correct Fred, I think Leo has found out a secret within our family, but at the same time he might not know it. I mean look at us, we haven't found out the secret for seven years".
"Aunt Lenny, he might have helped a person from a clan, and was given a cultivation technique only known to theirs".
"That's possible, but we'll never know unless he tells us".
"Enough about Leo, for now you must continue training yourself".
"Okay Aunt Lenny".
Three months passed and it was finally the day that Fred meets Leo.
'I am so excited to see him, what color would his hair be, Aunt Lenny never showed me how he looked'.
Knock! Knock!
"Leo! Check who's knocking on the door", Leo on the other wasn't responding, and so his Mom checked on it herself.
When she opened it, she was dumbstruck. Why is someone who's wearing very formal clothes knocking on our house.
"Hello ma'am, my name is Fred. I'm the bodyguard that was assigned to Leo".
'How is a boy about the same age as Leo supposed to protect him?'
"Boy, I mean Fred was it? Do you think I was born yesterday?"
"No ma'am I don't think you were born yesterday"
'What is with this Fred, I already saw through his prank and he still isn't backing down'
"I'm sorry kid, but you can..."
"Mom wait, that boy over there really is my bodyguard"
Fred looked at the silhouette behind Leo's mom, he saw a teenager with a weird hair color.
He had icy blue hair and ruby red eyes, he was taller than Fred by 4 centimeters.
Half an hour passed and Leo's Mom finished saying their goodbyes, and left. Leo's mother had eyes filled with tears and Leo was the same.
'I wish I still have a Mom'
Fred nearly cried when he thought of it, and just like that they left.