If you can't understand something, ask!
That's what mommy always said to me when I stared at something in detail.
But mommy is not here anymore. So is daddy, along with all those bad guys. It's better that those bad guys are gone but it's so lonely to be by myself.
I think this is what mommy called the silent game. Mommy said I had the biggest mouth, both literally and figuratively!
So when she said "Lets play the silent game!" I immediately knew to become silent, since I would get a snack as a reward!
But here, it's all darkness and mommy said to go home quickly if it's dark and scary. Yet I can't feel my legs or my arms. I don't think I can even speak too...
What else did mommy say a lot?
Ah!
If I want to grow up big and healthy, I should eat and sleep a lot!
I can't find any thing that can be called food but sleeping isn't a problem!
Zzz...Zzz... Zzz... Zzz...
Mmm... I wake up and I suddenly could see something!
But what is this?
It looks like a small baby but not a baby at the same time.
When I looked at myself, I also found out I'm also the splitting replica of the baby in front of me. Small arms, small legs, and...
Zzz... Zzz... Zzz... Zzz...
The second time I wake up, I hear sounds but it seems to be a different language from English.
"... Oh please Rifua, stop trying to listen to the babies all the time! Don't you have work to do at the office?"
I heard a gentle voice reprimand the person named Rifua. Mommy always did the same thing if daddy was caught sleeping while he was working at the store.
" Come on Rachel, you also know I'm excited for our child! It's been months already and it's almost time for you to give birth!!!"
"Sheesh, I know I know, just one more time. Recently I haven't been feeling well, as if the mana I need suddenly rose higher."
"No way! Wasn't the amount of mana required to give birth just half the regular amount of a normal person. Even more since you're a grand scholar!"
"If you can understand my worry then get the midwife for any sudden accidents!"
"Alright alright."
The voices faded away as the man named Rifua walked away with heavy steps. Then a gentle lullaby brought me to sleep once more.
Zzz... Zzz... Zzz... Zzz...
The third time I woke up, it was no longer dark all around. The color of life shined all around me, the air felt chilly and bewildered gazes stared at me.
Yes, some people stared at me as if I was a mistake to be born.
"Congratulations sire and madam, it's a healthy boy and girl!"
A middle aged woman was holding me while the baby I saw in the darkness was being held by a pretty woman laying on the bed.
Blood stains all around the lower area of her body and sweat covered her pale skin.
Although she seemed so tired, she lovingly looked at the child in her hand, as if it's the most precious thing in the world.
While the middle aged woman tried to hand me to the tired woman, she reluctantly accepted me, as if she was contemplating as if it was the right choice.
"The House of Water always had female descendants..."
Her sentence was interrupted short when the door slammed open and a large man entered the room.
Daddy said that a lot of soldiers get this thing called PTSD I think? Well anyways, daddy said that these people get really scared because they remembered or see a scary thing.
I think I have that PTSD, when I saw this big and muscular man.
"W-WAHHH!!!" Two heaven piercing wailings happened at the same time as the man tried to approach the babies.
"God damn it Rifua. Is there a single thing you can't make a mistake? It was hard enough to calm them down after they just got out but now they started crying again!"
"Sorry, Sorry. I'll go leave now." The man meekly left the room and outside the room, people were laughing once the door closed.
"HAHA! A MAN AS BIG AS YOU GETTING HENPICKED! IT CEASES TO AMAZES ME!"
"Shut up! It wasn't always like this! She used to be so gentle and caring but now since there's babies involved, she stopped caring about me!"
A third wail could be heard in the manor as Mother Rachel named her boy Yuli and the girl Yulia.
Mother Rachel hummed a tune that brought both babies to sleep and placed both of them in a single crib.
End of Chapter 1.