Volume 1: Chapter 3 - Part 6
Author: Geraint
"Dear, is it me or Fuyumi hasn't grown this passed year?"
Mom asked as she took out Fuyumi from the crib and stared at her.
"I already conducted a health check up on her and she's very healthy." Dad responded.
"Fuyumi is already two years old and she should be more grown up now. Babies at her age could already walk and talk few words. Our baby is still looks like in her late infancy. I'm worried."
"Relax, Mia. If something strange happening in this house especially with Fuyumi, there's only one culprit."
Mom and Dad glanced to me who's sneaking out of the baby's room.
"Seir, what have you done with your little sister?" Mom was mad at me.
I sighed, having no choice but to reveal it to them and they were completely shock.
"What?! You sealed a powerful Divine Relic to her?!"
I was kneeling on the floor in front of parents sitting on the couch with Fuyumi.
"I did it for her own protection. The divine relic's abilities will protect her from any harm and she will be immune to any sickness."
"This doting brother. Why aren't she growing up?" Mom asked.
"It's not like she's not growing up. She just decided to stay look like that and be spoiled like a baby by Mom and Dad. That's not her real appearance."
"Huh?"
"It's the first magic I taught her and it's a Time Magic called "Age Shifting.' An ability to shift your appearance to look older or younger. It's also the first magic I learned."
I took Fuyumi from Mom's arm and I lifted her up.
"Fuyumi, show Onii-chan how big you are. Mama and Papa wants to see it."
"Guhehe~" she giggled.
"Hehehe. Mom and Dad will still spoil you even you have grown up. Fuyumi is still their baby girl after all." I tried to convince her to dispell her magic.
Fuyumi stopped giggling and she became silent.
"Is that true?"
Mom and Dad were surprised when they heard her spoke. Fuyumi's whole body lit up and her appearance changed according to her real age. Her hair became longer and her clothes doesn't fit her anymore with her size.
"It also took a long time before I figured out why she isn't growing up. Mom and Dad are always too busy with work and didn't have enough time to spend with her. That's why, she missed being spoiled by you two and stayed as a baby infant.
"Waaaahh! Mama! Papa!" Fuyumi cried loudly then I gave her back to Mom and they embraced each other with Dad with tears falling in their eyes.
"Fuyumi, I'm sorry!"
"Me too."
I smiled, leaving the three of them in the room and closed the door.
---
After that day.
"Huh?"
Mom and Dad was wearing a vacation attire together with Fuyumi.
"Sorry, Seir but your Mom and I has decided to go on vacation overseas. We just want to bond with Fuyumi and we cancelled all our plans in work."
The three of them including Fuyumi wore their sunglasses.
"See you, Onii-chan!" Fuyumi waved her hand adorably.
I was fine with it until Himiko-san went towards them while pulling a suitcase.
"Wait! Don't tell me. You're coming with them?"
"Yuki-sama, I leave Ayaka to you."
My cheek twitched, seeing her going with them.
"We're going now. We'll leave the house to you, Seir-kun."
Mom together with Himiko-san and Fuyumi went ahead outside when Dad suspiciously approached after he checked them leaving first.
"I know you're a guy and you might need this." Dad whispered close to me as he took my arm and placed something in my palm.
"Huh? What is this thing?"
In my hand was small packaging with rubber like thing inside.
"You don't have to act innocent. You know what is that thing. It's for protection just in case."
I was surprised to see Dad giving me a condom.
"Why would you give me something like this?"
"It's not enough? Here's another one."
He put another condom in my palm.
"Oi!"
"You're so greedy. How many times will you do it with them?"
Dad put the entire box on my hand and he just took two pieces with him.
"This would be enough for me for Mia and Himiko. We won't return for ten days straight so... goodluck, Seir." he tapped me on the shoulders.
"Hey! Listen to me--"
"Hahaha! All hail to the Great Demon King!"
He laughed and left me just like that.
"Did that old man just told me to have sex with my step-sister?"
I sat on the couch, sighing then I realized that I'm currently alone in the house.
"Now, I think about it. My relationship with this family is nothing but a binding contract to keep Mom alive. I wonder how they really think of me."
In my mind, I was already serious of becoming part of the family.
"I still think of Fuyumi as my little sister. That's what I am sure of."
I can't deny that I have changed since arriving here.
---
On another world, Naamah was walking deep through the mountains with a lantern in hand which brightly illuminating the surroundings until she arrived in a ruins of temple.
She moved the lantern close to the broken pillars and she found traces of blood splattered on it. Moving forward, she found the cave but the path was blocked by a corpse of demon beast which has a shape of a wolf with sabertooth fangs. She recognized it as ferocious beast which needs an army of soldiers to be hunt just one of them. The problem would be when it hunts with a pack.
"Camping in a place like this. She must be lost again."
Pulling the magic staff on her back, she launched a magic on the corpse.
"Pure Magic: Mana Blast!"
*Boom!*
The corpse of the beast turned into minced meat scattered around from explosion leaving with only a crater.
She entered inside the cave and found a silhouette of a person with pointy horn on the head and long hair sitting in front of the fire with large meat being grilled on it.
"It already dark for you to challenge me. You can just come back tomorrow."
Hearing the female voice coming from her, Naamah didn't hesitate to approach her.
"No. It's me, Naamah. Have you already forgotten your fellow Disaster Witches, Hannya?"
"Hm? Oh. It's the Witch of Chastity. What are you doing here?"
The girl in front of Naamah has petite body with reddish skin and she has demonic red eyes with black sclera. On her side was a huge metal club with spikes leaning on the wall.
"Stop calling me with my virtue! It's embarrassing!" Naamah retorted.
The oni girl grabbed the meat when she saw it perfectly grilled and she immediately took a bite.
"It's good. Do you want some? I let you take a bite."
"No, I'm fine." Naamah refused.
"Even though, it taste really good and it is perfectly cooked. The result was worth of my patience."
She was an Oni from demon race. One of the disaster witches, the Witch of Patience, Hannya.
"Hannya, I am here to gather the seven Disaster Witches under Seir-sama's order."
"So, the prince is still alive."
"Yeah. Lilith, the Witch of Diligence is on his side while Lamia, the Witch of Charity is helping me secure food for the elf refugees. I still need to find the other three. I know where Hecate and Marah but Eisheth's location is unknown."
"Ugh... Eisheth, that weird girl. She is easiest to find but also the hardest. She will just appear out of nowhere if she wanted it on whim. Thanks to her, we are called the seven weirdos instead."
"Please don't make me remember!" Naamah held her head.
(To be continued.)