Cikara looked at her son with a doting expression, showing the mother-son bond that transcended beyond the limits of time and space. Derek also looked at him with the same expression, albeit with protective feelings that made him want to eliminate all threats around their family.
[I hope to make my son's life much better than what we've faced, at the very least I hope we can settle down here] Derek thought.
Mika pouted, feeling jealousy at the way her parents looked at her little brother, however when she looked at her sibling in her arms, her face also melted into a loving expression that might have gone beyond the love of her parents. She had felt lonely for as long as she could remember, her parents having to escape to different places in order to hide from their pursuers. She never had a friend for this reason, and because of this, when she finally had someone to play with, who also was her super cute little brother, she cherished him with her life.
The doctor who had been silently amused by the scene before, turned back into her serious expression, asking the question pressing on her mind
"Ok, I have two things to say, one is that Evan seems to be a unique name and two, what is the Kansairekar household?Are you guys some kind of nobles here, no wait, I've never heard of nobles with that surname on this planet, so you guys must be nobles from another planet right, or maybe even from another galaxy, so why would you disguise yourselves here then?"
The baby, who's eyes darted around in curiosity, which was also the only sign showing that he was alive, started to cry loudly in Mika's embrace. Mika tried to coax her baby brother which had a mixed response as Evan's crying started to simmer.
"Finally, that took long enough, I almost thought he was going to be boring when he grows up" Mika jested in a happy voice
"Um, Miss Doctor,can we please have some space, I think I need to have a good talk with my family" Derek said in a polite, yet assertive voice.
The doctor who had noticed the authoritative undertone decided to back away to give the new family of four some space. Derek looked towards his family, unsure of how to bring up the topic of what is going to happen next.
"Dear, what happens now, do we show the doctor our original appearance?" Cikara asked pensively
"She already knows we're disguising ourselves due to the shoddy disguise spell I put up, so now we can only show our faces to her and hope for the best"
"Has your power recovered yet?"
"Well, I've recovered a percent of my power, however this is should be enough to destroy this planet down to the core in case the doctor decided to warn the other humans"
"Daddy,why would you destroy the entire planet? Can't you just kill the people who try to harm us?" Mika, who had always been mature in how she handled things, tried to clarify her confusion in her dad's thinking.
"My little princess, we need to get rid of trouble by cutting off it roots, and if she isn't trustworthy, this world's dominant race might come after us"
"Dear, we are powerful enough to protect ourselves, and besides we should at least trust her to not do that, after all she is the one who helped me give birth to Evan" Cikara reasoned with Derek.
"It's not that, I'm just worried about whether our pursuers have already found out about our current location and looking around for us. You know how good they are at finding people, especially our race"
"Dear, we can't just live like this for the rest of our lives. We need to get some breath of fresh air, if we're gonna disguise ourselves, at least let's show our true selves with our benefactor and show her that we're not a threat, we at least owe her that" Cikara replied.
Derek didn't agree at first, but later he eventually gave in to his wife, just like always. He the princess-carried her upstairs, having noticed the exhaustion Cikara felt from childbirth. He had asked if she wanted to sleep first before any discussion, but Cikara assured him that she was fine and that they would need to pay back the kindness that the doctor had shown for them before they could do anything else.
The doctor who had been waiting upstairs saw the family of four come up from the basement with an expression of gratefulness. She saw the man help the woman stand on the ground, the man did a slight cough before he stretched his hands out, clearly gesturing for a handshake.
"Umm, before we take our disguise, we would like to introduce ourselves, my name is Derek, this is my wife Cikara" pointing with his free hand to his left "and this is my son and daughter Evan and Mika" pointing to his right, "what is your name miss?"
"Well, people around here call me Doctor, but my real name is Su Qing, and since my gut tells me you are trustworthy, you guys can call me Su Qing"
Su Qing replied as she held Derek's hand and did the customary handshake. Derek looked towards Cikara, who lightly nodded, before taking off his disguise spell. Su Qing wasn't expecting much towards their true appearance because it didn't matter, but when she saw the man, she was instantly besotted. Though she knew the man had a wife, this man was too handsome, so handsome that she still felt the heat inside her. Su Qing had seen many sorts of handsome men in her life, but they all paled in front of this man. She tried her best to control herself, but her blushing red face had already shown the others of her true thoughts. Cikara felt both regret that she had asked Derek to take off his disguise first, along with an immense jealousy that started to fester inside her. Though she knew she was being irrational, she still pinched her husband's arms as hard as she could, causing him to yelp in pain. Mika looked around in confusion, wondering what was happening. Evan was giggling seeing his mom pinch his dad.
Su Qing looked at the awkward situation, and wondered whether she should step in. Cikara continued to 'punish' Derek causing him to beg for mercy. After some time, it had calmed down, and while Su Qing still felt the heat, she was able to control it.
"So, what about the others?" She pointed towards Cikara and Mika.
Derek took off both of their disguises. Su Qing had always been paraded as a peerless beauty, but seeing the woman before her, she realised she was far, way too far and away from the woman before her. She also looked at Mika, who was already beautiful enough, despite being a child. Su Qing shook her hand, wondering about how life was unfair enough that these people get to have some divinely good genes. She looked towards Evan, who looked very cute with his violet and golden coloured eyes. She tried to pry her thoughts away from thinking about this and decided to asking the more pressing questions on her mind
"So where are you guys from?I can tell you're not from Earth seeing that there isn't a noble household of Kansairekar here? Also why are you here on Earth?" Su Qing fired out questions in a rapid fire manner.
Derek, who had been confused about what to say to her, heard her say that the planet he was on was named Earth.
[So this planets name is Earth]
From this info, Derek was able to weave a fabricated story that he could tell the doctor, but he was conflicted about whether he should lie to the person who had saved his wife. He looked towards Cikara, who nodded her head, showing that no matter what, she would support the decision he would make. Su Qing noticed this, but she thought that he was looking for her as support.
"Yes, we're from another planet, my ancestors used to be merchants, who had contributed many things to our planet, so they allowed us to have a noble household with our surname. The reason my family is on Earth all started when we were attacked by space bandits while we were travelling..."
"What rank were you?"
"We forgot our rank as we hadnt used it at all, so then our customers wouldnt be scared off"
"So wait you dont know anything about the ranks of nobles?" Su Qing was skeptical
"Well, it all started like this.."
Derek proceeded to tell his tall tale, about how his whole life, he had only concentrated on his work and never focused his attention on anything else, until recently his entire group of merchants, including the bodyguards had been decimated, and he also talked about how he was lucky enough to escape in the eject pods with his pregnant wife and daughter through the conflict, and that he had crash landed on this planet for about 8 hours, trying to find a doctor for his pregnant wife.
Su Qing felt sympathy for the man who had lost his career, but she was also curious about the reason they had disguised themselves.
"We had to make sure that the pirates didn't actually follow us when we went off on the eject pod, so in case that they did find out we were on Earth, we had to disguise our appearance as we would be too conspicuous with how we actually look"
Su Qing was relieved, seeing that these people weren't actually like those who would scam their way into someone's house, then when they weren't on guard with these people, they would ransack the entire place and run off into the distance.
"Sorry to interrupt, but can you tell us about Earth" Derek interrupted her thoughts with his sudden question.
Su Qing was shocked by this question, and she couldn't help but ask
"So wait, you guys are merchants and you don't know about EARTH!!!"
"Well, we usually do business on other planets, and they've never talked about Earth"
"Still, they would have at least mentioned it right?"
"They didn't mention it at all, so anyway, could you please explain to us about Earth?" Derek begged her to talk
"Oh well, I will try my best to explain, so listen carefully…"
Su Qing explained about Earth, starting off with that Earth was the capital of the Human Empire, which spanned around a 100 galaxies. She explained that there were many other races that were just as powerful as the human empire, such as the Gorilla Race, Dwarven Race, Elven Race,Fairies Race and the Giant Race.
Together, they formed an alliance called "The Light Races" to hold back against the "Dark Races" which were the demons. She explained about the treaty between the Dark and Light Races that happened 200 years ago, and that for 5000 years, both sides could not attack each other, and to also honour this agreement, there was a neutral galaxy where both sides could mingle each other.
Su Qing moved onto Earth. Earth was split into seven continents, which were Asia, Europe, North and South America, Africa and Antartica which was then further split into countries. Each country had a leader who reported to a Commandment. Each Continent had a Commandment who was the royal leader of their respective continent. These Commandments only obeyed orders from the Royal Family of Earth, the Zeus Family. The head of the Zues Family, Altaria Zeus, was the Emperor of Earth, which had a population of 7.5 billion people. She explained that there is a ranking sytem for the prosperity of the planet, it called the Raiker System, and for each world that humans inhabit, it is further split into ranks which is calculated by the number of inhabitents on the planet and the number of huge cities on the planet divided by the amount of money each planet recieves and the % of pollution in the air of the planet. The end product number of this clacultion is called the World Prosperity Index(WPI) and this determines the rank of the planet. The ranks were split into
Dead World(WPI of ≤1)→→Slums(WPI of 4)→→Urbanised(WPI of 9)→→Synthesised(WPI of 15)→→Metropolitian(WPI of 30)
She told the family that Earth was a Synthesised planet that almost verged into the rank of Metropolitian.
She then explained that they were also noble families spread across the galaxies which followed the original feudal system of Europe, which was ranked as
Baronet/Baronetess→Baron/Baroness→Viscount/Viscountess→Ear/Countess→Marquess/Marchioness→Duke/Duchess→Prince/Princess→Emperor/Empress
Emperor Altaria was a Duke, who only reported to the Prince and Princess who along with the God King/ All-leader of Mankind of the Human Race, Kaiser Freis belonged to the Sovereign Household of Freis.
Su Qing told them that the place they were currently in is the Asian Subcontinent, in the country called China.
"This village was created by those who had no mana inside them, and since the city weren't very sparing towards them, the people decided to make this village for the other powerless as well" Su Qing talked about the history of this village
"You clearly have a mana count, so why would you stay here?" Derek questioned
"Well, the news got around that there was no doctor around here, and since my Variant Magic is healing magic, I decided to come here and be a healer."
"Well, is it ok to settle here?" Cikara asked her in a cautious manner
"I think it's better if you move into the city, since its easier to get your business back in track" Su Qing hadn't forgotten that they were merchants
"Anyway, don't worry I have a place in the city, it's my mom's place and you guys can live there, so there's no hurry to buy a place"
"Isn't it imposing to stay in someone else's house" Cikara asked
"You guys don't have to worry, my mom is a very nice person, and besides you guys can help her out if you want"
Derek was uncertain about accepting the offer, but seeing that there was no choice, he reluctantly accepted.
"That's great, I'll close up my store and we can head over to her place right now" Su Qing was energetic seeing that she would be able to visit her mom after so long...
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Chapter 2 END