Ara Brei and I were currently inside both of our room which was merged into one.
It was a good thing that Ara Brei's room had a kitchen and several kitchen utensils.
I was taking care of Sharielle while Ara Brei was cooking food for me and her and also baby food for Sharielle.
How did it come to this that was taking care of Sharielle as if it was our daughter?
Well, let's do a little flashback.
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[Flashback, Ten minutes ago]
"So this is the female lead... Then doesn't that mean we're 16 years before the start of the novel?", Ara Brei asked for confirmation.
"Well, yes. We will accomplish what stupid isekai protagonists had forgotten to accomplish when they got isekai-ed. That is, to forge our identity so that the people in this world won't get suspicious about us.", I said.
"So you plan to register ourselves as the guardian of this infant and since that infant was already a citizen of this world, then it would make us less suspicious. Wouldn't that be affecting the original plot?"
"It doesn't affect the plot too much. Sharielle's parents had already died when she was an infant and she was later taken care of by her foster parents. We will act as her foster parents and will just say that we come from a secluded village and since our village was attacked by monsters, we decided to move to the city."
"As expected of an author! Making stuff up is your main talent!", Jahan Brei said jokingly.
"I don't know if that is an insult or not but thanks anyway. Let's just take care of Sharielle until she can take care of herself."
Ara Brei agreed with my suggestion and she gave me a plate of stuffed turkey with a bottle of beer as a beverage.
"Wouldn't you get drunk if you drink too much beer? And aren't you a minor?"
Ara Brei asked me while showing her concern.
"Drunk? I'm omnipotent now! A measly alcohol tolerance was already a part of my passive skills! Forget about being a minor, I can just let time flow through me much faster than usual so that I can be 18 years old in a second!"
Ara Brei gave up after she heard my reply and decided to open the beer herself.
I grabbed and hold the beer and drank it satisfyingly. I ate the stuffed turkey in just a second using my time skip ability.
Since I had finished eating all of my food, I then began feeding Sharielle with porridge.
It was a hassle because she often turned her head which made me missed since I hadn't use my abilities when feeding her.
"You know what? I'll just use time skip."
I snapped my fingers and my time skip ability was activated.
Sharielle had finished her porridge in just a second and it was now time for me to change her diapers.
It was a good thing that I decided to write some romance novels so I had researched how to take care of a baby.
It was a simple process. First, tie the baby to a table. Second, use a pair of scissors to cut and remove the diaper. Third, use water or wipes to remove the poop on her butt. Lastly, dispose of the diaper using fire.
I made it sound simple but the reality was so cruel to me even though I'm a reality bender.
I can bend reality to my will but somehow, the reality was stubborn as heck.
When I tried to tie Sharielle on a table, Ara Brei scolded me and told me that it wasn't tied but hold so she helped me in holding her in place.
I then removed Sharielle's diaper using a scissor but I was scolded again by Ara Brei and she told me that it was pointless to remove a diaper using a scissor when I can just unstrap the diaper.
I used water magic to remove the poop but I hadn't controlled the force of the water. Therefore, the water splashed onto my face including the poop.
I had to use time reverse to remove the poop on my face and memory wipe to erase my memory of the poop landing on my face.
I disposed of the diaper by burning it with fire magic and it was one of the dumbest decisions I had ever made since it was the time when I had smelled burning poop for the first time.
I had gotten a lot of scolding from Ara Brei after that and she told me that she will be the one who will take care of Sharielle's diaper.
I can't use time skip since it only could skip time, therefore, the same events would occur again but I wouldn't experience it myself.
I was one of the worst foster fathers in history.
Well, what could they expect from a shut-in author who wrote mainly the fantasy genre?
All of my actions were exaggerated to the point where I had used magic for convenience.
It wasn't that bad to be omnipotent because Ara Brei had it worst since she already knew that what had happened in Sharielle's diaper changing but had decided not to interfere so that I would experience it myself.
After all, action speaks louder than words.
She knew that it would take a lot of time to convince me in letting her take care of it because she knew that I never back down from a challenge.
"Katake, do we need to continue our trip towards Mortem City or cancel it? I suggest that we will cancel it because Sharielle was supposed to be killed for a reason and since she had not been killed, it would alert the royal family that managed Mortem City.", Ara Brei gave me her suggestion.
I went silent for a while and decided what to do until I had come up with my idea.
"We will go with your suggestion. Also, we will enter Mortem City after Sharielle Zenchi turns 6 years old so that she would be less recognizable. Although, her hair color and eye color is too eye-catching."
"I had activated foresight and found out that there was a forest located several kilometers away from our current location."
"Okay, we will live in the forest for 6 years before we enter civilization."
Ara Brei nodded in agreement and so I used teleportation magic to teleport the room including what was inside towards the Mystic Forest.
From what I had learned from immortals from cultivation novels, living in seclusion will make a cultivator appear cooler.