~Chapter II: Five~
Soon I will turn five in this life, it will finally be my awakening ceremony and the beginning of my training. After the ceremony there will be a birthday party, where many people will come, and after the party I can officially go to some tea parties. The last thing, is not that I'm very excited with it but I will still have to do it, although I don't care much about it. I do not have many friends of my age yet so I hope that at some party I can make some friends. I know that they will surely become my friends because of the power that my father holds but there is still hope. I had never said it but my father is a powerful marquis, but he has left my mother aside and married another woman before my mother gave birth to me and from what I have heard they even had a son or daughter a year later after I was born, I don't know to well if it's a boy or a girl although I do think it was a girl instead of a boy, that is why I don't like my father very much. I don't know much about him either so can't judge him, but with all he has done to my mother, the only thing I can say about him is that I hate him as a person and father but he is good as a monarch and he treats well the people that lives at the fiefdoms.
- Mii-chan, have you finished preparing? We have to go soon to select your dress. - My mother asks.
- I am going mommy.
For the party we have to buy another dress, in truth they could have come to our hose but my mother insisted that we had to go out and buy it ourselves, and we could see another things by the way. I don't care if we go out or not, although I prefer if they come home instead, but if I go out I learn more things about this world, besides that I can't leave the house much because of my classes. In the nobles of this world it is normal to have classes since you are very young, especially etiquette classes so they don't humiliate their family and themselves at tea parties, I think that was why.
- Mii-chan, hurry up.
- I am going.
I go running to where she is standing and instead of going down through the stairs I went down through the railing, even though she will scold me later, it's really fun doing this kind of things.
- Mii-chan do not do things like that, it is not ladylike.
- But it's funny. Besides no one is looking apart from you and the servants.
- It is the same, it is something you should not do, what if you hurt yourself?
- I am not going to fall because I do it carefully.
After that we departed to the wa... *cough* To the clothing stores.
When we get to the clothing stores, my mother started dressing me like a doll. We spent like two hours choosing a dress for myself and then we also had to choose my mother's, which didn't take us too long to choose, not like mine.
-Mommy, why did it take us much longer to choose my dress than to choose yours?
- Because you are going to do like a small debutance and you have to be beautiful for the occasion.
If we take so much time choosing this dress just for this, it will take days for the dress for my debut in high society.
- Besides that you have to leave a good impression in all the nobles who go to your birthday party and maybe someone will fall in love with you.
- Mom, I am too young to go out with someone and I do not want to be separated from you either.
- Aww, how sweet. But one day you will have to separate from me.
- No, I don't wanna be separated from my mommy. - Because in my other life I didn't have no one who was like a motherly figure to me.
I kept that part quiet. I don't want anyone to know about my past.
-----[The day of the ceremony]-----
It is finally my birthday and the day of my awakening ceremony. I'm a little nervous but I think I will be fine during the ceremony, I don't think I'll pass out from stress or anything like that, I don't think I'm going to panic, at least that is what I hope. Okay, if I do well there, my mother will let me climb trees and go down through the railing instead of using the stairs. We made that promise after buying the dresses.
We have already reached the doors of the temple where the ceremony is being held. "Come on Nozomi, you can do it." I try to cheer up myself.
- Mii-chan, my daughter, are you ready?
- Yes mommy.
These ceremonies, in this world, are not done with many other kids as in some novels, but with children who have their birthday the same day as you, because you have to do it just when you are five years old, not a day before or a day later, why? Because they are very picky. (I don't know how to say it so I leave it like that.)
- Let us start with the ceremony. Please when I call you, you have to go up to the altar and say the spell that have been taught.
Ohhh, they are finally starting. When is my turn?
- Seikoji Inori.
I think that it is not in alphabetical order, because if not I would have gone before, since my last name begins with ka. (The Japanese alphabet is different from the one we have here and if your last name begins with ka, you would be at the top of the list, if it goes in alphabetical order, clearly.)
After that boy there were a few more and I don't know why but I'm the last one.
- Kuroshinteku Nozomi
I go up to the altar and, like the other childs, I say the enchantment, doing so everything becomes bright. There is nothing around me, it's just all white, I feel good here, it is comfortable I don't know why. I close my eyes, my mind is relaxed, I can easily fall asleep.
- Do not fall asleep mi child.
I hear a voice and I open my eyes startled. Turning my head I see a beautiful woman with white hair that falls like waterfalls over her shoulders and eyes of the colour of honey.
- Hello? Who are you?
- I am the goddess Aristia, goddess of the space and time.
- Eh? A goddess?
- Yes my child. I have brought you into this world to change Nozomi's fate.
- Ehh? My fate?
- Yes, well would rather be Nozomi's but now you are her so basically os yours now.
- But, why?
- Because the gods took pity on you both of you, you because you had a very hard life and her because she was controlled and could not do something that was not in the plot.
- The plot?
- Some day you will remember my child.
- Wait, wasn't I at the awakening ceremony?
- Yes, but when you said the enchantment we have brought you here on purpose.
- Why?
- To give you our blessings.
When she said that suddenly more, gods? Appear. I suppose.
- We, the gods, give our blessings to Kuroshinteku Nozomi to have a healthy life, happy, to be strong so that she can overcome her destiny.
When they began to say it, a light also began to shine behind their backs, each time the light was brighter until it reached the point where I couldn't look because it was blinding and when it stopped shining I was back in the temple. Everyone was looking at me until the priest began speaking.
- Her magis types are: Illusion magic and wind magic. Her mana reservoir capacity is 17 860 420, larger than that of the second prince.
Is that a lot of mana? I guess so because everyone is with the jaw dropped. It is very strange to receive so much attention from everyone when a second ago no one was paying any attention to you. Wait, what had happened before that thing of the gods was true or was I imagining it all? It seemed so real, I think it really happened but nobody noticed it, which is very strange since I would have disappeared, right?
- Mii-chan, you do not know how proud is your mother with you.
- Eh, why?
- Are you kidding me? Well someday you will find out, but it is strange that you do not know, after all you have read some books about magic.
I wonder what she said after "someday you will find out", she said it so softly that I couldn't hear anything she said afterwards. Well, now we only have to get ready for my birthday party which is right after this.