Chapter 4
"Lex!!, Let's play!!"
A child's voice echoed from the door of my room. Kate Bentley, daughter of Layla Bentley, is now five years old, the same as me. She had blonde hair like her mother and green eyes like her father. She was an adorable and beautiful kid. They say cute and beautiful children don't always grow up like beauty. Still, from what I see, as long as she can take care of herself, I'm 99% sure she will become a lovely person later.
I was busy playing with Mother's tablet and ignored her call. Mother only gave me an hour a day to play with her tablet, so I want to use that as efficiently as I can.
Oblivious to my plan, Kate ran inside my room and started to pull away from my hand.
"Lex, Play!"
"No!" I declined straight away.
"...sob.." Kate's eyes watered immediately by my remark
"AA-..aaa.. nonono, don't cry. Later, okay? Just give me some time, promise" my hard and stern act broke down with her tears. Mother will take away my tablet if she knows I ignored Kate again.
"No!!"
"…." I ignored her and started playing with my tablet again. There's something I need to check
"uu.. sob.. sob.." her eyes watered again
"Urghh, okay, okay, what do you want to play?"
(Sigh... why is this happening to me… )
That's right. I'm five years old now! Nothing noteworthy happened in the last four years, and I grew up in the meantime. Since that first day I met Kate, Layla and Kate often visited this house, and vice versa as their home is next to us. So it's inevitable that I become Kate's playmate.
I thought our house was a rich one at first, but after visiting Layla and Kate's house, that naïve thought was blown away in an instant. Their house was a few times bigger than mine. I think it should no longer be called a house but a mansion. Even their front yard was bigger than our house! Many guards and sentries were dressed in the same black suit and black glasses every day. Sometimes I wonder if they don't feel hot in that outfit when summer comes.
The first time I saw Kate's Father, I think I almost pissed myself. He is a tall, muscular man with green eyes and blonde hair who exudes a don't-mess-with-me aura. If my father was like the main hero from the RPG game, then Kate's father was the hero's muscular companion, the only other guy in his harem party.
There's a scar across his right eye. He said it was caused by a car accident when he was younger. Bah! Who's gonna believe that joke?! A huge mansion, a hell of many bodyguards, and then that face? It literally screams, 'I AM A MAFIA BOSS!!'
Well, I'm not going to say it out loud, though. I believe mafias only exists on TV. Oh right, his name is Paul Bentley, and I never heard Layla maiden's name.
Next, we have a younger sister, not mine, though. Kate got a younger sister two years apart from us, and Her name is Ella Bentley. She was like a younger version of Kate. The only difference was that she took her mother's blue eyes. Guhehehe, another harem candidate.
Now that I'm five years old, Mother gave her permission to use her tablet an hour a day. So with that time. I'm currently looking into this world's history on the internet and Checking if there was any difference with my old world.
Something happened that made me doubt if this world is my old world again. As far as I know, this world has the same world history as the one I remember from my old world, but I still can't get rid of my doubt since I found proof that this world is different.
And that proof is my own body. Yeah, you are right. There's something strange with my body. To get rid of boredom in my early years and so that I could learn to walk and run faster, moving my body became a habit that still continues until this day. The problem is that my stamina is increasing at an unbelievable rate. For me, who is five years old, I think I have as much stamina as ten years old. And not just stamina. My other physical abilities were the same. I feel like they have some kind of proficiency or -in-game word- level. After attaining some experience -or in my case, exercise- I got a level up, and my physical abilities increased. Take running, for example, the first target to grow was 100m, and then the next one was 1km since I felt different after reaching those milestones. I think the next one is 10km. I haven't gotten that far yet since I'm still five years old, but it is most likely that my hypothesis was correct.
That's why I'm checking for any kind of difference between my old world and this world. In the meantime, I also found out that the city where I live, Valentine City, was a little weird. It's ambiguous which country this city is affiliated with, and I can't find a trusted source on the internet. The only thing I know is that it is somewhere in eastern Europe.
"Let's go outside," cheerfully Kate suggested while holding and swinging my arm.
"Okay,… before that," I replied, then suggested Kate sit beside me in my bed.
"Muu!" Kate pouted heard what I said
"oh, Kate forgot, or Kate doesn't want to do it?" I teased
"forget about playing outside then," I continued
"AAaa!!, Kate remembers. Kate remembers," then Kate sat down beside me while still pouting, and I pressed her blown cheek with my finger
*Puu~ Kate blows out the air inside with that her mood recovered
I do not remember when this kind of habit started, but when I did this, her mood recovered
"Okay, let's begin then."
""A B C D E F G""
""H I…"" we're both singing together while singing. Then, Kate starts to sway her body and feet, which is very cute!
I followed her. Maybe my body affecting my mind? Sometimes me too doing something like a child, there's a saying that man is always a child perhaps it's true, as long it doesn't affect my thinking I don't care. So we're swaying our bodies singing together.
"Okay, the next one is.."
""One two three four…""
""Twenty!!"" I and Kate high five together this too became a habit which I don't remember when it started
"Okay, Kate, what is that?" I ask, pointing at the door
"DOOR!"
"How do you spell it? "
"D – O – O – R"
"Correct!" I gave her a head pat
"ehehe," Kate smiled cheerfully, accepting the head pat
"next…"
…..
"1 + 4 is…"
"5!"
"Now the last one, 9 + 8, is…."
"17!"
"Correct! Kate very smart" I gave her last head pat, then.
"ehehe" From Kate, she patched her forehead with mine and touched our nose together. She said she saw her parents doing it and wanted to try it too, which I don't mind with a child. This becomes a habit too. Still, no matter how big my desire is, there's no way I find a 5-year-old girl attractive, actually. I don't have that kind of feeling at all these five years. I find a woman beautiful. Still, there's no desire which may cause by this 5-year-old body.
I started to this kind of playing while studying. Studying while playing with Kate to teach her, I want her to be superior to her peers. I want her to become a smart, beautiful, and elegant woman when grown-up, while elegant can start later when Kate is more grown-up. And of course, I'm gonna court her later when she's grown up, but still, I'm not going to force her.
(hahaha, I just have to plant the seed of love from now on, courting naïve children how hard it gonna be! But, wait! Isn't this HIKARU GENJI!?)
(well, nevermind) As for me, I don't need any study till high school material except social studies
"Let's go then" I pulled Kate outside.
"Oh right, why do you much earlier today, Kate?" usually, she came a bit later.
"Mom told me to play with Lex."
"Hmm? …. Oh!, so that's why" I know today is a special day
"Lex?" Kate tilt her head
"Nothing, let's go."
"Un!"