Isaac woke up to the smell of bread rushing into the room with its alluring scent, dragging him out of bed as the call to his hunger was far more important than getting more sleep. Stumbling his way into the bakery, Isaac meets up with Isabella who was just walking out of the oven room.
"Mom, can I have a piece of bread"? Isaac asks while outstretching his hand as if she will just magically pull the bread out from nowhere and drop it into his hands.
"One moment little one, you'll be my first customer for the day". She giggles at her own words before going over to the storefront where a basket of fresh-baked bread was laying in a basket, just waiting to be lined up on the shelves. Picking up a piece of bread from the basket, she hands it to Isaac, while watching him munch on the bread in a very adorable fashion, as the bread was almost as big as he was. He looked like a chipmunk when eating the bread.
"Slow down Isaac, you are bound to get a tummyache like that". Isabella reminds him in a soft voice, almost causing Isaac to roll his eyes. He had eaten much more than this even when he was only at the age of 20, he would occasionally go to diners where there were food-eating contests, and even though he never won one, he had never done poorly in any of the competitions.
While thinking this, Isaac immediately feels pain in his stomach causing him to slightly change his stance, and the somewhat cocky smirk on his face disappears.
Isabella just immediately looks at Isaac while laughing uncontrollably, finding the entire thing to be adorably cute.
"Yeah, you would laugh knowing someone has to use a damn leaf to use the toilet"! Unfourntaley in this world, there are no modern innovations like back on Earth. When one experiences wiping their gluteus maximus with a leaf, they will even dream about toilet paper as if it were their god.
"The first thing I want to create in this world is toilet paper. I bet I would be worshipped if I was able to show everyone the power of T.P.". Isaac thinks while in pain and unloading into a bucket and wiping himself with a leaf.
Every time someone took a dump, they would have to take it to a certain part of town, this is where they would incinerate the feces, though sometimes it was used to be a fertilizer. Isaac could never imagine himself doing things like this on Earth, but here on this planet, he couldn't show any level of intelligence too high, so he had to wait and plot to make innovations.
In the meantime, it was time for him to take out the nastiness, and he didn't want Isabella to go quite honestly, so he prepared himself to take on the responsibility.
"Mom, can I go take care of the poop"? Isaac asked while holding the bucket that smelled terrible and would make one want to throw up in the said bucket.
Isabella pondered about letting him go on his own, she had shown him how to get there, but she didn't want him to go alone, but she realized that she couldn't keep babying him despite his age.
"Ok, but promise to be careful okay"?
"Okay mom, I'll be back quickly so you don't worry". Isaac, immediately rushed out the door before his mother could say another door, earning a sigh from Isabella who then began to serve a customer who walked in as Isaac rushed out.
"FREEDOM"! Isaac thinks as he rushes through the streets taking in all the sights again. He hadn't been able to really explore by himself since he has gotten into this world, so he planned to take this time to really explore, within certain limits though. He didn't need his mother talking to guards asking where he might be.
So, on that note, Isaac went immediately to the drop-off place to stop carrying around such a disgusting bucket and immediately went into an area of the woods to wash the bucket of excess feces.
As Isaac got close to the pond to wash the bucket, he heard the sound of footsteps, and so he immediately hid behind a tree out of fear.
"Why am I even hiding behind the tree, it is probably other people here to wash their poop buckets too". Isaac thinks to himself, reprimanding himself for his cowardliness. Though in the back of his head, Isaac realized if some bad adult were to come to prey on the people who went to the lake, he would have made a great decision, because he didn't know if he could necessarily get back to the village in time.
The walk to the lake itself was about 15 minutes, even if he ran, they might catch up to him. As Isaac debated whether or not to change positions from his spot, the footsteps finally were loud enough for him to realize they are already in the clearing by the lake, so he took a peek from the tree to see what he saw.
Isaac saw three girls around the age of 5 by the lake. Two of the girls were surrounding one girl while slightly blocking off her retreat. Staring at the girl who was being surrounded, Isaac sees that the girl had blonde hair tied up in a ponytail hanging off to the right side of her shoulder, and a dark blue dress on with a white belt across her midriff. The two girls inched closer to her, and the girl inched back, but only stopped when she was just at the edge of the lake.
"You must think you are so great in your pretty dress and nice shoes. You must be too above hanging out with us commoner kids huh"? One of the girls surrounding the blond-haired girl remarked snidely while giving her a glare.
"All the boys just love to play favors for you, and just want all of your attention". The other girl remarked just as snidely as the first girl, also giving us an almost identical glare to the blonde-haired girl.
The blonde-haired girl responded to their hurtful comments with a very cold tone that showed a lack of emotion as if the two girls talking to her were nothing but nuisances in her eyes.
"You are both wrong, they all just come to perform favors for me even if I don't want them, and I don't accept those favors for that very reason. I also don't treat anyone to be below me".
After saying that, the two glares on the two girls surrounding her become even sharper before they both sport impish grins on their faces before pushing the blonde-haired girl into the lake, causing her to flail about in the water before getting back up.
"Like anybody would believe that. That voice that lies is so disgusting to hear, you should just keep that mouth of yours shut Aldrea".
After the girl on the left makes that remark, they both began to laugh extremely loudly while pointing their fingers at Aldrea who is soaked in the water, mocking her with their faces and finger-pointing. Then they both proceed to walk away back into the village.
Aldrea sat in the water for a while, and just as Isaac was debating what to do, he saw tears start flowing down her cheeks from her dropped head. The tears dropped onto the lake water, causing a small ripple to form every time they left her cheeks.
Watching her crying in the water, Isaac left from behind the tree and walked up to the edge of the lake where Aldrea was and stared at her before outstretching his hand towards her.
"I think what happened to you was pretty bad, I wouldn't let it ge-". Isaac tried to finish until Aldrea smacked his hand forcefully.
"DON'T TOUCH ME". Aldrea roared at Isaac with a hurt look on her face, before her face morphed into sorrow and guilt, as she rushed from the water without turning to look back at Isaac. The water on her dress shook violently as she ran like her life depended on it, leaving Isaac there to stand confused.
"I shouldn't take it personally, it seemed like she didn't mean it, If I was her, by the sound of her life so far, it is not the life that any person that young should have to endure". Isaac thinks this while staring at the hand she smacked, before taking his bucket and going back home.
Walking slowly on the street, Isaac continued to walk in the direction of the bakery, considering it was just about time for him to arrive back before scaring Isabella any further. Passing by a corner, Isaac crossed paths with a man in a black cloak, and the man slightly bumped into Isaac, which caused Isaac's stubby body to fall back onto his butt.
"Damn it! Why don't you watch where you're goi-". Isaac pauses this thought as he stares up at the man wearing a black cloak, fear being instilled into him. Isaac saw the face of the white demon from the black book on the face of the man in the black cloak.
The man outstretched his hand, and Isaac just looked up in fear, and when Isaac blinked, the man's face changed into a normal human face. The most prominent feature that could be seen on the man's face, was a scar going across his right eye.
"Hey, kid, are you all right"? The man asks while looking at Isaac who is on the ground and not moving.
Isaac gets up almost immediately and shakes his head to show that he is fine, and immediately continues on his walk back to the bakery.
"What the hell was that"? Why did I see that thing from the black book?
Isaac felt dizzy, and so once he made his way home, he greeted his mother who was still doing business, but then immediately went to bed. Isaac's bed wasn't huge as it was prematurely built for him when he requested to not be in a crib anymore to his mother. Laying on the bed, he tossed and turned when he wanted to get some sleep.
"I can't go on like this, I have to know more". Isaac walked over to a corner of the room, and in that corner of the room, he pulled up a plank from the floor, and in this plank in the floor laid the black book.
Isaac was never one to take chances when he realized how easy it was to view the black book by just walking around the room, he ended up sneaking the book into a plank on the floor, so nobody, especially Isabella could find it. He didn't know for a fact that if anybody read the black book, they could transport to the same dark place he went, but he wasn't going to allow the possibility to befall Isabella.
He could still feel the torture he experienced, and whether or not he even thought of Isabella as his true new mother, he wouldn't let any pain befall her anymore.
Isaac took the book to his bed, and with a determined glare towards the book, he opened the book, and the white eyes that pierced themselves into his mind appeared, and his body once again began to lose control, and fell onto the bed, looking as cold and lifeless as before.
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Inside Isaac's mental sphere
When Isaac opened his eyes, he was in the same dark box, and he immediately took sight of the only other figure than him in the room. Wearing its devilish smirk on its face and staring with its large un-beating eyes
Arms behind its back like it was a butler, it greeted Isaac in a very malevolent way.
"Hello, Isaac. Your stay here will be short, but your death will definitely not be a long one". The white demon said while licking its finger and tracing the finger across its own neck.
Isaac only stares at its provocative act and slowly walks up to the white demon that mimicked him in everything but the expression on its face. When Isaac was standing face to face with the demon, he suddenly threw a hook hard into its right cheek.
Dropping to the floor, it rubbed its cheek and stared surprised up at Isaac, while Isaac gave a smirk of his own to the white look-alike of himself.
"Calling me a weakling while wearing my face had really made me want to punch you. Now then, let's talk business".
The white demon only laughs hysterically before getting up from the floor. In a voice that sounded like there was a hollowed echo to its sound, spoke out.
"Yeah, let's talk".