It is winter now here, when I was born it was also winter. So it's been about…four years here. The snowy outside was mesmerizing to look at. Where I'm from, it doesn't usually snow like this. I haven't been outside since I was born, so watching all this from a window was kind of a tease for me. I find myself investigating nearly everywhere in this house. I thought it's be harder to remember how to crawl and walk, but I guess muscle memory passed through bodies I suppose? It might be possible due to my own previous knowledge of crawling and walking. Two months into my new life here, I was up and about. Walking and running around this house!
This house is fairly large for just a couple. It's two stories and holds four rooms on the top floor. With the 1st floor having the kitchen and living room, With two extra rooms serving as the laundry room and bathroom. Judging by the old walls and even some of the doors being somewhat old and crusty, This is a very old house That Gerald and synthia have picked up.
Even though some of the rooms and corners of the house are filled with webs, Synthia does like to keep the room we are in fairly clean, Even the kitchen is cleaned regularly if we don't eat that day. The living room had a fireplace to it too, along with a couch in front of it. I didn't expect there to be much good quality furniture in this world, But I ended up enjoying the couch we have here.
On the second floor, we have the babies room, or my room. It didn't really have anything in it. It was the room they were using for my birth. So nothing in particular is different now then what it was before. It just now had a cradle within the middle of the room for me. Other than my own room, We have both synthia and Gerald's room, decorated with Gerald's old adventuring loot he's gotten over his years as one. A massive shield hangs over their bed. It's a typical looking shield, Except for a strange symbol on it and a shimmer that glosses over it. I'm not sure what the symbol is, it's two snakes that coil around a hand. Maybe it's for a group of some sort?
Synthia's gear is also decorating the room as well. It seems like these two met while adventuring and got together from it. Her staff lay on a very nice rack upon a table. It's silver handle along with a red crystal at the end makes it really noticeable there. And then we have the bathroom as well, which has a wooden bathtub.
Honestly, This place isn't that bad. Walking around it isn't even much of a hassle, hell it was Mesmerizing just walking it. Synthia tends to pick me up and place me up the top of the stairs, Which I'm thankful for. Though walking around has its moments. When I end up exploring the house, Gerald tends to try and find me in Synthia's absence when she goes out. "Kota, Come out!" I can hear him say, Never realizing that I'm underneath the table in the kitchen. The only way he can coax me out is by waving some food around for me. A slab of meat is enough to bring me out, Though I've yet to really grow any teeth. It must have caused him some confusion because when he'd pick me up, he'd give me a look that just said 'I have an odd problem here that I cannot solve. I need help, please."
Speaking of Gerald and Synthia, Through these four years. They've been speaking to me in a foreign language. The more they seem to talk to me and point at things, I learn more about the language. Gerald seems to spend most of his time with me just teaching me words and reading to me. It feels weird just because my Father never did this with me, At least with what I can recall. But I seem to somewhat get a hang of what this world's language is. I couldn't speak it that well, but I am only four years old. I can make out most sentences everyone says now, Though i still have a couple more years to understand it. So I should be fine with learning the language.
Synthia is usually out gathering food from the market in this village each day and tending to the garden when she can. Though she too also reads me stories and taught me math. Which is a bonus since the mountains she has in her chest area bounce around and move whenever she did anything. I do not think this world has any sort of bras, perhaps they do and synthia is just a wild card in that.
It's a odd I don't feel much of that sexual energy when it comes to her, that could most likely be because we are of blood. Which is fine, there's plenty of fish in the sea here.
Ok, enough of that kind of talk. I've been walking around a lot and just found myself sitting on the couch just thinking of it all.
"Synthia, I think your putting too much animal fat into that…" I heard Gerald. I turned around and observed him and Synthia as they cooked.
To say the least, the cooking here was…tolerable?
Gerald and Synthia were in the kitchen prepping up lunch when a knock on the front door stopped them.
"Huh, who could that be? Might be the neighbors" Gerald stopped what he was doing and went to open the door. Once he swung the door open, a woman charged at him. Wrapping her arms around him as they both fell down onto the front doors mat.
"Oh Gerald! Here I am!" The woman said. It was a youthful voice.
He had a face of surprise and then a sudden face of fear as he peered up at synthia.
Who is this woman? She wore a somewhat light leather outfit and had Grey hair. She looked quite young, much smaller than synthia and now she's on top of Gerald basically riding him now.
"Oh, hello Lauren." Synthia said with a deathly tone, now walking from the kitchen to just above Gerald and her. She
I don't think I've ever seen a yandere look as terrifying as it is now. There was a state that she held that could quite possibly petrify anyone.
Just looking at me gave me the chills.
But the woman didn't seem to be bothered, but Gerald…
"O-oh yes, Lauren haha…she's here visiting!
Yes, visiting!" He said frantically. Pulling her away from him before He then leaned in to Lauren, whispering. "How the hell did you find me?"
"Not hard to have rumor roaming of a swordsman that fits your description. Playboy, charming. You get it." Lauren smiled as she said that. "
Gerald's face began to sweat as she giggled. Synthia looked behind him with an aura.
Holy shit, I've never seen this man terrified. Gerald has always been calm and cool with me. But here, he's shaking and panicking like crazy.
I don't think I'd want to get on synthia bad side.
Lauren straightened herself out and got back up, looking at the couple.
"Yep! Back from traveling to Bubelc! Just wanted to giv-" she reached out to Gerald before synthia grabbed her hand. It was so quick that it caught me off guard.
"No need for touch now, Lauren. He's a married man!" Synthia said happily, but her eyes were still wide and looking at her hand.
"Ah I see, You still got a good grip on him, huh?"
"Indeed. A pretty good one." Synthia said coldy.
Lauren struggled at first to release synthia's grasp from her hand, and mending to it before looking at me.
"Woah! Who is this?"
"T-that's Kota, our son." Gerald answered.
"OUR son." Synthia chimes in.
Lauren walked up to me and looked at me, she eyed me for a moment. I felt like I was being examined by some doctor before she held her arms out.
"Oh, he's so adorable!" She proceeded to hug me tightly. "Look at his hair, it's like Synthia's! Oh and he got the face of Gerald!…wait."
Thank god!
I might not like being in a young body, but damn is it good to be hugged by a girl.
Lauren held me in her hands before turning and looking at Gerald and synthia with a confused look.
"When did you guys have him?"
"About a couple years ago." Gerald said, rubbing his head.
"A couple?! And you didn't tell the party about him?" She seemed shocked.
So I'm guessing she was part of the party and that's why she was so hands on with Gerald. Must've had to fight synthia to get a hold of him.
Can't believe I'll say this, but this man is a chad.
"Uh-well, since we left out adventuring days, we'd thought it'd be nice to just…move away from all that."
"Oh… I see how it is. You don't want the other girls to know, huh?" She marched in front of him. "What about Edward or Derrick? Do you even know what they do now?"
"I-uh, look. I just wanted to settle down. My playboy days are done! I got one!" He put his hands around synthia, who's demeanor changed instantly into that loving mother look.
"Uh huh….ok."
I didn't think my next world father would be a playboy. I really didn't. But I can see with his cool demeanor that he'd be able to charm anyone.
Lauren then handed me to synthia, who nuzzled me nicely below the mountains.
"Say, not to be weird. But something up with that kid." She said concerningly. She looked down at me with squinted eyes.
Huh? Me? Where'd that come from? Something up with me? Can she see what I saw before?
No, I can't be exposed like this! I've only been here for a year!
"What makes you say that?" Synthia said stonefly.
"His mana. It's heavy, unnaturally heavy." Lauren eyed her. "It kind of reminds me of yours, synthia. Maybe perhaps he's adopted your duval trait as well. But his mana is…" she trailed off.
Duval? I only heard of that name in the stories synthia tells me. He's like the god of magic here in this world. I guess his soul was split into multiple forms and found themselves within a whole number of families. I never learned the whole story. But Synthia held me tighter. Perhaps synthia is part of one of those families.
"So what if he's got it? That doesn't change him."
"It's not that bad. Synthia, you know that I'm able to sense mana. look, I'll leave this conversation as is. I wouldn't want to scare the kid." She then quickly looked at Gerald. "Well, it was nice to make a quick visit to you."
Gerald gulped and scratched his head. "N-no problem. You won't be back anytime soon?…are you?"
"Nope. I'll be heading back to bulbec, This visit was an exception I couldn't waste!"
Besides her nice attitude, what she said about me was questionable. Why would it scare me? Who'd be scared of the one who made magic possible?
And that's where her visit ended, she said her farewell and gave me a kiss on my head before leaving the house. She tried to have a kiss to Gerald, which synthia quickly shut her down with a glare. So Lauren just gave them both a wave of goodbye as she left the door.
As Gerald and synthia waved goodbye, I couldn't help feeling there was something these two weren't saying to me.