" My lady! it seems like a success, the child seems to be quite strong".A woman carried the newborn san in her hands as his crying quieted down.
"Ha my child you have been born,finally ". The woman yelled in an ecstatic voice laced with glee as to exemplify that her happiness was not just due to her newborn baby being born.
" Um...mm".San woke up from his slumber that seems to have lasted a bit over two minutes.He slowly opened his eyes to see he was in the arms of a beautiful woman with deep red eyes and beautiful pale white skin, she seems to be giving off a vibe of 'A NOBLE LADY'.
"Is this lady my mother?"
{SCAN SHOWS THIS (LADY) IS ROSEMARY VON ROMANES}
"Wow she is beautiful,but... She seems dangerous.Why is she looking at me like that".San asked the system,although he was happy to see his mother,who was looking at him with a smile all the way up to her ears, he also felt fear.Something told him that her happiness was not just because he was born.
{SYSTEM HAS AN ANSWER FROM HEARING THE PREVIOUS CONVERSATIONS DURING HOST'S BIRTH AS WELL AS SCANNING THE VITALS OF 'ROSEMARY VON ROMANES'.SYSTEM BELIEVES THAT THE BIRTH OF HOST IS AN UNUSUAL AND RARE OCCURRENCE DUE TO THE FACT THAT MOST NORMAL CHILDREN WOULD DIE BEFORE BIRTH IF THEY HAD THE SAME DEVICE ATTACHED TO THEIR CHORDS BEFORE BIRTH}
"WHAT.... most babies die??... wtf kind of sick world is this?, wait... Is she normal ?.
{SYSTEM DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION}
San knew something was very wrong with the people who surrounded him.Who puts a baby under pain using a device before it was even born.
"Take him to meet Master,he would want to know of the new child's birth. Also get him his number,i will get the show ready".Rosemary said to the people standing around her who seem to be the servants of the house.Her voice was cold, emotionless and commanding.
"What is up with the people here and..Master?, who the hell is that?... something tells me it's not that good of a thing to know,where the hell is my father..or am i fatherlessfatherless".
{SYSTEM SCAN HAS DETECTED A PATTERN}
{ALL PERSONAL ASSOCIATED WITH HOST CURRENTLY SEEM TO LACK EMOTIONAL CHANGE}
{SYSTEM BELIEVES TRAIT (APATHY) IS DUE TO HOST BEING BORN IN THIS ENVIRONMENT, GENETIC FACTORS ALSO SEEM TO BE AT PLAY}
San was surprised by this new information."Hm..
lack emotional changes..I thought that the trait apathy was the result of me not caring much about others but it seems like it's related to my current family....What kind of a family is this?..I have a bad feeling".
As san was thinking this,he was handed over to a man in his late thirties by his mother, no words were exchanged between them seemingly all was said when she looked at him.
"This guy.Let me guess he is the butler, what was with that exchange,and his dead fish eyes.. so scary.. i..".San was cut off from his line of thoughts as he suddenly heard a woman speak in the room he is in.
"lady Rosemary it is such a wonderful occasion that the young master has been born i am so happy".
The butler suddenly stopped moving and held San in such a way that he could see and hear the conversation properly.
"Oh.You are happy?.Indeed it's a happy occasion isn't it Katarina?" Rosemary asked the now identified Katarina in a cold tone,that indicated clearly that Katarina did something wrong.
"N-No my lady i am not H-happy".Katarina answered swiftly in a panicked tone.
"Tell me Katarina.How did you enter this place?".
Asked Rosemary in a way too musing tone.
"Something is up...Why isn't the butler moving,it's almost as if he wants me to watch this unfold".San thought as he could clearly read that Katarina was in deep shit and everyone except for him knew what was about to occur.
"My lady,i was brought by sir issac to deliver the young master,Me and my fellow nurses were hired by the Romanes family to deliver all the children".
"Is that so, hmmm then let me explain some rules of this house".*FWEW*....*SPLAT*... *THUD.* Rosemary's hand flickered for a second as it seemed to blur and the next moment Katarina's head was separated from her neck and hot blood
spewed out of the fresh amputee all over the room
Her head fell on the floor almost instantly and had an expression of silence as she couldn't even register what had happened.
"In this house you do not disrespect the One".Rosemary said looking at the standing corpse of Katarina which was headless and still spewing blood."Take out this trash,throw her in with the other nurses.Make sure all of their heads are accounted for".Rosemary said in her cold crazy tone laced with a soft slime that seemed like what she did was as normal as brushing one's teeth in the morning.
"I knew it, that smile,this atmosphere,those eyes.
These people are killers,they are way too comfortable with what just occurred....That's why the butler wanted me to watch ...The kid should get to see his first blood..ha sick bastard....weird i don't feel that nauseated neither pity,only surprise and....That's it...System what is going on".
{SYSTEM BELIEVES THAT THIS IS DUE TO HOST'S APATHY TRAIT, AS WELL AS HOST GETTING USED TO KILLING IN HIS PAST LIFE }.
Hearing this san frowned as an intense displeasure washed over him, he knew why he felt the way he did,however still asked the system this question to confirm how much the system knew of his past life.
"I see so you know.Does the fact that i am born in this household have to do with it as well, . No it must be since the letter clearly said that my reincarnation had to do with my past life... haha
it seems i can't really live it down".
{SYSTEM KNOWS EVERYTHING THE HOST DOES,SYSTEM AND HOST ARE ONE ENTITY }
".. I see.."
When San was in his little pondering world ,the butler carried him to execute his orders, a minute later San found the pair in front of a red and black door that was more like a giant door to a ballroom.The butler pushed the door and walked in. The inside of the room was dark, the only source of light were the crystals illuminating a whitish_purple glow,the room had an earey feeling to it.The floor of the room seemed to be similar to Japanese tatami mats however the butler still entered with his shoes on.On the far end of the room a man stood towering at a height of over 8 foot.He was looking at a piece of paper,he saw the butler and instantly understood as he started to walk towards San whilst coming closer to one of the purple crystals showing his features clearly.
{SUBJECT IDENTIFIED AS XAVIER VON ROMANES}
" Grants..is this the last one?".Asked Xavier as he looked at his own newborn son with the same eyes everyone else San met had, cold, lifeless,devoid of emotions.His voice was deep and raspy and his tone was loud and commanding.
"Yes master.The rest died, this one seems to be one of the better ones from the Apostle project".
"Hm.Rosemary's one ha, however this one looks like it knows what it's seeing. Eyes analysing me?... Hm a better one of the batch indeed".
San was in shock"What the this man is my father,
he is so tall and muscular and handsome, abnormally so.He looks more like a demon rather than a human.Why is he treating like a product?..Apostle project ha..seems to be something connected to my late birth.
Wait am i artificially created?..Ican't find answers in my own mind..might as well see how things play out".
Xavier was a very handsome man.He looked like an angel, as if god had personally created him with beauty in his mind.He was a titan standing at 8.5.
his body was all muscle (imagine yujiro ha*ma)
from head to toe his body was perfectly Simetrical
one might consider him a god descended onto mortal plain if not for the fact that he was a monster, a demon in every right. His eyes were cold yellow lacking any emotions, his voice was deep and raspy and most importantly he had a bloodlust that would make most demons ashamed.
"The nurses are being killed off due to lady Rosemary's orders, also this one needs a number".Grants reported to Xavier.
"It seems she has already started commanding others, oh well she is part of the family now.lets hope she can produce more if this one dies".Xavier said to Grants as he fixed his cold eyes onto San
"05.. He is number 05.Fifth best in the batch, you know what to do".Xavier said again
"Also let him watch the show, after all his mother is the one who is arranging it".
"Isn't he too young to know what is going on".Grants asked in the most respectful tone
"This one seems to understand it ".It was all Xavier said and all that grants nedded to know.
San was in panic but didn't show it on his baby face, he asked the system."System how does he know...is it magic?.No it's my face isn't it?".
{SYSTEM BELIEVE IT'S BECAUSE OF HOST'S CHANGES IN EMOTIONS THAT IS NOT PRESENT IN A NEWBORN BABY }
{XAVIER SEEMS TO BE EXTREMELY CAPABLE OF DETECTING EMOTIONAL CHANGES IN A PERSON}
{NO MAGIC IS PRESENT}
"Hm,an instinct of sorts ha....he is scarier than i thought,for a minute there i was sure he caught me".
Grants carried San to a new chamber. It was a bit different than the rest,for starters it was like a forge, hot. Extremely hot to the point where one could feel the heat even before entering the chamber. "It is numbered 05 ,etching on it's back would do".Grants told a old looking worker at the forge who looked like a cliche blacksmith in fantasy novels."Hm last one is he?.Well the rods all hot.Hope he can bear it".Said the old man in a fake caring tone, in reality he didn't care if the child will survive or not.He then proceeded to take a rod out of the hot furnace,the rod had a pointy edge and was blazing hot yellow.Grants immediately put san in a position where his back was open."What the fuck ... noo".San was scared shitless,he knew what was going to happen.The old man held the rod's tip near San's back and started to draw on his back. Cracking and burning of skin could he heard as San cried out in pain, " Ahhhhh.... make it stop ahhhh..System,system do something".He begged as the pain was unbearable,he started to black out a little however grants immediately hit him in the forehead to keep him awake,he wanted the child awake during the process as it felt it's skin burn due to the etching process.
{SYSTEM HAS INCREASED PAIN TOLERANCE OF THE HOST BY NUMBING PAIN SENSATION }
{HOST BODY IS TAKING DAMAGE, METABOLISM RATE IS INCREASED IN ORDER TO COMBAT IT}
{HOST'S FOCUS IS DECREASED BY THE SYSTEM }
"AHHh..still i can feel it, it's much less painful.This sick bastard won't even let me pass out.I WILL KILL HIM ONE DAY, HE SHALL KNOW PAIN, ahh".San roared in his mind with pain and rage, even though all Grants saw was a baby crying and biting its teeth as the old man Jacob etched away.
Eventually when the process ended Grants let San pass out as he healed the wound slowly so that the pain and mark remained but it wouldn't get infected."Lets hope you have the same tenacity where you are going",said Grants to the now unconscious baby who was born a few hours ago.
San woke up in what semmed like a cradle, he was lying flat on his chest with his back towards the sealing, the burning sensation and pain ever so present, dulled but still present."System how long was i out?".San enquired.
{23 HRS AND 12MIN APPROXIMATELY}.
{HOST'S BODY WAS MENTALLY TIRED DUE TO THE PAIN AND PHYSICALLY TIRED DUE TO INCREASE METABOLISM }.
"I still feel the pain...these sick bastards, they haven't even fed me yet, even my mother doesn't seem to care".As san was ranting,Grants walked in and picked up San from the cradle, placing him on the floor, then he proceeded to make San stand up by lifting him up by his arms and putting him in a standing position.For some time he kept San in this position and then removed his hand."Is he trying to make me stand?.I was born a day ago?.
I can stand of course but should i?.Something tells me that standing up is a requirement if i want to keep my life. System?.
{SCAN SHOWS THAT HOST IS CAPABLE OF BALANCE AND WALKING WITHOUT PROBLEMS}
{SYSTEM BELIEVES THAT THIS IS NORMAL RESULT IN THIS WORLD DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF ENERGY IN ONES BODY .USING HOST MEMORIES THIS ENERGY IS DUBBED AS (MANA)}
{NOT BEING ABLE TO WALK MAYBE SEEN AS A DEFECT BY GRANTS }
"Ah i thought so. Well here i go, man small limbs are hard to walk around with".San proceeded to walk around becoming more and more used to it with each step he took.Within seconds San was capable of slow running and jumping.Grants watched all this with an expressionless face and then proceeded to the next part.
San who was running around suddenly felt an intense feeling of death wash over him. It was like he was going to be killed if he moved, it was suffocating him.He fixed his eyes on grants filled with the fear of being killed that very moment."What is this feeling, I am going to die, he is going to kill me.No i won't let him. System".San thought while standing frozen and hyperventilating for air due to the pressure
{SYSTEM NEEDS PERMISSION TO ENACT PROTOCOL}
"DO IT".San yelled in his mind,he wanted to live after all.
{SYSTEM PROTOCOL 'SLAYER' HAS BEEN ACTIVATED }
All of a sudden San saw all his memories, the ones from his past life to his current state,dark memories included that he never wanted to see, and then suddenly as if a switch was flipped his eyes turned cold and emotionless like Xavier.He was no longer suffocating, no longer frozen,just eyeing Grants with eyes that promises hell.Cold unforgiving eyes."So this is killing intent ha".San thought monotonously.Grants retracted his intent after seeing the results he needed,he left San in the room and closed the door.