*Knock knock*
"You can come, I'm up."
As the wooden door of my room opened with a slight creak, my parents, both with dark circles under their eyes, entered my room and said good morning to me.
The longer I hesitate, the more I regret it. There's no point in postponing, it's best to say it now.
"Good morning to you too... Umm, dad, I had to go to bed very late last night because you were making too much noise while massaging mom."
"Eh uh, I'll go and make breakfast."
Hearing my words, my mother reacted with extraordinary speed, covered her face with her hands and ran out of my room under the pretext of breakfast, leaving my father behind.
My father, as if to prove what an amazing organism he is in terms of shamelessness, talked at length about my mother's back pain and the need for regular massages.
I couldn't even blame them for their ridiculous lies, since they thought I was a child. I said a few words that made me think I believed my father's words and went to the living room to have breakfast with him.
When I was new to this world, I thought I had a love for my mother that could be considered wrong, but as time passed, I realized that it was not the kind of love I had imagined, but something similar to the love people have for their parents. Since I started to think this way, I have become more accepting of my parents.
Even if I add up my previous life and this life, the fact that I am younger than them has helped me a lot. I think having a mother and a father made me feel more comfortable.
Many nights after reincarnation, I used to fantasize about how I would survive if I was kicked out of my family or if they died, but now I didn't even think about tomorrow and before I went to sleep at night I imagined that in the future I would become a great magician and summon a gigantic meteor from the sky.
For a moment I wondered what exactly this feeling is called. Recklessness? Callousness? No, no, nothing like that. It's something very different, something that feels much warmer. Confidence...
"Are you upset about something, Yuto? That's what happened. We're sorry Yuto, we won't make any more noise at night, please don't hate us."
"Puffft...hahaha"
As usual, my mom is terrible at reading people. I can't stop laughing.
"Say something too, Kael! Our son started laughing cause anger, just like me. Kael! Do something."
Hahaha, maybe I'm laughing so much because my nerves are broken. Oops, my tears are dripping on the breakfast that mom made so carefully.
"I think you're worrying for nothing, honey. Your face is so ugly when you laugh in anger, but look, Yuto is as cute as a little girl as always."
*Bamm* (the sound of an iron bucket hitting Kael's head)
Ahahahah... My mouth hurts... When was the last time I laughed so much? Or rather, had I ever laughed with so much fun?
I managed to calm down after a few minutes of improvised help from my mom and dad, like giving me a drink of water and patting me on the back.
For some reason I want to laugh stupidly today, so I'd better get out of here or I'll start laughing again.
"Even though today is an important day for you, aren't you leaving a little early, Yuto?"
Hearing my mom's voice as I was putting on my shoes, I quickly answered without turning around and left the house.
"I need to visit my master before going to the celebration."
"Come back and get your coat before you go. You'll sweat and get sick after the competition."
"Okay."
Like a bunch of brats could really make me sweat.
As I left the house and walked towards the town center, feeling the morning frost all over my body, I realized that my eyes were wet once again. At first I didn't care, thinking that my eyes were wet because of the cold wind, but as I continued walking on the road where no one was around, my tears continued to flow without stopping.
What's going on? Did I open some kind of seal because I shed a few tears while laughing? I haven't really cried much since I passed the baby stage, but is this really normal? Or am I sad for some reason?
Why would I suddenly be so sad? I should be happy right now because I feel the security of having a family.
*Slap!*
Ahhhhhhhh, what's wrong with you?
Snap out of it Yuto! You're not the kind of wimp who goes into emotional mode for no reason! Oh right, only wimps are happy at the smallest thing and get despondent at the simplest thing!
Maybe in this world men get their period too? No no no, that's too ridiculous... I guess...I hope so.
[If it makes you feel better to think that way, you can think that way, sir. But I haven't found any trace of information in my data to confirm your guess]
Are you really listening to me all day?
Huff, maybe you think I'm an idiot for acting like this?
[I think/calculate how wrong humanity is because they don't behave like you, sir]
Ahhh ah you are not spoken to at all...
------- 10 minutes later
When I felt calmer and the pain from the slap on my cheek was more pronounced, I got up from the stone and walked towards the center of town, remembering what I had told my mother.
What I had told my mother about going to my master was a complete lie. I had hardly ever been to the town and there were many things I was curious about.
I felt like I had been locked up at home for years, so I decided to make this day as enjoyable as possible.
The town we lived in was built on a plain surrounded by 4 big mountains and on the top of each mountain there was an observation post. According to the rumors I heard, the town we lived in was very close to the border of our country, so we were always in danger.
The place where my father worked was also one of these surveillance stations. For this reason, our house was built on the mountain slope close to the surveillance station.
After walking down the mountain path with my little legs for a while, I managed to reach the town center, which was densely lined with houses. There was a big celebration going on that day, so many people were walking fast through the streets.
Because a sweet little boy like me stood out in such a crowd, many people turned their heads and looked at me with interest. Some of these people came up to me and asked my name and stroked my hair, while others stood far away and gossiped, which I could barely hear.
"See that kid's hair, I wonder if she was born with it or if something spilled on her head."
Why the fuck do you give a fuck!
"Who knows... Never mind that, look how cute he looks with that hair. I think he's guaranteed to be the most handsome boy in our neighborhood when he grows up."
"Are you sure? I think it's a girl."
"I think it's a boy."
"Do you want to bet? If it's a girl, I'll introduce her to my son, but if it's a boy, you introduce him to your daughter."
"Ohh you are very clever as always sister. I don't have a son and you don't have a daughter so no matter who wins the other one won't be upset."
"Hmm hmm, who do you think I am, of course I am very smart"
My nerves were frayed when I saw the people who were fascinated by the conversation between the two women and began to look at me as if I were a prize in an invisible race between them.
Realizing that staying here any longer would make me a murderer, I quickened my pace and changed my path to the side streets.
------- a few minutes later
When I reached a slightly darker street with narrow alleyways from the street between the two houses, I was greeted by a horrible scene and at the same time a system screen appeared in front of me.
When I looked at the system screen, I saw that I had received a side quest that I had not had for a long time.
[Congratulations you got a new side mission (good or evil)
Mission content : decide your future path by doing good or selfish deeds over the next year.
Mission duration : 1 year
Mission progress : none
Mission reward : teleport
Mission penalty : adding a "negative" sign at the beginning of the luck statistic
Note: first of all you are a human being, it doesn't matter if you are a master or a butler. Now it's time to make a choice, a choice that you will regret every day...
If you had to give up someone, would you give up your heart or your brain? ]
Teleportation? Isn't that the super cool special thing every human dreams of? I have to do this mission for sure, because if I turn out to be an unlucky human, I might find myself in a situation where I can't protect what I have now even with the Force.
Remembering the little pink-haired girl who had just been kidnapped and tied up with ropes by two rude men walking past me, I got an idea of why this mission had come up now and stopped hiding behind the empty barrel I was hiding behind so that the men, who I guessed were human kidnappers, wouldn't see me.
I felt that if I let the men escape I would be stepping into the path of evil, so without delay I checked my surroundings, whispered a mid level stealth magic in a low voice and turned invisible. After all, isn't it a classic in every story that the bad guys lose?
Only a few seconds later, as I ran in wide strides after the men who I guessed were human kidnappers, I saw the girl on the shoulder of the leading men slowly open her eyes. Apparently they had somehow knocked her out and secretly kidnapped her.
Even when the girl realized what was happening and screamed for help, the piece of fabric in her mouth prevented her from speaking, and when I looked closely, I could see that there was a magic circle on this fabric. Probably this fabric was one of the magical items my master had told me about.
Even though I felt that I could defeat both bandits with a sudden attack, I didn't want to take any chances, as there was only forest in the direction the bandits were running and the forest was a good place for me to use magic.
While I was trying to guess what they had kidnapped this girl for, we were almost in the woods and the bandits still hadn't sensed my presence because my steps were as wide as possible.
After about 10 more minutes of playing spies with the bandits, we came across another group of 3 people sitting on the ruins of a ruined building in the woods.