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Chapter 5 - Family

Steve opened his eyes in a small wooden room, laying in a cradle. He was surrounded by people he couldn't recognize nor see due to his blurry newborn vision. What he did saw was that everyone had black things on each side of their heads. He didn't know what those could be.He saw that Aria wasn't with him. "We must have been separated", he thought.Then he heard a young woman, who appeard to be the mother, saying with a worried voice, "Hmm... why isn't Shinto crying?"."Oh... so I'm Shinto now.", He thought noticing how cool his new name was.Then an old man said, "If a baby doesn't cry, it's because he holds a curse. We must kill him.""Hey dad! We can't kill my son just like that!", a young man, who seemed to be Steve's new father said while Steve thought: "Wait what!? They will kill me just for that!? I must start crying now!". He started crying the moment he realized the danger he was in."Oh... It must have been my mistake. It's never good to make early assumptions", The old man said."Huh? You just did! I almost didn't last five minutes alive because of your early assumptions!", Steve thought angered while he kept crying.Then the door opened. Two kids, a girl and a boyentered the room. They also had that black thing on each side of their heads. "Is Shinto awake?", the girl asked with a loud voice, while the boy nervously asked: "Can I... see him?""If he wasn't awake could he cry like this?", the father asked while the mother said, "Of course. Come see him""Ohh, he is so cute!", the girl said while the kid stared at him smiling.She extended her index and put it in front of Steve's hand, which was responded by Steve grabbing it with his tiny baby hand."I think he likes you", said the mother smiling at the girl.While all of this happened, Steve wondered: "Which race could I have rolled? Well, there are: humans, elves, dwarfs, beastfolk, monsters, dragons, driades, vampires, half humans of various types, demons and a lot more, so theres a 1/10 or less chances to become a demon. I should be safe"While Steve was immersed in his thoughts his new sister was playing peek-a-boo with him, with Steve playing along so his new grandfather wouldn't think of killing him again."What a couple of cute red eyes you have.", His sister said. "It's a bit weird because none of us has red eyes.", she pointed."So I'm still a corrupted", Steve thought."He also has cute little horns.", said his brother."Horns?", Steve asked himself. "Wait... which race has horns? Humans don't, neither do elves, dwarfs, beastfolk, driades nor vampires. They seem very human-like so we aren't monsters. This leaves demons, dragons, and some half humans as my possible race.", He thought nervously. "My only chance to not be a demon is if my horns aren't black", he realized."Shinto? Are you ok?", asked his brother, noticing that he wasn't reacting to what they did."Agogei...", responded Steve trying to say that he was okay, but he couldn't modulate correctly."He tried to respond to Naiko!", exclaimed his mother."Gaiji, try to-", Said his father but he stopped. "Ohhh... I'm dumb. I forgot to heal his eyes", he said slapping his face."Dad, why do you have to heal Shinto's eyes?", asked Gaiji, Steve's sister."Did you know that babie's vision is blurry? I have to heal him so he can see like everybody else.", Said his father."I haven't used healing magic in a long time, so here goes nothing", Thought Steve's father.He put his hand over Steve's head and a green light emerged from his dad's hand. Light green particles smoothly went from his hand to Steve's eyes, where they seemed to rest. The particles were being slowly absorbed by his eyes making Steve's vision better every passing second."I knew it! This world had to have magic.", He thought while his eyes were healed. "It would be boring otherwise"."I can see!", thought Steve. He was happy for being able to see again, until he realized that the worst thing that could happen, indeed, happened. He saw that every family member had black horns. "They are all demons! I'm a demon!", Steve thought in horror while his new family enjoyed the presence of the newborn."I'm a corrupted AND a demon. I'm literally made to be discriminated on", thought Steve.His grandpa had a huge long white beard with a moustache. He also had brown eyes like the rest of the family. He always weared a blue robe, like a wizard.His father had brown eyes and brown hair. He always carried a staff with a blue gem on top of it in his back, like if it were part of his body.His mother had a long silver hair and blue eyes. She always weared a belt where she hang up her sword, always putting her hand on it. She was ready for a battle that could occur any second.His sister had long silver hair and blue eyes like her mother. She was a complete extrovert. She had plenty of friends with whom she spent with most of the day. She was also a very caring person, always looking up to others. She was six years oldLastly, his brother had brown eyes and brown hair, like his father. He was intelligent, but he wasn't very social. You could know he was a good guy just by looking at him. He was four years old.His new family kept bothering him for months. His sister, Gaiji always went to tell him how school went. This time she said that she protected their brother, Naiko, from some bullies.His brother, Naiko, told him how he entered school this year, at his fourth birthday and how he was putting his efforts on studying to get good grades. He said that if Steve needed help studying, he could help him.His father told him about his everyday work at the academy as the magic instructor: How he taught his students and the students he disliked, like Pulen. He said that he was a troublemaker. "Don't become like Pulen", his father said. Steve later realized that his father was named Asyldur, which meant "noble""Cool name", Steve thought.Steve always payed a lot of attention to his explanations about magic."I will get you, Inventory", he thought while his father explained how to use magic.His mother told him about her work as a swordsmanship instructor on the academy. She talked about things like why not to use reverse grip (she said that it shortens the range of the sword). She also complained about a student that insisted in using double wielding. She said it was dumb.Steve's new mom's name was Kappanelle.His grandpa read him books. Simple ones, like the explorer and the monkey, or complex ones, like books about magic theory. He also told him stories about his youth. He had been an adventurer for fourty years, exploring dungeons and fighting strong monsters. In the middle of his adventures he met his deceased wife.He was also named Asyldur, which turned Steve's father to be Asyldur Jr. His grandfather told him about how they wanted Shinto to be named Asyldur too, so he would be "Asyldur Jr. Jr.", "It was an awesome Idea, but Kap didn't want you to have our name", he complained."Why do they all think that a newborn can understand what they are saying?", Steve thought.After a month, Steve stopped being bothered by their constant updates in their lifes. Instead of that, he started enjoying them. "Having a family isn't half bad", he thought, remembering his lack of one in his previous life.Every day, Steve tried to create new things with aura, looking at them with his aura-enhanced eyes to look for any minor imperfection he had in his design. He had to be very careful not to let his family see him creating things.One day, he was changing the shape of the aura balls to make them as pointy as bullets, or even more. He was totally submerged into his creation that he didn't notice that his sister entered the room."Hi Shinto! I'm back" Her sister exclaimed. "I have been busy this last time. We have a test tomorrow""It's said 'lately', not 'this last time'", Steve thought, then realizing that his aura bullets were floating in the air."OH SHI-", he thought. "Ok, think. What can I do? I could disspell the aura, but she might notice the black mist coming back to me. Aria changed the color of her aura, so I could also be able to do it. But how?"Then he enhanced his brain with aura to think as fast as he could. "Ok, when my aura is black it's because it absorbs all light, and when it's red it's emitting energy. That means that if I increase the energy of the concentrated aura I could turn them brown like the roof.".He immediately compressed the aura balls while filling them with more aura, making the bullets turn brown."I'm saved", Steve thought relieved."... and that's all for today. Bye Shinto", his sister said and got out of his room."I always wondered why anime protagonists always hide their powers, and I still do.", Steve thought.He had only hid them because he was scared that if his new grandpa found out, he would try to kill him again.