"Mom, is he gonna wake up?", the black eyed teen asked."Of course, Yorokobu", the old woman answered with her rough voice."Yorokobu!? That's a weird name", thought Steve with his eyes closed."Hey Takobu, try waking him up", the black eyed asked."Takobu? That literaly means 'other kobu'. Hearing Naiko doing homework really helped. Well, I will call them 'the kobu brothers'", Steve thought, still closing his eyes so they didn't notice."Why always me!?", the brown eyed complained."Hey kid, I know you are awake, so open your eyes", the woman said."Ok, so you will ignore me!", Takobu shouted waving his arms to catch the attention of his mother.Then Steve sat down and asked: "What do you want from me?". "I won't be a pet", he added.The woman laughed out loud and tried to calm herself. Then she looked at Steve straight into the eyes and said: "Do you want to escape? Because we do. So you will, want it or not, help us to escape the dungeon".Steve crossed his arms and said that he wasn't going to help, to what the woman answered: "What, didn't you have a family you didn't want to leave?", mocking him."You heard that?", Steve asked embarrased."Everyone did", the woman pointed out."Oh. Ok, I will help", Steve murmured after staying silent for a minute."What? I can't hear you", she said."I SAID THAT I WILL HELP!", Steve shouted trying to get this conversation over. Steve's words echoed in the cave, making the woman and the two teens worry.Then, a strange rumble started to be heard by them, getting louder by each passing second."What's happening?", asked Steve, but neither the woman nor the two kids answered."Get your knives", ordered the woman to the two teens, followed by them grabbing the knives and got themselves ready for a battle.Steve didn't know what exactly was happening, but he unsheathed his sword getting ready for a fight."Is it for the noise? I'm sorry", said Steve to what the woman answered that it was too late for apologizing.Even if Steve was frustrated for everything that had happened, he was a bit excited to fight monsters for the first time.In the distance, they saw how a crowd of some weird beings were approaching them. Those were little green guys with big noses and ears. They were so small that they were just a bit higher than Steve, a three year old. Steve recognized them. Those were goblins."I have seen some of those in manga. This should be easy", Steve thought. Then, holding his sword with his both hands, he dashed towards the crowd of goblins."Wait, I was gonna explain you something!", shouted the woman, but Steve didn't care and just kept running."Do we go with him?", asked Takobu receiving an affirmative answer from his mother.After she answered, the kobu brothers rushed to follow Steve catching up to him instantly.They absolutely obliterate them. Steve cut their heads for an insta kill, with blood spilling in his clothes and his face. The two kids were faster than him, getting to kill more goblins than him.After five minutes of fighting Steve started tasting something weird in his mouth. It was something really sweet, sweeter than chocolate, sweeter than a cake, sweeter the most sweet thing Steve had ever eaten in his life."What's with this taste?", wondered Steve while chopping off the heads of goblins.Steve couldn't find an answer for the origin of it for that day.Some time after that, the goblins started running away from them with a look of terror in their eyes, scared for their lives.Steve tried to not let them escape, but the woman, who didn't do a thing while they were fighting, grabbed Steve in his shoulder with enough force to make him stop running."Hey! Why did you stop me!?", complained Steve angrily trying to get her hand of his shoulder."Look at the mess you made. Are you going to clean this?", asked her ignoring Steve's question.Steve stopped for a second to look at his surroundings. The floor of the cave was full of headless bodies from goblins, with the heads far apart of their body. There was blood everywhere: the floor was flooded with blood and the walls had blood stains all over them. Also, all of his clothes were covered with it."Oh... well... I can't clean that", Steve answered to the woman after pausing for a second."I have to clean that, so no more of this", she ordered . Then, the book that was in her belt started floating, turning the pages by itself. The woman looked at the book and said "Clean". As soon as she said that, the bodies, the blood in the walls and the one in his clothes dissapeared."That's the first named spell I have seen", Steve commented after being amazed for some time."Oh kid, there are no such things as unnamed spells", the woman explained. "Reciting the name of the spell just reduces the mana consumption"."Well, I don't know that much about magic", Steve replied."You should learn it", the woman suggested."I won't", he answered firmly."Why?", she asked with curiosity."I plead the fifth", Steve answered not wanting her to know about his embarrassing attempt to get magic."What are you talking about?", the woman asked. "You are surely a weird boy", she added.Steve remained silent because of his inner battle between the urge of getting magic and the trauma he developed.Then she called her two sons and said: "Well, now that you are three, I will teach magic to one of you". Then she grabbed the book she had in her belt and said "Who wants to?".Steve immediately denied the offer, leaving it between the two teens to learn it. They both grabbed the book at the same time, then they looked at each other with anger in their eyes and then they tried to fight for the book.After fighting for the book for five minutes, they grabbed their knives and took a fighting stance. When that happened, Steve immediately stopped the fight."Hey! I got a way to decide this peacefully!", shouted Steve who jumped between the two teens to stop any intent of fighting."And what is it?", asked the two teens at the same time."Rock paper scissors", he said."And what's that supposed to mean?", asked Yorokobu."Well, rock wins to scissors, scissors wins to paper and paper wins to rock", explained Steve to the confused teens making signs with his hands like if he was playing it."Oooh, ok", said Yorokobu. "Let's try it?", he asked to his brother."Ok", he replied and got his hand ready for it."Rock paper scissors shoot", said both of them, with Takobu taking rock and his black eyed brother taking scissors."Let's g-!", tried to say Takobu, but his brother covered his mouth before he was able to finish. Then they looked at each other and nodded, followed by Yorokobu taking his hand away from his brother's mouth."Sorry for that", said the brown eyed teen, to what his brother answered that it was okay.Then, they regained their composure and came back to where their mother was. When they arrived to their mother's location, Takobu put one knee in the ground and extended his arms to recive the book from his mother."Thank you for the gift, mother", he said maintaining his pose."It's not a gift, y'know? I'm just lending it to you so you learn magic"."Wha-?", said Steve astonished. He was surprised that the two teens were fighting for so long and it wasn't a gift. He started laughing silently.Takobu sat down and opened the book. He looked at it carefully.Some time later, he looked at his mother and said: "Mom, I don't know how to read".In that moment, Steve, who was laughing silently, started laughing out loud."Hey, that's mean!", pointed the brown eyed teen.Steve kept laughing, rolling in the ground.After some time, Steve managed to compose himself. "Haaaah...". Then he asked: "What are you gonna do with that book if you can't read?"Before the teen was able to answer, "You will teach him how to read", the old woman said pointing at Steve."What? Why me?", Steve asked with a mixture of confusion and anger."I'm too lazy for that", she replied starting to lay down on the ground. "You teach him"."I won't", Steve stated crossing his arms."Do you think that you have an option?", she asked. "You can't do anything against us", she added.Steve thought for some time. He remembered how he was unable to hit Takobu a single time. Then, he reluctantly agreed."Happy to do business with you!", the woman exclaimed."I didn't have any other option", Steve thought angrily, still crossing his arms. He decided that he wouldn't complain to not make matters worse.From then on, Steve, in his new home, started teaching Takobu to read the book.