[Flynn's Pov]
My life flashed before my eyes as I stared at the sword on the air. I started remembering how I died back in my previous life. I was killed by a knight there too, and with a sword as sharp as this one's. I don't want to go through that painful ordeal again. Dying is painful - just feeling the cold sword cutting through my neck like a hot knife on butter is excruciating. I don't want to experience that kind of pain again.
Just when the knight was about to cut me, l spoke up.
"Whoa... wait... wait. Don't kill me. Don't you have some conscience."
As soon as I said that, the knight's hand started shaking, perhaps in fear. The crowd all stood up and started looking at me, some even murmuring to themselves.
"Did that baby just talk?."
"I heard he talked the first day he was born too."
"Impossible. Such an abomination. He should be executed at once."
They started shouting and some throwing things at me like bottles, maybe to harm me. I had sworn that I'll never talk like an adult until I grew up a little longer, but I was in a tight spot, just now. If I kept quiet or spoke a baby language, I was going to die for sure.
"Kill him already!."
"Kill the cursed child."
They shouted. It seems like I just made them hate me even more. What did I do to deserve this. I almost cried, but I remained strong. If I did, then they were all going to be affected by my sleeping virus. The knight came back with his shaking hands, and looked at me, then muttered,"I'm sorry... I have to do this."
I tried to stand up but couldn't. After all, I'm still a five year old baby who has never walked out, so l never learned how to walk. It seems my bones are still fragile and weak to pick me up. In that case, running away was out of option. I only had one last thing to try out. I coughed a little and said out loud.
"I am Bullard, the god of calamity. If you dare raise a hand of this child, you shall suffer for eternity, for he is the child of the gods."
There was a sudden silence for a while, and the knight who was supposed to kill me threw his sword away and bowed down. The others bowed down as well, including the king and the queen. The man with a long beard came forward and bowed in front of me.
"Great Bullard, the god of calamity. On behalf of the rest of the kingdom, l ask for your forgiveness. To attorn for our sins, we shall protect this child with our lives as you wish."
"Ugh... sure. I forgive you,"l responded, not believing my little act actually worked on everyone. It seems this god of calamity is worshipped and feared by the whole kingdom. I hope he will never know that I used his name to save my ass. Otherwise, I'll be toast.
My mother gave the king her daughter and came rushing to me in tears and carried me.
"I'm sorry, my son. I failed you as a mother. Please forgive me. I didn't really want to lose you, and I was scared,"she said in tears. I wanted to tell her that it's fine, but then I decided to keep quiet and act like l can't speak again.
"Gugu-gaga,"l said with my baby smile, and she patted my cheeks.
I enjoyed this lovely reunion with her, and I had been missing her embrace.
Just then, the girl with a long name that I met in the realm of the dreams came running with two other demi-humans her age. They bowed in front of my parents.
"Good afternoon, my king and queen. I came to report that all the citizens who were infected with a sleeping virus have awakened."
The other people around started murmuring.
"Are those demi-humans?"
"What are filthy animals like them doing in the capital."
"Look at their ears and tails. Disgusting. Demi-humans should stay as obedient dogs as they are. Who gave them permission to come here."
I couldn't help but wonder why people hated them. Was it because they were demi-humans? Either way, they are cuter than humans in my own perspective.
"Thank you for the report, young lady. I'll send my knights to confirm if what you said is true,"Father replied.
It sounded to me like he didn't even trust them.
"I want to make another selfish request, my king,"she said, and father looked at her. "I want to be the third prince's personal."
People gasped in shock at that.
"She's crazy! She wants to guard the prince. A demi-humans serving a prince. That's absurd."
"Yeah, right. Demi-humans are better working for us in the fields, not in the capital. Is that girl crazy."
People close to my parents shouted. My father stood up and said,"I can't allow you to be my son's guard. Not only are you a demi-humans, but you're incapable as well. Demi-humans are inferior creatures. I can't put my son's life under you."
I couldn't believe my ears. Why was father so cold to her. Are demi-humans hated that badly in this world.
I started crying in my mother's arms. I cried a lot until my sleeping virus started coming out. My mother fell down, and some other weak people around me began sleeping. The old man with a huge hate protected the king and my siblings.
"Please, my king,"the man with a big hate said to my father. "I think the prince wants the demi-humans to guard him. I sworn to Bullard, the god of calamity, that I'll protect the young prince at all cost, so we shouldn't make him sad. Now look what's happening. People are starting to fall asleep.
"Galdord. Do you realize what you're saying,"my father replied with a harsh voice. "Are you saying I should let a couple of demi-humans live in my palace?."
"Yes, my lord. If that's what the young prince wants, then you should do it."
He sighed and then said,"Okay, whatever. But only one of them is enough. The others should go,"my father replied, and l stopped crying. The virus stopped spreading, too. I slept on top of my unconscious mother and dived into her dream to free her from the chains of my sleeping virus until she woke up.
"Thank you for the permission, my king. From now on, I'll be the prince's personal guard,"the demi-human with a long name said. After that, I was taken back to my room with her on my side. We slept beside each other in my bed as we dived back into the land of dreams to free everyone I just affected when I cried.
From that day onward, l started living with her. Her name was too long for me to remember, so I gave her a nickname and started calling her Mimi. She taught me everything I needed to know, and l later learned that there was a palace in the land of dreams that only the lord of dreams could unlock. However, l was too powerless to unlock it. It needed me to be much stronger first, so l started working hard and training myself both in reality and in the dreamland as years passed by.
12 years later, I'm now 18 years old and ready to unlock it. I heard that the previous dream king left a lot of things and information that could help me know my duty much better, and hopefully, he left some clue that could help me learn to control my power and use it to protect the people I love in reality. People like my parents, brothers, and my little sister, Victoria. Together with all the other demi-human friends I've made over the past years.
Tbc