A year has passed, making me two years old. My mother has been teaching me some common sense, I suppose. Basically, wash your hands before eating, do daily hygiene, and don’t put random things in your mouth. Just some basic stuff, but there is one that left an impact: to respect people with high status at all costs; unless nobody is looking, then it's free for all. My mother said that with such a sinister-looking smile on her face.

My parents seem to be busy for today; I didn’t see any of them, which was odd, but hey free time for me, so I am not complaining.

While I was walking along the hallway, suddenly I heard a loud voice coming from a room close to me.

“OH SHOOT, FORGOT TO GET SOME TREATS!! ”

That voice is no doubt my father's. Then, moments later, another voice followed up.

“Oh my, it seems like I need to prepare some tea to go with those treats.”

Its mother’s voice. Then another one.

“You guys don’t need to prepare something for me; I am just here to have a chat with you guys.”

It’s a female voice that I haven’t heard before. Eh? Who is that? Ah, that’s why I haven’t seen them since someone visited them today.

Both my parents went outside the room. It seems like they didn’t even hear what she just said. And also, they didn’t notice that I was just outside the room. They also left the door wide open.

I am curious about what kind of people my parents know, so I took a little peek.

I saw a woman sitting on the couch. She seems to be just a bit younger than my parents. She has beautiful light gray eyes and long black hair; she also has the ara ara vibe leaking off of her. She looks like a big, titty onee-san. *cough* I meant she has a beautiful figure with a HUGE personality and a big sister vibe.

From the looks of her outfit, she wore a witch-like dress with a pointy hat; perhaps she’s a mage? Then I noticed her waving around a wooden stick. Wait, I think it’s a wand, and from the tip of the wand, there seems to be some water with an animal-like figure. Yup, that’s totally screaming that I am a mage.

After a while, she snaps her finger, and those waters with animal-like figures vanish into thin air. She let out a huge sigh. She seems to be staring at the window, having nothing to do after all; both her company, also known as my parents, left her behind.

Then suddenly she turns in my direction, and I immediately hide.

Did our eyes just meet? No, that can’t be; she probably didn’t see me. I hid myself as fast as I could.

A few minutes have passed, and I didn’t notice any signs of her moving towards me. Alright, I think this is enough time for her to remove her attention from me. I peek once again; she’s still there. I notice her using her hand like a hand fan; she seems to be starting to sweat a lot. She removes her hat and then reaches for her back. She seems to be untying something because her top seems to loosen. My eyes widen as I see her trying to remove her top. I feel like something is dripping out of my noise, but I didn’t give much attention to it, for I am focused on what I am seeing. Then suddenly, she vanishes. Huh, where did she go?

“Ara~ ara, what a naughty boy we have here.” An unfamiliar voice from behind me. Wait, no, this voice. I think I heard it before. I slowly turned around and saw the same person disappear from the room. She grins and says, “To think a mere illusion magic would let me catch such a rascal.”

Yep, I think I fucked up this one.

She held me by my sides and carried me back to the room. She then sits down and puts me on her lap. Perhaps I didn’t mess up that much Heheh.

She looks at me and says, “Hello, little one, my name is Maria M as in Maria, A as in Aria, R as in Ria, I as in Ia, and A as in a, Maria. What’s your name, little one? ”

I was utterly dumbfounded to answer her question.

I hear footsteps just outside the room, probably from my parents.

Mother was the first to show up with a tea set. "Oh, it seems like you met our cute little Gabriel,” she said, then father followed up with a plate of what seemed to be biscuits and said, "Oh, it seems like you met our cute little Gabriel." Mother stares motherfuckerly at father.

“Oh, so this little rascal's name is Gabriel. Now that you guys are here, let’s have a chat.”

“Hmm, what exactly do you mean by calling him a rascal? "My mother asked with a somewhat concerned look.

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Maria looks at me and smiles, then looks back at my parents and says, "Oh, it’s just our little secret.”

Mother smiles and laughs, then her expression turns tense and focused, and she looks directly into Maria's eyes. “But seriously, what are you trying to hide, Ma-ria? ”

“It-it’s nothing,” Maria let out with a quivering voice.

I can feel my mother's bloodlust starting to leak out. I can feel Maria’s entire body starting to shake.

I look at my father, and after a brief second, our eyes meet. He just smiled and gave me a thumbs-up. What is he trying to say? Does he not realize the situation right next to him? Is it because he has already become accustomed to mother bloodlust that he didn’t realize the situation occurring right in front of him? And why the hell is he smiling for and giving me a thumbs up? Is there something he wants to say? Is he saying good job? On what? Is it perhaps because he thinks me and Maria are doing something that he's proud of, like his saying that’s my boy with that gesture of his?

Mother looks at my father and sees him giving me a smile and a thumbs up. The atmosphere around my mother worsens. Looking at my father, he’s still giving me a thumbs up and smiling, but it seems like tears are starting to dribble down his cheeks. I think he finally notices how bad the atmosphere is near him after getting directly targeted by my mother’s bloodlust.

“Well, would you excuse me and my husband for a moment? ”Mother said to Maria, then dragged Father by the collar of his shirt towards the exit of the room. Father still has a thumbs up and a smile on his face, but with an endless stream of tears coming out of his eyes as he’s being dragged out of the room.

After dragging my father out of the room, my mother looks at Maria with a menacing smile, then slowly closes the door. A loud shriek came just outside the room for almost a minute and a half, then it just stopped. The door slowly opened, and my mother came inside the rooms with something on her face. Wait, is that blood? What exactly did she do to my father? No, that’s not the problem right now. Now that my father is out of the picture, the only one who’s here with my mother is Maria, and I think my mother still hasn’t forgotten the previous conversation with her.

“U-um, t-the th-thing ab-about w-what I-I sa-said earlier is-is just a jo-joke” Maria struggling to say that to my mother.

Mother's mood brightened after hearing what Maria just said. “Oh, is that so? ”

"Yes,” Maria quickly replied while repeatedly nodding.

“But do you think such a joke is acceptable? ”Mother’s mood changes back to the scary atmosphere she previously had.

“N-no, m-ma'am I will co-compensate for m-my actions.”

“Oho, compensate, you say.”

“Yes, mam.”

“What exactly will you compensate for with your dreadful actions? ”

“I-I will d-do anything y-you want.”

Mother’s moods brighten up once more. “Ah! Is that so? ”

“Yes yes.”

“So, now that we have settled the matter, you were previously saying that you wanted to have a chat with me and my dear husband, but unfortunately, my dear husband seems like he can’t be here; he’s quite busy after all. Is it alright with you if I am the only one you can have a chat with? ”

Both me and Maria know what truly happened to my father.

Maria holds my side and puts me on another side of the couch next to her, and then she stands up and drops on all four with her head touching the ground facing my mother. “To be graced by such an honor to chat with such greatness, this lowly being can’t express how much gratitude it has experienced.”

“Very well, continue with what you want to say.”

“Um, is it possible for this lowly being to return to her seat? "Before it can give out its message to the great one,”

“Huh? ”My mother's face has become scary. Her atmosphere is becoming scary again.

“I-I meant I w-will give my m-message to h-her greatness in this p-position.”

“Go on.” Mother's atmosphere turns back to normal.

“I will now share what this lowly being has to say; this lowly being's research on enchanted tools and weapons was recognized by the king. And was appointed to become a court mage of the kingdom and became the leading figure in the advancements of enchanted tools and weapons.”

“Huh, were you just here to boast about that? ”

"Um, yes, I meant no; I came here to give a gift to her greatness.”

“A gift, you say? ”

Maria casts a spell that seems to show a dark sphere in midair near her. She then puts her hands in it and retrieves an object that seems to be a knife. She then offered it to my mother. “Yes, it’s one of my newest prototypes with odd enchantment that still isn’t sure if it will be helpful and here to give you to test it out to see if it’s useful.”

“Are you saying were your test subjects? ”

“Ye- I won’t even dare think of such a thing. I promise that I carefully made it to be safe and helpful to her greatness. If this prototype were to harm her greatness, this lowly being would give her life in exchange.”

“I will take on your offer then; is there anything else you want to say? ”

I heard Maria's big gulp.

“There’s nothing more this lowly being can utter.”

“Is that so? ”

“Yes, that is all.”

“You can leave now then, but don’t forget your promise that you will do anything you can if I want something from you.”

“Of course, this lowly being won’t forget such promises to the great one.”

Maria hurriedly exits the room and leaves the house as fast as she can.

On that day, she never returned to this house, and so I never saw Maria ever again.