Chapter 3 - "Sadistic Sister, Battle Junkie and Werebear"

I was silently marching in the forest with my faithful sword on my back, well actually it's one of my father sword that I stole from his armory, always check if you locked the door to the armory father, or bad kid gonna take dangerous thing from it... 

Well you are now certainly wondering, what my now six years old self was doing walking in a dangerous forest inhabited by monsters, I'm hunting... Yeah I know it's kinda too soon for me to be hunting from others point of view, even more when the monster inhabiting this said forest are pretty strong, it's not like they're goblins or slimes. From my guess, this dangerous forest is the reason why this land was given to a low born noble.

Because of this forest, the closest village that under the care of my father are actually a hour afar from the mansion who is pretty close to the forest. It seem Aldinna take care of the monsters who come too close, I wouldn't have expected that from our clumsy maid but it seem like she is actually quite strong.

Well there is another reason apart from killi... I mean hunting, that I am in this forest, I want to be far from the mansion as possible right now, and it's not like anybody would be able to stop me, my father is out of the house, destroying a monster nest in a neighbor land on order of the king, my gramps don't care, and for Allina all I have to do for being free from her, overseeing me, is to launch the fearsome beast, aka: Gramps, and his molesting hands after her.

As for my mother she is actually quite occupied taking care of my one year old sister, yeah I'm now a big brother, it's quite strange since I was always the youngest in the family when I was Rick and never had a younger sibling.

But that's also the reason why I'm currently running away. Because my cute little sister, Eva, is a genius in her own right. It seem like unlike me who wasn't born with mana, my sister her, seem to have been born with an amazing amount of it. Why do I run away from her for that? It's because she picked up my mother violent tendency to use magic to punish me, and now she beat the hell out of me using magic by copying my mother. If it was anyone else, I would have already killed him a thousand times over, but it seem I am somewhat of a doting brother... 

When she use magic to beat me I just take it all like a man and smile, enjoying her little pretty smile as she laugh from using me like a punching bag, I kinda hope that she will stop after growing up because right now it really look I am the best toy in the world to her cute little eyes...

Please don't get a personality as sick as your big brother! Well I guess it's my fault too for letting her do whatever she want without complaining.

And so here I am running away from my tempest of a little sister while looking for a prey.

"Oh..."

While I was thinking, I finally found a prey that looked appetizing, a 'Werebear', don't misunderstand from it's name, it's not a Beastman but a monster. It look like a chimera of a bear and a chicken... I wonder what wrong with this world to give birth to something like that? For more details most of his body is that of a red bear, with a long reptilian tail, a chicken comb on his bear head, and paws with avian claw. Yep, a pretty messed up creature but a worthy opponent non less, while I was still at his unguarded back, I slowly walked to approach it before stopping at a distance out of range of his fearsome paws, and unsheathed my sword who was almost as tall as me.

"Hey creepy bear!" (Shun)

Yep that must have surprised you, why the hell would I call on a 8 ft tall bear chicken when I was upon his open back and could land a sneak attack. The thing is, that now that I have more emotion than my previous life who could find joy only in killing and blades, I, my actual self love a good fight, and of course a good killing and blades... I guess I became something alike a 'battle junkie murderer blade fanatic', well I be damned, that sound kinda cool... Anyway I don't find joy in just killing something without a fight anymore. That's my reason, yeah I know, I'm crazy...

But I want to find out if the result of my training and see if a I am close to what I was when I was Rick.

The werebear turned around from my call, and looked at me with wide eyes as if he couldn't believe the one who wanted a fight with him was a puny little human, at the time the werebear must have though I was just a crazy brat who would be a good little snack for him. He slowly raised his body and approached me like taking a stroll, totally underestimating me. Seeing the lack of will to fight from the werebear, it kinda pissed me off, and in an instant I raised my sword and in a flash cut his right eye.

"BBBBBBOOOOUUUUUAAAAAAAAAA" (werebear)

"Eh, that what you get for underestimating me, oversized chicken!"

And yeah, the werebear seriously have a weird cry...

Now enraged the werebear rushed at me on all fours, raising one of his paw to attack, seeing an opening I rushed straight at him, while sliding legs first under the werebear and slashed his down front paw.

"Tch! Tough bastard!"

But the the werebear was tougher than I first thought and my blade stopped to the bone, when I intended to cut straight through it. It's seem that even with my talent with blade and the good quality of my sword, my young body still don't have the strength to use the true worth of both...

Well either way I cut deep into it's paw and a large quantity of blood started to flow out of it, seeing as his crippled paw couldn't hold his heavy body anymore, he started to raise his humongous body to stand on his back paws, I escaped from my now dangerously close position by rolling to the side but as I was retaking my stance my instinct suddenly made me block an attack I didn't even see coming.

The strike had such power that I flew like a ragdoll for three longs seconds, before my body slammed into the trunk of three.

"Oof!"

As my back slammed violently against it, I breathed out all the air in my lungs and had a hard time regaining control of it.

"Goddamn it... Look like I seriously underestimate you too..."

I stood up, dragging my now heavy body and took my stance once again calming my breath and focusing my mind. It seem the werebear actually used his scaled lizard tail to strike me with impressive speed. It was exactly the kind of opponent I wanted to fight to grow stronger, and most of all honing my rusty skills and senses. My actual stance was a defensive stance I learned from my father, it's specialty is to deflect attack and counter, personally it was one of my favorite stance, the skills and stance I learned in my world weren't as good as the own I learned from my father, who was quite pleased to see the talent and dedication to the sword I had for my age.

Suddenly my senses made me once again raise my sword instinctively as to defend myself against the incoming attack, but this time I was able to see a blur and was able to deflect it, but I wasn't able to deflect it perfectly and had to block it a little, but it wasn't enough and I took damage to my side.

"Urgh, goddamn it!"

Anger and bloodlust was starting to rise in me, but I rapidly calmed myself as I still wasn't strong enough to defeat such an opponent while being enraged. Seeing as I was struggling against his fastest weapon, the werebear seemed quite pleased and a smirk was starting to form on his ugly mug.

And once again he attacked me with his fearful tail, but this time I was able to see it coming, it was still taking a big toll on my mind and was quite fast but I was able to see it.

Seeing as I deflected perfectly his attack after he only used it three times, the werebear who was just grinning was now quite puzzled, wondering if it was only luck or if I was now really able to block his attacks without taking damage.

And yet again he attacked me with his tail once again, but this time I was able to see it perfectly, like in slow motion, and after deflecting it with a small move I immediately countered by cutting a third of his tail.

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"BAGAAAAOOUUUUUUU!!!"

No ,seriously werebear what the deal with those cry? Even more enraged than before he calmed down, the werebear now looked completely crazy, spit was flowing out of his mouth and his only eye still intact was now red, injected with blood. I guess he didn't appreciate the fact I made him half of a man? Oh wait, is he even a male?

"Calm down Winnie, it won't hurt much longer!"

Well it seem like blood was also rushing to my head as we rushed to each other, looking like a crazy pair of nutcase, seeing a crazy chicken bear of 8 ft who was running at you on his two back paw with spit flying every way from his open mouth, who had two large row of bigass fangs, would be quite a scary sight for most.

"Ahahahahahah!"

Yet here I was, a six year old little boy running straight at this very same bear while laughing like a madman, when I finally was in his range of attack the werebear mindlessly attacked with his still usable front paw, that was my clue, deflecting his strike with a flowing motion, who was much slower than his tail but had much more strength behind it, I then slashed it, before gripping it with my small free hand hoping that he would show the exact reaction I was hoping for, and my hope was not in vain, as he unconsciously retracted his paw in the air to get out of the range of my blade, rising me with it, now close to his head I jumped from his hand, while making a pirouette in the air and then stabbed his already disabled eye with my sword, killing him in a flash. 

His heavy body then slowly fell down, making a heavy sound when he bodyslamed the floor.

*BOOooommm*

"Phew..."

I heaved a sigh at the epic battle I just won with only minor injuries, I was actually quite proud of myself since, if I believe what my father said, only a small group of the peoples he knew would be able to win against a werebear in a one on one fight. It was a pretty fresh feeling that I never felt before, well the fact that I am a high blessed being helped a lot I guess. 

Yeah I think it's time to talk about the larges advantages someone with a high blessing have. First of all, a high blessing is the blessing that a god can only give upon one mortal, well in fact it's the 'Champion Blessing' this blessing is a fighting based one. Every champion blessings come with a unique ability, but all of them had the same other quirks.

1- The ability to understand every intelligent being languages, it's the reason why I was able to understand my parents even as a baby.

2- High learning capacity, well frankly it's quite a cheat as it help growth under certain condition. The highest one being, fighting a being much stronger than you. Well if you didn't already understood, it's what made me able to see the tail strike of the werebear after taking the first two hit, this quirk seem to be particularly strong on me, as it's added to my own strong learning ability.

3- The ability to talk with the deity who blessed you. For that, you need to be in a place of cult dedicated to the said god or goddess who blessed you and pray in front of their shrine. I guess it's what the goddamn goddess was talking about before when asking me to go to her temple and pray when I grew up... But as I'm not pressed to know what task she gonna force on me I won't go talk to her for now.

4- Your body capacity and mana if you are a mage tend to be much higher than a normal human.

And that's it, quite the good deal no? Well that what I like to say but since I don't know what i'm supposed to do as a champion and most of all the effects of my strange unique ability, I have quite the bad feeling about this...

Anyway I should take a trophy to boast to my father and gramps and go back.

"Hup! Goddamn! Tough! Bastard! Phew..."

After striking at his large neck for a moment with my sword, I finally was able to separate his head from his body."

"Yup a bear head with a chicken comb is quite the trophy!"

Happy with my ridiculous looking trophy I started to walk back to the mansion to boast to gramps, who always laugh at the strange thing I brought back.

While holding the bear head by the chicken comb me and my bloodied body entered trough the backdoor, close to the bathroom where I can clean myself (even if i should start to find an excuse for the bloodied cloth I was wearing), and the storeroom where iIcould hide my trophy from the eyes of the maid and mother.

As I was going straight to the storeroom as to free myself from the beast head and take a well deserved bath, I suddenly felt a shiver up my spine.

Oh shit...

My mother who was floating above the floor while holding a little girl with black hair and blue eyes on her chest, was starring at me with a death glare. Looking at my currently bloodied self while holding a ridiculous huge and funny looking head with a longsword strapped on my back, my ever calm and gentle mother then started to have the face of a demon straight out of hell.

"Shun... I hope you have a good explanation for your appearance and the ridiculous looking thing you're holding?" (Scary mother)

Scary! It was said with such a calm voice that it was even more scary than the face she made a second ago!

"Hum, I was just doing a chores for gramps..." (Shun)

Sorry gramps your sacrifice won't be forgotten!

"Ho I see, I understand... LIKE HELL!"

*BLAM*

My body suddenly slammed the floor as my mother used magic to push me down. And seriously it hurt like hell! That's D.V! D.V I say! I'm gonna call the cops on you! Not that I have a good relationship with policemen and D.V isn't seen as a crime here, but more as education... While I was trying my hardest to not become a flat pancake on the floor, since my mother is freaking serious when punishing me or when shit it the fan.

"Hihihihihi."

"Buouarg!"

I heard my little sister cute giggling when my body felt an even bigger pressure on it's back forcing me to faceplant the floor even stronger than before while making a sound that made me think that the werebear ghost started possessing me.

But really what is wrong with this family?! A two faced scary mother, a pretty boy father with the body of a gorilla, a pervert and lazy gramps, a clumsy and useless catgirl maid and now a sadistic baby sister. Well now that I think about it, my psycho self who was just fighting a 8 ft tall monster an hour ago can't really talk huh? I guess I'm really a part of this family...

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The plot really start next chapter! Stay tuned!

I'm quite happy to see that I was able to release a lot of chapter in a shorter amount of time that i believe i could, and i hope i am able to continue like that, but I won't hold any promise that I'm not sure that I can keep, so i will only say that I try to continue to post with a good amount of  speed while taking my time to release it with as much quality as I can.

Also a little trivia for those who wonder what magic was used to make shun faceplant the floor and a little girl can use, It's Force Magic, well in truth it's just pure mana manipulation without incantation, who have an effect like telekinesis, most mages use this magic only in daily life like to get something out of range and not in combat since it use a really big amount of mana with meager result and should not be able to use it with enough strength to hurt someone, but Felicia and Eva have an amount of mana that defy common sense...