At Haves village.

Mei's POV

"Eat it and grow up Mei-chan~!"

Mrs. Crissy speaks while her hands are holding the "Bowl of Love" and a "Spoonful of Love", she is slowly moving the spoon close to my mouth trying to feeds me.

But right now, I've already eaten so much to the point where I can't sit straight.

Eating more will have me turned into a pregnant woman.

" M-Mrs. Crissy... I-I've been full already, I c-can't ea-umph!!"

As I was trying to politely decline, she trusted a "Spoonful of Love" into my mouth and she then put both Items down on the table while making a closed-eyes smiling face at me.

"No good~! No good~! You can't talk while eating Mei-Chan~."

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***

After the torturous times have passed. I was leaning my chin on the table.

Mrs. Crissy chuckled, she looking at me as if she was looking at her own daughter. The warm aura and the gentle air around her make me feel comfortable.

"Mei-chan~... I've something to ask you..."

I look up at her and properly reply to her.

"Yes, what is it that Mrs. Crissy wants to ask me of?"

The concern them appeared on her face, she did not feel like asking but she did continue to her point.

"What do you think of me?"

That is a tough question the answer. I study her face and saw that she looks nervous and afraid which is odd since she always been optimistic and playful yet sometimes, scary as hell.

What should I answer? Obviously, I should answer my genuine thought of her.

"I...I think of you... A-As my own mother!"

I feel bad for answering that, right now the embarrassment slowly consumes me.

"Chuckle~! Mei-chan, what if I tell you that I also think the same as you?"

She's what?

"I was thinking of you as my very own daughter."

She was smiled but then sadden. She holds her hand together, grasping them tightly.

"B-But I'm fully aware that you do not belong to me... You have them back at your home."

"I don't want to drag you away from them."

She was talking about my parents. The reason that made her nervous and afraid.

I look down on my knees.

They're long gone, they left me."

"I have no place nor anyone who can shelter me anymore."

"Even after they're gone, no legacy was left for me to remember them."

After a long time, I feel like this time, I could really cry.

Mrs. Crissy stood from her chair and gently moving to my side. She offers me a shoulder for me yo cry on.

Without reason, I accept it and cries out loud.

"Shuush~. Even if they left nothing to remember them of, they're not away from you. In fact, they're with you the whole time, witnessing the wonder you've made."

"They are here, and they will forever be."

She slowly pulls me apart from her as she put her hand gently above my heart.

The hug that she gave me earlier was familiar and somehow, calm me down.

I wipe tears off my face and look at her.

She smiled and give me a warm look, the look of a mother gives to her son/daughter.

T-thanks... But, may I ask you about something?"

I nervously ask her out. It sounds very selfish of me.

My mind has been very weird lately, the thinking process, the way I am acting and the way others see me made me react differently from what I used to be.

I used to can't seem to ignore the slightest of the problem but now, I seem to not pay enough attention to it.

Also, when It comes to friends, I did not think highly of them or want to meddle with them much but now it seems that I am way more cautious about what they're thinking of me and take care of their well being.

After wandering in my own thought, Mrs. Crissy finally gives me an answer.

"Yes~! You can ask me as you like~!"

"C-Could you, accept me... as your daughter? Al-Also, c-could I c-call you m-mother?"

"Chuckle~ That is unexpected... Of course! You're my daughter! And I'm your mother! I-I just can't c-contained my tear!"

She hugs me and broke and cry on my shoulder, she was hugging me tightly, I reply to her warmth by hugging her back wholeheartedly.

"T-Thanks! M-Mother! From now on... I'll take care of you along with Kevin!"

Afterward, she pulled herself away from me and replace the atmosphere with the previous one.

"Hehe~! No need to thanks your mother! After all, you're my little cute daughter! And don't underestimate your mother, I'm more capable than I look!"

The atmosphere returned to where it's once was. Our time is memorable.

Meanwhile.

3rd Person POV

Kevin was sitting on the grass on the cliffside that overlooks the village. He takes his time alone soaking the warmth of the noon sun that rises high in the sky.

While he was listening to the wind blowing and birds singing, he thought, "It feels really lonely, the village. It's was peaceful yet feel so lonely, I can't believe that such a place will have people smile."

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The more time passed as he keeps thinking back and forth between the same thought.

"Hey kid, do you mind if I sit next to you?"

A sound of a middle-aged man asked him. Kevin alerted and turn to the right where a man in a blue cloak with a hood cover to his eyes, he could only see the nose and the glorious beard of the man.

"Sure."

Kevin replied as the man slowly approach him to his side and sit next to him.

"Ahh... I was away for a very long time, and finally, I am at home."

He speaks while stretching his legs and arms. Kevin continues to look into the village, specifically, at his home.

"My name is... Wills, and may I know your name, young boy?"

The man introduced himself as Wills, he looks at Kevin for an answer.

"Kevin, and nice to meet you, Mr. Wills."

Kevin politely introduce himself as he offers Wills a handshake with a smile.

"Mr. Wills, do you live here? I never have seen you before."

Kevin ask him out of curiosity. The man in cloak almost leaks his chuckle out. He's sigh and then lean back on his both hand and crosses his leg while looking into the azure sky.

"Yes young boy, I live here."

He answers and pauses for a moment then continues.

"I rarely come back, mainly the work takes quite a long time and each time I finished one, the new one just finds themselves onto me. It's such a bothersome right?"

The man feels nostalgia. He could see the image of his hard time while at work.

"Hey kid, why are you out here alone? Don't you tell me that you were chased out my your momma?!"

The man speaks to Kevin in a joking manner and as soon as he heard that, Kevin desperately trying to deny the fact that he was chased out by his mother. But there is might be a chance since he knows his mother well, sometimes she can be too scary to handle.

"Eh! No! I come here on my own! I just want some fresh air!"

The man laughed out loud. Kevin feels like he being humiliated and turns away from him.

"Yeah, you're just exactly like me when I was your age."

"I was not originally here in fact, but, I have many precious memories here and there a treasure I've left."

Kevin heard the word treasure and he turns to ask the man in cloak out.

"Treasure! Ahem! So you come back for them?"

The man takes off his hood and revealed his greyish black hair and bright yellow eyes that seem to be radiant than a noon sun.

"Yes, I came back for them, after a long time of journey, I finally back."

He speaks as he looks into Kevin's eyes and his glaze was warmth and gentle.

The wind blow between them as the birds keep singing to the wind. Both of them are still talking and sometimes, they both laugh together, the moment that Kevin realized that Wills is so bad at joking to make him laugh more.

Wills is a cool looking and tough man with an aura of a true leader but he acts silly and likes to tell a joke even though he's bad at it.

"Hahaha! Mr. Wills! Please don't make yourself any worse than this! I pff! Hahaha! Why are you having such a girlish purse with you?!"

Kevin try to stop him from telling any more joke but Wills expectedly, take out a pink purse with a blue star embed on it. Wills blushed at Kevin's statement.

"A-Ahem! I am an old friend of your mother, I have something for her. Here, take this."

Wills take a golden locket out for Kevin to take. Kevin looks surprised for a moment. He chooses to not ask him about how he knows his mother and takes the locket gently.

"Ah! And please, don't peak insde~."

After that, Wills stood from the grassy ground and dust himself clean. About to walk down the hill, Kevin interrupted him.

"Mr. Will! Please come and have lunch with me at home, I'd really appreciated spending time talking with you, In fact, I rarely have a good conversation."

Wills was tempted to take the offer, but he has to resist the urge, he was not ready to take a risk and could not afford to pay the price of being discovered. Instead, he shrugged and with a sarcastic tone of him, he replies.

"Kid, I'd like to enjoy a lunch with you and your mother but, my treasures can corrode, and if I do not make haste, who knows they may end up in rust."

After finish, the sentence, Wills gives Kevin a smile and quickly pulls his hood down and dash down to the village below.

"Wait! Mr. Will! You forgot your sword!"

Kevin noticed that he dropped his sword while on the run and tries to call him back but he's already far and missing.

Kevin look at the sword and thinking that keeping it until he meets him again then he can give it back to him.

The sun starting head toward the west, he knows that he needs to get back home, In fact, he was avoid being stuffed with a huge amount of foods that his mother prepared for them and that why he's here, on the cliff.

***

Kevin slowly open the door of his house to avoid alerting his mother.

It's was too late, she was already there, hiding behind the door.

As soon as Kevin was inside, she closes the door with a bang and drags Kevin by his ear to the dining room.

"There. You. Are~ Kevin! Here! I've prepared a "Bowl of love" for you and it's still hot~!"

She speaks happily as she keeps dragging the unfortunate boy into the dining room with him sobbing, regretting that he shouldn't come back at all.

***

The three of them are present in the small dining room yet feel so spacious for them. The picture before is the image of a family of three, one mother and a daughter and a son, eating(in agony) happily together.

Mei, she was looking at the pair of mother and son and smiling. Crissy noticed it and smiled brightly then speak.

"Kevin~! Do you know that there is your sister?"

Kevin, while eating(Being feed) the "Bowl of love" almost choked on his food, he quickly turns his head to his mother and rapidly shakes her while keep asking.

"Who?! Who is my sister! Is she the one you always told me?! Or is sh-"

"Kevin~! She's there, right in front of you~"

Kevin shocked, and slowly turn to Mei, she was having blush and was embarrassed, she was trying to hide behind her delicate hands.

"No way- that'll be true-Thwack!"

Crissy prevents Kevin from the finish his sentence by shoving a spoonful of love into his mouth and smile, she feels really happy for having them around.

Mei, on the other hand, feels that she really part of family and smile slowly crept on her face.

The veil of star covers the dark night sky. The sound of the wind gently blew as the leaves of the tree sway along with the song of nature.

Mei already in her room, watch the night sky while chatting with Terri and Purin, in fact, listening to them fighting each other.

(Silly goddess! I'm the most reliable asset to my master!)

'Mei~! May I have that turtle~? I could have the celestial chef cook soup for me~'

Mei smile, she was surrounded by liveliness and happiness. These'???,. ways rare in her previous life.

Purin-Chan, while you are gone building your sandcastle, you let me face death rather come and save me.

'B-Sorry~! Please~! I know that I'm wrong but~! That's turtle sure is sturdy but It's not reliable~! You turtle~! As your senior~! I advise you to listen to my words~!'

(Don't think that you have authority over my master! None can order me other my master!)

Stop! Both of you!

'....'

(...)

"Hahaha! Purin~chan! Sometimes one can forget right?"

'Yeah~! S-Sometime one c-can forget~!'

Then I forgot about the fact that you're reliable.

'!Ovo'' Why~! Rude~! I-Sob! I just went to b-build L- sandcastle... D-Drarle forces me to~!'

*Bang!*

Lightning struck a nearby tree, waking up the neighbor and scaring the three.

(Ekk! What are you doing you, silly goddess! Don't you want to live?!)

(How dare you offend the god of this world!)

*Toot, toot!*

S-she's gone?

(M-master? Is she was taken away by the g-god?)

Probably...

Meanwhile...

"Och~! Och~! I- sob* Stop please~!"

Lullaby was hanged by a golden

thread and her bottom were spanked by the purple-haired man who is angrily yell at her.

"Lullaby! You naughty little goddess! You even bought up my name in your lies! Who taught you to be so mischievous!"

"D-Drale~! No~! C-Cajone~! H-Help me from his pervert god~!"

Cajone who stood there in the back shook his head and sighed, he has nothing to do with her.

"Receive your punishment!"

"Och~! Och~!'

***

Back in Haves village.

In the dining room where mother and son still conversing with each other.

"K-Kevin~? Where are you got that sword from?"

His mother asks him out of concern, she also curious about the sword too.

"Oh, this? I met someone and while he left in a hurry, he accidentally dropped it. So I take it in case we met again so I can hand it back to him."

His mother seems relaxed a bit then continues to ask him more.

"Do you able to accept Mei as you little sister~?"

Kevin's eyes widened, the image of Mei called him big brother make him bleed furiously.

"L-Little sister? H-How younger is she?"

"Chuckle~ She's 19~"

Kevin sighed and relaxed, at least she has already reached her adulthood. Kevin was one year older than Mei.

Then, the image of the golden locket appeared. He almost forgets about it. He then reaches for his pocket and take it out and hand it to his mother.

"The man who is this sword belonged to tell me that he's your old friend and tell me to give you this. His name is Wills."

After handing her the golden locket, Kevin remembered that he's staying too late and he's needed to pack cloth for the trip.

He's stood from the chair and get to the upper floor his the house.

"Goodnight Kevin~."

"Goodnight to you too, mother."

After he left, Crissy was left alone. She was looking at the golden locket and the person named Wills make her smile.

"Flint, you haven't come in person so long, I've many things to talk to you and I want to introduce Mei to you..."

She then opens the locket and revealing the image of her with a black-haired man in a trench coat holding each other hand and a little boy in the middle of them.

She smiled, then close the locket and bring it close to her heart.

"Come back soon, and be sure to back in one piece."

While she was talking to herself, a man in a cloak stood outside of her house, next to the winder, he peaks in while caressing Crissy figure on the window. He's smiling.

"I'll be sure to come back and one-piece, my treasure."

He then walks away from the house... Disappeared just like the autumn wind, he comes by and left.

The song of the night sang everyone to sleep and the peacefulness was restored, the moon was high in the sky, the star was abundant and the wind was calm.

A little time yet it's was significant.

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