We always went out to hunt with my father. We always stayed in our little village, those monsters using the war as reason raided, burned, killed everyone and our village was next. That day ,I went out to get some herbs ,and then I heard the screams ,I rushed back to the village ,and when I was out of the forest .My village was burning ,and people kept on dying, the alive villagers were at the center of the village ,all of them were on their knees including my father and my mother .My father always said that if something like this happened ,I should escape ,I was about to run but my foot slipped and I fell down the hill.

"There is someone here sir."                  

An Eotian Imperial soldier, in this world they are referred to as "Dark Jesters" because of their uniform color. Low ranking soldiers wear a gray helmet and a gray uniform. Middle ranking soldiers wear a black military hat and a dark uniform. High ranking soldiers just like middle ranking soldiers wear a dark military hat and a dark uniform but with red stripes over their shoulder and their hat. Eotian Empire has four other rewards other than rank. Red Cape Of Honor, the owners of the red cape of honor wear the cape on their right shoulder and this cape is awarded as a honor symbol. Blue Cape Of Victory, the owners of the blue cape of victory and this cape is awarded as a victory symbol. The Dark Cross, the owners of the dark cross are the highest military officials and they wear this as a cape holder, The dark cross holds the capes together. The Sword Of Knights, the owners of the sword of knights earn this by being the number one sword fighter in the academy. every year only one person gets this sword. It is rarer than The Dark Cross but it is ceremonial and it is used as a decorative.

He heard me ,I hid behind the garden wall, an officer came

"Sir I really heard something"

The Officer looked around.

"Probably an animal, let's not waste our time"

He left, I raised my head to see them and when I raised my head the officer turned around looked at me with his blood eyes and he giggled.

"Sir Rostenia ?"

"I saw something quite funny and don't use my last name, it is confusing because my brother is here too"

And The Officer left. I two choices, one was to make a run to the forest, another one was to hide until they left ,I chose hiding. I ran to my house, and hid under the bed after some time I heard soldiers coming.

"Sir Rostenia There is still one house left, shall we burn it ?"

"Don't use my last name, look my brother has red eyes, I have green okay ?"

"Okay Sir Helio but what should we do with the house ?"

"Let's check inside"

I heard them coming so I had to think of something and I did. I took my father's alcohol bottle and I smashed it with my head and I started to lie on the ground like I was hit. The door opened soldiers were surprised to see me, bleeding.

"Father don't hit me please"

The officer ordered them to lower their weapon and they did without question because almost all of them were fathers.

"Your father did this ?"

I started crying because I was scared of them but this worked out quite well for me.

"Y-yes he got drunk and started beating me."

He carried me and we reached the village center, The other officer looked at us

"Why are you carrying that kid brother ?"

"He was beaten by his father with a bottle Ferian"

Red Eyed Officer Looked Furious, not only him almost every soldier looked that way and the kind officer

"Who is the parent stand up and I will make your death quick"

And my father rose up

"It was me you are going to kill everyone so I don't think lying will matter"

My father looked sad, he knew I was faking it but my mother didn't she looked terrible. The red eyed officer

"Helio get that kid out of here I don't think he needs to see this"

After that I passed out, I woke up after few hours in a medical tent. No one was around so I went outside and saw soldiers throwing the corpses in a pit and they set it on fire. I couldn't hide my face of despair.

"You shouldn't look"

And he carried me again to his tent. I laid down on his bed, he sat on a chair looking at me 

"How old are you ?"

I was still crying but I was still scared of them

"Forty Seasons"

He looked sad.

"I have a daughter, she is only one season old"

I was quiet so he tried to talk with me.

"My name is Helio Rostenia, don't confuse me with my brother his name is Felian Rostenia. What is your name ?"

"What is her name ?"

"Her ? Oh, her name is Beatrixia Rostenia"

I said this quietly

"Nice name but mine is better Alvien."

He laughed, his sad face changed and my crying stopped I felt happy for a second but he fucked it up.

"This is from your father, I wasn't going to show you this but I decided I would"

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My father's hunting knife, he put it next to me and turned to his desk, and he opened the drawer.

"I am sure, you can have fun with my daughter, let me show her photo"

Humans are angry creatures even if you are a kid anger doesn't change and I took the knife and stabbed his throat and he fell on the ground. his body stopped moving,I had to cover this up but I wanted to kill the other brother too after all he killed my family I went outside and looked for him and then I saw him going into one of the tents, I followed him inside.

"What are you doing here"

I hid my knife behind my back

"H-helio is calling for you s-sir"

he looked at me for a second then turned around

"Okay"

He was about to leave the tent, this was my last chance.I aimed for his heart but then he turned back, looked at me with his scary red eyes.

"So you killed my brother now coming after me I should thank you for killing him now I can be the head of the family"

How did he know, this question bugged me for years I still don't have an answer to that question. before I could react he swung his sword at me only the tip reached me but that was enough to blind my vision with blood

"Wow ,you are fast, it's good to be a kid huh"

All I could think was to run from this but he was standing in front of the exist. This was a tent and I had a knife, I wiped the blood of my face and so I tried to create an exit and I opened it but I couldn’t move because I felt a sharp pain on my right leg and turned around.

"Don’t forget about me, child."

He pulled his sword out of my right leg and was about to stab me in the chest but in the last minute, I stood up and tried to run away but I hit a torch. Luckily, it blocked his way

"You got lucky but you can't escape with that leg you can't even see properly"

I knew the forest very well. my only way out was my father's fishing boat, it had medical herbs and bandages just in case, if a fishing trip went wrong. I could hear the horses, it was a question of who will make it to the boat first and that was me. The river was taking me away and they saw me but it was too late for them.

"Sir, shall we shoot him ?"  

"No, the kid won't survive with those wounds and I won't risk a forest fire, these lands might be awarded to me"

-------24 Years Later------

I was a high doctor normally I would have a mansion large clinic but I only had a back alley dirty clinic because of that I was called the poorest high doctor but I was fine with it because I didn’t deserve being a high doctor. There was a knock on the door.

"It's me"

It was ex-general Moreln. He was the only one who knew my secret about Rostenia and I was the only one who knew his secret about Rostenia.I opened the door and he sat down.

"Phew another busy day"

He wiped his sweats with a towel, like always.

"Hey what's the, well I knew it, look"

"Well, you always use the medical towel for your sweats and every time you do that I have to clean it up again"

"Oh really ? then don’t fucking put the towel there"

He was a foul mouthed and an annoying man but I was used to it.

"And your shitty clinic has no work so you won't need the towels if you only didn’t your first big job over that stupid one paged notebook"

He was talking about my notebook, my eyesight medically can be considered as blind level but if I focused my magic on my eyes I could see normally but only for a few seconds and it tired me out so I only used it for medical purposes and meetings but this magical notebook was around hundred gold with that much gold, you can have a little mansion with maids.It was useful for me, I could write and read and the pages were infinite because of that he usually mocked me about my stupid notebook.

"I don’t regret buying it"

"I don’t blame you for buying it everything has a different worth to somebody else"

He was an old man but he hated the fact and he would get pissed if somebody talked about his age but there were times like this.

"Well I am already fifty two and I have kids around your age but talking to your ass feels like I am talking to an old veteran"

"Is that a compliment or an insult ?"

"Both, moron"

He looked like he had news for me but he always looked like that.

"I have news for you"

News were everywhere in the streets it was easy hearing news like dirt on somebody and such but his news were important.

"Yes ?"

"Two of them, first one you heard the heroes right ?"

Heroes, they were three people but no one knew who they were.

"I have"

He put down his tea and looked at me, seriously.

"I learned about the heroes their identity"

If their identity wasn’t a problem, he wouldn’t have brought it up.

"A problem about their identities ?"

"Yes by the looks of it one of them is the third princess alina"

I spat out my tea, a princess was in a hero party !?

"Surprising right ? but you better lick that tea back because you will spit more another member is a Rostenia, I fucking tried pulling strings to learn the name but nothing came out"

A hero and a Rostenia meant problems, another Rostenia being close to the Royal Family.

"So with your magical kid book I am sure you can find who the hero is"

He was right I kept records on every Rostenia family member and I looked around in and I found a match.

"Terip Rostenia, know the kid ?"

"Oh fucking hell I do, he is in the war academy right now. What are we going to do ?"

"Nothing, we do not have the power to take a Hero and this would attract too much attention that’s why we start from the distant relatives"

"I know but we only killed four of them and two of them were kids, my reason for doing this is to take my honor back but what is your reason ?"

My reason was simple.

"Because I am one fucked up egoistic loser"

He laughed but he had more news so he made his serious face again but with his stupid mustache I couldn’t take his serious face serious.

"The second new is that Beatrixia got another promotion along with the red cape she is now a general"

Beatrixia Rostenia was one of the strongest persons in the world, in the war academy she was first at everything and she earned the sword of knights at the age of 17 and now she earned the general rank at the age of 24.

"That’s about it now I will take my leave"

He got his coat and wore it and opened the door but I had more question left.

"Who is the third hero ?"

"Oh some kid named Geroge Wiststone"

And left, but that kid was more dangerous than some Rostenia and one week later there was a conference of high doctors, this was the official name but the real name was high doctor party with whores. I went there and I was drinking some wine when I saw the minister of health Naria Kalten, she was a friend of mine and a crime partner and a beautiful, genius, popular Naria because of that talking with her was hard. and after some time she noticed me and came to me.

"I heard the wine is quite good. what do you think high doctor alvien ?"

"I am sure this wine would taste good but not in this public place"

She smiled and made her pony tail hair this meant work and wore her glasses.

"So what is this shit about, I have things to do"

"Flirting with old man ? I might be blind but you sure look like a bitch"

She put her arm on my neck.

"Don’t fucking play with me now what are we here for"

"Remember Jael Wiststone ?"

She looked mad because that name belonged to a person we betrayed and killed and stole his research because of that we became high doctors and famous.

"What about him. He is already dead"

"Well his fucking little brother is alive and that brother is close to a royal family member"

She looked surprised and lowered her arm.

"Well, tell me who it is"

"Now, now you give me info about Rostenia"

"Ugh fine, you know Alycia Rostenia the crazy one"

"Yes I do know her"

"Her mental health got worse, a high doctor tried to rape her and now she has a doctor phobia now I know you have some problems with Rostenia family and I can arrange things"

She had a smug look on her face, this meant that her arrangement was no easy task.

"Fine I will tell you, do you know the heroes right ?"

"Everybody knows them so what ?"

"One of them is a Rostenia, the other one is the third princess and the last one is his brother Geroge Wiststone"

She looked worried and put her hand on her chin, thinking something this was a habit of her.

"Okay I will handle that, now about Alycia her mind is a child's mind easily manipulated and tricked, you don’t look like a high doctor because of your handsome face and blind eyes let's say you helped her she got her mind back and let's say she started to have feelings for you, you can marry her and believe me her looks outmatch mine and she is innocent so a perfect wife if you make her right what do you say I can recommend you, just don’t fuck up I am doing this for the old times"

She blushed a little, I knew Naria had feelings for me, back in the medical academy and our relationship changed to this.

"Okay, thank you"

And she walked for a bit and then turned around.

"You look old Alvien"

"We are all old Naria"

She laughed with a sad smile on her face.

"Yes we are…."

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