Chapter 1

My name is Shiro, my family are to poor to have a last name which isn’t uncommon dad said they only about 38% of people have a last name and those that do have noble heritage. I live in a small village called lesser malling located in the shawl province south of the capital city of Florence from the country of Nightingale.

Our village isn’t very advanced dad says, we have wooden houses with thatched roofs which leak in the night and a well that the whole village shares. Apart from that we are blessed, we have never had any food shortages mainly because of the soil being so good from all the low level monsters that are killed. Our village gets most of its money from beginner adventure who want to gain experience by killing low levelled monster like boars and slimes.

My house is located to the east of town near the farms this is because my parents wanted to watch over their crops. Mum once told me they came from far away place called Japan, they said there was magic that let you speak to people across the world and magic which let you stop time and record it into a weird box, I think they were trying to make fun of me. They found their way in the country of Nightingale and decided to take it easy for the rest of their lives, they are another one of the reasons why we never have a food shortages.

I am currently outside with Tod, Kevin and Sally who also live in the village. Tod is 4 years old and the tallest with his sharp spiky hair, Kevin is a short version of Tom whom he admires and is also 4 years old, Sally has two golden pony tails and a flower dress she is a only 3 years old but two months older then me. I don’t mean to brag but I’m pretty handsome with my luscious auburn hair and my light blue eyes which grant me unnecessary attention.

The four of us are currently outside bouncing a ball which Tom’s parents bought last week for good behaviour, which I honestly don’t know how they believed that it was literally last week when he stole a pie from Mrs Truchbull. I have never played with a ball before this is also the same for everyone else so we are enjoying throwing, bouncing, rolling and just about anything else we can think of. It was getting late we had already been playing for four hours so I was looking forward to mums famous roast pork, it is said to be able to send a demon to heaven.

I walked back to my own wooden house with a thatched roof and took my shoes of and hurried to the table wanting for my mums delicious food to be served.

“How was your day, did you enjoy yourself” she asked

I then started recounting today’s events trying to keep calm. It was at the end of my story that dad walked in and slumped back lazily on the chair saying that he’s to tied to move, this is never true because when the food is placed he’s the first to finish. Right on cue when the food is placed the man who was once too tied to move gulped down the food one mouthful at a time, finishing well before the rest of us.

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After dinner my dad got out the dictionary again and started testing me, he’s being doing this for a year now and is the reason to blame for me speaking so strangely for a three year old. I think I’m pretty smart because most of the other kids don’t even know a quarter of the words I do. Dad also taught me maths as well but I only now simple addition at the moment. After lessons I went to bed, I was so tired after playing ball for so long.

I woke up the next morning with the sun shining in through the window, I clumsily try and put my cloths on (backwards) and stumbled down the hallway to the kitchen where mum put my shirt back on and served oats for breakfast.

I have something planned today, I wanted to go and explore the forest where the monsters hide, I made sure to do it on a day when Tom, Kevin and Sally are all busy helping their parents. Of course If I tell my parents about this they’d lock me up in the cupboard.

The forest had lots of light shining through so I could see all the plants I had never seen before like this blue flower with thorns going down the stem. That’s when I heard the most blood curtailing scream which seemed to be a mix of a crying baby and a bird squawking.

It didn’t even take me a second to react, I ran away from that scream whatever made that sound was not human. I got about 5 meters before i stopped and looked back at where I heard the scream.

The reason I came out here were to see some monsters I can’t turn back now when I just heard one. I started heading towards the monster trying to be as quiet as possible, the closer I got the more screaming their was.

That’s when I saw it a green bodied idiot waving his club around obviously not knowing how to use it, this might sound rude but he has to be retarded with all the drool coming out of his derp looking face. If you hadn’t figured it out it’s a goblin and not just one there’s about 20 of them.

The goblins at the moment are fighting this swordsman who only has light gear and a second hand sword but he obviously know what he is doing because he’s holding all 20 of them off. That’s when I noticed a second man dressed in strange clothes for some reason this guy is wearing a dress, mum always said not to judge others I wonder if this what she meant.

The dress guy shouted to the sword guy that he is ready, ready for what I wondered

Dress guy shouted “hells flame”

And that’s when blue flames shot out of his hand in a wave. When it reached the goblins they all started screaming and I thought I was going to pass out, I am not joking when I say that is the most horrifying and disgusting thing I have ever heard.

When the flame disappeared all that was left were 20 piles of ashes. That was the first time I had seen magic I didn’t think it was so powerful I can almost respect him if not for the whole dress wearing thing. The two of the walked of after collecting the materials no doubt going to hand in their request to the adventure guild.

I sat there thinking about what I had just seen, I always heard mum and dad talk about magic but I thought they were just making it up, now I know they were telling the truth. I have decided in the future I am going to be a powerful magician and if anyone gets in my way I will just burn them.

I think I just had a really dark thought

When I got home mum noticed I had a cut on my knee it must have been when I was watching dress guy. She interrogated me for half an hour until I came clean.

She then locked me in the cupboard.