I sat in a large dark red room with four candles that were the only light sources that lit it up, with a shadowy red color. All there was in the room, was a table in the middle, that went up from my knee to my feet. Two black, three seat couches that are black foamed, both set left and right of the table. There is a desk at the very front full of papers, a laptop, and a small lamp, all dark of course. And a giant window behind you if you sat at the desk, and of course it’s covered.
Don’t forget the giant nice looking door.
I sat at the middle of the right couch with Ukos standing behind me. As we waited, I chatted with Ukos a bit. “To be honest Ukos, I’m kinda nervous.” Of course you’ll get nervous in such important meetings. It also doesn’t help that the whole room had such a dark feature to it. God damn edgy people.
“I know how it feels, ever since I first entered this room to get interviewed by your adoptive parents, the dark nature of it didn’t help.” See! This is why Ukos and I are friends god damn it. I nod my head in agreement.
“So, what should I know first before I meet them?” I wanted to know because what got me worried was if the amount of romantic aroma they will emit will affect me.
If you don’t already know, every race has their own special traits. The ones I’ll be first explaining about first will be the incubus and the succubus. Incubus being male while succubus female. The two are more intelligent, stronger and have a much longer lifespan than humans. Not only that, they can sense not only how much Mana Output you have, but also the purity of it, (Which I’ll explain later). They both emit a lovely scent if once smelled, the opposite gender will get attracted to the owner emitting the scent.
By legend, the two will suck the life energy from their prey, they catch, until it is dry. It’s not true though, so that was a invalid thing to worry. However the bad part comes, people can recreate the scent by getting some of it for themselves. What that means is, they could make the opposite gender fall for them by redesigning the chemicals. This is still abusive to this day, and many cases of it is still happening around the world. Fortunately, there is a way to avoid it. Meaning you are immune to it or have purer magic than the ones emitting the scent.
It gets more complicated from here so I’ll stop.
Ukos responds to my question, “Just make sure you don’t fall for your own step mother.”
Yeah easy enough Ukos, easy enough! It’s not like her scent is going to completely blind me and then before I notice I'm back to that damn orphanage. Lots of help! Lots! I can already feel the power of help surging within me! God damn it! Heck, I bet I’ll fall for her completely cause looking around me (Again!). I could already tell that my mother might as well have a Magic Output relatable to a S rank. S rank!
I continued to make cringy jokes in my head, until I noticed something was behind me, and it wasn’t Ukos. I turned around to see a beautiful woman’s face next to mine.
“Oh, aren’t you cute?” I jumped to the point where my head landed first on the table. I fell down and rubbed my head. The women giggle cutely, with lots of youth in her voice. If you heard her giggle you’ll be loving her already, but I was freaked out instead.
I looked up to see her face near mine, again, but this time I didn’t jump, I just stared into her eyes while she did to mine. She smiled and moved back. I stood up and turned to see her. The women had white peachy skin. Her eyes were shiny red. Her hair long, soft, shiny, and black. The hair went down to her entire back. Her breasts were slightly bigger than the average and she had big thighs. Her height might as well be around 5’6’’. Otherwise, she looked like a model.
“Are you my step mother?” I asked straight up without hesitating.
“Why yes, I am your new mother.” My adoptive mom responded. We both smiled at each other, though few seconds later I looked at myself surprised. I might as well be immune to the scent.
Well it’s pretty obvious that Nameless will be immune. I mean, come on, do you want a main character that is always looking at his adoptive mother lustfully? I doubt it, I really doubt it. Anyways, I need to make more money since I almost spent all my allowance on the damn 4th wall they repaired. They all pointed guns at me. Guns! Are they all attempting to murder me or something? Most likely they ar- Oh god, the 4th wall broke again! Ahh! There are explosions everywhere! I’m blind! Medic!
It was World War 2 all over again. (Sorry elders if I have maddened you.)
Author: Didn’t I tell you to stop doing this!
???: You’ll never stop me author! Never! Muhahaha!
I sat on the couch with my (real, yes I said it again) mom, who is hugging me.
“You’re so cute!” My mom said joyfully, while she hugged me tightly, putting my head close to her chest, her breasts blocking some of my vision.
“Am I really?” I questioned as I blankly stare forward at the (not real) camera. She continued to giggle and rubbed my head.
To be honest, I never did thought if I was cute or not. The orphanage, that I used to live in was boys only, but now if I think about it, a few adult womens did looked and talked about me with the caretakers, but most likely changed their minds about me when they heard that I was a F-Magic Rank.
Magic in the City of Wonder was a big thing compared to everywhere else, trying to get to another city is out the question though. It was just that the City of Wonder had a border around it, and that border isn’t easy to cross. Just imagine a force field around the entire city and 10,000 miles of fields, plains, forest, and so forth. And just touching that force field will fry you instant. Yup, City of Wonder didn’t have good relations with the other cities, states, continents, whatever. Though there are many things to discover everywhere in the City of Wonder, so I think I won’t be going out of the border anytime soon.
While the three of us rested in the meeting room, we began to hear running from the other side of the door, moments later, a blond young looking man with what looked like reading glasses went through the door and closed it immediately, breathing heavily. Few seconds later, something started hitting the door on the other side.
“Oh there you are honey! Where have you been?” The young-looking man turned to us with blood-shocked eyes.
“I’ve been chased by our daughters the entire time! I don’t think they are happy about us adopting a boy!” My declared step father of mine had a voice that sounded attractive and intelligent. He had the same skin color as my adoptive mother and same eye color, the only thing different is that he had blond hair. He seemed little bigger than her too, guessing 5’8’’.
However, I wasn’t putting my attention towards that. What I am curious about is what the hell is banging at that door! It sounded like a giant was trying to break the damn door down. And after hearing what my proclaimed step father just said, I was more terrified than interested.
Upon the 5th bang, my proclaimed step father ran away from the door. The next hit broke the door down immediately, but that thing that knocked down the door wasn’t what I expected. Behind what used to be a nice looking big door, was a girl that looked around my age. She walked in while carrying a giant sword. What I mean by it being giant I mean two times larger than her entire body. She gave a hiss upon seeing dad, but when she saw mom, she cheered in a cute manner and hugged her.
While they did that, me and Ukos just blended into the background like side characters.
Yes, another reason why me and Ukos are damn friends! Hope you’re keeping count of how many times I said, “Damn.”
Two other girls walked in, one having light grey horns that are facing down while the other had long ears. The horned one I’ll tell you is a dragon, the long eared one I think you already know. If not, it’s an elf. When the two saw mom, they ran to her too. My step mom smiled as they all cuddled around her.
Almost everything about the daughters are similar to their mother, except the dragon, her hair and eyes are shiny silver and she was a little smaller than the other two. She also has this constant blank stare. Don’t ask me, even I am confused. What got me more confused is that their mother is a succubus and their father was a incubus. What I am seeing is a dragon, an elf and someone I don’t know yet. Well anyways, they all look like my age, they were a little smaller than me, like the all the way to the middle of my ear. The dragon girl, all the way to the middle of my neck. The daughters stopped cuddling their mother and all turned towards me.
Crap, my blending into the background technique didn’t work. Ahh! Ukos abandon me! Damn you traitor!
The three stared at me, as they did, I tried to blend into the background again. Sadly, it didn’t seemed to be working. They slowly walked towards me. While they did, I (slowly) walked away from them, though thanks to Mr. Wall I couldn’t step away anymore. They kept coming closer until they were two steps until colliding with me.
“Are you Nameless?” The three girls asked at the same time, I just stared at them, but finally answered,
“Yes.” After responding to them, they immediately jumped onto me. I tried to keep my balance, but I fell to the ground. The three then yelled,
“Nameless Mask!”
“What!?” I yelled in confusion. The dragon girl still had that constant blank look.
I’ll tell you why they yelled that, currently in top trending shows for teens was Miracle girls, in that show three girls are selected as protectors of the miracle orb. One of the most attractive male antagonists was Nameless Mask. Nameless Mask and the main character, Aorea, are voted as top ships because of them kissing by accident during their fight against each other. Due to that, Nameless tries helping her even though he is part of the Dark Moon alliance. The Aorea takes notice of this and they both start to fall for each other. Though, they knew that if they do, they would be betraying their own goals.
To be honest with you, he looks just like me! He has the same spiky dark red color hairstyle, same blood red color eyes as me and the face feature he has are just like mine! Even his skin color is like mine! I seriously mean it!
I struggled to get up as the three held me down. The girl who held that giant sword, who I found out to be a vampire when I saw her teeth, turned to her father.
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“Dad! If you just told us that our new brother was Nameless Mask we wouldn’t have chased you!” She yelled in happiness. She put her face closer to mine. Her eyes shined with delight as well. I paused a bit, stared at the vampire for a few seconds and said,
“I’m not Nameless Mask.” The two girls eyes turn blank. Except the dragon girl, she still had that distant blank stare.
“Wait, what did you say?” The vampire girl question with a blank tone, as if she was still trying to register what I just said.
“I’m not Nameless Mask.” I repeated myself.
“So, who are you then?”
“My name is Nameless, I just look like him.”
“So you have the same name, same looks, and same voice.” Wait, Nameless Mask has the same voice as me? I think I just found my long lost brother. Oh boy, I can already tell that many readers are going to want me to meet this Nameless Mask.
“Ya, pretty much.”
“But, you are single right?”
???: No, No, No! I can already tell that they are going to go after Nameless! I don’t want a damn harem novel I swear to god. I didn’t start making jokes and putting random comments all over the place for this to turn into a garbage harem novel! Of course The Author put the romance genre into this, did he? Don't remember, but I don’t remember him putting harem genre into this damn hellish story. Ahh! The 4th wall! Fix it! FIX IT!
Author: What the, didn’t I tell you to shut up!?
???: How am I supposed to upon seeing that!?
Author: I didn’t make a character like you to mess up everything in my book!
???: I blame Deadpool and Bill Cipher for this! Runs.
Author: Hey! Come back here!
I paused for a moment, then said,
“Yes, I’m single.” The girls immediately stepped back, huddled up, and whispered to each other. I stood up and started dusting myself. Turned and saw mother and father smiling at me.
“What?” I asked.
“It’s been awhile since I saw my daughters so happy.” My (real) dad said.
“Yes, they were always watching TV and playing video games. I’m glad to see them so energetic.” My adoptive mom agreed. I sighed, so many things has happened in this one room. I felt really sleepy after all that just happened now. I turned around and saw the girls right behind, I jumped a bit. They all smiled. It took me a while, but I smiled too. The daughters then ran out of the door. Leaving me and my parents. I didn’t forget Ukos, he just went missing and I didn’t know where he was.
The room went silent for an entire minute until I turned around and asked,
“So, why do you guys adopt me. Really.” I asked in a serious tone, with a bit of curiosity. I knew that they didn’t just adopt me just for their daughters. They don’t look like the type of people anyways. My mother grinned,
“Just like Ukos said, you’re smart and very observative. Not only that, you have those special traits.” Special traits? And when the hell did Ukos tell them I was? Either they were spying on me when I was still at the orphanage, or Ukos must have telepathically told them. Which wouldn’t be surprising since it counted for as a mid-tier ability.
“What do you mean special traits?” I was curious now. I never heard that I had special traits. All I’ve ever heard about myself is that I had next to zero magic. What is so special about it? If it was so special why didn’t my parents realize it? It was all confusing, but I decided to answer the small ones first and build up towards there. I sighed, “Well let’s start answering the small parts first if you don’t mind.” My new parents smiled to this.
“Of course.” My mother responded.
“First thing first then, is that one of the reasons why I’m immune to your scent?” One small step at a time. My dad stepped up.
“Yes, what is special about your traits is they are one of the rarest of many. One of them is immunity to all mind breaks, mental alterations and much more.” I nodded. But to be honest, I was surprised. I’ll make it simple, it is basically a rule built inside me saying, “You can’t use anything that affects this person’s mind.” And this is actually big. Again basically, science, magic, or even god can’t do anything that involves my mind. This is actually one of the rarest traits. And I’m one of the people who have this kind of trait. If you’re curious about traits, I’ll explain them a lot later.
“Wait, then wh-”
“I know, your parents are fools. It was stupid for them to only depend on charts about your mana output than your special traits. It even got me confused why they would put you in the orphanage.” I put my head down. So I spend seven years of my life in that damn orphanage not because I was nothing special, but because of my mana? Because of my damn mana? You can’t imagine how much anger has just built up in me just now. I know my parents are dumb, but this dumb? At this point, I don’t even know if that is the truth or not.
I got pissed off, I wanted to really punch something, but it wasn’t easy now since I’m not in the orphanage anymore. I started gripping my hand into a fist, but I stood still and remained silent. My stepmom looks at the watch on dad’s hand.
“Oh! I’m sorry to say, but we also enrolled you when we just adopted you.” My mom bumps her head lightly with the palm of her hand.
Wait. Did they just… I mean, come on! I was just adopted and now I have to go to school tomorrow? I’m still in shock and madness because of the stupid simple things that my (fake) parents did! I don’t even know anymore, so many things are happening. Haha… I bet you readers are having a great time reading about my suffering. Some of it at least. Now let me stop talking to you guys or the 4th walls breaks and titans start eating all of humanity.
“Why did you guys enroll me when I just been adopted?” One off topic question shot.
“Many things, one being that your new father is one of the principles of the schools. Me being the other.” Wait, schools? Why is there an S at the end of school? I guess I had to find out later since after that they started shooing me out of the room. I stepped out and saw Ukos waiting, who seemed to be waiting for me.
Hello, again. Traitor!
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When I left the room, my adoptive mother and father’s smile faded. They waited until the sound of my and Ukos’s footsteps couldn’t be heard anymore. And when it became quiet, Rosaleen, my stepmother, turned to dad and questioned, “Are you sure you want to adopt an outsider, Charlan?”
Charlan remained silent. Though they both knew that this was all part of the plan. To break this isolation that has separated the people from here and the people from the outside world from this part of the world. They have planned all this time and continued to keep pushing until this glass-like barrier shatters to the ground.
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With Ukos being the one leading me to my bedroom, we walked through the halls of this massive mansion. Often at times, we’ll see paintings and such. Though I swear the rooms and halls all look the same as if this was like a maze, but I don’t want to admit that I’m like that one swordsman in this manga that always gets lost.
It took me awhile until I finally realized, I stopped on my tracks. I got caught off guard. I forgot to ask them about the other traits I had. Of course, after all of what they said to me, they would finish it off with another big thing on me. And once I was in deep anger and confusion, they asked me to leave to my room before noticing. I’ve grown in a way to where if an adult asks me to do something, while I’m thinking about something else, I would often unconsciously do it without thinking. They played with my mind and emotions. Scary.
I decided to ignore what just happened and continued walking with Ukos to my bedroom. I paused in place and looked out of the window the right of us, which I happened to walk upon with Ukos. There I saw, where used to be, the stone brick wall. Now it’s like a gate, but with no walls. The wall wasn’t actually a wall either, but another camouflage.
Of course, it was hiding something from sight, but what it was hiding were ruins of a city. The gate was the real entrance to where we are now. It was a portal that transports you to so-called, ‘another dimension’. Which was another thing that was rare to find. Portals are usually created by many people or by an S-Magic Rank, their purpose is mostly transporting you to certain parts of the world. Yet, there is a limit to how far some portals can send you and there are some barriers that prevent you from going through. Like the barrier around the City of Wonder, but making another dimension is more difficult to do even for S-Magic Ranks. It’s like making another world. The Magic Ranking for being able to do this was similar to that of an adult dragon. It takes a lot more explaining so I’ll add it to the other things to explain list.
It was two minutes later, Ukos stopped and opened a door to my left. I widened my eyes in awe as I saw the bedroom ‘I’ would be sleeping in. A queen size bed, a balcony, a huge shelf that looked like it had hundreds of book on it, a makeup table (though it looked empty) and then a huge flat screen TV. Seriously, it was like as big as the damn great sword the vampire girl carried. I took a seat, that was facing the TV, and turned it on.
Anime! Oh my god, I’ve always wanted to watch anime! All I did was read old manga and hope I can find someone holding the latest additions and steal it.
Ukos watched with me for a little while, until I turned off the TV. I walked towards a mirror to look at myself.
“Ukos, what time does school start tomorrow?” I asked in a more serious tone. I still look like a poor orphan child. Still had the shaggy, bland, and grey pants and shirt. I still had some dirt on my body, nails need cutting and a lot more disgusting things. Since I live in a rich family now, I guess I need to start looking like a rich person. There was also a bathroom in my room, so I guess I’ll make sure of it now.
“School starts at 8:00 A.M. I’ve already ordered the new uniform for you.” Gah! School uniforms, I was hoping that the school I was going to didn’t have uniforms.
“What color is the uniform?”
“Dark red.” Huh, I guess that is an exception.
“Ukos, can you get a nail clipper and some lotion? Another type of lotion tomorrow for school too please.” Ukos nodded to this and walked out of the room. I took off my shaggy clothing, I looked at them painfully and threw it in a garbage can that was near my bed. I went into the bathroom, turned on the shower and started cleansing myself. I saw soap, shampoo, and a lot of other things I don’t know of.
There was a knock on the door.
“Nameless, if you prefer me to call you that, I’ve got what you needed ready. I’ve also prepared some pajamas and a new underwear for you.”
“Thanks, Ukos,” I replied. To be honest, I’m surprised at how easily I’m taking all this. Adoptive parents, chaotic sisters, a cool looking butler with cool looking glasses. And then living in a huge mansion, with a garden, a maze, a fountain, and a field that looked like the size of five football fields. I didn’t expect myself to be so calm about what was happening. I guess I still had the blood of a rich family.
However, I wished to be dried out from all that corrupted blood that was in me. I wanted a new type of blood, something that isn’t anywhere near relatable and far superior than my (fake) parents blood. I wanted to never hear or be near anything that related my (fake) parents ever again.
I turned off the shower and took a towel to dry myself off. I wrapped the towel over my bottom and walked out. Ukos seemed to have gone off. On my bed, I saw the supplement I wanted. Two lotions, which had a sour lime smell and the other lemony, a nail clipper, looks a little too big, and pajamas.
???: Don’t forget the new underwear!
Author: There you are! Get back here!
???: Never!
I did what I wanted with them and then put on my pajamas. I went on my new bed and then I looked over at the lamp that was turned on. Please let this work. I clapped my hands, and then the light turned off.
Yes! Gotta love technology!
I think I’m going to regret what I just said later on.
I put the blanket over me, cuddle my head into the soft pillow.
And then dozed off.
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While I was asleep, three dark figures stood outside of the balcony. All looking at me intently, they all did until one questioned, “Was it ok? For us to live with a human outsider?” It was the voice of the vampire girl.
“It depends Lucine, if this outsider is like the rest of them.” This one was kind of hard to figure out, but I was guessing elf. The smaller of the three nodded, already can tell it was the dragon.
“Arcana, can you keep a watch on him tomorrow at school? Don’t worry, I’ll tell the teacher that you’re sick.”
“Alright Itha, as it hurts to miss a day of school, finding out what this outsider’s personality is interests me.” The three agreed at each other and disappeared, though as they did, I was wide awake with a blank stare of suspicion. I stared at the once filled balcony for a moment until I said to myself, “What the hell did I just witness?”
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???: Welp, that’s the end of this chapter. Hope you guys enjoyed it! Now, where is the hen- I mean… Goodnight! Oh, by the way! Be looking forward at the end of each chapter, well some. You’ll won’t regret it! Kinda. By, very bad parenting author that doesn’t know what to do with his life anymore.
Author: Hey! I didn’t say you can add… wait, you were the one!?
???: Oh crap, time to run! Tries to run, but gets grabbed by author.
Author: Not this time.
???: No!!!