An uncontrollable tingling sensation surged throughout my body and I could feel something growing; I didn’t know what it was but, the feeling was quite unusual - something I had not experienced in my previous life or this life but, after the feeling was gone. I inhaled once and I could smell a variety of things but, what I noticed that the iron-smell of blood was missing. I noticed that a trail of blood was coming from my right-eye but, I knew this was all due to the new trait I received 【Enhanced Smell】the feeling was amazing and once more, I inhaled the air in order to locate my dad as the amount of times he had held me were uncountable, I’m use to his smell. Turning backwards, I would see my father and give him a faint smile.
He rushed towards me and brought me into my embrace, moving his right-hand he would ruffle my hair and say: “You’ve done well champ but… That strange thing you did, you took the corpse of the wolf and something happened. There is something different about you.” Initially his tone was filled with pride and joy but, as he continued to talk he adopted an inquisitive and bemused tone suggesting he was curious as to what happened; this caused me to gulp instinctively knowing that the cat was out of the bag – no point in trying to hide things. Before, he could scold me or think something was off, I took the initiative to speak: “Dad, That was becau-“
He abruptly started to laugh and ruffle my hair in a more aggressive manner before, giving me a toothy grin. “Champ’ everyone has their own secrets, even I have my own secrets. You just need to tell me your achievement’s of the battle whilst we are going home; the forest ain’t too far from the settlement and we are just in the outskirts. We should be on time for dinner, don’t ya’ think?” his masculine voice had a soothing feeling to it, it seems like he doesn’t want me to feel uncomfortable and appreciate that. I glare upwards towards his face and give him a toothy grin as well, my cheeks blushing brighter than ever before “Yeah, let’s do that dad”
Nodding his head, he began to walk off towards home; I jog a bit to catch up to him – Thinking back to the fight, I thought: “When my dad showed me an example; I just realized he was able to use mana and his skill at fighting can’t be considered just ‘veteran’, is it really because Dad was an adventurer in the past? I couldn’t help but think he is hiding something and he is moving a bit odd but, oh well. “ dismissing the thoughts, I followed my father towards our home.
… When, we arrived in the settlement and approached the house, I felt an uneasy tension in the atmosphere whereas my dad abruptly stopped moving.
“Go ahead of me champ’, tell your mother that I’ll be home soon. Just got to pick some stuff up for you.” He winks at me then turns the other direction and begins to walk towards the Shopping district, Placing my thumb and index finger, I adopt an inquisitive countenance and wonder why of all times would he decide to go ‘Shopping’ dismissing the idea once more, I move my hand to open the door but, before I could reach the door it swings open and my mother swiftly brings me into her embrace. This leaves me in a shocked-state and I just accept it, hugging her back.
“You seem perfectly well, Daren. I’m happy for once you are not coming home after, fainting or falling asleep.” Her voice was soft and soothing, it brought an unprecedented sense of peace to my mind and it felt exactly how it looked – a young child in the embrace of his mother, I couldn’t conduct my thoughts correctly and could only meet her motherly love with a childish smile. Looking at her visage, she had bags underneath her eyes and her eyes seemed moist; furrowing my eyebrows I couldn’t help but think there was something going on and I inquired exactly the thoughts that were flying around in my head: “Mother…. It seems that something is troubling you and making you sad. I’ve noticed this before, please tell me what is wrong.” My tone contained an extraordinary amount of sympathy, the thought that my mother was silently suffering by herself made my heartache.
Shaking her head, she then smiled at me wryly before picking me up from the ground and carrying me inside the house. She then left me to sit at the dining table before bringing me the food she had long prepared for me.
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“Where is your father, Daren?” her voice sounded fragile and quiet but paying no attention, I continued to swing my leg underneath the table whilst replying: “He said that he wanted to get something from the shopping district for me.” Whilst happily eating and enjoying the time in my mother’s presence which calmed me down and allowed me to temporarily forget about my initial goal to become stronger.
“Oh… Alright” her tone weak and her words made it seem as if she was going to break and burst into tears; this made me furrow my eyebrows in thought and anger – something was going on between his mother and father, if he couldn’t realise this someone who has the【Eyes of God】is definitely not only blind but a fool. But the problem is that, my father acts oblivious to what is happening and my mother swallows her emotions – refusing to tell me about what is going on.
After an extensive time – about an hour or two, a series of knocking on the door disturbs the mother and Childs bonding time. My mother shudders for a moment which I was able to catch in the corner of my eye; spontaneously getting up and opening the door, as to my father with an exuberant and amiable countenance appeared – kissing my mother on the cheek before approaching me with big steps.
Diverting my attention to the parcel which was held in his hand, I raised an eyebrow whilst thinking about what could be in the parcel. He then held the parcel in both hands and pushed it forward to my direction and said with a big grin on his visage: “Here you go champ’, this is for you.”
The parcel was not necessarily small in size and it left me glaring at it in deep contemplation for a while, which was abruptly disrupted by father urging me to open the parcel. Soon after I decided to fall into the temptation and hurriedly open the package and placed it on the table, as I open the parcel I see numerous clothing and numerous armoured equipment.
Taking out each individual equipment I see: a tight, sleeveless black shirt and a slim trousers similar to colour as the shirt – slightly baggy at the top allowing for smooth movement and cuffed at the bottom to make sure my movement wasn’t hindered and black gloves made of leather. Glancing at my father, he would then throw a belt holster with an exuberant countenance and after a few moments place a sheathed weapon onto the table. Glaring at the clothing and weaponry, I could do nothing but think of his intentions which I couldn’t fathom as he had never giving me equipment so profound and expensive to keep for myself.
“ From tomorrow on you’ll begin your advance training of hunting beasts and learning how to survive in the forest and on the move – you’ll definitely need it in the future. “ whilst I was trying to think of the reasons as to why he allowed me to have equipment, my father’s masculine and somewhat serious voice rang out answering the numerous questions I had yet, he seemed to mutter something underneath his breath which I was barely able to hear and gave off numerous implications which the first assumption of mine was that he meant I was going to become an adventurer or something yet, an impending sense of doom and death seemed to linger as he spoke those words. Struggling them off, I aimed to please and met his words with a smile.
Author’s Note: This summer has been very hard and busy for me due to numerous reasons but I do plan to find time to continue writing and I don’t plan to do less than once per week – ill try to squeeze in three weekly but here is the new chapter.