I am two and half years old now. Mother braided my long hair this morning and I’m wearing my matching navy dress.
I can hear my mother humming and singing some weird songs as we prepare lunch for brother and father as usual.
I'm not allowed to hold the knife, so, all I can do is wash the vegetables and put the ingredients in order so mother to create father's favorite sandwich.
When we are done, I take out the basket and put the sandwiches inside.
"Are you ready to go? »(Adien)
I nod and my mother holds out her hand for me to take as we depart through the front door.
......
"Rune!"(Eden)
My brother runs towards me happily. His tail swinging left and right with high speed. However, just before he gets to me, father picks me up and holds me as if I’m his precious.
"Is it fish? You truly know me best, darling"(Troff)
Says father while kissing mother.
Seriously! Can't you two stop kissing with me in between!?
Brother is giving father a glare full of hostility and jealousy.
It has been decided that father can monopolize me every time I’m delivering him and brother lunch at the training grounds. While brother can when he teaches me to read. The rest is for mother to decide.
..... Again with this feeling. It’s as if someone’s watching me.
"Esta? Are you here for training?"(Eden)
A cat eared girl walks in while holding a wooden sword. Her long violet hair fits her light yellow eyes. Even though she's the same age as my brother, her slim tall body gives off a more cool and mature feeling.
It's her. The one who keep on giving me intense stares every time I'm delivering lunch to brother and father.
"It's none of your business"(Esta)
Talk about cold.
Hey, why do you answer brother so coldly while swinging your tail so excitedly!? You are clearly excited when brother talks to you!
"I wonder why she hates me…" (Eden)
Wait, how dense are you brother?! She clearly has a thing for you! The only reason a spear-user like her practice using a sword is to see you! Everybody can see that!
"Did you accidently annoy her? You're an idiot with a foul mouth after all." (Troff)
... Maybe not everybody. However, most of the people in the village should be able to tell!
"Wait for me sis!"(???)
A boy with similar appearance enters the training ground. It's Neit, Esta's younger brother whose one year older than me.
It's a tradition for every beast man that when they reach the age of three, they will be given the basics of training with weapons until they reach the age of ten, since ten is the age when you are considered a young adult. Then they have to participate in a warrior ceremony to prove himself or herself as a worthy individual. To refuse to attend the ceremony would bring shame to your family.
The warrior ceremony is however very simple. All you have to do is hunt an animal. The stronger animal you kill, the higher worth you have. It's a tradition to prove if you are an adult who can hunt for your own food.
In fact, you do not have to enter the warrior ceremony to prove your adulthood. However, every race have their own way to create an event. Just like in the human continent who like to celebrate harvest day, the beast continent celebrate the warrior ceremony or should I say 'meat harvest'-day where the end of the ceremony, every animal hunted that day will be cooked for everyone.
As for me, I'm banned from any kind of training.
A few months ago, I tried to call the [status window] and quite shaken when I saw it. However, I managed to control myself. After all, status window is a common thing in this world.
Name: Rune
Age: 2
Gender: Female
Race: Wolf-tribe
Level: 2
HP: 24
MP: 15
Passive skill
[Mind of a Prodigy]
Skills will level up abnormally fast in exchange for a special requirement:
- Magic usage will consume mana twice as fast as the normal rate.
- Once MP reduced to 1, you will fall into a deep slumber.
- Other skills without mana usage will level up only slightly above average.
[Body of the Beast]
- Due to being born apart of the Wolf-tribe, you have higher than normal speed and agility.
[Analyzing Eyes]
- Ability to analyze both people and objects. Can analyze with more details with a little bit of mana usage.
... What is with this skill...?
I do not know if I am supposed to be happy or sad. [Body of The Beast] and [Analyzing Eyes] aside, the [Mind of Prodigy] is a great skill. It could almost be like a cheat! If only, there were no special requirements. At least it's better than nothing. As long as I increase my mana pool, it’ll be fine... I think…
The first thing I do after seeing the [Status Window] is deciding to increase my list of skills. Luckily, I borrowed a magic book from Doctor Alba, which should give me some new spells.
[Healing skill Acquired]
[Cure skill Acquired]
[Apothecary skill Acquired]
Whoa...! Those notifications that shows up in games once you learn a skill… They showed up!
Should I test it? After a moment of deciding whether I should try it, I bite my own hand with my little canine tooth. After biting hard, there’s a small scratch on my hand, which has blood coming out of it rapidly. I quickly cast the healing spell and watches as it begins to heal. After it finishes I check my hand to see whether or not it completely healed, and find no evidence that there was any wound there to begin with!
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The healing spell only works to accelerate your body’s regeneration process, so it cannot reproduce a missing limb, but wounds that would regenerate with time will rapidly heal. As for cure, it will cure curses, poisons, and paralyzes.
I think it will be convenient for me in the future.
Not long after that, I black out.
…
It turned into an uproar after my mom found me.
I fell unconscious for more than three days and everyone was crying when I woke up. My brother’s face was covered in tears and snot the first time I opened my eyes...
Then they start to ban me from doing almost everything. I was treated as if I was made up of glass. They even forbid me from training like everyone else when I turned three.
"Don't worry Rune! Big brother will be with you forever! I will be there for you for the rest of my life!" (Eden)
Was what my brother said after mother forbade me from training.
No! I don’t want that!
Even though I don't like being treated as a fragile little girl, explaining to them would be more difficult. People from the Beast-tribes who can cast magic are very rare and often attracts attention to the point where you are even invited to meet the king, or so I’ve heard. I'm not a naive child, so I know that once those high nobles with power finds out, games of wits will start... Moreover, it sounds tiring and too much hassle to deal with that.
Being treated a little bit like an outcast in the village sounds better than being exploited by some snobby noble.
However, I definitely will not spend the rest of my life living with my brother. Everything will be fine as long as I prove myself at the warrior ceremony. All I need to do is train in secret. With my passive skill, it should work out somehow.
As the word about what happened to me spread around, the people in the village started to treat me like a weakling. Some would pick on me while some would pity me. Brother beat those who would pick on me up bad. After that, no one dared to pick on me anymore.
"So, what level are you now?" (Adien)
My mother’s words released me from my own chain of thought.
"I'm level ten! I'm aiming to reach level 15 before I enter the warrior ceremony!" (Eden)
Please don't get it wrong here, what my brother meant is his skill level. His [Sword of the South] is level 10. [Sword of the South] and [Spear of the South] are the basic skills in the beast continent. As for archery and battle-axe, we have [Arrow of the North] and [Axe of the North], these two basic skills are from the North and is used primarily by elves and dwarves. From there on, every individual can develop his or her own special skill. Some have [Reiver]; this skill involves a high-speed continuous horizontal slash that ends with a vertical slash... The higher your level, the more refined your movement.
As for individual level, you need to hunt or do battle to gain experience. However, you can also gain experience from reading books or learning other skills but it will not increase as much as when fighting monsters or a strong opponent.
As for me, I'm level 4 now and my active skills are :
[Healing skill] - Lv.12
[Cure skill] - Lv.5
[Apothecary skill] - Lv.10
The only time I got to chance to practice my [Cure skill] was when I got food poisoned by my brother’s cooking. He tried to nurse me back by cooking a special dish, or so he said. It ended up really bad; I even fell unconscious in the middle of chewing it.
"Did you decide on your name yet?" (Troff)
Let me explain here.
As a young Beast-tribe member finish their warrior ceremony, they will be granted another name as their surname as proof of their adulthood. For example, my mother’s surname used to be [Adien]. As she passed her warrior ceremony, her name became [Adien Millie].
"I haven't really decide yet" (Eden)
"So you train yourself half to death, but still haven't decided a name yet? What a klutz" (Troff)
"Shut up Oldman! The only thing I can think of is how to be a strong great brother for Rune!" (Eden)
That's... A bit creepy... And now I can see Esta glaring at me with eyes filled with hostility…
"What about you Esta?"(Eden)
Now her tail is swinging like crazy again...
«...Revanna...» (Esta)
"That's a great name!"(Eden)
Esta is blushing brother…
........
Wait, ‘Revanna’? Where have I heard that before...?
… Oh no…
... This is bad...
"Um... Name... Name..."(Eden)
Oh dear....
"How about..." (Eden)
Here it comes....
"Rectival? Eden Rectival... That sounds nice!"(Eden)
It all makes sense now, the familiar scenery, the village roads and the training ground. All the nostalgic feelings... In addition the names....
If this keeps up....
I will die at a very young age…
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sorry for the late post- again (> _ <')/
I just got some changes in the last minutes and tried to change a few part over and over again....
so the next chapter will explain why the sister have to die \( ^ _ ^ )/
Thanks Wolfloth for editing it (^_^)/