“Kira! Are you done yet?” a woman called from the doorway of a small house made out of stone.

“Yeah mom!” I called back.

I dropped the hoe I had been using to plow the fields and ran towards the house to see a women standing by the doorway with her hands on her hips. She had blonde hair flowing down to her shoulders with clear blue eyes. There were small wrinkles around the corner of her youthful looking face showing that she had lived a hard life.

“I’ll wash up first before I grab a bite to eat. Be right back,” I gave her a quick hug around her waist and ran around to the back of the house where there was a well.

Pulling up a bucket of water I began scrubbing my face and arms as well as I could to wash away the dirt and grime that I had collected over the afternoon working in the fields. After doing so, I stared at my reflection in the bucket of water. Black hair and eyes with pale skin despite working out in the fields for most of my twelve years of life. It was obvious that I would grow up to be quite decent looking, but unfortunately not enough to make every girl I walk by turn their head.

According to my mother, I had taken after my father who had long since passed away soon after I had been born. Apparently he had been a hunter in this small village I was living in, but around eight years ago his hunting team got ambushed by a pack of wolves leading to a massacre with only one man out of the eight coming back alive.

Sigh. It’s been twelve years since I reincarnated. Luckily I was born in the same world but this continent is too far away from my original continent, even by using a few teleportation shrines. Ugh, dammit Lia, why’d you have to run off to the Celestial World just cause of a broken heart. Now it wouldn’t even matter if I sent out clues that I’m here, unless I want one of my enemies to find me before you find out somehow.

Standing up I began walking back towards the house to get lunch while thinking about my future.

Well it’s fine. Might as well enjoy my time for now. Luckily my soul didn’t go through the underworld for some reason to reincarnate or else she would have used that Soul Calling card she made to drag my soul back from the underworld to punish me. Oh god, I’m getting shaking just from thinking about it. And to think that she spent a year making that card just so she could bring back the soul of that Rabbit Sage or whatever guy she killed for stealing her used undies, just cause she felt like she hadn’t tortured him enough.

While wondering my disastrous fate if I died before I found my lover Lia and apologized to her with the ultimate apologizing technique, the dogeza, I walked in the house to find my mother setting dishes on the wooden table. Sitting down to eat the simple rice with a little bit of beef dish I looked around the small but comfortable house I lived in with my new mother. There was the small table and two chairs we were sitting in, several small crates filled with random things such as our clothes, cooking tools, and other everyday things, and the small bed made of hay and a layer of cloth in the corner. It was small and pretty empty, but it was a comfortable and clean home.

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“Mom, I’ll be going down to the city with my friends today. I promised them that we would go and have some fun while looking around,” I told my mom while shoving the pretty bland tasting food in my mouth.

“Alright, but make sure to be careful of how much you spend. And don’t pick a fight with other kids. And don’t bother the people from Skyfire Academy. And make sure to look after your friends. And. . . And. . .,” mother went on and on while I smiled and nodded.

When she finally finished her 3 minute list of what to do and what not to do as she does every time I leave for the city, I finished my last bite of food, gave her a quick hug again, and ran off towards to village square.

When I arrived there were already four other children around my age waiting for me under a big tree, resting in the shade.

“Hey guys, sorry I’m a bit late,” I called out to them, “Work took a bit longer than I expected.”

The four children turned their heads when they heard me and smiled. Getting closer to them, you could make out two boys, one a bit wide sideways with short brown hair and eyes and the other looking slightly tall for his age, with a bit longer green hair and  crimson red eyes, and two girls who appeared to be twins. Both had azure hair and eyes the color of the morning sky, but one had shoulder length hair, while the other had longer hair that reached her waist.

“It’s all right. I actually got here a couple minutes ago cause I was helping out on the farm too,” the green haired boy pats the brown haired boy on the shoulder, “unlike Fatty Rex here we actually work to get our allowances.”

“Shut up Rin,” Rex shrugs his friend’s hand off, “If my mom wants to spoil me, it would be rude of me as her child not to accept it.”

He shakes his head as though he was embarrassed, but anyone looking at him could see the obvious squinty eyed grin that covered his face.

“Shameless as always Fatty Rex, right Bel?” the longer hair girl asks her sister.

“Well Nel, he IS the son of the village chief,” the other girl, Bel, replies, “just be thankful that he’s just shameless and not stuck up like his older brother.”

“Hey! I take pride in being shameless,” Fatty Rex complains, “it’s one of my best qualities you know. And why on Lyria’s green earth would I be like my brother, Gale. Even I get sick of just looking at him.”

I laugh at their banter, “Alright. Let’s stop making fun of Fatty Rex. We should get going or we won’t have much time to look around once we enter Skyfire city.”

“We aren’t making fun of him. Just explaining the facts,” Bel sticks her small pink tongue out at me. I had to restrain the urge to pinch her cute cheeks when she did that.

Continuing the banter we all made our way down the path leading to the city.