Chapter 4: Early Life
As I lay there in awe of the beautiful women with glowing, azure blue hair and a gentle oval face that exuded gentleness I hear her soothing voice call out to me saying, "Hello, I'm your mummy and from now on your Levi Animo, my wonderful son." Hearing her words I feel something well up inside that I haven't felt for a long time. A somewhat contented smile spreads across my face as I recognise this warmth as the warmth of a mother, of familial bonds and of safety.
But, as if to ruin this touching moment a boisterous laugh bellows out and says, "Gihahahaha. Hey kid you better not be trying to put the moves on my wife, cos if that's the case we'll have problems!" The source of this outburst is a tall rose beige coloured man with rather large muscles and a crew cut style for his violet hair. The man oozed confidence and wore what could only be considered army fatigues while his sculpted face had a large grin on it as he walked over to get a better look at me.
After his outburst my mother shouted "Mars, will you quite down, NOW!" Her words held a fierce authority that even intimidated me despite the fact she was shouting at my father. Contrary to my expectations, my father continued saying, "Oh lighten up Gratia, I'm only joking." And almost instantly after he finished speaking a ball of ice whacked father in the face, while mothers free arm was out stretched and her face had a forced and angry smile on it. She then proceeded to say, "Continue and I may consider giving you another [Ice Sphere] to the face. How about it want to keep going?" The two things I've learned from this small exchange is, first obey mother and second is that my family life is going to be exciting. The exchange was so funny I laughed and said, "hei bii ma,ama stooooo" my intentions was to say, 'ha ha mama's strong' however all of my vocal chords are underdeveloped and my mouth is full of saliva. But at least mum understood part of it and said, "That's right mama is strong, your a smart and adorable boy. I hope you grow up well and be both strong and smart in the future."
Sometime afterwards, I blacked out after mother sent my father out of the room. When I awoke I was in a completely different room and I looked around to see that the walls were painted cream and there were several bookshelves in the room however from my position I couldn't see much else and for some reason a powerful anxiety hit me and even though it wasn't my intention I started crying. After which, My mother came into the room and said, "Aww, is little Levi hungry, did you go poopies or were you just lonely?" After she reached my cot I could see her properly and I saw that she not only had a beautiful face but a very alluring body. Wondering if all women were beautiful in this world or if my father was just one lucky bastard, I suddenly heard Derigo say, 'perv, that's your mum you know' surprised at her sudden comment I thought, 'how come she knows what I'm thinking' to which she responded, 'because I'm within your mind genius we can communicate through your thoughts and if you want to think something privately you would need to focus on doing so' thinking that was pretty convenient I thought to her, 'were there any problems with my reincarnation' to which she got angry and said, 'as if that would be possible.' Hearing her getting upset I apologised and asked her, 'how come you only spoke up now' in a much calmer tone Derigo said, 'I actually intended to only speak up when you addressed me out loud so that you would think that it was necessary to speak out load so people would think you're weird. However, I couldn't resist making fun of you.' Feeling like someone was trying to feed me shit I couldn't help blurt, 'asshole' to which she just giggled and stopped talking.
After mother picked me up I could see the room and on the dark brown floorboards there was a rug that was clearly the pelt of an unknown animal spread out and in the corner there was a box with some strange symbols written on it that for some reason I could read as 'toys' and in the only other corner was a small round table with a cloth and a lamp on it while next to that was a chair. Mother slowly, while comforting me walked over to the chair and I had an uncomfortable feeling start to well up as I got scared of what was about to come. And as if to confirm my fears she said, "I guess it's feeding time."
After she 'fed' me I fell asleep and woke up later to which the past events repeated for the next few months, unless I 'made a mess' in which case mother changed me. But after about five and a half months I had started crawling and was finally able to look around the house. To which I discovered there were servants, there were lots of rooms and mountains of books in each of these rooms with chairs. Seeing the servants and this veritable library I made the mental assumption that not only was my family influential but I also assumed that my mother was the one to buy the books considering my father was well not very present and that he was, well not the type who seemed capable of sitting down and reading without getting bored quickly.
After another six and a half months I was a year old and I had seen my father a total of 12 days since I was born. I had found out, by listening to my mother talking to the maids, that my father is actually the general of our country that's called Ark and I couldn't help forgiving him for his absence after considering how much people relied on him. But tomorrow is my birthday and he will apparently be having a scholar coming to assess my parameters, although considering I can look at them at any time it seems unnecessary. In other news, I can talk now, although it's hard to make long sentences, so I have been trying to get my point across to the adults around me.
First of all I tried to put a stop to my mother's antics. However, I quickly relearned my first lesson in this world and let her continue to baby me, after all I am a baby right now so she's not being unreasonable.
The second thing I wanted to get across was that I want to start my education and as soon as possible at that. While I have been reading all books in the house, that I could reach, I felt that the skills I wanted to learn like magic probably needed an instructor before I could actually grasp them and Derigo confirmed this theory when she told me that since I came from a world without mystic abilities my capacity to improve them will be negligible at best until I can have someone experienced show me the abilities and explain them to me so that my understanding could improve. However, I have been steadily improving my copy and instinct skills and I now have an understanding of how they work.
The third thing was that I want to go outside if only in the arms of my mother and this time my request was granted. Once outside I was able to confirm a couple things, first the trees in this world are very similar to the ones in my previous world. Second my family are definitely rich after confirming the size of the house. I can without a doubt say that it's a house that could only belong to someone with a lot of money. Which means that even if education isn't mandatory in this country I'll probably still go to school.
I ended up falling asleep after my mother had taken me outside on a stroll with the head maid Norma, who is a refined woman in every aspect from her black hair that contrasts her pale skin to her stoic face that breaths patience, care and seriousness.
Once I woke up it was already my birthday, which ended up being quite similar to every other day except around lunchtime my father appeared with a beautiful, slightly intimidating red haired elven woman. She seemed to know everyone which made me believe she is someone who's close to the family and it wasn't until she got close to me I noticed that she had an appraising look in her eye. Seeing this I assumed she was the scholar that was coming to assess my parameters.
When she started she had a surprised look on her face which quickly turned to awe which turned to fear in only a few seconds. She had quickly walked to my father and mother who after having the lady whisper to them also had a shift in facial expressions. My mother looked at me with concern while my father looked at me with passion and shouted, "Gihahahaha, that's my boy."
Later we started getting into the party and we even ate cake, which amazed me because in terms of food this world is usually too lacking to make anything from my world. After I blew out my candle I wished for me to be able to make a good friend and live comfortably. After the wish and cake we got onto opening all the presents which consisted of a new all-in-one from mother, a toy from the servants and my father gifted me nunchucks which mother proceeded to beat him with.
After about half an hour things returned to normal while I became a bit tired due to the constant time awake and the excitement of the day. So seeing me getting tired my mother put me to sleep and like that my birthday was over.
Since then it's been two years and today I'm starting my private education with the red headed elven scholar named Flos Sapit. She had been teaching me many things, however lessons like maths and literacy weren't very useful since I could already do these and history seems to be just as boring as in my previous world.
The lesson I'm most interested in is the mystic arts lesson since in this I get to see everything from magic to qi. What I now know is to use magic or qi, you first have to learn the skill to control it by trying to gain insight or understanding about the skill or practicing using what we can such as imagining the spell. While the elemental affinity skills determine the strength of the spells in that element and don't let you control that element until you get the requisite skill like the [Mage] skill. Also if you can't comprehend an elemental affinity then your considered unable to use that element.
The [Mage] skill itself has levels and each level increases your tier. Each tier has different spells and while it is possible to make your own it is generally considered something a max tier [Mage] would do since at that point there is no easier way to gain further insight into magic.
After a month of learning I had become frustrated because I was unable to figure out the [Mage] skill even though I had actually already acquired it. Miss Flos had told me that the reason for this was that, until the age of five children have their magic sealed so that they don't hurt themselves accidentally. Which means I would be unable to progress until I became five due to the fact that to level up the skill required me to use magic once. Hearing this I decided to ask Derigo what to do and she told me that I should try to comprehend as many elements as possible before I turn five so that I don't have to make learning an element my priority when I could be learning stronger magic.
Once I turned four I found out two important things. First I need to go to school when I turn five. Second was that my private teacher was going to be my school teacher as well. I would also be continuing private lessons even though I would be going to school. At first I tried to resist against the idea until I sensed mother getting upset with me at which point I gave up any resistance and quickly accepted my fate.
By this time I had gained three elemental affinities which are fire, ice/water and wind. I had also gained the [qi control] skill which after I could start using it would let me cultivate qi and start learning to become a warrior. My father told me that, in addition to going to school and private lessons with Miss Flos, I would be starting my warrior training when I turn five. This training would be me getting pushed to my physical limit everyday after being pushed to my mental limit from both school and the private lessons.
Looking at the future I was both excited but also hesitant since I didn't want to die a second time.
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