It's been awhile since I felt this... What was this feeling called again? Was it regret, sadness...? No, I think I remember it clearly now.It was called 'fear'... The fear of once again losing someone important because of me.A few years ago, somewhere at the Satella territory, while me and my half brother, who was apparently three years older than me, was running around the forest, we came across a pack of tempest wolves."Broth-"Before I could even call him out, my big brother, Ian, gestured his hands to stop me."Stay back!"Taking a wooden stick from the ground, Ian lit the the tip on fire and began using it to scare the wolves away from the both of them.As we were slowly backing away from the wolves, I suddenly felt a wall hit my back... It was a tree. My brother noticed this and clicked his tongue out of frustration, while his eyes never left the tempest wolves.Then, after pondering for a couple of seconds, he decided to take the risk and summoned an fire wall behind them to
'Emotion'The greatest weakness and strength of humanity... Not only them, but even to the other races as well.Some examples of a sentences that can trigger an emotions was 'I loved you', 'I care for you', 'I missed you'. By saying this, you can somehow give them strength and courage to face their problems head on.Nevertheless, this word could also be considered as one of the main types of manipulation.As long as you understand the real meaning of emotions, you can easily manipulate someone to do something that can benefit you and yours alone. Not just that, you could also improve their trust by tingling even a little bit over their emotions. And, slowly but surely, they will eventually fell into your hands like puppets.After waking up, I saw Cossette sleeping on the side of the bed. As if noticing that I'm awake, she raised her head to look at my direction."Athan!"Cossette said, immediately hugging me."I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."She murmured, while resting her forehead to my
A week has passed after the incident. Since then, there are many noticable changes happened to Cossette.Like for example, when were training.From before, once Cossette finished her demonstration, she doesn't repeat it afterwards. Because of this, I would always need a pen and a note to write down all of her explanation in paper. This was also one of the main reason why I planned the incident in the first place.Honestly, even though I've done this many times on my past life, I still couldn't get use to this feeling whenever I tried to manipulate someone else emotions. It always gives me a bitter taste after I finished.Now, then. Continuing back to my explanation. After the incident, instead of leaving me behind like she used to do, she would always stay by my side for a few hours just to make sure I managed to grasp to her explanation. Thanks to this, my training rapidly boosted than the past before the incident.As of now, she was teaching me how to use my darkness crest to attra
After we got back to the mansion, Cossette made me sit on the chair inside the training room.Crossing her arms to her chest, Cossette looked at me with an confused expression, as if she was asking, "What was that?"Seriously, didn't I answered you earlier...? Why do I have to repeat it once again?Although I have no desire to repeat my answer, I did it anyways, hoping for her to stop bugging me off."Science."With a doubtful expression, she looked at me, as if she was saying, "What's that?""Science...? What's that? Some kind of Seafood?"It was for a couple seconds, until I realized what she meant by saying, "Seafood" then I face palmed myself internally.I totally forgot... They don't even have the vocabulary of "Science" in this world. Except for Magic Tool subject that was taught on the academy, they don't have any other more science related subjects."No. It's nothing. You won't even understand it anyway if I tried to explain it to you."After she heard my reply, she puffed her
"Well then, let's head inside."Opening the door of the shop, I let Cossette and my little sister go inside first before following them behind.Since Cossette will leave the mansion next week, my mother ordered me to come along, with my little sister for the last time before Cossette left.Right where I was about to close the door to the shop, I suddenly heard a voice, with an irked tone, talking to the shop owner from behind me."What did you say?!"Turning around slightly, I glanced at the blonde fatso, who was currently arguing with the shop owner, before turning my attention back to where my sister and Cossette are in."As I said, even if you ordered now, it won't be ready for the Academy's Entrance Ceremony."The girl who replied to him was none other than the shop owner. Hearing this, the fatso noble pointed his finger towards the girl before saying."Well, do something about it!! I'll have you know that I am from the house of Viscount Fleed!! Are you going going to shoulder the
"Whoa, it is really just a brat, huh."There were three people in front of me. One was a bald man with a huge scar on his head; the man who spoke first. In his side, was a blonde beauty, clinging on his shoulder. While the other guy on his back wore a mask that covered his face."I'm the Guild Master, Chief. I heard why your here. Well, why don't you take a sit."After he said that, I calmly took a sit at the couch he was pointing, which was none other than in front of them."Well well. How unexpectedly polite if you."The bald man said, taking out a glass from the table. I deliberately ignored him and took a quick glance onto the guy on his back.The muscular guy in the front me is obviously just his body double. The real "Chief" is the one behind him.In the original novel, Athan commissioned the 'Chief' to sabotage Arthur. But, they ended up betraying him at the end and leaked that information to the king, and that evidence was used to order Arthur to eradicate Athan.Chief himself
"Huuu..."Fixing my collar properly, I let out a long sigh of relief after I got out from the dark guild base."Damn, that was scary..."It hasn't been long since I got out from the base and now I'm starting to sweat buckets. Even though it worked out perfectly as planned, there's still a possibility of some things getting out of hand if I ever failed to make a bit of connections with the Dark Guild."For our next step is..."Raising those children that they would never betray the Lohengramm even if using some method like using their own parents against them.In other words, I'll raise them to become my most loyal servant...Though, that is easier to be said than to be done. It'll probably take a year or so before I could fully gain their trust, enough to make them as my loyal servants."Honestly, this is really troublesome... But it was really worth it."Why you ask...? Because first of all, I gained some merit or connections that I could use in the future when dealing with problems
Foosh-!-Clank!Twisting my heel to the side, I dodged the incoming sword coming from the left by moving to my right."Hupp!"Though, it didn't take long for my mother to add follow ups after I dodged her sword attack earlier.[Stacking Needle]Stopping herself from moving, she thrust her sword consecutively. Everytime I dodged it, her sword attack's speed became more faster, making it more harder for me to dodge everything as small bruise started appearing around my body.In these past two years, you could say that I've trained myself on using sword with my mother more than magic. Even though my training with Cossette took only a year and a half, I've already mastered my two crest to a good level. But for my Stigma, although it started forming nothing else changed after that.[A/N: guys, I know that you might be wondering what is this 'Stigma'. Stigma is the bloodline crest. the name 'bloodline crest' doesn't seems to suit the story so I decided to changed it.]But...Right now, non