Ch.4 Family

As the door opened up a little girl walked in, well, I call her little, but she is a little taller than me. She has long silver hair and beautiful golden eyes, showcasing her childish charm. Wearing a white and black knight dress of the duchy. With a beautiful silver sword on her waist, she enters the room.

This lovely young girl is my big sister, Alicia Goldenheart the little princess of the duchy and two years older than me.

"Good to see you, big sis." 

I welcome her in the room while giving her a wave of hands, she simply nods at me and doesn't say anything. Seeing that, I sigh, this has become quite a normal situation for a while, after all my loving bid sister has started to get colder and colder with me starting from last year.

"Mother, father."

She says as her face blooms into a beautiful smile, seeing this I couldn't help but wonder why she shows such a cold behavior to me.

"My daughter, shouldn't you ask how your brother is doing after he has woken up from a coma." Mother tells her as she folds her hands and gives her a stern look.

"Ah, I am sorry about that, mother." Sister quickly apologies as she looks at me, her face turning cold again.

"How are you doing, brother?" She asks bluntly with a cold face, but she may try to hide it as much as she wants, I can still fell the concern in her voice.

"I am doing fine now, sister."

I reply to her question as I give her a big smile. Hearing my reply and seeing my smile, she turns her head into an angle I can't see for a while, and then again looks back at me.

"Good girl." Mother says as she opens her arm and taking this as an opportunity she dives into her giving her a hug. Father carcasses her hair as she gives her a smile.

Mother then sits on the bed again taking my sister in her lap and also puts me there, due to both of us being quite small due to being kids we perfectly fit in her lap.

"Listen here daughter, you shouldn't be so cold to your brother, after all you guys are family and family should never fight with one another." Father says as he sits next to mother.

"..Ok" 

Sister, replies in a small voice as looks at father, mother remains silent letting them have a conversation as I look at my sister trying to think of a reason why she would be cold to me.

Looking into the memories I just got, I found a reason 'Jealousy', she must have been jealous of all the attention I was getting. Well can't be helped after all she is just a six-year-old child, well I am also four but since I got the memories of a thirty-year-old man it doesn't count.

Anyway, since I have been always sick our parents had to put more focus on me so she must have been starved for attention. Well, that should be the reason, so I guess I don't have to worry much after all my illness has been cured, so this situation should clear itself as we grow older.

Looking at my sister's hands, I see a small cut, which she must have gotten due to practicing with her sword. Taking her hand, I look at the wound.

Feeling her hands being touched she looks at me and seeing that I was looking at her wound she says.

"Don't worry, it's nothing much."

"Even so, you should be more careful when practicing."

I softly say to her as I give her a smile, now getting my attention back on the wound, I cast a small healing spell.

<heal >

Green light flows out of my hands as the wounds on her arms starts to close rapidly, even though it is just a low level healing spell due to my mana quality and current rank it is quite affective.

" Don't, Isn't it dangerous for you to use mana due to your illness."

She shouts in a concerned voice and quickly takes her hands away of her cold face breaks as I can see worry in her face.

"Don't worry, sis, I have been cured, so I can use mana normally again."

I give her a reassuring reply as I gently caress the place where there once was a wound.

"I see..."

She replies, understanding the situation after seeing the smiles on our parent's face, and goes back to her cold face. Though, being as inexperienced as she is in acting, she can't hide the happiness shown in her eyes.

Our parents giggle at her and mother gently pats both of our heads, there is a harmonious and happy mood in the room.

After having casual conservation for an hour or so, mother and father leave the room after giving me a kiss on the cheeks.

Now there are only me and sister remaining in the room, there is silence for a while as both of us don't speak a thing.

"Neo"

Sisters calls me as she looks at my face, I can see that some of her cold facade has melted, well it is quite normal as she behaves more coldly with me when our parents are around.

"Yes sis."

"Um.. Congratulation for your complete recovery."

She says as she stands up from my bed and looks at me.

"Thank you sis."

Hearing my reply, she nods her heads and quickly makes her way toward the entrance of my room. Arriving there, she stops in her tracks and looks back at me.

"Sorry for ignoring you when I arrived in the room."

She says and quickly exits her room without waiting for my reply, seeing that I give a small smile and fall back on the bed.

Looking at her current behavior, I wonder if she is a cold beauty or a tsundere, gosh what am I even thinking it seems like those memories had more effect on me than I thought.

Shaking my head and getting rid of those thoughts, I stand up from my bed and take out some clothes to wear. After all, currently I am but wearing some pajamas.

Seeing that I have been sleeping for days, I should probably take a bath, well mother must have used a <clean > spell on me but still it doesn't hurt to bathe.

Entering the bathroom connecting to my room, I take a fresh shower and laze around on the big indoor hot tub.

Relaxing my body on the floor of the tub, I look at the ceiling of the room.

"This has been quite a day." 

I mutter to myself as I wash my face with the hot water. Remembering the memories I got, it seems I have become way more mature than I should be at my current age.

Well-being at the "Mana Core initial rank" I was already more mature than most, plus I am a "Saint human."

Griping my hands tightly, I try to see how strong I am, feeling my grip and then looking at the memories of the past I can safely say that I am as strong as Sero was before he died.

Closing my eyes, I try to feel the mana core inside of me, the core I was born with, before I had looked at it, I had seen some cracks in it, but I wonder if anything has clanged.

Feeling the flow of my mana I arrive in front of my core, a brilliant spear of gold burning bright like a star. Looking at it for a while, to my fortune I don't see even a single crack and I can even feel it has become more robust than before.

Due to my inexperience in handling mana I can fell that mana is escaping from my body without stopping, well quite a waste I would say. Looking at the ripples in the water my mana made, I stop my concentration and get out of the bath.

Properly drying myself with a towel I exit the room, picking up the clothes I had chosen I wear them and look at myself in the mirror.

Seeing that there are no problems in my clothes, I control my face to make it give a more noble look and then exit the room.