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"I also brought my girl with me. Here, Phi, What's your name?" Laws said also carrying a baby with him.

Ralph noticed that the girl had strange colored hair, Emerald Green. He thought it could be dyed, but looking more closely Ralph had a feeling it was the girl's natural hair color.

"Sylf... yette..." the girl with green hair said before burying her head on her father's shoulder. Her name was Sylphiette, Sylphy for short.

After a bit of dialogue between the fathers, Ralph and Sylphy were put down on the ground together in the hopes that they would get along and play. Meanwhile the adults would have a bit of work to do, but still within their sights.

"Sylphy, can I touch... your ears?" Ralph curiously asked the girl.

He noticed it earlier that she also had long ears just like her father, Laws. Ralph wanted a close look and touch it out of curiosity.

"Ah, uhm. Okay?"

Ralph proceeds to touch her ears. He caressed them gently feeling the strange sensation of her ears to his fingertips.

"Amazing."

That was the first time the two of them met each other.

-*-*-*-

Days continued to go by, Ralph continued his daily routine of Gardening and oftentimes going together with Paul's work and meet with Sylphy.

In the night Paul and Zenith would bring the twins to the room to read them bedtime stories. Thanks to that Ralph gained a firm grasp on reading the letters of the Human Language.

One day when he had just finished weeding out the garden, he caught the interest of a single tree. Crazy ideas started popping out of his mind considering how high it was from his perspective. As an infant, everything in the world was just so big.

"Hehehe, let's try climbing up one." Ralph said as he walked to the tree.

He checked if there were some ledges he could use for climbing up. Ralph was a veteran of climbing trees in his previous life. With his little body, this is going to be his first attempt at climbing one.

"Umph."

With small grunts here and there, Ralph found himself climbing up.

'This is surprisingly easy. Can a one year old really climb a tree like this? No way that's possible. Well whatever, let's see if I can reach the top.'

Stretching out his small arms and coordinating with his feet pulling himself up one at a time, the one year old baby Ralph managed to climb a tree. He ended up getting onto the very top.

"This is strange."

Ralph already knew that one way or another he would get into an accident by falling down. Recklessly climbing a tree with this tiny body would be bound to go in a really bad way. And yet here he was, sitting on a tree branch.

"I had my suspicions about my own body right after I got to walk in a few months right after birth, but this is just ridiculous. ha ha ha."

Ralph wryly laughed at himself. But just as he lost a little balance, his feet slipped from the branches.

'Oh shit! Now I've done it!'

His body fell from a high altitude. Ralph shifted his body midair, making sure his head wouldn't make a direct impact. He tensed his body bracing himself from the fall.

"–!!"

As he continued to fall a strange sensation enveloped his body. For some reason he felt like his body was coated with a mysterious power, increasing his defense.

With a thud his body hit the ground. Ralph is waiting for the painful experience, but surprisingly it didn't even hurt him.

"What just happened?"

When he checked his body, he didn't even have a single scratch on him. Only a bit of dirt coming from the ground.

Ralph sunk deeply in his thoughts. Just from everything that happened just now, and even before this, his body worked beyond a normal human with his age.

He grabbed a random rock on the ground, bigger than his palms. Ralph put strength on his fingers little by little until it crumbled to dust.

"Haaa, even an idiot should already know. This body is definitely weird, in more ways than one!"

Ralph confirmed that this world works in different ways more than one, but experiencing it himself was more than surprising.

-*-*-*-

Ralph was helping Zenith in the Garden and he started to help not just weeding them, by checking the leaves from harmful insects and their eggs. He was also helping on harvesting the vegetables that are already ripe to get.

"Then that's all for this day, thank you for helping Ralph." Zenith said as they finished their chores in the garden.

"Hehe~" Ralph giggled as he earns a kiss on the forehead from Zenith.

After work Ralph went to watch Paul practice swinging his sword in the yard. Some time ago, it was Ralph's hobby to watch Paul training in the afternoon. He could watch the ritual like a performance from a dancer on stage for hours.

"Woah."

His swordsmanship is beautiful and strong, like it was a work of art coming from a skilled artist. Watching Paul from the sidelines practicing made his little manly heart race. As his sword cut across the wind, he was mesmerized by the charm and beauty of it.

Every stroke of the sharp sword has depth and skill carved within the wielder's flesh and bones.

Paul noticed someone watching him, so he turned his attention and found Ralph watching him.

"Hehe, what are you looking at Ralph. Are you also interested in swordplay?" Paul said, clearly happy.

"Shordplay?" Ralph reiterated the word he just heard.

"Yeah, swordplay. Well that's to be expected from my son." Paul grinned as he came near Ralph messing up his hair, showing his affection.

"It's important for a man to be strong. If you get a little bigger your Dad will be teaching you the sword." Paul said.

"Really? You promise?" Ralph excitedly asked.

"Yeah, sure."

"Yay!" Ralph rejoiced with a adorable smile on his face.