Chapter II: The Oath

A year have passed.

That was kinda long. I guess it's true that time passes faster for adults than for children. I basically didn't do anything rather than stay inside the house like an introvert with hidden battle hungry extrovert personality.

But the thing is, they are about to face the Black Dragon, and I was with my mother who was named Sylvia, and to my surprise, Alfia and Meteria were here as well.

Yep. I am now officially Hera Familia member, without Falna, and soon to be the last one while Bell Cranel is soon to be the last member of Zeus Familia. Should I alter the timeline and throw all I know about the plot into the wind? That seems exciting, but I need to prepare like Seiya did. And that is...

The Art of "Non-Stop Grinding to the point you're 10 times more stronger than the boss you're about to fight and even faked as well as lowered your status just make them drop their guard and then rip and tear 'til it's done!"



If ever I have the chance to come back in time, even if it is alternate timeline, I want to torture Bell's father. I'm pretty sure time traveling is prohibited by Gods and Goddesses of Time.

Well, if something like that happened without me even doing it, I'll gladly change an Alternate World's past. But the thing is, Bell should be born in the first place so things like saving the Xenos would happen. How could I fix that if ever I decided to kill 'him'?

Anyway, throughout the year that I have lived on this new life of mine, I have done many things that made them think that I am a genius as well.

I think I have a strong body because I can crawl on the first month and walked at the second month. Then, I managed to speak at the age of 4 months and my first word were the names of my sisters, Meteria and Alfia. But of course, I said Alfia's name first.

The silent lady couldn't stop smiling the whole day. This, of course, shocked both Here and Zeus Familia as they never thought the cold beauty would let out such a beautiful and wonderful smile full of happiness.

Well, making an ice queen to smile is listed in my OneNote. Aside from that, my instinct tells me that there is a certain item, or rather items, that will help me in the future.

In order for me to get stronger is to either get a skill to get stronger very fast, or as a person whose past life was a scientist, make an experiment that will make my body adapt faster and grow stronger. The former has very low chance of happening, while the latter is risky and dangerous with possible side-effects like lowered lifespan.

I have a theory. My theory, shouldn't be revealed yet.

For the past 6 months, I've been clinging to Alfia as she doesn't mind me that much because I don't make too much noise. While not talking that much, she liked my company. I'm adorable! Anyway, enough narcissism.

I also began picking up those magic stones that they have and tried some things with it and managed to create a...

Erm... er...

A bomb.

Yes, a bomb. And without any knowledge of actually making a magical bomb. I just made it, and then, BAM! Literally a "BAM" sound.

When I created it, Zald saw me and I ran away. Well, he could have caught me easily, but even the man of his stature was enjoying spending time with me. Well, I think he has a soft spot for kids, but he was strict when it comes to those who have the strength to fight. Well, he's a battle hungry freak as well, but on another level. Nevertheless, I get where he comes from.

Well, after he saw me, he chased me and I got out of the tent since we are traveling to confront the Behemoth next, I threw the bomb near Zeus and probably Bell's father who were peeking at the women.

The explosion took which caused them to sustain some burns from my self-created bomb and also got beaten up by the women of Hera Familia, since all female members are from Hera Familia.

Well, that was so funny that even the known serious and strict Zald laughed so hard when he saw them get beaten up after being blasted directly at the women bathing.

Bell's father, which I don't like to even think or say his name, was beaten up so badly. When Meteria saw him like that, she didn't care. Well, it's because he's a big pervert who tried many ways to get his way on her, but was stopped many times by Alfia, Hera, me, Maxim, and Zald.

Aside from that, I made a lot of trouble from those 6 months. And since my stamina was not that great, I tried to control my breathing so I can conserve more energy and being able to move longer. I got inspiration from Demon Slayer. Don't mind me, just here trying to see if abilities and techniques from other world's would work here.

I actually been trying to improve it to the point that I am 10 times more stronger, which means that if I base it on Dragon Ball's power leveling, I have PL of 1 and it becomes 10 when I use my breathing technique.

I don't know if I'm a genius or something, but I'm pretty sure I just happen to be able to do it, albeit I can only maintain it for a quarter of an hour tops. It also puts a lot of stress on both my body and endurance after stopping.

That actually made them think that I am a destined to be a hero. But nah, don't wanna. Well, my mother don't want me to become an Adventurer and the like while Zeus wants me to be a Hero.

As a payment for Zeus, I walked towards him as if I want a hug from him, as he let his guard down, I punched his balls. Painful, I know, but he deserves one for being a pervertand forcing a duty of a Hero into a freaking little child who isn't even eligible to start training.

Well, I've also met a person outside of Hera and Zeus Familia named Kodaiichi Kane. Whoever named him, doesn't have a good naming sense. Even so, I think some people here have bad naming sense and few are beautiful and sounds pleasant in the ears such as Alfia and Meteria.

Just hearing that old man's name just made me remember his perverseness, so I'll just call him Old Man Spark, and Sparky as a nickname.

Anyway, that Kane dude said that I have a lot of potential to be a strong adventurer and will be the one who would surpass the Hera and Sparky Familia's Level 9 and Level 8 Captains. Yes, I called Zeus as Sparky, a pet name.

Soon, the battle against the One-Eyed Black Dragon happened with me being back at the base where they were before along with Meteria. But since Meteria is sick, I can roam around the camp and found a lot of things but all of them are useless for me.

I actually got lost in the forest nearby for over 4 hours or so, but I managed to come back alive. Luckily, there are no monsters nearby since they already cleared the whole vicinity for safety.

But when I came back, that bastard raped Meteria so since he already raped her, I'm gonna dispose of him. However, Meteria stopped me from doing so but it didn't mean that I couldn't beat him up and tie him tightly and leave him in the forest.

Yep, Meteria was raped, she did not loved the man, and she was forced to. I'm pretty sure Bell would still be born as long as his father already did the deed. It was inevitable.

When they came back, only few Zeus and Hera Familias came back, and a lot of them are dead. My mother, on the other hand, was at death's door, still clinging at life.

She and Alfia walked towards me with faces that showed many things: sadness, shame, hatred, and most importantly, regret.

Sadness, because I know that they don't want me to grow without parents.

Shame, because they failed the last of the Three Great Quest.

Hatred, for someone who was cowardly enough to run away at the sight of the enemy with all of their items, potions, elixirs, and Magic Swords in tow.

Regret, of being defeated, of not being able to fight back, of not being able to return in one piece.

My mother kneeled in front of me with her bloody hands and held my cheeks as she caressed them.

"I'm...sorry...for leaving you..."

My eyes started to let out tears but I tried my best to hold my tears back.

"Even though you're just a year old, I knew you are too matured for a child. Even then, I'm happy to have a son like you. Promise me, Silver, that no matter how much you're broken, or how many times you get broken, I want you to make others smile."

I could only smile at her... A sad smile, that is.

She died smiling back at me...

"RAAAAARRRRRGHHHHHHH!!!" In one strong childish roar of anguish, I let it all out as my tears kept flowing out of my eyes.

The sky started dropping water as if the gods in Tenkai were lamenting for my loss, which I doubt the case. Well, maybe only few like Buddha and Hades would know the feeling of losing someone so dear.Sure there would be others, but I don't know all of them.



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Someday, I will- No! I must get stronger. This feeling of losing someone I loved... I don't want to feel it again. I will do everything it takes to keep them from standing in front of the death's door.

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That's not a promise. It will definitely happen, I will make it happen.