Starting of the Day, Part 1

My name Elenoir von Rondelheim. Currently three years old.

We lived in the outskirt of this peaceful town —under the kingdom of Bruhmund.

The town consist of many building and with a margin population of 500. This land prosper quite well and has a good reputation. Apparently, there are only few noble family that resides in this town.

Roselliete von Rondelheim. Our mother, a good and lovely woman, with a child of two —Me, as the eldest and my brother as the youngest.

As I recalled, mother, in her younger days, was revered as the Thorn Maiden—quite a name for our mother who—usually was very kind and treat her people well.

She was a peerless beauty, with a high standing in society. She was chased by many men, however, they were all turned down. I've also heard that she was about to be married off to a noble family but she stubbornly refused. As a result, she fled to a remote country. That was when she finally met our father.

At first, they were just stranger. Father was an adventurer while mother was newly joined adventurer. They started as companion, their relationship was nowhere better at that time. However, as time pass by, mother gradually opened up to father and eventually became together.

Mother decided to live independently with father and fled to this small town, completely severing her noble status and starts a new life. The both of them earned fame through adventuring and eventually, given a title and a land. Apparently, Our land was located a little far away from the town for some(?) reason.

That should to a happy life, however, there was gravely news that came to us, that is, the sudden disappearance of father.

That incident happened two years ago. It caused an uproar throughout the adventurer's guild, since father was well-known and famous among the guild. Though, that's not the fact that caused the uproar but because he was one of those strong adventurer that the guild had, aside from mother and other adventurers.

Mother requested a search party in the guild to find father but in the end... they find no news nor clues of his whereabouts. In the end, we hold a funeral of an empty casket. Many adventurers came to offer their prayers for father.

Up until now, mother was still in an unstable state. Still, As an adventurer, she's toppled up with much work. I worries about her health.

"but there was nothing we could do."

I let out a sigh while cupping my chin as I watch the boy training diligently.

Until just a few moments, someone came knocking onto the door.

"M'lady! the breakfast is ready." says a voice of a lady, one of the maid working in our house.

Everything was in chaos lately but...

"Yes, I'll be there in a minute."

None of that matter matters right now.

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I made my way to the dining room. I tread carefully as I greet everyone a goodmorning with a smile on my face. However, it is only a facade to hide my true self.

On the dining room, there was mother, who was already sitting, waiting for us before eating. Mother looks tired than usual that dark circles forms around her.

"Goodmorning, Mother! You look very tired today." I greeted my mother before sitting on the chair.

"Goodmorning, my daughter! I may look like this but I am fi— "

"You should get some rest!" I exclaim while looking straight to her eyes, interrupting before she finish her sentence.

Mother sigh as she put her palm on her cheek. "maybe I should get some rest for a while." she mumbled.

"Yeah, You should! Dark circles were already forming around your eyes."

"Huh, really?" she said with a tired look on her face.

She must have loaded with work that she didn't had enough time to look for her image.

"I haven't had enough sleep lately, I should take my time to rest." she says before yawning and strecthes her arm widely.

"Albert? is there any important matters that I should be attending to?" she asks.

Albert, who was our butler, works as both a butler and assistant of mother at the same time.

"Regarding that, Madam! There were few non-trivial matters that can scheduled tommorow. However, there is one thing that you should attend to, that is, matters regarding to the krillim forest."

Krillim forest? Ah! That it!!!

I slam both my hands on table before raising an arm. "Mother! Regarding that matter, can you leave that to me?" I said to mother with a seriousness in my eyes.

"Ahh! But that is dangerous!" Mother says, surely she didn't want me to go.

"But mother! Please!!!" I begged my mother as I clasped both my hand with cutesy pose and a pitiful eyes.

"Nngh!... Fine! you can go, but you should bring one or two personal guard" Mother says it as if she was blinding with bright light.

"Madam! If I may, I could go as M'lady's gua—"

As one of the maid(?) stepped in and talked, she was interrupted with a sudden bang of the door followed by a loud voice shouting "GEWDMORWING!!!".

Ahh! here he comes!

That loud voice came from the boy who was training sword, it was my little brother.

Elias von Rondelheim, my little brother. An energetic and bright boy, currently two years old. He appears cute and lovely but he had a demeanor of proud knight. He has a porcelain blonde hair, a pair jet black eyes and a mole under his left eye. Aside from facial structure, he has a pointed ear that catches the attention of others.

"Goodmoning!!!" 

"Goodmorning, Young Lord."

We exchanged a goodmorning, he's so bright and energetic as though he shines radiantly.

Why can you smile like that? Even though, you just went from hellish training... You know you're covered in bruises and there's even blood all over your head...

There is these words that I want but cannot say.

I let out a sigh and reached out my hand.

"Maria?"

"Yes! Here, M'lady."

Maria, our maid, gave me a piece of towel as though she knows what I requested. Truthfully, this event always happens, my brother always came back bruised and covered in blood.

T'is also part of my daily life too.

"Here! Come here!" I called out to my little brother as I waved my hand.

My little brother follows easily as I commanded.

He sit beside me and I goes to wiped off the dirt and blood. Usually, this was the maid's duty but I prefer it doing myself.

"Geez!! you should be careful as I told you. You always come back injured..."

"Down't woory, I'm fin as fiddel." He says while smiling as if it was just nothing for him. 

"Really? I haven't seen someone beat up black and blue a two years old kid on a swordmanship. (Well, I literally saw one already and it's right in front of me.)"

I even had an argument with mother insisting "It's fine! It is completely normal for boy to get hurt. That's how they become a man."

I let out a sigh as I finished wiping my brother face. After that, we dine happily and the maid who was talking earlier, continues and repeat herself.

"M-Madam? If you would... Will you let me go together with M'lady as a guard."

"Hmm... alright! I approved of you." Mother pauses to gave it a thought before approving.

"Thank You, Madam! If you may excuse myself." says Maria, bows her head to mother and excuses herself outside.

It seems that she will preparing for the departure.

The maid with a brown hair and uptight personality was, Maria Ladeskin. A young and beautiful maiden with a smooth supple skin that easily grabs the attention of boys around.

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Few hours had already passed, I've found myself walking out the town. There are marchants that exchanging goods and information.

There were also countless adventurers roaming around here.

"Oooh! There are parties too!"

As I walked for sightseeing, I heard a familiar sneekering noises—It was probably them.

"Well! Well! Who do we have here."

These kids are here again—though I'm a kid myself.

Haah! I should end this quickly. "Well! What is the three idiots doing?"

I spoked a bit coldly only to see these boy snapped.

"Wha-? W-who are you calling idiot? Aren't you the creepy kid!"

"Yeah! Creepy kid!"

"Yeah, a witch"

Ruiz von Deitren, a son of a baron of a neighboring noble in town, and two of his friend, came to mess with me again.

How rude, these three, calling a kid a creep.

"If isn't, Ruiz, the one who pissed his pants after almost getting run over by Beardelion... Vlenn, who cried over spilled ice cream after intensely licking it and Ren, wetting his pants yesterday after seeing that bearded guy adventurer—Oh! he's behind you!"

"I didn't pissed my pants... Wait! How do you know that."

"We'll get back at you creepy kid!"

"Witch!"

Ruiz, and his gang, after reminding them about their embarassing stuff, quickly run off crying, cursing me a word as they run away.

As to why they called me a witch, there is a reason to it.

I let out a sigh of discomfort before proceeding to walk around the town.

Perhaps, it is time to properly introduce myself.

My name is Elenoir von Ronderheim, Currently three years old.

I was the talk of the whole town when I was a little. I seems to have a mind of adult or so they say. I was able to properly converse with adult. I was also able to do things that any normal kids couldn't in terms of age. They say I could read and write and could understand politics and mathematics, Although, I wasn't aware of it until recently.

One day, three kids approached me, they are Ruiz and his friends. We were good friends back then, we played together and had fun. 

There is one time that we played recklessly and strayed too far around town. Ruiz and his friend were picked on by strong looking thugs on back alley. 

I even went for trouble just find and saved them...

There should be knights that guards them from afar but Ruiz and his friends were able to slip through them.

And so I took trouble to fend off the thugs with my magic, it is also not just any normal offensive magic —it is one of my own improvised magic.

As I use magic on them, I managed to finished them off to the point, that they were dealt with, onesidedly.

The people around took me as a genius magician, however, that is not case for Ruiz and other —who took me as scary person. After that, they stopped seeing me, it is the same as well as the other kids around town, avoiding me. Well, it doesn't bother me at all.

And that is the gist of it. I even used mother, as the person who invented the 'imrovised magic' as to not catch any unwanted attention.

Luckily, Mother had recognized my lies beforehand and takes the matter on check.

As I wandered around the town, I came across an unfamiliar place or should I say I got lost.

"Oi! oi! This ain't a place for a kids like 'ya to waltz around!"

"The way 'ya dress! Ain't'cha a noble, Missy?"

"How'bout you come with big brother, I'll you treat some sweets."

Speak of the devil. I came across a bunch of thugs.

"... Just a bunch of wussy thugs." I mumbled just barely audible for them to hear.

"Who're you calling a wussy, you brat!" one of the thugs shriek as he swiftly ****** a knife on me.

"Wind Barrier!" I exclaimed as the visible shield erected around me and stopped knife before landing a hit on me.

"W-wha—" The thug mumbled as he backs away a few steps due to the effect of the barrier. The two started to unsheath their knife and dashes at me.

"Physical Enhancement!" I mumbled before swiftly dodging as though time seems to have slowed. After dodging consecutive slashes, I skid through wide opening in-between the legs of thugs.

The people started gathering around from afar due to the commotion, just watching over from the side.

"I should finish this quickly." I mumbled as the thugs gathered around in one places directly facing me —not even bothered by the crowd.

"You've done it now, Missy! It's do or die now." One of them shouted atop on their lungs and they started rushing at me.

I took in a deep breath and concentrated while striking a pose. "Lightning chain" I shriek as I casted a balls of lightning in thin air and launched at the thugs.

"... H-huh? W-wha—!... Nggh...!"

As the chain of lightning went forward, it landed to the one on front. It creates bolts of lightning and ricochet on the other tow at the back. The remaining balls of lightning hitted the latter, which struck down the enemy to defeat.

"Phew!! Luckily, I managed to finished them without a scratch." A sigh of relief and a sense of victory. However, I had forgotten about the crowd. The surrounding was filled with intense clapping and cheering.

Really! It's not some kind of entertain nor arena, was it?

"Young Lady! Are you okay? Did you get hurt?" says the shopkeeper that worries about me.

"You are good at using magic, Young Lady! Is it another magic creation of Baroness Rondelheim?"

"You've defeated thugs again, Missy?" says an adventurer while sizing me up. "You're cut out for an adventurer, Missy" he added.

"Ah! Yes, yes! Thank You...!"

The shopkeeper, the butcher, adventurers... everyone started to swarm me and praising me at the same time. After watching the crowd turning into chaos, I sneak and roll out of the crowd.

As I wipe off the dust of dress, I heard a whine from afar gradually getting louder.

"... MMMM'LAAAAAADDDYYY!" a voice calling me accompanied by clanging sound of metal.

A female knight wearing an armor steps out from the crowd. " Wait for me, M'lady!... obuh..."

The overloudly female knight tripped her foot while running.

"... Pwah...!" she raised her head, suddenly catch up for air as she gets up from tripping. "M'lady! Are you hurt?" says the clumsy knight with a mess on her face.

"Who's the one that tries to hurt M'lady? I'll give them hell!" she exclaimed with a very frightening face.

... Is she really that clumsy knight before?

"Hey! I'm okay and I'm not hurt, as you can see, the thugs were already taken by the guards to turn them to jail... More important, are you okay—your face is bloody messy, Literally."

" "I-I'm okay, M'lady! You shouldn't worry about me." she says shakily as she tries to hold back her tears—it must've hurt.

"Really? You say that, but your face says otherwise..."

We stared at each other for a minute.

"... pfft! hahahaha...!" I burst into laughters, I couldn't hold my laughters seeing her face.

"... A-awa-awa!... M'lady is laughing at me!" she says as she throws a tantrum like a kid while pouting her rosy cheek."

"Geez, what a clumsy knight you are. You should take care of your pretty face or you wouldn't be able to marry a decent guy." I says to her as I nagged on her while handling her a handkerchief.

"... Kyaa! M'lady is very kind and adorable." she says as she snuggle up on me.

"Yeah! yeah! Let me wipe your face." I said as I focused on wiping her face clean.

"... There! Your pretty face is clean now." I said after I finished wiped the dirt off her face.

"Thank You, M'lady!" say Rena with sparkly eyes.

"Now that we're done, Please escort me to home safely!"

"Yes, M'lady!"

After strolling around town, we decided to go home. I met an unexpected event but it was such a nice experience.

House of Rondelheim, it was such a nice town. In this house, the servants don't protect their master, the master the one who protect them. Rena, our clumsy female knight, is just one of those people.

"That's harsh, M'lady! I could hear them you know."

"Can you read my mind, Rena?"

"No, but you said that aloud."

"Really? I don't think so."

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