It's been 8 years since I reincarnated in this world.
When I came to this world, I noticed that something was wrong in my thoughts, as if I had a child inside of my head, but those thoughts started vanishing gradually until I was 5.
They say a child's brain keeps developing at a rapid speed in the first 5 years of his life, so maybe that was because of my memories trying to merge with my new brain, or maybe I wasn't the body owner and my soul was merging with a newborn soul.
My reincarnation was still a mystery to me, so who knows? What I knew was that whatever was happening affected my mental age somehow.
I'm sure that my current mental age is much lower than before but still a little higher than the kids my age .
How did I know ?
When a normal person remembers something he did in the past he thinks about how childish he was. But for me it was the opposite.
but that doesn't matter, I'm glad that I can have a good childhood in this life.
Yes, a good childhood, because unlike my past life, I have a good family this time!
"Ray! I will prepare breakfast, wake Aria up ."
"Yes Mom, give me a minute."
Ray, that's what my family call me; my full name is Raylin Crimson; I am living with my elven mother, Silvia, my maternal grandmother, Eleanora and my sister, Aria, who is 3 years older than me.
My father's name was Crimson Bloodborne. From what I heard, he was a half human half vampire hybrid. But unfortunately—or fortunately—he died before I was born in a battle against demons.
It was only one month before my birth, maybe that's why my mom was a little sad at that time.
However, due to my father's contribution, the government provided my mother with a significant amount of contribution points, the standard currency of this world.
Yes, this world has a war with demons, but I don't know the details yet.
Why didn't I read a history book or learn about the power system? The first reason was that I can barely read this world language!
It's already a miracle that I barely learned this language just by listening for 6 years —which made my family think that I'm stupid—but writing and reading are still challenging for me.
And the second reason was that my mom was... A little overprotective.
Unlike what someone may expect in a magical world where kids train with swords the moment they learn how to walk. My mom didn't even let me touch a knife, talk less about telling the 8 years old me about war and magic.
But of course, this didn't stop me from training my body; one of the first things any reincarnation should do is train their body from a young age.
Well, there is also checking the system .
I murmured. "System, archive, interface, statue, shop, quests, scenarios, panel, please ? "
'tch, still nothing. '
By the way, this world's name is Eldoria; I had 4 worlds in my mind that have the same name, currency and war, so I wasn't sure yet, but now there was a high chance that I'm inside a novel or a game, all those hints couldn't be coincidences, right ?.
I jumped from my bed and moved toward my sister's bed, she was sleeping while her head was under her pillow.
"Aria, wake up, it's time for breakfast"
" Just let me sleep 5 more min— "
" You don't want to be late for your first day in school, right? "
"Huaah. Why should I go to school? I don't want to go ."
I rolled my eyes "Haah, looks like I have to use force. "
Instantly I carried her on my shoulder, I may be a kid but I was much stronger than the kids from earth. I asked my mother about that and she said it's related to the vampire's bloodline.
I took the half-sleeping Aria to her bathroom and threw—yes, threw—her into it
-Thud!
" Ow!, You litt— "
*Bam!*
Ignoring her. I closed the door and went to my bathroom.
Thanks to my dear father we are a little rich so having a big house with a bathroom for everyone is possible.
I took a quick shower, and when I left, I found Aria sitting in front of a big mirror. I knew she was waiting for me.
"Finally, now do your job".
"Can't you do this yourself for one time?"
"It's my first day in school, I should look perfect ."
"Tch, okay"
What she wanted from me was to help her in styling her hair. In my past life, Mark taught me these things to help his little sister when he was busy.
One day, I had a small fight with Aria, and I messed up her hair, so as an apology, I fixed it … I regretted that instantly because after that day, she saw my "talent", and I became her personal Sla… cough, I mean hairstylist.
I got close to her, and after finishing, we couldn't help but grin when we looked at the mirror.
Aria and I both had healthy white skin, silky black hair and beautiful purple eyes, but unlike Aria's eyes, my eyes were sharper and a little darker, and though our mother is an elf, we didn't inherit her pointed ears or any visible features.
When we asked her for the reason, she said that my father was a very strong man, so the majority of our genetics were from him.
'Can you see this, Mark ? Your stupid face is nothing to me now ! Hahaha.'
After admiring ourselves. Aria took my hand, and we ran to the kitchen where my mom and grandma were putting our breakfast on the table, which was simple eggs and rice.
But I could swear that even dinosaurs didn't have eggs that big, but that wasn't my problem as long as the food was good.
My mom looked at us for a moment then she focused on Aria."My little princess, are you excited for school? "
Aria almost choked."Y-Yes Mom, I'm so excited "
"Oh ? Why are you looking sad then"
"I'm not sad!!It's just that I hate fighting and pain! ".
The conversation immediately took my attention .
Eleanora looked at Aria with a sad expression and sighed. "It's necessary to form an aura core, increasing your aura core's rank will give you more life span allowing you to live more, I know it will be painful but it's necessary."
She patted Aria's head ."When I was your age, I didn't go to a school because I hated pain too despite having enough points. I thought I would awaken it with my mana, but look at me now, I couldn't awaken my mana core and now I'm 2 steps away from my grave, if not for Silvia I would not even have enough contribution points to feed myself well."
'Am I finally learning about the power system? Aura core that needs pain, mana core that may not awaken. Fuck, I have only 3 worlds in my mind now and only one of them is good '
"Ok… I will endure that ."
"Trust me, when you form your core you will thank me, and you may not need to fight in the war if you have a healing affinity like your mother "
"Mhm! "
With that, Grandma ended the conversation, and we started eating.
But I had to know more, my plans depended on that.
I showed the most innocent expression I could use .
"Mom, can't I get an aura core too ? "
"Sorry dear, but you can make your aura core only when your age is between 11 and 15; when you go to the school, they will teach you how ."
"Then, can you tell me about that war? I'm old enough to know !"
"Ray, that's not something you should worry ab— "
"It's something I should worry about, my dad has died in this war! "
'Damn, that sounds really cringe. '
I made sure to look at Mom with the most determined look I could make; it always works in the novels, after all.
She sighed. "I think I can't change your mind, "
'Hell Yeah! '
"Aria, give him a summary about how the war started and our current situation before you leave, I have to go to work ."
With that, my mom and grandma ended their meal and flew with their chairs outside the house.
Yes, in this world there were flying chairs instead of wheelchairs, cool right?
Unfortunately, when my mother got an injury in her mana core that crippled her legs when she was young, and grandma is just using the chair because why not? Even me and Aria played with their chairs sometimes when they were sleeping.
With their leaving, Aria took me to our room, and for some reason, she wore one of Grandma's glasses and turned off the light.
The glasses were a little big in her face, I had to use all my willpower to not laugh .
"Now, listen closely. Because what I'm going to tell you is how everything started!"