328 Elites
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“You’re big and muscular! Wooow!”
“Can we call you big sister?”
“Big sister!”
Nepheline was being swarmed by a handful of children as well, some were admiring her muscles. She wore clothes that left very little to the imagination, and Ninhursag as well, so the two muscular beauties were being admired by the younglings.
“Ahahaha! Well, if you want to!” Laughed Nepheline. As she petted the children happily.
A little boy slowly walked towards Ninhursag, he seemed to be a beast-kin with a fluffy cat-like tail and tiny cat ears instead of human ears. He had fur over his hands as well, making adorable paws.
“Missy…” He asked timidly.
“Hm? Yes?” Wondered Ninhursag, as she looked at the boy curiously. Noticing how adorable he was, she couldn’t help but slowly drop her serious face as she smiled.
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“Have you met my mama?” He asked timidly.
“Y-Your mama?” Wondered Ninhursag.
“S-She looks a bit like me… with long hair…” Said the boy.
“I-I haven’t…” Said Ninhursag. ƒгeewёbnovel.com
“Hm…” The boy walked away without saying another word, he had been asking the same question to everyone from our group.
Celeste at my side explained to me who he was.
“That’s Casim, he’s a Cat-kin we picked up when he had grown a bit more. We found him two and a half years ago in the alleys, starving to death.” Said Celeste. “He always asks for his mother, whom he misses a lot. We found him without her, and he was very stubborn to find her for a long time, until he kind of gave up and stayed with us… He’s obsessed with finding his mother.”
“I see…” I sighed.
“Have you sometimes thought you were unlucky to have a parent that annoyed you, or sometimes cursed because they try to teach you things?” Wondered Celeste.
“A-A few times… I’ve discussed with my parents, but… I don’t feel like you said.” I said.
“Hm… Appreciate your family, Sylph. Not everyone has the privilege of growing with their parents like you’re doing, especially with such strong parents capable of taking care of themselves and protect you… You’re a very lucky person, I envy you.” Celeste said with a calm voice, as her red eyes looked deep into my own soul.
“I’m sorry for your lose… Do you remember your parents?” I wondered, trying to change the conversation. Celeste seemed like a girl who held a deep darkness within her, I didn’t wanted to provoke her by getting angered over her weird words, so I simply decided to ask her something more personal.
“I do.” Said Celeste. “I do remember my mother… I remember how she was killed too.”
“H-Huh? She was…?” I asked.
“Right in front of my eyes…” Celeste looked down into the floor, her eyes devoid of any light. “By my own father…”
“…”
For a moment, we fell into silence. I really didn’t know how to even respond to that. I shouldn’t had even asked to begin with, I only ended making things worse. Celeste remained in silence. It seems that she might had been living with such thoughts for a long while, maybe bearing with the trauma with her, without never recovering. I guess… I can relate to it as well. I have yet to recover from the death of my father in my previous life. I had simply… filled my heart with so many new experiences and loved ones that I’ve simply moved forward.
Even after I avenged him and killed many of those bandits, I have no idea what is happening in my world anymore, I also have no idea where my mother and my little sister could be… I am always thinking about it even when I really don’t want to. It is very hard to simply forget a previous life. Or maybe, I just don’t want to forget about it.
“I am sorry for asking, if that brought you bad memories…” I sighed.
“Don’t worry. I got over it long ago.” Said Celeste.
Despite her pretending to be alright, I can tell this is still affecting her, and deep down, I can’t help but wonder how this even happened. Why would his father kill her mother, and why would she had been there to see everything happen without being able to do anything against it? Just what sort of background does Celeste has?
Aquarina and Zack quickly came back from the kitchen to greet me, finding me talking with Celeste, they quickly greeted by Mist, and with her, all three of them came to our side.
“Sylphy, there’s a lot of kids here…” Said Aquarina. “I can’t help but feel a bit nervous, especially when they stare at me…”
“Well in here we are the weirdos, there’s a lot of demon and beast kids.” Said Zack.
“There are some humans too.” Said Celeste. “It just that demons and beast-kin are discriminated by other orphanages, they throw them out when they cause trouble. The people in the orphanages often accept mostly humans, the rare elves, and dwarves. The last two are very rare to find homeless.”
“Why is that?” I wondered.
“Hm? Isn’t it obvious? Most if not all elves and dwarves belong to big families or Kingdoms, they don’t like to meddle too much with humans. If you ever find a lost elf kid, he most likely belongs to a rich family. Elves own a whole continent and are Elites.” Said Celeste with a slight tone of resentment. “But it makes sense seeing how strong your mother is… Elves live long and have insane magic, it is obvious they would become one of the top elites in the entire world.”
“E-Elites?” I wondered. “I-I thought we only had a kingdom in the Atlanta Continent, is it that big?”
“Well, that’s how it is, everyone knows this. Ask your mother a bit more if you want to, she should be the one that knows the most, isn’t it?” Wondered Celeste while glaring at me expressionlessly.
“Hm… You’re right, I’ll ask when there’s time, thanks.” I said to Celeste, as she nodded.
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