Chapter 3 : A Day Before Birthday
The day before his fourth birthday, he was having a conversation with his grandparents.
"Grandpa, how long do you think this will take to get my emotions?" said Geno to his grandfather emotionlessly.
"*Sigh. I don't know, Geno. I don't know. Your soul is strong that your current body can't handle." said his grandpa with a sad look on his face.
'It had taken a long time. I thought it would take some months, a year at most. But to no avail. I thought that Geno's body would break after all this training!! Hell, I started training him at two years what I trained Lola when she was twelve.' thought Leonard to himself with a sigh.
"Don't worry, Geno. You will be alright in no time. You will live your life to your heart's fulfillment" said Lobna to her grandson with an encouraging look on her face while her heart aches for her most beloved grandson like someone is stabbing her with a knife.
"How long will it take grandma??? A year, five, ten, or my whole life??? I can't continue like this?? Why me??" said Geno emotionlessly, though his words carried mockery, sadness, loneliness, and a bit of self-despair.
The grandparents looked at each other and could see the hurting and aching look in each other eyes.
Suddenly, a noise came from behind and Geno could see his great-grandfather, Xander Sept, his granduncle, Charles Sept, and his aunt Lola coming towards them.
"How is my cutie pie doing today??? Hehe, I heard he became a strong man." Said Lola happily while running to Geno with her wide arms opened.
Geno stared at his aunt emotionlessly. He loved his aunt greatly and had a great connection with her but still, he couldn't express his emotions. He felt an isolation barrier between himself and others.
"hi, aunt Lola," said Geno in his aunt's arms.
"Cheer up, Geno. You preserved till now. You will see results soon" said Charles to his grandnephew while sighing.
"Your birthday is tomorrow Geno. Prepare yourself" said Xander with his always stern voice.
"Ok" replied Geno, standing up and heading to the family main mansion.
After Geno got out of their sight. They sighed in frustration. Their talented and adorable child is hurt and they can't do anything to help him.
"Make preparation. There is a high chance this time. Father said there is an eighty percent chance that it will come all at him this time." Said Xander, his voice softening for his great-grandson.
"Really!!!!" said everyone, standing up excitedly and staring at the elder with disbelief and joy.
"Keep it here. Don't give anyone a false hope" said Xander, leaving his children behind.
They stared at the sky happily for a while before following back to the mansion.
After returning to his room, Geno stared at the void for a while before he closed his eyes after sensing his mother coming towards his room. He loved his mother and hated himself for making her worry and cry because of him. He will always try to hide from her so he can't see the worried look on her face.
His mother came to his room. Seeing his eyes close and his breath is even, she came close to him and stretched her body next to him, planting a kiss on his cheek and play with his hair. She started talking to him thinking he was asleep.
"I am sorry baby. It is your mother's incapability that she can't help you. I always dreamed of my baby running through the fields with his brothers and sisters laughing and enjoying his life but it is all my fault I can't help you" cried his mother next to him with tears dropping on his cheek.
He could also sense his father at the door of the room clenching his fists while tears formed in his eyes that he can't help his son and wife.
'My son is brilliant and has the best talent and that's not my words alone this the words of my great-grandfather. The person who stayed the most and got more benefits from the dark continent than all humanity. What he got has evolved the whole family bloodline and abilities to the standards of those powerful beings in the dark continent if not more. That person told us that my son is the most talented person he had ever seen and maybe the hope to conquer the dark continent.
My son when he was a fetus was absorbing life force from the surrounding with large quantities that his mother could not use her Nen during her pregnancy. Hell!!! She can't even stand after the 6th month and turned pale in the last month. The surrounding trees and flowers turned black and withered. their life force was absorbed by him when he was a child and didn't even sense it like a black hole.
When he was three, I knew he was hiding from us and followed him once. You don't know but, these forest ruins had five types of mythical creatures that even my great-grandfather had a pact with these creatures not to miss with each other. Maybe he can live after facing them but can't win. He told me these creatures are in the middle of power ranks on the dark continent.
They are thunderbirds, destruction dragons, black phoenixes, snow beasts, and star ravens. When I followed my son, I saw him lying on the back of a snow beast while staring at the void. Hell!!! He even played with a small thunderbird once. I was afraid that I almost pissed my pants.' thought Mon to himself while remembering how proud he was of his son.