The First Choice

Upon hearing the voice from the little cottage, the handsome man slammed the door opening, with neatly combed back hair and a scar across his right eye that added more manliness to his unwavering aura.

"Pumpkin'n I am bac-Ukk!"

*Boom!*

As he was announcing his obvious appearance, my gentle orange haired mother snapped into another personality and threw a small fireball at him.

"Oh my lovely dear, you will scare the baby with your loud noises."

'So his voice is considered as noise and not your explosion?!'

The two siblings sighed as they thought of the same things.

I opened my heavy eyelids and gave a pity look at the black-faced man with a puffy afro until the new reality hit me.

'Wait a minute...Magic?! In this world too?!!!'

'surviving in this world might be harder than expected...'

The scary mother reverted back to her gentle self and gave me a pitying look before pouting at the afro man.

"Oh, my poor baby... See what you did to my child."

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After apologizing and bringing in a wild boar for a feast, the wife finally pardoned the husband and then after a quick round of passing the baby, me around, the family went back to the main wooden mansion to rest up.

Seeing that he was pulling the giant boar that was tied on his waist with a rope while carrying the mother like nothing and me, I concluded that he was the strength type.

'I need to do more research...Hmmm... So sleepy...'

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"*Yawns*."

I stretched and yawned at the same time as soon I woke on the soft bed and noticed a big smiley face right in front of me after turned my head around.

"Wha-"

"So cute, my little eggplant, tickle tickle~."

After the intense training in the assassin academy, I did not even budge and simply remained motionless as I stared at the handsome man who was making a funny face.

"Eh...Yare yare, my secret move is not working...?"

"Hahaha..."

I decided to laugh after seeing my dad with a puzzled look on his face.

With a few awkward laughs thrown at him, the father started to make even more ridiculous face before my savior, the self-proclaim maid busted into the room with a footprint on the door.

"Hey uncle! No tickling the baby!"

The young girl dressed in a black maid uniform with a white apron snatched me away from the bed and stared at the man like a mother protecting her cubs.

After making sure the baby was fine, Lin Lin ran toward the kitchen area to snitch to the mother who was already lively after one night of sleep.

'This is like a regular family...'

The long dining table was topped with vegetables and soup and especially the big slices of meat in the middle.

'One slice steak is almost as big as the maid...'

Although I never learned their language, my mind subconsciously analyzed everything from their facial expression to voice tone that indicated to me that they were all happy.

"Mhmm...That was tasty, now it's time to feed little Cariel."

I felt the warm gaze coming from above, and as soon our eyes met, my mother smiled and pulled down her neck sleeve that was part of her long robe.

"*Gulp*."

The panic in my eyes could be seen as the soft peaks were approaching my face.

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"Aaaaaaah!"

The other young man who looked similar to the maid was pushing a massive boulder with his shoulder across the dirt field in the backyard of the mansion while the maid and my mother were sitting on the bench and admiring the weather.

'Why does she always bring me where ever she goes...'

I wanted some alone time to learn more about the so-called title that I acquired, but my mother kept me distracted by carrying me around the mansion throughout the entire morning.

"Good! But not enough! I did it even faster when I was 10 years old!"

The playful and childish father of mine had a severe and stern expression as he shouted and the other young man with his arms crossed.

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"Hehehe master is gone to the bathroom..."

Lin Lin would laugh mischievously before carrying me out of the mansion without permission and show off the baby, me to the surrounding neighborhood before returning home to receive a flick to the forehead.

"Mouuu, what if Cariel get sun sick..."

The young maid giggled as she held onto her forehead while my mom was scolding her.

'She doesn't even regret it one bit...'

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After a few days has gone by, I was finally alone all by myself and how...You ask?

I just pretended to fall asleep, and my mom would lay me down on the bed in the living room before resuming her daily errands.

'*Sigh* Finally alone... So far from what I've seen, there is 2 warriors and 2 magicians in this household and everytime my...Mom brings me outside with her, the citizen in this small city would run away from her in a frightening manner.'

'Show me my title.'

With a feint swooping sound, a transparent window appeared in my vision.

[Dark Vagrant Level 0]

'Level 0... Then I should be able to level up in some way right...'

"But what exactly is a Dark Vagrant...?"

[A soul voided of a home who travel through the universe for eternity...]

'Nothing helpful...Anyway, I should probably try to learn more about this world for now...'

I looked around and saw a bunch of books piled up on the wooden desk in the corner of the big bedroom.

I stood up and stabilized myself before tiptoeing toward the desk like a sneaky thief.

'This is a must, after all, seeing a one-week-old baby walking on two legs would freak out anyone, even the people in m-...The dark world would be startled...'

I am getting too used to the dark world I've lived in my dream that it almost took over my main life on earth...

I stood in front of a thick book that was almost as big as my small self and turned the cover with two hands.

'Eh...I can't read it at all...What the-?'

I stared at the first big letter that took over almost the entire paragraph and like a desert mirage, the letter started to stand up before flying slowly toward the sky.

[Letter "O" learned, Exp + 1]

"Ohhh! I heard it too, so that's how to pronounce it..."

After that, I learned a few more words and noticed that the process became slower than the first one.

"Ugh...So dizzy..."

My blurry vision went blank, and I stumped onto the book.

"Young master...It's dinne-I mean, milk time hehehe."

Lin Lin slowly opened the door and realized that Cariel wasn't on the bed anymore and before shouting out of panic, she heard a slight snore and saw a baby drooling on the old antic looking book.

"Ara ara... How did this happen..."

Lin Lin carried the baby back to the bed and quietly left the room to inquire about the mother about her brain.

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'I heard some shout during my sleep but...Everything seems fine?'

I woke up and noticed that I slept for one entire night as the earliest sun ray came through the wooden bordered window.

My parents were already gone and instead, were replaced by a dozen of books.

'So thoughtful!'

I searched around and found the old book from yesterday and excitedly started to learn more words while the maid who spied through the tiny crack between the door remained unnoticed.

'Oh my goddess, could it be... Young master is a genius?!'

Lin Lin took a few steps back and ran down the stairs as soon she was far enough from the main room.

'Ara ara... The people here are my family, so I failed to notice.'

I realized that the person who ran down was the young maid judging by the sound of her footsteps and pretended to throw the books around when she brought the parents back into the room.

"Mouuu Lin Lin, you and your prank..."

With a red mark on her forehead, my mother carried me to the dining room and told Lin Lin not to rush her like that anymore with her pranks, especially when it was related to me, the baby.

"But... But..."

The young maid pouted in defeat while I giggled on the inside.

'Kekeke, wanted to expose me? You are 100 years too early!'

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After 3 more weeks that went by, I finally could read the entire first page of the book and with a few letters that I already knew, the second page took even fewer times to finish.

*Ding!*

[Exp requirement have been met, Dark Vagrant Level up + 1!]

[Dark Vagrant Level 1, please choose a skill...]

[Dark Gate/Dark Gust]

The dozen of transparent window disappeared, leaving only one with two option to choose from.

'Dark Gate and Gust...? What should I choose and what do they even do?...'

[Dark Gate Level 1, User must set a return point... Dark Gust Level 1, allows User to invoke the dark winds...]

"So Dark Gate is like a portal that act like a return point that I have to set up before using it within...With a 10 KM range while the Dark Gust is more like an allrounder skill, I can run faster, jump higher, and the potential is limitless.."

I sat on the table and started to rub my chin as I ponder about my options.

'Right... Survival is the priority, I can always return home or make a safe base... While Dark Gust will take more time to adjust and this world has magic too and I think space-related magic is rarer, mhmm.'

I lifted my small hand and pressed the left button with my index finger.

[The Dark Vagrant has no home. Therefore he or she will have to create one...]

After a long intro with some kind of story, I finally earned my first skill before exhausting myself into a deep sleep.

*Ding!*

Dark Gate Lv.1

*Acquired!*