I'm sorry I cannot give you everything that you should have

Arju set aside that idea and went near the boy to seat next to him. He then pats the boy's back and talks to him.

"Izayoi, you are a growing boy of course master will give you the bread your master doesn't need it anymore and besides I already have my soup," He said to the who is still looking at the food, he stays like that for a few seconds until something came up in his mind.

Izayoi then grabs the bread and rip it into two which then gave the other half to his master. Arju was quite surprised when the child suddenly gave him the bread with a determined face. He cannot win this child if she shows this kind of expression so he thanks him and take half of the bread.

"*sigh* since you want to give this to me then it is not good to refuse it" The child then gave a warm smile and then they continued their dinner.

"Oh that's right, you said that you finally finished the fifty slashes?" Izayoi nodded enthusiastically

It is quite normal for a five years old child to carry a sword, especially in the Ratea though there are only a few children here since this place is like a wasteland for the people of Cyffredin. The truth is that Izayoi holds the sword for the first time when he was three years old but his body cannot support it because of it weights so, he made an improvised wooden sword which he can play with but when he finally reached the age of four Izayoi immediately asked his master for the true sword but at that time still not good since his body is still too small for it though at that time the child didn't compromise with him anymore and insist of holding the sword, at that time even though he cannot get a good grip on it he looks like he is having fun. At that time the child cannot even give him a full swing or even a half, the child was frustrated because of his lack of strength but you can see that he likes it based on the warm smile in his face. He asked why he is hurrying himself to learn swordsmanship then the child said that he wants to become much stronger so that when he grows up he can give him anything that he wants and they will never get starve again.

The words of the little four-year-old child back then surprised him and then he also remembered that kind of look when he was still three years old and he cannot help but feel sorry, since he cannot give the child what he supposed to have, if their land was not attacked by those people maybe the young master can be happy by the side of Master Pheles.

He doesn't know if having a different destiny as him will only make him suffer, when he came to this world, lost his mother, whose extremely excited to meet him and at the same day he also lost his grandfather, he doesn't know where is the child's father, it is said that he abandoned the two of them and left to his own country but for some reason, the Young lady Pheles believed in him until her last breath.

When the child turned four and a half years old he was surprised when he can finally give him a full slash and he was even surprised when he gave him two of it, he cannot help but look at the child in disbelief.

At first, he is worried since the child looks like he is pushing himself carrying that sword of him which even he deemed it heavy when he first got it from the Master Pheles. He thought that the child is reckless when he was four but now he knows that the child won't start something on a whim and look at him now, he still has that expression when he first got a hold of that sword.

"Master that is right I finally finished the task that you want me to do please bring me to your hunt already" He was quite surprised when the child suddenly talked out of nowhere and he remembered the promise that they made half a year ago, he indeed promised that he will bring him to his hunt if he finished fifty slashes, he did make the promise since he expects him to finish it at six months but still the child got a hold of his sword and it might not be enough for his grown and he didn't even get his baptism yet and he cannot use magic yet, he wonders what magic attribute the young master will have.

In the future, this child that he had already treated like his child might leave him and he won't be satisfied in this place which he can only give him, he is sure that someday this child will find his own place where he belongs where is not there anymore just like how his parents are not part of his life anymore.

He then looked around their hut is small and shabby and looked at the soup don't even look like one since it has a color of water, he wonders if this will definitely become the worst childhood for this child in the future though unknown to him this will be one of those things that Izayoi will be grateful for in the future.

A Suivre…