32: The Bunker III

Jay was waiting for the system to take him back to "reality" or whatever, and he was quite disappointed at the short memory function.

Why?

Because he didn't learn anything. Well, he learned who made the bunker and why, but he didn't learn anything useful about this place.

When his ass was dropped on the cold floor, Jay cursed the system under his breath. Then, he realized that he could see anything, just a void of blackness in front of him.

He could feel and his hands, and he couldn feel pain when he used his hands to slap his legs, but he still couldn't see anything.

Oh.

Fuck.

He was inside the bunker when he was in the memory, so now...

The baby let out a loud cry, hoping that his caretakers will wake up and hear him.

Jay doesn't even know if the basement's trap door is open. His cry was also starting to annoy him, so he stopped and tried to get up on his feet.

Nothing. Just darkness.

Slowly but steadily, the baby tried to turn around. His eyes landed on a beam of light on the ceiling. Since it's a straight line of light, the transmigrator concluded that it's the trap door. Huh, so it must be morning outside.

Well, time to climb those stairs to heaven.

He didn't have any light to guide him, just the silhouette of the trap door—

"Oooof..." A wheezed hasp came out of his lips when his knee hit the first step of the stairs, but he managed to grabbed on to the third step for support.

Tears were actually seeping from the corner of his eyes from the pain. Good fucking god...

Is this what being a toddler is like? You just run into shit and you cry?

The transmigrator felt so useless right now. He knew that he has the stairs to climb up, but at the same time, he knew he had to bang the trap door for help. He felt so useless for not being able to get out of a situation that he put himself into...

A creaking sound could be heard above him, so Jay looked up at his guiding light. The trap door was opened from the other side, revealing the silhouette of both of his parents looking down into the bunker.

Phew.

The sight of them was enough for Jay to began babbling and slapping the stairs that he's on. A wave of relief rippled through his caretaker's faces when they saw him again.

"You sure got a thing for sleep walking into weird places." The Red King commented as he made his way downstairs.

His companion's flashlight followed behind him, and that bit of light allowed Jay to moved out of the teenage boy's way. Then, the baby was scooped up from the ground.

"It's the second time this week Kaon sleep walked... Sleep crawled? I don't know... He somehow got into a basement again." JJ yawned as she waited for her partner to come upstairs. "I thought you closed the door to the basement."

"I did!" The teenage boy defended himself. "But the hatch was unlocked, so..." His red eyes moved to the baby in his arms. "Kaon, how did you open it?"

Jay blinked back up at his male caregiver.

He did open it in the dream scape, but he didn't know how it would affect the overworld. Definitely all of the System's doing.

"Let's have breakfast, alright?" The teenage girl yawned again. "Then we can start looking at what to renovate."

"Yeah." The Red King nodded before he walked back to the couch.

Jay looked from his caregiver's arms to see the bunker once more. They're going to renovate this place? Of course... A house can only turn into a home with some renovations.

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Two days later, his parents were sitting on the floor of the living room with the baby in between them.

Jay was playing with his Rubik's cube, and he was so close to getting the one color. His focus was shattered when a huge hand slammed on the floor board, making the baby flinched.

"We're getting a contractor!" The Red King declared. "It's too much work!"

His partner grumbled as she drew something on a sheet of paper that they found in the bunker.

"Don't tell me I'm wrong." The teenage boy continued talking, and his red eyes softened in apology when he noticed that the transmigrator stopped fiddling with the Rubik's cube. "And we'll get some toys for you too, Kaon. Sounds good?"

"We don't have the legal documentations for that..." JJ lifted her head up from the sketch of the house's interior. Her eyes knitted into a frown at her partner. "We can pay people extra to shut up, but I don't know how much things cost."

"I'll ask them." Her companion sighed. "Besides, we need to get food and supplies."

JJ was considering it for a moment, her hand stopped writing on the piece of paper, then she began writing again.

"Alright. We're getting a contractor to work on the house, then we get groceries."

The transmigrator was glad that they're going into town. He's been very bored lately since his teenage parents were scanning every inch of the house for what they can do. Also, there's a room upstairs that will head to an attic, along with a small bathroom. This cabin was pretty well built, just small.

His violet eyes moved from his caretakers to the Rubik's cube in his hand. The baby pouted when he realized that he's two squares away from completing the color red.

"When do you wanna potty train Kaon?" The teenage boy's voice asked out of the blue.

That's... That's a genuine concern.

Fuck, how can he get potty trained without breaking the OOC rule?

"Jay! He barely learned how to walk!" The teenage girl replied to her partner, oblivious to the transmigrator's inner turmoil. "We'll potty train him when we get a normal working toilet."

"Sounds good." The Red King let out a laugh as he stood up from the floor. "Lady Red talked about it a lot. Damn... I wish she was still here."

His partner stopped scribbling on her paper just to stare at him. Jay could see those deep blue eyes softened in sadness.

"If she was here, we wouldn't have to babysit Kaon full-time."

"Aren't we allowed to miss her?" Her companion shook his head as he talked.

"I never said we aren't allowed to miss here." JJ pressed her lips into a hard line, and she began gathering up her writing supplies.

The teenage boy stood still for a moment before he let out a sigh. His lips pushed into a smile as he leaned down to lend the baby a hand.

"Get up, little buddy. We're going to town."

Jay clapped his hands twice before putting his hand in his caregiver's, and he used it to stabilized himself as he stood up.

Suddenly, the System's interface screen popped up in front of him.

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