Family

---3 years time skip---

It already three years that Aegis was again born into this new world, and in these three years, he has done everything he could to acclimatize to current society, which is much harder than he ever could imagine. Alas, his stay in shadow realms was too much for his soul to bear, every now and then, he could feel slipping into his apathetic state where he doesn't care about anything, and that was the hardest as in these three years he comes to love his current mother and sister, and just thought of not caring about them in such state brought panic to his heart...

But thankfully, Aegis found a way to control somehow his personality changing. Thanks to the arts of meditation, he remembered from his past life and his conversations with other souls that were still emotionally capable in shadow realms. Aegis found out that the best way to control it was mediating...

He was sitting crosslegged on his bed in his room that is bigger than an averages person's home, decorated in white, black, and silver colors, with bookshelves across his walls and full of books ranging from most recent science books to children's tales.

In these three years, his family found out he was not like an average child, where normal children sought attention, he was sitting in corners and looked at them, where normal children cried Aegis did never cry, and where children were innocent and not very intelligent Aegis was looking at the world with apathy and his intelligence that Aegis never tried to hide and just to make it look as he was learning at rapid pace brought from his family different reactions.

His sister was lite intimated and shamed off that her younger brother was more mature and intelligent than her. His mother was worried for him as he never played as a child should...

Aegis loved these women...

His mother was caring, and even though her drinking problem she has, she never was harsh on her children, and his sister, who started seeing Aegis as her rival, didn't change the fact that when she plays outside, he sits on benches with a book in his hands and where one of his eyes read the text, the other never leave his sister he holds dear...

Not speaking about the fact that the mother is in her late pregnancy, both he and winter are anticipating another sibling...

And finally, there is Aegis's most significant problem...

His father he did see just on rare occasions and family dinners that were different from the ones where he is just with his sister and mother laughing and speaking lightheartedly, no the dinners with his 'Father' present are quiet and cold, much colder than Schnee mansion walls...

Aegis isn't stupid or blind to not see in these three years that his father isn't father material or even Human material...

Aegis remembers souls in the shadow realm more human than his father is...

Aegis doesn't know what the situation between his mother and his father is. From how his father treats his children, he knows mother would be the same or even worse. Unfortunately, he isn't knowledgeable or strong enough to change such fact but in the future...

In the future, he will change it...

The moment his father found out his outstanding intellect, he seemed to almost change into a loving father...

Almost...

Aegis could see that his smile but just facade he mask his cold expression, his sister who is the heir of SDC and the one who was trained for it from her four years old night and day, always tired from all lectures she must follow was almost miracle saved as her schedules were halved, she was ecstatic that she has more of free time and happy to be with her brother and mother more until the time she found out the truth of why...

The moment his sister was come to see him and take him outside to play, she found out that teacher that was supposed to teach her was teaching him...

Yes, his father, the moment he found his genius-level intelligence made sure to mine it like he is mining his dust mines...

Without mercy and care, he made Aegis, a nonspoken male heir he always wished to have, not like his sister, whoever tried her best to be acknowledged by their father...

From that day, his sister was colder to Aegis, she stopped playing with him, and she started speaking with him formally as she was taught to speak with her business rivals...

His mother was heartbroken when she found out what her husband done to her children...

Alas, there isn't a way to change it as Winter, no matter how much intelligent she is from other children, she is still a child she wasn't mature enough and doesn't understand what their father has done wasn't Aegis fault, no Winter see it as if Aegis tried to steal her place...

From that day, Aegis's routine was either him teaching from different tutors to his mediating and staying near to his mother, who could see falling more and more into the bottom of wines...

He tried to change it, Aegis tried to help his mother who became deaf to his little pleas, he tried to speak with his sister who day by day became colder to him...

Nothing worked...

He witnessed his loving family fallen apart in a single move of his father...

And Aegis was powerless to change it. After all, who would listen to a child...

And his mental state wasn't best too, his mediating could help him control his personality shifting, but it didn't stop the dreams or nightmare he did have...

HE dreamed of a woman with black hair and amber eyes as he was burning to death...

No matter how he tried, he couldn't even remember where he saw this woman, and with his daily routine, The ones who looked closer could see how tired he is and how close to collapse...

He was three years old, but already he was tired from all of this stress...

And on the same day, his birthday is, his little sister named Weiss was born, and on the same day she was born, his child body was given up, and he collapsed alone in his room on his birthday on what everyone has forgotten...