A Sense of Nostalgia

Ever since that encounter, I've made my research about this world and it seems that I am indeed correct. This world consists of other anime characters as well.

Government wise, there were things that are quite different. In this world, the government has legalized polygamy, which is unexpected to say the least.

This means people can make a harem, some are more traditional but in this world, people are much more open-minded in matters such as that. But I'm surprised, my father doesn't have any other wives. I'm sure of one thing though, my kind mother is terrifying to say the least. Even my cold father is reduced to nothing in front of my mother.

Speaking of my mother, almost a day ago I had walked into her coughing badly. This lead to us giving her a thorough check-up. The results were in and my parents tried their best to hide it from me.

Though I was able to catch a glimpse, my enhanced perception was enough for that. What I saw was that the disease was very familiar. It was deemed incurable because it was an advanced type of heart disease. This made me realize, they didn't lack the money for treatment in the original. But the problem was, there was no treatment for it.

This made me remember my past life. It may seem mind blowing to say the least but, we already had cures for diseases such as cancer back there. We were more advanced in the medical aspect.

My family of course, was the forefront of it. My father was the one who invented the cure. Not only that, I knew the way to make the cure because it was in a form of a pill or a liquid and it just required a specific type of herb along with other herbs.

What I needed to do was to retrieve the needed herbs and make it myself. Currently, I don't have the intention of mass-producing but maybe in the future I will. I learned the consequences of that the hard way. It makes me want to rather not remember. But because it's for my mother, I would do it without any regrets.

But then it made me remember my birthday wish that I still haven't used yet. I'm now 4 years old and my birthday passed recently, there were no interesting visitors at the time so it was not really worth mentioning. It's been a year since I last saw that girl.

During my 3rd birthday, I asked my father to buy 3 companies overseas. Why three? I thought it would be reasonable because it is my third birthday. The three companies were facebook, google and apple. These two would be business giants in the future and right now, their current value is small enough to the point that I could get my father to buy it.

Surprisingly enough, he agreed. He must have seen the potential that those two companies had. But now, I had to talk to my father once again. Funny thing is, he's getting tired of me learning stuff pretty quickly. This made him spoil my little brother even more. For the first time in my life, I've seen him show a happy expression. Maybe I've crushed his expectations to the point he has become less strict and more open to us.

Of course my little brother was talented like I am, but not as talented as me. But now it's time to talk to my father.

....

I entered my father's office and I saw him reading papers. I immediately saw that what he was reading were statistics from the two companies that he bought.

When he saw me he then said

"Son, how did you know about these companies"

I just showed a smug smile as a reply to which his eyebrows twitched for a bit.

I then asked my question

"Dearest Father, I would like to use my birthday wish now"

He was immediately intrigued and then asked

"What is it that you request?"

My father already knew my personality, I was not unreasonably arrogant because I was a prodigy. But rather, I was humble and mature. Kids my age would be spoiled and arrogant to the point of no return if they were to be in my current position right now. This made him treat me as not a 4 year old child but rather almost an adult.

I then said

"I would like for you to buy these herbs for me"

I handed him a piece of paper that had the list of the herbs that I needed. My father nodded and agreed to my request. Akihiko's father was surprised at the list of herbs because there were some he hadn't even heard of. But for him, it would not be a troublesome matter. Lately, he's been stressed out because of his wife's condition.

This lead to him being more open with his family. Because even though he's a bad parent, he can't bear to lose his wife and he began to think the same for his children... The mere thought of it made him realize his wrong decisions.

....

While I was waiting for the herbs to arrive, I had nothing better to do. My father had stopped giving me things to learn. It didn't mean he wanted me to stop learning, it's just that now he would rather make me choose what to learn myself.

Right now, I was taking care of my mother. I bring her food and I made sure to not make her stressed out completely. When I was about to give her the food, she patted my head and hugged me tightly.

She then said with tears in her eyes,

"My Aki-chan is very kind to me"

I clenched my fists because of the mere thought of losing her. After giving birth to me and Sei-chan her body has become progressively worse.

She herself has ideas of what would happen to her very soon, and what kind of mother would want to be separated from their child?

We stayed in each other's embrace until my childish self eventually slept in my mother's arms.

Before I had completely fallen asleep, I had one thought in my head

'A mother's love is irreplaceable.'

When I woke up, I saw my mother ruffling my head gently.

*Yawn*

I yawned as we got out of bed and went into the dining room.

My father and my little brother were there already. It seems that they were waiting for us.

We then ate together as a family.

This made me realize just how lucky I am right now with them.

....

Early morning

I was awoken to the sensation of someone tapping my shoulders. I recognized the tiny little fingers immediately and when I opened my eyes, I saw my little brother.

He smiled when he saw me and then said with a pleading expression,

"Onii-san play with me"

I gave him a wry smile and then said

"Okay, just give me a few minutes to get ready

>>>

After getting ready, we were in the backyard of the house.

I then heard Sei-chan's voice saying

"Look Onii-san, Father built this for me"

When I looked at the direction he was pointing at, I saw a basketball court that fit the size of the backyard.

When I looked at Sei-chan, he was running towards me with a basketball at hand and gave it to me when and smiled.

I patted his head and grabbed the basketball.

'I missed you buddy' I thought while feeling the basketball for the first time in this life..