kidnapping

* Knock knock *

"You can come in, I'm awake."

As the wooden door of my room opened with a slight creak, my parents, who had dark circles under their eyes, entered my room and said good morning to me.

The more I hesitate, the more I regret it. There's no point in putting it off, it's best to say it now.

"Good morning to you too. Uhmm, dad, I had to stay up very late last night because you made so much noise massaging mom."

"Ih , I... I will prepare breakfast"

Hearing my words, my mother reacted with extraordinary speed, covered her face with her hands and ran out of my room under the pretext of breakfast, leaving my father behind.

My father, proving what a magnificent organism he is in terms of shamelessness, complained at length about my mother's back pain and the need for regular massages

I couldn't even blame them for their absurd lies because they thought I was a child. I said a few words that made me think I believed my father's words and went to the living room to have breakfast with him.

When I was new to this world, I thought I had a love for my mother that could be considered wrong, but as time passed, I realized that it was not the kind of love I had imagined, but something similar to the love people have for their parents. Since I started to think this way, I have become more accepting of my parents.

Even if I add up my previous life and this life, the fact that I was younger than them helped me a lot. I think having a mother and a father made me feel more comfortable.

Many nights after reincarnation, I used to fantasize about how I would survive if I was kicked out of my family or if they died, but now I didn't even think about tomorrow and before I went to sleep at night I imagined that in the future I would become a great sorcerer and summon a gigantic meteor from the sky.

I wondered for a moment what exactly this feeling was called. Recklessness? Recklessness? No no, nothing like that. It's something much different and warmer. Trust...

I think this feeling or thing is called trust. I admit it's stupid, but I can't help thinking that I wish I could have felt like this in my previous life.

"Are you upset about something, Yuto? That's exactly what happened. We're sorry Yuto, we won't make any more noise at night, please don't hate us"

Puffft...hahaha . My mom is terrible at reading people as usual. Hahaha, I can't stop laughing.

"You've got something, Kael! Our son started laughing in anger. I laugh sometimes when I'm angry too. Kael! Do something!

Hahaha, maybe I'm laughing so much because my nerves are broken. Oops, my tears are dripping on the breakfast that my mom made with care.

"I think you're worrying for nothing, darling. Your face is so ugly when you laugh nervously, but look, Yuto is as cute as a little girl as always."

** Bamm ** (the sound of an iron bucket hitting my father's head)

Ahahahah... My jaw hurts... When was the last time I laughed so much? Or rather, had I ever laughed with so much fun?

After a few minutes of my mom and dad's impromptu help like giving me a drink of water and patting me on the back, I managed to calm down.

For some reason I want to laugh all the time today. I better get away from here or I will start laughing again.

"Even though today is an important day for you, aren't you leaving a little early, Yuto?"

When I heard my mom's voice as I was putting on my shoes, I quickly answered without turning around and left the house.

"I have to stop by my master's place before going to celebrate."

"Before you go, come back and get your jacket. You'll sweat and get sick after the competition."

"Okay."

As if a bunch of brats could really make me sweat.

As I left the house and walked towards the town center, feeling the morning frost all over my body, I noticed that my eyes were wet once again. At first I didn't care, thinking that my eyes were wet because of the cold wind, but as I continued to walk on the road where no one was around, my tears continued to flow without stopping.

What's going on? I wonder if I've opened some kind of seal because I shed a few tears while laughing. I haven't really cried much since I passed the baby stage, but is this really normal? Or am I sad for some reason?

Why would I suddenly be so sad? I should be happy right now because I feel the security of having a family. Do I feel wronged because I couldn't feel this kind of emotion in my previous life?

**Slap!**

Ahhhhhhhhhh, what's wrong with you

Snap out of it, Yuto! You're not the kind of wimp who gets emotional for no reason! Oh right, only wimps are happy at the smallest thing and despair at the simplest thing! Maybe it's the system that makes me so emotional

[ If thinking like that makes you happy, think whatever you want sir ]

You really listen to me all day? Huff, maybe you think I'm an idiot for acting like this?

[ I guess I'm thinking/calculating how stupid humanity is for not acting like you, sir ]

Ahhh ah you are never spoken to either...

------- 10 minutes later

When I felt calmer and the pain from the slap on my cheek was more pronounced, I got up from the stone and walked towards the center of town, remembering what I had told my mother.

What I had told my mother about going to my master was a complete lie. I had hardly ever visited the town and there were many things I was curious about.

I decided to make this day as enjoyable as possible, since I felt like I had been locked up at home for years. The town we lived in was built on a plain surrounded by 4 big mountains and on the top of each mountain there was a watch post. According to the rumors I had heard, the town we lived in was very close to the border between our country and the other country, so we were always in danger. My father worked at one of these outposts, so our house was built on the mountainside close to the outpost.

After walking with my little legs down the mountain road for a while, I managed to reach the center of the town, which was densely lined with houses. Many people were walking fast through the streets because there was a big celebration on this day.

Because a cute little boy like me stood out so much in a crowd like this, many people would turn their heads and look at me with interest. Some of these people came up to me and asked my name and stroked my hair, while others stood at a distance and gossiped, which I could barely hear

"Do you see that kid's hair? Was she born like that or did something fall on her head?"

Why ur fcking care!

" I don't know. Never mind that, look how cute he looks with that hair. I think he's guaranteed to grow up to be the most handsome boy in our neighborhood."

"Are you sure. I think it's a girl."

"I think it's a boy"

"Are you up for a bet?"

When I saw the people who were fascinated by the conversation between the two women, my nerves started to get on my nerves. Realizing that staying here any longer would make me a murderer, I accelerated my steps and changed my path towards the alleys.

When I reached a slightly darker alley with narrow alleys from the street between the two houses, I was greeted by a horrible sight and at the same time a system screen appeared in front of me

When I looked at the system screen, I saw that I got a side task that I haven't had for a long time

[ Congratulations you got a new side mission ( good or evil )

Mission content : decide your future path by doing good or selfish deeds over the next year

Term of office : 1 year

Mission progress : none

Mission reward : teleport

Mission penalty : adding a "minus" sign at the beginning of the luck statistic

Note: first of all you are a human being, it doesn't matter if you are a master or a butler. Now it's time for you to make a choice; a choice that you will regret every day... If you had to give up someone, would you give up your heart or your brain? ] 

Teleportation? Isn't that the super cool special thing every human dreams of? I definitely need to do this mission, and if I turn into an unlucky human, I might be in a situation where I can't protect what I have now even with the force.

Remembering the little pink-haired girl who had just been kidnapped and tied up with ropes by two rude men walking past me, I got an idea of why this mission had come up now, and I stepped out from behind the empty barrel I was hiding behind to avoid being seen by the men who I guessed were human traffickers.

I felt that if I let the men escape I would be stepping into the path of evil, so without delay I checked my surroundings, whispered a low-level stealth spell and turned invisible.

Only a few seconds later, I saw the girl on the shoulder of the leading men slowly opening her eyes as I ran in wide strides after the men who I guessed were human traffickers. Apparently they had somehow knocked her out and secretly kidnapped her.

Even when the girl realized what was happening and wanted to scream for help, the cloth in her mouth prevented her from speaking, and when I looked carefully, I could see that there was a magic circle on this cloth. It was probably one of the magical items my master had told me about.

Even though I thought I could defeat both bandits with a sudden attack, I didn't want to risk it, as there was only woods in the direction the bandits were running and woods were a good place for me to use magic.

I didn't know why they had kidnapped this girl, so I decided to call them bandits, and we were almost in the woods. I took my steps as wide as I could, so the bandits still couldn't sense my presence. 

After playing spies with the bandits for about 10 more minutes, we met another group of 3 people sitting on the ruins of a ruined building in the woods.