Your Also A Chosen One

"I know them"

"Eh"

"What?"

Taking advantage of the confusion, the boy managed to force his way inside the residence, as he rushed to our side.

"What are you doing?! Why are you letting him in?!" The head maid shouted, as the servants exchanged confused looks.

"Uh, well, he said he knows the guests," one of them responded.

"That's obviously a lie!"

"It's not a lie!" The boy immediately retorted as he hid behind Yoko. "I do know them! Right?"

Unfortunately for him, the Goddess of Lust and Mischief had absolutely no intention of siding with him.

"Who the fuck are you?" She simply asked, with a disinterested voice.

"Wh-?!"

Upon hearing her answer, the boy flinched as his whole body became tense. Her words were putting him in a bad situation and he knew it.

"Little shit…! It really was a lie after all!" The guard immediately came to grab the child who was now starting to panic.

"W- W- Wait! No, no, no, it's not a lie!" The boy turned in Yoko's direction one more time. "Miss! Miss! It's me! Don't you recognize me?!"

"Never seen you in my life before," she responded with a yawn.

A sadistic smile drew on the guard's face as he started dragging the child. The boy struggled to break free but without success. He then turned his gaze on me.

"MISTER! Tell them!"

What? Me too?

"It's me, it's me!" He yelled with a frantic voice. "I'm Axis! Have you already forgotten?!"

Axis? Am I supposed to remember someone with that name? I've met so many people and I've seen so many faces in this one life time that I've long stopped remembering the irrelevant ones. Taking a good look at the boy, his clothes were ripped and dirty, and his unmatched shoes were completely worn out, making him look like a beggar. However, his face did seem familiar. Still, I couldn't remember him. He didn't have any particular traits and his face was the kind of common face you'd see anywhere in the street.

"It's me, it's me!" The boy cried out.

"That's enough!" The guard shouted. "Your lies aren't fooling anyone anymore, you're dead meat!"

"It's me! Axis!" He kept yelling anyway. "We met a few weeks ago! With big sister Lynett!"

At that moment, the guard froze and the servants started exchanging whispers.

"What are you stopping for? Throw him out!" The head maid ordered.

"Umh… He just said the young mistress' name," one of the servant pointed out.

"So what? It's just a name!"

"But the young mistress isn't publicly known. If he knows her name, he might be telling the truth."

"I am!" The boy spoke out. "I told you I knew the lord and his family!"

As the servants were discussing, unsure what to do, I finally remembered. If the boy says we met a couple weeks ago with Lynett, it significantly reduces the circumstances to only one possibility. The day we met the Creator. Thinking about it, there was indeed a mortal and his son, back then.

"We know him," I spoke out.

"Huh? We do?" Yoko asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Remember that human who used to follow you around like a puppy? That's his son."

"Oh, right. Now that you mention it…"

The guard, unconvinced, looked down on the boy who was now full of confidence again. When the boy arrogantly smiled at him with his "I told you so" expression, he clicked his tongue and shifted his attention to the head maid. However, she silently shook her head. The guard unwillingly let the boy go before everyone returned to their activities.

"Humpff! I told them I knew the Lord's family. I'm going to tell big sister and they're all going to lose their jobs! Serves them right!" Axis muttered in a barely audible voice.

"So, what are you doing here?" I asked. "Does your father know you're here?"

"My fath- AAAH! Right!" He exclaimed. "Where's big sister? I need to talk to her!"

"If you're referring to Lynett, she's not here, so you can go home," Yoko said with an annoyed tone.

"I can wait!" Axis insisted. "When is she coming back?"

"In a couple of months."

"W-WHAT?!"

"She left a few weeks ago," I explained. "She won't come back until the 12th moon."

"The twelfth… That's in five months!"

"That's why I'm telling you to go home, kid," Yoko sighed.

"No, I can't! I really need to talk to her! Now! It's an emergency!"

"Well, that's a problem."

Axis fell silent for a moment. Then, he looked up at us, his eyes full of expectations.

"Then you do it! You can help me instead!" He suggested with enthusiasm.

"No," Yoko flat out rejected him.

"What? Why? You don't even know what I'm about to ask!"

"And I don't want to know," she replied. "Whatever you want, it's not my problem. Deal with it yourself."

"That's so selfish! You can't do that!" The boy complained.

"Oh, trust me, I can." Yoko replied with a much serious tone. "What makes you think I should help you in the first place? Your kind has always been like this. Weak and useless. Unable to do anything by themselves. Always praying for a miracle and waiting for help. So you do that. Beg for help. But don't think for a second that we should help."

Yoko's harsh word hit him hard. Although he was young, he perfectly understood the meaning of her words. He couldn't find anything to say. He then directed his gaze on me. Despite not voicing it, I could tell he was now expecting me to help.

"My apologizes," I said with a smile. "I can't."

Meddling in mortals' affairs is out of question. That goes against the very first Rule. Besides, we have our own mission. We need to stay here and watch over the Creator's mother.

Axis lowered his head.

"But… I really need help. It's urgent…!" He muttered through clenched teeth, tears forming in his eyes.

As the boy started sobbing, Azariah silently approached him before crouching down to his level and putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Are you Lynett's friend?" She asked with a gentle smile.

Axis looked up at her. "Who…?"

"I'm her mother," she introduced herself.

"Her mother?" The boy repeated. "You're also a chosen one?"

Azariah patted the child on the head as she started comforting him, just like a mother would.

"I'm not sure what the matter is, but you shouldn't cry like that or your parents will be sad," She spoke with a soft voice.

The boy nodded and wiped his tears away, his cheek a little flushed. He let the elf spoil him for a few minutes when his eyes suddenly glimmered with renewed hope.

"You help me!" He then declared. "Any chosen one will do, so you help me!"

The young elf, taken aback, silently looked at the boy who was watching her with a childlike expression. I can already tell she won't be able to refuse such beaming eyes.

"Uh, I can try," she accepted with an indecisive smile.

His eyes alight, Axis screamed with delight as he started pouncing and bouncing with a huge grin. His good mood was so intoxicating that Azariah and even a couple of servants began chuckling at his sight.

"Well, shit." Yoko blurted out.

Yeah, this is not good.

[End Of Harris's POV]