Family

--- Chapter 2 ---

[Four Years Later]

After Watase Shizuka brought him to her house, the former heavenly demon, whose name is Watase Aoba now, has grown into a small toddler with short black hair.

Even though there is a slight difficulty because he surprisingly didn't get register after Shizuka checked it at the civil office, somehow she could still adopt him.

However, after getting adopted into Watase's Family, Aoba can finally experience something that he couldn't get in his first and second life, family love.

In Aoba's first life, he was an orphan, and in his second life, he was a slave who got sold into the heavenly demon's cave and trained as a demonic soldier, which led him to become the heavenly demon when he reached thirty years old.

In Fukuyama's mountain, which was surprisingly traditionally owned by the Watase family from the Edo period, a shrine firmly stood on the top.

Behind the shrine, one hundred meters away, we could see a small waterfall, and a four years toddler sat cross-legged on a flat-surfaced rock with closed eyes.

The kid had silky black hair and a healthy complexion, which made him really cute and somewhat charming to see.

He slowly opened his eyes, showing us a pair of brilliant golden eyes, which seemed able to gaze into someone's soul.

"I cannot cultivate my ki art because this body's meridians are not strong enough yet, but at least I can cultivate my soul art." Watase Aoba sighed while viewing everything around him with such a clear view.

He literally could see a tiny water drop fall from a leaf and landed on the dirt, which shook a few specks of dust away before getting absorbed into the ground.

"The first level of golden demon eyes, clear view." Aoba smiled and lifted his tiny body off the rock.

Watase Aoba gripped his hand slightly and shook his head in disappointment because he couldn't train this body with body tempering art.

Even though his fitness is excessively above normal children of his age, it doesn't mean anything in this world because 80% of the population literally have a superpower, which they named as the quirk.

'But to think, I'd get reincarnated into this world.' So Aoba thought with a wry smile on his face because this world is basically a hero vs villain world.

"Let's not think about it first. I need to train my strength first." He said while walking to the waterfall and washed his face with cold water.

"It's so refreshing-." When he was about to finish his words, a loud female shout suddenly echoed in the forest.

"Aoba-chan! Where are you!"

"Well, it's time to go." Aoba smiled when hearing his adoptive mother Shizuka's voice.

Watase Aoba walked through the forest for a few minutes, and he arrived in the shrine's backyard, where a gorgeous woman in her middle-twenty stood and looked around with a worried expression.

"Mom," Aoba said with a smile on his face.

"Aoba!" Shizuka gently smiled and welcomed him with a hug, which he gladly took.

'Soft.' Aoba thought while looking at his adoptive mother's face.

"Let's go to the dining room. We have prepared breakfast for you." Shizuka said, which caused him to frown a little.

'We, not I?' Aoba looked at the house window and noticed a familiar girl waved her hand at him.

They entered the house, and when Aoba walked into the dining room, a lovely junior high girl immediately hugged him.

"Hehe, Aoba-chan, I got you!" The girl said with a smile on her face.

"Tomoe-nee." Aoba naturally said while resting his head on the girl's bosom.

This girl is Shizuka's younger sister, Watase Tomoe, and she's a junior high school girl. She resembled her older sister with a slight difference, which is her eyes.

Shizuka's eyes are royal blue, and Tomoe's eyes are crimson red, which happened because of their quirks.

"Fweeh, Aoba-chan is so cute..." Tomoe said while tightly embracing him.

"My stress is gone because of this overflowing Aobanium." She continued, which caused her older sister to chuckle lightly.

"If you are going to hug him like that, then when we're going to eat our breakfast," Shizuka commented.

"Teehee!" Tomoe stuck out her tongue a little and brought Aoba to his seat.

After finishing their hearty breakfast, which the two sisters made with love, Aoba suddenly opened his mouth and asked, "If Tomoe-nee is here, doesn't that mean grandpa and grandma are here too?"

"Well..." Tomoe shifted her gaze to the side door, which suddenly got opened by an elderly couple.

"Did you call us?" The middle-aged man said with a smile on his face.

"We've come, Aoba-chan." The middle-aged woman added while giggling a little.

This elderly couple is Aoba's adoptive grandparents, Watase Kyojuro and Watase Fuyumi.

They live in a traditional wooden house behind the mountain and occasionally visit Shizuka and him every week.

As they entered the room, they immediately gave Aoba a warm hug, which warmed his heart for a moment, remembering that he finally had a proper family.

"So, why did you guys suddenly visit us? It's not Sunday, you know?" Aoba asked while looking at his grandparents and tomoe-nee.

"Well, since you have reached four years old, it's about time to awaken your quirk, so we thought we should check it together." Kyojuro casually said, which caused the females to frown at him.

"Oh, then what do you think if I awakened a useless quirk?" Aoba asked a serious question, which caused everyone in the room to quiet.

"It won't change anything, Aoba," Shizuka answered with a smile on her face.

"We'd still love you." She warmly continued, to which the rest of them responded with a nod.

"Mm, Onee-chan is right, we'd still love you." Tomoe gave him a smile.

"I see…" Aoba muttered while smiling in his heart.

After that they do a family hugged for a few minutes and walked out of the house, to see a car have waited for them.

"Let's go, Aoba." Shizuka offered her right hand to him.

"Mm," Aoba nodded and took her hand.