Free Web NovelChapter 15: Annex building
The main estate was in the center of the city and Prism lived in an annex building connecting the estate, a place mostly reserved for the servants.
On one side was the castle that rose so high it almost touched the sky, the place where all of them had grown-up in, and then there was this small three story building with no extraordinary facilities.
Even the children of the branch family and the outsiders that the family had taken in lived in better facilities within the estate.
The estate itself was the center of the city, a place with countless facilities, training grounds, and places filled with special creatures.
Cradles weren’t the only place where the creatures of the Sungrade lived. Many liked living freely in the city. Some of them even had entire areas dedicated to them inside and near the estate.
’There’s us, and then there’s this simple place.’
While he was given some privileges as the son of patriarch, he was neither recognised as an official heir nor was he acknowledged by the people in this family.
The Mistresses of the house that looked over the family affairs as well as the elders of the family weren’t interested in him. Even those of the branch family looked down on him.
It was a well known fact that the son of the ’cursed bitch’ was a useless trash who can never tame any beasts.
The Energy Decay Syndrome was a very rare illness. No one in the Sungrade history had ever had this condition so the people blamed the mother that birthed a cursed child like him.
"Haaa..."
As Flora stood before the building where the servants of the house lived, she couldn’t help feeling a strange guilt.
The people in the family, including the children, didn’t know much about Prism’s mother. Their mothers didn’t talk about her and the only thing that was known... was how their father had killed her.
She had only seen his mother a few times and she didn’t really have any special feelings towards her.
As far as she remembered, that person was nothing special... but surely different from all of her stepmothers.
"Kiren, let’s go."
"Y-yes."
Prism was neglected, looked down upon, talked trash about, and he had lived a life where even the servants of the house didn’t see him as more than a shadow.
Those of the direct bloodline didn’t have to participate in the [Proof of Worth] but since the elders didn’t acknowledge him either, he would have to appear before the entire family to show what he can do.
He would still not be acknowledged as an official successor, but he would either be kicked out of the family depending on the results, or receive the bare minimum of support from the family.
His position within the family was the most unstable right now. And seeing how there was an assasination attempt, she was afraid the forces that didn’t like him were trying something vicious.
"Oh! Greetings, Lady Flora!"
"...!"
"M’Lady!"
The moment she walked inside the annex building, the maids and other servants bowed to her. Some of them ran up to her to ask her what someone like her was doing in a place like this.
"Where’s his room?"
She didn’t tell them what she was doing there but she asked one of the maids she seemed to have seen before and asked her something.
"Oh..."
She did not specify who she was talking about but it was obvious who it might be.
"It’s on the top floor. The last room on the left."
The servants didn’t interact with Prism much either. Only Lexie, one of the head maids and his personal maid looked after him.
"Ok. You all should continue with your work then."
She looked at the maid before her and the rest of the people in the hall, and the look was enough for them to know that it was a request.
She was here to do something, and they would only get in her way so they all nodded and bowed once again, not daring to trouble her further.
"Yes... as you say, m’lady."
They could tell it was an important matter.
It was the first time any of the official hairs had come to this place to look for the useless son.
They were afraid they’d lose their heads or at least their jobs if they got in the way of whatever was going on, so the entire building went back to their daily lives as if she wasn’t even there.
The person that came with her was also surprised by the effect of her presence.
Still, their objective was to meet the person at the center of the commotion. So, when they stood before his room, they were expecting to see the youngest son of the Sungrade patriarch.
-Ooooooooooooooong!
However, what met their eyes the moment they ’walked into’ the room, was an endless plain, a grassland that stretched all the way to the horizon.
Here, the sky was clear and blue, the clouds that moved through the blue sea above them catching them off guard.
"Miiiiii...!"
The Bloombug that was hiding inside her robes jumped out, stunned by the strange place that seemed real even though, as the creature could tell, it was not.
It wasn’t real but it was there. At that moment, it was there.
It stunned the [Level-4] tamer that watched the scenery, spotting the boy that was sitting on the ground with a picnic basket before him.
"Prism..."
He had seen this boy ever since he was a newborn.
She had always liked his pretty hair even though most people in this house called it cursed.
His red eyes were the same as their father. They had always been charming and deep... if it weren’t for his inability to tame the beasts, she knew he wouldn’t be looked down upon.
In this family, especially, he would have been a prominent figure that everyone respected.
But then again, the true curse was his illness, not his blue hair.
"Big sister. Come, join us." He called out to her first, bringing her out of her daze.
She had figured out this was some kind of powerful illusion.
The cat that he was playing with right now must be the source of this illusion.
But, she wasn’t interested in the feline as much as she was attracted by the strange white bird that was running around in the background.
’Is this what you call a miracle?’
They were both creatures that she had never seen before. There was a certain kind of bond between these creatures and her brother.
They weren’t merely creatures that were following him, but ones that he had a unique relationship with.
These were his tamed beasts, his partners and companions... something that should have been impossible.
"You seem to have changed quite a bit since I last saw you, little mister." She walked up to him and sat down before her brother, accepting the fresh green tea served to her by the maid she had always seen by his side.
"Things happen, big sister... things happen."
Since their eldest sister had been missing for a decade, she was the eldest that had been around, looking after the dumb set of her brothers.
She was kind... perhaps, that was the reason she died only a year after he left this house in his past life.
"Miiiiii~!"
"Hello to you too, Brush."
Sam smiled at the Bloombug and took out something from the picnic basket, something that surprised his big sister.
"Miii? Miiiiii...!"
And also something that made the green scarf jump in the arms of the one the people of this house had always called ’trash’ this entire time.
