Omake 1 Childhood memories part 1

It had been an accident.

Harry had been cleaning the contents of his bag. After so many lives, he figured it was about time he got rid of all the trash he had kept when he got through his collector phase.

In the first three or four lives, he had looked at pretty much anything as if it were a unique treasure; because once that world died he knew he wasn't going to find anything like it ever again. This way, he ended up with a lot of curious, useless objects that only were taking space in his bag.

Harry didn't even remember what most of them were. Sure, he could remember if he so tried, but that would mean meditation, going into his mind castle in order to check the memories of that particular world. All in all, it would be time consuming and tedious, so he decided to follow his instincts in whether something was useful or not.

He was doing this alone in his office, throwing the useless objects at the corner of the room while the ones he was keeping were placed in a different section of the endless bag.

Well, he had been alone at first anyways.

Harry was sure as hell they had agreed to come "visit" him all at the same time, there was no way this was only coincidence. One after another, the guardians came to report something, claiming he had called for their presence. They kept coming in between intervals of 2 minutes, until all of them were standing in front of his desk, looking confused.

"What? No, I didn't ask you to come Shalltear. Who told you I did?"

"He told me, he… eh? I can't remember?" So she didn't know either. Harry narrowed his eyes, frowning with worry and apprehension. Had Nazarik been infiltrated?

As he was thinking this, he got distracted and threw a seemingly empty, crystal bottle at the pile of discarded items, the flask breaking in pieces. A moment after that, a brilliant yellow light engulfed the whole room like a flash, momentarily blinding him.

When he opened his eyes again, the guardians were still in front of his desk, but now looked like 5 year-old children.

"What the flying fu-!"

"Swearing in front of children!? You monster!" came the jokingly affronted male tone from his side before the one speaking bent down with laughter.

Of course this was Death's fault. Now he understood why his guardians didn't remember the person that told them Harry had asked for their presence.

Stupid, childish, grudge-holding, immortal entity.

"This is payback for laughing at you in the last Emergency Quest, isn't it?"

"Now we are even, yes"

"You're such a-"

"Language! Young children repeat everything they hear, you know? Specially swearing" Harry was about to retort when a young voice asked

"Hadrian-sama? Who are you talking to?" Sweet Merlin, Aura looked even cuter as a little kid, her head inclined slightly to her right, looking like a confused puppy.

So Death not only pranked them, but was in his invisible-for-all-but-Harry form. Fantastic.

"I'm speaking through [Message] with a friend." He lied calmly, doing his best to ignore the not so discrete chuckles that were coming from Death. "Hey little one, could you please tell me what's the last thing you remember?"

"Eh? Uhm, Nazarik was translo- trans- err… we were… we came from a swamp to a grassland!" was the attempt at explaining before she surrendered, crossing her arms and frowning at the floor in frustration, inflating her red cheeks adorably.

So, the first day after the runes activated? Harry repeated the question addressing the others, all of them seemed to remember the little reunion they had had on the sixth floor, but didn't seem to remember anything about the incident with the wards.

"I don't get it Hadrian-sama. Weren't we grown-ups back then?" was Demiruge's well-articulated question, bringing his little hand to his chin pensively. The demon was one of the kids that had less trouble with vocabulary, and hadn't stuttered not even once when speaking. The rest of the children looked at each other with confusion, not really understanding what was going on.

"Certainly. Some things happened after that, but it doesn't matter right now" standing up Harry walked around the desk, mildly noticing Death's disappearance, and knelt once he was in front of them, so he was more at their level. The children only looked at him curiously, without the surprise and the "Please don't kneel for us!" exclamations he had half-expected.

"This situation is only temporary, there's no need to worry. Until then, would you like to spend some time with me?" The kids looked happily surprised for a moment before the whole room was filled with a chorus of high-pitched "YES!". Harry couldn't help but chuckle at the childish excitement they were exhibiting.

…that's right, they never had a childhood. They were simply created.

Well, Harry would make sure they enjoyed these days at least. After seeing the effect of the curse that had been contained in the crystal bottle, he recognized it as the "Law of Retrogression", a de-aging magic that lowered the magical, mental, and physical skills of the target, making them look like a younger state of themselves. Depending on the strength of the curse, the duration of the effect varied. The one in the flask probably had been one of the strongest, so he thought it may last three days or so.

As he was thinking this, Harry felt something small rushing at him and caught it by reflex, golden eyes full of adoration looking up at him as a little Albedo made grasping motions with her tiny hands, right in sync with the flapping of her small black wings.

"Hug! hug!"

He placed her on his left side, the little girl snuggling in his shoulder before sighing happily.

"Not fair! Me too! Me too!" came the excited voice of Aura as she ran towards him

"C-can I h-have a hug too?" Mare was as shy as ever, but looked hopeful, walking behind his sister.

"Hadrian-samaaa!" was the simple cry of Shalltear, making that betrayed face kids usually did when they thought their parents only spoiled their siblings and not them.

The room was in chaos in an instant, and he found himself surrounded by the remaining five children, expectant faces staring up at him. He didn't have enough arms to carry them all… but he was still kneeling, so instead of standing up, he sat down briefly before laying on the cold floor.

"Hadrian-sama?"

"I can't carry all of you, but we can lay down together" Not one minute after that, Harry was staring at the ceiling, his torso and arms restrained by the weight of the kids.

Albedo had quickly claimed his left side, and seemed quite content as she listened to his heart; her upper body was above his own, while her knees supported her on the floor. Shalltear had claimed the right side, her face hiding in the crook where shoulder met neck, which was somewhat uncomfortable since her breath was tickling him slightly.

The twins' heads were lying over his stomach, the rest of their bodies on the floor. Aura was face up, looking at the ceiling with a relaxed face, while Mare was curled in fetal position, facing Harry's upper body.

Cocytus had simply hugged his right arm, the four arms trapping the limb against the insectoid's cold chest as the long tail swayed happily, hitting the floor repeatedly at a steady rhythm in such a way that it was highly probable it would end up breaking the hard surface. Harry found amusing the fact that the guardian was the smallest among the children, being at least one head shorter than the twins. If one were to judge the age based in nothing but height, anyone would say Cocytus was at least two years younger than the rest.

Demiurge had stood at the side momentarily, seemingly at loss at what to do. After some encouragement, the small kid ended up doing the same as Cocytus but with his left arm, the demon's little arms held the appendage loosely, even as the metal-like tail curled strongly around Harry's forearm.

If Harry was truthful, the position was far from comfortable. The floor was hard, it was difficult to breathe with the kids laying over him, Demiurge's tail was obstructing his blood circulation, and the arm Cocytus was holding was cold as shit. He was glad to have resistance against [Frozen], negative status, because he was sure the arm would end up like that otherwise. Still, this was not the first time he took care of a bunch of children, so he kept his discomfort to himself and closed his eyes, somehow managing to fall asleep like that.

Harry woke up when someone knocked at the door, Yuri Alfa requesting permission to enter. Ugh, it was better if the current… situation wasn't widely known.

"Please wait a moment" he told the maid before he started to move, disturbing the sleepy guardians. Placing privacy charms around the room, he tried, and failed, to sit up. The kids were quite unwilling to free him.

"Hey little ones, I need to get up. Please go to my bedroom and behave until I arrive, yes?"

His question was greeted with hums and murmurs of who knows what, Harry was sure those weren't even words.

"Come on…The first one to touch the door of the closet wins a reward"

Awake all of the sudden; he watched them run hastily towards his bedroom, some tripping up in thin air since they were still half asleep. Finally free, he stood up and placed silencing and locking charms upon the bedroom's door before stretching out, his back popping satisfactorily. Once he was seated behind his desk, he finally let the pleiade enter.

She was asking about the guardian's whereabouts, so he told her they were on a secret mission, and would be out for the next few days.

"Please let the area guardians know, so they can act properly in their absence"

"Understood, Hadrian-sama"

Dismissing the maid, he watched as her eyes stared suspiciously at the broken surface Cocytus' tail had caused, before she bowed and turned to leave. Once the door closed, he stood and walked towards his bedroom, taking down the locking charms and leaving only the silencing one before he entered.

"I won, I won!" was the immediate greeting of Shalltear, jumping excitedly in her place close to the entrance, letting him know the winner the moment he opened the door.

"Only because you pushed me, so it doesn't count!" was the angry shout of Albedo, the other guardians were either sulking or watching the exchange with interest from their position in the bedroom's floor.

"Calm down, it's only a game" that didn't seem to change anything though, so he added "Why don't we play something else? This time with me?"

The mood improved quickly as Harry knelt down in front of them, explaining a few simple games and letting Shalltear decide which one they would play, since she had been the winner.

By the end of the third day, Harry was glad Death had pulled this prank. At least now the guardians had something they could call "Childhood memories".

AUTHOR NOTE:

Hi guys! So, these are just a collection of omakes from my main story "The Master of Death in Nazarik" that is in the crossover section with Harry Potter.

I'm sorry if some parts don't make sense since these are fragments from the main story, but I wanted to publish it in the normal section of overlord too, because everyone should know about the idea of Children-Guardians! haha

I would like to say that if any of you want to write about this prompt you can do it. I just love the idea so much I wouldn't mind if you use it, so long you include mi username and the title of my story so people know they can find my own version of the idea here.

Thanks for reading, hope you liked it. Reviews make me happy, in case you were wondering~

See ya later!