CHAPTER 2

He turned to a baby..

A BABY??!!

"Oh my…" Anissina placed both her hands on her mouth, gasping along with him.

A blond baby..

"It's.." Gwendal was frozen at the doorway when he faced the green eyed baby. He was looking straightly at Gwendal and suddenly shrieked with a very loud high pitched voice. "Hush!" The grey haired man rushed and covered the infant's mouth with his hand. Anissina's eyes widened

"What are you doing?!" She shrieked in panic also. "It's Wolfram!" Gwendal frowned as he held the struggling baby down, stuffing him to the soft pillow.

Poor little one..

"Calm down Wolfram!" He said as he pinned the baby with only one hand with lesser strenght. He was so small. "Anissina! What exactly did you do to him?" Gwendal asked as he lifted his hand, but the baby held his fingers with his tiny ones, laughing excitedly..

'Is this really Wolfram?'

"Well, I never thought it would shrink his body!" She raised her voice to the man. Gwendal didn't reply her. He stared at the baby who was now trying to squeeze his hand with such ticklish effort. He observed the sparkling green eyes as they trailed from his hand to his eyes. His look softened

"Gwendal?"

"You didn't shrink him. You really turned him into a baby.." he told her as the little angelic blond played with his fingers. Gwendal made a slight smile as he bent down to his degenerated brother. "Wolfram.." he called the green eyed baby softly like he never did before. The blond responded to the call, blinking several times

'Wolfram..' he called the baby silently again. His face was few inches close, within the baby's range. The blond angel laughed and suddenly pulled his hair

"Hey!" Gwendal shouted as he stood up in instant, causing the baby stumbled. He started to cry..

"Gwendal!" Anissina rushed and took the baby in her arm, started to swing him around in her cuddle. The baby was still crying. "Men are heartless! Look what have you done to him!" She scolded the frowning man

"Can you shut him up?!" He grunted. Anissina was confused herself. As a lady, she herself never once held a baby for she spent too much time with machines. Wolfram kept on crying in tears. He struggled in her arms and started to pulled her hair also, beside the claws and punches he threw

"Stop it..! Ouch! Wolfram!" She shook her head while the baby kept on launching his rebelling attacks. He obviously disliked her. Anissina gave up and decided to do the only thing she could. She turned to Gwendal "Hold him!" Gwendal took the struggling baby from her hand. She stepped to the door

"Just where do you think you are going?" he asked fiercely. The blonde aimed for his hair again. He turned his full attention to the baby again "Cut it out!" he yelled at the prince, causing him to cry even louder. Anissina sighed

"I'll.. do something.." she said and turned away, ignoring Gwendal's protest

She left..

A cry again..

"Hush, will you?!" He said to the teary eyed infant as he put him down to the infirmary bed. The baby kept on crying out loud and moved wildly. Gwendal sighed guiltily and picked him up

'Can you at least talk or something?' he thought as he patted the blonde's shoulder softly, or that what he thought before the baby started coughing and cried again.

A knock..

"Lord Von Voltaire.."

"Don't come in!"

"I need to report to Lord Von Bielefeld"

"He's not here!"

A baby's cry..

"My lord, Are you alright?"

"Ssh!" he hushed to the baby and glared at him. He held him from struggling, more like choked him. He gave his degenerated little brother a stern glare half-heartedly. The blond stopped crying for a while and looked at Gwendal with his brilliant innocent eyes. He's so damn cute..

'Thank Shinou..' He said as he sighed in relief. Unaware of the baby's next attempt on aiming at his grey hair again

"ARGH!" He winced and tried to pull his hair back, but the baby was incredibly strong. The blond cried and tortured him at the same time. "Stop!" Words gave no effect to the baby prince. He understand nothing and he looked angry now

"My lord, are you really alright? "

"Just get Conrad here immediately!!"

"But-"

"NOW!!"

Conrad received an urgent call from his older brother. He was at the stable that time and now he was running as fast as he could to the infirmary. There was barely any mission nowadays. Everything seemed to be in place. So why Gwendal did called him so sudden?

'Maybe it's about Wolfram or Heika' he thought. He knocked at the infirmary door. No answer. He heard some noises and decided to opened the door

"Gwendal? What-" His eyes widened in shock as he saw his older brother and.. a baby..

Which he stuffed harshly to a pillow..

"Conrad"

"What do you think you're doing??!!" he rushed forward and took the crying baby from the pillow. Gwendal frowned

"He won't shut up. He has been attacking me before you came" He told his younger brother. The brown haired soldier held the baby gently in his arm and swung him slowly

"That's because you hurt him.." he said in a lowered tone. The baby calmed gradually "Shh.. It's alright now.." He whispered slowly. The little blonde sobbed a little and fell asleep..

A peaceful sleep..

"How did you do that?" He asked in astonishment which he refused to shown. Conrad shook his head and placed the sleeping baby gently on the bed

"I'm the one who should ask. How the baby gets into your care?" Gwendal sighed, ignoring the insulting statement and questions. "You can leave him in the maids' care or Wolfram's.." Gwendal frowned when he heard the name

"I'm not sure how to explain.." He replied as he rubbed his forehead. Conrad waited for the explanation

"I'll try to understand.." Conrad was a little bit worried "Speaking of it, I haven't seen Wolfram.." Gwendal shrugged in displeased

"It was Anissina's doing.. Her latest invention caused several problems to.." He took a deep breath and turned to look at the peacefully sleeping baby "Wolfram.." Conrad seemed confused

"I don't understand" he told Gwendal straight forward. He sighed again

"It's the problem we have now" He said, raising his hand. Conrad's eyes followed his brother's finger as it pointed at..

The baby?

So what?

"Don't tell me.." He gaped as sudden realization hit him. Gwendal nodded knowingly

"We got a very big trouble" he told his younger brother. Conrad was aware of this and sighed along with him

"That Anissina.." He murmured as he looked at the sleeping blond prince. Somehow he felt his heart lightened. It was something indescribable. Something he really missed..

"Conrad?" Gwendal helped him regained his sense back

"Yes, sorry" he said as he shook his head and cleared his throat "Now.. We can't hide him forever. You know the rule here.." he continued. Gwendal sighed and nodded

"Anissina said that she'll do something. I will go and see her" he told his brother and received a slight nod from Conrad "Take care of him.." he said before turning away. But right before he left, he was sure he saw his younger brother smiling slightly even though it wasn't the right time to express so. He closed the door, leaving Conrad and little Wolfram..

It was evening already..

Anissina was nowhere in the castle..

"Have you seen Anissina?" He asked to the each patrolling castle guard he encountered. He got a really terrible feeling about this since he left for her laboratory and found not-a-single-thing there.

"No, Sir.. Not since the afternoon" He referred to the last incident on the training ground, which was 2 hours ago. Gwendal frowned before he dismissed the soldier and continued to his endless search. It was when he encountered the three who brought the unwanted news to him

"Sangria! Doria! Lasagna!" he called. The maid stood straight in shock

"Yes!"

"Have you seen Anissina anywhere?" he asked them with his tired voice. They exchanged look several times before they finally answered

"She left.. an hour ago.." All three maids winced in panic. But the grey haired man only walked away, leaving them puzzled. Gwendal didn't know how to contain his overwhelming anger. He needed to tell Conrad

'This is ridiculous! She ran away!' he thought and walked to the infirmary. He knocked and received no answer

"Conrad?" he called as he entered the infirmary. It has been an hour since he left. He wasn't there and so was the baby. He decided to look for them in Wolfram's room

"That's good for you, mother still keep our old clothes" The brown haired man said, more like talking to himself since the blond only sat solemnly on the bed as he stared at his human brother. In a very different way..

"aaa… uu.." was all he could say as a reply. Conrad chuckled, satisfy enough. He took a blue baby's cloth from a wooden trunk and walked toward the blond

"Here is mine" He told the baby as he put the cloth on him. He has been wandering in real Wolfram's blouse for 2 hours which was 15 times bigger than his current size. "Since mother always gave you girl's clothing, I think it's better you use something proper now.." Little Wolfram seemed to be in a good mood now. Even though he didn't seem to understand, it looked like he got excited when Conrad dressed him up. Conrad recalled his memories of the spoiled child, looking at his brother in a very different way as he did 86 years ago. Conrad smiled at him..

He smiled back..

"As a child you never change you know.." he sighed as he stood up, holding the prince.

"Little brother.."

Gwendal closed the door silently. This is the first time he ever felt a relieving side from Anissina's invention.

'Maybe it wasn't bad after all..'

A/N: So I see.. You've guessed correctly.. :)

Next is…. The morning event, which is the Maou's homecoming..

I'm not really good at soft things, so you better help me..

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