Hello ppls! As always thank you for reading this story. I know Rein is OoC ( but it's not really Rein, it's the other Rein~) and some weird bloody plot line is coming too (it's not weird it's WONDERFUL) shut up I cannot talk leave me be my other self. And so this chapter will be a little different from the other chapters. Yeah… I know … in the last chapter I clearly said NO DRAGS, but after a while I sorta realized, I never explained why Rein is angry towards her family. Dun dun dun~ Enlightenment! Well yeah and so I guess this is a sort of flashback of Rein's past. Using the perspective of Rein.
Thirteen years ago at the Kingdom of Sun
It was neither cold nor hot. All around me was white not even a speck of dust have tainted the pure color of my surroundings. Every day I would spend my time looking at the sky through the bars or count my heartbeats. Once a while, "they" would visit me. "They" bring food and medicine. "They" say that it is to check if I am healthy or not, but I doubt it. Since I spend half of my day listening to my own heartbeat or take notice of every little detail in the room, I was aware of little details. Although this was the case, I never opposed to it. I never thought I was unfortunate or sad nor have I really thought about my current situation. I have been living in this room since I was born. I thought this lifestyle was normal and I was content into staying this way for the rest of my life. Until I heard a childish laughter…
A laughter… the first time I have heard such sound. It resonated through the hallways past the bar and finally into my ears. The non rhythmical sound approached towards my way and finally stopped. I slowly looked up and met my eyes with the source. It was a young girl, about the same age as me. She had bright pink hair with two pony tails. She wore a big ribbon on her head with matching colorful bright clothing. At first she looked at me with blank eyes and then smiled smugly. She fidgeted for a while and took out a container full of round stuff and held it up towards me, "Do you want some dango?"
…Dango? It was my first time every hearing that word. Perhaps this round stuff is dango?
the girl tilted her head a little to the left as she asked sadly, "You don't like dango?" First of all, I did not know what that round stuff she was giving me so I just turned away from her. The girl just dropped her head in a gloomy way, but soon revived.
She smiled at me and took a bite out of the dango, "It's ok it's good!"
I … guess dango is a food, but nothing of the sort I have been eating. I was always eating bread and water. Such abnormal food had never appeared in front of my sight before. Past the boundary line of the bars I reach out to have a dango. It was soft… such soft texture is beyond comparison to neither my own skin nor anything in this room. I slowly take a bite out of this peculiar food and munch it. Wonderful taste spread across my mouth as I let myself get lost in wonder of the magnificent taste. I finally notice that the girl is also eating the dango as I bring my attention to her. The mouth watering sensation was an interesting experience, but not as intriguing as her. It seems to be that she stuffed her whole mouth with dango, the cheeks were puffed as she worked her way into consuming the food. Despite her face puffed up because of the food, the slight blush on the cheek and the dreaming eyes gave away the obvious expression. It…was a surprise. I have never met a person who made such an obvious expression. Even "they" showed minimum emotion, so why was this girl filled with so much emotions?
"…what are you?"
The girl blinked in surprise and laughed as if it was an obvious thing, "Huh? I'm Fine of course!"
"…." I did not mean your name, but the identity of this creature in front of me. Suddenly I heard a sound. It was always the sound "they" would make. It was the sound of the door opening and numerous people's footsteps.
The girl jumped in realization of the visitors and swiftly grabbed her pouch, "Oh-oh, the demon lord is coming. I must hide her! I must hide her!" From within the pouch I saw a little white creature and before I can have a good look at it she pushed it to my way and winked at me. With this she stepped a few feet away from me and smiled brightly at the strangers.
"Princess Fine! What are you doing in this place!"
"um…eating dango?" Fine brought out a dango for her to eat and made a motion to give a dango to the strangers as well.
The strangers seemed like they were in the mood to eat the dango as they continued to scold the pink girl, "I have told you that this place is off limits, now let's go!" The stranger roughly grabbed her hand as they walked away from me.
Forcefully lead, the girl turned to my way and waved her hand, "Ah… bye bye!" I found it peculiar by the strange movement the girl did and just nodded my head.
This small interaction was taken to notice by the stranger as he suddenly stopped walking, "…Princess Fine did you talk to that girl?"
The girl nodded her head playfully, "Yep. She was really weird though… ah but I guess a good girl too because she liked dango!"
Not looking at the girl, the stranger looked at the man beside him, "Is that so… well then Callas take her back to the queen."
The man bowed his head as he took the girl's hand and went out of my sight, "Yes Omendo-sama."
As soon as they were gone, the stranger called Omendo turned to me and greeted, "Hello."
I stayed silent. It was tiring to speak even a single sentence as I just stared at the old man.
Omendo clicked his tongue as he turned to one of the man beside him, it was "them", "It has been long since I checked up on her… can she not speak?"
The man indifferently replied to Omendo's question, "According to the test, seems like she can."
"Have you already started with the brainwashing?"
"We have done some few tests and were successful so far…but the hypnosis effect wore off when princess Fine came in."
"tsk, that girl always disrupting my plans…" Omendo had a irritated expression as he moved on, "Anyways continue the process. I want to make this girl my "Rein"."
I did not understand what they were saying, but it was definitely not a situation where I can easily show this creature so I hid it inside my shirt. The old man called Omendo extended his hand to raise my chin to give a closer look at me. After looking at my eyes Omendo smirked, "It will be easy. Looking at her hollow eyes, "Rein" will be the stair way for me to rise to royalty." With this he let go of my chin and walked away.
After a while, I let the creature go. It had white fluffy fur with two long ears. The eyes were bright red as the whiskers wiggled every time it moved. I slowly touched the white fur, seemed like the creature did not mind me touching it. The soft texture and the warm temperature warmed my heart. Heart? I never even felt this way before nor have ever thought of having something like heart. It was a strange feeling, somewhere of my inside seemed like it tickled as the creature snuggled to me. I carefully picked the creature in to my arms as we slept together. The creature became my most precious and the reason to live.
Since the day I have received this creature from the strange girl my days were not as meaningless as before. Every day I would watch the creature hop and roll around the place, but whenever it tried to go through the bars I always caught it before it was too late. It was not because I didn't want "them" to find out, but the fear of having to lose my treasure, the only thing I have.
One day that lifestyle drastically changed.
First of all I'm sorry for the broken promise of NO DRAGS. Moving on, this is just part 1 of Rein's past so wait for more!
