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Chapter 5 - The wrong way of raising a Miko

Rudeus POV

I woke up feeling refreshed. (I feel like I can run for a whole mile, but I know with the hole I felt yesterday the best I can do is fast crawl maybe 10 meters, since I just got healed I will have to wait until I'm fully healed).

According to my knowledge children tend to heal faster because of the growth spurt and with healing magic I think I will be fully healed at the age of 3.

As I started to move myself from bed, I made a sound while fidgeting trying to remove the blanket. 

Suddenly, I found myself getting carried with 2 big hands.

"Just in time Rudi! I was coming to wake you up. You know what, I always wanted to show my kid how amazing swordsmanship is."

The dark-haired blonde man carried me, then ran fast like he was doing something wrong. And when we finished I realised what he did.

He took me to the house's garden. 

"Look Rudi! Zenith went to the village clinic today, because Mr Peter had a strong fever. And he needed healing magic because his age weakened his health a lot." Said the dark-haired blonde swordsman while running with me towards the back garden. 

Before I could ask or say anything. He continued. 

"And I sent Lilla to buy the monthly groceries early. Using the fact that the apples you love. You had eaten the last one yesterday. And now Zenith and Lilla are out. So, now we are men together. Because we need to talk about important things. After I demonstrate some swordplay. You are my kid after all. Of course, you are going to be a great swordsman like me in the future." 

Said the blonde swordsman after he put me on the ground. About 10 meters away from a very big boulder. (First time getting me out of the house since my reincarnation. And why didn't they break down this boulder then move it out? It destroys the view.)

Then Dad started the training by doing some strange movements with a sword all of them are fast and flashy. And how can he even be this fast?

Then when he got very drenched with sweat. He removed his shirt making my jaw drop for 2 reasons.

First I took back every word of comparing my past build with him. That man can very easily win any muscle competition back on Earth.

The second reason is how many scars he got in his body. Like what kind of life or death situation or what kind of accident gives him these scars?

Describing them, the first one would be three very long scratches. Like wolf paws, but very big for a normal one. Maybe it belongs to a wounded bear missing a finger.

(Also there's a lot of sword grazes in his chest and abdomen but the claws scars making them appears normal like normal paper cuts).

The next one will be around his hands, his forearms until his arm too, like he was in the middle of war or something.

(Like how many people could graze you like this with swords and his arms still intact. And when I thought he had finished).

I saw his back which shows how bad his training was. Because of the wrong way of training. (His right side has better muscles than his left).

And how he got this dangerous stab on his back, from how there is a very deep hole now. I think it was very bad back when he got it.

"Well, Rudi! What do you say about my swordsmanship? You know this style is called Sword God Style. And it's known for finishing fights very fast. Ideally finishing the fight in one move. And it's also known for is this."

Suddenly after he finished talking, he made a very strange pose almost like he made his upper part like a ball. But strangely the air tensed and I felt my breath stiffen.

(And what's all about being a swordsman? What year had I been reincarnated to?). 

Until after two seconds I took every word I just said about swordsmanship. This man, Paul, my own father cut a very big stone almost like a mini hill with a wooden sword. And it was a very clean cut too.

With a silenced mouth, very wide opened eyes, and I think my lower jaw almost touched the grass. I was looking at my father, the reason for my amazement.

(Every law of physics is broken right in front of my eyes and to make matters worse from his smirk I think he expects me to do this in the future too and how fast he was moving last seconds I think 30m/s or [67mph/sec]. Is this even possible with humans! All of that not mentioning his sword, it broke the speed of sound! Can I still count him as a human?)

"What do you say Rudi this was a long sword of silence. It's the second strongest move in Sword God Style. That's the best you can see in these parts until maybe you meet Ghislaine." Said the smirking blonde swordsman to me. 

"Dad's cool." When I said it I saw him smile very wide and clench his fist jumping, celebrating and muttering some happy words.

(How old is this guy? Is he still a teenager?).

"Well Rudi when you grow up a little I will teach you swordsmanship. Not just Sword God Style, my favourite, I will also teach you Water God Style too, and if you like maybe even the rat style." Said the swordsman while he processed in carrying me getting me up.

"Okay, Rudi about the men talk first. Can you keep this between us? No need to get Zenith or Lilla into this." He said while winking to me while nodding like trying to convince me about it.

(I was going to do this in the first place. I'm sure my body won't take me getting out in the air outside of the house, just after waking up peacefully). 

I just nodded to him. He sighed in relief then said.

"Okay, Rudy now straight into the business. I found out yesterday that you are Miko. And you got your consciousness early. Well, if the case were different I would have asked you to talk freely with me. Some men talk, but I know you are doing your best to talk now." My face almost went pale. For a moment I thought they caught on that I'm reincarnated. Phew.

(Lilla, me and you are gonna have a long talk when we are alone).

I just nodded. Doing my best to hold myself from sighing in relief. (I hope no-one heard me yesterday chanting, wait wasn't the door ajar yesterday).

"Well, Rudi now we finished about that, I would love to see you with a girlfriend or two soo..." "Paul Greyrat what's the meaning of this? Why is Rudi out? And, what were you talking about with our little Rudi?"

Mom is suddenly talking from behind dad's back with a very fake smile and the air is very tense. (I'm scared).

"Oh darling I hadn't seen you coming, Rudi and I were talking a men talk. And weren't you supposed to come later? And you Rudi why didn't you warn me about this aren't we men?"

Said the dark-haired blonde swordsman trying to escape from what's coming. While retreating by backwards. (I wish you luck, but sorry no one can save you from Mom now, and did you just accuse me of treason?)

Mom and Dad will have a nice talk alone after waiting for Lilla to get home. When she came home, they told her. "Feed Rudeus some apples as usual, and not disturb us except in emergencies." That's what Mom said. If anything, poor Dad, I hope he survives. But this is perfect, because I need to talk with Lilla.

"Lilla!" for the first time she didn't flinch when I called her. She just looked at me with a poker face smile. (And it's the first time I called her from a distance). "We need to talk." It's the first time I said a full sentence in front of someone.

"As you wish Young Master Rudeus, how I can help you?" (She didn't even flinch when I finished a full sentence in front of her so she did see me finish one before?).

"Why do you think I'm a Miko? Lilla!" I said to the stoic woman who had sweat drop from her forehead. (I know she is the one who told Paul).

So after 10 minutes of her explaining that. I did grow up very fast compared to normal children who are healthy. (Unlike me). Also I have a very strong illness and still I fought it easily unlike how normal children supposed to, that proved to her I'm special.

(But the what proved her suspicions is that, she had tested me with some hard words and I understood it immediately without asking about it).

In another words, I'm the idiot who exposed himself. (I will let it pass this time, at least I had seen something awesome to be mad for what happened today).

After some time mom came with black-eyed Dad and a very red face with a big bruise around his eye, poor man. He got slapped. His pride is destroyed by the blonde angry monster.

"Well, Rudi since you can understand what's happening. Starting from today we will read you books daily." (Forget what I said about being angry about what Lilla did, I just owe you one for this you helped me very much).

I tried to look at her side to agree by nodding or even saying 'yes' but I coughed very hard. And couldn't stop coughing.

 And suddenly I couldn't breathe anymore.

 "Rudi! what happened? Rudeus, answer me. Rudeus!"

"Madame heal him first then do a detoxify magic on him. He may have gotten an illness from getting outside."

「Mother of merciful god heal this one's wounds and let's the satisfying nourishment regain the lost vigor regaining the lost strength.」 『X-Healing』

「O god of nourishment cure this one who lost the strength to regain their strength.」 『Antidote』

Mom chanted the two spells in very fast pace, like how bad I was so she was that afraid and chanted that fast too.

(I was barely able to comprehend the chant).

After she finished it did better than X-Healing did and it removed the pain with illness will be a new spell 'thanks mom.' But it didn't affect the pain itself like normal healing does.

"Thank god you are lucky he got healed fast, if he didn't I was going to double the punishment." Said the blonde cleric to the dark-haired blonde swordsman, who got pale and looked at me for me pleading for help. (You owe me one dad).

"Mommy.. Cool! Pain.. Gone." (I cringed internally for faking. The inability to talk to this level. But, if I didn't. I think dad will be in a big trouble.)

When I said it mom jumped like a deer celebrating then came to give me the tightest hug I got in my life. I think I heard some of my ribs cracking and I needed healing magic after that.

(Two lessons learnt that day: the first one, never ever under any circumstances interfere in adults' talk; the second one is Mom is the scariest one in this house).

The day ended with mom reading me 'Wandering around the world' book which talks about this world from countries with details to species and even religions. From the adventures of the adventurer. "Bloody kant"

(My summary of what I just learned from the book, this world has many species and many of them speak different languages and the one we use is called the human tongue. There are at least 9 races. Humans, demons, beast people, sky people, sea people, elves, dwarves and hobbits. Some even say there are even dragon people but there are no records for them in the book other than being mentioned twice).

As for cities the biggest one is in Asura country and it's capital it's that's called Ars and the most beautiful one is in Millis it's also it's capital which called Millishion. (And for some reason Mom had a melancholy look when she was reading this part).

Also the town of Lapam in Berrigriet continent, and Rikarsiu in the demon continent and finally the city of Sharia they are some of the most famous cities around the world, but in the book there is at least 100 city mentioned. Like citadel city of Roa, the perfect city of Senos (people gave it this name because its past lord was a crazy person who loved perfection), and finally the fortified city of Rosenberg. 

(For my advancement in languages it's almost blank but don't be disheartened. I understand how this language is written. It's similar to the Western languages but in more Latin than modern that's for the letters itself, but at the same time the words are almost like drawings and also grammatically built like Eastern, especially Japanese).

Also I realised how dad wanted to read a different book first but with glare from mom he got shut down. (Scary). 

Also to my disappointment we only have 5 books in a small chest in a small room on the upper floor next to the stairs. I get that the books are expensive in an illiterate world and without printers or print presses either. But couldn't they at least have a shelf?

I also saw that we have at least five rooms on the upper floor, but couldn't discover them at the moment, I will leave this for later, because when I yawned to make mom stops reading me the book, we finished at least 1/3 of the book on one go

(Even if I have a consciousness a baby body is a baby body it has it's limits you know and they didn't feed me anything the whole day).

"Mommy.. hungry." I said when I realised she was going to the bedroom to put me on bed before feeding me so I have to retort to this.

Skipping this part.

Even though they now know I have consciousness they didn't try to put the milk on a bottle or anything first.

(God please make my teeth grow up fast... Is it me or since I reincarnated I increased my prayers to god?)

After she finished she left me but not before as usual demanded the new 'Mommy' and hugged me, but not very tight as the usual

(Maybe cracking my ribs did a good job with her?). 

After 20 minutes, just to make sure no-one is listening to me this time I started chanting.

After putting my hand on my chest I tried to focus on where the pain is.

「Mother of merciful god heal this one's wounds let the satisfying nourishment regain the lost vigor regaining the lost strength. 」『X-Healing』

As I finished I felt the electricity that passed through my body and I will name it magical power. Since I have to name it.

Now I will focus on doing chantless magic. Let's review the steps of how I did it one by one. 

First focus on imaging my damaged lung with a hole in it.

Second controlling my mana to pass my hand right to my body healing my lung.

Third, imaging the spell 『X-Healing.』

And voola, I did it.

I tried it with normal healing and it worked then tried it with detoxify, but failed.

(Maybe I should to try the chant the spell first?)

「O god of nourishment cure this one who lost the strength to regain their strength. 」『Antidote』

And after I finished I felt the mana movement of the spell and after memorising the feeling I got the spell right and chantless.

After finishing I started to feel sleepy and almost asleep, but my amusement kept me awake. That's when I decided it's time for another 『X-Healing』 on my lungs but chantless since I'm sleepy and as I started the spell I fell asleep.

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