One month before my sixth birthday...


God of creation. Please protect your mother and our family that will be born in the future.

　In the living room of the mansion, Brother Leon was praying to the God of Creation. I'm sitting next to him, imitating my brother.

　Our brother or sister is about to be born.
　Your mother is working hard right now.

　By the way, Father and Brother Cain aren't in the house at the moment. The baby was supposed to be born in two weeks, but it's been pushed back a bit, so it's only today.

　Father is working in the neighboring country. Mr. Cain has gone to collect the "wishing stone" to pray for his mother's safe delivery.

　Suddenly, Mother suddenly found out she was in labor and both brother Leon and I were in a panic, but a doctor and a midwife had been staying at the house for about two months, so they were able to take care of it right away.

　The butlers had contacted your father and brother Cain by letterbird.

　Your father would get off work and come back. Brother Cain replied that he had gotten the wish stone safely, so he'd hurry back.

　The doctor also said, 'It's a little early, but there's no problem.

　So I'm fine.

　........it's fine, right?


　I was so worried about my mother trying to have a baby in the other room that I listened to her heart, but when her heart turned to screaming, I got scared and stopped listening.

　How could that strong and cool mother be so distraught?

　Having a baby is a very difficult thing to do.
　Will I have a baby someday?

　You're freaking me out.　



I...

　Suddenly I felt like it was warmer around me.

'Did you feel that too, Charles?'

Yes. Um.........and your brother too?

'Oh. I don't know how to describe it. It's like we've been blessed.

You mean, "lodging"?

'Yes, a blessing. I've only felt something like that once, like now.

　Brother Leon apparently felt the same way as he did now when his combat job went up from 'primary job' to 'secondary apprentice'.

''Did we get shucked?''

I don't think it's us.

　Just as my brother was about to say something, the door to the living room opened vigorously and a maid who serves this mansion entered.

''Leon-sama, Charles-sama. You are born!　He's a good boy!


　I'm a boy!

Cool, cute....

　When the maid took me into my mother's room, I saw a small baby wrapped in a soft cloth, and she was holding him in her arms.

　I was going to be the first to say 'thank you' to my mother, but I heard the baby's voice in my mind before that, and I responded to it.

　I'm a baby, so the voice in my heart isn't even a proper word.

　Even so, I can listen to the human emotions that cannot be voiced as sounds.

　A baby's emotions are...

　Hmmm. What do you say?
　Colo?　Pom-poms?

　It was like this... rolling and bouncing.
　It was so cute.

　Maybe it's because we just walked into the room so suddenly?
　I felt a little bit of anxiety.

　But as the mother shook the baby and fondled him, the sound of her heart became very calm.


Charles, Leon, come here. Charles, Leon, come over here. It's your brother.

　Your mother calls you over to the side of the bed.

'Mother, are you feeling okay?'
Mother, I hope you won't be too hard on yourself.

I'll be fine. The doctor put a heal on me, and I've regained my strength, so I'm fine now.

　Oh, good.
　Mom's complexion was not bad.

　Just a few minutes ago, she was screaming like it was the end of the world, and it must have been my imagination.

　I was worried that the doctor was hiding something from us or something, so I read her mind just to be sure, but she said there was nothing wrong with it.


'Um ... is it okay if I touch the baby?'

Master Charles. Please wait a moment.

　The midwife gave me a clean, body-cleaning spell to work on me.

'Yes, you'll be fine now,'

　I thought I was washing my hands clean, but I heard it's still dangerous to touch the baby. They say it's because babies don't have much of an immunity.

Thank you!

　Gently, I touched the baby's cheeks.
　It was puffy.
　My heart sounded a little uncomfortable.

　I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

　But it feels so good.


"Mother. What's our brother's name?

　Brother Leon asked.

　Actually, I know my brother's name from listening to your father and mother's heart.

　And the reason for that name.


''This boy, God has chosen his name.

What, God?

Yes. One day, a little while after I was pregnant with this child, God came into my dream. He gave me this child's name.

　The mother looks at her baby with great affection.


His name is Hurt.