Off Stage : Mayhem

3 - The Unknown Man (3)

She somehow was used to Gera's presence and called it out loud without her realizing.

"This moronic old man..."

The man's finger knocking her forehead hard, she opened her eyes and glared at him whose face was only inches away from her face.

She was annoyed, "Hey!"

The man sniggered. He talked like he was really having fun.

"The only one who calls me old man is my own daughter."

He pulled his face away and sat again at the bedside, "This is so funny. I never do touch any woman but I get a daughter still. Look how similar her face with mine, no one will believe that I am an innocent man."

"This madman..."

No, the man was never like that when they were still in Earth. At least he was not so annoying like this even though he stalked her everyday.

"This is a damn illegal play. I never agree to this."

"Look at her frowning, how could she's still similar even with that unpleasant face?"

The man slowly patted her forehead to erase the frown on it, rather than eased it, instead it irritated her more.

"If you were done, please be gone from my sight. Thank you."

"Close your eyes and I will be gone." He once again joked as he forced her eyes to close.

She didn't reject his hand even if it was cold and irritating.

The man seemed to think she liked his cold hand or maybe it was the soothing cold from his hand that she liked. But he didn't care because it was still his hand that was cold, in his own sense, she liked his hand.

He satisfied with his reasoning.

"I won't force you to call me father--"

"You fucking force me to this damn stage."

"--but preferable if you could call me daddy."

Seeing 'I am displeased' look on her face, he chuckled.

"Just call me Jose if it was hard. Then, should we talk more about this place?"

She already knew about the realm she was in now and some important facts, but she still nodded under his hand lightly. She felt his hand was pulled and the cold was also gone.

"It's Slavic. The realm you and I live in now. It is an entirely different from Earth. It is a realm with three worlds within it and now, we are living in middleworld where magic is fully supported by the realm itself, world of mana. Many call this world manaworld."

The man named Jose fixed the blanket on her that the weight of it made her body stiff while continued.

"But right now, it is somewhat complicated to say magician is on the top because of it. Rather, people who are on the top are them who achieved attribute using qi or should I say they are imitating divine energy--no, in common story in Earth I think it is called god's authority. They call themselves as zmaj. Well, you'll know about them later on so I'll move on about our family. Fedorov Family."

She tried to open her eyes but stopped immediately by the cold hand.

"Close it and just listen." He said, "Our family is unique because our ancestor is a god."

There was a slight mockery in his tone, she noted in her heart that he whether dislike gods in general or specifically dislike his ancestor god.

"Usually a god create and lead a clan rather than a family. There are tens of clans in Slavic but only five have the biggest power with numerous family under their wings. Fedorov Family is under Zduhac Clan, the only clan which was not leaded by a god but a spirit believed as ancestor before zmaj. Beside Fedorov Family, only six family under it because Zduhac Clan's teaching is somewhat radical than what common people believed. Two of them are spirit tribes.

"Originally, Zduhac was a tribe in seclusion before our ancestor declared he and Fedorov Family will under no one except them. It was not good for zmaj if Fedorov Family out of the society so they raise Zduhac's status instead. And other spirits started to come out after Zduhac and clans reached an agreement."

She knew about Fedorov Family, whose ancestor was Rod, was a family with time attribute.

Different with other family that was taken into a clan depended on one or more of family's member who could achieve certain attribute, Zduhac Clan only took families that could follow their teaching with blind faith.

It was said, what will they're going through was worse than hell. Because time attribute could not be achieved if the requirements wasn't met.

The probability of success to achieve time attribute was less than ten percent.

Due to unique characteristic of Slavic--no, Earth was the one which was unique--which was every being in it would reincarnated with their memory intact but had no attachment to their previous line, people who had tried achieving time attribute and failed preferred to quit Zduhac Clan in their next line; they differentiated each life by calling them with first line, second line, nth line so on.

But not so many survived, it was said worse than hell because most of them who failed would lose their chance to reincarnate and vanished from the world.

Or rather their memory was erased completely. So it must be scary for them.

"Ah, the story that you're awake soon will reach other Fedorovs, there will be some people visit us later. But don't need to mind it much, you can even be rude to them. You got your daddy's back."

Jose stood up while kept his eyes on the white cubicle in his hand which blinking continuously.

He grumbled, "This is why I turned them down..."

He then smiled when both stared at each other, he patted her head lightly.

"This daddy of yours need to go back to Fedor for a moment, I'll be back at evening. Well, we will stay in this villa until you could adapt with your body, so you don't need to tense your mind. Slowly, I want you take it step by step. Also, bell the ring if you need something."

After leaving those cheesy lines, he left.

While Aaby stayed on the bed with cold face. She took a glance to the bell on the right leg of the table beside the bed, it was similar to bells used by houses in Earth.

It was within her reach, but she didn't want to call anyone yet. Rather, she wanted to meet no one.

She sighed and closed her eyes, at least she was alone now.

"I need to recover my power asap."

Without her power, she surely would be a useless little girl. It disturbed her so much...

......

The truth is... I am conflicted between telling some useless fact or not. But in the end, I chose to....

Aaby is MC and Jose one hundred percent surely is ML, but they are not the endgame. I already draft this story about 30+ chapters--when revising this chapter I just want to avoid unnecessary dog blood and some broken heart readers who match Aaby and Jose romantically--

WAIT! Don't they father-daughter pair? What do you mean endgame?

...There should be people who thinks like that and that would be good. But for me, nah. They are not father-daughter pair like 'real father-daughter pair' if you know what I mean.

But, even though I think they're not father-daughter pair, I still--really cannot pair both of them together.

I will not explain in detail why but if you follow the story line, you will know what I mean. Well, not all story need to force its character together only because they are MC and ML, right?

So for you who has twisted taste of shipping with fragile little heart, don't pair them. I already warn you. Hahahaha~

Love from me,

aoillies.