My Guardian Demon

Bonus chapter 01 : Unwanted child

Be willing to abandon them for their work.

Choose their career over their blood.

Accept a nice work opportunity instead of choosing a human being they had created themselves and were responsible of.

This is how those adults cared about that child.

This is how this man and this woman cared about their own family.

This is how those parents, Mr and Mrs Saihara, cared about their own son.

Shuichi Saihara.

The last time my parents gave a shit about me ? Has there even ever been one ?

If someone told me that I wasn't planned, that I'm not a wanted child, an accident ; I wouldn't even be surprised.

I frankly think my parents never even wanted to have children and the responsabilities included in the package. They did the minimum when I was a baby not to get accused of murder or child abuse and neglect and the moment they had an opportunity, they let me go.

Back when I was a kid, whenever I would get hurt, slip and fall down, whenever I was crying about my injuries and the blood they were oozing ; no one was coming to me. My parents were never healing me, reassuring me, they didn't do anything.

They didn't take care of me.

Whenever I told them I was hungry, in the best case scenario, they would cook something very quickly after letting out a loud sigh out of exasperation. In the worst case scenario, they said they were busy and I was old enouh to handle it myself.

They didn't care one bit about me, they ignored me so much that I practically raised up myself, without any parent.

This is how I quickly became independant because I knew how to take care of myself, being only 5.

This is how I quickly became clever because I had learnt everything I could possibly learn by myself.

This is how I quickly became the owner of countless toys because, whenever my parents tried to keep me busy so that I would stop bothering them so they can focus on their career, they would silent me by buying all the toys I wanted.

This is how I quickly became cold and distant because no one was ever giving me some love so I never had any reason to give some to anyone.

This is how I quickly became the lonely kid because no kid wanted to approach the brat with the cold and piercing gaze at school.

This is how I quickly became what is called an «otaku»  because I was spending all my time reading mangas, watching animes, working not too much but just enough to have good enough grades, getting bored at school...

So when my parents got an offer for a promising career at the other side of the country, they didn't hesitate much.

I guess normal parents would have thought of moving with their only child or would be worried thinking of letting them at their grand-parents or some shit like that.

They didn't.

Choosing their child over their work ?

Bringing him with them to take care of him and not abandonning him ?

Taking responsibility and bringing what they created themselves and giving him some love ?

Nope, none of that.

If we need to give up on the kid to pursue these careers, no probs, he'll just go live at his uncle's and that's it !

That's exactly what happened. This is how, being only 6, I went to live with my uncle I had never met in my life before. My parents only knew about the words"work", "promotion" and "career" after all. What the word "family" meant was unknown to them.