The Devil's Origin

36 - 4: A Day in Lucis' Life.

"Wake up everyone!~ It's time for breakfast, you know~"

Ah, it was Elk-san's voice.

I woke up groggily and tidied up my futon while I was still half-asleep.

"Yaaaaawn~"

Geez! My younger brother, Ruin was still asleep!

"Oi! Wake up!"

I patted the futon where Ruin was sleeping repeatedly but this sleepyhead didn't show any sign of waking up.

"Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!! Waaaaahhhhhhh!!"

What now?

Turned out Serena wetted her bed again, she was crying profusely because of that.

"Serena, don't cry... It's alright, okay?"

I became confused and called out to Elk-san for help.

"Oh well, it couldn't be helped~," Elk-san said while laughing.

He then brought the dirty futon out while I continued to soothe the crying Selena.

"There, there. You're a good girl so don't cry, okay?"

"Uuuuugh..."

While I was busy trying to stop Serena from crying, my other younger brother finally woke up.

The sleeping arrangement for the children of this castle was separated by their species.

So that was why I was surrounded by my fellow tribe, Velluclesis.

On our right side, there were the Dark Elf children who were still sleeping.

And on our left side, there were the Nagaraja children who were completely asleep with their long tails entwined.

Sometimes I wondered whether their tails hurt or not when they woke up.

"Come on, Lucis! If you don't hurry, you will miss breakfast!" Mist, the dark elf urged me to hurry.

Uuugh... Even though I'm older than him somehow ever since Mist was born out of the egg, he quickly took the lead from me.

Anyway since all of the children were still developing, breakfast was a pivotal point for us!

We had to hurry up so we wouldn't miss it!

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"Thank you for the meal!" The children chorused.

Breakfast was essentially a battleground for us!

Elk-san, Copper-san and Collin-san prepared our meal.

The werewolf and wolf children had milk while the other humanoid tribe had cornflakes.

As for Lizardman and Nagaraja children, they had something that resembled Mr. Frog.

To think they liked to eat something like that... It was unbelievable.

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Each tribe had a different growth speed.

Some children were born later than me but already bigger than me.

Velluclesis children like me had a slow growth speed so we were still small compared to other children.

When we got older, the children would be paired in boy and girl and then we had to leave the castle.

Of course, we felt anxious about it but at the same time, we were excited too.

Everyone's eyes would sparkle when we talked about it.