Kaiser of the New World (Ch 200+)

Vessel of... (275)

Petunia had a normal childhood.

There was nothing abnormal about it. She grew up in a regular house, went to a regular school, and had two parents who loved her more than anything else in the world.

If anything, the only strange thing was how much her parents loved her, but that wasn't a bad thing, not at all.

And yet, that whole lifestyle had been evaporated the moment the Tutorial began.

She had been happy that she was with her mother, but she was blissfully unaware of what her mother had to do when they left the White Room.

Sure there was some strange noises from the room her mother went with those men, but that was all she thought if it. She hadn't expected anything that was going to happen.

But that whole lifestyle, the loving environment she grew up in, all of that changed when her mother didn't come back one night after the noises had stopped.

Curious as to what had happened, Petunia ventured into the room they had always brought her mother and saw her lying there, unmoving, a group of men surrounding her.

One of the men had turned to her and grinned before beginning to walk over to her, but...

That was the last thing she remembered after that.

Her memory of the incident was hazy, she remembered what had happened up until the man approached her, then it was all blank.

When she came to, she was standing in the centre of a pile of corpses. The bloody bodies of all the men that had killed her mother surrounded her, the only difference in the room before and after she blacked out was that her mother's body had mysteriously vanished.

Well, that, and the fact she had become level 22 and was holding a tattered teddy bear that she definitely didn't have before.

But when looking at that teddy bear, Petunia almost felt that it was... familiar, in some strange sort of way. Like it had always been a part of her. It was comforting.

It reminded her of her mother.

A few moments after she came to, a gray haired man with a neatly trimmed beard entered the room. His eyes scanned over the massacre before finally settling on the child that was coveted in blood in the centre of it all.

Strangely, he embraced her in a hug, claiming that he was a friend of his father's. While he hugged her, Petunia heard him mumble something under his breath, but she couldn't make out what she had said.

After that, the Tutorial was slightly more peaceful, but it wasn't the same without her mother.

At least, that was until she realised where her mother had gone.

Her mother wasn't dead, not at all.

No, her mother was simply inhabiting the teddy bear she had been holding when she came too in the centre of all those corpses.

In fact, she could still communicate with her mother. Albeit, her mother's vocabulary had become very limited, so she spoke through a few select choice of words and emotions.

At that point, Petunia had believed her regular, loving lifestyle was over. She had met her dad again, only to be sent away from him once more.

She had been locked in a cell, a man who kept calling himself her father trying to train him through the worst means possible, it was horrible.

Petunia had thought her regular life was over.

At least, until she escaped the city with Kai and Cecilia.