(Sans × Gender-Neutral! Parent! Reader || Slow Burn) Moving from a backwater town to a city bustling with human and monsterfolk alike, some things begin to change both for the better and the worse. What was left behind comes back to bite at you in the most unexpected times, current progress being put in danger as a result. It's hard to move on, though it's equally difficult trying to stay loyal to what you believe is right. With an adoptive seven-year-old son and the remnants of a recent divorce in your hands, your goal is to move on and adjust to life with monsters, these becoming an important part of your life -- one of them in particular reigniting the spark you thought gone with your ex spouse. • • • *The following story is a re-write of the first UT fanfic I ever managed to publish on the Internet. *Cover image belongs to Evie Shaffer. *Undertale belongs to Toby Fox. *You belong to yourself.

[Frisk's Parent Reader | Slow Burn] The dichotomy between black and white is your constant when it's time for you to meet the whole new civilization Frisk brought along with them to the Surface. As a parent, it's not easy to trust others when they've hurt your child. So when that new civilization decides they owe Frisk both for saving their kind and for still hurting them during that process, you've got plenty to say to them. Forgive the monsters as easily as you once did with others during a stage of naivety? Oh, hell no. They better have a good reason for hurting your child and an even better one for wanting to be a part of their family. [Cover Image Credit: 愚木混株CDD20 and scarfacino on Pixabay.] • • • Full Arc List: Arc 1 | Ruins Chapters 1 to 15 (✓ complete) Arc 2 | Enemy Approaching Chapters 16 to 25 (✓ complete) Arc 3 | Pathetic House Chapters 26 to 30 (× current) Arc 4 | Spear of Justice Chapters 31 to 40 Arc 5 | Here We Are Chapters 41 to 50 Arc 5.5/Final Arc | Good Night Chapters 51 to 55

[EDITED] It's been years since he was last able to speak, he lost his voice years ago when a certain incident happened. After that he simply went off as '𝒎𝒖𝒕𝒆'. Teachers believed him as he also hides behind a mask, as if trying to hide a secret underneath. Though behind all that backstory, he also played volleyball as a sport, played it in middle school and was planning to continue. That's when he goes to Karasuno High School, with goals of joining a certain volleyball team. Who knew that team was gonna end up uncovering his secrets behind his past and even as to why he wear his mask.. but maybe.. will it they also find '𝙃𝙞𝙨 𝙑𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚' -credits to @-HIROU for making the cover-