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  I “storms” into the door of viceroy mansion like a wind with the last least bit of the setting sunshine on me, I stop at the place just close to the dining room. It’s not because I am not hungry anymore. It’s because… I run into a big guy!

  I rub on my somewhat deformed little head, “I said, my eldest brother, can’t you not to stay at the same place while you are waiting for me everyday? How many times I have already run into you?”

  “You still have the excuse, you insult another instructor away today again. I don’t know who will dare to teach you in the future.” it’s my eldest brother, Lef Cada, talking to me. Lef has the burning-red hair, he has the firm and persistent face and the best looking blue eyes. Even though he is just ten years old, he has decided to be a knight in the future by learning both the magic and the fighting.

  “Oh, yes, father and mother are waiting for you to have the dinner together. They say that they have something else to talk to you after the mneal.” my second elder brother’s head shows out from behind Lef’s body. He has the same hair and eyes as Lef’s, burning-red hair and blue eyes. But his face is a little bit more delicate and pretty, “please don’t say those somewhat strange words tonight, alright?”

  “Oh, alright, brothers, I didn’t mean to say it that way to make them angry. But, that’s how I think in my mind.” even I am very hungry, but because I am talking to my brothers, I can’t show them that I am in a hurry. This is the manner.

  Until mom’s silhouette shows by the diner room’s door, “Kids, don’t you feel hungry? It’s already past the dinner time. Come in and have the meal.”

  Yeah! Dinner, dinner, I love my mom the best!

  “Have you finished your meals yet? Kids?” it’s my father’s gentle voice.

  “We are done. Do you have anything to tell us, father?” my eldest brother put down his bowl long time ago, my second elder brother also finished his meal long ago.

  “Lef, let’s wait for Kone.” mother looks at me who is still devouring ravenously, she laughs and talks to father, “our Kone’s appetite is always the biggest.”

  “Ha ha, that’s for sure. He can eat almost as twice as a normal people’s appetite now.” father also smiles and asks me, “Kone, what are you doing every day now?”

  “Me? I don’t do anything special. I went out to play on the street today.” my mouth is full of food, I say vaguely. “I don’t know why myself neither. I get hungry easier and easier now.”

  Finally, I finished my last bite of the meal. I pat on my chest satisfied, “oh, I am full.”

  “Alright, let’s come to talk about the matters of Kone.” father talks neither hurried nor relaxed, he asks me what is already in his mind, “Kone, what did you say to the instructor Zack today?”

  “There’s nothing special. Instructor Zack told us that the continent under our feet is flat as a pan. I told him that I don’t think he is right, I think the continent is round. It is just like a ball.”

  “What kind of joke you are having, Kone. If the continent is round, we would all drop out of it.” My eldest brother Lef opens his that pretty eyes wildly.

  “I don’t know about this. But you can think it this way, if the continent is flat, why do we always see the tip of the things when they’re coming towards us?”

  “Alright, you don’t need to argue about this anymore.” Father says, “The problem is not here. The problem is that you can’t say the words like these.”

  Looking at our curious eyes, father continues to say, “Kone, you like to think, it’s a good thing. But, do you know? If the priests in the Deity Temple know the words like these, what kind of catastrophe will bring to you?”

  I shake my head, “I don’t know. But what’s the relationship between my these words and the Deity Temple?”

  “You kids are still too young, this is what I worry about. You still don’t know what can be said, and what cannot be said. but now it seems, I can’t hire teachers for you anymore. Kone, from now on, let me teach you by myself.”

  “Oh, great! I am so happy to hear that.”

  “And, you absolutely can’t say the words like these in the future, even though you think that they are right. You can think it in your own mind, or you can talk to or ask me.”

  “Alright.”

  “Oh. I am going to leave for the Saint Capital. What can I get you anything, kids?”

  “I want the knight equipments!” This is my eldest brother Lef’s voice.

  “Me too!” My elder brother Sefta is unwilling to lag behind.

  “Really? Sefta also has decided to be a knight?” Father looks at my eight-year-old second brother.

  “Yes. I have already made this decision long time ago.”

  “Ha ha ha, Kathleen, you see, there will be two knights from our family.” Father says, and then he asks my two elder brothers, “But what about Kone? He doesn’t have any magic and doesn’t know any fighting skills.”

  “It doesn’t matter!” My eldest brother Lef jumps on the ground from the chair. He speaks loudly, “Me, Lef Cada, in the name of the knight, I will try the best I could. I will protect my brother, Kone Cada, for life!”

  “Me too!” No matter what happens, my second brother Sefta doesn’t want to lag behind my eldest brother Lef. “Me, Sefta Cada, in the name of the knight. I will try the best I could. I will protect my brother, Kone Cada, for life!”

  Mother’s face brims with smile, “My dear, you can see. They three brothers are very close, they all care for each other.”

  “Of course., they are all our children. But, should we have a daughter now as well?”

  "Go, go, go! Who will talk about this in front of their children?” Mother smiles and smacks lightly on father’s arm. “Kids, let’s go to take a shower!”

  Hmm! What are they talking about? Why do they not want us to hear? Could it be said that the adults are same as us, they also have a lot of secrets? It’s very strange.

  ……

  “Mom, why is my hair is black……”

  “That’s because mama likes the black hair kids. So Kone has black hair while you were listening to me well.”

  “Then why do I have no any magic power…”

  “That’s because mama doesn’t like Kone go to fight with people, so Kone is well-behaved not to have any magic power.”

  “Mom…I want the blue eyes like brothers they have as well…”

  “Little silly. Mama likes Kone’s black eyes the most…There will be a lot of girls indulge in you when you grow up.”

  ……

  Hear the sound of my mother’s steps getting away, I turn my body and climb up from the bed.

  Ha ha, mother was cheated by me, I don’t want to go to sleep yet, now it is still too early. But what shall I do next?

  Oh, that’s right, didn’t I borrow a book from the granny today? I don’t have anything to do anyhow. Let me take it out and take a look at it.

  I make the lamp on the desk a little bit lighter, I take the book out from the pocket. Alright, let me see. I’ll finish it if it’s a good book, I’ll return it to the granny if it’s not that interesting.

  The continent we are on is named Pes.

  While all the ethnic groups were still in the primeval condition, the Deities and the Demons were already in the war. The evil Demons, they are born with the darkness power and aggression inclination. And the great Deities, they protest us with their born brightness power.

  On all the countries believing in the Deity of Brightness on this continent, there are Deity Temples built for the Deities. (This is real, father says there’s a very huge Temple in the Saint Capital.)

  The Deity cares his people with his great power and his extreme kindness. We people are gifted by the Deity, we are all bathed in the light of the Deity… (It’s so boring, why there’s nothing good to read?)… The Deity feels that all the ethnic groups on the continent doesn’t have enough power of their own, they can’t fight against the ethnic groups that under the Demon’s lead. S
o, the Deity tells us the secrets of magic.

  From then on, magic is not only reserved for the Deity and the Demons anymore. The spirits and the human beings are among the ethnic groups who are best on using magic. Other ethnic groups have some difficulties on using magic because of the relationship of intelligence.

  The Deity teaches us wind, fire, water, earth, and brightness, five kinds of magic. The Demon teaches his peoples five kinds of magic too. They are wind, fire, water, earth and darkness…

  … In the past wars, the ethnic groups, worship between the Deity and the Demon, had their own victories and defeats.

  In a war which the Deity and the Demon were involved directly, the golden war, our great Deity mauled the Demon heavily, that keeps the Demon stays on the Evil Island until now. Even so, the Deity pays a very high price as well, he has to return to the Heaven Island…

  … Because the Deity and the Demon are both trying their best to recover their power, unable to take care of the continent.

  For the past one hundred years, the structure of the continent has been changed a lot. There are force groups made of countries as the principal part. The force groups made of races as principal part all went back to the islands outside of the continent. only a few individual races still exist in the Dark Forest and the Death Sea. The rest already melt into the countries…

  … On the constitution of the country, because the quantity of the human beings are the most, so every country is controlled by the human beings as the result.

  Human beings are divided into several classes: the (royal) imperial family, the noble family, and the populace family.

  The races other than the human beings, mostly are divided into humbles and slaves…

  My! It’s so terrible! I don’t want to read it anymore! Oh, it’s also not early now, I should do the thing that I would do every single night.

  I put down the book, crossed my legs and sat on the bed. I calmed my heart down, controlled my breath with a kind of special rhythm.

  I don’t know what it is, but, I know this since I have any intelligence. If I sleep with this way, I will be very vigorous the next day. ha ha, if still have a lot of secrets! I will tell you another day.

  Slowly, with my special breath, I fell into sleep…

  In tonight’s dream, what will appear…