My parents that had high expectations of me in my past life, and so did my siblings, but my lack of drive for self-improvement which coupled with my compulsive liar tendencies caused them so much dissatisfaction that they gave up. Even when I was bullied in my younger years, they weren't very comforting to say the least, my only memories I have regarding them was their disappointed expressions when I became unemployed after education.

The looks in my parents eyes seemed to ask why I'd waste away my life in such a way, and my older siblings? They just outright forced me into the army because my supernaturally high instincts seemed to make me quite fit for the role of a soldier. Even now I feel conflicted about them, was I to thank my parents for raising me with such care and love or curse my siblings for sending me to the army that time?

Hah... Now that I think about it, we really were siblings since our liar tendencies were quite similar, most of the time we'd hide our pain from each other because we didn't want the pity of the rest. From my parents point of view, it must have looked ridiculous, a family like us didn't need to hide our pains from each other right?

Not really, in fact, the reason we all were never able to be honest to each other was because we 'were' siblings.

All of us had our own little self-esteem that we wanted to protect in front our loved ones. We would want to share our joys with each other, but wouldn't want to dampen the mood with our pains, I guess that is why we finally split our separate ways in the end.

Now, in my present life, having a little sister was a blessing that I cherished greatly along with my new parents.

They're quite chaotic, even though they live a boring life as the Duke's head servants, there's always a content smile on their faces no matter what the occasion. In this life of mine, I grew closer to my family with each passing day, living my life away as I strived to become stronger than I had before.

An old man in the body of a youth, I tried my best to change and improve myself, but changing isn't that easy. A narrow-minded guy like me can only see the things in front of him.

I expected that I would one day get in a fight with my new family due to the rigid personality I inherited from my past life. This wasn't that surprising considering the fact that my mental maturity was already higher than my own parents. A contrast in the morales ingrained into me and the ones of this world were bound to clash one day.

However, I didn't expect that the bonds I built with Merilin would fall to pieces in such a way just due to that fact that I murdered an assassin to protect her.

I didn't know what my Father and Mother are thinking regarding this side of me that I'd never shown in our usually peaceful environment. They could be disgusted my lack of empathy towards the living, they could despise my ruthlessness or my methods of 'protecting', but everything is fine to me as long as they aren't killed.

Relationships can be mended with time, but their life isn't something that could be given back once taken, even those of this magical world can't bring the dead back from beyond the grave.

This was my resolution when I killed that assassin mercilessly outside Merilin's door. I knew that such a decision would lead to disastrous results and may even cause my family to fall apart, yet the only choice I had was to eliminate that young assassin.

I could only helplessly try to appease Merilin outside her door after she saw me brutally murder that girl with her own eyes. A fear in my own image etched into her eyes as the scene she saw traumatised her fragile mind.

I allowed the guards of the household to take me in for questioning so that I could take my time to think what to say, like should or shouldn't I lie?

Maybe if I used my second Skill Root named Cellular Horn, I would be able to manipulate her mind by directly sending my Spacial Energy to her brain, but doing that would just be inhumanly wrong on so many levels.

I mean, who brainwashes their little sister, damn it! After some deep thought, the first thing I decided before leaving that interrogation room was to be honest, since I also owe her an apology on top of calming her down.

I already understood after experiencing that awkwardness between me and my older siblings in my past life that a relationship based off lies is shallow. If I truly did lie once again, the bond between me little sister would whither fast, leaving no hope of being mended.

Ah... It was supposed to be a heartwarming scene of us finally making up, so how did it turn to this?

I circulated the Psionic Energy in my first Skill Root and manipulated it like an Art that used Mana. Although the Psionic Energy within me is different from Mana, the origin is the same, so I recreated the original Arts I made.

[Support Skill- Combat Body]

My body glowed with white light as moved my hand to defend against the bolt of lightning but sadly my movements were in vain. I mean, even with a Support Skill, it's not like I could move at lightning speed to block.

I quickly recovered from the paralysis I felt from being hit by her bolt of lightning and rushed to disarm her.

"Stay away! Stay away!" She screams in fear and waved her wand once again.

A plethora of Lightning Gatherers she seemed to have inscribed on the floor beforehand lit up as an even stronger electrical force generated under me.

If it was the me from before I created my Skill Root, then I'd be having a hard time, but everything's different now that I've reached the Combatant Rank.

[Skill Overlay- Skin Reinforcement]

Using the extra Psionic Energy stored inside my High Grade Skill Root, I used another Support Skill to increase my magical defence and moved forward.

Tears were dripping down Merilin's cheeks as she had a tantrum, but her movements were decently skilled, she waved her wand again to activate more Spell Circles she inscribed around her.

[Skill Overlay- Cognitive Drive!]

[Skill Overlay- Weightless Skeleton!]

The world around me slowed down as charged forwards with indescribable momentum. She might have been able to stop me from getting close by using Water Spells at close range if she was still calm, but right now she wasn't thinking straight as she used the same method of attack over and over again.

I moved my body to dodge the trajectory of the bolt she threw before grabbing the wand in her hand.

"It hurts." She cries as I grabbed her head, her eyes were still covered in tears as she wanted to attack, but halted upon seeing my sharp glare.

"Calm the hell down and listen to what I have to say." I say in a deep voice. My face probably looked scary due to the veins protruding from my skin. I really was angered to no end after getting attacked, even though the Lightning bolts she shot were non-lethal, they still hurt like hell after hitting my skin.