The sun was setting, it was near the dinner time. Ms. Carina brought me new cloths and prepared the necessary things for me.

“Do you want to see around of this house? I will guide you before prepare the dinner.” Ms. Carina asked with smiled.

“Yes, please.” Takafumi answered immediately. He felt exited and would like to see around the house, he needed to do something else to change his mood.

When Takafumi went out of the room, he saw another room in front of him, and the stair on the right. It was loft cozy style, he could see the living area at the first floor from here. The interior decoration were all made by woods and done with neat.

He went downstair, the first thing he saw was the front door and then, look around.

“Wow…I really love this style of house. It was warm feeling and everything look natural.” Takafumi thought himself.

Ms. Carina guided Takafumi to living area, there were bookshelf nearby, she told him to read it freely. He opened one book, the content related to plants and herbs. There were several kind of books. He was interesting but needed to concentrate and read it later. He put the book back on bookshelf and followed Ms. Carina to the dining and kitchen area.

Ms.Carina explained some details to Takafumi roughly because she would response for cooking every meal for him, it would be dangerous if she lets a boy to do it himself. She would put some fruit, water jug and glass on the bar table nearby, he could eat and drink himself when she was not around.

Most of furnitures and tableware were made from woods. The fire place, oven, cookery and sink were made from stones.

“How could you lit the fire when cooking?” Takafumi asked curiously, the oven was look like electric stove in his world.

“It was using fire magic stone to lit the fire, thanks to the humans that invented the oven and made it more easier when using. In the past we used magic to lit fire but we were not strong in fire magic excepted for Queen Agnes, elders and some of young elves.” said Ms. Carina with smiled kindly as usual.

Ms. Carina was preparing the dinner while Takafumi was reading the book in living area, after a while, the dinner meal were ready and served on the table, the smell was good. There were pumpkin soup, bread, salad, and another dish that look like pan bake of several kind of vegetables with cheese.

“It’s delicious.” said Takafumi, normally he did not eat vegetarian food but the dishes here were really delicious, it might be the freshness of vegetables.

“I baked the apple pine, I think that child would preferred dessert” smiled Ms. Carina.

“Thank you.” said Takafumi with gratitude. He like her kindness. She taken care of him without complaint and really worried that he would be starved or felt for uncomfortable when he was staying here.

“Could I ask you some questions?” Takafumi asked.

“Of course, if I could answer you.” said Ms. Carina, still made some line in her word.

“Where is this place? Could everyone use the magic?” Takafumi asked with some basic question.

“It was call “Magnus Forest” the forest that protected by elves, it was one part of Sapientia Empire but we had agreement of ruling the forest by ourself, and here was the elves village, no human and other races allowed inside the village without permission of The Queen. We had good relationship with some trustworthy humans, but we always meet outside the village. — For the magic, the young elves could use the magics, but the powers and abilities were up to an individual, it would be better for you to ask more details from the Queen.” said Ms. Carina and finished with the line of no more deeper question.

After we finished dinner.

“I will prepare the bathtub for you. It would be hard if you do it yourself.” said Ms. Carina with eager before Takafumi could say anything.

“Did she could read my mind? I was going to say that I felt bad of taking too much time from her but I realised that I was in this child body. How could I do it for myself?” Takafumi thought himself.

“Thank you” said Takafumi with gratitude, it was the only thing he could do and bow down to Ms. Carina sincerely.

Takafumi went to living area, it was double volume and high ceiling, it made the feeling of comfortable. The sky was dark and clear, he could see the stars through the window, the scenery was really beautiful. He thought that he have been seen a lot of stars in Okinawa, at Japan when he was travelled with his family but it still could not compare to the shining stars here.

“Creak”, a man elf that brought the mirror to the room before, he was just came in from the front door and went up stair immediately after eyes contact with Takafumi.

“Come to think of it, why I did not see other elves? I would like to ask Ms. Carina but afraid that she might not want to answer until I met The Queen and elders. I would like to go outside to have some air but Ms. Carina told me not to go outside for the time being.” Takafumi thought himself.

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After a while, Takafumi went up stair to the bedroom. Ms. Carina was just came out of the bathroom, she said that she just finish prepared the bathtub and told me to leave it after bath, she would clean it after that.

After baht, Takafumi went to sleep early, he felt sleepy. It might be that he was in child body. He slept until morning. It was time he could meet Queen Agnes and elders. He had a lot of question to ask them and make clear of his situation.

After finished breakfast, Ms. Carina guided Takafumi outside of the house, the wether was nice, the wind blows softly, plenty of trees, the atmosphere was good and it made the feeling of peaceful. Takafumi walked trough many trees and treehouses. He saw some elves crafting something, they avoided his eyes but greeted to Ms. Carina, later, she told Takafumi that it was natural of elves that not talk to human who they did not familiar with.

Takafumi followed Ms. Carina until he saw a group of 9 treehouses which arranged by tiers, a centre of treehouse was biggest, the others were smaller but still bigger than the treehouse that he was staying. We went upstair to a centre treehouse. We came inside, the atmosphere was as same as the royal audience hall in lobby size, nothing luxury but neat and tidy, everything made from woods. Ms. Carina leaved after bow to a woman elf who was sitting at the centre, there were other 8 elves that sitting on the left and the right of her side.

“The descendent of Helius” said by a beautiful elf who was sitting at the centre, her appearances was look like goddess and had light aura around her body, light gold hair, gold eyes, wearing olive leaf crown and white dress, she looked young, compared to human in age 30 years old but the elf was long life race, her real age might be at least 400 years old, she was definitely The Queen.

The others elves also had aura around their bodies but not as much as The Queen. They were wearing the white cloak in same design, like uniform, their faces were not much different, only body shape were different by men and women. They were pretty, long silver hair, silver eyes, their appearances were look a bit older than The Queen; even though, they called “The elders” but their appearances were as same as the humans at age in range of 30 - 35 years old.

“Um..What do you mean about the descendent of Helius, ma’am? I still confused of my situation. I do not know why I was here. The several days ago, I was working at night without rested and felt dizzy, when I woken up, I found out that I was in this child body. My name is Hirohashi Takafumi. I’m 35 years old and I was born in Japan.” Takafumi explained his situation without breath.

“It was fate that you were here, the one who was chosen by Athena Goddess” said The Queen calmly. “We got prophecy from the world tree spirit, a messenger from goddess. “On black moon night of June, help the descendent of Helius, his soul was a chosen one who will bring the great light to human races and lead the world from ending.”

“You will know more in details, Lets me introduce myself and the elders first; my name is Agnes, The Queen of Magnus Forest. The 8 elders were high elves, their name were Mr. Mercury, Ms. Veneris, Mr. Globus, Mr. Marius, Mr. Luppiter, Mr. Saturn, Mr. Uranus, and Mr. Neptunus” said Queen Agnes, the elders smiled at Takafumi but said nothing.

“Please follow me, Athena goddess would explain everything to you” said Queen Agnes and led Takafumi the way.

Takafumi saw lighting gold mark on Queen Agnes’s back of right hand when she came up close, It was shape of Shield with hourglass at centre. He wondered why someone had a mark on their hand but someone not, like Mrs. Carina.

Queen Agnes led the way to deep forest, Takafumi followed her and could see only trees around, we walked for a while until we reached to way out of deep forest. The scenery was stunning, a big tree at centre in a field of colourful tulips; the tree was really big beyond the imagination, the tree trunk was bigger than the size of Queen Agnes’s treehouse.

“This is a world tree, only one on this world and no one of human race knew about it, please keep its secret. There was a world tree spirit here, a messenger of Athena Goddess and a Queen of spirit world.” said Queen Agnes.

When we reached to the world tree, the world tree spirt appeared. She look like an angel, green hair and gold eyes. She looked at Takafumi and said “Athena Goddess waiting for you.” Her energy and shape changed to be Athena Goddess, beautiful, bright light aura, gold hair, gold eyes, wearing white suit.

“My name is Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war who taking care of this world. I could finally meeting you, Mr.Takafumi” said Athena Goddess.