I woke up early despite how tired I was last night, I think this has to do something with my daily routine.

I stretch my hands and bend my neck backwards releasing a yawn. My head naturally flows down, I see a wolf laying beside me with my sleepy eyes.

Terror and shock entered my body, there was no hint of sleep in my eyes anymore. After sometime memories of last night came back to me and I sighed in relief.

'Man, that sure freaked me out' I say while trying to control my breathing.

Sensing the movement in the bed, the wolf quickly woke up. The first thing it did was to stare at me, I was not sure if it too forget about last night. If it did, would it have the same reaction as me? and then stop when it get its memories back.

'Gulp' I swallow my own saliva, 'I hope I don't die before it get its memories back'.

It seems all my worries were for nothing as the wolf lowered its head wanting me to pet him.

Shelfa was already waiting for us near the new sturdy door of my room still carefully minding her distance.

Her eyes were bloodshot, her hair were messed up at least she changed into a new dress, I thought.

It was clear that she didn't sleep last night maybe it was because killing another human being had such a great effect on her, getting ourselves almost killed can be the reason too but I think its because she is eager to meet her kids after such a long time since they will be arriving by this afternoon.

Anyways this wolf needed a proper name, I pondered on it for a while then named it Qin. The only reason was because it had the same sound to Qin=Kin, where Kin meant family.

'Kin...Kin, boy thats your name from now on, do you understand?' after telling the wolf this I feel stupid, how can a wolf reply me? Its already too good for it to understand me.

But to my surprise Qin nods his head in agreement, it seems he is really excited over his new name.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this development, a wolf replying to a human.

Anyways we head to my training grounds according to our schedule.

Shelfa left early saying 'I will be waiting for you, young master'.

Qin was injured but his body was full of vigor, with his natural healing ability and my applied herbs, his wounds were already closing.

Maids and guards kept staring at Qin and me, their eyes reflected the terror residing deep in their soul. It was the first time for many seeing a beast in their entire well preserved caged life.

Honestly a carnivore demon walking with a vicious beast sounds very good of a combination. Seeing their pitiful expressions I can not help but laugh.

Soon we reach my training ground.

There is one thing that is absolutely important to confirm, I whisper something in Qin's ears.

And Qin starts moving towards Shilfa slowly, at this moment I am unable to contain my joy, this is my time.

With this, two things are clear to me, this wolf understands human language and that I will be getting my revenge.

Qin crouches right beside Shilfa, his fur is touching her legs. Amusing her expression is really amusing, she is looking at me and her face resembles a vampire.

She doesn't dare to move and how can I let this opportunity pass by, I nodded my head and the wolf started licking her.

For a moment I thought she would start crying, it took her sometime but she gradually recovered still not until she was covered in Qin's saliva.

The odd thing was, Qin looked very satisfied after covering Shelfa whole, in his saliva.

It seems now she is not scared of Qin anymore, why do I think I made a huge blunder. Her eyes are full of anger like piercing daggers aimed at me.

She casually says 'Qin go boy, chase' while giving me a vicious smile.

I burst into laughter, one moment she was afraid of Qin enough to not even breath and now she thinks Qin will listen to her?

My happy moments didn't last long, since a wolf was rushing towards me.

Not thinking anything else I started running, with my face full of disbelief and surprise I yell 'Qin you traitor, womanizer'

The chase lasted a while but Qin eventually caught me and then there was divine punishment waiting for me.

The fairy that decended from heaven changed into a devil who escape from hell.

I am glad that now Shilfa is a lot better, during this time I also noticed that when I was being chased by Qin I surpassed my limits.

With this Qin joins my training, he chases me and I run for my life. Qin's movements are fast and elegant but that is not all, whats even more fearsome is actually his jumping and tackling ability.

With a single leap he can cover a wide distance and I always fell victim to it despite all my balance training thus far.

So to improve in balance I tell Qin to tackle me while I run, this way my sense of danger and balance both can improve.

Now I am meditating under the tree I use for climbing practice, my legs are crossed and my eyes are closed. All kind of thoughts are storming in my mind, I am isolating myself from them one by one.

Then I suddenly see a replay in my mind, Qin is chasing me, his movements that were so natural and fast, if I could only learn them. With this newly gained insight I start practicing running on all four.

I now observe Qin's movement whenever I have the chance. I dotted the i's and crossed the t's.

Seeing me like this Shila laughed out loud and said to me 'serves you right'. I don't know what she assumed after seeing me in this position but I think anything will be better than telling her I am doing it on purpose.

Once my training was concluded we came back to the castle, Shilfa was rubbing Qin's fur. 'I will have to properly tame this womanizer' I made a mental note.

In the afternoon as usual I had to learn dark arts from the bald geezers. Honestly I don't understand them, they read me this 'Justice,loyalty,honesty and strength you must have young master, these are the virtues required to govern'.

Hearing this from them, I see stinking nobles in my mind. 'Igarnes was doing his business with utmost honesty and loyalty too' relating these boring lectures is actually quite fun in itself.

As soon as I am done with this, I noticed sweat traveling on my forehead, this was tiring, much more tiring than my hardest training.

In my room currently Shilfa is hugging two adorable little girls both of whom are identical enough for me to take one for reflection of the other.

Her tears are naturally flowing down and her expression really makes me feel satisfied.

These two girls are about my age, if I have to guess they should be five years old.

With tears in her eyes, when Shilfa takes notice of me she begs 'young master please accept them as your personal maids'.

I understood what she really wanted, she wanted for them to live here in the castle and if they were to become maids naturally they will be living here. But maids? was what happened with Shilfa not enough? that she wants the same to happen to her daughters too. Even if I become their master, I can't protect them 24/7 from other nobles. Did she not trust me to give her kids lodging without making them my servants? I was confirming these possibilities in my mind.

I said in a cold tone.

'Denied! Although they can live with you, you must never speak of making them maids' I clearly stated what was in my mind.

Hearing this Shilfa wipes her tears and with her usual brightness she gives me a wonderful smile. But little did I know, she already decided to make her daughters follow me as maids.

We all had a little bonding time, these two girls were really innocent which suited their age unlike me or so I thought.

One was named Tella while the other was named Stella. They already had taken a liking to me and were now mounting me like a horse while I was circling around my room.

Qin was looking at me with pity in his eyes, 'damn you wolf' I cursed him, it was his job to become the mount.

So I whispered something in Stella's ear, as soon as she heard me she practically ran towards Qin and mounted him.

'Dah' 'Dah' she shouted as she grabbed Qin's long soft ears. Qin started to move and I started laughing 'I thought you liked women'.

For a moment I thought I heard something in my mind similar to 'I like women not child...Ren' surely it isn't possible, thinking this I dismissed the thought as my wild imagination.

Seeing us getting along, Shilfa was relived, She took a hold of Stella and Tella and asked permission to leave 'I apologize for their disrespect young master, may we leave, I am need of serious sleep'

'Go on, these two must be tired from their long journey too' as I said that they quickly took their leave for which I was really thankful.

'Devilish woman' I muttered in a low voice.

Qin was looking at me intently, it seemed he totally agreed with me.

In a blink of an eye a whole month passed. Qin and I were bullied regularly, the infamous demon and the vicious beast, both couldn't escape their fate.

Aside from this, I had all other nobles who took advantage of Shilfa imprisoned and anything can happen in prisons.

My training progressed the fastest, sparring with Qin was really helpful. By now I mastered the art of running on all four, it was all thanks to Stella and Tella, these two restlessly made a horse out of me in a month.

Everything was going good, this month had been peaceful and there were almost no life and death experiences for me.

Today was my birthday, I finally became eight years old. God himself had a gift to grant me only that I can't refuse.

This month was the calm before the storm. When my father entered my room I understood this. It was his first time visiting me after mother died.

His eyes were stern and his body was releasing a dominating aura but it had no effect on me. I hardly resisted my urge to laugh, he was the same father who played with two women each day.

He said ' Today is your birthday, for your present I will grant you the fief of Tebruit Castle' his voice was absolutely firm.

Hearing this my body shook once, Tebruit is the capital city of all allied countries so naturally its castle is very important, even the castle we are living in would pale in its comparison.

'Also you will be going to participate in the upcoming youth battle tournament held at our capital, The holy city of Tebruit'

I was simply speechless, my mind hadn't even recovered from the previous shock that now I am notified about a tournament.

With this said, he quickly left without even looking back once, thankfully he didn't slam the door this time.

I could avoid noble banquets and other foolish invitations but this was unavoidable. I never had taken a combat class once in my life so what were my father's intentions? That I could not comprehend.

The capital city of this whole world is located in the north of our castle, at most it would take two days to travel there.

My mouth was wide open, I wanted to say something but no words would come out.

The only thing I could do now was to train who knows it may prove useful in providing me valuable experience, the tournament would be held three days from now leaving me with only one day to prepare.

I knew nothing of things like these, I had no friends and took no interest in social activities so I had to ask Shilfa about the matter.

When she heard me inquiring about the matter she just started with her rambling 'you really know nothing do you?'

'This tournament is a very important one for all youths, it will be held at Tebruit and all around the world'

'There will be 60 contestants all of royal birth, each round would send half of them back'

'The winner of the tournament are scouted my combat academies and getting accepted by them is the dream of every youth especially the 'Holy academia''

She really knew a lot about these affairs as she went on and on, I couldn't handle anymore of it so I said 'Enough already!'

With this my preparations to enter the tournament begin.

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