The sun was setting, it was near the dinner time. Ms. Carina brought new cloths and necessary things to him.

“Would you like to look around this house? I will guide you before prepare the dinner.” Ms. Carina asked and smiled kindly.

“Yes, I would like to,” said Takafumi excitingly. He would like to do something else and change his mood.

When Takafumi went out of the room, he saw another room at the opposite, and a stair at the right side. It was loft cozy style, he could see the living area at the first floor from second floor. The interior designed and the decorations were all made by woods, neat and clean.

He went downstairs, the first thing he saw was the front door. He looked around.

Takafumi thought himself, ‘Wow…I really love the style of this house, loft and cozy, everything looked natural.’

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

Ms. Carina explained some details to Takafumi roughly because she is one who responses for cooking, it would be dangerous if she lets a boy to do it himself. She will prepare some fruit, water jug and glass on the bar table nearby everyday, he can eat and drink by himself when she is not in a house.

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

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

“It had fire magic stone inside, we lit the fire easily just push this button, thanks to the humans that they could developed the oven. 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, she smiled kindly.

Ms. Carina was preparing the dinner while Takafumi was reading the book in living area, after a while, the dinner dishes were ready and served on the table, the smell was good. There was 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 children always like dessert,” said Ms. Carina kindly.

“Thank you.” Takafumi said with his gratitude, he’s like her kindness. She takes care of him without any complaint and really worries that he will starve or feel uncomfortable while he was staying here.

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

“Of course, if I could answer you,” said Ms. Carina kindly.

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

“This place called ‘Magnus Forest’ the forest that protected by elves, it’s one part of Sapientia Empire but we had agreement with humans that we were ruling the forest by ourselves. We, elves were staying in the elves’ village, no human and other races allowed to come inside the village without permission of The Queen. We have good relationship with some trustworthy humans, but we always meet them outside the village. — For the magic, the young elves can use it, 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, she finished with the line of no 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 enthusiastically before Takafumi could say anything.

Takafumi thought to himself, ‘Did she read my mind? I was going to say that I felt bad of taking too much time from her but I realized that I was in this child body. How can I do it myself?’

“Thank you” said Takafumi with his 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 when sitting here. The sky was dark and clear, he saw the stars through the window, the scenery was really beautiful. He thought that he had been seen a lot of stars in Okinawa, Japan when he was young, he had travelled with his family, however, it could not compare to the shining stars at here.

He would like to go outside to have some air but Ms. Carina told him not to go outside for the time being.

‘Creak’ a man elf who brought a mirror to his room before, he came in from the front door and went up stair immediately after his eyes contact with Takafumi.

Takafumi thought to himself, ‘Why I did not see other elves? I would like to ask Ms. Carina but I’m afraid that she might not want to answer my question until I met The Queen and the elders.’

***

Takafumi went up stair to his bedroom. Ms. Carina just came out of bathroom.

“A bathtub is ready, you can take a bath and leave it, I will clean it later,” said Ms. Carina kindly.

After took a bath, Takafumi went to sleep early. He felt sleepy because of physiology in child body. He slept well until morning. He will meet Queen Agnes and the elders. He has a lot of question to ask them, he need the information to make clear of his situation.

After finished a breakfast, Ms. Carina led Takafumi to meet Queen Agnes and the elders. The weather is nice, the wind blows softly, plenty of trees, the atmosphere is good, it’s some kind of peaceful. Takafumi walked through 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 the nature of elves, they do 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 center of treehouse was biggest, the others were smaller but still bigger than the treehouse that he was staying. We went upstairs to a center treehouse. We came inside, the atmosphere was as same as the royal audience hall but in lobby size, nothing luxury but neat and tidy, everything made from woods. Ms. Carina left after bow to a woman elf who was sitting at the center, there were other 8 elves that sitting on the left and the right of her side.

“The descendent of Helius” said a beautiful elf who was sitting at the center, her appearance was look like goddess, she has light aura around her body, light gold hair, gold eyes. She was wearing olive leaf crown and white dress, she looked young, compared to human at age of thirty but the elves has longer lifespan than humans, her real age might be at least 400 years old. She must be 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, likes uniform. Their faces are not much different, only body shape is different by men and women. They are pretty, long silver hair, silver eyes, their appearances looked a bit older than The Queen. Even though, they called ‘The elders’ but their appearances are as same as the humans in their middle thirties.

“Um...What do you mean about the descendent of Helius, ma’am? I’m confusing 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 woke 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. “I 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.’ After got a message, I sent the team to help you on that day.”

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

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

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

Queen Agnes led the way to deep inside the forest, Takafumi followed her, he saw only trees around, we walked for a while until we reached to a field. The scenery was stunning, there is a big tree at center, in a field of colorful 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 in this world. The human race did not know the existence of world tree, please keep its secret. There is a world tree spirit here, a messenger of Athena Goddess and The Queen of spirit world,” said Queen Agnes calmly.

The world tree spirit appeared when we reached to the world tree. She looks like an angel, green hair and gold eyes. She looked at Takafumi and said, “Athena Goddess is waiting for you.” Her energy and shape changed to be Athena Goddess, a beautiful goddess who has bright light aura around her, gold hair, gold eyes, she was wearing white dress.

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