"What is it? Do you not like the name?" Azzy asked while feigning ignorance as his time travel secret wasn't out yet.
His parents only know that he has an hourglass, that's all. They were unaware of the fact that he went to the past and met them.
Vesyrn shook his head with a smile, "it is a good name. It's just that we know someone with the same name."
"Oh, who is it?" Azzy continued to feign ignorance.
Izora answered, "Mr. Oakley's wife. She passed away long ago before you were born."
"Ah! Grandpa never told me about her. Wow, what a coincidence," Azzy faked his expression. Seeing that his parents believed him, Azzy felt a little bit proud of his acting. "So, we will keep the name or…"
"Yeah, we will name her that." Vesyrn gave a nod. As Azzy gave the baby to his parents, they called her by the name three times he gave them.
"Affea Crescent Garcia" "Affea Crescent Garcia" "Affea Crescent Garcia"
Azzy became slightly emotional when he saw that as he remembered his foster mother from the past timeline but he managed to control them by removing the chains over his soul orb once again.
For the next few days, celebrations filled the clan village. Everyone adored the baby girl, especially her maternal granduncle, Kylan Crescent.
For a while, Azzy was also just like the others. But, as time passed, his feelings changed.
His mother constantly tend to the baby's needs while his father was either busy with clan affairs or spending his free time with his daughter.
Azzy, on the other hand, got heavily ignored by his parents. Maybe, it is because he is a 7-star realm expert and a pavilion master. Most of the clan members treated him like an adult.
His parents are probably the same. Apart from the usual dinner time, he would rarely talk with his mother. His relationship with his father turned out to be better as they would see each other when discussing clan affairs.
However, that wasn't good enough for Azzy as it was all about business. There is no personal talk between the father and son.
Within a few weeks, he realized that he doesn't feel closer to them as he did a few weeks ago. And he started feeling jealous of his baby sister.
He went to great lengths to save her. No one knows what he sacrificed and what he was prepared to sacrifice for the sake of keeping his sister alive. He felt unappreciated as his sister took away his parents from him.
But then again, he is not a mature adult. He is still a teenager. Feeling that way shouldn't be unexpected.
Not wanting to hate his adorable sister, Azzy busied himself with the affairs of Red Pavilion, training, and doing missions for WAMO as one of the zero squad members.
As a result, the communication between him and his parents took a hit but thankfully, it also made his parents miss him a little bit, especially during dinner time.
Azzy doesn't know when his parents realized that their dinner table feels empty but once in three days or a week, he would surely get a message from his mother or his father to attend lunch or dinner and stay with them for a day.
Things weren't the same as before but at the very least, Vesyrn and Izora made sure to make Azzy feel like he had a home. But, in Azzy's heart, his real home is in Aclein city where his grandpa Oakley was living.
And so, three years passed away in a blink of an eye;
Garcia Palace, Death clan village;
Six of the seven pavilion masters gathered in the throne hall, discussing some really important things compared to their usual meetings.
"Your Majesty, according to the information given by WSA (world space agency), the aliens have already entered our solar system and will reach us in a little over a couple of months at best," said Carvin Blood, the elder of Indigo Pavilion.
Vesyrn turned serious as he was still expecting two more years for the first phase of the invasion.
According to the info given by the guardian god, before launching a full-scale invasion, the Arcturian Federation would send a squadron to check the planet's defensive capabilities.
The last time the Death clan faced the invasion; it was just one ship but still gave them a lot of trouble. As a person who fought in the battle, Vesyrn wouldn't want to take this matter lightly now that there is no Qridus as their backup.
As for Pierre Garcia, the guardian of the clan, he wouldn't likely participate. Hence, Vesyrn wanted to formulate a perfect strategy to capture all the invaders.
As these seven Arcana Masters were discussing things in Azzy's absence, their meeting was disturbed by the sudden burst of the door and the entry of a cute-looking little girl.
The three-year-old had both of the features of her parents. She has large black eyes like her mother but a pointy nose like her father. Her skin tone looks similar to that of healthy wheat like her brother and father but the skin is a bit stretchy and no hair follicles are present on the limbs either like her mother's.
While she is quite expressive like her father, her personality is quite different from the rest. As for her talent, experts say that her talent is more monstrous than Azzy's.
But then again, they weren't wrong. The girl started crawling only at six weeks; started walking at the age of 3 months old; speak fluently before she turned 1; most importantly, she could just climb the gravity stairs, the staircase to Violet Pavilion without a problem even though she has yet to awaken her Arcana and train her soul energy.
Well, this has to do with the fact that she was born with graviton particles (as a result of Azzy's intervention in her fate). However, people don't know that. Hence, they were under the impression that it is her passive ability.
The fact that she can suppress Arcana Masters of 5-star realm experts and put considerable pressure on even 7-star realm experts by just using her inborn skill shows how much of a monster she was in the eyes of clan members. Unfortunately, due to her spoiled personality, she wasn't exactly the most loved person in the clan.
And at the moment, she looks quite angry.
Stepping inside the throne hall with two door guards forcefully kneeling outside the door, she spoke loudly, "papa, it is 11 o'clock. Chuckie was supposed to return by now. He is also not responding to mama's messages either. I'm not happy."
The pavilion masters flinched for a second and Vesyrn didn't like her behavior for sure. A deep frown appeared on his face for a moment before he forcefully calmed himself down and left his throne and walked toward his daughter while putting up a fake smile on his face.
Reaching the little girl, he kneeled on his right leg to level to the girl's height and patted her head before saying, "Affy, papa is currently in an important meeting. After this is over, I'll bring him back myself, okay?"
"No." The little girl firmly shook her head, not intending to agree to her father's request. "Chuckie made a pinky promise with me and he didn't fulfill it again."
One of the pavilion masters, Carvin Blood then carefully said, "Young miss, your brother is currently in an important phase of training. He might be…"
Before he finished his words, the little girl turned her head in his direction and sharply glared at him. Her eyes turned pitch-black and an invisible dome-shaped barrier appeared in the surroundings over 10 meters in diameter.
In an instant, all the elders who were standing in the range felt like they were rejected by Gaia herself. They found themselves suspended in the air. Even Vesyrn wasn't spared either.
Luckily for the pavilion masters, all of them were familiar with flying and this isn't the first time they were facing such a phenomenon either. Hence, they managed to get out of the no-gravity bubble and landed on the floor.
Meanwhile, Vesyrn, who managed to find his balance in the no-gravity zone, looked at his daughter and spoke, "If I remember correctly, Azzy said he will return by 11 to play with you. He didn't say which 11. I think he might be talking about the evening. He didn't break the promise. You must wait for another 12 hours."
"Ah, is that so?" Little Affea blinked her eyes a few times before she retracted her power. "Then, I will go back and wait…" She turned around and left the room while skipping and humming some tune as if nothing happened.
Everyone: "…"
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