It’s been six months since my birth, and every single day I’ve practiced my skills related to mana in order to improve them and change my body to make it accustomed to mana and it’s been like a training in hell, every time I do it I ended up poisoned.

  On the bright side my skill poison resistance has increased several levels, even if the skills become harder the more they advance, there’s certain satisfaction when you notice a level up.

  I know for sure that Freya and Lud don’t think it’s a good thing for me to be in this process, they only know I got sick every day and my poop has become too strong for Freya to clean with magic and now they’ve taken the decision to dispose the diapers and burn them.

  I’ve heard the servants talk how they need to do it away from everybody in a cave they had named the cave of no return because according to the servants if someone enters they would die from the toxicity.

  “Hello beautiful child!” Leonore visits me with a lot of joy. “I miss you a lot.” She says before pulling me over so she can give me a hug.

  Leonore doesn’t deal anymore with my diapers, she gave up after three days of trying and instead she gave the order to a few servants to change me and clean me.

  Lud comes every day so he can give me the antidote, with time my body become accustomed to the medicine and he needed to modify the concoction several times, especially since the poison changed and became more lethal, fortunately my poison resistance skill keeps me safer and it has been manageable with the help of Mr. Lud and his elixir.

  “Gha!” I try to act cute in front of Leonor to bring a little joy into her life.

  “Yeah! You also miss me! Haha!” She starts spinning with me in her arms. “What about another song? I’ve seen how much you like every time I sing to you.”

  “Gha!” I applaud to indicate how much I like the idea.

  “Hush, little baby, don’t you cry,

  Leonore’s here, she’ll wipe you dry.

  But oh, dear me, what’s that smell?

  Did a tiny storm just fell?

  Oh no, oh my, the servants run,

  They hold their noses, scream, and shun!

  No one dares to come too near,

  Not with that upon your rear!

  The butler fled, the cook resigned,

  The nanny said, "I’ve changed my mind!"

  The royal guards just marched away,

  Said, "We protect, but not today!"

  Oh no, oh my, the servants run,

  They hold their noses, scream, and shun!

  No one dares to come too near,

  Not with that upon your rear!

  But little one, don’t you fret,

  Leonore loves you, no regret.

  One day soon, you’ll grow so tall,

  And poop won’t scare the staff at all…

  Oh yes, oh my, the world will see,

  A mighty ruler born to be!

  But for now, my little dear,

  Let’s just clean your noble rear…”

  And now I’m horrified by what I’m hearing.

  I hope nobody listen to this song, ‘please goddess Hecate don’t allow them to know the existence, please I beg you.’

  “The song now it’s well known in the house, even the Viscount has heard the servants sang it.” Leonore destroys my expectations with a single phrase. “Why do you put that face? I’m sure it’s because you are mesmerize by the song. I’m going to make you proud! Every time a guest comes to the house I’m going to sing this song for them.”

  With everything that comes from her mouth the situation becomes worse. If the song becomes well known people will identify me like the pooping Lady.

  “Bwaaa!” I start crying to show my discomfort.

  “Oh dear, you are so excited for the song that you don’t know how to react right?” Leonore becomes delusional, how I’m going to like the song, too bad I can’t talk yet. “Let me sing it one more time, the more you listen, the more you like it.” She warns me before start a hell on earth with that horrible song.

  ….

  After the horrible experience that was my personal concert by Leonore with that song of hers, she left me with some servants so they can look after me.

  I’m allowed to be on the floor so I can crawl around the room and explore, but my favorite thing continues to be my personal practice with mana. I can’t get enough of it even if it means to be poison by it.

  It’s been a while since the last time I check my status window, so I pull it so I can see the amount of progress I made.

  Name: Dalia Davenport.

  Age: 6 months.

  Race: Human.

  Level: 19 [Exp: 42/56]

  Health: 10

  Stamina: 2

  Intelligence: 14

  Agility: 2

  Strength: 1

  Dexterity: 3

  Luck: 1

  Available points: 120

  Skills: [Mana sense Lv10] [Mana manipulation Lv10] [Mana absorption Lv8] [Poisonous poop Lv8] [Poison resistance Lv8] [Body coordination Lv5]

  I know how lucky I am for being able to see and give my status points to my stats to increase them, normally the status page would be available to every human at the age of 10 years old, before that time they can increase their stats putting the effort but they wouldn’t know how well they are doing it or if they are gaining any skills.

  According to the teachings of the church, the gods designed it that way so mortals could live a happy life in their early years and maybe that can be achieved by normal children live a happy life but for nobles it’s the worst thing, they can’t get too complacent and need to be above the masses.

  The servants grab me and put me in the crib when they notice how I don’t want to crawl anymore, when my head touches my pillow I can’t fight against the tiredness that I’m feeling and I prepare myself for another nightmare.

  I realize how I’m unable to see much with the little light that it’s in this space and start to hear the chorus of a spell that I know from memory after being in this nightmare so many times.

  I know what I’m reliving it’s false and just a product of a past trauma, but that doesn’t make it easier.

  I clear my head of every sound and sensation I feel with my skin, I forget about the ritual and only focus on my breathing, inhaling and exhaling, I repeat the actions until I’m able to wake up just to be notified of a new skill.

  [New skill acquired]

  [Mental resistance Lv1]

  I’m surprised for what I read, and it seems that the world it’s telling me how every effort you make can be rewarded if you don’t give up.

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  The servants came into the room and I start the day the same way as the past six months, they change my diaper, clean me and give me the antidote prepared by Mr. Lud, my mother arrives just to feed me, the moment I end my meal she left, she always avoids making eye contact with me, she appears determine to avoid having a close relationship with me, and at this point I’m no longer bother by her, if she doesn’t want a good relationship neither do I.

  When I’m with the servants they try to entertain me with some toys made of wood, the craftsmanship it’s really good, you can observe how they were handled with care in the whole process, sadly my mind it’s of an adult and I don’t like to play with them, the only thing I do it’s to analyze them and wonder how they were created.

  Today instead of crawling I want to try and walk, so I crawl next to my crib, I put my small hands in one side trying to support me and I pull myself up until I’m standing, only to realize that I’m overestimate myself and fall to the floor.

  “The little lady tried to stand on her own, do you see that?” A young woman talks to a much older one.

  “I saw it, do you think we should inform someone about her?” The older one starts wondering what to do.

  “I’m not sure about that, with the other children of the fifth wife, she always stood by their side, but with her new babies she only spends time with the boys and came with the little Lady just to give her food.” The young one seems to feel sorry for me.

  “I wonder if it’s true what the rumors say about her, how she’s a cursed child and keeping her by your side only brings you bad luck.” The older one starts gossiping about me, confident that I don’t understand what they are saying.

  “It can be that her luck stat it’s in the negatives like in the legend of the cursed child, after all, everyone in the house knows about her diapers and how she needs to eat medication.”

  When I hear their reasons to believe in those theories, I can’t complaint anymore because everything looks suspicious if you don’t know the real reasons behind it.

  “What we have here, how’s the most beautiful child on earth?” I hear the voice of Leonore and a smile comes to my face.

  “Good day miss Leonore and Miss Aurora, you should be here and see how the young Lady was trying to stand on her own.” One of the servants informs them and leaving behind the way they were talking about me being a cursed child.

  “I told you we should come here sooner.” Leonore complains to Aurora.

  “And I told you that we need to help Lady Audrey with her affairs first, we serve her as the fifth wife of the Viscount and has a lot of work to deal with, especially since the party season it’s coming closer.” I can see why Leonore has spent less time with me the last couple of days.

  “I know… I know…” She seems to receive a lot of critiques, if it’s not Freya now its Aurora, I wonder if everyone in the house is treating her the same way.

  “I can see why you’ve become attach to this child, she looks really lovely with her big violet eyes, and with her platinum hair she’s like a small version of Lady Audrey.”

  “I told you, she would become a beautiful woman when she grows up.” Leonore recovers rapidly and comes closer to me, she hugs me and starts playing with me making funny faces.

  “If she ever grows up.” Aurora says in a sinister way.

  “Why everybody continues to say that, she isn’t cursed, she just have a weak body and we need to take care of her.” Leonore starts to get mad in my behalf.

  “Would you mind telling that to Lady Audrey?” Aurora defy her.

  “Don’t talk nonsense, she’s really sensible and busy without me going to her and talk about this.” Leonore responds back.

  “Then drop the topic, I’m telling you the more attention you give to the rumors the worse it’s going to get.”

  With that said I can only agree, people would always talk about other people behind their backs, particularly nobles, they have little to talk about if it’s not for that, I’ve never considered myself as part of them.

  “Let’s change the subject then, look little lady, we bring you new clothes, I buy them with my own money the last time I went to the town.” She brings me some little dresses than I’m sure in little time I’ll outgrow them, but I must thank her for thinking of me.

  “Gha!” I start applauding to demonstrate how grateful I am.

  “You see Miss Aurora, for this everything it’s worth the effort, haha.” Leonore changes my clothes and I can’t move much with all the fabric that gets it the way.

  “I must admit that she looks really lovely, like a little princess.” Aurora says it with a smile and perhaps I’m winning her over with my appeal.

  “We should take you to one of the gardens so everybody can see you.” Leonore starts walking with me in her arms just to be intercept by Aurora in the door before she left the room.

  “Not so quick Miss Leonore, you know about the orders of the Viscount, she isn’t permitted to be outside of her room.” Aurora says something shocking to me, I never realized with all my training how I’ve never been outside of this room.

  “But it’s not fair Miss Aurora, all of her brother aren’t treat this way, not even the children who were born at the same time.”

  If I could talk I would tell Leonore that she doesn’t need to worry about me, I don’t have any yearning for love that comes from my family, I’ve already lived a life doing so and that only took me misery.

  “Fine, but if something happen it’s not my problem.” Aurora compromise and Leonore takes me outside the room in her arms.

  She walks for the house and I can tell that it has a lot of history, it looks like it was constructed a long time ago. It’s decorated with neutral tones, a carpet covers the floor, and we came across with some paintings, I can only assume they are part of the family.

  I can see how some servants are avoiding us, the moment they see us they turn around and walk away rapidly.

  After walking for several minutes we exit the house and I can see a lot of green, the garden we’re facing it’s mesmerizing, I can identify a lot of the plants they used to bring color and life to the space and some of them are really rare with a lot of mana in them, what makes them more precious.

  “What do you think little miss?” Leonore asks me and takes me with her to explore the garden.

  “Ghaa!” I’m really excited to be able to see the exterior again, without counting my time in this house, in my previous life I spend one year in my cell.

  “We should go and see the ruties since we’re already here Miss Leonore.” Aurora gives an advice to Leonore and I’m curious at the mention of the creature, I’ve never seen one, not even in my previous life, I know about them only because of books, and they live in the Aetheris continent, this is the first clue I obtain about the place I’m living.

  We continue our path and came across some large rodents, they are taller than me but I’ve read how they were really docile, their shaffy blue fur makes them really cute.

  “Look there they are.” Aurora says it and points a finger at them.

  “Yes, they are really cute, maybe that’s why Lady Audrey insists so much to the Viscount to buy them for her.” Leonore talks about my mother with a smile in her lips.

  “Everyone in the house knows how she can’t resist cute things, even if it’s a shocking contrast for how she presents to the outside world.”

  “Maybe she wouldn’t receive the same amount of respect if it becomes well known, after all she used to command troops in the battlefield before getting married to the Viscount and a lot of people are still doubtful if she’s a good partner for him, but we all know the amount of effort she puts in her role as his fifth wife.” Leonore talks highly of my mother, but for me I don’t have any respect for her, I’ve always believe that respect must be earn and she hasn’t done anything to deserve mine.

  “Do you want to touch it Little Miss?” Aurora takes me from Leonore’s arms and brings me to the ruty, I extend my hands and feel their fur, it feels soft to the touch, such a magical creature it’s so lovely and beautiful.

  “I think she likes it a lot Aurora, I knew she need to be outside.” Leonore sound happy for my new experience.

  The ruty get tired of us and they move away after we spend more than an hour with them.

  When we are returning from outside the house we came across three little children who appear to have the same age, with their platinum hair and purple eyes they look handsome boys.

  “Who is that Aurora?” One of the boys demands an answer from Aurora while the other two boys keep staring at us.

  “She’s Miss Dalia, I think Lady Audrey told you about her Sir Robert.” Aurora responds the little boy.

  “So that’s the cursed child! Haha!” Another boy shouts at the top of his lungs.

  “Run! she will curse us with her powers!” The other boy shouts before he starts running for his life.

  The other two follow behind him quickly without saying good bye to any of us. I’ve been expecting that reaction from my family so I’m not really surprised when they did it.

  We continued our walk and Leonore and Aurora don’t say anything as if they were trying to ignore the situation.

  Finally we arrived to my room and they put me in the crib, I know that it’s going to be a few minutes until my mother arrives and feed me.

  “We should return to our duties Miss Leonore.” Aurora is the first to speak, in an effort to disperse the blue atmosphere that we were under after the boys left.

  “Haaa… I know Miss Aurora.” Leonore comes closer to my face and gives me a small kiss before going out with Aurora. The same servants that always stay with me are in the room, cleaning and organizing some of my toys, they’ve never mention their names.

  I want to be able to walk so I can do more things, being in an infant body it’s like torture to me and my training it’s the only thing that keeps me sane. I’ll put more effort in controlling my body and I hope that in a few weeks I’m going to have the ability to walk on my own.