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He has an indifferent expression on his face.

”That's my little girl!” My father's voice broke the silence that had enveloped my mind. He reaches his arms out and scoops me up into them, he swung me over my mother's head and held me close to his chest.

I felt my eyes widen as he smushed me into his chest.

”Father?” I question as he holds me tightly and I cough slightly. It felt like he was smooshing all the bones in my body, but it was a comfortable smush.

My mother let out a soft laugh as she watched us with her emerald eyes. The fear that I felt, thinking that my family might reject me when they saw my life page, completely vanished. I didn't have anything to worry about at this point, as far as them possibly rejecting me.

”Don't be surprised my dear, your father is just very happy that you've got the 「appraisal skill」. That's something that can make or break a good merchant and you've gotten that coveted special skill. If your father had it his way, he'd drag you with him on his business meetings. But I plan to enroll you in adventure school,” she giggles as she glances as my Father and me.

A lot of emotions roll through my body at that moment, it was a mixture of relief and confusion. Had they not seen the other two skills, and the title, and the other blessing?!

”Blood plum, she's a natural-born merchant, I knew that the moment I held her in my arms, that my baby girl would be a splendid merchant,” my father retorts at my mother as she smiles down at me.

She tilts her head and gives my father a watery smile.

”How funny, the moment that I held her, I knew that she'd become a great adventurer just like me,” she raises an eyebrow towards me father and a chill runs up my spine.

My Mother defiantly wore the pants in the family, when it came to her children.

”Blood plum be reasonable why would you send our daughter into those dungeons; you know about all the unspeakable things that happen in there. Not to mention the danger of being an adventurer,” my father says. As he tried to play it's not safe to send our baby into a dungeon card.

But she wasn't hearing any of it.

”Darling, you know that she has the blessing of 'Blessed Child of Death,' that's an amazing blessing.”

She was standing her ground in her views. She took a step forward moving in closer toward my father and me. Seeing this my Father leans down and places me on the ground.

My aunts' hands come around my shoulder as she pulls me back towards her. I look up and find her smiling down at me. With a wink, she flicks her finger and the life page that was still in front of me vanishes. I want to ask her how she did that, but she raises a finger to my mouth and smiles.

It seems like she was telling me not to ask. She was even more complicated than I originally thought she was.

”We shouldn't allow her skill to be wasted, she'd make a phenomenal merchant,” my father continued to verbally hash it out with my Mother.

This was the first time I'd seen them disagree on something, and my father not conceding to my mother within the first couple of seconds of the argument.

”Exactly, she'd be an even more gifted adventurer, an asset to both the family and herself. It would allow her to also live in comfort for her whole life,” my mother argued.

”It'd be the same if she was to be a merchant, or are you saying that having our baby girl being a merchant and safe, isn't better than her putting herself in harm's way?”

I could feel the air turning a bit sour, things weren't looking great at the moment. Watching both of my parents argue was like watching a snake and a mongoose fight, each was will to wage battle for as long as needed.

I didn't like it one bit.

”Mother! Father!” I raise my voice, and everyone turns to look at me.

It was like being put underneath a spotlight, but I didn't let it bother me. Clearing my throat, I fix my eyes on both of my parents.

”Shouldn't I be allowed to decide what I want to do with my life?” I ask them both.

A look of surprise flashes across their faces, but my Father was the first to nod his head in agreement. It seems like he was thinking it through and realizing that I was my own person.

My mother, on the other hand, was a bit hesitant as she looks towards me. But after a few moments pass, she takes a deep breath and seems to clear her mind.

”Blood plum, she's right. It isn't for us to decide what she'll do in the future, we'll have to let her choose,” my father says while reaching a hand out to my mother.

She glances at his hand, before an enchanting smile slides onto her lips. She reaches out and take my father's hand, he whisks her into his arms.

”Then, my dear, what do you want to do?” She asks me.

Clenching my fist, I raise my eyes to meet my parents.

”I want to be an adventurer and a merchant!”