27 15th Birthday (1/2)

Linri got up as usual but compared to previous days he was worried. Today was his 15th birthday. In other words the little immunity time he had was finally over. Somewhere between today and till the start of the semester he was going to meet one of the most scariest in this world, Gods. He did not know how the meeting was gonna play out as he was not the original Linri so they might deem him as useless and outright kill him. Still this was the least of his worries.

What he worried the most was actually not meeting them at all. Without abilities he was sure to be stuck in this world. Let alone going back it was even questionable whether he would be able to survive at all. When his thoughts were getting darker and darker Linrisuddenly stopped thinking about it. There was nothing he could do about this right now so it was better to leave it to his future self to solve it instead of beating his head over it right now.

As usual his parents and Jaime were having breakfast and he was last to arrive.

”Morning” said Linri while yawning and started to eat his toast.

”Morning Birthday boy!” said his father merrily. He and Lyra was especially spoiled their son in every chance they got so this was something expected.

”Birthday? Was it today? I had completely forgotten about it.” said Linri unenthusiastically.

”How can you forget such an important day. It's your birthday nonetheless. So where should we go? A water park? Amusement Park? Just a normal park and have a picnic? Come on kiddo it's your birthday you can do whatever you want as long as it's within our means, the money is not a problem.” said Arkady with a gleeful voice. If an onlooker were to see this they would have thought it was his birthday instead.

Once Linri heard money was not a problem he scoffed inside. Of course money was not a problem. Arkady was an ex-mercenary he had loads of money overseas and his multiple bank accounts. He just did not spend much as they wanted Linri to have a normal life but Linri was sure that if he were to ask for anything Arkady would buy it without any argument or a problem.

”How about we just continue training at home and don't go out or you just leave me to my own devices and we can celebrate at night with a little cake?”

”Nonsense! This is your birthday! Of course we are going to celebrate it as a family.” said Arkady.

”Dear, why don't you just let him do what he wants. It's not like he can be considered a little kid any more. If he wants to celebrate with his friends outside he should” said Lyra trying to help his son.

”Well, Dad. How about this? We still train after breakfast but we stop around 2 pm and we go to a book shop. You know that I like books and being able to buy as many books as I want can be considered your gift. After that we can just go somewhere for dinner and have a little celebration while talking? Training today is a must as my muscles are quite sore if I were to stop now it would not be as effective tomorrow.” offered Linri. Honestly he did not want to do aside training but going to a book shop might not be so bad after all.

”But it's your birthday. Training is boring. Don't you wanna go for somewhere more fun?” said Arkady unwilling to accept it.

”Dad when have you seen me going outside to have fun? I rarely even leave home aside from occasional running.” countered Linri.