398: World 6: Extra Part 2

World 6: Extra Part 2

"Thank you, please come again."0

Ding~

The door opened and closed on the last customer for the day in a tiny pet store when they finally left causing the only worker in the store to let out a deep sigh while the concern on his face deepened when the owner, an old woman, appeared.

"Ah, Ah. Young man, you are wearing that long face again. Didn't we talk about 'don't always seriously think about everything?' Kyler, don't stress yourself too much, especially when you are still so young. It's not your fault if no one wanted to buy a pet in my store."

"... But Grandma Ju… After everything you have done for me, I couldn't even help you out."

Surprisingly, the slightly cute young man working as an employee at a small pet store was Kyler who ran away from home after feeling confused, awkward and uncomfortable upon learning of the completely different affection from the person he had thought of as his older brother.

Kyler had never thought that he could be so dense and oblivious, especially when everything suddenly made sense after the constant 'I'm not your brother' from the person he had grown up with.

It became glaringly obvious even though it took him many years later to learn what it was all about.

"Ah! I know that look! You are going deep in your thoughts again. Kyler, stop that bad habit of yours! Besides, compared to before, you are already helping us out. After you started working for us, we have been selling more than ever! You are plenty helpful, don't ever doubt that."

"... Thank you, Grandma Ju."

Although Kyler was thinking more about a certain someone, he didn't correct the old woman's words because she wasn't misunderstanding anything. That person just happens to always come to his mind after running away.

Especially when Kyler suddenly remembered the cold and indifferent gaze compared to the usual warm gaze he had grown used to seeing in Xaver's eyes. It was the second month after he ran away from home when he'd lost everything he ever had after his father Ariel reacted completely differently from what he imagined.

Instead of coming after Kyler to convince him to come back, they decided to cut off and take everything he has.

He should feel happy, and yet, everything went to hell after that day. What he always thought would happen when he decided to run away hadn't gone the way he wanted it to.

His life was entirely flipped.

Kyler's appearance changed, his past was completely erased and he was given a different identity, even his race was sealed off. Instead of turning the same as his Daddy Claus, he became more like the average human blessed with elf blood.

And the only help he got was the minimum monthly money being sent to a bank left to him, which was enough to get by, along with a one month paid rent in a simple and ordinary apartment.

However, for a person completely used to luxury and with other people handling everything when growing up there is no way Kyler knew how to handle his money, especially when he doesn't even know the normal price for everything.

Kyler has never known how useless he could be, how he had taken everything for granted. So in a matter of the first month, the money in his bank was gone before the first week. And yet, he was stupid enough to assume his family would help him out whenever he really get in trouble.

But when he didn't receive any extra money, nor any help from the people he was quite sure had been watching him in the dark when his hungry stomach became painful to ignore. Kyler understands that his Father is completely serious and determined to leave him alone.

Of course, he is extremely bitter and feels loathsome of how his father could be so cruel and heartless to really leave him alone, letting him experience hardship and difficulties without even showing the sign of helping him out.

Even the constant doubt buried inside Kyler during those lonely moments when his two fathers weren't home began to reeled his head more than ever.

Do they really care about me?

Do they really love me?

Do they really see me as their own son?

After learning that Kyler's parents weren't honestly his parents connected in blood, he began to have his doubts and fears. And when he finally learned that they were trying so hard to get his Father pregnant increase his doubts and fears.

Why were they trying so hard to get a child when I was there?

Don't they love me as much as I love them because I wasn't their biological son?

Aren't I enough?

All of those are thoughts Kyler had kept inside him. And that might be why after finding out the person he thought of as his family, as an older brother, who sees him in an entirely different manner, makes him want to run away.

Kyler felt like his world was crumbling.

And yet, in just a single month, Kyler experienced a hellish life and somehow, those fears and doubts felt like they weren't as important as before. Of course, he didn't forget them, and they might always remain deep in him.

But, when he finally knew what hunger really felt like. After facing desperate people when he was stupid enough to enter a dark alley while lost in his thoughts, causing him to desperately fight the people at their lowest in order to escape.

And then having to face the crisis of losing a roof over his head. Being cheated by unkind and unrighteous people when he was trying to learn to be able to live a decent and normal life with meager monthly money.

Then Kyler's original problems and doubts suddenly became less important after those experiences.

It was a despairing experience to someone like him, who had never faced any real hardship.

And when in the second month of his life flipped inside out, the thing that hit him hardest was when he saw Xaver in the distance. It was only a glimpse in the distance, because Kyler's identity is the same as the people around him.

He was a normal person, no longer special and treated with great care just like in the past. He was among the common people that could be easily forgotten.

Of course, he was still foolish and naive during those times, there was a slight hesitancy of wanting to call out for the person who had always taken care of him all these years. And yet, he saw a different side of Xaver that he had never known on that day.

No… Kyler knew that side of Xaver but he never witnessed it and thought more deeply about what it meant to him.

It was the way Xaver treated other people, those cold and indifferent eyes made his heart twist in unusual pain. There was no recognition upon those eyes when Xaver glanced around the place and managed to gaze in his direction.

The warmth he didn't think was important and special in the past, was long gone.

It was that day when it became apparent that despite the experience Kyler had growing up, he was no longer 'Kyler the Siren who grew up with Xaver the only dragon left in the entire world'.

He was Kylerthe nobody.

The difference became glaring when those cold and indifferent eyes only lasted for a few seconds in his direction before turning away. The affection he was scared of and felt uncomfortable with was no longer there.

All of it is gone.

The special warmth was missing.

And Kyler despaired when it became glaring of what he had lost.

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