’This is interesting.’
’Really interesting.’
"What was that?" My mother mumbled and turned her attention toward my father, and I did the same.
My father’s eyes were wide, and his face was pale, with his jaw dropped.
He looked like he had just seen a ghost or something.
"Honey, you..." He was about to say something but was stopped by soemthing.
"Yes, what is it, dear? I don’t have all day, you know. So, tell me what is wrong with my hair. Did I grow old or something?"
My mother’s words made everyone speechless. But, what my father said was a complete shock and surprise.
"Y-you are getting younger." He said, his voice was shaking.
’Huh?’
’What the fuck did he just say?’
’Did he just say that my mother is getting younger?’
"Huh? What did you say, dear?"
"You are getting younger, your appearance is changing. Your body, your face, and your hair are all changing, and you are looking younger."
He finished and I focused my gaze on my mother.
’Oh, my god!’
’This is the effect of the sword? No, I mean, this is the effect of her SS- Class skill, the Sword Saint’s Blade.’
I was surprised.
’Shit, my right eye’s power has been deactivated otherwise, I would be able to see what is happening to her right now. Oh, man.’
’Damn!’
’This sucks.’
’What do I do now?’
I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I walked up to her.
I looked at her, and I saw her face.
Her face had become sharper, and her eyes had lost the signs of age.
She was still my mother, but her appearance had changed.
She was no longer the 50-year-old woman.
Her appearance was more like that of a 25-year-old girl, and her skin was smooth and soft, and her face was bright.
Her lips were rosy, and her cheeks were red.
Her eyes were clear, and her nose was sharp.
I was shocked.
Her hair had become longer, and her body had become smaller, and she was now looking more like a model.
Her breasts were smaller, and her waist was thin.
’No way...’
’...she is actually more beautiful than she was on her wedding day.’
’She was always beautiful, but now she is a total knockout.’
’No, she was a total knockout even before.’
’But now, she is on a whole another level.’
’This is too much for my heart. It’s beating so fast right now, I can’t take it. Damn. How can someone’s looks change this much? It is too shocking.’
I was in a daze.
But, as soon as I saw the smile on her face, my heartbeat increased.
’No way.’
’No fucking way.’
’Is this real?’
’I think I am going crazy.’
"So, dear, am I getting younger or something?" My mother asked, her face was flushed and she was smiling.
"I guess you are, mother."
"Then, does that mean that I will become young like her?" My mother pointed at Lily, my younger sister.
"No, not that young, mother."
"Oh, that’s a relief. I don’t want to be a child again." She said and then, suddenly, a screen appeared in front of her.
’Huh? Another screen?’ I stepped in front of the screen, beside my mom.
[Warning! Your Enemy, your nemesis has arrived!]
[Your enemy SSS Class ’Demonic Sword’ has appeared. Try to survive.]
Squlesh!
"Father!"
Suddenly, I heard a scream.
I lifted my head from the screen and looked at the person who had screamed.
’Emily?’
As soon as I lifted my head, my father came into my view.
’What?’
"Father!"
My father who was walking toward us, had been impaled through the chest by a huge black sword.
Father...
He was coughing up blood, and his face was pale, and he was shivering.
"Oh, no." My mother and sisters’ scream was the only thing that I heard.
My mind was blank, and my body was frozen.
’What is this?’
’What the hell is this?’
"Hehehe, The humans are so weak." I heard laughter, a mocking one, coming from behind my father.
A man’s voice.
But, I couldn’t see him.
It was as if he was invisible.
On the other hand, my mother’s face had become pale.
She was looking at the place where the sword had stabbed my father’s chest.
And, she was crying.
Her tears were flowing down from her eyes and her hands were shaking.
"Honey..."
The golden sword fell from her hand, and clanked against the ground.
She tried to reach my father but before she could, the space behind my father started to wrap and twist and soon a black portal appeared at the left side of my father.
No...
It was more like the space itself had torn apart, and black electricity was crackling around it.
And soon, the black sword was pulled out from my father’s chest.
Thump!
My father fell to the ground.
Blood was leaking from the hole in his chest, and the ground was painted red.
Emily was crying, and even my younger sister Lily was crying.
Me and my mother were too stunned to say or do anything.
Because there was a man, a man with long hair and a pair of cold, ruthless, and heartless eyes.
His hair was white, two red-colored horns were protruding from his forehead, and his ears were sharp and pointy, and his mouth was full of razor-sharp teeth.
The black sword in his hand had some weird symbols on its blade.
Those were probably runes, I think.
His skin was black, he was lean but had muscles, and his fingers were sharp and pointy.
But the strangest part of him was that he was wearing a white robe, and he looked like an archmage.
And the last thing that stood out about him was that he was floating above the ground.
It was a demon, an SSS Class monster, that we had to defeat.
[Defeat SSS Class Demon ’Demonic Sword’ within 2 hours or die.]