It’s been a couple of days since I was born and I can tell that not many people pays attention to me excepts for Leonore who enjoys doing funny faces in front of me so I can laugh, my mother occasionally comes when it’s time for me to feed me, apart from that time she avoids me, I wonder if it’s the same with my brothers or it’s just me, for some reason they separated us soon after being born.

  I don’t know what to think about it, my mother does not want to be attach to me for some kind of reason. The only information that I’ve obtained it’s what I heard when my mother was having a chat with her maids, something about me being unable to pass a test. If she’s so worried for my well being, why do I even need to take it? I really hope it’s a better reason for that besides some kind of bullshit of family traditions or honor, but I wouldn’t discard them, noble families tend to love that kind of reasons.

  I open my status window so I can check the amount of progress I’ve done in the past days.

  Name: Dalia Davenport.

  Age: 15 days.

  Race: Human.

  Level: 12 [Exp: 0/28]

  Health: 10

  Stamina: 1

  Intelligence: 10

  Agility: 1

  Strength: 1

  Dexterity: 1

  Luck: 1

  Available points: 120

  Skills: [Mana sense Lv6] [Mana manipulation Lv6] [Mana absorption Lv6]

  In my previous life I was over level one hundred at the age of twenty years old, but that was because I was a genius and it becomes more difficult to level up the more you advance your level.

  I don’t feel distress at the idea to start from scratch, even if it means losing all my previous skills, I’m confident of my ability to reach that point eventually.

  I know that at the end of my life, I unlocked some rare skills that I’ve never heard before but I’ll investigate when I’m older and with a better understanding of my new life, I’m not in a rush.

  I’m not going to invest my points, at least not yet, I need to decide how I’m going to live my life this time, I could repeat the same path as my previous life or I could take a different route who brings me joy while trying to forget my past and not involve myself with the Valden family, or maybe take revenge.

  I like the idea of revenge but I don’t even know in what place I am or the date.

  I’ve never heard of the Davenport family and for the quantity of servants that I’ve seen they are not a simple family.

  I’m in my crib looking at the ceiling lost in my thoughts when I hear how the doors open and a sweet perfume comes to me, it smells like pink pepper with rose and vanilla, it reflects really well the person who is coming to me, Leonore.

  “My sweet child, you are awake! I knew that you would be, unlike your brothers who only know how to cry and sleep.” Leonore seems pretty happy when she’s talking to me, she always tries to make me laugh. “I know that you miss your mother but you don’t need to worry, maybe today she’ll come to play with you.” Leonore says with a smile in her face.

  I only stare at her, I know that my mother only comes when it’s time for me to take milk and she leaves as soon as I finish eating.

  I feel a little bad for Leonore who looks worried that I start hating my mother, if she could thing clearly she would realize that a baby doesn’t have the capacity to notice how her mother doesn’t pay attention to them, a normal child would know only after they are at least a few years old, not days.

  “Gha!” Only because I feel bad for her, I give her a smile and produce some sounds so I can see her smile while I move my hands trying to applaud.

  [New skill acquired.]

  [Body coordination Lv.1]

  That comes as a surprise to me, in my past life it wasn’t this easy to obtain skills, someone needed to put a lot of effort and training for months or even years, that include me, someone who was called a genius by everyone, something must be happening but I have no idea what could it be, it’s not related to talent.

  “Such a beautiful baby, I’m pretty sure you are destined to become a wonderful Lady in the future.” Leonore seems hypnotize by my little body as she grab me and start singing a lullaby.

  “Hush, my love, the stars still shine,

  Though they've turned away your kind.

  Soft the wind and pale the moon,

  Sing for you a gentle tune.

  Drift upon the silver sea,

  Float where lonely dreams run free.

  Though their halls are closed to you,

  Night will weave a throne anew.

  Let your sorrow fade like mist,

  Kissed by dawn’s forgiving wrist.

  One day love will find you there,

  Braiding gold into your hair.

  Sleep, my child, though they forget,

  You are more than their regret.

  Crowned in starlight, wrapped in grace,

  You will find your rightful place.”

  I’m taken by surprise when I heard Leonore singing to me with a melodious voice that manage to take my heart with her sincerity, I know that some skills must be involved with her singing but what lies behind them it’s pure talent and real feelings for me. I start to wonder what different life will be ahead of me if Leonore was my real mother.

  “It seems my grace likes it, haha.” Leonore says it with a smile on her lips and happiness in her eyes.

  She looks at me like I’m the most precious thing in this world, and I know if she’s by my side, life can’t be that hard.

  “What is that smell?”

  She seems horrified with I’m pretty sure it’s my diaper.

  “For Gods sake, what did you eat?”

  She tries to change my diaper just to swear the moment she opens it, and when the smell gets to me I’m disgusted.

  “Gwaaa!” I start crying, someone please gets rid of the smell, this is pure torture, if all the babies smell like this why does people keep having them?

  [New skill acquired.]

  [Poisonous poop Lv.1]

  What do you mean I get a skill for this crap, how can someone use this skill in life, I’m so embarrassed for the situation that I wish to hide so I don’t see anybody, how can I see Leonore in the eyes again after this, sadly I don’t have a good control over my body yet.

  “I think we need to get you to the Alchemist for a potion, this isn’t normal” She says it while holding the diaper and trying to clean me. “The more you move it the worse it smells! Buagh.” That’s the last thing Leonore says before she vomit.

  “What’s happening in here Miss Leonore?” I hear Freya’s voice coming from the door. “A servant hear you screaming in this room so she went and notify Lady Audrey.” She comes closer to my crib. “What is that smell and why are you covered in vomit?” She starts to get worried after Leonore doesn’t answered her.

  “I’m sorry Mrs Freya, you took me by surprise but I consider necessary to notify the alchemist so he can take a look to Miss Dalia, I think someone poison her.”

  Leonore looks worried for my well being but I can tell the situation it’s escalating out of control and at this rate everyone in the house it’s going to be aware of my most embarrassing moment.

  “Let me take a look, I can’t believe someone would try to poison her, you know as much as I do that if someone tries to do something like this it would be to our precious boys, nobody gains something with her death.” Freya looks at me with ice in her eyes and I want to erase that look out of her face but I’m too small to do anything.

  She bends and takes the diaper that Leonore throw to the floor. “Munda et mundare” She uses magic to clean the diaper but it can’t be cleaned that easily, after all, it ended that way after the use of a skill. “Munda et mundare” She uses the skill once again and manage to clean the diaper, she grabs me with her hands and I can see the disgust on her face. “Munda et mundare” She repeats the spell to clean me.

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  “Gha?” I try to use gain sympathy from her but by the way she’s looking at me, she isn’t falling for it even for a second.

  “Seriously, what a problematic child.” She says it before putting me in the crib again. “Miss Leonore please do me a favor and clean yourself, this isn’t the proper look a young lady should have.” I can tell that Freya doesn’t plan to help Leonore with the use of her magic like she did with me.

  “I understand Mrs. Freya, I’m sorry you need to come and help me.” Leonore looks like she’s about to cry.

  “I don’t know why you insist to come and spend time with the girl, a servant could do it, but every day I see how you beg to our Lady.” Freya continues to admonish Leonore and reveal how she isn’t even supposed to be here, I’m a little touch by her actions, and in the whole house she’s the only one who has me in her mind.

  “I’ll excuse myself and return with Lady Audrey when I’m presentable Mrs. Freya.” Leonore says it before running out of here.

  “Haaaa.” I hear the sigh coming from Mrs. Freya and for a moment I can see how she lowers her guard and a different aura comes from her, like someone who has experience too much in life. “It’s better if I return too.” She gets out of the room and I’m left with two servants in the room.

  After everything that happen I’m exhausted and close my eyes so I can rest.

  The moment I fall sleep I once again in my past body unable to move, I want to yell but I can’t even do that, even if a part of me know that it’s only a dream, I can’t control my mind and I start to panicked, forgetting that what happen to me it’s finally over. A pain that I was starting to forget assault me and I can feel tears running through my face.

  After a long time I’m awake once again only to feel pain over my body, I feel like my body it’s on fire and I start crying.

  I don’t know if I manage to wake up or if I’m immerse in my dreams.

  “Oh my god! What’s wrong?” A female servant comes running and touch my body only to look worried when she notice my body temperature. “I’ll go and find some help, don’t worry miss.” She doesn’t doubt and start running to find someone.

  It doesn’t take long until someone else shows up, it’s Leonore looking worried for me.

  “My grace you’re boiling, I knew that you were poisoned but nobody believed me.” Leonore looks really angry for the situation. “Find Mrs Freya and call the Alchemist.” She gives the order to one of the servants.

  “I’ll do as you say Miss.” The female servant turns around and exits the room. It takes a few minutes in which I start to feel how my temperature it’s still the same.

  A few minutes pass and Freya comes inside the room wearing a nightgown.

  “What happen this time? Don’t tell me you call me for another diaper.” Everybody who hears her can tell how annoyed she was for being waken up in the middle of the night to attend a girl that she clearly doesn’t like.

  “We don’t know what’s wrong with the little Lady, she was having a fever, I still believe someone try to kill her with poison.” Leonore doesn’t sound calm and ask for help.

  “Give it to me, I would see what I can do.” Freya says it before grabbing me and taking me in her arms. “Munda et mundare.” She repeats her favorite spell and I can fell the sweat evaporating from my body. “She’s not getting better, do you think we should call someone?” She asks Leonore for advice when she notice how bad I am.

  “I already called someone Mrs Freya.”

  “I think you’re right Miss Leonore, maybe she was poison but we don’t have someone in the family who can perform holy magic.”

  “The alchemist is here.” The female servant comes and inform us about the arrival of someone new to me.

  “What do you expect him to do, if he doesn’t know how to perform magic.” Freya looks irritated at the mention of this person.

  “Well I may not be able to perform your advanced magic but I can diagnose diseases and prescribe some medicine using magical herbs.” An elderly man responds to Freya while coming into the room.

  “Don’t start please, we need to see what’s wrong with the little Lady.” Leonore intervene before the discussion escalates further.

  “You’re right Miss Leonore, may I see the child?” The Alchemist asks.

  “Fine.” Freya agrees and puts me in my crib so the doctor can come closer.

  He starts touching my skin, opening my mouth and seeing inside, opening my eyes, checking my ears before he stand up.

  “I think it’s a simple fever, whatever provoke this it doesn’t look to be too strong, she should be better in a few hours with the help of some medicine.” The doctor says before turning around and leaving.

  “Thank you Mr. Lud, I appreciate your time.” Leonore thank the doctor before he goes away.

  “I told you Miss Leonore, it wasn’t that serious.” Freya doesn’t let go the topic and keeps insisting how she was right. I don’t know how she can tell that after discovering that there were something wrong with my body.

  “I was just worried for the little Lady.” Leonore sound apologetic for the way she overreact in this situation and I want to scream that she didn’t do anything wrong.

  “Well I can comprehend since the situation it’s indeed a little strange.” Freya accepts her apologies. “Maybe it was this child all along what made Lady Audrey sick when she was pregnant, you know how she occasionally would start with a high fever out of nowhere.” She says something that I wasn’t aware of.

  How did I miss that when I used to scan my mother’s body, the only time I wasn’t checking on her was when I was practicing my mana manipulation and mana absorption, that can’t be the reason, how a human became sick when they come in direct contact with mana.

  “That’s not a good thing to say about the young Lady, please refrain from doing so Mrs. Freya.” Leonore tries to protect me from the accusation of Freya.

  “Fine, I’ll go to rest, you know that this isn’t a proper hour to be having a conversation.” Freya doesn’t seem to care about the warning of Leonore and she leaves, leaving me only with Leonore a two female servants.

  “Don’t worry my grace, everything will be okay.” Leonore comfort me and I hear the footsteps of a person approaching.

  “Here’s the medicine Miss Leonore, it’s made from feverfew, magic cymbopogon and magic guava.” Doctor Lud says before giving the medicine to Leonore.

  Leonore takes it and bring it to my mouth, I can smell it and it’s awful, why it should be a horrible concoction. She forces me to drink it and I want to vomit, the taste it’s worse than how it smells.

  My fever goes away little by little and it doesn’t take long for me to fall asleep, only to be trap once again in the same nightmare, I can’t move and I just want to wake up.

  The next day the moment I open my eyes I can feel how the fever was gone, maybe for today I don’t attract any mana, just to prove a theory that I have about what happen to me.

  [New skill acquired.]

  [Resistance to poison Lv.1]

  The notification takes by surprise and I feel excited, this skill it’s really difficult to acquired, when my mother comes, she feeds me but she doesn’t spend more time than necessary with me and she leaves me with a servant to look after me.

  At midday Leonore comes once again and she seems relieved that I’m much better, especially because this time she doesn’t need to deal with a poisonous diaper, just the normal one without poison.

  When I sleep that night I’m trap in a nightmare one more time and I’m worried that this could be my future for every time I close my eyes and try to rest.

  When I wake up I know that I need to try and see if my theory it’s correct so I attract mana and assimilated inside me, I repeat the same process many times until I’m so exhausted that I lose consciousness, when I recover I notice my diaper full and cry for the horrible smell that assaults me.

  [Skill level up.]

  [Poisonous poop Lv.2]

  I was right, this body isn’t suitable for mana, every time I absorbed and made it mine, I’m changing my body and apparently it comes with repercussions. I assumed is my body trying to accustom to the mana, and poop became poisonous after the expulsion of anything my body doesn’t need.

  A female servant enters the room and stop in her tracks and turns around. A minute passes and I hear someone else coming.

  “What happen my grace? The servant mention something about how it repeats again.” Leonore stops the same way the servant did it. “Oh no, no again.” She also turns around and exits the room. Now what, I need help and nobody seems like they want to do it.

  “What is it Miss Leonore? You didn’t tell me what was happening before dragging me here.” I hear Freya’s voice and I know that Leonore came with reinforcements. “For the love of the goddess Hecate! What in the world is that?”

  “That’s another diaper Mrs. Freya, it happened again, please help us, I’m a little embarrassed to ask help to the servants after telling them that I would be in charge of the changing of her diapers.” Leonore tells the truth about why the servants weren’t coming and changing me.

  I’m getting more desperate the more they chitchat, I’m a baby and I’m in contact with poison, even if it’s my own poop I can just guest that it isn’t healthy.

  “Gwaaa!” I continue to cry just for them to give me a look before continue to converse.

  “Maybe next time you would start behaving like a proper lady, your actions reflect on the Lady Audrey” Freya continues her ramble but finally she takes off my diaper. “Munda et mundare.”

  Some part of the poop disappears but like last time it isn’t enough with her basic spells.

  “Munda et mundare.” Already expecting this situation she repeats the spell and finally the diaper it’s clean. “Call the alchemist, it’s poison once again.” Freya gives the order like she struggles with the idea of the need of the Alchemist.

  “I do as you say Mrs. Freya.” A female servant gives a small kowtow before leaving.

  A few minutes passes and the alchemist comes inside the room.

  “Hello my ladies, what can I do for you?” Mr. Lud arrives in a good mood before coming closer to me.

  “Something it’s wrong with the little Lady, can you examine her please?” Leonore informs the doctor before moving to the side to clear the way for the alchemist.

  “Of course Miss Leonore.” The alchemist approach me and repeats the same procedure like the last time he was here. “It’s the same thing, do the guards found anything or someone relate it to the poison?” He looks worried that someone is trying to harm me and nobody in the house appear to be taking this case seriously.

  “We searched everything in the room and question the servants who come close to this area of the house but we were unable to find a clue.” Leonore informs the people who is inside the room.

  “I would recommend informing the fifth wife, she should be aware of the affairs of her only daughter.” Mr. Lud seems mad thinking that they’re hiding important information to my mother.

  “She’s aware of the situation, I know the gravity of someone trying to poison the Viscount’s family.” Freya informs Lud about the topic.

  “Then she should be by her side, I don’t understand why nobody seems to care for the baby, please take the medicine Miss Leonore, I’ll prepare more in case we need it and I’ll ask the servants to buy more herbs that we need to concoct the antidote.” Mr. Lud gives Leonore the medicine so she can give it to me. “We are lucky that the poison seems to be a weak one.”

  “Thank you Mr. Lud” Leonore takes the vial and start feeding me before I start having another fever. “And about why the Lady Audrey isn’t here…”

  “Enough Miss Leonore, we shouldn’t talk about our Lady behind her back.” Mrs. Freya cuts Leonore before she can gives more information.

  That’s the last thing I hear before closing my eyes.