Chapter 4:

Another World Again? Parents' Love

Storybook: The Making of A King


"Renji, Renji. Hey! Wake up, Renji!"

"Shut up!" Renji woke up. He saw Mikhail who woke him up. His head hurts so much. Then, he remembered he went unconscious right after the queen tapped the gem on the book necklace.

Renji looked around. The place was unknown to him. He was on a hill somewhere. "Where? Where are we?"

"I don't know it myself. I've been travelling around many places secretly behind my parents. But this is my time seeing this kind of environment." Mikhail answered Renji.

Renji then remembered something precious to him.

"Tsukiko. Where is Tsukiko? Where is she?" he asked in panic.

"Tsukiko? Oh the one that looked like my partner Misha?" Mikhail asked. "If that girl the one you're looking for, she's sleeping right beside you, idiot."

He looked at right. He saw Tsukiko was sleeping but— she looked different? Why she looked like when she was primary school?!

"Why? Why she look like that? Why she become a little girl?" Renji asked loudly to himself.

"I don't know too. Also, she's not the only one that look like a small kid, you too look like a little kid, Renji. Your body reverted to a small kid maybe around 10 to 12 years old?" Mikhail responded to Renji's loud monologue.

"Huh?"

"Go take a look at yourself on some reflection, Renji. Also, wake her up too."

"Hey! Hey! Tsuki, wake up! Wake up, Tsuki!!"

Tsukiko opened her eyes slowly. "Umm, Ren-chan, what is it?" She still drowsy from being woke up from her slumber. 

"Hey! Wake up!!" Renji shook her body.

"Ookayyy" She said as her body got shook by Renji. Her drowsiness went away. "Huh?? Ren-chan, why you grow smaller?? You looked like when yourself in primary school."

"It's not only me! You're too!" 

Confused and don't know what to do, both Renji and Tsukiko went silent.

Seeing them went silent, Mikhail gave them a suggestion. " Why don't you two looked around here to look for a clue? I don't even know where my mother teleported us."

" Yeah, let do that then." Renji agreed with Mikhail while Tsukiko answered with an okay.

They went down the hill.  They saw a small road. They followed the road. Then, they arrived on a town. They looked around.

"Hoi! Misha! Mikhail! Come here! Come take a fruit." They were suddenly called by a young woman who looked like in her thirty.

Renji who remembered that he looked exactly like Mikhail and Tsukiko remembered that many people called her Misha so they both directed their index finger to their faces at the same time.

"Of course it you two? Why are you two looked confused?" The woman said.

Without saying anything, the both approach the woman.

"Come, come take one fruit each. This is as a gift for you two because you two always helped me at my stall." the woman said.

"Thank you, aunt!!" Both Renji and Tsukiko thanked the young aunt. Both of them chose apple. Renji chose a green apple while Tsukiko chose a red apple.

Then, they walked away from there after they said their goodbyes to the aunt while they ate the fruit that was given to them.

But now, they didn't know where to go. So they sat down on a bench in the middle of the town and  in front of a fountain.

Tsukiko collided her shoulder with Renji's. Tsukiko asked "So where are we going now?"

"I don't know. It almost dusk though." Renji answered Tsukiko.

They both got tired. Tsukiko rested her head on Renji's shoulder while Renji rested his on her head. They both yawned and fell asleep. They no longer know what was happening to them.

"Hah! Hey!! Here they are! They're sleeping on the bench in front of the fountain."

Two pairs of married couple approached their asleep body. A man carried Renji while the other man carried Tsukiko.

"Haha, they're sleeping. Maybe they get tired after playing around the town." one of the woman said. She looked like Renji's mother or the queen.

"Yeah of course they are. They can't be taken apart. Misha always play with Mikhail after all. She don't want to play with other kids even though Renji always want to play with other kids" said by the woman that looked similar to Tsukiko.

The two men just looked at the kids Renji and Tsukiko. They carried them to a neighborhood inside the town. The man that carried Renji took him to a 2 storey wooden house while the other one took Tsukiko to a 2 storey wooden house besides the one Renji was carried.


*Renji's Side*

"Ah he's asleep. Where did you found him, father?" A girl inside the house asked the men that carried Renji whole approaching them . She looked older than Renji's right now.

A boy older than the girl also approached. 

The man answered "I found him at the bench in front of the fountain."

The man then carried  Renji to the upper floor and entered a room. He laid Renji on one of the bed inside the room. He kissed Renji on the head and said "Good night. Grow up well, Mikhail."

He wanted to leave the room but Renji's small hand grabbed his hand. Renjis muttered "Daddy, mummy" in his sleep.

The man surprised by that situation. He sat beside the bed that Renji was sleeping on. He said " Yeah, yeah. I'm here." while stroking Renji's small head.


*Tsukiko's side*

The man that carried Tsukiko did the same as what the man that carried Renji.

He laid Tsukiko on the bed and wished her goodnight. But this time, it a little bit different from Renji's side.

Tsukiko muttered in her sleep. "Dad, mum. I want to sleep with you."

Shocked by what the girl said, the man carried her one more time but brought her to his and his wife's room.

His wife that was on the living room saw her husband bringing the girl into their room.

Without any question, she followed him into their room. The husband then sat on the floor beside the bed. the The husband Noticing the wife, the man just said "She muttered that she wanted to sleep with us in her sleep. What a spoiled kid."

The wife let out a small laugh. She went beside her husband and rested her her head on his head. She also stroked Tsukiko's head. She then looked at his face.

" You wanted to eat anything? I'm hungry." The wife asked her husband. The husband just answered "Yeah, I want to eat your homemade curry."

"Okay!"

Just like that, a day has left since Renji and Tsuki came to the town.

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