Anime, starting from Re:Zero (Zero - Starting Life)

Moreover, Akatsuki Kojou and Akatsuki Nagisa will be born normally on the original dates, and this work will not make any corrections to the relevant settings.

Note 2: The original novel doesn't specify when Xiao Shensen graduated with her doctorate, nor when she joined MAR Group. However, judging by her abilities and authority in the original novel, she is clearly a highly favored member of the group, with exceptional scientific capabilities.

To the extent that many things in the original work that are difficult to explain are related to Xiao Shensen. If we want to rationalize it, we can only explain it as Xiao Shensen exerting force within MAR.

(For example, after No. 12 was reclaimed by Nangong Nayue on behalf of the nation, why did it end up in the hands of the MAR Genshinjima branch and become private property? Remember, this is part of the Fourth True Ancestor; just a single body is enough to power a small nation's army. Even if there were high-ranking figures manipulating and plotting behind the scenes, the direct driving force behind this was most likely Xiao Shensen, who hoped to find a way to save his children through No. 12.)

Therefore, she was assigned the setting of being a talent directly cultivated by MAR (after all, MAR is a cyberpunk-level cross-industry giant, it would be strange if it didn’t have such a mechanism).

Chapter 2 Childhood

Chapter 2 Childhood

January 1995 AD

Gao Wen, or Xiao Hui Ri, has been reflecting on himself recently.

In fact, he has never been a person who likes self-reflection. At least for Gao Wen, self-reflection can usually only be regarded as error correction. Right is right and wrong is wrong. There is no need for the so-called "reflection" process.

The reason why he "reflected" was precisely because he was not sure whether he was wrong or not, and even less sure where he was wrong.

Just as he rested his chin on his hands, chewed some foxtail grass, and gazed at the sunset, quietly pondering questions that were destined to have no standard answers, the rustling sound of a bamboo broom scraping against the bluestone ground in the empty square behind him suddenly stopped, replaced by the sound of cloth shoes gradually approaching.

Gawain noticed it, but he didn't react.

The next moment, a middle-aged woman who was much taller than him sat down next to him. She was a woman with long white hair who wore white kosode, bright red hakama, and a red rope. She always had a kind smile on her face when she looked at him.

Gao Wen spat out the dogtail grass in his mouth and asked in a baby voice:

"Grandma, are you done cleaning?"

Yes, this woman is Gawain's biological grandmother, the shaman of the Kamiota Shrine - Akatsuki Hisano, a relative who makes Gawain feel conflicted.

Xiao Feisan stretched out her old hand, whose skin had begun to sag, and gently touched her grandson's head, coaxing him softly:

"Grandma has finished cleaning. It's still a while before dinner. Little Huiri, do you want Grandma to play with you?"

Gawain lied expertly:

"I don't want to move. Training is so tiring."

He slumped at the top of the tall stone steps, like a broken orange cat.

Xiao Feishan hugged her grandson with some distress:

"Let's go soak in the hot springs tonight. It'll be much more relaxing, right? There's a hot spring behind our shrine. Just soak in it more and your little head won't feel uncomfortable anymore, right?"

Gawain was alert and he immediately protested:

"do not want!"

Akatsuki Hisano is a little troubled:

"It's okay if Grandma doesn't accompany you to take a bath this time. Your sister Dongjia is here for further training, so you can let her take a bath with you. That's right, you've all been training your spiritual power all day today, you must be tired."

Gawain raised his little face and shook his head like a rattle:

"No more!"

Xiao Feishan laughed out loud:

"Don't let your sister Dongjia hear this kind of talk. She'll be so upset."

Gawain hesitated for a moment, then held up three short, thin fingers:

"Grandma, I'm almost three. It's okay for me to take a bath alone, right? I don't like taking a bath with other people."

To be precise, Xiao Huiri is just over two and a half years old. At the same time in the human world, he had learned to read and write three languages, and all knowledge of swordsmanship and magic from Elinalize, leading Elinalize to believe he was no longer capable of raising Gawain. But now, someone has to ask his grandmother for permission to buy a snack at the store down the mountain. Taking a bath alone is out of the question, and even washing his hair requires wearing a child's shampoo cap.

Of course, daily life is daily life. Gawain learned all the techniques that Akatsuki Hisano taught to the aspiring magicians who came to the shrine for further training.

In terms of languages, Gawain had a complete grasp of Japanese, Chinese, and English, but he couldn't find an excuse to learn any other languages. When Gawain requested a complete set of study materials, the elders were pleased, but he soon stopped using them. They thought he was finally slacking off like a child, but in reality, he had already completed his studies.

Xiao Feishan poked Gao Wen's chubby face:

"Wait until you're seven before you say that!"

Gawain sighed like a grown-up.

In the human world, children as young as seven can start preparing for an adventurer's career, but in Japan, they still need to be taken to the bath by their elders.

But no matter how you think about it, the human world is even more outrageous.

Hearing Gawain's sigh, Xiao Feishano, like Gawain's other elders and relatives, couldn't help but burst into laughter. She pinched Gawain's little face, helped him stand up, and helped pat the dust and grass that might have stained his buttocks:

"Little Huiri, stop sighing so much. It'll make you get wrinkles early, okay? It'll be ugly if your face is full of wrinkles like grandma's! It's almost time, let's go have dinner."

Over the past two years, Gao Wen's emotional intelligence has improved by leaps and bounds:

"You're scaring me again! Besides, isn't grandma pretty? Apart from her white hair, you can't tell she's the mother of that unshaven, weird uncle like Old Man Yacheng."

Akatsuki Hisano suddenly became happier.

She took Gawain into the side room, where the layout was not much different from that of a normal home. A cute black-haired JC was serving dishes to the table.

Black-haired JC asked with a smile:

"Master Hisano, is it Kaguya-tan (-tan, like Emilia-tan) that's making you so happy again?"

Xiao Feishano let go of Gao Wen and proudly showed off:

"Ahhhh, my grandson's little mouth is getting sweeter and sweeter!"

After Gao Wen pulled out his chair, he walked towards the kitchen, glared at the black-haired JC with dissatisfaction, and warned him seriously:

"Ms. Fujisaka Fuyuka, I've told you many times, please don't use such a cheesy suffix like [Carbon] to address me!"

He washed his hands before eating at his own dedicated short faucet, which was actually a water tap. Fujisaka Fuyuka snorted and patted his head before continuing to serve the dishes and retorted:

"That's just a nickname for kids! What's so corny about it? Or are you shy, Huiri Tan?"

After washing his hands, Gao Wen helped Fujisaka Fuyuka bring two bowls of rice. When he placed them on the table, Akatsuki Hisano, the elder, had already sat down.

Gao Wen also climbed into his own child seat and waited for the meal to start while not forgetting to fight back verbally:

"Although our shrine is sparsely populated, I can see that in this day and age, 'tan' has become a rather ambiguous term! Only a girl like you, Toujia-san, who spends every day at the High God's Mori School and doesn't even have a potential romantic partner, let alone a romantic partner, would be so completely unaware as to use such a potentially harassing term towards a child like me!"

Fujisaka Fuyuka, who had just brought some cold barley tea for Takafumi, was immediately shocked by what she heard. She was petrified and burst into tears. She immediately looked at the unmoving master and complained decisively:

"Master! Listen to what Huiri...-kun is saying!"

Gao Wen snorted, grandma won’t help you, as for the reason?

Xiao Feishan was helpless to smooth things over:

"Hurry up and eat! You two siblings should stop bickering. It's so rare for us to see each other, especially Xiao Huiri. After this training, your sister Dongjia and sister Qi will become official sword wizards. We won't be able to see each other for a long time, okay?"

Fujisaka Fuyuka sat down, wanting to cry but unable to:

"You are biased!"

It's not that he's biased, but whenever Akatsuki Hisano teaches Gao Wen a lesson in this regard, Gao Wen will use "I learned this from the quarrels between grandma and mom?" as the core argument and easily defeat the old lady.

As a result, Akatsuki Hisano could only comfort herself, thinking that sharp tongue was also a manifestation of family inheritance.

Gao Wen clasped his hands together in satisfaction:

"I'm starting!"

"I really hope that Sister Dongjia's cooking skills have improved to the level of home cooking this time."

"Master!!! Look at him!!!"

"Dongjia, although Huiri is precocious, he's still just a child. As his older sister, if you think he's not doing well, you should give him more guidance."

This is what Gawain has often reflected on throughout his life.

First, he used Aisha as a reference standard and wanted to package himself as a genius with high training value, but it seemed that he went a little too far.

Secondly, his original family seems unreliable. To be honest, it seems a bit too unreliable.

"As a child, you only need to think about being a child."

This kind of words are fine when used to advise others.

But it is impossible for Gawain, whose Vitrum genes have not yet been expressed, to obtain a human body.

Chapter 3 The First Rebellion

Chapter 3 The First Rebellion

January 1995 AD

Still dressed in black JC, but wearing a thin off-white cotton coat when she went out, Fujisaka Fuyuka was carrying a bag in one hand and holding the hand of Gao Wen, who was wrapped up like a little penguin, with a dejected look:

"Kueihi-kun, this is the first time I've seen Master so angry! You're going to make it very difficult for me later on."

Gao Wen, who was not even three years old but already over one meter tall, looked at the road ahead calmly and said comfortingly:

"Don't worry, after all, Sister Dongjia, you've always stood by Grandma. The fact that she asked you to take me home is enough to prove that she's not only not angry with you, but actually trusts you and is grateful to you."

Fujisaka Fuyuka exclaimed exaggeratedly:

"You precocious brat!"

Gawain shut down his clairvoyance, the psychic eye, and the localized magic eye, all newly created since his reincarnation, one after another, leaving only the minimum functioning of the precognitive eye.

[Note: Since the term "magic" also exists in "Blood Sucker", the magic of the six-sided world has been renamed "creation magic". The magic of Blood Sucker will still be called magic, or "local magic" or "normal magic".]

Apparently, grandma didn't follow them, nor did she send any shikigami over.

Gao Wen feels wronged:

"Sister Dongjia, I'm tired too. I'm sure I'd be happier just being an ordinary kid..."

Fujisaka Fuyuka, a mere JC, was easily overwhelmed by guilt and hurried to comfort Gao Wen.

The two of them arrived at the bus stop at the foot of the shrine mountain, and luckily they soon caught the bus to the city. Although Gao Wen had a bad temper, he was not the type to maliciously harm his own people, so he cut off Sister Dongjia's guilt at the right time:

"But, Sister Dongjia, you've been training and attending school at the High God Forest since you were a child. You must be very tired, right? This time when we go to Tokyo, Sister Dongjia, you can stay for a few days, okay?"

The two of them got on the bus. In the corner of the last row, Fujisaka Fuyuka, who was sitting on the outside, couldn't help but hugged Gao Wen's little head and rubbed it as if she had seen something cute.

"No need! But thank you for the invitation, Brother Huiri. Once I graduate from my master's rank, I'll be a full-fledged sword wizard! Then, whether I'm taking missions or taking time off, I can go out into the outside world, right? So it's okay."

"Working is definitely different from taking some time off before graduation, right?"

"It makes no difference to me, huh? I've always dreamed of becoming a proper sword wizard!"

"That's right, Sister Dongjia, you are preparing to chant ancient poems after all."

[Note: Xian Guyong is the inherited title of one of the three supreme administrators of the Lion King Organization. The Lion King Organization can be understood as a national-level organization for training and managing magicians. Based on the setting, it's likely the product of an island nation's ancient magician organizations submitting to a modern government. This corresponds to other national-level magician organizations constructed from scratch by modern governments. It's suggested that this organization be considered a more mysterious FBI or CIA.]

"This kind of secret cannot be casually disclosed outside."

"I set up a shielding barrier."

After hearing this, Fujisaka Fuyuka looked up. If Gao Wen hadn't confessed, she wouldn't even have noticed the barrier that had been quietly deployed. This was a one-way barrier for information transmission, and neither sound nor lip reading would be leaked to the outside world.

She had a complicated look on her face:

"Kouhi-kun, your mastery of the Oriental barrier technique is truly unimaginable. Is this what it means to be a genius? I heard that your mother, Ms. Akatsuki Fukamori, also started elementary school at the age of two?"

Gawain shook his head:

"Mom started school when she was three, but she was in the sixth grade."

Fujisaka Fuyuka rubbed Gao Wen's head angrily:

"Kueihi-kun, are you really coming home to go to school this time? Like your mother? No wonder the master is so angry, but it's also your fault for insisting on arguing with the master."

"Well, it's because grandma doesn't like mom."

"But Master likes you very much, Kaguya-kun? Can't you be a little more considerate of the elderly? I feel like Master is about to pass out from your lectures."

Gao Wen spread his hands:

"I'm just a little kid who'll be three years old early next year. Don't you think I understand what you're saying? Besides, my grandma and mom act like that whenever they meet. I'm just better at learning from parents."

Hearing this, Fujisaka Fuyuka waved her hands repeatedly to indicate that the topic had gone beyond the limit:

"Well, I won't say any more about your family affairs. But I guess, besides going to school, you also want to go home to visit and take care of your brother, right?"

Gao Wen looked flustered as if his little trick had been seen through: