When the birth of quadruplets, something that had never happened in the long history of the Empire, became known, the Church dispatched a priest to the Rainberg family.
Four was the most ominous number in the whole Empire, so the Church thought that one of the quadruplets might be a child of the devil.
The Duke and Duchess of Rainberg politely refused the Church’s investigation, but the Church requested permission again.
In the end, the quadruplets were placed under the watch of a priest.
The babies, now a month old, bathed in holy water every morning, kept a silver cross by their side, and, except for one hour a day, even the mother of the children could not see them at will.
The quadruplets are the children of Duke Rainberg, after decades of being childless. It was around this time that the Rainberg’s vassals and the Duke himself were getting to the limit of their patience, as the precious children were suspected of being the children of the devil.
Fortunately, the Church’s surveillance was over, and the demonic red skin and black horns did not appear in any of the children. However, the priest’s report during the meeting revealed that all four children had unusual habits.
The first child would always stare in the void enough to make his eyes, which had just started to open, become red and bloodshot. He seems to have forgotten how to close them.
The second child babbled nonstop, as if she were trying to speak to him.
The third child never cried even after bathing in holy water or putting a cold cross on her body.
“That’s great!”
The priest was trying to tell the duke how his children treated him badly, but the duke and wife were delighted to know that they were extraordinary children.
“Did the youngest child have any habits?”
They were also hoping that their youngest would also be special.
The priest shrugged his shoulders in response to the duke’s expectations.
“The youngest master was like an ordinary child.”
The priest suddenly remembered something but decided not to say it.
‘He had a strange habit. He was always looking at me with his middle finger up, even when feeding the bottle or changing the diaper. I mean, this felt strangely bad.’
It could not be said that the youngest had bad habits.
* * *
The quadruplets were normal, just like children of the same age.
Of course, the existence of the quadruplets was special, but they didn’t have any extraordinary powers or extraordinary talents.
The rumors that one of the quadruplets was a child of the devil became less significant as time passed.
The thought of a devil’s child being hidden has disappeared, and it has become normal to have ‘Quadruple heirs of the Duke Rainberg’.
So, until ‘that day’, even if they were all special, they didn’t cross the line above common sense.
The youngest son of the duke of Rainberg, a family of magicians who handle a mysterious power called ‘Spirit’, was still ordinary, even though he was special in some sense.
Little did they know that the youngest son was actually a soldier on the planet ‘Earth’ and a man with strange powers in his previous life. Possessing his previous life memory was special and far beyond common sense.
Just having a person who remembers their past lives is daunting, but in fact, if both twins are monsters that remember their past lives and even wield that same power, then the existence of the ‘quadruplets’ and ‘Duke Rainberg’ becomes terrific.
“Little master! What did the fourth young master look for…?”
“I wasn’t!”
“Yes? Was it this?”
“Stupid maid!”
In fact, the Duke Reinberg’s quadruplets actually remember all their past lives.
Unlike other noble families, the Ducal family of Rainberg does not have a deep history. The first head of the family is my father, the war hero, Duke Libera Quilz Rainberg.
All of the family’s vassals were the recipients of the great war, directly appointed by my father, and the knights were also mostly commoners.
It could be said that they were also the most irrelevant to imperial politics, even with the title of Duke of a Duchy.
They are not a family to be despised. If ever a great war broke out, no one would dare ignore the existence of Duke Rainberg, the great hero who saved the empire and who still holds great power.
The Duchy of Quilz was also a defense line of the Empire, as it bordered with the land of the Ain people.
Thanks to that, the family was full of freedom, so I lived happily until I was ten years old.
My brothers and sisters weren’t crazy back then, and they were just ordinary kids.
As the youngest son of a prosperous family, I probably have a free and laid-back life, wouldn’t participate in any succession disputes, and live in the duchy without facing any trouble.
However, an incident occurred ahead of the ‘Artemis Ritual’.
Duke Reinberg, who possessed a special power called ‘Spirit’, held an annual Thanksgiving festival to appease Artemis, the god of hunting and spirits.
As a child, I thought it was cool to see knights participating in the Thanksgiving festival.
When I was ten years old and qualified to participate in the Artemis ritual, I excitedly practiced hunting.
It was around the time I was learning how to shoot a bow, how to chase prey, and how to find traces.
I suddenly realized
Who I was in my previous life.
It was so random that I let out a loud laugh as I remembered my past life.
“Oh, I remembered. I am Kim Changsik, 29 years old.”
From the time I learned to speak and was able to communicate to some extent, I suddenly thought of many ‘words’ that did not exist in the Empire.
Words such as ‘ramen’ and ‘jjigae’, which are difficult to pronounce even in this world language, came to mind, and surprisingly, I found out that they were actually food.
When I was a baby, I was told that I had a habit of raising my middle finger whenever I saw people.
However, it was when I was ten years old that I finally remembered my past life, right before the hunting festival.
It was at this time that we, who were ordinary like children of our age, suddenly changed, and it was also at the time that I recalled the memories of my previous life. Even my other siblings recalled their previous lives around the same time as mine.
In the midst of confusion, the result I came up with was simple.
Hide.
Knowing my past life doesn’t change anything.
I have a new life. It was also the life of the youngest son of the Duke.
As I recalled the disgusting and dirty things I had experienced in my previous life, I felt that my present life was more precious.
There won’t be any problems.
That was what I thought.
Damn, can I even survive?
* * *
I took part in the Thanksgiving ceremony with a secret.
No matter how special the children of the Ducal family of Rainberg were, we were only ten years old.
Of course, I didn’t hunt too hard, and with the help of the knights, I was happy with the prey I caught by shooting a bow or crossbow from a distance.
“The first young master has disappeared!”
“What? The first young master? What are the escort knights doing?”
While I was bragging about catching a rabbit as I approached my father, the knights, who were escorting my older brother, suddenly came rushing in and said he was missing.
From that moment on, I gradually felt that something was wrong.
The eldest son of the duke disappeared during the family festival.
After a great commotion, the hunting festival stopped, and the knights, as well as my father, a wizard, set out in search of my older brother.
An unexpected search started. However, despite a thorough search, no trace of the fragile ten-year-old boy was found.
The situation became so serious that rumors of kidnapping from the Ain people, taking advantage of the festival, were raised.
“The first young master is back! He said he went out hunting alone, but… he brought a mammoth’s tusk.”
“What? Mammoth? Mammoth’s tusk?”
His lost older brother returned a few hours later, together with a mammoth’s tusk.
At the unbelievable news, my father went straight to see my older brother, and I also hastily followed.
“Are you here, Father?”
I still remember my older brother waiting for us in the tent on the hunting ground with a smile that a kid his age should not have.
The tone of his voice suddenly changed. The ten-year-old boy, who had been hunting for several hours to avoid the family search, was covered in dust but had no small wounds.
The sight of the mammoth’s tusk, taller than him, together with his older brother, was evidence of his great hunt.
“Ha, can you explain how this happened?”
“It’s not a big deal. While chasing a deer, there was an annoying one, so I just caught it.”
“You mean there was a mammoth nearby?”
During the Thanksgiving Festival, the duchy’s hunting grounds were fully controlled.
A ferocious beast like a mammoth that inhabits the land of the Ain will never enter.
At the words of the First Young Master, the knights in charge of controlling the hunting grounds were bad and made excuses.
“The hunting grounds are in our complete control. A mammoth from the lands of the north cannot be hunted!”
“It is not a matter to be passed on. The investigation should be ordered properly…”
“No, Father. There were really no mammoths in the hunting grounds.”
My older brother said it with a bright smile—a relaxed smile I had never seen before.
A 10-year-old child has caught a mammoth that even knights who have learned Aura alone find it difficult to defeat.
Of course, everyone, including my father, was stunned. Another level of nonsensical work that completely crushed common sense.
If the older brother had not been the son of the Empire’s greatest wizard and war hero, Duke Rainberg, something more serious would have happened.
Priests will come out to dissect my older brother in the church, or things like that.
It was a time to seriously contemplate the authenticity of my older brother’s words.
However, my older sister’s escort knights came and told my father, who was losing his mind because of my older brother, about her disappearance.
“The second young lady suddenly disappeared!”
“I told you that I was suspicious of an outside operation! Are you guys still knights?”
“I’m not trying to make excuses, really. She just disappeared from my sight.”
“Does it make sense? A 10-year-old girl disappeared from the gaze of dozens of knights?”
The mammoth hunted by the First Young Master was just the beginning of the legend.
My older sister also disappeared, and now, within an hour, she brought a giant crocodile called ‘Rhone crocodile’.
What is surprising is that a ten-year-old girl somehow managed to catch a crocodile that lives only in the Neron River, which should take about several hours to ride with a horse from a hunting ground.
Moreover, unlike my older brother, who only brought mammoth tusk, she brought the whole giant crocodile. How the giant crocodile from the Neron River came to the hunting grounds was still a family mystery.
My father did not ask my older sister, who had caught the crocodile, how she got it. He must have been afraid to hear any of her answers.
Instead, he asked her why she had caught a giant crocodile from afar, and my older sister replied:
‘Because I don’t want to lose to him.’
The situation that day was chaos itself.
On the day when the children of the Ducal family of Rainberg, who caused many emergency calls, made our father, who usually has a gentle personality, lose his temper, it was my third sister who dealt the final attack to the festival.
Unlike my first and second older siblings, my third sister did not suddenly disappear or catch a huge beast.
However, while the Rainberg family was in turmoil, she roamed the hunting grounds to save prey, but the problem is…
“Aww, the third maiden is now bringing beasts from the hunting grounds!”
“Beasts?”
Dozens of rabbits, deer, and wild boars followed her.
As if tamed, they were all following my third sister.
The sight of her basking under the warm sun, surrounded by animals, was a divine sight.
“All of them are children blessed by the moon! Oh, Artemis!”
The old maid, who believed in superstition, shouted.
It was the moment when the legend of the ‘Quadruplets who received the blessing of the moon, (though I was only riding on my siblings achievement)’ was born.
Damn, if they had known their identity, they wouldn’t have said that.
What is the moon’s blessing for the villains who tried to destroy my previous world?
