88 Luke's Story 3

"This is your younger brother," Joanna introduced Luke to Lucius.

Lucius looked at his younger brother for the first time. His younger brother greatly resembled his father more than his mother.

His slick silver hair gleamed in the sunlight as he gazed up at him with his empty blue eyes.

Lucius had come to visit his family for the first time in three years. He was allowed to visit his family once during his entire stay in elementary school.

Belle had kept begging him to visit this year as she missed her parents.

Lucius and Belle had finally adjusted to the cruel school system that ranked first in the first district.

They had no time to miss their parents in the previous years as they struggled to survive with the notion of points that was greatly dependent on their studies.

'How does Luke look this mature?' Lucius wondered as he noticed Luke's face that was void of any emotion.

Luke's face did not match his age. He never smiled but he never got upset.

Lucius was unaware of his parents giving out such a strict schedule to Luke due their work that kept them occupied most of the day.

"Since your father and I are busy today, can you watch Luke for the day?" Joanna sweetly asked Lucius.

Lucius knew immediately it was a order rather than a request.

Lucius didn't mind taking care of his younger brother, so he nodded his head to accept Joanna's orders.

Joanna immediately left without looking at Luke's response to this arrangement.

"What do you usually do?" Lucius asked Luke for guidance on what to do.

"Mother had just told me that I will not be following the usual schedule today," Luke coldly replied.

Lucius started to wonder what to do today as he reluctantly brought Luke to his room when he could not come up with an answer.

Lucius' room was filled with toys from Belle's family, Joanna and William.

"Do you know how to play this game?" Lucius grabbed a antique.

The antique was from the second district. It was a video game counsel that Lucius had begged for his third birthday when all his other friends had one.

"I have never seen such as device before," Luke answered lifelessly.

"How about all of the other toys in this room?" Lucius offered as he gestured to some of his toys.

Luke shook his head.

"Then what do you usually do?" Lucius asked him with great curiosity to how he could not know of any of these toys.

"Mother and father had me study with the tutors." Luke answered as he indirectly questioned Lucius if he had not gone through the same thing.

"For the entire day?" Lucius asked with surprise.

Luke nodded his head as he concluded that his parents were stricter on him rather than his older brother since he was the heir of the Roselia family.

Even Lucius secretly considered the Suilett family to be his actual family rather the Roselia family that barely spent any time with him.

In fact, most of the toys in his room were from the Suilett family. The only things from the Roselia family were the basic furniture necessary and few toys for his birthday.

Lucius felt grateful that he had the Suilett family to raise him as he pitied Luke.

'This could have been me,' Lucius sadly thought.

His younger brother didn't know what emotions were as he didn't have the chance to experience a normal childhood.

This was when Lucius was determined that he would become a parent to Luke.

However, there was no way of accomplishing this when Lucius returned to the Suilett family mansion the day afterwards.

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The second time Lucius was able to meet his younger brother was when he graduated from elementary school.

He secretly observed his younger brother who entered the elementary school section when he was to enter the middle school section.

His younger brother was frowning as he walked beside a young girl with a brillant amount of mana.

Her aura shined brightly as she attracted the attention of the people around her.

However, she didn't seem to notice the people staring at her as she fought with Luke.

"I promised to eat cake with Shelly and Ellen today!" She yelled at Luke who was dragging her to the library.

Lucius was grateful to the young girl who finally made Luke show a ounce of emotion on his face.

He was afraid that his brother would never be able to experience a normal life with his underdeveloped emotions.

"Who's that?" Belle asked Lucius as she snuck up from behind.

"My younger brother and his partner," Lucius whispered back.

"You mean our younger brother," Belle smiled mischievously.

The Suilett family placed great importance in spending time with family. This was why Lucius came to value family very much as the Suilett couple raised him with Belle.

"Yea," Lucius tried to hush Belle.

"Why are you hiding?" Belle wondered why Lucius was hiding from his younger brother.

Belle grew up with a lot of love from her parents. This was why she could not understand Lucius' reluctance to show himself to Luke.