Chapter 507: The Life Of A Strong Older Brother
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Bernard looked at the scene in front of him with contempt, he had now to fight two women he had never met before to prove his lady he was strong enough. this entire fight was orchestrated because the boy, Frank, wanted the prideful Vampires to bend the knee and aid him in his stupid heroic deed.
They didn't even knew if he was saying the truth, and despite his gentlemanly, Bernard was one of the Vampires that opposed the idea of allying him. He didn't particularly liked humans to begin with, they reminded him of his sorrowful and bitter past, and he simply wanted to get over this stuff already.
He looked at the scene in front of him rather carelessly, he pretended to be gentlemanly, but he looked disinterested, his abilities were those of killing and torturing, he specialized in this and has been helping the clan through these methods ever since Clementine recruited him after he fended off a large group of wild werewolves by himself.
He didn't wanted to fight to begin with, because he would be restrained from using his full potential, but he would do anything for his lady, Clementine, so he gave in to it and ended accepting this fight. He looked at the Minotaur woman and the demon woman, their races were different than him, who was supposedly a former human, yet, aside from certain areas in their bodies, they looked more humane than him in every way possible.
This made him feel internally conflicted, he sighed, as he thought that maybe he wasn't born a human, but he was always the monster he had become now. These girls, from where did they came from? He wondered this as he looked at the scene.
Stein's eyes were locked in the girls in front of him, he found both cute, and they reminded him of the liveliness of one of the girls he once met on his life.
Stein's life started long ago, back in the 1700's too, but not in England, but in Germany. He was born as the strong older brother of a family of 7 other siblings, it was a lot of work…
As the older brother, he had to do his best to grow into a fine man and to protect his siblings, while also teaching them how to be good people. He worked hard in the farmlands and often took care of the cattle animals since he was born pretty much.
He had a sickly mother and an absent father, so he had to do everything in the house. Previously raised by his grandmother who had passed away when he hit 12, he was now on his own to make the family survive. Thankfully, he had a little house he could call his home, and everyone in the family cooperate together to survive and live on harmony with whatever they could pick and find around.
The farm was small but through his extensive accumulation of experiences he slowly began to expand it, using special fertilizer to bring forth more plants and stronger ones. Thankfully this place lacked most plagues, so the farms grew healthy after a bit of care, and the plants beautifully yielded tomatoes and all sorts of other goods, such as potatoes, cabbage, and the like.
With that and the few pigs, chicken, and cows they had, they had enough milk, eggs, and occasional meat, although most of what they filled their stomach with were all sorts of potato dishes with eggs, the things that filled the belly the most, while cabbage and tomatoes were often the salads.
Nonetheless there were sometimes when he got his hands into bread and even pasta, making delicious tomato sauce form a written recipe he got from his grandmother, who had taught him how to read with all her care and strictness.
Thanks to this, the family sometimes had a varied dish per day, and they lived together in harmony for several years. Stein tried his best to protect his sickly mother and his siblings from any danger, sometimes fending off bandits by himself. He often thanked god and his parents for giving him a strong and burly body which he grew with, he was already almost two meter tall at the age of 14, so he was strong and could naturally punch someone easily and knock him off.
He was known as the "Brute Stein" in his village because he was not fond of strangers and when people disagreed with him, he gave them a punch in the face and usually knocked them off. The boy only knew of this language with those that looked for trouble.
He grew older and at the age of 20 he managed to teach how to read to most of his siblings. His sisters were already engaged with other farmers after some time, and his brothers were helping him in the farm, and the production had skyrocketed with more work hand to expand the farm, he had begun to sell vegetables and made some coins which he saved for the future of his siblings, especially his sisters who might soon marry and then have kids, they would need money to sustain their families. He always was considerate and thought of others before him in every situation. Or well, only his family.
But at the age of 22, his mother passed away while peacefully sleeping. She had developed a strange disease which was later discovered to be cancer, eating away her insides with internal tumors. Although it was painful, she never showed any sign of discomfort as she didn't wanted Stein to worry about her. She kissed him every day and smiled brightly, filling his heart with determination to work harder every day as he brought her the meals of the day to her bed.
He cried a lot when his beloved mother died, but he knew that one day this would happen by how sickly she was. But he did his best to make her live comfortably until her last moments. The entire 8 sibling family cried a lot that day, as the events after the passing of his mother would only become more chaotic…
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