A year and a half passed by in a blink of an eye and things were going well for Mira’s family.

Alyssa successfully gave birth to another beautiful little girl. This girl had white hair and crystal blue eyes which many people found to be ‘holy’ or ‘divine’. People also felt a bit calmer while in the presence of this child. The child’s name was Aurora.

With Mira being so well-known in the town, Aurora also became extremely popular which caused another wave of customers to visit the restaurant. They would stop by for a chance at getting to see Little Aurora.

Mira also started to mature at a much faster rate than before as she already began planning a little teaching course to put Aurora through when she gets a little older.

She wasn’t sure how a big sister was supposed to act towards a little sister, but she wanted to dote and protect this little sibling of hers.

The only problem with this is Mira started to notice some people looking at her with malicious thoughts. These people were mostly travelers or merchants, but Mira could tell by their greedy or envious looks that they meant trouble.

She guessed that they might be after her intellect and thirst for knowledge. She was currently seven years old, but when one talked to her if they disregarded her childish looks, she had the mind of a middle-aged woman.

In fact, Mira was most likely more mature than her own parents at this age. Her parents didn’t really know how to deal with Mira as she was truly too smart for her own good.

It also didn’t help that Mira was basically in charge of the restaurant now. She dealt with most of the finances, negotiations with clients, and would often help her father determine who has ulterior motives or not when meeting unknown people.

This was because not only was she smart, but she had very keen senses and could read people’s facial expressions rather easily.

Mira was also extremely popular in the Town as she would often try to help others whenever she could either by talking with them or giving them advice. It was a strange sight to see, but most of the residents stopped treating her like a seven-year-old and took her thoughts seriously.

She also was pretty good friends with the guards in town as she would often ask to either train with them or try out new weapons as a sword just didn’t fit her. It was like an innate rejection, but she knew that even with hard work she would never be able to wield a sword that well.

She’s tried out many weapons, sword, spear, dagger, halberd, axe, bow and arrow, staff, saber, etc. The only weapon that felt a bit more comfortable was a spear, halberd, dagger, and butterfly knives. Though these felt better, they still didn’t feel right.

Even though that was the case, Mira would sometimes ask to have a light spar with some of the guards. This wasn’t so she could learn how to use the weapon better, this was so she can understand the flow of battle better.

Obviously, Mira would never win any spars as she was just a little girl and had a terrible affinity with the weapons she used, she never stopped trying to spar.

Due to her incredible comprehension speed, she would find mistakes in her form or strikes very quickly and be able to improve her battle sense with every strike during every spar.

This coupled with her observing the guards train allowed her to offer several pointers to the younger guards. Although they might be helpful to the older guards, her advice was still useful as it made training a bit faster.

With how hardworking Mira was, many people in the town often asked the same question…

“Why do you work so hard despite having no ambitions?”

Usually, Mira just gave them a mysterious smile, but that was only because she didn’t know the reason herself.

Her parents, friends, and those around her always wanted to know what she wanted to do in the future, but Mira didn’t know what she wanted to do. She didn’t know if it was because everything she tried was too easy for her or if she truly didn’t enjoy anything.

But occasionally she would have a thought or a dream. The dream would be one of two things, she’d either be the Queen or Empress of a Nation which sounded somewhat exciting or there’d be another one that was terrifying yet exciting at the same time. It would be her standing on top of a mountain of corpses like a Goddess of Death!

***

2 years passed

“Little Aurora, follow me! I want to show you something cool!” Mira called out to her, now almost 4-year-old, little sister.

“Okay, Big Sis!” Aurora ran after Mira with a silly smile on her face.

Mira was currently running towards a large meadow full of flowers. This one is just one of the many times Mira brought her little sister to enjoy something cool.

“Wooow! So pretty!” Aurora exclaimed, which made Mira happy. She loved seeing her little sister happy and wanted her to experience many things in her life.

“Hehe I know right? These flowers also smell really nice too!” Mira sniffed a few flowers to prove her point and Aurora followed.

“Mmm, they do!”

The two of them played in the meadow for a while before Aurora got tired and fell asleep in Mira’s lap.

Mira smiled and rubbed Aurora’s head while thinking about the last few years.

Ever since Aurora was born, Mira has done her best to study children that had siblings and their relationships.

She wanted to know what know how a family’s upbringing or how talented or lack thereof affected a sibling’s relationship. She’d do her best to study poor households, medium-income households, rich households, households with a talented child, households without talent, parental discipline, parental love vs none, and various other variables.

She wasn’t able to gather all of the intel that she wanted, but she had enough to come up with an 18-year plan that she would put into motion to make sure that she and her sister’s relationship stays good.

Mira knew that she was very talented in a lot of things, but it was really just because of her unusual comprehension speed and intuition. She didn’t want this to cause a rift between the two of them, so she planned to try and nip this in the bud.

Mira asked(interviewed) tons of people and learned a great deal of things about siblings and children. One that caught her attention was that it was easier to teach a child things rather than an adult. Not only that, but children need to socialize with other children. She also came to the conclusion that as a sibling Mira had to be soft yet firm as she didn’t want to force Aurora to do things she didn’t want to, but at the same time, she didn’t want to bend to her will too much.

Like this, Mira filled Aurora’s room with the alphabet, numbers, and words. She’d also read some short stories that she came up with to her in order for her to grasp the language quickly.

Her thought process was that of even if Aurora isn’t talented then all she has to do is make her talented before she can even realize it.

This worked extremely well as when Aurora was able to speak, she learned extremely quickly and was also being taught how to write at the same time. This would make it easier for Aurora as it would be more difficult if she were to wait several years down the line to learn to write.

This was the hardest part of Mira’s 18-year plan and now all she has to do is take things a bit slower and wait and see. She had to determine Aurora’s nature before moving forward with anything else.

This was until she understood that Aurora is a very calm and loving person that wouldn’t hurt a fly. This child never had any impure thoughts and could only feel that immense amount of love coming from Mira and her parents.

Mira felt like there wasn’t a need for her plan anymore and vowed that she would make sure Aurora doesn’t change. She just had to make sure that Aurora wasn’t naive so she can determine right from wrong.

“Uhhh… Big Sis, I’m tired. Can we go home?” Aurora woke up sleepily and woke Mira up from her thoughts.

“Sure, let’s get my cute little sister in bed.” Mira muttered softly before picking up Aurora and carrying her back to their house.”

“Hehe.”