Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 7

19 years old.

16 years old.

Neither age can be considered all that old.

But somehow, my older sisters Arabella and Clare have become the most famous 19 and 16 year olds in the empire—no, in the entire continent.

One opened a teleport gate at age 19.

She may have spent a year accumulating enough mana to teleport the long distance here, but opening a teleport gate is a spell that, itself, requires 5-chains or above to use.

The so-called genius mage.

The one receiving the most attention at the Altheon Imperial Academy as a talented person was my eldest sister Arabella.

Similarly, the younger of my older sisters is able to handle a wyvern at age 16.

I had seen summoners collapse on the battlefield a number of times from using all their strength as soon as the summoning completed.

But not only did she summon a wyvern, she maintained it while riding it all the way from the academy.

She is also…

A genius receiving the most attention at the academy, along with our eldest sister.

“Lady Arabella is able to open teleport gates already and Lady Clare rode a wyvern here…”

“Haha. Exactly how many members of the current generation of House Sogres have been blessed by God?”

Everyone had an envious look on their face.

I was not exempted from this topic, either.

“Remember young Lord Dane’s first birthday? How all the artifacts put up by the family members reacted to him?!”

“Who knows if young Lord Dane will be the most talented of them all.”

With my mana core activated, each and every whisper made its way to my ears.

I intended to have better control over it, but since my body was still of a young child, it was not easy to accomplish.

And what I heard was not displeasing, anyway.

I could even hear the sounds of my father sobbing.

“For the birthday of their very own father who raised them they sent a simple letter, but for their younger brother’s birthday, they opened a teleport gate and rode a wyvern…”

Of course, despite what it sounded like, he was actually incredibly happy that my older sisters had appeared here and was smiling brightly.

“Big sis, middle sis,” I called out for my older sisters.

But I soon had to take a step back.

They were both sprinting my way holding something in their hands.

Their eyes were lit up and each of their magic powers were actually clashing and causing sparks to fly as if saying that one of them was first.

“Dane!”

“Dane!”

And without determining who was actually first to arrive, they each presented me a gift.

I could still see the fire in their eyes.

I knew quite well how to calm the two of my sisters down.

“Thank you both for coming to congratulate me on my birthday.”

The moment I accepted both gifts, smiles were plastered on my sisters’ faces.

“Congrats on your birthday, Dane!”

“I truly congratulate you on your birthday, Dane.”

“I also truly congratulate you!”

The two of them were still quite young compared to me in my previous life, but they were the older sisters who showered the current me with endless amounts of love.

“Hurry up and open it!”

Just how many gifts did I receive today alone?

I returned with my sisters to the stage at the end of the celebration grounds because there were too many eyes focused on me.

I opened the gift from my eldest sister first.

Inside was a ring.

“It’s a dimensional pouch! I designed it myself! And because subspace magic requires the highest chain, I had our professor imbue the magic!”

Thanks to my eldest sister’s lectures that I have been listening to since I was a newborn baby, I knew how difficult it was to imbue any type of magic onto an item, especially subspace magic.

However, what was even more difficult than imbuing the magic was designing the artifact.

And what’s more, designing the artifact with the thought of someone other than herself imbuing the magic onto it…

“Try it out, Dane. Just so you know, this is something that can only be used with your genetic code, so no one but you, Dane, can use this. It’s the only one of its kind in the world!”

I put the ring on.

It fit me perfectly. It was even pretty to look at.

She had likely even taken aesthetics into consideration with how a blue gem was set in the silver ring.

Judging from the delicate waves emanating from it, it was clearly a top quality magic stone.

I immediately imbued it with magic and something astonishing happened.

The air in front of my left hand on which I had put the ring was sliced open and a gap large enough for my hand to fit through was opened.

“What do you think, Dane? We’re now in the age where the dimensional pouch actually comes in the shape of a pouch!”

The dimensional pouch was literally a pouch.

And that is why it was named a pouch.

It looked like a normal pouch, but once imbued with magic, the subspace is activated and connects with the mouth.

“When you circulate magic in the ring, the subspace goes POW! And you just need to put your hand in and that’s it! Now you won’t need to deal with the annoyance of taking out and opening a pouch.”

My eldest sister was wearing a proud and boastful expression on her face.

It was a very innovative item.

To think that my sister had designed this…

“Sis, thank you so much… but is it really okay for me to have this?”

“Who else would I give this to if not you? I spent quite a lot of effort on it! So you need to treasure it, got it?”

I nodded my head.

The gift could not be any more perfect.

A dimensional pouch, eh?

In my previous life I had seen a few wealthy people like noble commanders or mages use one but I had never used one before myself.

Who would have known I would be able to use one, too.

“Oh, another thing! The ring will adjust automatically as you grow up! It’ll get a bit thinner but it should be fine until you’re done growing up. Although I’d prefer it if you could stay small and cute…”

This was my eldest sister who doted on me heavily since I was a newborn baby.

“But you won’t be able to use it yet. Later on when you form a mana core or gain a magic circle and can manipul…”

As she was talking I had already been imbuing the ring with magic.

“…ate magic is what I had wanted to say, but…”

Zing

The ring vibrated briefly and the subspace opened.

“…Our youngest is truly a genius, isn’t he?”

Soon, my eldest sister was laughing as if she had expected that all along.

“Yeah. I formed a mana core.”

“You were faster than me!”

She was startled but had lowered her voice in case someone could overhear.

“My baby brother is truly amazing! Although I’m disappointed it wasn’t a magic circle… But what does it matter! You’re a genius! Who knows? You may end up having both a core and a circle at the same time!”

I smiled brightly.

I was going to thank her once again but at that moment I heard the anxious voice of the middle sister.

“Dane… what about mine?”

I saw the look on her face and almost burst out laughing.

Was she thinking her gift would get overshadowed because our eldest sister’s gift was so amazing?

“Open mine too!”

“Okay.”

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I hurriedly opened her gift.

I could feel the sharp look my eldest sister was giving me but I pretended to not notice and took a look at the gift.

It was a glass case.

Inside it was a single object.

“It’s not an egg!” my sister Clare quickly added, perhaps surprised that she did not see a reaction on my face yet.

Who would think that someone would give an egg as a present?

I took a look at the egg-shaped object.

The golden shell was dotted with red spots.

It was the first time I had seen such an orb.

Not that it’s likely, but if this had been an egg, I am sure it would have been mind-blowingly expensive.

At that moment, I finally remembered that Clare is a summoner.

“Sis, is this perhaps a…”

“It’s a familiar.”

My eyes lit up at the whispered word of ‘familiar.’

“I don’t know what type of familiar it will become, but… it was very difficult to get.”

“Sis…”

“B-but, it wasn’t super duper difficult so you don’t have to worry too much!”

Like my eldest sister did before her, the younger one had also given me an amazing gift.

She continued carefully so others could not overhear.

“When I was trying to summon Dekaron one day… that came out instead.”

A familiar.

In other words, a summoner’s ‘mistake.’

An extremely rare mistake, at that.

A summon is connected to a summoner by a ‘code’ through a process as complex as the summoner is capable of understanding. And through that process, sometimes an ‘error’ occurs.

Some other being with a similar code as the intended target will be summoned instead.

In this case, it was this egg-shaped ‘orb.’

And this orb is so rare that collectors, nobles, and even the royal family would drool over it.

Because some way or another, once the summoning spell ends, it remains in this world permanently.

In other words, you can call forth a summon from another dimension without executing a complex summoning spell.

That means someone who is not a summoner can control a summon.

And that is the full impact of the gift Clare had given to me.

“No one else knows. Only you know, Dane. So you must keep it a secret until it is hatched, understand?”

“Yeah. Of course.”

I hurriedly covered the glass case with the wrapping and smiled widely.

“Thanks, sis.”

She finally smiled a bit sulkily.

“I don’t know how long it’ll take to hatch. So you should imbue it every morning and evening with magic so that you can imprint on it ahead of time as its master. Got it? Until it reacts to you!”

Until it reacts to me.

I have no idea how long it will take, but I will hatch it, for sure.

“Okay! I’ll do so. But don’t you think this is too precious for me? I’m very grateful, but I think you would have better use for it.”

That is what I truly felt.

I was thankful for the gift but this was too precious.

Especially considering that it would be difficult for my summoner of a sister to encounter another during her lifetime.

But she shook her head firmly.

“There’d be no meaning to it if you aren’t the one to have it.”

And then she looked proudly at our eldest sister as if she had won.

Our eldest sister pretended not to notice but her hands could be seen shaking.

“How cowardly…”

Ah, before a fight could break out between my sisters, I hurried to wrap things up.

“Thank you so much. Both of you.”

I was relieved to see the two doting sisters of mine smiling again.

But what was to be done about that wyvern and the teleport gate?

“Kyaaaaaak!”

“Hey hey! You idiot! Don’t go in there! We have no idea where that gate’s connected to! Someone stop it!”

My sister Clare ran over to unsummon the wyvern and my eldest sister sealed access to the gate.

“Are you happy your sisters came?”

I have no idea when she had drawn near but my mother was patting me on the head.

“Yes, Mother. I’m very happy.”

“I’m also happy. And your father as well.”

The entire family was gathered.

The celebration could finally start.

“Though we are quite happy to see you both, given that you had told us you could not make it, could you care to welcome your father and mother, too?”

My father had an extremely sad look on his face.

My sisters were startled and ran towards our father.

“Ah, Father! Have you been well?”

“Father!”

I burst out laughing upon seeing my father’s face slowly melt at my sisters’ greetings, however late they were.

Amidst all this, I found myself locking eyes with Leila.

She had a very envious look on her face.

It did not seem like it was due to me receiving gifts.

I could feel it in her eyes.

A peculiar feeling of loneliness.