My Bothersome Life 114 Karen Miller 1

I had good eyesight in the dark from intensive training in using my mana that allowed me to manipulate my senses. However, whenever I poured too much of my mana to heighten my eyesight, my orange eyes would glow brilliantly from the lack of light.

The whole house was void of light as everyone who lived their life in the splendid sun turned the lights off to sleep.

"What's so different?" I asked in confusion as I could not notice anything that was amiss.

Other than the time turning back, everything seemed normal from the time we landed in the third district to the present.

"We're able to use mana too easily." Luke pointed out.

The theory of mana was that mana worked the best in the first district while it became harder to use mana as you went to the lower districts.

Apparently, the waves or flow of mana concentration in the air affected the circulation of mana inside one's body.

So the better the circulation of mana inside one's body, the easier it was to use mana to create spells like teleportation.

"And time went back to this morning," I added.

"Time going back is the result of this weird flow of mana," Luke tried to come up with an decent explanation for this phenomenon.

When we both tried to figure out the reason for this phenomenon, the darkness of the night had transitioned into a soft sunrise that shimmered orange-red light through the windows.

"You're up Rika?" My mom came down from the stairs with her pyjamas still on.

My mom yawned as she froze momentarily to see the both of us in the living room at five thirty a.m.

I nodded as I followed my mom into the kitchen to help her prepare breakfast for the family.

"I woke up earlier this morning to have breakfast already prepared before you guys came down, but you're used to waking up really early in the first district aren't you?" My mom tried to apologize indirectly.

My mom handed me the containers she put in the fridge that she had cooked a week ago. I put the food onto the plates and placed them on the table.

Luke helped with setting the table as he awkwardly placed the cutlery and napkins on the dining table.

A melodic ringtone rang from a smartphone coming from my mom's pocket from her apron.

"Who's calling this early in the morning?" My mom complained as she picked up the phone.

Since both Luke and I were hungry from trying to figure out the source of the circumstance of high concentration of mana from the early morning, we started to eat our breakfast.

When my mom was finished with the phone call, she sat down on the seat across from Luke.

"Can I ask you for a favour Luke?" My mom asked when we were finished eating.

"Of course," Luke stiffly smiled.

Luke only stiffly smiled when he was placed in a troubling situation.

"Can you babysit Rika's younger cousins today? I know you're good with children since you always take such good care of Rika," My mom asked Luke awkwardly.

I had younger cousins? I have never met any of my family members except for my direct family as I was too busy with school in the first district.

Luke froze as if he was deliberating whether to accept.

"Of course he accepts!" I shouted before Luke could decline.

Luke sighed as I silently cheered that I wouldn't have to go through Luke's intense study session today in addition to figuring out the weird mana flow.

My mom anxiously smiled as she mentioned, "They will be coming at ten today."

That was four hours from now! I wondered how old my younger cousins were as I stopped blanking out when Luke dragged me up the stairs.

He closed the door of my room as I stood in the middle of my bare room in confusion.

"We'll study here until they come," Luke laid out the textbooks on top of my bed.

Of course Luke would try to make up for the lost time as much as possible today. Since I could slack off when my cousins came, I decided to listen to Luke as I flipped to the page where we last left off.

The four hours quickly passed by as the sound of the clear doorbell rang throughout the entire house.

I closed the book as I quickly ran down the stairs in excitement to open the door.

When I opened the door, I saw two elementary aged children glancing up at me.

"Thank you for looking over Karen and Evan," My aunt thanked me.

"Karen is seven and Evan is nine," My aunt introduced cute red-haired children.

I squealed from looking at their puffy cheeks and cute outfits they wore.

"It fine!" I shooed my aunt to hurry to her appointment.

"Your house is sooo big!" Karen commented when she looked around the first floor.

Karen's golden eyes glittered with curiosity as she seemed to want to explore the entire house.

"And this is Luke," I grabbed Luke's shoulder to introduce him to my younger cousins.

Chapter end