With that, she bent down, lifted Eros up, and said expressionlessly, "From now on, I'll teach you occult knowledge. This is so you can..."
She had meant to say it was so he could recover his former power and memories as soon as possible, but when the words reached her lips, they became:
"This is so you can restore your family's fortunes as soon as possible. You know your family isn't in a good position right now, so you need to grow stronger quickly and give them the power to protect themselves."
And so Eros's miserable life began.
During the day, he studied under the family elders. At night, he still had to study under Barbara in his soul world (with Tentacle sneaking peeks). This was even harder than working nine to nine, six days a week in his previous life.
One small consolation was that before bed, he could listen to Estelle sing a lullaby in her gentle voice and replenish his "Estelle energy."
She did not understand why a child his age still liked listening to lullabies.
But Estelle could find no reason to refuse such a trivial request. In fact, she was delighted that her child loved her singing so much.
After listening to Estelle's lullaby, he would head into his soul world to annoy Barbara and admire how adorable she looked when she was furious. Mm! She's so cute when she's all worked up.
I just wonder when Barbara will finally agree to conjure up a pair of black stockings.
I've already explained their construction, style, and shape in perfect detail, but she still says she doesn't understand. Damn it, she's definitely pretending.
And so two months passed in an orderly routine.
One evening, just as Eros was getting ready to sleep after listening to his lullaby, his bedroom door suddenly opened.
A slender, graceful figure stood in the doorway. With the Eye of Eternal Night and his nighttime buffs, he easily recognized the person who had suddenly come to his room in the middle of the night.
It was Wendy, that brat of a little sister. But something was wrong with her. Her face was pale, and her whole body was trembling. Eros started in alarm and immediately understood what had happened.
Wendy was suffering corruption from an eldritch entity. After studying for some time, he was no longer the child who knew nothing about the occult.
"When you peer into the occult, the occult peers back at you. When you come into contact with the occult, it draws closer to you."
"Each night, souls that have come into contact with the occult have a chance of entering the spirit world. And a soul that enters the spirit world is like a candle lit in the darkness."
"The eldritch entities wandering the spirit world follow the spiritual radiance given off by that candle and invade the person's soul."
"If you cannot endure it, the entity will devour you and turn you into a monster. That is the price of coming into contact with the occult."
The family elders had told him this during his very first lesson and had repeated it more than once since then.
However, the family was also curious about why he had never suffered eldritch corruption over the past few months, and they had come up with a series of theories.
The prevailing theory was that because the Great One had personally baptized him, traces of the Great One's power remained in his body, intimidating those eldritch entities.
As a result, even Estelle, who occasionally spent the night with him, was spared eldritch corruption.
When Eros first heard these theories, his expression had actually been rather odd.
There might be some lingering divine power, but the biggest reason is probably the Tentacle Monster wandering aimlessly around my soul world all night.
Barbara had also explained it to him: the greatest eldritch entity in the world had currently taken root within him. What fool would try to steal the prey it had set its sights on?
They were so terrified that they did not even dare approach him, which was why people who stayed close to him were also spared eldritch corruption.
After hearing that explanation, Eros did not know whether to feel happy or worried.
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