Living with a Brat (Side-Story)

### A Skeleton Child

In the anti-void sat a skeleton. The skeleton was different from other skeletons. The skeleton bones were completely black, wearing a red shirt only with black shorts. His slippers were black and red.

The skeleton was watching a show called Undernovela. It was a show that the skeleton enjoyed a lot. That was the only thing that could give joy to the skeleton, as it was lazing around in the anti-void.

The skeleton was Error, a destroyer. However, compared to the past, he looked pathetic, as the him now and the him in the past were vastly different. He became lazier; he didn’t go out and destroy Au’s anymore either.

Instead, what he did now was watch the Undernovela show continuously and wait for new episodes to come out. He was watching the first episode of Undernovela; he had already watched the show multiple times, but he didn’t get tired of watching.

The episode was continuing as always, and the anti-void was as lifeless as it was. If Error had bothered to go out of it and close the TV, there would not be even a sound here. Error yawned as he watched the episode. While he did love the first part, there was just so much that he could not feel slightly bored from watching an episode he had seen multiple times.

“Why can’t anything interesting happen?” he said with a glitching voice. The voice of Error repeated certain words multiple times because of the nature of an Error. The Error complained about nothing interesting happening.

Error would feel how something entered the anti-void; the way it entered was in a forceful way, not via a portal or such. Instead, Error would see how a rift happened in the anti-void, and from that rift fell a small skeleton, falling onto the ground.

Error looked at the kid. The kid had scars on his body with visible broken bones, but what Error saw more were the codes of the kid. He was an error an entity that is a bug; however, he could sense clearly the codes of this kid being all broken. It was like a sixth sense as an error whose own kids were broken; he could sense the codes of others from the stable ones from beings who themselves have broken codes.

The kid's eyes were close, assumingly unconscious. Error touched the kid. When the two touched their codes, they started to meddle with one another. It was a backlash from the two codes, as they didn’t want to touch one another. The entire anti-void was bugging and ripping when Error managed to pull his hand away from the kid. The anti-void returned to normal while the body of Error continued to slightly glitch around.

His codes were reassembling themselves back to their original form. He looked back at the kid, whose eyes were wide open, his hand grabbing his own soul. While their codes fought one another, intense pain was in their bodies because the very fundamental thing they are made of hit one another.

“How troublesome,” Error thought to himself while his body was feeling extremely weird. His codes were reassembling themselves; it wasn’t a thing that had happened before, so feeling his very codes moving was a feeling he didn’t think he would feel.

When he then looked into the eyes of the kid, he didn’t react. Even when he stared at the kid, he was just not reacting. “Hey brat, are you now unconscious with your eyes open or what?” When Error spoke, the kid's eyes showed shock. He then asked, his voice trembling slightly.

The kid stood up immediately and looked in the wrong direction in a defensive pose. Error walked around the kid, but the kid's eyes didn’t follow him. There was no sound coming from the steps of the error, as there was no air in the void.

“Could it be he can’t see me?” From what he sees, he understands that this young skeleton was blind. He couldn’t see Error this only confused him more about how this skeleton even got here.

“Behind you,” he said it intentionally out loud and saw the skeleton, then turned his back towards Error. The skeleton would then summon bones and shoot them all towards error. The bones were large and many too.

They all flew towards Error with immense speed; for any normal human, they would be too fast to be seen with human eyes, but Error wasn’t a human. Moving his hand, a wall made out of dark black bones with a bit of red at the end of each side came out of the void ground created by the magic of Error. The wall blocked the bone attacks quite easily; they all shattered into pieces the moment they touched the bone wall of his.

Error pulled his strings, which he tied around his fingers, and then went towards the skeleton. The dark blue string was twisting around as they went. The skeleton threw more bones, unaware of the bones. The strings went around the bones and then tied the arms and legs of the kid. The kid fell to the ground, unable to move. The strings would then surround the soul of the child. The soul of the child was large.

It was too large for a monster of that small size. Normally, a soul like this would break through the body of a monster or human. The soul is essentially for the body, but if it’s so large that the body can’t contain it, then the soul would be outside continuously, just so it has space.

The kid struggled trying to break free from these strings, but he could barely move the strings around his soul, suppressing his strength. He felt like he was weakening. This weakening of his was connected to the strings of error; they were suppressing his magic.

It was slow, and even when the magic of his being suppressed like that didn’t do much because of the immense amount of magic that the kid had, When magic was suppressed normally, it would weaken a being physically and mentally, as magic was the life force of monsters, whose building blocks are magic.

“Hey kid, be calm now." Error said he was already annoyed that someone came into his personal anti-void, having bothered him when he was rewatching the UnderNovela series. The kid was still struggling to break free, but when he couldn’t break free from the strings, even when he gave it all up, he gave up and just let himself hang around like that. The kid looked at Error. Well, he looked at him because there was nowhere else that he could have looked at.

Error was staring at the kid who didn’t respond; it was weird to see how the kid didn’t respond. The kid was trembling; it was barely noticeable. Error was confused about why the kid was suddenly afraid. That was the same small skeleton that attacked him a moment ago. Error saw that small skeleton similar to an animal or a stray cat. He attacked Error because he was afraid of nothing more than that.

Error dropped the kid to the floor. The kid looked confused as to where he thought Error was still standing. “Stand up,” Error told the kid. The kid stood slowly up, having a more defensive pose, showing his distrust towards Error.

Error felt somewhat irritated seeing the kid like that. He saw that often enough of monsters being afraid of him, but that was long ago, which Error can barely remember at this point. Error grabbed the kid and teleported him to his couch.

Error paused the UnderNovela; he had to rewind it now because of that kid. “So, who are you even?” Error asked the kid, but he got no response. “Are you mute or what?” Error spoke to the kid again, but he got no response again except from talking; all he did was give a small nod.

“Just great” Error said he not only had a small kid beside him, but the kid was also mute. Error was continuing to watch UnderNovela, but with that kid sitting beside him while not touching him, his presence was making Error feel uncomfortable. This discomfort came from the two being errors, a type of entity whose codes were defying life.

An error is something that shouldn’t exist: codes that are meant to destroy themselves in the end, but as long as they live, they cause problems for the codes around them. The anti-void had no code. The anti-void was the absence of life itself, just like the void itself. The silence was heavy; it was especially heavy for Error, as while he was used to being alone, he wasn’t used to having such silence with other people.

“I shall watch that kid for now; maybe he will be useful to me and kill my boredom.”