Sic Parvis Magna

A few months passed and Renaldo is currently a baby, trying to open his eyes and start a new day, on his first few months as a baby, he's confirmed a lot about the current timeline and the current situation of his family, apparently, he's born before the Philippine Revolution, and the current year is 1866, 30 years before the said events and he have a decent amount of time to prepare about his future plans, his family is also in a decent situation because his father is a mixed race born in Spain, he's also a member of the Spanish Army and was moved here in the Philippines, that's when he met my mother and they married, because of his services, he was granted by the Governor General a hacienda as rewards for his service.

My mother on the other hand is the only daughter of a filipino merchant, she's a very shrewd person and I am always taking care not to be so obvious in things that I do, especially when I try to strengthen my body through body exercises.

Currently, I am a few months old but I have the body and strength of a one year old child because of my exercises and how much I drink milk, and honestly, I'm sick and tired of always drinking milk, my mother's milk and sometimes the maid's milk, I'm certainly looking forward to eating solid food, because right now, I am force-feeding myself to become stronger as soon as possible.

~Six Years Later~

Six years after arriving in this world, and I'm finally ready to steer my plans forward and make a lot of things happen, I've toiled a lot by trying to become as close to my parents as possible to make them dote on me despite me not asking them much, so that in the future, I can ask them some ridiculous things that they cannot refuse.

Also, I've tried to become a child that is a bit more mature than my peers yet still act a bit childish to erase their curiosity about my intelligence and maturity. I've also exercised alot using a lot of those body trainings used in the military in my past life, such as push-ups, squats, burpees and lunges. Currently, I can do a lot of those and as a result, my body is so fit that I can probably take on someone a bit more older than me, I am also quite tall courtesy of my father's bloodline, I am currently 4'3 ft tall which is not that tall for kids around my age but is certainly taller than average.

I requested my father to let me learn how to read and write at the age of 4 to cover up the fact that I can already do them beforehand, plus I'm annoyed that I am always treated as a kid so I tried to appear a bit more knowledgeable for them to take me a bit seriously from time to time.

I was a huge weeb in my previous life that I've dedicated myself into learning japanese so much that I can fluently speak it by now, it was also a part of my high school's curriculum which made me even more fluid than ever therefore, I've made notes about what I expect might happen in the future, and also notes about methods that can make me create businesses and weaponry that can help me in my future endeavors, I even included notes about certain individuals that I may or may not recruit in my warband in the future.

I almost got caught by my mother when I was writing one night before I sleep, she's now very suspicious of me, and I am more discreet in writing stuff, and I often hide my notebook under my bed to alert me if she ever tries to access them. Honestly, I've learned how to be attached to them but I'm still not that attached to the point where I really see them as my parents, it's still a bit weird for me to consider them as my parents because of the huge mental and maturity gap between us.

The Cavite mutiny happened, I expected it to happen and I am powerless to prevent it from happening and I won't prevent it, it is one of the biggest sparks that ignited the hearts of every filipino who heard about the it, especially about the beheading of the GomBurZa, the three filipino priests who were executed unjustly without sufficient evidence. Gomburza incurred the hatred of Spanish authorities for fighting for equal rights among priests and leading the campaign against the Spanish friars. They fought on the issues of secularization in the Philippines that led to the conflict of religious and church seculars and they paid a big price for it, but I won't let their deaths be in vain, for their grievances will be paid in full.

Aside from those, I've actually made some friends, albeit secretly because they're treated as workers (despite it actually just veiled slavery underneath by the "encomienda" system), I can't openly play with them but I always teach them a lot of stuff, to be perfectly honest, I'm brainwashing them to be super diligent, smart and hardworking because their loyalty already a guarantee courtesy of that superpower the overseer gave me.

They're Nicanor, Eliza, and Estong.

Eliza she is the sister of Estong and is a very diligent girl, a mature woman for her age, she tells me that she wants to work for my family's business as a seller so she's always asking me a lot about mathematics which I diligently taught her and often times give her ideas that can help her in the future.

Estong on the other hand, is a bulky guy but is kind of short, he looks a bit mature for his age that I can't help but picture him out as a dwarf from those fantasy books in my past life, it also doesn't help that he's the apprentice of our hacienda's blacksmith, sometimes I even wonder if he's also reincarnated from a dwarf in his past life to be honest.

Nicanor is kind of the odd one of the bunch, I think he's going to be a very great strategist or atleast a chess player, I'm not the best chess player in my past life but he's beaten me multiple times whenever we played! He's also the very first friend that I made in this life and he's so attached to me to the point that he wants to be by my side everyday, he even once swore that he'll be my brother even if I don't treat him as such, that he'll follow me whenever and wherever, honestly I'm a bit creeped out but I appreciate his efforts, maybe this is one of the side effects of that power from the overseer but I'll gladly take it than being stabbed in the back without me knowing about it.

They're children honestly, but they're all responsible because of their circumstances, orphans as they may be, I hope that one day I could give them a brighter future, a future where we are all equals under the sun and in the eyes of others, a future without them accidentally calling me as young master when we're all alone, a future where we can laugh, drink and be us without the prying eyes of others, I will definitely give them that future, and that's just the beginning.