The First Gift and the First Word

[One day Later, Milim's POV]

Today is the day where my father is about to leave for his long business trip.

Veldora and my mother stand by the front door of our house, I was carried by my mom on her arms so I can see my father preparing to leave.

My father approaches us three and he looks at me with a solemn face.

"Sorry dear Milim, father going to leave now. I promise you that I'll make it up to you when I come back" After saying that to me, he looks at Veldora and said " You know what to do, right Veldora?"

"Yeah yeah taking care of the house, we got over this already"

"Hmph, I'm just reminding you because you always slack off when no one's watching"

"Hey! I can change too you know"

"Hmph, Let's see about that when I came back" He snorts while giving Veldora an annoyed expression

Then he looks at his wife with a gentle expression "Take care of yourself, Lucia my dear"

"You too, sweetie. Please call us sometimes, okay? our dear little Milim will going to miss her father's voice so much"

"Yeah I know"

"AH! before go, there's something I'm going to gi-"

*honk honk*

"Ah, speaking of devil, it's here"

A delivery truck arrived on road Infront of our front yard and a delivery man came out, bringing a slightly huge package with him.

'That's a huge box, I what's inside it?'

"Um, special delivery for Mr. and Mrs. Nava. Your package has arrived"

"Ah yes, thank you for your service"

"Please sign this paper with your signature"

The delivery man pulls out a paper and a pen, then he gives it to my father. My father signs the contract and gave it back. He then received the package from the delivery man and leaves.

[Third POV]

"Here Milim, a gift for you to keep you company in the house while I'm gone"

'I wonder what's inside? I hope it something cool'

Veldanava opens the lid of the huge package and took out something from inside the box.

When Milim saw the gift, her eyes widen with shock from what she is seeing right now.

"Arrf arrf!!"

' *gasp* A huge puppy!!' she brightly smiled with glee when she saw the huge purple puppy that her father is holding. But then her smile turns into a frown when she looks at the puppy closely.

'It has wings? and horns?'

Apparently, the puppy has a pair of small dragon wings on its back and a pair of small horns protruding from the back of its head.

"Woah brother, what the heck is that thing you are holding?!"

"This is the canine-dragon hybrid that my company is currently developing. We manage to successfully fused our [True dragon] quirk DNA to one of our test subjects and decided to give this one to my daughter as a gift"

"But honey, is it safe to give that our daughter? What if it went berserk and attacks her suddenly" Lucia said with a worried expression on her face.

"Don't worry honey, our company strictly monitored the quirk of this dog and they made sure that the [Berserker] ability is safely removed from the DNA." Veldanava explained to Lucia as he gently drops the dragon dog to the floor.

The dog then walks in front of Lucia and looks at Milim in the eyes. The two looked at each other for a while and Milim extends her arms towards the dog, as if she wants to touch it.

Lucia looks at Milim reluctantly, but she gives in and gently put her in front of the dog. Milim then crawled towards the dog, and she hugged it. The dog licks Milim in face and she laughs happily.

The whole family watched the adorable duo with happy expression in their face.

"By the way brother, what is this dog's name?"

"I don't know, I haven't named this one before? however, the company named this one Project G.A.I.A"

"Project G.A.I.A?"

"Yes, it is an acronym for [Guardian Animal Initiative Assistant], it is designed to protect its owner while fending off any possible threats that will harm the owner and assists them with certain tasks"

'WOAH SO COOL, MY PET DOG HAS SUCH A BADASS NAME!! I WANT THAT TO BE ITS NAME'

"g...g...g..." The whole family noticed that Milim is making weird noises while she's looking at them like she wants to say something. They looked at her with concerned but then Lucia realized what is going on.

" *gasp* Darling look, our Milim is about to say her first word" Lucia says to Veldanava with excited expression

"MWAHAHAHAH! Look brother, my niece is about to say her first word! COME ON MILIM, SAY VELDORA!!"

"ga...ga..ga...ga"

The whole family waited in anticipation for Milim's first word.

[Veldanava's POV]

'Ah, my daughter about to say her first word'

I nervously waited for say it and hoping to say father before I leave. However, I have the strange feeling that she is saying something else, I wonder.

"GAIA!!" My daughter yelled and then hugs the dog with glee.

'Ah I see, she wants to name the dog Gaia, I get it'

"NOOOOOOOO!!! THIS CAN'T BE!!! THE GREAT ME, VELDORA, HAS LOST TO A MERE DOG WITH WINGS?!" My brother roared in defeat while flailing his arm like a crazy maniac over the fact that my daughter says Gaia's name instead of his as her first word.

"Ara ara, don't worry Veldora-san, even though she didn't say your name as her first word, you're still her great uncle, right? ~" My wife tried to cheer my brother up while pat him in the back.

"But of course! The great Veldora will not be defeated by this mutt the second time, MWAHAHAHAHA"

"Gaia Gaia Gaia" My daughter gleefully chanted Gaia's name as she pointed at Veldora

"WHAT? ARE YOU MOCKING YOU BRAT, I'll SHOW YOU" Veldora approaches Milim with his hands reaches out to her as if he wants to tickle her.

"GRRRRRrr" Gaia growled as he wants to defend Milim from Veldora.

"Hiiiii!!" Veldora screek in fear as he hides behind Lucia.

The whole family laughs at Veldora's goofy antics, even Milim laughs along with us.

"Well, I'll be off then"

"Take care, sweetie"

"Hey! Don't forget to bring us souvenirs, okay?"

"Yeah" I then looked at Milim, she looks at me with teary eyes hugging Gaia.

"Take care of Gaia for me, okay?"

Milim nodded to my request. Ah, my daughter is growing up so fast. She already can respond to words.

I then exited the front door and approached my car.

Before I enter the car, I looked back to see the house and my family.

The family waved their hands for goodbyes, even Milim waved hers as well.

I waved back and entered the car.

'Ah, I can't wait to see my daughter grow up. I wish her good luck'

I drove off away from my house and heading towards the road leading to my company.

'Take care Milim, my daughter'