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  “Daddy,” Jirot said, trying to squirm away from his attention. Unfortunately for her, this was one day that Adam refused to stop sh her with affe. Adam held both of his twins together, and stantly peppered them with kisses. This was also the one day that the others decided against calling him ge for how much he adored his children.

  “You punks, how you do this to me?” Adam whispered as he blew into Jirot’s stomach, causio squeal and ugh before doing the same to Jarot, who also squealed with glee. “You’re both so big now! How you do this to me? It’s nht!”

  “Adam, I must dress them,” Sonarot said, eventually, trying to take them away to up and dress in proper attire for the day.

  “On this day, you would steal them from me?” Adam whispered.

  “Yes,” Sonarot replied. “They are my grandchildren.”

  “…” Adam let his twins go, who excitedly rushed up to their nana, before being taken away to bathe. Adam sighed, hearing them spsh away iubs with glee, before they were ged into a set of grey and blue Iyrmen clothing. Sonarot dabbed their foreheads too, marking them with the crude symbols representing the Rot family tattoo.

  The others began to give their gifts to Jirot and Jarot, strips of colourful cloth, which they excitedly grabbed and shook about in the air. Adam gave a thumbs up to the older children, who had gifted his children something so perfebsp;

  “No!” Jirot said, pointing to Jurot. “No.”

  “What’s wrong?” Adam asked, feeding Jarot, who sat on his p.

  “No seep!” Jirot stated, squatting with her hands out to stop Jurot from pig her up and doing that to her.

  “No sleep,” Adam firmed. “Uncle Jurot just wants to feed you yum yum.”

  “Yum yum?” Jirot asked, retreating to her father as she eyed her uncle up suspiciously.

  Jurot picked up a bowl of pe and pat his p. “e, Jirot. I will feed you.”

  “No seep?”

  “No sleep.”

  “Okay,” Jirot said, shuffling her way to her uncle. She did not allow him to pick her up, instead she climbed atop his p, and allowed him to feed her.

  ‘My kid is so smart,’ Adam thought. ‘Is she…’ Adam didn’t tihe thought even as a joke. ‘It’s because she’s so cute.’

  “Daddy?” Jarot asked, looking up at him with the, expet eyes.

  “Sorry, sorry,” Adam said, feeding his you son more pe, as well as some fruit whie of the older children had gifted to the twins.

  Before the twiaken away, Jaygak lifted each of them up. She kissed their cheeks aly bouhem in her arms. She whispered quietly into their ears. “Today is the day you bully your father most, so make sure you take full advantage of it.”

  Jirot smiled, cag quietly, while Jarot smiled shyly at her. He pointed up at her.

  “What? You want to bully me?”

  Jarot nodded his head, before huggiight. Jaygak wasn’t sure how she felt about this, but she supposed she could only relent si was their first birthday.

  Adam waited nearby, his arms crossed. He did his best not to let out huffs of frustration as Jaygak stole away his children.

  “Kitool, I’m worried for Jirot and Jarot,” Jaygak said. “Maybe they should be my children?”

  Kitool watched as Adam fshed a dangerous set of eyes towards the prankster. “I am less worried when they are with Adam.”

  “How you say that?” Jaygak whispered back at her. “I was only joking.”

  “Perhaps I was joking too?”

  “You definitely weren’t.”

  “Jirot, Jarot, e to daddy!” Adam said, holding out his arms for his twins.

  “If you stay with aunt Jaygak, you py with my horns,” Jaygak said, causing the twins to go from reag out to their dad to looking at her horns instead.

  “Do you think you’re the only ones with horns?” Adam asked. “Konarot, call for your sister.”

  “Jiwoh,” Konarot called, holding up her arms.

  “Kaka,” Jirot replied, reag down, squirming against Jaygak’s hold, before the twins were finally set down. She rushed over to her sister and hugged her, with Jarot following right after.

  “I wasn’t defeated by you, but by your daughter,” Jaygak stated, firmly.

  “You lost against my kid?” Adam smirked.

  “You lose to her daily.”

  “…” Adam frowned, before smiling almost immediately after. “That’s true.”

  The twihen taken away through the Iyr were an old man was currently preparing some paper and blocks, gng back towards the others. He had already sketched them earlier in the year, and was surprised they were back so soon, but said nothing.

  Adam held Jirot and Jarot in his p, smiling stupidly during the sketch. Lanarot and Konarot remained with Sonarot, while Kirot and Karot sat on Jurot’s p. Ohe sketch was done, Adam embraced his twins tightly. ‘You two! How you do this to your father?’ He kissed their stomachs ahem against his chest, carrying them to the extended family estate.

  “…” He wao ask if they should be going there, but Sonarot was the one leading them. ‘I guess it’s fihen?’

  Adam watched as Sonarot was swarmed by the various youth iended family estate, before they then swarmed Jurot and Adam. Jirot and Jarot squirmed shyly, but upon seeing their nano, they called out to her, holding out their arms.

  Mulrot, the Family Elder of the Rot family, picked up the twins, who excitedly babbled towards her and embraced her tight.

  ‘When did they get so close?’ Adam thought, watg as the other children held out strips of different coloured cloth for the children, some of them also longer fabric to Sonarot for them.

  “So they are here?” came a joyful voice, before Tarot began to ugh. The older Iyrman reached out to grab Jarot, pig him up from Mulrot, and holding him close. “Jarot, you are finally back from the war?” He tio ugh at his joke.

  Jarot pulled his hands up to his chest and squirmed, trying to get away from the loud Iyrman, but Tarot tio embrace him tight, swaying him within his arms.

  “Are y to escape from me?” Tarot lifted him up into the air, causing Jarot to squirm again, before he blew into the boy’s stomach, causing him to squeal.

  “No!” Jirot pointed up at Tarot.

  “No?” Tarot brushed Jarot’s hair ahe boy against his chest. “That defiance. it be Konarot?”

  “No!”

  “Then it must be Jirot?”

  “No!”

  “You are not Jirot?”

  Jirot blinked. “Yes.”

  “So you are not Jirot or you are Jirot?” Tarot asked.

  “Wait,” Adam said, narrowing his eyes at the older man. “Today, only I’m allowed to bully my children.”

  “You would refuse me my rights?” Tarot asked, grinning wide towards the Half Elf. “You, who have finally e to see us after so long? I have heard that you have a story to tell us! You have been back for so long and have not e to speak with us?”

  Adam blinked. ‘Oh, yeah. Oops.’ “Why should I e here when I ’t even bully the old man?”

  “Brother will return soon, but you should bring your children to us often,” Tarot said.

  “Oh yeah?” Adam replied, before pulling his lips taut. He gnced around towards the others awkwardly. He decided against mentioning anything si was their birthday, and he had already said that he had fiven them. “Right.”

  Tarot pced a hand on his shoulder. “e. Sit ahe tale.”

  “Jurot will tell it.”

  “Okay,” Tarot said, taking the baby Jarot with him, reag up to tickle the boy’s nose. Jirot huffed out after him, before being picked up by Zirot, Tarot’s wife.

  “Jirot, how big have you bee?” Zirot held Jirot close to her chest.

  “No.”

  “Yes.”

  Jirot twitched, having not been refused like this before. She sucked ohumb and held onto Zirot’s shoulder, before cuddling up to her.

  They all began to eat together, with Jirot and Jarot being handed vegetables that were quite tough to eat, which they excitedly bit into and chewed. Adam could hear every little ch as they bit into the food.

  Once Jurot fihe tale, the childreedly g, causing Jirot and Jarot to cp too, and Tarot ughed.

  “News should have travelled to brother already,” Tarot said. “What a shame he is not here to see them.” Tarot brushed the little baby Jarot’s hair, allowing him to rest against his chest.

  “Yeah…” Adam paused. “ht, I should probably bully him.”

  “Hmm?” Tarot stared at Adam as he held onto his symbol and began to speak into the air.

  “Old man, how you do this? First to the triplets, and now to the twins? Shameless! Shameful! You ’t bully my kids like this!”

  Adam heard ughter enter his mind before it shifted. ‘Tell them not to grow up too quickly, and that I will return soon!’

  The Iyrmen blinked, staring at Adam. Did he really just cast a spell to send a message to outside the Iyr’s walls? He wasn’t allowed to do that… was he?

  “You two!” Adam said, looking to Jirot and Jarot. “Your babo said not to grow up too quid that he’ll return soon!”

  Jirot and Jarot bli their father, but returned back to cuddling with their other babo and nano.

  “Adam, you-,” Mulrot began, before Sonarot held up a cup of water for the Family Elder. Sonarot shook her head, stopping Mulrot from saying any more. Mulrot’s eyes said there were rules to follow, and Sonarot raised her brows. Mulrot decided to relent, especially sidering what they had done.

  Our adorable twins are growing up too fast :(