Chapter 128: Chapter 127: Continuous Offensives
After calming down the excited Vill-V, Aleph headed towards where Kurumi's clone sat. Beside her was a sleeping Klein. The latter's head was resting on the sofa's head.
"Mobius-san asked me to take care of her." She spoke with a smile. "You took your sweet time."
The original and the clone looked at each other. A moment later, the black cat jumped into the shadow, only to return to Kurumi's original form. She unhesitantly sat on Aleph's lap.
'...I always receive the hardest battles.' Aleph thought as he felt the weight on his lap. With his height, she was akin to a doll. He was several dozen centimeters taller than her, thus he was able to have a full view of her—including what's on her chest.
"Hum…"
The other Kurumi pouted slightly upon seeing it. She swiftly took Aleph's left arm as a response.
While the two Kurumis tested Aleph's willpower, Vill-V watched this with a renewed understanding.
"Hum. I see, I see…"
Strange ideas started coming to her head. If Aleph knew what they were, he would have slashed her fundings by half.
However, he was still preoccupied by the frontal attack of two Kurumis.
'I didn't think they'd be more troublesome…'
Kurumi was someone Aleph considered to be on par with Mei on the teasing hierarchy. During the two years they were together, not once had he successfully teased her. Sakura and Hua were only ranked behind Mei since they didn't tease him back.
"Are you enjoying that view, Ain?"
"...It has been decades. You still haven't changed, Ain." The Kurumi on his left said. "Fufu, this is what makes you cute."
"..."
Ironically, Kurumi posed a greater struggle compared to the ones Aleph fought in Shibuya.
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"You must have more time to spend. It's the first time you supervised this operation."
In the operating room, Mobius remotely performed a surgery on Hua, who was inside a culture tank.
The other presence inside this room was none other than Mei. Her arms were crossed underneath her huge chest.
Her indigo pupils stared intently at Hua's operation.
"It's my responsibility as the director. I am not overstepping any bounds, no?"
Sensing the subtle meaning behind Mei's words, Mobius smiled in amusement.
"No, you don't. After all, it is your duty."
Silence swept over the two of them. Nobody gave the other a chance to leverage on.
"I have already expected it. Your presence in his life. It's already a foregone thing. Aleph has his own thoughts… and we agreed to it."
"You mean, Miss Childhood-Friend?"
Mei nodded to Mobius' words. Her snake-like pupils narrowed down.
"How selfless. You aren't the type of person to concede like that, director."
"I didn't concede." Mei replied. "I simply did not eliminate any competitors."
A hint of confidence could be heard from her voice.
It didn't take long before Hua's operation ended. It was a complete success with Aleph's blood in tow.
The tense atmosphere between Mobius and Mei heightened at this moment.
"You sound confident." Mobius pointed out.
"I am."
"You better not regret this."
Mobius' playful tone did not elicit much reaction from Mei, only a smile.
"We'll know later. For now, it should be more important to deal with the operation, doctor."
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{Analysis complete. Parsing…}
{Result: The scanned item has the recorded name "Evolution Cube". It possesses a special-type of energy converted from dark energy…}
A notice came out of Great Sage. The item it has been analyzing since the past few hours was finished.
"I didn't expect her to sleep…"
At first, Aleph was being tag-teamed by two Kurumis. It only ended when the clone was taken back by the original Kurumi. Without her teasing, she fell asleep while sitting on his lap.
"Evolution Cube…"
His heart began speeding up as he read more about its reports. The analysis took ten minutes to be laid out with the according theories recorded on Great Sage's database.
Simply put, the Evolution Cube can do one thing: to help people evolve.
It wasn't designed solely for humans' use. It could be seen that it should have been created by an entirely different race—in an entirely different world.
With the rather familiar terms detected by Great Sage on it, he knew which world it came from.
'The sanctum…'
Thinking of the two Sanctuary Keys he got before, Aleph scheduled a time to visit the Sanctum for the second time. One of them was allocated for the First Sanctum containing material science while the Third Sanctum contained biological science.
Nevertheless, Great Sage already gave out enough information on how to use it.
His thoughts were interrupted by the rosy scent coming up in his nose. He blinked and saw Kurumi's golden pupil staring straight at him.
Due to the angle, her collarbone was visible. He tried his best not to look at anything further down to it.
"You are deep in your thoughts. What are your worries?" She asked while playing with his hand. "Was it the Herrscher?"
"Partly. It's already been twelve days."
The last time a Herrscher was left alone for seven days in the Previous Era, the Australian Continent was scorched to the ground. Aleph could already see that the missing sixth Herrscher will be one of their greatest enemies prior to the Herrscher of the End.
"An existence similar to the First Spirit…" Kurumi muttered. "She is dangerous, but not omnipotent."
Based on her experiences against the First Spirit, Kurumi knew that even the First Spirit couldn't do anything to Aleph's artifact. It proved that no matter how strong one seemed to be, they weren't as infallible as they seemed to be… in certain situations, that is.
"Don't worry, Ain. You are not alone."
Just then, the door opened. Two tall ladies walked in along with a gray-haired girl in a medical gown.
"Senior…"
Hua wanted to say something when it was cut short by the sight of Kurumi sitting on his lap.
It was, in Carole's words, a very 'couple-like' thing to do. That was something Hua could've gotten had she been straight-forward of her emotions.
Unfortunately…
She was a little late in that regard.
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