Me and my sister keep practicing the tango, and it is already the eve of her birthday before we know it. We practiced our dance almost every day, so I can see myself doing tango in my dreams.
I am currently roaming around the mansion and observing the surroundings. I walked by a wide corridor and stopped in front of a huge double door. I can hear the clamoring of the servants inside the room from the outside.
I opened the door wide enough to fit my head. I peek out my head first before my whole body. Then silently close the door for me so as not to disturb the busy servants.
The room that I just entered was the Great Hall, the largest chamber in the mansion. It takes up two floors just to grasp the ceiling. It had a 15-foot-wide hall on the second floor with staircases at both ends that allowed you to access the balcony.
There were doors on both sides of the chamber. The first was the door I used. Adjacent to it was the door to the outside, where the vast garden was. To my right was the kitchen. Lastly was the parlor, followed by the dressing room.
The hall was already filled with tables and chairs for the guests. I turned my head to the right to see the platform where the orchestra would perform. It was in the right corner of the hall. A black grand piano was standing at the center of the orchestra.
I moved my foot on the marble floor and went straight towards the adjacent door. Some servants noticed me, but I gave them a gesture to ignore me and continue working. I passed through the already opened door and walked towards the garden.
The flowers in the garden are neat and well-maintained. These flowers just opened their petals and bloomed this season after surviving the cold winds of the winter.
After I observed the flowers in the garden, I examined the surroundings and found a thorny flower that was under the shadow of the gazebo. And that thorny flower was my sister, Louise.
She was not the only one under the gazebo; our maid Mary was also in there. But what I am seeing right now is rather different from the usual. Instead of servants always staying behind their master, Sister was behind Mary.
"Young Lady, I have many things to do right now. Will you let me go right now?"
"No. You stay here."
Sister refused Mary's demand while wrapping her arms around Mary's body. They are currently sitting on one of the stone chairs around the gazebo's circumference. That's right, sister is hugging Mary from the back.
My sister right now had her eyes on and likes women.This is one of the notable changes that can be seen in my sister. She must have inherited mother's geh genes.
"Looks like there are wild lilies in our garden."
"R-Raphael?! Don't just appear out of nowhere!"
"Young Master! Please forgive me for my indecent appearance."
"I came here looking for a single stem of rose, but I found a flowerbed full of ambrosia."
"What are you referring there?"
"Flowers. Just flowers."
I silently approached the gazebo to butte in. My sister got startled by my sudden arrival and hugged Mary more tightly. Mary excused herself for showing me her vulgar appearance.
By the way, ambrosia was a legendary flower, and it was really hard to find. Legends said that ambrosia was the main ingredient in making the Resurrection Potion. It had the highest healing process among all of the medical herbs known to mankind. Even a single petal of it can heal serious injuries.
Sister started to like women a few years ago. One day, she told our parents that she was too old to bathe with them. And she said that she would take a bath in a woman's bath.
Exposure to a young woman's bare skin awakened the hidden geh blood flowing throughout her veins. Since then, her lust for women grew stronger day by day, to the point that she sexually harassed some of our servants in the context of accidents.
She eventually confessed to us about her sexuality, and our parents released a sigh of relief as if their suspicions were true. Then we heartily accepted her true self with flying (rainbow) colors.
"Enough with the jokes. What are you doing here?"
"Well, I just came up with an idea on how to deal with your problems without relying on the Eternal Apple or making her a vampire."
"It's that true? Can you really prolong her life without relying on those?"
"Yes, but it takes a long time to attain."
The atmosphere of the gazebo suddenly changed as I opened the problem that my sister kept thinking about. I sat on the metal chair that surrounded the metallic table in the gazebo, and my sister and Mary followed suit.
"Tell me the details."
"Okay. But the words that I spout must remain confidential and stay between the two of us."
Sister and Mary looked at each other and nodded in agreement. Mary stood up from her seat and exited the gazebo, then disappeared behind the Great Hall's door.
After her confession that she was gay, she said that she loved Mary and wanted her to be her concubine. And Mary slowly fell in love with my sister too.
My sister's problem started when she knew that our parents decided to use their High Human Racial Skill and live together forever.
Mother and Mom halted the maturation of their bodies when they reached the age of thirty. They were almost in their forties, but they retained their youth and beauty, and they still looked like they were in their late twenties and in their prime at first glance.
My sister wants to evolve into a High Human to acquire the Longevity skill and live in eternity with my mothers, the same is true for me. But the problem was that it was almost impossible for Mary to have an eternal life.
There were very few ways to have an eternal life. One was to acquire a rare skill called Longevity. The only way to obtain it was to evolve into a High Human. But evolving from a Human into a High Human required a minimum level of one thousand. This is how my parents got their eternal life. You can also steal it if you have a skill-stealing ability.
The other way was to eat the Eternal Apple. Eating this fruit will give you a skill called Eternal that will permanently stop the maturation of the consumer's body. It is the fruit of the World Tree, which was located in the Elven Country.
The World Tree only bears the Eternal Apple once every century. So it is impossible to request one from the elves. And if you want to take it forcefully, you have to deal with the powerful High Elf knights first before even reaching the World Tree's sanctuary.
The last resort was to convert yourself into a vampire. But the consequences were great and not that good. You must first find a True Vampire who will make you their kin by turning you into a Lesser Vampire.
Lesser Vampires are the weakest vampires and have many weaknesses and needs for survival. Their skin burned when exposed to sunlight and when they touched silver materials. They need to drink blood just to survive, but they still eat human foods. And their lifespan was not as difficult as that of normal humans. That's why they need to level up until they reach Level 300 just to evolve into a Greater Vampire.
Greater Vampires have a longer lifespan than normal humans, and they can live for a few centuries. They can stand under the sunlight for hours and reduce the damage taken from silver. They drink less blood and only consume it like wine.
These were the ways of making Mary have an eternal life. Well, there was a Dark Magic spell that could transform you into an undead, but it required life sacrifices. We cannot commit such a crime just to eternalize our servant. And sister do not want Mary to have a rotten body.
"Then I'll tell you one of my secrets. I have a Unique Skill called Bestow which allows me to bestow one of my skills on an object or a person."
"Did you hide that skill all along?"
"No, I just recently acquired it. It's the combination of the Item Enchant, Weapon Enchantment and Enchant Skill."
"Then how in the world did you combine those skills?"
"Guh!"
Her words hit me like a bullseye. I didn't think of the words that I would say. I forgot that combining skills was a phenomenal feat. Even Mom, holding the title of the Sage, didn't have this skill.
"Tell me, Raphael."
"Well… I have another Unique Skill called Skill Synthesis. It allows me to synthesize compatible skills to make an improved one."
Sister ordered me to spill the truth. Her intense glare combined with Intimidation made my mouth move, and I told her the truth.
"You said 'one of my secrets' just now. Won't you please tell me some of it?"
She smiled like an innocent, curious child as she said that. But from my perspective, I feel like a cornered rat begging for mercy. And this is how my give-and-take conversation turned into my interrogation.
Upon spilling the wrong words of choice, the conversation about making Mary immortal eventually turned into my own interrogation. Now, my sister smiled scarily as if she were waiting for me to respond to her inquiry.
"Why are you not answering? Am I not trustworthy enough for you to reveal your secrets?"
"Not at all, Sister. I have trusted you since then until now. But I need time to think about this. For now, let's go back to your problem first."
"Yeah, let's talk about that first. So, how would you prolong Mary's life?"
I set aside my interrogation for a while and went back to my sister's problem before the flow of the conversation got derailed. Sister's happiness and joy come first.
"Like I said before, I will use my Unique Skill Bestow to prolong her life, but it takes great effort and time."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Bestow allows me to bestow a skill of mine on an object or person, right?"
"Yeah. Ah! Great effort and time means you need to acquire that skill first?"
"Exactly. That's why I need to slay an indefinite amount of monsters and level up. After I level up to Level 1000, I will evolve into a High Human and obtain the Longevity Skill."
"Then, all you have to do is bestow it on her."
"That's right. And that's why it takes a tremendous amount of effort and time to achieve."
The method that I will use to prolong the life of her future concubine is to evolve into a High Human and acquire its Racial Skill Longevity.
"Does your Bestow skill have side effects?"
"No. It does not have any side effects. But it had limited usage. While it can enchant weapons and items many times based on its materials, it can be used only trice on living beings. The orichalcum bracelet you're wearing right now was a product of Bestow."
She stared at the golden bracelet on her left wrist and caressed it. It was enchanted with spells Warp, Skill Ownership and Disguise. With Disguise hiding its effects, it looks like an ordinary, plain bracelet, even with Appraisal Skill.
Unique Skill Bestow could enchant objects many times depends on the quality of its materials. I once attempted to make an exploding paper bomb just like in anime. I successfully enchanted it with Level 5 Fire Magic: Fire Bomb. But when I enchanted it with another spell, the paper suddenly shredded into tiny pieces.
"Have you tested it on living beings?"
"I have, and I confirmed that it obtained the skill via Analysis and I saw it using the skill."
"Is this Analysis one of your secrets, too?"
"… Yeah, something like that."
"It looks like we have a long talk later."
"Haha."
My tongue slipped again, and it sparked her desire to have a talk with me. I made a dry laugh as I felt the guilt of having a secret or two behind my family's back.
I bestowed a skill on a monster before while experimenting with my new skills. I captured a goblin as my guinea pig for my experiment. I used Bestow and gave it Regeneration skill. I used analysis on the goblin and confirmed that it received my blessings.
As a clinical trial, I captured two more goblins and did some physical tests. I scratched a thin layer of their skin, and it instantly healed. I sliced it deeper, and it completely healed in a matter of seconds.
For their contribution to my research, I released them back to the wild. This is what veterinarians on discovery channels do after they test a wild animal.
Months later, high-ranking adventurers in the city warned other adventurers about a new variety of Goblin Lords that could regenerate like Trolls. I just averted my eyes from the issue and pretended that I had nothing to do with it.
(I guess I need to be more mindful when releasing pets.)
I don't want to be like those irresponsible pet owners who throw away their pets if they have no use for them. But it's too late; I am one of them now.
Releasing pets anywhere can affect the environment and cause a change in ecosystem afterwards. Like in my past life's hometown, the local waters in our country were slowly infested by invasive species.
The invasive species was said to have been brought from abroad and made pets by pet owners. After getting bored with it or realizing they could not take care of it anymore, they released their pets into our local waters. The released pets will repopulate the area and slowly damage the local ecosystem. Until the locals got irritated by it and called them pests.
(From pets to pests.)
"Hey, what's the matter?"
"Hmm? Ahh, nothing."
As I was lost in thought of the effects of releasing those bestowed goblins, my sister's words snapped me back to reality.
"You just need to Level Up and evolve, right? Then, slay monsters and level up faster for me."
"Do you really think it is an easy feat? Even our mothers slew uncountable powerful monsters for many years just to reach Level 1000, you know?"
"I know. But if it's you, our parent's child, I know you can achieve it faster than them."
"I will do my best for my family's happiness."
I can actually level up faster than the average with my blessings. My body gained additional stats, and I can use them to slay more powerful opponents to get more EXP.
"You didn't offer this solution for free, right?"
She asked that question with a dubious look on her face. I put both my elbows on the metallic chair and do a shrewd merchant pose.
"Well, I want you to owe a favor to me."
"I knew it. I had suspected you when you offered that suggestion. You are rather clever for a thirteen-year-old kid."
"I wanted you to do something for my own good in the future."
"But what and when will that be? Is it my body you want? Maybe you just wanted to use my body to do the things that you can't do with Mom?" She said this while wrapping her arms around her body.
"I never said that! And why would I do something like that to my own sister?!"
"Because I looked like Mom?"
"Why mom have something to do with it?!"
"Hah? I thought you had a mother complex?"
"Ack!"
Our exchanges got heated, and the tense atmosphere of the gazebo lightened a bit. I raised my voice as I refuted her impure thoughts. Well, I had to admit that I had a mother complex because mom was my preferred type of woman in my past life. Sister's appearance greatly resembles Mom's.
Silky long straight black hair, porcelain-white skin, the perfect body shape, thicc thighs, blessed bosoms, and bewitching beauty. One of the differences was that her sister had toned muscles due to her physical training.
With my mental age, I sometimes fantasized about them in my mind just because they were my type. Mother wasn't inferior to them, and I also did the same. We are bonded by blood, so I have to stop my mind from thinking those impure thoughts and fulfill my role as a member of this family.
"Hmph. Whatever it is, I will repay this owed favor to you in the future."
"Thank you for your understanding."
I bobbed my head as I was thanking my sister. With this, the issue about my sister and Mary had been settled. Now, I have to prepare myself and face my own issue.
"Now that my problem's already settled, how about we have a talk about yourself."
"About that, can we discuss it later? I want to reveal my secrets to you in private. And I think I need some time for what I have to tell you."
"I don't mind. But that later should be today, not tomorrow or the day after that."
"Yes. I'll keep that in mind."
In our household, there was hierarchy within our family. Our mothers were at the pinnacle, then my sister and me at the last. But I will do my best to rank up. I absolutely don't want to be in the bottom caste forever.
I think I've lived long enough in this world with burdens on my shoulders. I truly wanted to open up more to my family, to shrink the indistinguishable proximity between us.
"When do you think you can have a conversation with me?"
"I think this night."
"Then come to my room tonight."
"But a man in a maiden's room..."
"We're siblings, so it's going to be okay."
"If you say so... "
After I told her what time I would be ready, my sister suddenly invited me to her room tonight. She said it's fine, but I still have doubts in my mind. It's not that we will do something indecent; all we have to do is talk.
Sister stood up from her chair and walked towards my left side. She bent her upper body and whispered something in my left ear.
"I'll be waiting for you tonight."
I can feel her breath brushing my ears as she whispered those words. She stood straight again and walked away from the gazebo.
"Sigh."
I let out a long sigh when her presence disappeared from my sight. I stood up from my seat and followed her behind.
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