Chương 31: The Talk
Upon entering the room, oblivious to the fact that he had just caused a stir coupled with more interest in his fate of life, he discovered he was the last to arrive. He made a mental note of the five minutes ahead of time pact.
"Sorry to keep you all waiting" He apologized quickly.
"We just came". Ophelia retorted as she continued focusing on the sword she was cleaning meticously.
Meanwhile, Hayden was testing out some brass knuckles and Amelia who had a sleepy face was slowly eating the chocolate bars with half opened eyes. At some point, she would leave the snack in her mouth, not chewing or biting, just a frozen state before jolting back lightly and taking a small quick bite while chewing slowly and lazily with both eyes closed.
On other occasions, she would be resting her little head on her comfy bed, but this time around, all siblings needed to be around for the discussion.
Ophelia upon casting a glance at Amelia, decided to start the meeting soon.
"The reason why I called you all here is just for two reasons. Normally, Amelia wouldn't be here but still having her nap but she also needs to hear the second aspect of this meeting."
She grabbed Amelia by the armpits, who suddenly jerked as her snacks fell from her hands. In smooth motion, Ophelia caught them all with her left hand as the grip of her right held the sleepy Amelia firmly. Quickly she sat on the seat with Amelia in her laps. Rubbing her little sibling hair and feeding her the sweet calorie bar, she continued her talk.
"Now, I wanted to ask you both, what are the classes for your physical status are you choosing."
Hayden went first as he showed Ophelia his brass knuckles.
"I could do well with this, it feels comfortably and also good in hand to hand combat" He said confidently.
Almost Immediately, Ophelia face palmed.
"You ain't going for street fighting boy. Check the other shelf rack, you would see some sets of gauntlets, pick out at least one after you have tested it."
"And yes, do that after we are done here". she quickly added.
"But can I keep the brass knuckles?" Hayden asked in a polite voice.
Staring at his face, she could see the look of a human requesting for their most precious item or the love of their life. She didn't want to break his heart so she gave him a nod. And should you see his smile, it was wider than he getting a brand new sets of gauntlets, which were obviously better than some funny looking brass knuckles.
She quickly turned to the introvert of the carbon copy.
"How about you Hunter, what's yours ?"
"Assasin Sis." He said quietly.
She could guess what Hayden might be thinking but not Hunter. Maybe it was because she had been with Hayden who awoke about seven months ago, unlike Hunter who just woke up a month ago. They say the longer you are with someone, the more you are able to predict their thoughts or actions. But for Hunter and Hayden, there was just some funny differences in their actions. For example, Hayden does somethings because he loves doing them or they are fun to do. But Hunter, it's more like he needed to do them. Like he didn't have an option but to do It.
On a normal occasion, she wouldn't and shouldn't be asking a cripple what kind of Physical status does he want. Even before his coma, he had always abstained from physical activity. He had no legs so why bother about enhancing your body when it wasn't complete, instead focus on your mind. But that was before the Great depression hit him. However, ever since he woke up, he had been training like a mad man , even more than Hayden and herself.
The artificial legs were helping him, though she felt if he tested how it felt to have legs and later return to the chair, he would be disheartened. But alas, that didn't happen, he kept on doing it on and on, and for such action and determination, she was glad. So she knew that perharps one day he would get a new set of legs, perhaps the witches would find a way to cure a problem that has always existed right from creation or they would have enough money to buy a good robotic leg for him.
When she came back from her thoughts, she saw both twins smiling at her . At first she wondered what would have made them amused, until she remembered that she had a little human in her laps.
"This old woman" she muttered out loud as she saw Amelia chocolate stained fingers trying to find her mouth as the sticky bar rubbed across her face, staining her pale spotless cheeks.
Ophelia held her hand and slowly directed it towards her mouth as the chocolate slipped into her mouth followed by an immediate munching.
She heard light chuckling, and looked up with a smile.
"Now for the other agenda. Father and mother haven't contacted us since they left. That's for more than seven months now, they have been dark. As you both know, they were on their way to the witches planet or territory, whatever you call it. And because of that the other nobles, especially those that wanted him dead have began to whsiper to the Kings ears."
"They are fighting for our territory and estates so soon". Hayden said with a slight shock on his face.
"Yes. That was the reason for the meeting to the King's Court the other day. Besides it wasn't the King who invited me, it was the Queen."
Ophelia gritted her teeth while forming a hard fist, instantly she slammed it against a metallic table.
The three siblings all had conflicted expressions, ranging from sadness to anger and then resolve.
They knew what it meant to lose one noble status , it simply means you starting down from the scratch. And sadly the chances of that happening was low. Why ? Because the humans of this era are guided by two principles, crush your enemy till they pose no threat or till they are dead. Besides they knew within themselves, that they would never go down without a fight and that simply means if they were to lose, they would be captured and treated as slaves. And what happened to slaves .....
The resolve to fight was thus there. But only one person had a different thought going through his head, and that was Hunter.
『System Notification』
「The gazes of celestial beings is upon you」
『System unable to prevent such occurrence.』
『System been interfered with』
『System restarting to prevent interference』
『System offline』
'Huh, what's a this'.
'Alter'.
He called out immediately, but got no response.
'Alter'. Again but got no response.
'Ahh shit, it's finished'.
"Alter!"
This time he called out loud, but still got no response.
"Hunter?" Ophelia spoke as all three were staring at him, wondering what was wrong. Even the sleepy Amelia wasn't left out as Hunter voice jolted her from the dreamy realm.
"Oh sorry" Hunter quickly apologized and threw in a forced light laughter to make sure everything was fine. But there was nothing funny about this situation.
"Please let's continue " He said as he gave Ophelia a sign of confirmation to go on with a small nod.
'I guess it's time to take drastic measures'.
'All that remains is planning with the highest probability of success'.
Inwardly he smiled to himself as some tricks began to formulate in his brain.
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