73 Life to Cherish (1/2)
It did not take long for Aster to change into another black outfit and teleported back into the room where he left Jade.
”Wow! Aster, would I be able to do that as well?” Jade was clapping in praise from seeing him disappear and reappear. Aster shook his head and said. ”It depends on your mana attribute, Jade. You need to have the space attribute to be able to do such a thing.”
”What is attribute and will I have one in the future?” The little girl asked as she was recently exposed to mana cultivators and did not have to know more about mana. All that she knew is that she and Monet did not have mana cultivation and her elder sisters had one.
”Ehm! That is something that we can find out in the future.” Aster evaded a sensitive topic by the young age dialogue and diversion. ”You are still growing and your attribute would surely showcase itself in the future.”
”Okay!” Jade was quick enough to forget about it and had no motivation to dwell on that topic. She just continued to bounce and play on the bed.
Aster took this chance to use his senses and know if the house has another person hanging around. Strangely enough, no other sign of movements other than the girls could be heard chatting. ”By the way, little Jade! Did another person come by the house while I was gone? He should be your big sis Kamryn's older brother.”
”Nope! Big sis Kamryn was also complaining about that. Words keep disturbing our movie watching and big sis' big brother is the one always making the text appear.” Jade stopped her bouncing because she was also angry with disturbing her movie watching. Just thinking about it ruined her good mood and with another big bounce, she pounced towards Aster.
He had to catch her carefully and prevent injury. ”Hay! You are too bouncy today, Jade. You could have gotten hurt if no one was there to catch you.”
Jade puffed her cheeks cutely. She thought it was just an okay move to let go of her anger. The little girl gave a line that she guess would stop him from harshly reprimanding her and telling on her mischief towards her sisters. ”Please don't be angry at me and if you won't be angry, I will let you kiss me again.”
The youth had his thought processes explode from that sentence and his nose might comically bleed if he has not much control over his blood flow. 'Too damn cute and enticing!'
”Warning! Warning! Warning!” Alarms were being echoed into his mind by the system itself. ”Host, know your limits to certain boundaries or unforetold consequences might occur.”
'Yeah! Yeah! I hear you. You don't have to do this every time I am thinking weird about stuff towards illegal lolis.' Aster got back to his level-headedness and shot back at the system that was getting annoying.
He moved Jade on his arms and gave her a peck in her soft cheeks. ”There I kissed you, so you better not do it again. Okay!”
”Hihi! You pervert!” Jade giggled and really made Aster rethink her age and innocence. ”Where did you learn that line, little Jade?”
”Oh! We watched a ton of movies and I saw a lady reprimanding a boy because he kissed her in the lips. You said that my lips touching you in the neck was a kiss, so every sort of lip touching is a move of a pervert.” He really got stumped by her childish logic. ”How many movies did you see exactly? I only left for more than two hours and you are saying that you saw a lot.”
”I don't know.” Jade answered and stumped Aster again. 'I better ask the others, I guess.'
He walked downstairs with Jade on his arms. He checked her sentiment level with the Sentiment meter and found that her like bar had reached 70 percent. He was in relief because this reassured him that the whole scenario of involuntary seduction and kissing might just be an act of impulses and coincidences.
They eventually reached the floral-scented leisure room that had no trace of the lewd activities that happened during the night.
”Aster, you are back!” The four harem members scrambled towards him for a hug and bombarded him with kisses and hugs. Jade, who was in his arms all that while, had to resort to her newly learned line and use it four times. ”Hihi! You pervert!”
Her elder sisters felt blushing in shame from having their little sister poke fun of their affection and worry. She was just using a line from a movie trailer that she just saw but this did not lessen the underlying meaning behind the word 'pervert' in that trailer.
Aster wanted to get to the bottom of the multiple movies and realized that they were not binge-watching movies but trailers. Jade and Monet got together and decided to play together in their own little playroom.
The only people left were him and his lovers who proceeded to talk about the serious stuff.
He appeased them and said. ”I am alright now. The Unkillable Rats are totally wiped out, I think. There may be some few thugs that were not cluttered in that pile but they may be too minor to make a difference.”
”Uhn!” The girls what he meant by pile and somewhat formed a mental image of thugs being killed with ease by their enigmatic lover. Aria had to deliberate about other issues and asked. ”What about the Dren family and that Alcor guy?”
”I have mostly killed their decision-makers and the scenario would hopefully lead to them blaming the Unkillable Rats.” He told them about some context like the secret meeting regarding Alcor's fake heroism and some deals. He also went straight to the point and outward told the former princess something that they might find as good news. ”The whole Dren family wanted to use you, girls, because your supposed relative is actually starting a plan to take over your old kingdom and throne. Any insights on that matter?”
The triplets got quiet as they listed out relatives on their heads. Eve broked the contemplative mood and said. ”Maybe that relative is a fake. Who would be able to support a talentless royal bloodline in taking back the kingdom? All other family members we knew had middling talent in cultivation.”