Elena slowly opens her eyes and notices a strange ceiling above her, one that she's not used to seeing every time she wakes up. She slowly rose up and rested her back on the wall, immediately remembering the events that had led her here. She looks around the small room enveloped in quietness, which was broken when the door opened. Anna steps inside the room carrying a tray with a bowl of soup on it.

"Oh you're finally awake." [Anna]

She puts the tray down on a table.

"In case you're wondering, yes this is our house and you've only been out for like half an hour, so don't worry too much about it." [Anna]

Elena then looks down and after a second looks back to Anna with a worried face.

Puzzled a little bit, Anna immediately realizes Elena's concern.

"Don't worry, I'm the one who changed you. I won't let a man touch an unconscious maiden's body after all." [Anna]

Elena then sighs in relief but then looks down again. Anna checks Elena's expression and only sees a frown. She then sits down on the bed and pats Elena's head.

"Hey. You're safe here, you're going to be fine. Those guys won't bother you again." [Anna]

Elena shakes her head in response.

"It's not that.." [Elena]

Anna's eyes narrowed and tried to deduce what could be the cause of Elena's distraught, she then remembers the thick mana concentration she saw on Elena's stomach earlier.

"Could it be..?" [Anna]

"Elena I've been meaning to ask. What happened to that?" [Anna]

Anna asks Elena as she points to her stomach.

Elena gets surprised and covers herself with a blanket.

"Even if you cover yourself with that, I can still sense the mana, you know? [Anna]

Elena didn't budge, but instead curled up a bit more and retreats inside a small blanket tent she made around herself. Anna, still being curious, decided to press further.

"Who hurt you? It's alright to tell big sister Anna. I'm more powerful than you think." [Anna]

She still did not respond. Not feeling dejected, Anna tries to find a different approach. She rests her back to the window looks outside, she opens her mouth to speak.

"My magic is 《Gravity》. I don't really know much about it besides its name and general description but it seems that I can control an individual object's gravity. Although I only have a limit to how many objects or creature's gravity I can manipulate, or I can instead control the gravity a few meters around me. But doing that will affect everyone, besides me, in that radius. So I rarely use it." [Anna]

Anna looks at Elena who still did not move.

"My family used to be part of a traveling merchant group. But one day while we were traversing a forest, a monster stampede occurred." [Anna]

She pauses for a bit.

"And during the stampede. I watched my mother be eaten by those monsters." [Anna]

Anna clenches her fist and continues-

"I was powerless to stop it. All I could do was swallow my tears and wails and try to survive the onslaught." [Anna]

She then slumps down on the bed.

"It was not easy for me and my father. But well, life has to keep moving. We buried her, well whatever remained of her, the following day and the group had to keep moving. I don't even remember where we buried her." [Anna]

A small window shows up on Elena's blanket tent, she slowly peeps outside.

"You and your father? What happened to Bran?" [Elena]

Anna, looking hesitant, pauses for a bit. After a few seconds of thinking, she answers.

"We picked him up a few years later. During one of our journeys. And it was shortly after that when I awakened my magic." [Anna]

Anna rises up and sits.

"Being a traveling merchant, we encounter a lot of dangers on our way. Most of the time we find safe routes to take but of course, nothing in life is predictable." [Anna]

She furrows her eyebrows.

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"A few months after picking up Bran. On our supposed safe route, we were attacked by bandits. Turns out that one of our new members sold our information to them. My father managed to negotiate with them that they can just take all of our merchandise, we thought we were going to be spared. But when they saw Bran, for some reason their minds changed." [Anna]

Anna pauses.

"Apparently Bran with his red hair and brown skin was rare. And they wanted to take him and sell him instead. The rest of our group agreed, they tried to convince us that the life of Bran is less important than our lives. I honestly understand them a bit, we haven't even known Bran for a year yet., however... me and my father couldn't agree with them. He tried to plea with the bandits but they had instead struck him, fortunately it wasn't that deep so he's still alive today." [Anna]

She grabs a mug with water and drinks it.

"But now that the only person who could fight back was down, they grabbed Bran. I- I didn't want to lose anyone again so I ran towards the bandits. With no plan, really. I was just easily pushed away, I thought I was going to die there since once of the bandits was about to strike me down when it happened. I suddenly felt it." [Anna]

"I could suddenly manipulate gravity. And then after that.. I- with the bandits..." [Anna]

Anna looks down on her hands, slightly shaking and sweating. Elena could already guess what Anna did.

"You don't have to tell me, I understand.." [Elena]

Anna looks at Elena with a smile.

"Thank you." [Anna]

Feeling flustered, as she was supposed to be the one consoling her. Anna immediately stands up.

"T-The point is, I'm not here to harm you. If I was gonna' do that, I already had plenty of chances earlier, right? Don't worry too much, big sister Anna is here to protect you." [Anna]

But before Anna or Elena could say anything more, the door suddenly breaks open and falls down producing a cloud of dust in the air.

"AND ME!!" [Bran]

Bran appears standing on the broken door.

"BRAN!!!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING BREAKING MY DOOR!?" [Anna]

Veins popped on Anna's head as she shouts at Bran and clenches her fist.

"Well I was hearing you talk about something that sounded hero-like so I-" [Bran]

Before Bran could finish his sentence, Anna decides to smack his head with her clenched fist.

"YOU COULD HAVE JUST KNOCKED FIRST!" [Anna]

She smacks Bran again.

"AND WHY ARE YOU EVEN EAVESDROPPING ON TWO GIRLS HAVING A CONVERSATION!?" [Anna]

"Ehhh sister, I'm sorry.." [Bran]

Bran replies with a whimper as he scratches his head.

"If you were sorry this wouldn't have happened again. You've broken my door for the FOURTH time this week already!" [Anna]

The two siblings continued to bicker with each other; meanwhile, Elena, who had been looking and listening at them, slowly came out of her blanket tent. Slowly she laughed and laughed until her laughter was loud enough that the two siblings stopped bickering and looked at Elena.

"Oh. She's laughing." [Bran]

Bran says as her sister makes him float by reducing his and his clothings' gravity. Anna slowly puts him down and turns to Elena.

Elena then opens her mouth to speak.

"I'm adopted too, like Bran." [Elena]

The siblings widens their eyes from the revelation. Elena then tells them what happened prior to her being surrounded by the thugs earlier, but she omits Raymond's name and occupation.

"Your papa sounds... strong, huh." [Anna]

The two siblings look at each other and then back to Elena. Bran speaks first.

"But I don't think he was intentionally trying to hurt you." [Bran]

Anna continues.

"Elena, I know you're powerful. I can sense your mana too, if we fight each other I'm probably going to win due to experience however you'd still give me a hard time winning due to your vessel's mana capacity." [Anna]

She pauses and sits down besides Elena.

"What I mean is- me and Bran have sparred multiple times. He has never won against me but there are times when I feel like my life is in danger and I instinctively produce magic more than what I need. I haven't hurt Bran as much as you have but that is because he just has a sturdy constitution." [Anna]

"What big sister Anna's trying to tell you is that maybe your father wasn't trying to seriously hurt you. My big sister is powerful, but not all-powerful. There are times where I find weak spots and try to exploit them, although because of her heightened senses she manages to dodge it or she'll sense my killing intent that she'll instinctively react and hit me with a powerful blow. That's probably what happened with your dad too. You found a weakness in his defense and you were probably to keen on hitting that, resulting in a strong killing intent that your father, who you've said was a former swordsman, sensed and instinctively defended himself from." [Bran]

"Oh. Bran's actually smart, huh." [Anna]

Anna jokes lightly and Elena giggles in response. Bran just ignores Anna and continues.

"Right now your father might be looking for you too. You said he's bad at detection magic, right? He probably can't find where you are right now." [Bran]

Elena nods and then speaks.

"Then what should I do.. I ran away and broke our promise." [Elena]

Anna caresses Elena's back.

"It's fine, I'm sure he'll understand. From what I can gather based on how you describe him, he seems to be a wonderful father, no?" [Anna]

Elena nods once again.

"Thank you." [Elena]

"Don't mention it." [Anna]

Bran, intently looking at Elena, was repeatedly blinking as if trying to remember something.

"Big sister, don't you think that Elena looks like those people we met from before?" [Bran]

"What do you mean.? Oh-" [Anna]

Anna remembers and with a eureka expression, she grabs Elena's hand.

"Elena! Are you a noble?" [Anna]

"Eh? I'm not..?" [Elena]

"Really? Huh.. well I guess we don't really have enough evidence for that." [Anna]

"You see way back then, we went to some city to trade with. And we were greeted by the noble who ran that city. I don't really remember much since it was so long ago but I do at least remember his red eyes, which looked really similar to yours. Although his hair wasn't white nor his skin was pale. So I guess there's that." [Anna]

"..." [Elena]

"I'm sorry, I don't remember anything." [Elena]

"Hmm. Oh well, that's fine. Anyway, Bran. Is father still not home?" [Anna]

"I can feel his mana coming closer, ah he's here." [Bran]

"Anna, Bran! Are you kids home?" [???]

A raspy old voice calls out from outside the house. Anna then turns around and grabs Elena's hand, helping her stand up.

"That's our father. His name is Bob. You can just call him uncle Bob." [Anna]

"Mm." [Elena]

With a nod, Elena comes with the two siblings to their front door.

"Father! We have a visitor!" [Bran]

"Oh? Has our Bran finally brought home a girlfriend? Now, who might this visitor be- ..!" [Bob]

"U-Uhmm.. hello.... I'm Elena.." [Elena]

"White hair, pale skin, and red eyes.." [Bob]

"Kids get away from her!" [Bob]

"Wha-? Father what are you-" [Anna]

Before Anna could finish her sentence, Bob pulls her away from Elena and grabs his axe that was hanging near the door.

"You.. you're the demon king..!" [Bob]