Side story 1: Revelation
[Edited by ArchmageNaoki]
[Sneaky Deathbricks is sneaky]
The [Energy Haywire Disease] is a pathological state arising from an incapability of the patient to control their magical energy in their body. When host loses control of the energy inside their body, the energy will cause damage to host’s tissue and internal organs. Thus the fatality of this disease is high. My mother is also affected by such disease.
In order to cure her, an extensive cybernetic augmentation is needed to normalize the regulation of her magical energy. However, the cost of such surgery is very expensive. We spent all our savings and borrowed some money from a financial institute. However, the interest rate and maintenance cost of those cybernetic devices made our financial situation take a turn for the worst.
Our father has to take multiple jobs to support our family while our mother couldn’t even leave the house because of her condition. I and my twin sister, Pristia, also have to transfer from our technical high school to the adventurer high school to earn some money. Being an adventurer is a lucrative business. Even in high school, we can still earn some money from monster cores we get from each assignment. There are some rules like all monster corpses belongs to school as material for the cooking and crafting department. However, it’s a lot safer than hunting monsters by ourselves. The school had professional adventurers survey the assignment ground beforehand, so it was like hunting in a controlled environment.
One day my twin sister came up with an idea and shown me an application form for adopting an outsider. The government supports the family with money for joining this program which is very alluring. However, I still thought it’s just a bullshit idea from my sister. The reason I think like that is, she wrote the requirement for the outsider as “Must be a little girl.” However, she got the approvals from my parents. Yes, my twin sister is a lolicon. Well, all the women of my family are lolicons to be precise.
My father is not so better than them in this regards, well, the truth is he is nice to any being with a vagina. I was raised to be a gentleman by my father since I was a child but sometimes I think he is too excessive. The kissing hand thing was already aborted since eons ago, but he still practiced it when he was introduced to any women.
However, one day the call that I would never think we would receive had come. They found an Outsider that matches the description of our requirement. It made me wonder about what karma has we done in our previous life. Outsider events are not rare but also not that frequent. From the statistics, we found not more than two Outsiders each year. Yet, they found Outsider for us in less than a year time frame.
When we had arrived at the facility, they gave us some orientation and have us sign a “Non-disclosure agreement” with the government. Surprisingly, the secret is not about our new family member is an outsider. We are free to tell anyone that my new sister is an Outsider. However, how they treat this Outsider is the secret.
“We injected some ‘Love-potion’ into her. So have her walk around the town and have her met with all your family members before midnight.” Ms. Jessica Parker, the chief of scientist, told us plainly. However, I spotted many problems underlying it.
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“What if she notices?” This question is the most concerning thing right now. I don't want a super powered Outsider rampaging in my house because of this. This adoption thing might be a terrible idea after all. Maybe we still can cancel this arrangement.
“She won’t. And if she does, it’s your duty to inform us. We have many ways to subdue her.” I know that you have special forces that can defeat an “Immortal class monster” like the black dragon easily. They even successfully mobilized them against an outsider that call himself the demon king. But my house would surely be destroyed in the process, and I don’t want any of that.
“Look. I know you are concerned about that. But the potion is just intensifying the good emotion in her. The good things she feels will feel like she experienced it for many years. Moreover, the drug will disappear from her system by midnight. So, she wouldn’t have time to notice its effect.” Ms. Jessica holds my hand and continue. “We won’t give her any clothes. So you could just use the buying her clothes as an excuse to walk her around the town. And in the evening you could just celebrate her fake birthday with the entire family to intensify her feeling.” My sister got perked up when she heard something about “buying clothes” while my father is calling home to have my mother prepared for that fake birthday party.
The result of that charade is quite good. After one day Kuro follows my twin sister like a little duck following its mother. And she gets along really well with my mother. Well, I could say that women of my family got their wish fulfilled. However, she seems somewhat suspicious about my father. It’s funny to see that lady killer fail. The strangest thing is, she’s looking at me with pitying eyes which are kind of annoying.
The thing I worried most is my twin sister room. My twin sister is a hardcore lolicon. Her room is decorated entirely with figurines and pictures of loli characters. Only one day after we adopted Kuro half of her room is already filled with Kuro’s picture. She even spends her entire monthly allowance on soundless shutter spy camera. Her excuse is “Kuro's sense is too sharp she always notices when I take pictures of her.” Well, for my peaceful life, I spend a lot of money to install the most advanced lock I could afford on Pristia’s door.
I don’t want to imagine what would happen if Kuro sees my sister’s room. If she uses the skill called “Dragon shout” I wouldn’t be able to stop her destroying our house before the government arrives. So I try to coax her into not using it. Well, I don’t think anyone could detect it through any surveillance systems save video cameras. The technology we have couldn’t even detect the energy emitted from it. But for my safety, I lied.
I tried really hard to figure out how she thinks. At first, it’s difficult, but when I imagine her as a perverted little boy, it fits perfectly. And because of that, sometimes I accidentally treat her as a boy. I know it's not a good manner to treat a lady like that. But I will keep it to myself as a private joke. However, when I started to relax Kuro just rampages in the department store. I have to bribe the police because we will get a heavy fine from the government if she causes trouble. Five thousand credits a month might not worth it after all.
Her fighting abilities can also be called monstrous. No one could dodge and deflect spells like that. However, those monstrous abilities of her are our fortune when the bandits ambushed us. If she was not with us, I would have died, and my sister would suffer fate worst than death. The reason bandits appeared in assignment ground couldn’t be just coincidence. There must be someone from inside letting them in. Maybe it’s those Schulz brothers that always tried to compete with my scholarship.
While I’m trying to find a proof on the bandit’s corpse, Kuro annoys me again by causing a ruckus about her period. Well because she saved our lives, though. From now on I will try to consider her as my brother who has a vagina instead of a penis.