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Tales of the Stars
What she is...

What she is...

Chapter 1

(QUINCY POV)

A woman, who I have never met nor even know, is now sitting on the side of my bed while looking at me with blushed cheeks.

If I compare her to models and actresses, I’m pretty sure she would definitely win over them.

The proportion of her body is so well shaped it was as if she was crafted by some godly artisan. Her hair has a bright red color almost like living flames flowing through the air.  

And if I’m going to have to sum it all up, all I could say is that she is an incredible beautiful burning rose.

But there is something that also caught my eyes, and that is HER eyes.

Unlike a human’s eyes, her eyes have doesn’t have its white and only pure black spread around her white round irises.

[???] “Wh—what is it?”

I must have been staring at her for too long, her cheeks stars to get even redder.

With embarrassment clearly shown on her face, she covers her cheeks with her hand, making me notice another thing about her.

She has long and sharp black nails, they almost look like claws.

[???] “If you keep staring at me like that, I won’t be able to keep my calm.”

[Quincy] “Oh, s—sorry, I didn’t mean to—wait a minute, that’s not it! What I want to know is who you are.”

[???] “Hah~ I guess I can’t hide it forever…”

Huh? The atmosphere around her suddenly changed, I could tell that she’s serious about this.

[Quincy] “*Gulp*”

[???] “Actually, the truth is that I’m…”

[Quincy] “……………………”

[???] “Your Beautiful, Sexy and ever Loving Wife.”

[Quincy] “Well, I least I know that you’re the type that doesn’t listen to others well.”

She’s even doing that Heart thing with her hands…Hmm? I think I just felt a vain pop on my forehead.

Ah~ who am I kidding, what she just did annoyed me a bit, beauty of not.

[Quincy] “What I want to know is who you are and how’d you go in my roo—how are you floating?”

I can clearly see it! I just woke up so I at least know that I’m not dreaming right now, but what I’m seeing is like I’m still dreaming.

This woman in front of me looks like she’s kneeling but her legs aren’t even touching the floor, she is floating in place, 20 inches away from the ground.

[???] “Kyaann~ don’t look at my thighs so much Hubby. Ah! But if you really want look, then…”

[Quincy] “N—no wait, I was just—”

*Knock* *Knock*

[Sister #1] “Bro, are you awake!? Can we come in!?”

[Sister #2] “Brother, Mother reheated your dinner, let’s go down and eat our breakfast.”

Oh crap…

This is it, isn’t it? This is the “Misunderstood Situation” where the main character gets a wrong pervy accusation due to the MC’s and some woman alone in a room together.

If anyone wonders why I know that, is because I tend to spend my time in a used book store and read their books secretly.

They usually find me reading their books and throw me out the store though.

But let’s forget about that for now, what I need to do is get this floating woman out of here.  

[Quincy] “Hey you…”

I don’t want my sisters to think I’m some sort of guy who bring random girl in his room, so I forcefully held the floating woman by her shoulders.

 [???] “Iyann~ Quincy, wait, it’s still early in the morning, we shouldn’t. Oh, but not unless you really want to, then I’m O.K!”

Th—this woman…

[Quincy] “Shut it, just hurry up and hide somewhe—whoa?”

[???] “Ohh~”

Not good, I was panicking too much I stumbled with my own legs!

*Thud!*

And I am now on top of this unknown red woman.

Luckily though, I didn’t land with my hands on her chest and instead, my hands are right next to her shoulders.  

But even though I avoided the Manga-ish setting, I’m still on top of her.

I need to hurry up and get off her…

*Katcha*

The door of my room suddenly opens, with of course, my sisters standing outside, looking down on me who’s in all fours on the ground.

This isn’t good, what will they say!? After seeing something like this, how will they think of me now!?

Will I lose my Older Brother status because of this!?

While worryingly think of what my circumstances will be, Hailey, the sporty, energetic and youngest among my twins sisters, spoke first.

[Hailey] “Bro, what are you doing down there? Are you looking for something, do you need help? I can help you if you want!”

[Quincy] “………………Eh?”

Wait…what?

With my head still confused, the eldest amongst the twins, Emma, cool and intellectual, spoke next.

[Emma] “Brother, if you are looking for something, I’ll be happy to help you.”

Huh, Even Emma? Does that mean they can’t see this woman under me—ah…I mean below me………this woman?

With a slight relief in my chest, I look down and find the woman smiling at me and then winks.

Did—did she do this?

[Emma] “Brother, is there something wrong?”

[Quincy] “N—no, I’m fine Emma, I was just…uhh…I was just…do—doing some pushups. Doing some morning exercise does a body good after all.”

Good excuse Quincy! Good job! Now all I have to do is—

[Hailey] “As expected from Bro! I’ll help you with your exercise!”

[Quincy] “Huh? What do—whoa!?”

I wasn’t even done with my sentence yet, but Hailey jumps off the ground and lands on my back.

I wasn’t really ready so my hands almost slipped, but luckily Hailey light, so this won’t be a problem for—

[Emma] “Then I shall assist you as well Brother.”

And now Emma is also sitting on my back.

[Hailey] “Alright Bro, let’s go for 50 pushups!”

[Emma] “Hailey, we still have school to go to, let’s just make it 10 for today.”

[Hailey] “Oh alright, let’s just go for 10. But that will be too easy for him, isn’t that right Bro?”

[Quincy] “Ha! Of course, this will be just a breeze!”

I hate this “Older Brother must impress Little Sisters” tendencies sometimes.

Oh well, might as well get this over with…wait a minute!!!

I was about to get ready to impress my sisters, but I quickly came to realize something.

[???] “CHU~”

This woman is ready to suck face! Or to be more accurate, she’s ready to suck my face!

[???] “No wait…”

Huh? Did she finally come to realize how embarrassing this is? Good, my sister wants me to do 10 pushups so—

[???] “I need to moisten my lips first. *Lick*……hmm, a little bit more *Lick* Ok, now come Hubby, your Wife is ready. CHU~”

Damn it, I was an idiot for thinking I’m safe! I can see it in her eyes; she is very determined to take my lips.

[Hailey] “Come on Bro, let’s do this!”

[Quincy] “Y—yeah, here we go…”

[???] “That’s right Bro, let’s do this, fufufu~”

Shut up!

Sigh~ alright…

With both my sisters waiting for me, I slowly lower my body and as I go lower, the unknown red puck-up her lips, waiting to touch mine.

[???] “Fufufu! Chu~…………..hmm!?”

But it didn’t end up the way she thought it was supposed to happen.

Before her lips touched mine, I quickly face straight up, making her kiss my throat.

[Quincy] “Hnnggg!?”

[???] “N—no way, you—you got to dodge my kiss at such a distance!?”

As I slowly push my body upwards, I could clearly see the red Lady’s shocked face. She must have been sure that our lips will actually touch each other.

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While she is still showing her surprised look, I gave her a confident smile.

[Quincy] (Hehe~ do you seriously think I’d given up? Sorry lady, but I’m not that kind of guy.)

[???] “Th—that can’t be, I was ready to take your lips! Kuh~ I never would have thought that you would actually do that!”

You should just give up Red lady; I won’t give up my lips to some unknown woman.

[Hailey/Emma] ““One!””

But right after hearing my sisters’ words, my confidence quickly fades away.

[Quincy] “……………….What?”

[Emma] “Just 9 more to go Brother.”

Huh!? That wasn’t the 10th!? That was the 1st push-up!? but it felt so long, I could have sworn I already did all of them!

Huh?

[???] “Fufufufu~ 9 more to go big bro.”

The Red lady’s smug smile once again returns.

D—damn it! Looks like I won’t be able to escape this. There is now way I’m going to disappoint my little sisters!

If they see me quite on something, they might get a bad influence and they might do badly in school!

For the bright future of my little sisters, I must not quit from this challenge!

[Quincy] (Bring it on Red Lady, this lips stealing challenge of yours, I’ll break this wall and keep my little sister’s magnificent future straight to their destined goal!)     

[???] “Fufufu~ Just what as I expected from the man I fell in love with! Come, show me more of you chivalrous self!”

And just like that, I face the challenge head on.

My ordeal has passed and to the Red Lady’s surprise, she wasn’t able to touch my lips, and since no one but me can hear her and see her, I left her alone in the corner of the dining room as she mumbles about her loss.

Though she still got to kiss my cheeks and my throat, I still have a loss at the end.

[???] “Th—that can’t be…how did he…I had 10 chances and yet…Fu—fufufu~ I guess that what makes me like him…but still…”

Seriously, can you at least make your mumbling more quiet?

As I peek at the corner of my eyes to see what the Red Lady might do next, my mother Malisha, leaves the kitchen and greets me, but right after that…

[Malisha] “Quin, you went straight to you room. Were you that really tired? Did something happen, something like a certain explosion?”

[Quincy] “H—how did you found out?”

[Hailey/Emma] ““What!?””

Hearing this, my sisters’ shout at the same time, almost dropping their spoon from their hands.

[Malisha] “Through the radio, they mentioned the address so I quickly found out. So, did you do something that would tire you out?”

[Quincy] “Nope, I…uhh…I stayed away from the building and…well…nothing really happened.”

[Malisha] “………………………”

[Quincy] “……………………..”

[Malisha] “……………..you dove in the flame and saved a few of your coworkers, didn’t you?”

[Quincy] “Yes.”

Damn, this “Mother’s intuition” thing is really something.

While I’m being stared down by mother, an energetic laugh comes out from the door, leading to the family’s Auto Repair shop.

My father, Lincoln, enters with an oil stains on his shirt.

[Lincoln] “Kakakakaka! Of course he would jump into the flames to save someone, that’s just how men of the Voorhees family are! Kakakakakaka!”

As always, my father’s laugh is weird, I don’t hate it though.

[Hailey] “C—cool, does that mean Bro will appear on the news?”

[Emma] “Hailey, I think we should worry about the fact that Brother did something dangerous.”

[Quincy] “Actually, I ran off from the site before the media came, I think.”

[Hailey] “Eh, why?”

[Lincoln] “Kakakaka~ Hailey, a hero saves people not for the fame, but because they need too.”

[Hailey] “S—so cool!”

If one would sit on the place where I am right now, you could clearly see who my twin sisters got their personality.

Hailey and my Father has sparkling eyes while talking about the ways of Heroism while my Emma and my Mother just sighs as they look at the energy of the other party.

Me on the other hand, I guess you could say I got both my Fathers Energy and my Mother Composure, though I can’t keep a poker face like my Mother and sister Emma.

[Malisha] “All right you two, that’s enough. Honey, go get yourself cleaned up first.”

[Lincoln] “Got it!”

After waiting for a few minutes, the whole family gathers at the dinner table.

[Hailey] “Oh right! We drew something in art class, the teacher made us draw the hero we idolized.”

[Lincoln] “Kakakaka! Let me guess, you drew Daddy, right?”

[Hailey] “Nope.”

Right after saying her quick and blunt answer, Hailey stand and ran upstairs excitingly.

[Lincoln] “…………………I—I see.”

The energy Dad had quickly diminished.

[Lincoln] “E—Emma, what about you, you drew Daddy, right?”

[Emma] “A—actually, since we had the same person we idolize, the teacher told us to work at the same project.”

[Lincoln] Kuh~ Mal, what should I do, what should I do to replace Quin from my daughters hearts!?”

With his heart crushed, Dad leaps to Mom’s arms and silently sulking. But more importantly, should a father be doing that?

With Hailey’s stomping, she quickly gets back to her seat and gives me a piece of art paper.

[Quincy] “Is this it?”

With Hailey giving me an energetic nod, I open the folded paper and took a look inside.

As I recall, Emma and Hailey has exceptional artistic sense, just like how I do blue prints whenever I do my hobby.

Guess we got that talent from our late grandfather.

Anyway, that picture they drew is very well made, and just like what they said, drawn in this art paper is really me.

I kind of feel embarrassed and happy in the same time.

But other than myself, I noticed something else in the sketch.

[Quincy] “Hey, umm girls?”

[Emma] “Yes Brother?”

[Quincy] “Why am I drawing a sword?”

[Emma] “Oh that, well…”

[Hailey] “I drew that! Isn’t it awesome!?”

Well, Emma and Hailey did do collaboration on this sketch and considering Hailey’s reaction, she is most likely the one who drew that sword.

[Emma] “Well, I drew you half and when I passed it on to Hailey, it suddenly turned into that. Personally though, I think it suits you nicely……i—is it no good?”

[???] “Oh my, what a manly and chivalrous portrait!”

Out of nowhere, the Red Lady suddenly recovers and is now floating next to behind me with her hands on my shoulders.

I was about to say something, but I kept my cool and didn’t show it to my family.

[Quincy] “Nah, I think it’s great.”

Though I still feel a bit embarrassed about it, I still told them my honest feelings.

[Lincoln] “Kuh~ look at that smug smile, I didn’t raise you to be like that!”

This old man…

[Quincy] “What’s wrong, jealous?”

[Lincoln] “Yes I am, now share some of your sisters’ love to me!”

Well aren’t you honest.

[Lincoln] “Why don’t you just stick with ogling at school girls, like the loser virgin you are!?”

[???] “Kyaa~ my Hubby is still pure? How very pleasing!”

I’ll ignore her for now because I need to take care of this man in front of me first.

[Quincy] “What did you just say Old Man!? Do you want me to kick your ass in front of Hailey and Emma and lose you dignity as their Father!?”

[Lincoln] “Kakakakakaka! You!? Kick my ass!? The only one who loses their dignity will be you, Boy!”

[???] “Kyaa, go Hubby, show me more of you manly side!”

With that said, I and my father, rolls up our sleeves and took our fighting stance. But as soon as we start, a small thud hits the dinner table.

[Malisha] “It’s time to eat, stop messing around or the food will get cold.”

[Quincy/Lincoln/???] “““Yes Ma’am.”””

For some reason, the Red Lady also replied.             

Seeing the cold eyes and hearing the orders of the family’s top ranker, we start to eat our breakfast and ready ourselves for the day.

Except for me though, today’s a Sunday.

I actually wanted to work the whole week, but my parents gave me a condition for me to at least taking a break on Sundays.

But instead of staying at home, I’ll be going somewhere to spend my free time.

[???] “So where are we headed?”

[Quincy] “I’m headed to the public library. But more importantly, what makes you think you’re coming with?”

[???] “Of course I’m coming with you Hubby; we are bounded by an incredible, unbreakable fate. Or to be more honest, we are literally stuck together.”

[Quincy] “Hmm, stuck together? What do you mean by that?”

To answer my question, she kept silent with her usual smile and points at my left hand.

My left hand, was there something on my left hand? Hmm…oh, does she mean the ring I put on? I forgot that I wore it overnight.

I was so tired that I just fell asleep as soon as I…hmm?

Huh!?

[Quincy] “Th—the ring is gone…No, more like, where the hell did this tattoo come from!?”

Where the ring is originally placed, now has a black tattoo that circles around my ring finger, it then flows down my forearm with a tribal flame pattern.

Whoa~ it looks like a tattoo that a thug would have! I was wearing a long sleeved shirt so I didn’t notice it.

Crap, I can’t let mom see this…

[Hailey] “Hey Bro!”

[Quincy] “Y—yeah, what is it?”

[Hailey] “Here!”

With her hands stretch onto me, I find the folded art paper with an ‘A+’ signed into it.

[Quincy] “Isn’t that your sketch? Are you giving it to me?”

[Hailey] “Of course, Emma and I drew it for you after all.”

[Quincy] “Thanks, I’ll make a frame for it later.”

[Hailey] “Make it a cool one!”

With my sister’s energetic voice, I walk out of the door while waving back to her.

[???] “What lovable sisters they are, makes my motherly instinct want to protect them.”

Yeah, I feel the same way…besides the motherly instinct of course, I’m a dude.

But for now, I’m going to have to leaves those feelings aside, because there is something else that need to be done first.

[Quincy] “Hey.”

[???] “Hmm, what is it?”

[Quincy] “The library is pretty quiet and secluded; we can talk about what you are, the ring and this tattoo there.”

[???] “Well, I guess it is about time for me explain about myself, alright.”

Huh, I thought she’d play dumb, but I guess this Red Lady can be serious when it is needed.

[???] “I shall expose everything about myself to you Hubby, to my tickle spots all the way to my kinky spots! Kyaaa~ I can’t believe you made me say that~”

Sh—she will explain it to me properly, right?

The city’s public library is a huge 2 story, Greek like building with a 15ft high ceiling. With every corner covered by shelves filled with books.

But even though it was built in such an amazing way, I could only count a dozen people inside it.

As always, this place is very deserted.

[Receptionist] “Oh hey there Quincy, are you here to study again.”

[Quincy] “Y—yeah, sorry for idling here a lot.”

[Receptionist] “Nonsense, seeing someone as young as you studying so much, other kids should be like you.”

[Quincy] “H—hehehe…” (Man, this is awkward.) “Umm…are there any advance books on engineering?”

[Receptionist] “And as always, you pick the hardest subjects. Hold on, search it on the PC…ah, there they are. The book you want should be at the 2nd floor, shelf number 43.”

Saying my thanks to the receptionist, I walk up the stairs and walk the left while looking at the metal plates, which has numbers engraved on to them.

[???] “Oh, here it is Number 43! Quincy, the book you want is over here.”

And a few steps ahead of me is the Red Lady, floating a few feet away from the ground.

I’m honestly surprised she is actually helping me and not causing me trouble.

Following the direction where she is pointing, I start searching for books I want to read.

Good thing that this library have a lot of different kind of choices, I could easily find a book that could help me.

And lo and behold, I found one as soon as I look at the shelf…oh, there’s another one over there too.

[Quincy] “Now then, before I start reading these…”

[???] “Wha—what is it?”

[Quincy] “Isn’t it about time for you to tell me? You did say you would.”

[???] “*Sigh* Alright, I’ll tell you what you want…”

[Quincy] “…”

[???] “I—I am actually…I am actually you very devoting Wife!”

[Quincy] “THAT’S NOT WHA—Hmph…”

Shit, I’m in the library, I shouldn’t be so loud in here………

But still, this woman is seriously not saying anything besides her calling herself my Wife…hmm? My Wife?

She’s been so obsessed about her being my Wife…I might be able to use that as an advantage.

Not sure if it’s going to work, but I could at least try.

[Quincy] “A Divorce.”

[???] “Eh?”

[Quincy] “I want a Divorce.”

[???] “Y—you want a…a what?”

Oh~ its working, its actually working! Her light orange skin is actually starting to pale.

I need to keep this up; I need to at least get her to answer my questions before she clams down.

Btu still, never would have thought she would take my words so hard, she’s actually tearing up…no, don’t give in; don’t let the guilt get you! You just need one more push!

[Quincy] “I want a Divorce, a Divorce! I mean, having a Wife ignore what you say is really painful and disheartening, you know.”

[???] “U—umm….but…I was…I was just…”

[Quincy] “Oh well, there are other women out there. I can always find a woman that actually listens to me and love me with pure honesty. Yeah, I’m sure there is.”

[???] “Ne—“

Ne?

Ne, what? Does that supposed to mean anything? Hmm, her whole body is trembling…is—is she going to be OK? Did I go too far?

As I worryingly watch over the Red Lady, her hair starts to flow into the air, as if it’s alive.

Hmm, is it just me, or is her hair getting redder, they really look like real flowing flames.

[???] “Never! I will never let that happen! 2nd Wife? Fine! 3rd Wife? I’ll accept it calmly! But I will never let the 1st seat go, not to anyone!”

Just how many wives does this lady think I’ll have!? With have so many Wives, the family’s yearly cost will be astronomical!

Ah, I mean Polygamy isn’t allowed here!

Anyway, while she’s affected by my words, I’ll take this chance and get a real answer from her.

[Quincy] “I don’t know, I mean, not once have you answered my question, you just keep lying to me.”

[???] “Fine, I’ll answer anything you want, ask me anything and I’ll answer you without question!”

Hehe, got you.

[Quincy] “Alright, we’ll see.”

[???] “Of course, now what will you ask me Hubby!?”

[Quincy] “OK, who are you, or to be more accurate, what are you?”

She didn’t answer me on the spot, she simple looks at me calmly, but after a few seconds later, she opens her mouth while maintaining a relaxed voice.

[???] “Sure, but can you get me a book I need first, I won’t be able to explain properly.”

It doesn’t look like she’s tricking me, or at least she doesn’t have that joking air around her.

[Quincy] “…………………Fine, what kind of book do you want me to get?”

[???] “I saw a section where I’m sure where it will be.”

Getting the book she wanted me to get, we head towards an isolated table and placed the books as well as the book her asked me on the table.

Before getting to my business, I first placed the book the Red Lady asked in front of me as I took a sit.

[???] “Alright, you said you wanted to know what I am, correct?”

[Quincy] “Yeah.”

[???] “Then, can you go to the page where it shows the image of the sun for me?”

Huh? The Sun, what’s that got to do with her?

It looks like she’s serious about this, so I guess I should just do what she asked me to.

Turing page per page, I eventually find an image of a big round yellow fire ball, or also known as the Sun.

[Quincy] “Here it is, so is there any meaning for you to show me this?”

[???] “Of course, I told you that I would answer you, right?”

[Quincy] “Y—yeah, but what’s up with a picture of the Sun?”

[???] “You asked me what I am. Well, there you go, that is what I am?”

[Quincy] “Eh?”

Huh? Did I just hear that right? Did she just say that this picture is what she is? It can’t be, right? I mean, she must be joking, right?

[Quincy] “I’m sorry but what do you mean?”

[???] “What I’m saying is that I am a SUN.”

[Quincy] “O—oh, I get it now, you are actually a GUY, and you’re someone’s SON.”

[???] “N—No Hubby, I’m clearly a Woman, what I’m saying is that I’m similar to that burning, bright ball of fire in the sky, in other words, I’m a SUN.”

I forced her and wait for a proper answer, and yet once I get one, I end up hearing something ridiculous.

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