BXBX NOVEL Chapter 186: A System Window.
"Are you kidding me, look at her." Usami gave Arla a deadpan and pointed at Dina. "It may have been a sec since we saw each other, but I have known her for most of my life and I have never seen this girl glow like this!" She took Dina's hand.
"Come on, you're spilling the beans." She dragged Dina up the stairs and Arla panicked and chased after them, leaving Sol with Ikaris and Sara standing in amusement.
"It seems she hasn't changed all that much either." Ikaris smiled, and Sol nodded and walked into the living room, taking a seat and sighing.
"Thankfully, she managed to hold on to a major piece of what made her so likeable in the first place, but she's right, we could have come back and seen a monster, instead of the Atlas Organisation, what if Usami had been the one that had to be stopped after rampaging across the planet?" Sol asked as he was joined by his wife while Sara gave them a bow and disappeared in the shadows.
"I am elated that such was not the case, Ikaris pulled her legs into the sofa and rested her head on his chest while he held her onto himself.
"I think I said it before, but I like her; she was always honest with her thoughts and provocations, and I have come to appreciate the rarity of someone like Usami in what you all call modern times." She snuggled against him when he started dragging his fingers through her hair. "I have grown to appreciate you even more every day I spend with you, every second I spend in your presence...
You complete me, my King."
"I love you too." Sol smiled and raised her chin placing a soft kiss on her lips.
"My Queen." He kissed her again, and then again while she continued to slowly turn until she was sitting in his lap with her hands locked in his hair and his hands holding her leg and waist, they would have gone further, but Uriyu trying to sneak by them to get into the fridge caused Sol to adjust her blouse and snicker when Ikaris leaned onto him to further hide herself from the boy's gaze.
"Sorry..." Uriyu hid his face embarrassed as Ikaris looked over Sol's head at him and his eyes met her cerulean gaze, he bowed in apology and then quickly took out a bottle of water and scurried up the stairs again, but as soon as he was on the top of the stairs he nearly yelped from surprise when he came face to face with and nearly crashed into Arla who had just exited his sister's room.
"Careful there." Arla smiled at him and skipped out of his way. "Good night."
"S-sorry... Good night." He gave her a bow as well and then quickly went into his room and slid down the door after shutting it.
"Holy fuck..." Uriyu opened his water and drank the whole bottle where he sat, rubbing his eyes and staring at the slowly spinning fan in his ceiling. "My sister came back prettier, but those three... Arla, and Dina and especially Ikaris, oh my god." Uriyu squealed and rolled across the mat stopping at his bed and flinging himself atop it with a groan.
"And I think that other girl's name was Sara, right? She's cute too and dainty like a fairy."
"Fuck, I've never seen anyone as beautiful as them in my whole life!" He rolled around on his bed and flopped onto his stomach. "How can I sleep knowing the three most beautiful women I've ever seen in my life are literally just walls away?" He contemplated, taking out his phone and checking the time.
"It really isn't that late either!"
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"So they are the same?" Usami gawked staring at Dina's sigils slightly glowing as she exposed her back. "Like, a slave contract like Ikaris's?"
"Well, we don't call it that, it's the term used and I'd gladly own it, but he prefers to call us his lovers." Dina smiled and pulled her blouse over her shoulders again while Arla returned with a bottle of wine and three glasses, closing the door behind her with a flick of her finger and settling on the bed next to them.
"You too?" Usami looked at Arla and she chuckled and nodded while her ears flickered and shook regaining their original length as she relaxed herself in their presence.
"I do not mind being called slave, in fact, being chained and dragged around by him was such a... Hnn~" The elf made a light moan and down everything in her glass falling on her back causing her breasts to bounce healthily as her sigils flickered crimson and then went dull again. "I do not care what he calls me."
"Same." Dina rested on her side over Arla and pressed her cheek against the elf's exposed stomach now that she was wearing shorts and a plain blouse that had ridden up as soon as she laid down, revealing just the bottom of her bosoms. "It doesn't matter at all to me either."
"Wha~" Usami stared at them in disbelief. "What about Ikaris though, the last time you had tried going between her and Sol, she broke your nose." She pointed out and Dina laughed out at the fact that she'd forgotten that incident.
"Ikaris is the one who made it possible, I love her, I respect her, and I'd never try to do what I did back then, I don't think it's even possible to try, I'm so happy where I am as her right hand that it's impossible for me to even see myself doing it, she called me her wife, I just want to keep everything the way it is, I'll follow them through hell without them asking.
"Indeed, if this is the life of a concubine I much prefer it over any other kind of living." Arla chuckled when Dina blew against her skin.
"God, you're both totally gone huh?" Usami leaned on her fist and smiled, swirling her wine in the glass and taking a sip.
"I think I might have liked him too back then, I was curious how he had so many beautiful women surrounding him when he seemed so plain and uninteresting, but the more I knew him and the more his true self was revealed the more I realised it was because they felt safe in his presence."
"But it was at most just a little crush, I could never give my everything to anyone like that again." Usami gestured to them, reaching for Dina's leg and pressing her finger against the sigil on her inner thigh. "Complete servitude, total and unyielding trust...
the life I lived before Arkadia, and then what happened with Morn made me lose all trust in men, honestly I hated them, and then when I came back here... the only man in my life is always going to be my little Uriyu, even when he's moved on and left me behind." She stopped talking when the two of them sat up staring at her. "Sorry."
"Tell me more about the big wedding, you all went up into the Arkadian heavens, what did it look like?"
"Not once but twice, first we have to go back a little, have you ever heard of the Godslayer?" Dina made wild gestures excitedly when she saw Usami trying to lighten the mood by changing the topic.
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"I can't believe you fell asleep here." Usami stood over Sol and Ikaris who had dozed off in the sofa and spent the night there.
"We talked each other to sleep." Ikaris sat up and stretched then looked behind her in the kitchen where Arla had her usual wild bedhead and Dina was yawning and stretching while Sara expertly handled breakfast with Uriyu sitting in the corner trying his best not to stare. "Did we miss anything?"
"Alpha." Sol called, and the system appeared in person next to Usami with her head lowered.
"Good morning, master Vestic." She greeted him. "I have completed your request, I am ready to go online." She notified him and he nodded when everyone stopped and looked at what he was doing.
"Launch it then." Sol sat straight and stared before himself just as a small blue system window appeared holding basic information as well as an official message, not just for him but for every human on the planet.
[Greetings, I am Alpha; the newly installed system designed with the purpose of bettering your lives here on earth and securing an honest and transparent utopia.]
"Master?" Arla called from the kitchen standing and hurrying over to him, but by his expression she went silent and smiled, if he was the one responsible then she trusted his judgement, it was a simple panel, and she could see her name as well as everyone else's when she looked at them.
[Name: Arla Amastacia
Age: 27
Gender: Female
Status: Taken]
[There are no rules set by the administrator and no punishments designed to harm you, you are free to go about your daily lives with one exemption, look closely on the name tags of the people surrounding you, this is the first step to a peaceful crime-free world.] Alpha guided them into the first step.
[According to the life one has lived, whether they have committed crimes or not their name tags will slowly or drastically change colour; white meaning complete purity and innocence particularly designed for children, and from there you have blue, green and yellow which range between the average person, orange being someone who has committed a jail-worthy crime, red being a felony and\\or serious offence, and black being more serious crimes, for example murder or the otherwise responsibility of taking someone's or a collevtive of people's lives.]
[What you have before you is a chance to start anew, the colour of your tag does not remain permanent and with the correct punishment one can easily reduce the guilt they have just as they can increase it by committing criminal acts, look to your leaders, your neighbours, your friends and acquaintances.]
[There is no hiding the colour, and those who are within the red and black categories their crimes will be revealed with the word "inspect" personal justice via vigilantism is still crime by law killing outside of self-defence will change the colour of your name, do be careful of your actions.]
[Judge and be Judged]