The Eternal Family



"Now, the final question," the girl said, looking at the bamboo scroll, her interest waning, "What is your Gift, tell me your most lethal aspect, and what stage are you in?"

Harry inside the castle looked at a mirror nearby and DreamWalker started kicking in, he started to alter his own belief of what his Gift was and what his most lethal aspect was.

Harry and Ace shared one mind, so it was as if they had both experienced the change.

The Arrogant Brat asked, "Didn't you hear my sister?"

Ace nodded and replied, "My gift is [Powerful Body]. it makes my body stronger. And my most lethal point is… I'm good in bed. Extremely good. And I am just at Stage 0."

The Siblings frowned, they knew he had a strong body, and even then… his lethal point was in bed?

"Are you mocking us?" The sister asked calmly, her childish face fierce.

Harry shook his head inside, Grandma said the sister wasn't arrogant. But no, she was the same.

No wonder they greeted him with an arrow. No wonder.

They were just arrogant little monkeys.

But fine, they weren't murder maniacs at least.

"I am saying the truth." With closed eyes, Harry said.

He was no longer afraid of this kid's games, with DreamWalker protecting his mind, he had nothing to worry about. But he was a bit curious, if the kid was so arrogant and the sister of the kid was the same, why didn't they just ignore him or shoo him away?

Or even kill him.

But if he put it in perspective of how worse it could have been, these two were indeed, 'good people'.

Squinting his blue eyes, the boy ordered, "Break a bone if what you said was a lie."

Ace was calm.

The Boy nodded and his cold face unexpectedly melted and he smiled, then walked closer to Ace, and extended his hands.

Like a completely different person.

'Oh?' Ace was surprised but didn't hesitate and brought his dirty hands up and took the tiny hand into a firm handshake.

The boy didn't say anything, and after a while, broke the hold. And then said apolegetically, "Sorry for that, but this is a procedure of our settlement… so we have to do it…"

Even more surprised inside, Ace nodded, "It's fine, but can you tell me why you had to use an arrow at first?" All the other things made sense.

The little girl from the side had her cheeks turn crimson as she bowed, and said with a sincere tone, "I am sorry…"

Ace got even more confused, "What do you mean?"

"We have orders to make everyone from the Yoge settlement, the one some meters north, be afraid of us in the first encounter… so…" The boy said, similarly a bit guilty.

"Ah, I see, so it's like putting up a show of strength?" Ace asked, moving towards the fallen horse as he did so; the horse was a horse, so it didn't have many injuries.

It was a very short fall after all.

Nothing too dangerous.

"In a sense," the girl said, her voice gentle, "We are fighting over the hunting grounds around, so, as a part of it, we have to be intimidating. And we thought you are from Yoge..."

"I see," Ace nodded, "So if I came another time, I wouldn't have been interrogated like this?"

The boy scratched his cheek and said, his tanned skin brightened by a trickle of sunlight, "No, we will question you regardless, but… no arrows."

The girl quipped from the side, "But don't worry, as compensation, we will treat you like an honored guest in our home."

Ace patted the horse's back and took a bag out, taking a white cloth from it, he cleaned the dirty water from his face and asked, "Is there a river or something here?"

"No, but there is a big pond inside the walls," the boy said, thankful at the man's understanding.

The girl smiled, bowed once more, and said, "I am Raina Yeime, he is my brother Rome Yeime, good sir, what might your name be?"

Ace looked at her with a smile, children looked cute whatever they did. Of course, he didn't have any lustful thoughts on a kid. "My name, little freaks, is Ace Isiah, call me Ace for short."

Raina and Rome smiled and exchanged glances, they didn't feel offended by him calling them that. "So, should we go back?" Rome asked, with quite the refined tone.

Ace nodded and asked, "Sure, guide me to your place, what was your settlement called again?"

"Blueflame settlement, we are a small settlement with barely one hundred people," said the girl, putting the Bamboo scroll back.

Getting up on the lying horse, Ace asked, "You guys wanna hop up?"

The kids' eyes shined and they hesitated.

Laughing, Ace said, "Don't worry about the formalities, if you don't mind the dirt, hop up."

The boy didn't hesitate any more and jumped above the horse, he had never had the chance to ride one.

The girl followed with a shake of her head.

"Stand up big boy, time to move," Ace called, and the subservient horse stood up and snorted before it started walking towards its earlier route.

'if these two are known as Arrogant outside, then I should be called a narcissist, something fun seems to be going on with them,' Ace pondered inside.

He was curious why their reputation inside the royal family and their actual behavior was so far apart, if he had a chance, he might as well figure it out.

He didn't know why, but the kids seemed quite fun to be around… maybe it was because they reminded him of Lilly and himself.

The surrounding forest flashed by and the boy held Ace's dirty clothes to not fall down, and the girl held the boy. The horse moved at its own pace and within minutes, Ace could see the high walls built using merely trees stacked together.

It was as high as 30 meters at least.

All three looked at it and the horse ran out of the forest into a long clearing, this was Blueflame Settlement's area.

The boy laughed out loud, happy after riding a horse for the first time, "Welcome, Brother Ace, to our humble settlement."

Ace looked at the big trees clustered together and tied with humongous ropes to become a wall, and then looked at the kids, in a casual tone, he asked, "Tell me, Is there something I have to be careful about?"

"Hmm…" the boy pondered, and said, "Nothing much, but there is a rule in the settlement that no outsider can stay there for more than a day, so just be aware of that."

Ace's eyes shined, that's more than enough.

"Let's go in."