53 Annoying Sister

So, a lot of things have happened... I mean William somehow has dreams of before the Shift, there's the whole separated soul problem I'm having... I feel like I'm going crazy. Well, at least the fact that William has dreams of before the Shift proves that it did actually happen and I'm not just crazy.

Seriously though, simplifying the problems I'm having: that person who tried to kill me back in the tournament is still out and about, the school has been attacked way too many times, and I still don't know why I sometimes get teleported into Osiris' lab.

I mean, that is a good few problems. Two of which are definitely life-threatening. Well, I guess I'm just gonna have to do what I can and hope something completely stupid and ridiculous doesn't happen.

I do wonder though... when the Shift happened, did it change the past as well as the present, or only change people's memories of the past and then change everyone to match the memories.

If I went back in time, would I end up in a time where there are Elves, Dwarves, Sapients, etc, or just back in the world I used to be in. I don't know...

Well, whatever, not like that is really important. What's in the past stays in the past.

"Hey, Jess!" Who is that? Oh, it's just RUBY... wait.

"RUBY, what are you doing here? You don't leave the lab often."

"I'm collecting some samples."

"From where?"

"I'm going to the Institute of Magic to get some samples from some of the few remaining monsters."

"That's cool. Is it okay to be telling me this? Most stuff with monsters nowadays is kept secret to prevent total extinction."

"I have analyzed that you would not do anything harmful with this information."

"Well, good luck."

===

Ugh, back home. *Ring*

Who's calling me? Oh, it's just my sister.

"Hey, Kari. Why did you call me?"

"So, I kind of need your help for something. I'm coming home this weekend, and you are gonna help me do something important."

"What exactly do you need me for?"

"You'll see!"

That is super suspicious. I have no idea where this is going, but I guess I'm gonna find out. Kari is always like this, and she didn't even ask for help, she was just like "Hey, your gonna help, deal with it." You could have at least given me a choice! I would have helped!

I never have any idea what is going on in her head.

=== Weekend ===

"So, what exactly did you need my help with, you idiotic sister."

"You see, I need you to come to my class on Thursday after school. In my Magical Engineering class, we all promised to bring one of our siblings with us for a project."

"Why though?"

"Well, that is just how it turned out. All my classmates got together and planned the whole thing out. It's not mandatory, just something we are doing for fun."

"That leads me back to the previous question, why though?"

"Look, you can keep asking questions on how this ended up happening, or you can just come and see what we'll be doing for yourself. Just treat it as a college visit."

"I am wondering, why did you have to wait until you were here in person to tell me this, you could have just told me over the phone."

"Oh, that's because this is not the only thing I wanted to tell you. You see, I need to give you this."

Is that a debit card?

"And what is this?"

"It's a bank account I set up. Your share of the money made from our inventions goes into this account."

"Thanks, I'm surprised you managed to get this done so fast."

"Let's just say I have some connections. Anyway, see you on Thursday."

Wait, how does she expect me to get to her school. I can only teleport to places I've been before... I have a bad feeling about this.

That reminds me, how much money is on this card? I mean, she just started getting the products out, so it can't be a lot, but it's obviously good to have as much money as possible. Wait...

"Um, Kari, how are you selling our inventions..."

"Well, I'm selling them under a company I made."

"Wait what."

"Yeah, I called it, Kari Tech. Don't worry the products that we made together give you some credit, see?"

Yeah, she handed me a box of the MP Drain Mk.3, and in tiny font, there is in fact credit to me. I'm not even surprised. I can barely read the text that gives me credit.

Internally facepalming, I hand back the box of MPD3 back to Kari.

"I'm not even surprised."

"About what?"

"You know what I'm tal- you know what, I don't even care."

Yeah, this is better not to attract attention, not that I don't already have literally everyone's eyes already on me.

Well, I guess I just have to wait for Thursday, unfortunately.