Chapter 17 - These Girls Are Weird

The three girls collapsed by the fireplace near the entrance of their home. Each breathing hard with all sorts of injuries on their bodies, this had become an everyday thing now to them.

Styxx spits fire on the wood and pulled out a huge pot and filled it with water before putting it over the flame to boil. He slowly made his way to the girls, enveloping them in green light healing all their injuries. He then began to toss diced ingredients into the pot while the girls regained their composure. Today's lunch was beef stew.

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(Tara POV)

I glanced at Onii-sama as I brought the third bowl of this delicious stew to my lips. I thought back to these last two weeks that were the worst yet the best times of my life. I watched as the man that saved my life was currently feeding T-bone steaks he pulled out from his trusty black hole to the twin bears and giant black wolf.

Styxx Onii-sama to us sisters was an enigma wrapped around controversies seasoned with a chuck full of mysteries, something I did not even see in my captors. But if I could sum up everything I learned about Onii-sama into one word, it would be… eccentric. His every move was as if it had a purpose or none at all. He was cruel yet kind, he cared not for the pain the training he made us do, even when my limbs were blown off but healed it with concern and gentleness. There are times when he is emotionless yet cheers and smiles along with us when we accomplish something.

He was a very serious and intelligent person yet acts like a regular teen when playing video games. I have suspicions that Onii-sama was much older than he looked. The way he spoke of things during World History class as if he himself went through it, or more exactly, he knew a person that lived through it.

One of the weirdest things about him is his view of the entertainment industry, things like movies and music, even games, his tastes were unique. According to him the entertainment industry of today is "utter garbage". I don't really understand it, but I enjoy the music and movies from the 20th and 21st centuries. It's surprising yet a fresh breath of air to see movies or hear songs that have nothing to do with heroes and villains. Bast-chan and Rir-chan have definitely starting to pick up similar tastes.

Fenrir and Bastet had gotten really attached to him. I am worried that they will pick up some of his bad habits though, like when Onii-sama tends to space off then burst into a maniacal and villainous laugh. I have caught Fenrir cackling alongside mimicking him and Bastet giggling nefariously. I do not know what I am going to do… they adore their savior and new big brother too much, even though I am their big sister…

Another thing was that Onii-sama was powerful. Too powerful. I noticed each quirked he showed us was more powerful than the one that came before, but I still could not understand why they were all so destructive and dangerous, hardly any quirk, other than the healing one, did not seem villainous in some way….

It seemed he did not even bother hiding his power from us, something that made me and my sisters happy for some reason. Speaking about my sisters, they changed also, they were healthier, and smiles adorned their faces every day even after all the training and schooling Onii-sama puts us through. It was for my sisters that I never complained even when Onii-sama tortured me with his training. I guess all that pain I endured through the last 10 years somehow was worth it, I can feel myself growing in power every day.

The Quirk that I had been suppressing all these years was finally set free all thanks to Onii-sama. I was always scared of using it since I had that accident years ago and they threatened to kill Bastet and Fenrir. With his training I should be able to surprise Onii-sama in a week or two, I wonder if he would show another expression other than stoic at that time of my surprise, even though I am sure he already knows the truth about my Quirk. Since he has not brought up training it, I really hope I can surprise him…

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(Styxx POV)

I knew I was going to regret picking these girls up… their appetites are just too damn high!... Other than that, these poor little girls turned out to be monsters. They are learning too fast, picking up skills too damn fast! I mean they are supposed to be one 15-year-old and two 10-year-old girls, but they are soaking in everything like sponges. The two small ones already learned everything for their age group in these last two weeks and already learning middle school stuff and that's not mentioning the fact they're picking up combat even faster.

The big one is even worse, I'm pretty sure she has an eidetic memory so yeah that's bad, she's already reaching college courses. They have no idea how smart they are becoming; one might even say that they're prodigies but unfortunately, I know the truth.

I have suspicions that they were experimented on, I mean, the chances that some low-life villains kidnapped a couple of orphans that turned out all to be geniuses is abysmally low. Besides, my scan of their memories shows a couple of unnatural gaps consistent with memory wiping. Whoever it was only erased themselves from their memory which means they either injected them with something while they slept or put whatever it was in their food.

Amateurs. Whatever they were experimenting with was trash. The side effects of the 'drug' caused severe damage to their internal organs and healing factors. It was probably the reason why their old injuries never healed right, something I easily fixed on the day we met. I can probably make something better in a day, mad scientists aren't what they use to be...

Now I have three artificially made geniuses, who have no prior reference or idea of how different they are as I am sure they never even been to school. Hmm, maybe I should enroll them in school? I don't see why not; they don't seem to be wanting to be heroes and the way I'm training them and what they want to learn are leaning more toward vigilantism and even the villain route. Even now, they can probably take on anyone below the top 100.

It doesn't matter what they choose to be, really, as long as they are within my care, nothings going to happen to them…. Maybe I should reward them in some way? Maybe make a test of some kind with the prize to go into town and a shopping spree? Their rooms are still barren, and they are girls, so I'm sure that's a thing they would like… I'm not really sure, really, I haven't dated anyone in 25 years...

Speaking of barren, I noticed the big one has been training her quirk secretly while she thinks I'm not looking. Not that I blame her, but my awareness expands farther than they realize.

…Maybe I'll finish Super Mario 64 tonight… I still can't believe they had this game in the museum I visited, Lucky!

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I apologize for the lack of updates but you were already warned on the first page. I get busy and write whenever I feel like it, I just haven't had the motivation to write lately.