The Reveal (9) - 83

"Smack!"

"Owieeeeeee..."

"Don't you dare imitate me!"

"But I want to act cute too..." I said, whilst clutching my currently bright red cheek.

I mean, she had hit my without any power, whilst suppressing her rank to (F-), but she was still able to hurt me to this extent.

Man, I wish I had this type of power, then I wouldn't have to worry about anything ever again.

Anyways, as of right now, the Empress had just woken up, and, after learning that we had put her under for a little less than 3 days, well, the preceding scene ensued.

But still, for some reason, she was strangely, cute?

I mean, she had acted cute before, when I had first treated her, but now that I had tried to imitate her, it seemed like, she was trying to compete with me?

Well, I'd just show her that she had tried to compete with the wrong person.

"Poof!"

Disappearing in a poof of smoke, I turned into a cute baby, one that I knew would break the heart of any woman.

//You're evil, you know that?

//Yeah, so what? I'm a petty ass bitch, and that's just the cold, hard truth.

What? I was a person that believed in embracing one's inner self, so I was just embodying what I believed in.

"Eieeeeeeeeee! A baby!"

//See? My cuteness is unmatched, even the Empress becomes a young girl after seeing me.

//Evil I tell ya...

Her warning was never heard or heeded, as the Empress immediately picked me up and let me play with her finger.

I cooed at her, playing along, using my internal stopwatch that was Bella to time how long it would take before the Empress would realize what had happened.

But, after 2 hours and 30 minutes, the Empress still hadn't broken out of my hypnotism yet, so I had to change back forcibly due to the little time I had left.

So, as she was playing with a baby in her arms, the baby suddenly disappeared and turned into a young boy, one that was now standing in front of her.

//At least you have the decency to not stay in her arms after turning back.

//What do you make me to be? A pervert?

//I'm just saying...

Ignoring her, I looked back at the Empress, who had a look of disbelief on her face.

"What? You literally saw me turn into a baby, and yet..."

"Don't say another word." She said, grinding her teeth, as she looked at me with malice in her eyes.

'Oh shit...'

//Yeah, you're fucked. You better get outta there as soon as possible.

//I don't need to be told that.

//Then what the fuck are you doing? Go!

Grimacing, I immediately transformed into a raven and flew out the door, activating my stealth skill as soon as I was out the window.

After all, although skills couldn't be used in the castle, the outside world was a very, very beautiful place.

Flying away, I heard one last cry from behind me.

"ASHEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNN!"

I chuckled inwardly.

...

Pinpointing the location of Esper, I quickly flew to where she was and transformed back into myself before touching the ground.

//Daddy! Was I a good girl?

//Yes, yes, thank you for keeping her out of trouble.

//Ballistic girl was very hard to control, but I did it in the end!

I raised my eyebrow at the way that Esper called my sister, but I decided to let it slide, for now...

Then, I turned to look in the direction that Esper was facing, as I looked for my sister in the crowd.

From Esper's daily reports, I knew that Namida had been planning the deaths of Elvira and Primrose, but, I wouldn't let her plans come to fruition.

After all, those two characters, they were too essential to the plot for me to let go of them this early on.

Disabling my stealth skill, I waved to Namida to get her attention.

Being the good sister that she was, after seeing me, she immediately appeared by my side.

"Nii-san!"

Discarding her scheming face, her happiness overtook it as she hugged me from the side.

And, as we were the same height, I had to quickly raise my hand so that it wouldn't be caught in her hug, before letting it fall down whilst wrapping it around her shoulders, as I hugged her head to my side.

Ruffling her hair a little bit, I let myself relax in her familiar warmth before asking her the question that I had on my mind.

"Namida, would you like to come with me to the world of another novel?"

Hearing this, she continued to rub her cheek against her side, that was, until she finally absorbed what I had just said.

"Huh? Another novel world?"

//Don't tell her about...

//Yeah, you think I'm dumb? Of course I'm not gonna tell her about...

Looking at Namida's face next to me, I said,

"Yes, another world. You see, I was suddenly given a notification through Xion telling me that another black portal would be appearing."

"So, in the previous black portal..."

"Yes, I was taken to the world of The General Games, I don't know if you've read it though..."

"I've read it, it was the one book where there was that genocidal MC who's lover was a good two shoes who couldn't do anything, right?"

It was definitely a good thing that I had learned how to turn down the volume of the AI chip beforehand...

But, for some reason, I could still slightly hear her indignation, yet, didn't I set the volume status to "mute"?

Shaking my head, thinking that it was just phantom noise, I returned my attention back to Namida.

"So, would you be willing to go with me into this next portal? I don't know what world we would be going into though, so it could be very dangerous..."

Of course, all that I was saying was just complete and total bullshit, but she didn't need to know that.

"Stop. Of course I would go with Nii-san."

Hearing this, I smiled gently as I looked at the timer on the edge of my vision.

[00:00:30]

[00:00:29]

[00:00:28]

Watching the seconds counting down, I enjoyed my last few moments in this world with my sister in my arms.

But, when the timer hit five seconds left, I heard somebody call my name from behind me.

"ASHEEEEEEENNNNNNN!"

'Fuck!'

//You're screwed.

'Come on, come on, comeon, comeon, comn, comn, cmn, cmn, cm!'

[00:00:00]

[The portal will now open.]

Without any hesitation, actually, with an uncontrollable sense of panic, I shot my hand into the portal.

And, with that, I was sucked into the portal with Namida.

But why, just why god, did you have to torture me like that?

After all, just before my consciousness faded, I felt a hand on my back.

'Fuck my life...'