Twin Reincarnation: Epics Of The Worldline

271  271 Opening reward boxes

[Lucy's POV: ]

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She wasn't joking when she said she wanted to… not that there was any problem with that, but when we had waited this long already, why not just wait till the time we agreed on? It was her nature to forget the rules anyway, and it was my job to remind her or enforce them on her when I needed to.

"You are a fucking bastard. I hate you…"

It was late night now. Two gorgeous moons hung in the sky before us, covering the enchanting garden in a serene glow of their calming light.

She wasn't happy that she didn't get to do what she wanted to do with me, but now that the game had ended and we were dressed once again, she knew we weren't getting back to those activities anytime soon. "There there. Calm down please."

"You are a bastard. A fucking bastard. Bastard. Sniff. Bastard. Piece of shit bastard."

With her head on my lap and teary eyes, she was crying, or acting as if she was crying with no emotions attached to it at all.

She meant the curses she was spouting though. But this was cute. Quite cute really.

"I wanna kill you, sniff! You are a bastard."

The sunset had ended so there was no meaning in playing around anymore anyway. The night wasn't the perfect time she liked doing those kinds of things. "Will you please calm down? I will let you open the first box if you calm down now."

"Sniff… bastard. Bastard. Bastard."

I was caressing her hair since she loved it when I did this, especially when she was sad like this. But it had been over half an hour she has been like this now. This was enough now. "Are you stopping this act or should I get up-"

"No! Stay like this… five… fifteen minutes. Stay like this."

She curled up her legs, tucked them in and hugged them, and closed her eyes.

She was in a fetal position now, expressing her upset feelings like a little child…

"Haaaaa. What am I gonna do with you, dear?"

She liked it when I caressed her hair like this, a little too much sometimes. How she could be a vicious, dominating, seductive witch and, at the same time, a vulnerable, adorable, and sweet little girl was one of the most fascinating things about her. It was so lovely when she acted like this that I wanted her to stay like that forever… however, having only the cute side of hers would make her incomplete.

'She had a bright side like this one, and she had a dark side that I was already familiar with. Having both of them made her a complete person.'

And she was the loveliest that way.

"Done?"

"Hmmm…"

Fifteen minutes passed away quicker than I had thought. But it was fun.

"Fucking bastard."

-Smack! n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

And then there was a direct punch to my chin. Strong enough to almost blind my eyes.

"Fuck you. I wanted to fuck you but, no?! This is how you treat your love? Like this?!"

My head was spinning from that one punch… it hurt like hell even though I knew it was coming.

"Bastard."

She got up from my lap, though I couldn't see her since there was bright light covering my eyes.

"Yawwwwwan~!"

Then she must have starched her body to get her joints and muscles back to the right places. -Slap!

"Get up, bastard. Let's open the boxes."

Then she slapped me so hard… well, I knew this was what was going to happen to me the moment I stepped here earlier. I deserved it, perhaps from her point of view. But this was still better than death. I could have died for real if she wanted to kill me. Though, thankfully, today was perhaps my lucky day.

-Oooooong!

It took a minute for me to get back to my senses and she had taken out a purple reward box by that time as well.

We had a few of those, a few golden ones, some silver ones, and many wooden reward boxes from the past few years of hoarding. And, in this place, with the Wheel of Fortune we got from the card tree, we were going to open almost all of them over these few days.

"Alright, then. First of all…"

-Oooooooooong!

She also took out the golden card from her storage space, activated it, and with a blast of light that exploded in all directions, blinding us both for a second, a unique wooden when materialized before us.

"Hun. It's not even fun seeing this thing anymore after you ruined everything, bastard."

She was still upset about the whole thing, but all of it had already ended. We cannot do anything about any of that anymore so, there was no need to stay hung up on that shit anymore.

"Cary! Anna! Come here you two!"

The Wheel of Fortune was an ancient artifact from the same era as our unique weapons were. An artifact of the ancient civilization that existed before the dawn of the Worldline.

It was, just like the curse that increased the luck of the first conqueror, one of the few items that could manipulate the most abstract factor of the Worldline.

[{ Is it finally time for the good stuff, stupid master? }]

[{ Is it time to open the gifts~? }]

The wheel, made of some unique kind of wood from some unknown 'golden' tree was a special artifact that was said to have been part of a complete chariot that the ultimate 'creator' of the world rode themselves.

It was even said this special wheel possessed the power to enhance the concentration of the power of luck precisely because it was directly connected to this abstract power.

'Understanding it and quantifying it into understandable data wasn't an easy task even for her {White eyes} so the main status of this artifact on one side, the effects of the thing were instantaneous.'

As soon as she had taken it out, I could feel the atmosphere changing in a unique way.

An indescribable but unique way. "You can sense the flow of luck? Since when…?"

"What flow?"

"You feel something, don't you? The vague thing? That's luck, man. It must be the concentrated luck that is so dense that you are able to feel it." "What? Really?"

Something like that was possible? But, isn't luck only a kind of abstract power? It's not some kind of energy that I can feel and sense and perceive or anything… wait, but then again, what would it mean when the wheel of fortune is concentrating it?

'To concentrate it, it should first exist. And if it's a power that's random, unpredictable, and unperceivable, how is it that I am feeling it in the first place.'

It should not be like this… [{ Tsk. Why is he so confused? Didn't you know Luck could also be perceived as a kind of power if one has a good enough affinity with it? How dumb are you to not even understand that much even when you know so much about the curse and the person cursed by that luck?!

Did you never think about how he was able to pass away if 'luck' was only an unpredictable random stat? }]

I really never thought of it that way…

"Haaaa. Leave him, Cary. He is dumber than both of us combined. Let's just continue with this."

[{ Hmmmm. Sure. }]

[{ One wants to open one of these as well~! }]

There were more than enough purple boxes for all four of us, so this was going to be very fun. She was going first, and it was alright. "Huuuu. Alright."

She glared at me for a moment as I innocently stood there, looking at her with a curious look. Me being able to sense the flow of 'luck' wasn't that unbelievable to her since she called me her 'lucky Lucy bastard'. She was just upset she didn't get to have her own fun time with me.

'I can tell she was planning revenge or at least some kind of a plan to get back at me, and that was scary.'

Hopefully, though, she will keep me alive. And functioning.

-Oooooooong!

A golden-purple light escaped the purple box as soon as she opened it, and all of us looked at the floating message window before our eyes.

[You have received: 150,000 Oz.]

[You have received: 3 Mana storage orbs.]

[You have received: 1 Black diamond.]

[You have received: 42 Skill points.]

"Ohhh! A black diamond came out El~! That's so good~!"

It was a fantastic enchantment material that one couldn't just obtain from anywhere~! Not only was it rare, like very rare, but it was so special that even Anna had stars in her eyes right now.

"Meh. Shit."

[{ How unlucky are you, master? Getting pocket change, some skill points, and a rare rock from a purple grade reward box? And what are those Mana orbs? Isn't that just a common item? I could have made better ones than them. }]

She didn't like what she got. Even though it was a pretty great reward from a purple box.

"Open yours, bastard."

She was still upset about this whole thing… how long is she going to be like this?

'Not being able to do it affected her more than I believed, perhaps. Only a strong enough distraction could bring her back to her normal self now.'

A distraction like-

-Ooooooooooong!

-Weeee! Uuuuuu! Weeee! Uuuuuu!

The sound of an alarm suddenly started ringing as soon as I was about to open the reward box.

"What the? Who's this?"

We knew this was the sound of the communication devices we left for Friday and Miss Eva and if it was ringing like this, it was not a good sign.

"Friday? Why's he using this thing?"

We all stopped for a moment after she put back the key card of our dorm, took out the communication crystal, and activated it.

{ "Master! Master…!" }

As soon as she activated the special communication ball, one that was connected directly with the WL net IDs of ours and was only to be used in case of emergencies, a frightened voice of her first summons was heard all throughout the garden.

"Friday? What happened?"

He was a strong being and someone who had some of the greatest potentials we had seen, so we had taught him how to control what humans call 'emotions' thoroughly.

And he had mastered the art of hiding his emotions.

But if someone like that was in a state like this…

{ "Master! Miss Evaline…! Danger-" }

The communication was cut off even before he could finish what he was saying… which wasn't good.

"Hey! Friday! Friday?! What the hell?!"

If something like this was happening… the situation must be out of control by now…