Luna’s costu settled.
I stared at it.
Bunny ears. White and slightly too large for her head, flopping at the tips with a weight. A matching white outfit trimd in pale gold, a small cotton tail visible from behind.
"What."
"The gods voted," she said, with the dignity of soone who had not just manifested in a bunny costu.
"They voted for that."
"Unanimously."
"Thor included?"
"....."
"...The vote was not unanimous."
I pressed my hand over my mouth.
She straightened her ears with two fingers, adjusted her cuffs, and looked at with the full weight of being older than my entire world.
"If you laugh," she said, "I will find a penalty that has nothing to do with your testicles."
I did not laugh.
I made a sound that was not a laugh. Technically.
"Villain Halo Mastered," she said loudly, moving on with the energy of soone closing a door on sothing they would not be discussing further. "The aspect now operates at full capacity. No story point drain. No ti limit."
"Right," I managed.
"You’re welco."
I looked at the ceiling for a mont and collected myself.
"So the gods just sit around and vote on your outfit."
"It’s a reward system."
"For them or for you."
She said nothing.
"Luna."
"It rotates. So sessions are more dignified than others." ...."This was not one of those sessions."
I looked at her again.
"You look like a very small, very dangerous rabbit."
"Thank you."
"That wasn’t a complint."
"I know."
I sat down on the edge of the bed and let the amusent settle. The room was quiet. Lina was asleep next door. The divine spin notification had faded from the corner of my vision.
"Luna."
"Yes."
"How many people got pulled in? From my world."
She was quiet for a mont.
"More than you think," she said finally.
"Are any of them in this world?"
"So."
"Are any of them close to ?"
"I can’t tell you that."
I nodded.
"Rin,"
Luna didn’t respond.
"She’s still there. In the hospital."
"Yes."
"Does ti move the sa way? If I go back, will she age while I’m here? Does she..."
"Ti runs parallel," Luna said. Her voice had gone quieter than usual. "What passes here passes there at the sa rate. She is exactly as you left her."
I let that sit for a mont.
Sa rate. Which ant every day I spent here was a day she spent in that room with no one sitting in the chair beside her.
"You could have led with that," I said.
"You didn’t ask."
"I’m asking now. Is she okay."
Luna looked at for a long mont.
"She is stable," she said. "The sa as always."
The sa as always.
Ten years of the sa. The sa pale face, the sa quiet breathing, the sa hand that didn’t squeeze back. I had built my entire life around that saness because as long as nothing changed she was still there. Still waiting, even if she didn’t know she was.
"I just need to not die here," I said. More to myself than to her.
"That would be advisable," Luna agreed.
I laughed. Short
The room went still.
After a mont Luna moved. She crossed to the bed without announcing it, bunny ears and all, and sat beside with her back straight and hands in her lap. Then she looked at and said, with complete absence of ceremony:
"Lie down."
"...What."
"You haven’t slept properly since arriving at this estate. Your recovery rate drops when you don’t sleep. It’s inefficient."
"I sleep fine."
"You lie on the bed and think about your sister until your body gives up. That isn’t sleeping."
I looked at her.
She looked back. Ears slightly askew from the motion of sitting down. Tail visible at the edge of my peripheral vision.
"Lie down," she said again.
I don’t know why I did it.
Maybe because she was right.
I lay down.
Luna shifted. Settled. And then, with the calm certainty that Lina applied to everything, she placed my head in her lap.
I stared at the ceiling.
The bunny tail was visible from this angle too.
"This is strange," I said.
"Go to sleep."
"You’re in a bunny costu."
"I am aware."
"This is genuinely one of the stranger monts of my life and I woke up in a dead man’s body two months ago."
"Go to sleep, Ren."
Not Kael.
Ren
The hand that settled lightly on top of my head didn’t move. Didn’t pat. Just rested there, ears drooping slightly to one side.
I was asleep before I decided to be.
***
The blue screen flickered.
[Goddess of Love...]
[Aspect Acquired: Ether Authority]
[A mana form untouched by elental alignnt.]
Na: Kael Ardyn
Title: Trash of the Family
Level: 4
Class: [NONE]
Stat
Strength: D
Dexterity: D
Agility: E
Endurance: E
Magic: E
Aspect: Ether Authority
Divine Skill: Villain Halo
ActiveAbilities: Fireball / Wind Blade / Basic Mana Pulse / Hell’s Fire
Passive Abilities: Infinity Mana Breathing
Traits: Mana Veins
Mana Heart: Silver Mid-grade
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