"Hm?"
He jolted as he heard her voice. Riro realised that he was going into the bathroom to clean up as she scratched the back of her earlobe, "A-Ah, I didn't see anything... hm?"
Something feels off with her thoughts, wasn't Rirota the one who witnessed her naked body back then? Her face suddenly turning red as she grabbed onto his wrist, surprising him with a gasp narrowly escaping his lips.
"Gah! What the fuck are you??", he tightly gripped onto the towel wrapped on his waist, not wanting to let his little brother loose to meet with the girl tightly holding onto his wrist with an expression he couldn't see.
Riro places her free hand against his muscles, running her hand against his abdomen, feeling him with a ticklish sensation.
"That tickles, stop it!"
Riro made a face that says 'That was satisfactory.' before releasing her tight grip on his wrist. Rirota glared down at his wrist with a handprint marks clearly visible from such a tight grip. It feels as if she was choking his wrist to death.
Rirota sighed heavily as he shuts the bathroom door behind him, yelling from the other side, "Why are you girls always like this?"
Riro chuckled inwardly, not feeling bad one bit. In fact, she was more happier with that odd situation. She managed to witness his blushing face and felt like she managed to take revenge of him patting her head earlier, "That was for patting me, okay?!"
Rirota sighed heavily as he thought, [Fucking hell, assaulting my chest is way too much for a revenge...]
Riro walked back downstairs wearing a delighted expression.
[There we go, finally got to see his naked body. Now we're even, you perv'!]
...
Riro almost blurted out a laughter after witnessing Rirota wearing two layers of shirts to fully hide his muscles from her eyes. He glared into her heterochromia eyes as he cupped his own chest to protect himself from being assaulted by her again.
Seeing this action from him, Riro couldn't hold in it anymore as she bursted out laughing loudly as she could while balancing herself on a wooden chair by the dining table.
Rirota twitched before walking himself toward the dining table with a serious but upset face. He felt as if his dignity was broken apart into pieces as if a glass was shattered from a heavy impact against the wall.
Rirota sighed tiredly with a frown as Riro suddenly stopped herself from letting out another laughter to watch his dangerous eyes. She fixed herself up in the chair before clearing her throat, "Ahem."
She forced a gentle reassuring smile toward him. Rirota rolled his eyes, still upset over her assaulting him earlier. However, Riro raised her brow, not out of confusion or amazement. She was merely admiring his fresh out from the bath looks.
Although, she did hate the silent treatment just as he was originally, "Don't be that upset, I'll let you cup mine if you want."
Rirota coughed terribly from her sudden remark, he watched her face as he noticed that she was also embarrassed by what she had just said. He sighed as he stopped acting upset like a child to stare at her properly.
"I've been thinking."
Riro lifted her head to stare him back, at first she thought that he was thinking to grope her breasts but what came out of his mouth was something she didn't expect.
"You have a Roukan in your world? Roukan Mizuzaki?"
She shook her head frantically, to rid of her first thought on thinking about her breasts being groped and the second thought of the name Roukan Mizuzaki.
She replied with an altered name she recognised, "I remember a Roun Mizuzaki... Wait, something feels odd... Roun looks after her sister... Kaedan-san was the older brother of Reina..."
He smiled at her thinking loudly, "Don't you think that... anyone with the same name in our previous worlds could very well be a duplicate in this merged world?"
He named the two names he could think of, "There are more of us, I'm sure but these two names are what I remember from the top of my head."
Riro nodded as if she felt like saying the names along with him.
"Naito Mizuzaki and Kaeden Kirigaya."
"Naito Mizuzaki and Kaeden Kirigaya."
Riro then had a question in her mind, [Wait, if there are the same in our previous world and also have the same genders... won't that mean that they're still--]
Rirota spoke out with a smile plastered on his face, "The same one by one? I hope so too, let's message our Roukan and Roun first before we go visit their place after school."
Riro nodded, "And inform those Virgils to discuss this with themselves, they should be able to find some friends or family members with the same name or sex."
Rirota hummed, "Hm, good thinking... now, about your offer earlier."
"W-What..."
She became flushed, she wasn't expecting him to suddenly talk about her embarrassing words earlier.
"I don't need it, I'm fine with only seeing...", his eyes widened as he remembered something he wanted to know from that morning.
"How the fuck did I sneak into the bedroom? You didn't lock it?"
She sighed inwardly, but she felt rather upset despite being told that. Riro looked at him with a straight face, "I brought you over, you didn't look comfortable sleeping on the couch and I don't mind sleeping with you, we're the same after all."
Rirota coughed at her explanation, "You should pay more attention to yourself, you're beautiful and all that...", he was unable to keep his face from turning red from embarrassment. Riro giggled softly from his blushing face, "Thanks, I'll make sure that you won't hug me in your sleep, okay brother?"
Rirota sighed heavily as he nodded tiredly, "Please push me off the bed if I were to invade your personal space..."
[Stop smiling already, this woman.], he thought as he caught a glimpse of her smiling face. Riro acted as if she didn't see his obvious glances while she cut down a piece of her meal she had cooked for dinner that night.
The meal was a simple boiled chicken breasts with flavourful spices to keep their appetite going. But of course, these two would never forget their glass of strawberry milk they had recently purchased at the supermarket after all.
...
"Rio."
"Ritoxen? What's up?", a girl's voice escaped from the bathroom as the boy from the outside leaned his back against the door, "I can't hear my inner voice anymore, can you hear yours?"
"No, I can't. Also, shouldn't you go to bed now? It's first day at school tomorrow."
The boy named Ritoxen sighed as he leaned his head against the door, bumping it lightly. He looked mostly average, like most teenagers growing up in the modern era. Only difference between him and regular humans are his elvish ears. His rough blonde hair would be great for a photoshoot session, making him one of those hot-blooded looking men in most female-focused magazines. His beautiful blue eyes as if he had beautiful sapphires as a pair of eyes. He sighed calmly as he replied back to her words.
"You too, I just wanted to make sure you can find your way back to the room without dad noticing you.", he rubbed his rather long ears, a common trait of an elf.
The girl named Rio chuckled lightly, "Okay, okay. You really act like my inner voice sometimes, so protective."
*slush*
He heard the toilet flushing and had a faint blush. He sighed as he stood up straight to lean against the wall opposite of the bathroom door. He waited to answer her as he saw her come out of the bathroom with a light blush, "And you're like the timid voice in my head. I wonder if you're going to have a ton of friends at school on your first day.", he replied after giving her a small smile.
Rio waved her hands cutely, her appearance was the same as his, albeit only difference was that she have a rather soft and shoulder-length hair, "Oh please, Ritoxen. You'll have a ton of admirers at school too, you're good looking and all that."
Ritoxen patted her head gently, his hand caressed through her hair as he found relaxing pleasure in her soft hair, "Now, let's head to bed."
"Hm!", she looked happy to have headpats from his hand.
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