The sterile hospital room is quiet, illuminated only by the soft glow of monitors and the faint sunlight filtering in through the window. A young, skinny girl lies motionless on the bed, her face pale and her breathing shallow. She looks to be eighteen or nineteen.
She had long curly blond hair, white pale skin, cheery lips, and long, pretty eyelashes. Seeing such a cute girl, Ash nodded in appreciation. Even though she is sick and seems malnourished, that can't hide her beauty.
She is Elsa, Kai's little sister.
Ash used the system detection to see her beauty level, and an orange halo appeared on top of her head.
She is an orange-level beauty! Ash's interest was piqued even more.
'This hero saves the beauty scene... isn't bad at all!' Although Ash is excited, he didn't show it; he remained indifferent on the surface, but only he knows how much he wants to take the first step of opening the harem.
Kai stood by her side, seeing his little sister in a coma. Kai girthed his teeth and clenched his fists; his only relative in this world is in a coma, and he can't do anything. How much he hated his inability to help her.
He looked at Ash and said, "Please, Shiro-san!"
Ash stood opposite Kai, his golden eyes focused on Elsa.
"Don't worry, I'll do my best." Ash nodded toward Kai; of course he will do his best to save his possible first harem member!
'Gyo!'
With the aura gathered around his eyes, Ash is now able to see the invisible aura around Elsa.
'Huh?' Ash frowned; the aura of Elsa isn't dissipating like normal people's in the air, instead it seems to be attracted to something and moving toward it; a thin, almost invisible silk of aura can be seen on top of her head, which is the aura being pulled from her body.
Ash followed the thin silk of aura with his eyes.
His eyes landed on Kai, or more precisely, the backpack of Kai.
'It seems as I thought, the illness must have some relation to the mysterious box.'
He looked at Kai and said, "Let me see that black box for a moment."
'Could it be…' Kai's eyes widened as if he realized something; it's not difficult to guess why Ash will ask him about the mysterious black box now for no reason, unless he finds something, and that something should be nothing other than the reason for his sister's illness!
Kai handed the mysterious box to Ash directly, without wasting time.
Ash looked at the box and nodded his head.
"Sure enough, it's absorbing Elsa's aura!"
The thin silk thread is only visible to Ash because he is close to Elsa, the energy source.
Before, at Heaven's arena tower, it seems that the long distance prevented it from connecting to Elsa and thus stopping the devouring of her aura.
The aura of Elsa is slowly being devoured by the mysterious box, little by little. The amount is so small that it doesn't attract attention, and it seems that is using "In" to hide it even from nen users; if someone didn't use Gyo and had the box besides him, he wouldn't find it at all.
"Shiro-san, the source of my sister's illness is it... this black box?" Kai couldn't hold his curiosity any longer and asked.
"It seems that the mysterious box is feeding on your sister's life energy. I don't understand how it did it, but I think if we want to cure your sister, the first thing we need to do is stop this devouring." Ash said while analyzing the mysterious black box in his hands.
"Damn! It's all the fault of this thing that my sister has become like this? Can't we just throw it away?" Kai was shocked and angry at the same time. Knowing the cause of his sister's illness was always beside him and he didn't notice it, he couldn't help but have the idea of throwing it away as far as possible.
This mysterious box is simply a curse!
Ash shook his head and said, "I'm afraid this isn't the solution; who knows if it can devour your sister's life energy from long distances? So we can't deal with it until I find a way to cut the connection between them. Besides, if you throw it, what are you going to use for our transaction?"
Kai was silent; he couldn't refute Ash's words. He thought that disposing of the mysterious box may solve his sister's illness, but after hearing what Ash said, he realized he was so naive.
"Now let's see the cause of this "curse"!"
He reached out his hand towards Elsa, He placed his index finger on her forehead,
'Absolute order! Reveal the truth!' Ash whispered in his heart.
The nen of Ash enveloped Elsa's body; a golden light surrounded her; this is Ash's aura.
More than half of his aura was consumed by this order, but the effect didn't let him down.
Ash closed his eyes and felt as if his conscious was being pulled by a mysterious force toward the mind of Elsa. He delves into Elsa's subconscious, seeking the source of her ailment. As he navigates through her memories, various images appear around him, which are all scenes from the perspective of Elsa. He followed the guidance of his superpower and saw a scene.
In the scene, he saw Elsa holding the mysterious black iron box in her hands, but accidentally her finger was scratched by the sharp edge of the box, and a small amount of blood was absorbed by the box without Elsa noticing.
Then Ash saw the eerie dark aura of the black box attaching to Elsa's body like spider silk, precisely her heart.
Through this aura thread, the life energy of Elsa is being transmitted to the black box.
Ash opened his eyes; he came out of Elsa's subconscious; without wasting time, he put his palm just a few inches above Elsa's heart, then he said in his mind: 'Cut!'
The object of Ash's order was the aura thread attached to Elsa's heart.
A small amount of aura is consumed, the order is successfully implemented, and the aura of the black box attached to Elsa's heart was cut by Ash's order, thereby severing the connection and preventing the theft of her aura.
Ash didn't stop; he made one last order.
'Return back twenty percent of her life energy!
This order's target was the mysterious black box.
Ash's aura dropped a little bit.
The black box in Ash's hand starts trembling as if it were trying to resist the mysterious force of absolute order, but with no avail.
The inscriptions on it lit up for a while before they dimmed.
A pure white life force was spit from the black box and went toward Elsa.
Her life energy is slowly returning, and her pale face starts getting rosy at an incredible speed.
The reason why Ash only ordered twenty percent of Elsa's life energy to be returned is because he is afraid that if all the life energy is returned at once, it will have a bad impact on her body. The other reason is that he also wants to use this as an excuse to deepen his feelings with Elsa.
If He cures her completely now, then it means losing the opportunity to interact with her, such a stupid thing, as the future harem king, he won't do it. Whenever there is an opportunity to include a suitable harem member, he won't miss it.
The harem king system just at the beginning gave him a superpower like the absolute order, and Ash wonders what good things this system is still hiding from him.
Kai's eyes widened, his mouth opened wide—what had he just seen?
His sister, who was just now pale and thin, starts getting rosy, and even her thin body seems to be a little bit thicker, she is returning to her previous state before being sick!
The thing that all the doctors failed to do, Ash achieved it quickly!
Ash just placed his hands above Elsa's heart, and then her situation starts getting better, Kai could only be amazed.
'This is the power of Nen, no! It should be said, the power of miracles!'
'I must definitely learn it!'
Ash placed his finger on Elsa's forehead and whispered, "Wake up."
Elsa's eyelids started trembling, then slowly she regained consciousness.
She opened her eyes.
Ash saw the beautiful, watery orange eyes of Elsa and nodded even more; he is very satisfied with his luck.
'Sure enough, I should be the protagonist of a certain brainless fanfiction, or else why is my luck so good?'
"Elsa!" Kai screamed in excitement after seeing his sister open her eyes.
"Oni-chan…" The figure of Ash appeared in Elsa's blurry eyes. She thought it was her brother, but after her vision became clear, she discovered he was a handsome white-haired boy.
"Angel-sama, are you going to take my soul?" Seeing such a handsome angelic boy, Elsa thought she must have died, and now angels are going to take her soul to heaven.
Ash smiled, then he thought of teasing her, "Right, your beautiful soul doesn't belong to this world, your place is in heaven, now I'll take you there."
Elsa couldn't believe it, was she really dead? She looked around and saw that she was lying on a hospital bed with machines beeping around her.
Seeing her cute reaction, Ash chuckled softly. "I'm just joking, don't worry, you're going to be okay now."
Kai hugged his little sister as if afraid of losing her; a tear dropped from his eyes. a tear of happiness.
Kai wiped away his tears and said in a low voice, "I don't know what I would've done if I lost you, Elsa. how can I live in this world without you?"
Kai hugged Elsa tighter, feeling grateful for having his sister back. "Promise me you'll never scare me like that again, Elsa," he whispered, his voice full of emotion.
Elsa nodded, tears streaming down her face. "I promise, Oni-chan. I'll never leave you again," she said, hugging him back.
Ash watched the siblings embrace each other and felt a little bit envious.
The images of his father and mother appeared in his mind, even after decades, he can't forget them.
As Kai and Elsa pulled away from each other, they turned to Ash with tears in their eyes. "Thank you so much, Shiro!" Kai said, his voice shaking with emotion. "You saved my sister's life."
Then he introduced his sister to Ash, saying, " Elsa, this is Shiro, he is the one who saved you."
Elsa looked up at Ash with gratitude in her eyes. "Thank you for saving me," she said softly. "I don't know how to repay you."
Ash smiled gently. "You don't need to repay me, Elsa. It was my pleasure to help a cute girl like you. Just promise me that you'll take care of yourself and not get into any more accidents," he teased, trying to lighten the mood.
Elsa blushed after hearing Ash call her cute and hid shyly in her brother's arms.
Ash couldn't hold his laughter.
"Shiro-san, is my sister now fine? That mysterious box won't devour her life energy again." Kai asked worriedly, he is afraid that his sister will be harmed by the black box again, he realized how dangerous those mysterious Nen items are for normal people.
Ash reassured him, "Don't worry, I already cut the connection, but there is still a lot of your sister's life energy inside this box. It will take some time to return all of it back."
"Now that she had to eat very well, I'll visit her the following days and try to return her life energy back."
After he said that Ash is ready to leave, "now I'll take my leave, see you tomorrow."
With the black box in his hand, Ash turned and left.
Looking at Ash's back, Elsa was lost in thought. She turned to her brother and asked, "Oni-chan, is Shiro-san your friend? How did you get to know him? Also, how did he save me?"
Hearing the continuous questions of his sister, Kai looked at his sister's eyes filled with curiosity and realized that his sister seems very interested in Ash.
"Elsa, don't tell me... You fell in love with Shiro-san?" Kai asked directly without feeling any embarrassment about asking such a question. He believes that as the elder brother of Elsa, he must provide her with everything she wants and never let her lack anything, he must play the roles of both brother and father at the same time. So he must know his sister's needs clearly.
"Stupid Oni-chan, what are you saying?" Elsa was embarrassed after being discovered by her big brother.
"Why are you shy? It's nothing wrong to love someone, if you really liked Shiro-san, then your big brother promise to do anything to let you be together! But that was only after I knew his character very well. after all, I only got to know him today."
"So you are not friends?" Elsa asked in disappointment.
"No, our relation is just an ordinary transaction. I used that mysterious black box as the price for him to heal you, but I didn't expect the source of your illness to be the mysterious box itself. What an irony, Isn't it?"
Then Kai starts narrating everything that happened and told her about the things he learned from Ash.
"I didn't expect that such a mysterious power would exist! Why am I so unlucky to be targeted by that cursed box?" Elsa was both surprised and scared: surprised that she discovered the hidden side of the world, which is the power called Nen that Ash told her brother but at the same time, her sense of insecurity increased, and she became afraid of encountering something like the black box or even an evil Nen that might harm them.
The figure of the white-haired boy and his calm, piercing golden eyes appeared in her mind, his angelic face gave her a sense of security.
'Don't be scared, Elsa; Angel-Sama will protect us!'
The naive girl unconsciously starts seeing Ash as her guardian angel.
This is the power of the hero to save the beauty, the emotional impact on the innocent Elsa is very strong.
…
Ash quickly went back to his room, closed the door and the windows tightly, then sat on the bed.
Holding the mysterious box in his hand, Ash's curiosity is about to explode.
He is going to imitate how Gon opened the box left by his father, so he channeled his nen toward the box, but it didn't respond, instead, his aura was swallowed up by it.
"Do you want to play rough, isn't it?"
Without wasting time, Ash decided to use his absolute order.
"Open Sesame!"
His aura drained at an incredible rate until it almost bottomed out!
"What the heck?" Being instantly drained of Aura is so uncomfortable. "What in heaven's name is hiding in this box that requires such a strong seal?"
The lid of the box opened, Ash lifted it, and finally discovered what was inside the mysterious box.