[Lucy's POV: ]
"Ahhh..." I opened my eyes with a weird sound after I regained my consciousness.
I knew that my body was hot and I could feel the touch of cold water on my skin too. Most definitely curtesy of my dear darling.
My head was spinning now, so I struggled to open my eyes. In any case, one's physical condition suffers as a result of mental body's training in the workplace. Nevertheless, I was at peace, and perhaps more than anything else, I could feel the small, warm palm enveloping my hand.
"Good evening sleeping princess~." She greeted me with a helpless smile on her pretty face. Really pretty face.
I could feel that she was tired and from the way she greeted me, it looked like this was already evening.
'And she was up all night pouring cold water in this small wooden tub to help my body with the heat… haaa, cute.'
I started at night and now it was evening, meaning she was here the whole time, taking care of me, without eating anything, and just wasting her Mana at something small like this.
And... I knew this was difficult for this little one.
"Sorry to trouble you like this, my prince." And with that heartfelt reply, I stood up and came out of the freezing bathtub. Her unique magic sure was something else.
"I know you're ok but, take things slowly." She requested with a bit of a worried expression. The rare genuine worried expression.
I knew this was big trouble for her, taking care of me like this but, we were accustomed to things like this.
This wasn't the first time something like this had happened and I knew this won't be the last time either.
"I'm perfectly fine, El. Better than ever~." I was happy and the smile on my face was enough for her to guess the reason.
"You reached intermediate rank, after all hmm. Guess... I have no choice then." She whispered, and a helpless smile escaped her pretty lips.
Walking closer to me, standing on her toes, she stood just before my lips.
I can feel her warm breath on my face and my face was already red because of this sudden move.
"I said to kiss you if you really reached that rank," she said in a sad voice and paused for a moment.
"I should have specified a passionate, long, hardcore, mouth-to-mouth but..." looking into my eyes with a desperate look, she sighed.
Standing down and going towards my neck, she kissed it ...or more like started sucking it like a vampire.
"Mmm... El~?" I moaned and only then saw that smirky smile on her face.
"Not yet... Lucy." She replied, still continuing her kinky thing.
I understood her feelings and even I was helpless here.
Unfortunately... we had agreed on some things like no intercourse before 18 or kissing before the academy result... for our own good but, this was still hard.
Not being able to do many things was a drop in this world where people grew up by 12 and were adults by 16 and mostly had a family by 18 or 19 but… at least we were together.
"Hmm... ah." she was still ruthless despite being a 9-year-old 'girl'.
Back in that shit world, many things remained unfinished for us.
From the endgame to a happy life.
But in this place, even though we were most probably twins, we can have everything we desired.
And to achieve those things, we had many things to do.
[Ding!]
And to mark my words as true, the system notification popped up before my eyes.
The second phase of plan-1 would start by tomorrow, so she was itching to dirty her hands.
And for that, she had to stop sucking me first.
"El, l-looks like the scan, ah~, i-is done." I somehow managed to say that and pulled myself back.
"What a pity, you're already so delicious~." licking her lips in a wrong way, she effortlessly replaced her delighted smile with a serious but smiling expression.
[ *Scan of the workplace of ID: Lucifer, is complete.* ]
[ *Signs of a unique higher-level skills are found.* ]
[Assessing the new skill.]
A weird loading window appeared before us but, unlike when a similar one appeared when she made her dismantle, it finished very quickly.
[< A skill of the highest grade possible by human limits has been created for the first time in the specific part of the Worldline. >]
[
[Increasing rewards to match the achievements.]
…
[ For being the youngest human to combine five [Grade-2] skills into [Grade-3.5] skill,
[Congratulations! You're the youngest human to achieve
[Doubling the rewards for outstanding achievements!]
With those words, a slow hymn started playing in the bathroom as two silver boxes materialized in front of us.
"One is mine~!" and as I expected, she just grabbed one and handed me the other.
Receiving a gift of the silver level was considered a notable achievement and here, we have just received not one but two such boxes.
But I was slightly concerned.
This time was different from when El created her unique skill.
She had created a celestial skill that granted her a choice to not broadcast the info on the achievement.
But, in my situation right now, I had no choice in this matter.
[The achievements had picked the attention of many higher beings in the worldline.]
[Some
[Some
[Some [Gods] have started watching you.]
...
[ "We knew this would happen anyway so, let's just go and open the rewards~!" ] she shouted in my head and pointed her palm at me.
{(Wind)}
A unique light green magic circle materialized and a warm wind flowed through her hand and enveloped me completely.
And after a moment, I was completely dry and even more refreshed than before.
'As amazing as ever…'
Her elemental magic was the best there could be.
She can alter a simple wind spell into cold, dry, hot, or even sharp like a knife wind.
That level of magic processing was something that only high-level mages could do and that too required a great amount of concentration.
And she was still at the beginner stage in terms of system criteria.
Still, even that was already high considering no one reaches the intermediate stage before 16.
Not even the broken MCs of this game.
But, she will reach it soon. I have no doubt about it.
Hugging her from behind, I bit her ear. A punishment that was no less pleasurable than sucking me.
We were nine and even then, I was already one-forty, and she was one-thirty two.
This was much more than the previous world we were in.
But she was still a cute little bloodthirsty ferocious rabbit.
"You're delicious too~. Wish I could eat right now. I'm hungry from that long dance."
And I was really hungry.
Our food consumption was low and only of edible quality, but then again, the Mana stones we received as reward were also a substitute for food.
The energy we can suck out from it is enough to let the food go entirely.
But, we can always have pretty good food after today.
"Ok. Let's go." Pulling herself ahead with a straight voice but a flushed face, she hurriedly walked out of the bathroom.
I sighed and closed all those unnecessary system windows and also walked out.
She was sitting on the bed, so I also walked beside her and settled down on the bed.
My head was on her lap, but she just happily looked at the silver box in hand.
"Let's open this together," she suggested, and a smirk appeared on my face.
"Three-" I started without answering, and her eyes quickly sharpened.
"Two, one. Open!" And just like the little child she was, she ended the count and opened the box at the same time as me.