In a big showroom near Bulkshar subway station.
"This dress also suits miss very well."
A clerk commented, who was showing dresses to Aakriti.
Aakriti who was wearing a red and white polka dot dress with a white hat and red shoes, this was her fifth time trying a dress.
Anashvar had already selected a dark blue hoodie, white shirt and black pant.
He had changed into his new clothes after Frore paid for them.
They were both waiting for Aakriti, who couldn't decide which one she wanted to buy.
Looking at her being indecisive, Frore nonchalantly said.
"If you want you can just get all of them. Blaze gave me enough money, so you can get whichever and however many you want."
Frore suspected that Blaze didn't give him some 'spare change', he just tossed him all of the money he had in his inventory.
But, it didn't matter because he was going to use his own money if Aakriti wanted to buy more clothes.
Her eyes sparked and she asked excitedly.
"Really? Can I?"
Frore never had any siblings, but he knew how to interact with them, thanks to Blaze's public display of 'brotherhood' and, also after observing his new 'younger siblings' for sometime.
Frore nodded lightly and crossed his arms.
"Yes, you can. So choose one that you want to wear right now and we will get the others which you tried on, packed."
"Ok, then I will wear this one."
She pointed to a beautiful blue dress, which was matching her hair and eye colour. It had white collars and frills at the end of the skirt and the sleeves.
She went back to the changing room and Frore went to the counter with a different clerk.
As soon as she put on that dress, a haughty sounding voice came from behind the three.
"Butler, I want that dress."
A girl with straight light pink hair that reached down to her elbows with sky blue eyes and dressed in a black gothic styled dress with matching accessories, was pointing her index finger in Aakriti's direction.
An old man in a butler's uniform, who was walking behind her asked the clerk to bring the same dress for the young lady.
However the clerk could only apologetically reply with a helpless look on her face.
"I would have to apologise ma'am but this is the last peice of this dress we had.
I can show you some other similar dresses."
The girl pouted and her expression was clearly declaring 'I am annoyed'.
"But I want that one !"
If Blaze was here, he would have used three words to describe her.
'Rich spoiled brat'.
But he wasn't here, so Frore and Anashvar would have to defend their little sister against the 'brat'.
Aakriti frowned, Frore had gone to collect the bags of the dresses and make payment.
The butler approached her.
"Miss, our young lady seems to like this dress very much. Please can you buy some other dress? We would make sure to compensate you properly."
"No, I like it too. My big brother has bought it for me."
Aakriti shook her head and Anashvar stood in front of her.
The girl moved from eyes and looked at them from head to toe, as if she was assessing their worth.
They had received similar gazes from people when they were on the streets and it felt disgusting to be looked at like that.
"Hmph."
The pink haired girl snorted, and a smirk appeared on her face.
"Is he your big brother? I can buy this whole showroom including the two of you. So, it would be in your interest to back off."
"..no. I won't give you, what my second big brother has given to me."
The girl's eyes looked like she was looking at trash.
"Don't talk back to me, you peasant. Once I set my eyes on something, I get it no matter what."
The girl released her aura.
Although the pressure was nowhere near the S ranks, it would be considerably effective against the lower ranks and non-awakened people.
Both Anashvar and Aakriti were awakeners of middle ranks, so it wasn't as effective but it did make their breathing a bit difficult.
The butler urgently tried to stop her.
"Young lady, you mustn't do that. It is prohibited for hunters to use aura or skills in a public place with unawakened people."
She ignored the butler and glared at the two siblings.
"So, you are both hunters too."
She felt a different aura pressing down at her, at that moment.
But, it was only a bit stronger than her own aura so she released more of her aura and pushed against the foreign aura.
Her eyes moved in the direction of the source of that aura.
She narrowed her eyes and asked, visibly angry.
"Who are you?!"
Frore walked towards the his siblings from the right side while carrying around five bags in both hands.
His face was still covered with a black mask and a hood.
Looking at the pale kids and the scene, Frore frowned.
He stood behind the two and placed a hand on both of their shoulders.
Frore passed his own aura to both of them, just as Blaze had done for him before.
Their breathing returned to normal and they both turned and smiled at him.
The colour of their faces was restored.
Frore glanced at the angry girl and nonchalantly replied in a cold voice.
"...their older brother."
Frore had only recently started cultivating aura, so it wasn't at the level of an A-rank's aura.
When they started to have a contest of aura. Frore was getting pushed back slowly.
{She must be an A-rank or higher. If I had a bit stronger aura, I could have pushed down on her. If only I could talk to Blaze and borrow his aura.}
[...you can.]
{Blaze..? How did you..?}
[We are connected by 'Signal Connector', I don't need to activate it ,for you to use it. You just need to think that you want to talk to me and be in a 3 Km radius of me to use it.]
[So what happened? Anyone giving you guys trouble? Should I come?]
{No,you don't need to come. It's just an ill mannered kid. An A rank. She was bullying Aakriti and Anashvar with her aura.}
[Hm..I got the gist of it. You can reveal your identity, if there is a need.]
Frore closed his eyes and opened them back again and the pressure of his aura increased exponentially.
Frore had only borrowed three percent of Blaze's aura, but it was enough to make everyone in the building, kneel.
The girl was trembling and barely managed to keep on standing.
She looked at Frore with a murderous glare.
{This is an S-rank's aura. But, I know about all of the S-ranks of the empire. He doesn't seem to be any of them. Just who is this guy?}
She gritted her teeth and spoke with great difficulty.
"How .. dare...you..? Do you..know who..my sister is?...You are.. going to wish...you hadn't..done this."