"What was that about?" Emily asked harshly.
They were now in her room and it was silent. Their mother was doing her own thing downstairs, and finally, she could put this load out of her chest. Deep down though, she couldn't help that nagging feeling of fear.
She had read far too many things. This was the sort of thing that would break bonds forever. If the delicate situation wasn't handled how it should be, she might forever lose her relationship with her brother.
At least, it would no longer remain the same. She was deeply, deeply afraid.
Honestly, the first instinct she had was to tell her mother. But no, that was not going to be okay. He had thrown his spoon to distract their mother before he did it, so he didn't want her involvement in this.
I don't want to lose Sol. Damnit.
She looked at his face calmly. They had similar facial features—they were twins after all. Black hair, brownish-black eyes, and generally pretty features. His eyesight was totally sharp, so he didn't need glasses like her, and he was rather popular in her class.
But whatever he was, he was not a creep.
"Don't stay silent, Sol. I am not mad. You just have to tell me what led to that and everything will be back to normal. I don't hate you at all—you are still the same Sol for me."
Sol awkwardly looked away.
"Something's going on with me—can you give me some time to figure it out?" he asked.
She gritted her teeth. "If it's about the exam. Don't be so worried; even if you fail and I pass, I'll sit another grade with you. Are you romantically attracted to me?"
"Why are you asking that?"
"Or else why would you come and kiss me out of nowhere!" she hissed. "It was not even simple, slightly weird sibling kiss but actual deep kiss. It was even my first kiss!"
"Well sorry for taking it from you," he said.
"I don't mind that. I want to know why you did something like that. Tell me that."
"…"
"…"
"What if I say I am romantically attracted to you?"
Blushing slightly but keeping her face calm, Emily said, "Is that the truth?"
"It's a hypothetical. What 'if' I am romantically attracted to you."
***
As Emily walked around the room in distress, scratching her chin in irritation, Sol felt somehow free. Somehow calmer. He hadn't done what he had done solely out of necessity, it had been a wish of his since forever.
"That won't do Sol," she suddenly said. "If you are romantically interested in me, we should get rid of it somehow. Nothing good will happen because of that. You know, if we ever have children, they'll have issues in their genes and such."
"What if there are no such worries?" he asked, looking sideways at a system screen that only he seemed to be capable of viewing.
[Your Bloodline has been integrated into you. By allowing the fusion of it, your genetic structure would completely change and you will lose any biological connection with any creature in existence. You will be a unique existence with no birth parents or any prior biological connection.]
[Do you want to proceed?]
"What if there are no such worries?" Emily froze in her steps and walked towards him. She put her hands on his shoulder and asked seriously, "Brother, can we talk about this with Mom?"
"Absolutely no."
"Okay. Will our relationship remain the same as ever even if we ignore all of this?"
"Of course, what else would it be like?"
"Okay. We will not talk about it and ignore it. Don't ever act like a creep—I have a lot of respect for who you are, I don't want that to be ruined in no way at all."
"You really are such a nerd."
Sol laughed and ruffled the woman's head. She was shorter than him by a lot, just around 160 meters. While he was about 1.8 meters and still growing.
She looked at him curiously. "So, no hard feelings?"
"I am the one who should ask that," he said with a smirk. "I kissed you, not the other way."
"Okay." She pushed him out of her room and closed her door. "Well, now study on your own. Tomorrow's an exam, and I, too, am too flustered because of your bullshit."
"Don't tell Mom," he said.
"I will not. Now calm down and go to sleep." Her soft, irritated voice echoed from the other side.
***
As she leaned against the door, she could feel her heart pounding inside her chest like drums. It was hard to calm down. Whenever she looked at his face, the sight of him stealing a kiss from her was replayed in her mind.
This is so wrong.
She went to bed, but she couldn't sleep at all.
She wanted so badly to talk about this to someone.
Mom would kill him if she learned he kissed me, right?
There was a mean-spirited part within her that wanted to tease him for all of this. Make him admit that even if he called her a Nerd all year long and said she looked dorkish, he still was in love with her.
But that would only make it worse.
Then, she thought of a possibility and frowned. Is he pranking me?
***
Back in his room, his father's last words, which only he knew, kept ringing around in Sol's mind. They were sharp and irritatingly crisp.
'Keep the bloodline pure… huh?'
Sol had always guessed his bloodline had some kind of secret.
He looked at the blue screen in front of him. This was another thing that felt so foreign.
"Fuse," he muttered.
Something began to shift within him, and he could feel it. Like his very own cells were creating the most complex of structures anew within him. As if his own being was transforming into something divine.
His body had become one without an origin.
When he felt it end, and the painful pleasure came to a halt, he could already see the sun poking through his windows. Night had passed and he had an exam to attend.
[Sol Tatsuya]
[Body—Mortal (One Star)]
[Mind—Mortal (One Star)]
[Secret Arts]
[None]
[Bloodline—The incomplete God Blood.]
[Divine Points: 0]
Strangely, he felt not much different. His body kinda felt more solid, but that didn't seem as great of a difference as he believed it would.