"Bwother!"
"Bwother!"
"Big Bwother! Get upp!!! The bwad boys left!"
Elane shouted as she shook her brother, trying to wake him up from his inanimate state.
"Big Bwother!!! Wake up!!!! Elane will be angwy if you don't wakey!"
Against all odds, Loki's fingers twitched. Followed by his eyebrows, his lips, and finally his eyelids that shot open as his eyes hysterically scanned the area around himself for any dangers.
'What the hell!'
'Who is this little girl!'
'Why does my head hurt so much!'
'Ouch! And my back! It hurts so much!
'It feels like I've been whipped!'
Loki slowly pushed himself up using his quivering elbows, subject to the stern gaze of the little girl who had almost started crying.
"Big Bwother!!!!" Elane happily hugged her brother tightly like she had just lost him forever.
"Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Calm down, Elane! Calm down!" Loki winced in pain as Elane touched the wounds on his back and then became startled at the name that arrived from his mouth during the subconscious expression.
"Yes Big Bwother!"
'What in the world!'
'Elane! Who is Elane!?'
'This little girl!?'
'How do I know her name!?'
A sudden pain that stitched his skull back together caused Loki to hold his head with both his hands as he felt like something or rather someone was trying to inflate his dented head like a balloon.
He closed his eyes and tried his best to keep away the pain but it only got worse.
'My head hurts!'
'Did something from the accident smash my head?'
'Was it the truck head? Did it land in my room!?'
After about a full minute, in which Loki heard audible clicking noises from inside his head, he allowed himself to relax a little.
'The pain! It seems to be, reducing?'
'...wait a second!'
'An unknown place! A head wound that seems to be healing! And a sister?'
Opening his eyes Loki immediately scanned his hands and the rest of his body in view.
A soft *gasp* escaped Loki's lips as he realised something.
'My body!'
'This is not my body!'
Contrary to what one would expect, instead of feeling angry, sad or even shocked and confused, Loki at this moment felt joy.
Joy beyond reason as only one thought echoed inside his head.
'This is a miracle!'
'Have I come into the world of Lord of the Mysteries!?'
But suddenly memories started to pour into his mind.
'Huh? No, that's not right.'
'I'm in Britain? In the year 1990?'
'Huh?'
As his head fully healed bits and pieces of memories about the character called Loki formed inside his head.
Loki's memories fused deeply into the young boy's soul and caused him to feel everything Loki ever did all in a span of a few seconds.
It almost caused him a concussion once again but a strange power prevented him from falling unconscious throughout the duration and kept him awake.
But with all these new memories, the ideas that he had imagined about this world immediately shattered and sent him spiralling downward from his momentary joy.
'My name is Loki?'
'I'm a street orphan and I have a sister!?'
'What the hell?'
'Did the Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth Make a mistake while transmigrating and reincarnating me!?'
"Bwother! Big Bwother! Are you alright?" Elane asked Loki as she shook his bony shoulder trying to elicit a response from him after he had gone silent for the last few minutes.
Loki snapped out of his thoughts as his eyes broke away from staring at the imaginary world he had created inside his head and looked back at Elane with a gaze filled with recognition and responsibility.
'I don't know if it is Loki's last wish that did this, but given how deeply his memories have entwined with me it's hard not to see the little girl as anything but my own cute little sister.'
'How could you leave such a pretty and cute sister behind Loki?'
'Worry not! I shall give our sister the best treatment she deserves!''
"Yes, Elane Big Brother is alright! Come let's go home and then we can eat dinner today. Aren't you hungry after you kicked up such a big fuss?"
"Noo!!!! Elane didn't kick fuss!! Elane only wanted to be with big bwother!"
A smile formed on Loki's face, he patted Elane's head and stood up from the concrete floor of the dark and dingy alley he was lying on. With great effort if his trembling feet and hands were any indication.
The muscles in his back creaked and remained knotted in various places as he did his best to stand upright and limp along with Elane who was trying her best to support him.
'How did he remain so quiet in the face of so much pain?'
'Goddamn, you've got a lot of determination for being so much younger than me.'
'I will do my best to get the revenge you deserve. And dish out as much pain as I can to Ludwig for trying to harm our angel-like little sister.'
Stumbling a little bit Loki balanced himself with the help of his sister when his eyes fell on her pretty white dress.
'Oh! She'll get saddened because of my blood stain on her dress.'
Shifting through his memories, Loki had learnt that while not true, he had always told Elane that the dress was their mother's last gift to them before she passed away.
He told this so that Elane would always think she had someone who loved her if he ever died or went missing.
'I'll try to keep her attention away from it and see if I can swindle her into thinking that it was always like that.'
'I also need to find a way to earn money quickly and move away from this area, otherwise, Ludwig and his gang of bullies won't leave me and my sister alone.'
Arriving in front of their home which was just a worn-down wooden shack that was propped up with haphazardly placed poles and plastic bags to keep the rain out, Loki smiled affectionately and rubbed his sister's head.
"Thank you for helping big Bwother walk all the way home Elane!"
"Hmpf! Elane is a good girl!"
"Umu~ Umu~ Elane is a very very good girl!" Loki said patting Elane's head which caused her to giggle.
"Hehehehe~"
And since his experience with the original Loki's memories were still fresh in his mind, the laughter fell on his ears like the symphony of a Bach concert in a wonderous orchestra hall causing him to smile and tear up a little.
'Now that I am Loki and Elane is my sister, I need to protect her and keep her safe. At least to the best of my abilities, it's the least I owe to him for taking over his life.'
Walking into the house that was built for their size, Loki pulled off his dirty shirt and stowed it away in a plastic bag.
'I need to get a new pair of shirts.'
'Perhaps I can find some discarded ones in trash bins again.'
After washing both his and Elane's hands with a bottle filled with tap water he'd gotten from the public library nearby, Loki knelt down to pull out a floorboard.
Underneath it was a piece of bread that was wrapped in a newspaper.
Looking at the bread, a strange memory surfaced in Loki's mind as a soft smile graced his lips.
Following this memory, he broke the bread into two pieces in a ratio of eight to two and handed over the larger part to his little sister.
"Big bwother! Big bwother!! I grew up today! So I can have the small part!"
"But Big Brother also grew up today Elane! So you're still small. Have the big part, because small people need more food."
Shaking her head rapidly Elane *mewled* and *squealed* to show her disagreement with Loki.
"No! Today I grew up and became bigger!" Elane said this and pouted cutely as she turned away from her brother in mock anger.
"Alright! Elane! Look! Today I will have a little bit more!" Loki said and broke off a small piece of bread from the large part and handed over the rest to Elane.
"Big Bwother! Look! Elane will grow stronger and taller soon and then you can have the bigger piece!"
"Haha~ Sure, I'm sure my Elane will grow up a lot and become a strong and beautiful lady!"
"Umu! I pinky promised Big Bwother."