There are many things that she, Louise Raevender didn't understand. Things that she desperately want but cannot achieve or even catch the feeling of it no matter how hard she try. Things that she want to understand but unable to even comprehend the meaning of every word and action. And that was her little brother, Raphael Raevender.
When they were little children, her younger brother had learned to read, write and do arithmetic before her, his older sister. He even learned how to play musical instruments at early age.
He also create many new food dishes, composed various popular musical pieces, and invented my convenient things. His teachers and the servants already called him a child prodigy, a genius and in many more names.
Their mothers had high expectations of him. Spoiling him so much and provided all of his needs. Their mothers spoiled her too, but not as much as how they spoiled her little brother.
But when he reached a certain age, he told our mothers to not to spoil him too much. He even said that instead of wasting golds for his luxurious life, they should spent it for our territory's development. She couldn't help but think how can such a young child said those complicated words.
Even though she started my training a year prior to him, he already on par or even surpassed her in many aspects. Which made her pride to shatter into thousands of tiny pieces.
He is more superior to her in terms of magic. Their mom said that he had the potential to surpass her, the Sage. She is still superior in sword than him, but only in swordsmanship.
His growth rate was so fast that he surpassed her sister in a short period of time. Right now, he already had the strength of a S-ranked Adventurer at age of 13, a more than a year younger than his own sister achieved that level of power.
But that were just trivial things to her, the things that she couldn't understand was their indistinguishable distance. No matter how much she tried to close the gap between her and her little brother, physically and emotionally, their distance remain unchanged.
For her, it felt like there was an invisible wall that separated them between two realms. Even though he looked at her every time they interact, she felt that he didn't look straight at her and only gaze to very far distance.
But when she discovered that he had hiding many secrets, she used this opportunity to learn about her brother more. And that discovery will change the way she looked at her little brother.
She was appalled to every secrets her little brother said. It was just too absurd and almost impossible to believe. But she desperately tried to understand and slowly absorbed every word that her brother let out off of his mouth.
But in the end, she just accepted the real identity of her little brother. She accepted that he already surpassed her in many aspects and even make proud of him. To the point where she forgot that she was the older sister.
Knowing the reason of their immeasurable distance relieves her so much. She was enlightened to the point that it even breaks the invisible wall that separated them all the time.
"No matter who or what you are or will become, I will always be there and support you." she said to her sleeping brother.
After their long discussion, Raphael completely fell asleep and sound as if he used all of his strength revealing the truth. Of course, he cannot hear anything to what her sister just said.
"I love you, Raphael. And that will never change." then she kissed her little brother in the head.
"If only, we are not…" back slashed by the dizziness she held back for a long time, she slowly closed her eyes and silently fall asleep.
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I woke up and found myself not in my room. I checked the time in my head and it is quarter to six in the morning. I looked around and saw my sister sleeping soundly besides me.
(Ahh, that's right.)
Last night, I decided to tell my sister the truth. Sister accepted who I am and now I am able to open up more. We talked until the midnight and decided for us to sleep together.
Seeing the beautiful sleeping face and the defenseless body of my sister reminds me that I am already at that certain period of life. I looked down to my crouch and saw boy's daily metabolism, a morning wood.
I immediately stood up and get off of the bed. I get out of the room after confirming no one is around. I must distance myself from my sister before I do something bad to her.
I silently walked the dim hallway and get to my own room. I throw myself to my bed and took a short nap.
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Since then, the gap between me and my sister shrunk closer, even physically. We interact more frequently and she always asked about my previous world.
"Hey, Raphael. When will you start forging me a katana?"
"Maybe tomorrow, after your birthday."
We are having tea under the gazebo right now. Things are getting busy in the mansion, so we stayed outside to separate ourselves from stress.
"But I want to receive it today, to make it more special."
"But it takes a long time to forge one, you know?"
"Hmph!"
She pouted as she heard that I cannot make her one within this day. I can make one using Alchemy, but the sharpness and the durability was not of the real deal. I have to continually hit the hot steel to achieve the ideal quality.
"Ah! I know! Well then, Raphael. Will you forge me a katana this day?" she flashed a wicked grin then ordered me with a seductive expression.
"Do you really think you can swayed me by your charm?"
"I know. But I have a card against you."
"I know that you can't just reveal my secrets to anybody without a reason, then what is this card of yours?"
She stood up from her seat and approached me. She bent her body and whispered softly to my ears.
"If you don't forge me a katana this day, I will tell mothers that you sneaked into my room last night and took my purity."
"?!!!" I spit out all the tea I've been drinking upon hearing my sister's threatening.
(So that's what she was planning all along!!!)
If our mothers knew about this, they would killed me or beaten half dead at mercy, especially Mother. Since sister was like a mirror image of Mom, for Mother, who loves her wife so much, it was like her wife getting violated by someone.
It is true that we sleep together, but nothing happened between us! Moreover, it was sister who invited me to her room and said we sleep together!
That's why she invited me to sleep over her room. Right now, she just smiled wickedly as she watches me dancing on her palm.
"How about that, Raphael. Will you forge one today?" she moved around and presses her chest against my back.
"Why are you doing this?" I asked her nervously.
"Well, I want to make a leash on you. If you continue to move on your own, there is a high chance that you would be unstoppable and gone wild. So I'll restrain you as early as possible."
"Is that so?"
Now that I think about it, I may have been too hasty with my decisions. I am just thinking about myself. I am not thinking about the consequences of my every action, and the effect of it to my family, direct and indirect.
If I have chains that binds my hasty actions, I am glad that it was wielded by sister, a member of my family.
"Then, will you do it today?"
"Even if I forge one, I can't finish it today."
"If you make one today… I'll give you a reward!"
"?!"
My motivation suddenly raised up to zenith upon hearing her declaration. I feel like an unstoppable storm that is approaching. Like a light plastic chair standing still amidst the turbulent winds.
"If you are true to your words, I'll make you a katana right this day." I said as I stand up and turned to face her.
"You're the best, Raphael! I know you can do it."
"Prepare yourself for the future."
I said that I can't forge a katana within this day, but it's not true at all. It was that I have no time creating the katana, if I have no time. But I have a trick about that.
After that, we went to mom and asked for the materials I needed. We also told mom that we will be in the workshop for a while and she reminded us to finish early because of the party later at night.