Chapter 1 Part 1 of 2
Centrica – Empyrean Mansion, February 4, 997 A.I
Centrica, known as the center of the world, stands a great mansion with a size that could well be perceived as a castle. Surrounding it was a simple town enclosed within a thin layer of walls which separated the abundant fields and plains around it. While to the east outside of the town, lays a crystal clear lake so pure you could almost see its bottom.
On the highest floor of the great mansion known as the Empyrean Mansion, a sweet scent of lavender enveloped a medium sized room. Leaning over the balcony with open doors connected to the room, a girl with long rosen colored hair which was twirled at its end smiled as a breeze gently stroked past her, rustling the curtains behind her.
This girl with an aura rivaling that of princesses was named Aurellia Bloomsworth. Currently, she is the master of the Empyrean Mansion. With white clothes adorned with pink and gold bringing out an innocent impression, and complimented with a layer royal red swinging down her the left side of her waist dignifying her with a strong presence. She was the embodied form of perfection. Her figure was beautifully charming and flawless, with deep blue eyes seemingly capable of seeing through you, and incomparable knowledge. Aurellia was loved and respected by the people, despite her young age, she became the youngest ruler of Centrica at the sheer age of 16.
The sound of bed sheets rustling could be heard. Taking notice, Aurellia laid her hands over her chest and decided to head inside.
The interior of the room was quite extravagant, its walls were coated in a pearly white color surrounding the circular room. The ceiling was shaped into a dome adding a spacious elegant charm, with a sofa and small table on one side, a dressing table, and covered by a thin semi-transparent sheet of curtain that glistened as it swayed, were two beds neatly aligned one aside each other.
Pulling back a chair by the dressing table, Aurellia reached inside one of its compartment and took out a small book. The sounds of light breathing could be heard from the two who silently slept behind her. It’s been a day since the time they suddenly woke up and collapsed again. As if to pass time, Aurellia wrote down a few entries inside the small book before abruptly stopping. It was peaceful and silent, only the sound of the wind rustling the curtains could be heard. But no matter how faint a sound can be, Aurellia could hear a soft rustling sound and thus she smiled.
Turning over her sitting position, Aurellia sat sideways looking towards the girl on a bed across from her. “So are you feeling better now?” She asked.
Blinking blankly, still staring out towards the balcony the girl still hasn’t responded. Instead she faintly muttered the name Sephia. Calling the name Sephii over and over, a single tear, sparkling like a diamond flowed down her cheek.
A feeling of unease sent shivers down Aurellia’s spine. Without her noticing it, Aurellia was captivated by the girls figure. Getting up and slowly approaching the girl so as not to startle her, Aurellia gently lifted the curtain and sat beside the girl.
With tender care, Aurellia held the girl’s hand within her own, gently stroking it. Then leaning towards the girl, Aurellia whispered in her ears with the softest voice she could. “Don’t worry…I’ll protect you”
In that moment, light returned to the hazy blank eyes of the girl as she looked up towards Aurellia. Voicing out one last word “Seph…ia” she collapsed once more into the hands of Aurellia.
Behind them a voice could be heard as it rustled the bed sheets. “Mmmh…Michael…?” The girl with silver hair said as she rubbed her eyes taking in her surroundings.
“Good Morning Eve. Are you feeling okay now?” Aurellia beamed a smile as she gently shifted her body to accommodate Michael now resting on her lap.
Jumping up from the bed, Eve almost tore the curtains as she swiped them aside. “W-wha? WHAAT!? Who are you? What did you do to M-michi?” Eve said. Her face visibly showed her surprised, worried emotions as she crawled across the bed towards the two.
Aurellia giggled seeing Eve’s reaction. As if inciting her, Aurellia started stroking Michael’s head. “You worry too much, Michael is fine. Look for yourself” She said as she invited Eve who was wary of her to get even closer.
Conflicted between being wary of someone she doesn’t know and of Michael’s well-being, Eve pouted. “Muuu…” Sounding displeased she proceeded grumpily towards the two.
“Here” Aurellia said, leaning her back a bit to give space for Eve, allowing her to see Michael’s figure currently snuggled up on her lap.
Trying to avoid eye contact with Aurellia, Eve nervously leaned closer to get a close look at Michael’s face. Immediately after, Eve puffed her cheeks pulling herself back. “W-what is that? Why is M-Michi clinging to you? What did you dooo!” Eve frustratingly said while ruffling her hair.
Sure enough, Michael who was curled up on Aurellia’s lap had his hand clinging to her dress with a peaceful face. Of course this made Eve jealous as she tried to make it apparent that only she was the closest to him by trying to pull him away from Aurellia.
“Ah… don’t worry I didn’t do anything to Michi. I just put her to sleep. Since she was mumbling a name when she woke up” Aurellia said with a smile that only made Eve even more irritated.
Eve suddenly realized something was off. Glaring at Aurellia, she pointed towards her. “Wait…how do you know our names? What happened? And where exactly are we?” Eve’s eyes glinted with seriousness having fully regained her awareness after waking up.
“Now..now…There is no need to be so wary. Could it be you don’t remember what happened yesterday? Well I suppose it’s fine since you two collapsed-!?” Aurellia abruptly stopped and quickly became worried by the sudden change in Eve’s expression.
“Yesterday…?- Hghh! –urk!?” Eve winced. A pain that felt like her head was about to explode forced her to clench her teeth to endure it.
Seeing Eve in pain moved Aurellia on impulse to help subdue it, but the hand she outstretched was smacked away by Eve to her dismay.
“Don’t force yourself, let me help you!” Aurellia tried to once again reach out to Eve but was once again rejected.
Memories of the past started to cloud Eve’s mind. With each passing image a searing pain pulsed through her head. It was so painful that it clouded all her senses. Various muddled images continued to pile up in her mind. But that wasn’t all, feelings she can’t begin to describe surged through her.
“Eve…? Listen to my voice!” Aurellia’s voice calling out to her no longer reached her ears. What’s more Aurellia felt a deep chill from her body immobilizing her. No matter how hard she tried, her hands only shook in place.
Becoming ever more drowned within her mind, Eve’s condition worsened. Her breaths became erratic as if hyperventilating causing her body to shake uncontrollably gasping for air. But at that moment, to Aurellia’s surprise Michael had already moved away from her lap.
“EVEEE!?” Michael shouted out, enveloping Eve’s quaking body in her arms.
For a split second, an unknown phenomenon occurred. A bright golden light originating from Eve’s ribbon lit the room enveloping both Michael and Eve. Shortly after, Eve’s condition stabilized and Aurellia became able to move again.
“What..was that?” Aurellia muttered under her breath, she raised her hands that are no longer shaking in disbelief.
“Nhh..Michi? Morning..-!? Whaa-!” Apparently clueless to what had happened, Eve acting like she just woke up was surprised at Michael’s reaction.
Clinging to Eve’s arm while weeping, Michael looked up towards Eve with teary eyes. “Stupid Eve…don’t make such a scary face again…don’t you know how worried I was?” Michael said, she then continued crying on Eve’s arm.
“H-hey? What happened?” Eve awkwardly asked while stroking Michael’s hair.
A small muffled voice from Michael who had been burying his face on Eve’s arm replied. “I-I was…” but quickly broke down into tears again.
Making a puzzled face, the baffled Eve quickly tried to console Michael while looking around to get an explanation of what just happened. It was then Eve noticed Aurellia staring at her two raised hands.
“Those hands…what did you do to my Michi?” Eve raised her voice, directing it towards Aurellia who had been sitting silently before her.
“Huh?” Aurellia taken by surprise looked up, blinking in confusion.
“D-don’t huh me! Who are you, and what did you do to Michi?” Prying her arm away from Michael, Eve then enveloped Michael in her arms.
“W-wait!? I-I’m Aurellia Bloomsworth. I’m the one who took care of the two of you and brought you here” Aurellia quickly replied, it was the first time she was ever interrogated. An unfamiliar feeling she never felt caused her to lose her composure.
Taking a closer look at Aurellia’s figure, Eve’s eye stopped when she looked towards her chest. Feeling slightly annoyed she tried to look give Aurellia a menacing look. “Did you perhaps try to do perverted things to Michi?”
“What? Where did that come from!?” Aurellia said as her eyes widened in surprise.
“T-then what are you doing with your hands? Michi is mine! So no touching!” Dragging Michael with her, Eve backed away from Aurellia.
“Eh…?” Aurellia wasn’t aware herself of what she was doing. It was then she realized, her hands have been repeatedly making a squeezing gesture without her consent.
“N-no! You got it all wrong! My hand was feeling numb that’s why!” Aurellia tried to explain. “L-look they are all better now! So please don’t run away!” Aurellia waved her hands, and started to slowly crawl towards the two. Her developed breasts slightly peeking out from her dress swayed as they jiggled with her every movement.
Eve sat with a disgusted look. “Are you trying to pick a fight with me?” She pointed towards Aurellia’s direction.
Stopping few paces before reaching the two, Aurellia still on all four replied. “Eh? Why would I be?”
“Gaaahh!!!” You are so annoying!” Eve shouted out.
Michael who had been smudged to Eve’s chest was thrown aside. With a twitching annoyed smile, Eve jumped towards the bewildered Aurellia.
“W-wait? Where are you touching!? Hiyaaaaann-…” A soft moan left Aurellia’s lips as she was assaulted by Eve.
Pinning Aurellia down, Eve reached out and groped her chest. “Hehehehe…This! this is what you get for flaunting your asset trying to seduce me! I know I don’t have a chest, but could you-…Nyah!” Eve was struck by a head chop from behind by Michael.
“Phew…I’m sorry about this…Eve is quite troublesome sometimes. Sorry again…” Michael said while clasping her hands together asking for forgiveness.
Still in a daze after one event after another, Aurellia sat upright covering her chest. Her face was flushed red. Seemingly, unable to process what had just happened or what to feel, she just smiled in return.
“Now apologize properly!” Michael said, as she dragged Eve who had been rolling around on the bed away from them back.
Sniffling with teary eyes, Eve nodded and faced Aurellia. “I’m sowie…I won’t do it again….maybe” Eve muttered the last part while looking away.
This made Aurellia who had sensitive ears move quite a distance away from Eve while covering her chest. On the other hand, it ignited Eve’s mischievous sense which sent shivers down Aurellia’s spine, being on the receiving end of Eve’s ominous looking stare. As a matter of fact, Aurellia could swear she saw a glimpse of an evil looking smirk for a split second coming from Eve.
Eve turned her back and faced Michael once more. “That really hurt you know…let me heal myself on your chest again!” Acting like a spoiled child, Eve pouted.
“B-but…it’s embarrassing and Aurellia is looking…” Michael looked away trying to evade Eve’s persisting gaze.
“That’s not fair! Whenever I did something bad I’d always spoil you, but you won’t do the same! Aren’t you.. supposed to be.. the older sister?” Eve’s voice started to crack.
Michael tried hard to endure against Eve’s persistency but failed. “Ngghhh…arghh! Okay fine! Just this on- Hiyaaa!?” Before she could finish Eve had already leaped into his arms.
Snuggling her cheeks lovingly on Michael’s chest, it seemed that Eve’s teary sadness was just one of her usual mischievous acts. How else would you explain someone on the verge of tears quickly switch to having a blissful smile filled with satisfaction written all over her face. Although Michael was pretty much used to it, it seemed Aurellia was quite affected seeing her stare in a slightly surprised manner looking at the two’s embrace.
“W-w-what are you two doing?” Aurellia stammered as she covered her eyes.
“Hnn…? Are you perhaps jealous of our relationship?” Eve snickered as she continued to fawn over Michael.
“Uuu…s-stop teasing her. Are you done yet..it-it’s embarrassing!” Michael clenched her eyes tight looking away as Eve coiled up around his body.
Trying hard not to look, it seemed even Aurellia felt something overcome her. A feeling she can’t quite describe made her feel hot. As such, curiosity got the better of her, sneakily stealing glances through the slits of her fingers,
“Hmm…mmm…? Eh?” Eve seemingly rubbed her face on Michael’s chest with a distressed look. “What is this?” She asked as she lifted her hand touching his chest.
Feeling an unusual jolt of surprise which sent shivers throughout her body, Michael instantly covered her chest. “W-what? Where are you t-touching me?” She said while trying to look angry.
With still a confused look on her face Eve tried to remember the sensation of Michael’s chest. “Were you always this flat…?” She asked to herself, murmuring under her breathe. Eve’s hands once more reached out and touched Michael’s chest again.
“Hiyaaan-!!! S-stop it Aurellia is looking!” Michael tried to back away.
“Eh!? N-no I’m not looking, I’m not looking! Don’t mind me” Aurellia instantly replied, her eyes both visibly seen peeking through the gaps of her fingers.
“You’re definitely looking!” Eve and Michael said in unison, both looking towards Aurellia making her cover her face again.
“Arghhh! Something isn’t right!” Eve sent a glare towards the blushing Aurellia covering her face.
Eve glanced towards Aurellia’s chest, and then back towards Michael’s chest before eventually looking at her own chest. This repeated a few times until it struck her. She then returned to face Michael.
“W-what is it…?” Michael uneasily asked.
Grabbing Michael’s hand, Eve guided them to her chest and promptly squeezed them. “Nyah!? So this isn’t a dream?” Eve let out a voice while looking surprised.
“Oh..! Good for you Eve! I’m happy that you finally grew up…Wait that’s not the point!? What are you making me do!?” Michael hastily pulled back his hands. Steam seemed to trail from the top of her head.
“Eh..? But I was just making sure…What’s there to be embarrassed about? We always had a bath together and you’ve seen me naked plenty of times.” Eve casually said while continuing to feel her new found chest making sure.
“This and that are different things!” Michael said giving a perplexed look between embarrassed and mad. “See! You’re troubling Aurellia with this behavi..or..?”
Across the two, Aurellia had seemingly been stunned by what unfolded before her eyes. It gave such a mixed feeling she couldn’t help but stare with an agape mouth.
“Ah! I almost forgot!” Eve raised a finger tapping her chin. “Michi!!! This is horrible!” Her facial expression quickly changed into a one who looked like she was in dire trouble.
“W-w-what!? What’s happening? What’s going on!?” Michael confusingly said as Eve shook her back and forth causing her to get dizzy.
“Your chest! What happened to your plump juicy chest!? It’s GONE!” Eve stared seriously into Michael’s eyes.
“What are you talking about…there’s no way that could– ” Michael peeked down through the collar of her clothes. “I-IT’S REALLY GONE!!!” She said in a panicked voice.
“Then this can only mean one thing!” Eve turned her head around looking towards Aurellia’s direction. “You…you stole Michi’s chest didn’t you!?”
A chill reignited within Aurellia’s body. In an instance Eve closed the gap between them and pounced over Aurellia trying to undress her.
“Hiyaaaa-! W-whaaat!? How can that even p-possibly happen?” Aurellia’s face was devastatingly flustered as she tried to defend herself and get away.
“Giv-give them baaacckkk!!” Eve said, while seemingly enjoying the situation.
“N-noooo! I didn’t steal anything!” Aurellia squirmed under Eve’s pressure.
Unsure of what to do, Michael just sat there looking at the two wrestle each other. It was only when they started to roll around she yelled out, “Watch out!” trying to warn them.
“Uwaaah-! Nyaaahh-!” Aurellia and Eve respectively shouted out.
A loud clunking sound could be heard as they tumbled down crashing from the bed towards the hard wooden floor. Shortly after the door to their room opened, entering from it was a small petite girl holding a rabbit doll, with lustrous pink hair, wearing a cute slightly transparent sleeping dress rubbed her eyes yawning.
“Nn…sis…why are you so noisy in the morning…” The little girl said.
With a surprised look, Aurellia realized her position was now reversed from being pinned to the one pinning down Eve. Trying to keep her composure, she smiled while replying, “It’s nothing Mira! We just tripped that’s all!”
Hugging her doll to her chest, Mira looked at Michael then to Aurellia and Eve a few times. Her eyes with pitch black pupils lit up. “Ah! I’m sorry…I’m Mira, Aurellia’s little sister..” Mira courteously bowed. Her gaze then settled towards her sister Aurellia. “Is this one of your new games sis?” Mira asked tilting her head slightly.
A moment of shock was visible on the look of Aurellia’s face. “N-no! Really it’s nothing…ahahaha” Aurellia said while trying to avoid eye contact. “A-anyway it’s almost time for breakfast! We’ll be coming down shortly so get changed Mira!” Aurellia cleared her throat as she tried to pick herself up.
Not wanting to miss this chance, Eve made a smug look and wrapped her arms around Aurellia’s neck. “Oh…! Hi Mira! I’m Eve, and over there is Michi. You’re so cute just like your sister Lia here.” Eve smiled.
Clinging to Aurellia not letting her go, Eve waved towards the puzzled Mira. Following her suit, Michi also waved awkwardly shy with Mira rotating looks between them again smiling.
“L-lia? Who is that?” Unable to get up, Aurellia slightly moved aside and sat down beside Eve.
“Well Aurellia is too long to say, so we’ll call you Lia. Well since Mira is already cute we’ll keep it as Mira” Eve smirked.
“W-wait! I never said anything about that!?” Aurellia said while trying to pry Eve’s hand away from herself.
Mira showed a slight change in her expression as she blushed reacting to the word cute. Seeing that, tingled Eve’s mischievous sense even more.
“Hey Mira, want to join in your sister’s game?” Eve teased, leaning closer to Aurellia.
“Umm…-” Mira had a perplexed look on her face.
“T-that’s enough!” Aurellia gathered her strength and got away from Eve. “There is no need to think about anything Mira. Eve was just teasing you. So how about I help you get changed before we head down for breakfast?”
Nodding obediently, Mira walked towards Aurellia and held her hand. Aurellia after giving her a pat on her head, the two hand in hand walked out the door. Aurellia then with a smile looked back inside the room towards the two.
“We’ll be back to pick you up for breakfast. Please don’t worry and think of this place as your own house. My belongings are also yours, so help yourself to whatever you need. You two are now a precious family member to us.” Aurellia said.
Peeking behind Aurellia, Mira said in a muffled voice, “P-please eat with us s-sis Eve a-and Michi…” Her bunny doll ears playfully bounced to her voice as she covered her mouth with it.
A low rumbling sound could be head from Mira’s stomach. Feeling embarrassed Mira started tugging Aurellia down the hall covering her face.
“Alright, alright I’m coming... Ah! Okay then, I’ll see you two later after I get Mira ready. Don’t you two fall asleep again okay!? You two haven’t eaten a thing for who knows how long.” Aurellia said in a stern voice. Taking her leave, she closed the door behind her.
Feeling rather tense before, Michael finally heaved a sigh. “Uuu…How could you do that Eve? What if she kicked us out? We don’t even know where we are or how we got here…”
Getting up on her feet, Eve quickly returned to Michael’s side. “Well she thinks of us as family…? So, isn’t that a good thing? And her little sister Mira is so cute! She looks just like you when you were little” Eve said slightly drooling when she mentioned Mira.
Hitting Eve lightly on the head, Michael replied, “Sure she did say that so I suppose it’s okay…but, don’t you dare teach weird things to Mira.” Michael replied, raising her hand up high above Eve’s head as a warning.
“Hiyaaa-! I get it, I get it…huuu…” Eve covered her head anticipating another chop that might come falling down. While pouting she then remembered something. “Oh that’s right! We need to do something about your chest! It just doesn’t look right the way it is now, so take the top off I’ll do something about it!” Eve’s eyes glittered with determination as she got up and started to rummage through Aurellia’s drawers.
“H-hey Eve, that’s a breach of private property, it’s not ours. Stop it…” Michael got up and said in a hushed voice trying to stop her.
“Don’t worry, she specifically said to make ourselves at home and that everything she owns is ours as well. And…we are doing just that! No worries~” Eve gave a wink as she continued to desecrate the pile of neatly arranged underwear inside the drawer.
“At least…don’t make a mess out it” Michael sighed, shaking her head.
After a few minutes of rummaging, Eve finally took out a few pair brassieres. Michael on the other hand, slowly tidied up the mess Eve made.
“Ahaa! Found it! Now take off your top and I’ll fix your chest problem!” Eve innocently smiled while reaching out trying to undress Michael.
“I-I can do it myself…just tell me what to do” Michael replied holding down her clothes.
Eve decided to try a different approach from behind. “What’s there to be embarrassed about? It’s just the two of us now! Now come on take off your top!” Eve said while forcefully trying to pry off Michael’s top.
Stumbling from the tug of war, Michael slipped causing Eve behind her to also topple over back towards the bed.
“Gotcha!” While Michael was in a surprised state, Eve successfully pulled off her clothes over her head leaving her upper body bare.
“Hiyaaa-! D-don’t look!” Michael shrieked as he covered his chest.
“Then how am I supposed to fix you up if you won’t stay still!” Eve pounced on top of Michael. Pinning her down, she slowly pried apart her hands.
At the same time, the door towards the room swung open. Aurellia with a Mira, who had changed into a rather cute bunny outfit, had entered the room.
Aurellia & Mira enters the room.
In that instant, Aurellia smiled and quickly slammed the door shut. The sound of her voice could be heard from behind the door saying, “Mira, can you please head down and help out with breakfast? We’ll be down in a minute”
The door slowly creaked open again shortly after with Aurellia her slipping in. Hearing the sound of footsteps going down the stairs, Aurellia closed the door behind her.
Aurellia sighed. “Haah…What are you two up to now?”
“A-aurellia? Help meeee….” Michael pleaded to her.
“No! Help me instead! Michi won’t stay still. If she doesn’t stay still I can’t fix her chest problem” Eve said while totally ignoring Aurellia’s presence and focusing on trying to put on the brassiere she’s holding on Michael.
Moving in behind Eve, Aurellia raised her hand. “Hmm…how was it again? I think it’s something like this.” Aurellia swung her hand down into a chopping motion, copying what Michael had done before to Eve.
“Nyah-! What was that for?” Eve retreated away while covering her head.
“Ohh…so it worked?” Aurellia seemed astonished. Picking up Michael’s clothes, she helped put them back on.
Now clinging to Aurellia, Michael thanked her. This made Eve puff her cheeks.
“Hey, doing that doesn’t solve her problems!” Eve protested.
Looking at the blank area on Michael’s chest, Aurellia tried to think of a solution. “Hmm…I think I have just the thing…wait!” Her face lightened up as she got up.
Aurellia moved to her drawers Eve rummaged before and opened what seemed to be a secret compartment, within it she took out a transparent half spherical jelly like object before returning to the two curiously in wait.
“What is that…is that food?” Eve questioningly asked, her eyes seemed like she would devour them if given the chance to.
“N-no it’s not edible!” Aurellia replied while shielding them from Eve’s view.
“Are you filled with naughty thoughts and food all the time Eve?” Michael added.
“W-what? Is that how you see me!?” Eve made a dejected sad face.
“Now now…don’t fight. Maybe it’s the hunger talking. Anyway can you move your hands aside for a moment Michi?” Aurellia politely asked with a smile rotating looks between Eve and Michael.
Michael obediently did as told, while Eve who became slightly irritated on the other hand tried avoiding eye contact.
“Nnhh..” Michael flinched. A soft cold sensation was suddenly dropped on to her chest which was misinterpreted by Eve.
“What did you do to Michi!?” A surprised Eve quickly pulled Michael away from Aurellia.
“Well…I gave her a pair of chamo jello slime. I think that should fix her problem”
“It feels…rather cold and squishy” Michael said as she wrapped his arm around her chest.
The slime had the ability to change color to whatever surface it was attached to. It always had a cool temperature and it wasn’t slimy or sticky at the least. But for some reason, it was apparent that it could stick to Michael’s chest just fine without falling off. Even now, it had even taken the color of her skin and blended naturally as if it belonged there. This triggered an astonished Eve to curiously poke Michael’s newfound chest
“Oh but please try not touching it so much…because if you do, it would feel threatened and start sucking your skin-” Aurellia explained.
At the same moment ignoring Aurellia, Eve started to vigorously do repeated pokes on Michael’s chest. This caused her to let out weird sounds before Aurellia intervened and hit Eve’s head again to stop her.
Aurellia clapped her hands gaining the attention of the two. “Okay now that that’s all settled, let’s head down for breakfast! There’s a lot I want to talk to you two about but we’ll discuss it later”
Exiting the room, Aurellia guided the two down quite a long spiral staircase into the main building where they were greeted by a row of beautiful maids. Seeing so many people casually greeting made Eve and Michael feel anxious, but Aurellia firmly assured them it’s alright. Turning right from the staircase not too far from the corridor, the sounds of light footsteps could be heard. It was Mira. Popping out from one of the rooms, she waved her hands ushering them to hurry inside.
Entering the room, Eve and Michael were astonished by how immense the dining room was. With rows of seats and tables, it looked more like a party rather than a normal breakfast. Inside there were even more maids and manservants who stood up and bowed upon Aurellia’s entrance.
After being guided towards a separate area atop a podium seated above the rest, the four sat down. On their table a drink had been prepared for each and everybody present, but the moment Aurellia stood raised her drink above her, the room fell into silence and everybody followed suit. This particular behavior confused both Eve and Michi as they were slow to follow suit. After a word of praise, Aurellia took a sip and returned to her seat. The tense and silent atmosphere was immediately replaced by happy conversations as one by one food were distributed in turns by those in duty.
Just as Eve and Michael was curious enough to ask questions, the scent of all sorts of food started to stimulate their hunger. With Aurellia beckoning them to eat and Mira who seemed to be holding back her hunger waiting for her older sister to take the first bite, Eve and Michael then agreed to leave the matters for later.
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