“Alice. Is it really you?” The dy asked.

  We both got up, Alice first and I followed her lead. Probably a good thing to do, just in case she is someone important.

  I’d guess she was in her early twenties, so basically the same age I am. Her hair was medium long and beige blond in color. Not quite the blond Alid Christina have, but still blond. I think the one Alid Christina have is called natural blond. Or was it buttery blond? I don’t remember.

  She was wearing a simple looking brown dress, with some floral patterns embroidered into it, so she shouldn’t be a maid.

  SpoilerFor those that want to see the picture I used as a reference for the hair colors.

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  “Aunt Paulina?” Alice said, after a few seds to recall the name of the dy.

  “Oh. So you remember me! I‘m so happy.” Paulina said as she came over and pulled Alito a hug.

  “Of course I remember you. You visited only a year ago.” Alice said.

  “But you know you could just call me big sis Paulina.” Paulina said.

  “... big sis Paulina?” Alice said carefully.

  “Yes! Just like that!” Paulina said, and seemed to hold onto Alice thigher. “I’m so happy to see you again. You’ve grown so much!”

  “It’s only been a year. I ’t have grown that much.” Alice said.

  “Oh, but you have. I feel it.” Paulina said.

  Feel? Don’t tell me you are talking about her boobs. And Alice has a very modest chest area.

  “Yic feels so much more plete. you use it now?” Paulina asked.

  “Yes. I .” Aliswered.

  “Yes. The’s have a practice match.” Paulina said.

  “... I’m not that good yet.” Alice said.

  “The’s study together. I’ll teach you.” Paulina said.

  “I’m sorry, but I already have a teacher.” Alice said.

  Pauli go of Alid turo me.

  “Could it perhaps be this man?” Paulina asked.

  “Sorry, but it's not me.” I answered. I assume Alice meant Mana, so I’m not her teacher.

  Well, I guess I do study the tactless mana trol with her, so that is something.

  “Really?” She asked as she took my hand. “Water s.”

  Did she just cast water s with no t?

  (Actually, that would be a quick t.) Laura pointed out.

  “I k. You have to be her teacher.” Paulina said.

  “... but I’m really not.” I said.

  “Then perhaps you should introduce yourself. And expin your mana circuits while you are at it.” Paulina said.

  Did she remotely feel my magic circuits? Is that even possible? Then she firmed it with the water s.

  (It’s most likely just intuition.) Laura said.

  (I see. By the way, I s her as she is ected to me?) I asked.

  (We try, but it will be a little forceful.) Laura said.

  I focused on my mana and tried to push it into her through her hand. As it was entering, I felt that she tried to pull her hand away, but I held onto it. If yoing to invade me, don’t try to run when I do it back to you.

  “Wh-What are you doing? Stop.” Paulina said.

  “Shouldn’t I ask you that? Or is it on for you to walk up to people and s them without permission?” I asked, as I pushed my mana deeper into her.

  (Laura, have you figured something out?)

  (Her magic is slightly advanced. Most likely level 3 or 4. But she use two attributes, water ah.) Laura said.

  “You are asking about my magic, while you are the abnormal owo attributes and everything.” I taunted Paulina.

  “How… How dare you?” She asked, with her voice trembling.

  “Again, you started this.” I said, but I should probably stop soon.

  “... Brian. You should probably stop.” Alice said.

  “Fine, fine. I will.” I said as I told Laura to stop the mana invasion.

  “Wow there.” I said as I held onto Paulina’s hand, as she almost colpsed after I pulled my mana out of her. As it was difficult to hold onto her just by her arm, I moved so I could hold onto her torso, almost like I was huggiimes like these are when I wish I was good enough with telekinesis to be able to move a person with that.

  “Brian. Is Paulina alright? What did you do to her?” Alice asked.

  “...I’m … I’m fine.” Paulina said, but her legs still couldn’t carry her weight, so I helped her onto one of the couches in the room.

  “I just tried to s her by f my mana into her.” I told Alice.

  “ you do that?” Alice asked.

  “Well, I did, so I guess yes. But it wasly a success, so probably not.” I said.

  “You … probably could have … do,” Paulina said, between some heavy breathing. “If I hadn’t resisted.”

  “I see. I’m sorry that I invaded your body like that, but as I said, you did it first.” I both apologized and defended my as.

  “If you expin your mana circuits, I’ll five you.” Paulina gave me her alternative.

  As I was thinking about how to expin my mana circuits, the dy arrived in the room.

  “I’m sorry for the wait.” The woman said. She was, by my estimation, ie 30s, or early 40s. Her hair had the simir buttery blond color that both Alid Christina have, but uheir long hair, hers was a lot shorter, ing only just to her shoulders. Her dress was light blue, with some dark blue embroidery.

  “Aunt Angelina.” Alice said the name of the sed dy.

  So she is Angelina. I think that means she is the eldest sister of Christina. And if I recall correctly, Paulina was the you of her sisters. So we have both the you and eldest sister present.

  “Alice. It's great to see you again.” Angelina said as she walked over and gave Alice a hug. They must really like their hugs. I know there was a reason I liked Christina so much. “And you must be Brian, correct?” She asked to firm my identity.

  “Yes. I am Brian.” I said, bowing thtly. Better to do some ass kissing, than magically assaulting multiple members of this family.

  “So then, that must be the … “ She said, looking at the founder’s terminal on my left forearm. I guess it's perfectly visible, as I took off my hoodie earlier.

  “Actually, I was w about it as well. It seems to be a high quality magic item, but I’m not sure what it is.” Paulina said.

  “So, you made it here first, Paulina. I see you are still just roaming like usual.” Angelina ented.

  “What? Am I not allowed to e see my little sister?” She asked, looking at Alice.

  “She is not your sister.” Angelina said.

  “Well, your son refuses to call me big sis, so I have to have Alice call me big sis.” Paulina said.

  “And that is why she doesn’t. You are too aggressive with your ‘big sis’ treatment.” Angelina said, before turning bae. “Mr. Brian. Wele to the Sawyer manor. You may stay for as long as you’d like.” Angelina said to me.

  “... what? I know he has some skill, but why is he a guest all of a sudden?” Paulina asked.

  “Don’t you know anything?” Angelina asked. “Did Father not tell you, or did you already fet?”

  “... I might need a reminder.” Paulina said.

  “He is Brian Wood. The founder of a dungeon close to Alewatch.” Angelina said, befetting closer to Paulina and whispering in her ear. “And a holder of System Support.”

  I heard that. Well, it is true, but I wonder why she said it so quietly. Did she not want someoo overhear? But there are only the four of us in the room. Perhaps there are some maids lurking around a er or something.

  “.... does that mean… that the magic tool on your arm is … a duerminal?” Paulina asked.

  “Oh this?” I firmed, raising my left arm. “Yes it is.” I said.

  “Then we must go. There is research to be done and experiments to run.” Paulina said, got up from the coud almost dragged me off.

  “Oh, no you don’t, you fanatic. I have business with Mr. Brian and miakes priority over your obsessions.” Angelina said.

  “Well, unlike you, I actually have a ce at beating Mariina one of these days.” Paulina taunted.

  “But unlike you, I actually do something productive with my life.” Angelina quipped back.

  Mariina? Who was she again? I think she was another of the sisters.

  (The fourth sister. A great witd golemancer.) Laura reminded me.

  Ah. I see. So there is some sibling rivalry going on and she is the oo beat.

  “Are you calling magic research useless?” Paulina asked.

  “No. I’m saying your research is. It’s too specifid only applies to you.” Angelina said.

  “And that is why I have to be the oo do it.” Paulina argued.

  …

  I feel like this might take a while.

  “Aunt Angelina, big sis Paulina, please stop.” Alice said after about 3 more minutes uiweewo sisters, fully utilizing her cute little sister side.

  Side? Is it even a side of her? Isn’t that just her. Like basically 85% of Alice is cute little sister. The remaining 15% are split between things like, apprentice mage, apprentice adventurer, entitled noble girl… yeah. Scratch that st one. Even if she sometimes acts like it.

  “Yes. If that is the wish of my little sister.” Paulina instantly stopped.

  “Thank you, Alice.” Angelina said. “Now, let’s get ba track. First of all, Mr. Brian, would you give a detailed report of the dungeon?”

  “Sure. And just Brian is fine.” I responded. I don’t really mind when the maids or servants call me Sir or Lord or whatever, but when a person in a position of power does it, it makes me feel awkward. And Christina did almost adopt me, so I’m almost a part of this family. her home to me is basically adoptiht?

  “Well, if that is what you wish. Then feel free to call me Angelina.” She responded.

  “May I call you that as well? You may call me Paulina if that’s the case.” Paulina asked.

  “Yeah. That’s fine.” I gave Paulina permission as well. She might be a little … hyper, but she seems fun to hang around with.

  “Thank you. Now you be my little brother.” Paulina said.

  “... are you sure I’m not older than you?” I asked.

  “With that baby-face, I don’t think so.” Paulina said.

  … is it really that bad? I’m 22, not 18.

  “Well then, big sis, could you please stay quiet while I talk with big sis Angelina?” I jumped into my role and tried to get Paulina to shut up.

  “That’s not nice, but I guess I . I want to know about the dungeon as well.” Paulina agreed.

  “Thank you. Now, let’s get to my study.” Angelina said, before leading us deeper into the manor.

  She led us to a room on the sed floor. It was not super rge, but still rger than the GM’s offi the Alewatch guild, or the study of Brandon i manor.

  Two maids that had been outside the front room followed us and Angelihem away to get us some tea.

  “Before we get started, I’ll just say that there is a possibility that you will have to repeat all of this oher is avaible. I hope you are fih that.” Angelina said. “But if you’d rather wait for Father to be avaible, we do that as well.”

  “No. I just expin it twice.” I said. It’s not like there is so much to this. “Where would you like me to start?”

  “The dungeon information, please. As we have to make an official report about that, that is the most important part.” Angelina said.

  “I see. you be more specific, or should I just speedruhing?” I asked.

  “I o know everything. And in full detail.” Angelina said.

  “Well, that’s going to take a while.” I said.

  “Don’t worry. We have all day.” Angelina said.

  (Laura, where should I start?) I asked Laura, so I would give the information in a good order, instead of a chaotic mess.

  (Why not just use the Dungeon Founder skill along with the terminal to show them the remote ma mode? They should be able to learn all the relevant information from that.) Laura said.

  (... I do that? Well, I guess I ried and I open my Pack Opener for people, so it does make some sense.)

  (Yes, you . Just open it up for yourself and say ‘Dungeon Founder, open’.) Laura instructed.

  (I see. Thanks.) I said to Laura.

  I pced my left arm, and by extension the founder’s terminal, oable between me and Angelina. I then pulled up the remote ma mode of the dungeon, before saying: “Dungeon Founder, open.”

  Dungeon 22_090: TinaWood Dungeoatus: StrongMiasma Status: HighMoatus: ManyFounder: Brian WoodCurrent Master: Christina Wat Geion Points: 23564Geable Items

  The basic status of the dungeon is more or less fine, but I am a bit worried about the miasma status being ‘high’ and the moatus being ‘many’. I think we o get some adveo exterminate some of the monsters soon, or I might have to head over myself to do it. But then again, having Alice summon two monsters and clear the dungeon would get her a lot of levels, so perhaps I should take her over to the dungeon with Gradius and boost her level.

  I should get in tact with Christina about that. I don’t want to wipe out all of the monsters before the dungeon bees popur, after all.

  “I didn’t know you could do that.” Angelina said, as he was looking at the system s.

  “Yeah, her did I. Laura told me I could, so I did.” I admitted.

  “Laura? Who is that?” Angelina asked.

  “My system support.” I answered. She already knew about the system support, so talking about it should be fine.

  “I see. Well, we’ll get to that ter, but for now, show me everything.” Angelina said.

  We spent over two hoing over differeails about the dungeon, starting with room youts. Then monsters, both Angelina and Paulina were surprised when they heard that Christina took down a va golem and that I took down a sword-horn bull.

  And also the drops. Those caused another surprise. Not only was the denim and tricot fabriething that haded before, the only source of simir quality cotton is in a different try, so it is quite expensive. Cardboard wasn’t as iing to them, though. But the real surprise came from magic items that you could get deeper in the dungeon, like the magic bags and magic fsk. As well as the magic ons you could get from the Dark Door challenge rooms.

  Going through all of that reminded me of oem that I made a while ago. The pendant that I installed Bck Pendant into. I was meaning to give it to Alice, but she never showed me a new spell, so I never did. And there was that small fight as well, because I rejected her. But the pendant was detly effective and I made it for Alice, so I should probably give it to her. And uhe magic stone bracelets that I made, the pendant shouldn’t be a proposal or anything.

  “I think that is everything.” I said, after we had gohrough, well, everything.

  “Good. There is a lot to your dungeon, so it did take a while. Holy, it’s a ler than the first report said. But I guess that is what you get when you use an S-rank core.” Angelina said.

  “I still ’t believe that he would use it.” Paulina ented.

  “Well, it did have a good result, so I suppose we five him.” Angelina said. “But let’s just let that be. It is not the fault of Brian nor Alice, so we ’t punish the real culprit.”

  “Don’t be too harsh on him. I’m sure the dungeon wouldn’t be as good if he used a lesser core.” I said, trying to defende Brandon. Even if his choice to use an S-rank core seemed a bit rash, it had great results.

  “Well, as long as our dear sister uses the duo its fullest extent, I’m sure they pay off a small fine for their foolishness.” Angelina said.

  “It’s not her fault, either.” I said. “It’s all on Brandon. Well, perhaps just a bit of bme goes on his butler Henry, as Henry is the ohat carried the core into the dungeon.”

  “But we o stop pointing fingers at people that are not present.” Angelina said. “Also, it’s almost lunch time, so let’s head to the dining room.”