Extra And MC-Chapter 166 - 162 - Wide Awake II

Hearing a bunch of quiet conversations from the other end, Caroline slowly pushed the doors to the laboratory open and entered.

Situated in the middle of the laboratory was a large, white cardboard paper which was being worked on by the twins.

Pens, pencils and markers were scattered across its long length, along with colored sticky notes here and there.

Ivelia and Ivar were constantly writing out formulas and equations, erasing them, writing out new ones and erasing those new ones again like a crazed scientist.

It was almost like a never-ending cycle.

Their lab coats were so scrunched up and it, along with their hands, was full of smudges of ink here and there.

Their bright orange hair was so disheveled and yet, both youths seemed completely oblivious to it as they kept on working tirelessly.

"What if we were to add a coefficient of 26mg of crystallized lunar-bloom petals to the solution Ivar? What do we get using the equation?"

"Solving that now…"

"Yeah. That won’t work sis. The half-life rate along with it’s decomposition reaction will just result in an explosion…"

"Alright. I guess we’ll have to rule that out too. Let’s try another approach" Ivelia mumbled out loud.

"How about Quicksilver essence?" she slightly tilted her head and questioned, still speaking a few more words in addition.

"Since it has magically-charged properties down to its smallest atom, shouldn’t it be able to aid in the rapid assimilation of mana into a person’s mana core and stabilize it too?"

"Hmmm… you know, that might actually work! Let me get that down. I’ll insert it into the equation"

As Caroline watched the twins, unable to understand even a single jargon out of what they were speaking, she gently retrieved a lab coat of her own, wore it, and then just kept watching them as she sat on a stool, not wanting to disrupt their flow of work.

This wasn’t the first time this was happening and honestly, she felt like it certainly wouldn’t be the last time she would be seeing this sight.

After about twenty minutes of the exact same scientific discussions between each other as the black-haired beauty calmly watched them go at it, all while also being a bit intrigued by their intelligence, the twins soon noticed her presence a few seconds later.

Turning over to her, Caroline simply flexed her eyebrows upwards a bit in response, a light smile on her lips.

"Caroline! How long have you been sitting there?!" Ivelia was of course, the first to exclaim, a happy yet surprised expression on her immensely tired yet still beautiful features.

"About twenty minutes, give or take" Caroline simply replied with a small grin.

"Seriously, I can’t believe we didn’t even notice you again. Our ramblings must’ve felt so weird…" Ivar sheepishly smiled while scratching the back of his hair, deep, dark circles underneath his eyes.

"No it’s fine really. I actually quite enjoy seeing you work…" Caroline got off her stool and then advised this time.

"That being said though, you guys really shouldn’t add more to The Duchess’s worries. It’s already tough enough for her that Aiden and Flynn are stuck in that state but imagine if she also has to worry about you guys too"

"You’re literally just as much of her kids as they are to her so let’s be considerate alright?" she concluded while placing her hands on her hips.

Listening to her, the twins sighed, knowing fully well that she was right.

With a nod, they both decided to take better care of themselves, even if it was only for the Duchess’s sake.

"We’ll ensure to do that Caroline" Ivelia smiled in reply but she still added.

"I guess we just got so immersed in our Dad’s unfinished project and we think we might have an idea as to where he was going with it…"

"And if that’s really the case, it’s going to be a pretty revolutionary product" Ivar had a glint of amazement in his eyes as he concluded his sister’s words.

"Oh I’m sure that’ll be the case judging by your previous achievements but you, still, need, to take better care of yourselves!" Caroline gestured with her raised index finger, landing a boop on Ivelia’s nose, something the orange-haired beauty couldn’t help but chuckle at.

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Ivar on the other hand, as if remembering something, soon spoke with a playful tone.

"Wow. Aiden really did grow on you. That speech of yours was so identical to something he would say"

"That’s actually really true!" Ivelia nodded her head in agreement while Caroline couldn’t help but blush a bit, taking Ivar’s words as a compliment.

Over the course of the time they were asleep, all of them had agreed not to have any sad thoughts regarding the two brothers since they would never have wanted that for them.

Only happy thoughts about them. That’s what they had decided to share between themselves.

So, although they did have the occasional sad thoughts, they would try their best not to linger on it too much and just override it with good ones as fast as they could.

Eventually, after a few more minutes of discussion, both twins left the lab with Caroline.

Suddenly, Caroline then asked.

"Hey! Where’s my ray of sunshine anyway?! Shouldn’t she be bubbling about by now?!"

"Come to think of it, you’re right. Briar would’ve usually been awake by now…" Ivelia had a thoughtful expression on her face.

It was already 8:30am in the morning and their younger sister was usually awake around 7:00am to 7:30am most of the time.

She would’ve even come to greet them by now but there were those occasional rare days when she either slept in for much longer, woke up and went straight to the kitchen or just went to check on her brothers first.

"Hmmm… Maybe she’s in the kitchen? She does have a voracious appetite after all" Ivar said, after which he then added.

"Or she’s made her way to their room…"

Agreeing with those words, the twins proceeded to freshen up first before they went looking for Briar.

Caroline also followed Ivelia to her room, still finding it very amusing as to how her close friend was very adamant on wanting to take a bath by herself despite the maids in the mansion offering to help so many times.

Today was no different and the ruby-eyed lady couldn’t help but have a pretty accurate thought process of what the cause for it was.

’It’s probably because she isn’t used to it from birth like most nobles are…’

’That being said, Ivelia did mention how even Aiden, Flynn and Ivar weren’t comfortable with it too…’

’Actually that’s great! Maybe no one else asides me will ever get to see Aiden’s sexy nak-’

Coughing to herself, Caroline reeled her thoughts in, reprimanding herself for having such lewd thoughts.

Eventually leaving her room after she was done freshening up, both ladies along with Ivar, first made their way into Briar’s room.

Not finding her there, they moved to the kitchen and yet, she was till nowhere to be found. They even asked the cooks but they said hadn’t seen her all morning at all.

Making their way back, this time through the hallways of the large mansion, they asked a few maids again if they knew where Briar was but still, none had seen her.

One even said she had knocked on her door but upon hearing nothing, just decided to leave her be because she felt that she must’ve still been sleeping.

Concluding that she was probably in Aiden and Flynn’s room, they soon made their way over, running into the Duchess and Selena who then also decide to accompany them too.

None of them had actually gone to see them all morning as they knew that they would still have enough time later in the day to check up on them.

It was also not like they hadn’t been hoping among the past few previous weeks that had passed, that they would see them awake and well if they entered the room but considering three weeks and a few days had already passed by and nothing of sort had happened, they weren’t particularly expecting anything different today.

If they were also going by Xavier’s words too, then they should be waking up in the next two to three days.

However, upon opening the door to the new room they had placed the two brothers in, the four female’s gentle yet lively chatter cascading into the room, Ivar was the first to get stunned and shell-shocked.

Lying down in the middle of the bed between Aiden and Flynn, was Briar, gently snoring as the two brothers watched over her, Aiden specifically stroking her brown hair.

Noticing Ivar’s abrupt stop, the females soon also realized what was happening as Aiden and Flynn slowly raised their gazes to look at them.

With a wry smile on both of their lips, Flynn was the first to speak.

"Hey guys. How’ve you been?"

"Miss us?" Aiden added and instantly, the room erupted into screams of joys and happiness.