Reborn as an Evolving Space Monster: Harem Of Otherworldly Beauties-Chapter 295: Group Hug

"So." Cero took a seat on a couch while gazing at the outside view. "Heard you haven't hugged your sis."

"Let's not do this, alright?" Rina muttered and got closer to the microscope. "The meeting of the… Boyfriend of whatever can wait."

"I don't mind meeting you now."

"It's nice to meet you. That's really all I have to say."

"I see."

"Although…" Rina muttered, slowly pulling away from the microscope. "There is something."

"Yeah?"

"Can I see something cool?"

"Something cool?"

"Yes. I heard you have… Freaky abilities. Cool and impressive stuff. Can I see?"

"Am I not cool enough as I am? Am I not impressive enough?" Cero gestured, showcasing his body.

"Well…" Rina took hold of her chin. "I heard that what's under your pants is impressive. Though I didn't really want to hear that."

"So Raya is going around telling people about what's under my pants." He muttered.

"I am her sister. Don't refer to me as people. But yes. I guess in her mind, she was bragging."

"I HEARD THAT!" Raya shouted from the other room. She had been banished from the one Cero and Rina were in.

"Using me to brag… I kind of like that."

"Hm. Good for you." Rina nodded. "In any case, since Raya made a big deal about hugging and that you're making a big deal out of it, I can talk to you about it."

"I'll show you something cool in exchange."

"How cool?"

"Very…? Depends, I guess. What do you find cool?"

"Hm…" Rina let her head sway to the side as she thought. "I study all kinds of things, but my favorite subject is the mind and how it can be altered."

"I got something for you."

"Alright then." Rina gestured for Cero to follow her, and the space between them and Raya increased by a whole room.

"Why are we going to another room?"

"I don't want my younger sister to hear."

"Hm."

"What? Did you somehow think that Raya was older than me?"

"No..." Cero remained silent for a moment. "I just realized that I'm not really interested in family. I'm not sure why I even asked, or why Raya told me about it."

Rina leaned against the wall, gazing at the passersby eighty-nine floors below.

"She trusts you a lot."

Cero's eyebrow rose.

"She does… But why do you say that?"

"Just a feeling." Rina shrugged, still looking out through the window. "We don't talk about each other a lot. In fact, we never do. She called me her assistant at first, didn't she? That's how it is between us. Even though we work in the same field, the number of people who know that we're related should be less than six."

"The older sister being the younger sister's assistant. Must be tough."

"It isn't." Rina grabbed a pack of cigarettes out of her white coat's pocket. "I'm not really her assistant. I get to use the facility to research what I want. In exchange, I do some things for her. She's getting access to the best facilities available on Wor, now that she's a Hero and all. In any case, that was the plan."

"The plan?"

"Yes." Rina took a puff. "I was against joining that suicide mission. Even if it succeeded in the end, the casualty rate is still beyond 90%. I was against Raya joining as well, but she told me about this grand plan about how we'll be able to conduct our own research afterwards. How we won't be bound by investors and bosses… In truth, I think she just felt bad for the people who would be stuck here, living in a Tsero-Crystal-less Wor."

"You talk as if the two of you wouldn't have been part of those people."

"We wouldn't have been." Rina sighed. "We had secure positions in pharmaceutical companies on Yena." She remained silent for a moment and turned towards Cero. "That's another Planet."

"Yeah, I got that."

"We would have been fine anyway."

"Then are you annoyed at the job opportunity you lost?"

"Nope. Opportunity is still there. Well, was… I told them that I'll move and join them if Raya dies. Which… She didn't." Rina took another puff. "And now we're here." She gestured. "Exactly as Raya said it would be. The people are doing fine, we can choose any facility we want to use on Wor, we have pretty much unlimited funding… Though not a lot of money but… Anyways, it's great. Now," She clapped and turned in Cero's direction. "Show me something cool."

He scratched his chin, thinking silently for a couple of seconds.

"Well?"

"Alright." Cero shrugged and walked closer.

And closer.

And closer.

"Hm…?"

"I have these tentacles that can come out of my back." Cero said as the tip of one of those tentacles peeked beyond his shoulder.

"O…Kay?"

"I don't necessarily need to use them, but it seems to work better when I use them instead of my hand."

"What are you talking about?" Rina frowned slightly. "Could you step back? You're uncomfortably close."

"Do you wanna see something cool or not?"

"..."

"Well?"

"Yes, I do."

"Alright then." Cero raised his hand and showed each side of it as if about to perform a magic trick involving a sleight of hand.

"Hm… Excuse me?" Rina complained. His palm was right against her forehead.

The next second, one tentacle moved past his right shoulder and another past his left shoulder.

Her eyes widened as they connected with each side of her head.

"You were supposed to take the job once Raya died. Most thought that she and the others had died long ago. In other words, you held out hope for more than two years. That's incredible, really. Would be a shame for some awkwardness to keep the two of you apart."

"..." Rina was incapable of answering. In fact, she found herself incapable of even forming a coherent thought inside her mind.

"Go hug your younger sister."

A second later, Cero's hand and tentacles moved away from Rina's head, and it dropped for a moment.

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Meanwhile,

'The sons of bitches! I knew it was too quiet! They went into another room! I better not find them-'

Raya's thought was interrupted as her older sister aggressively took her into her arms.

"What the fuck, dude? Let go of me!"

"I can't! I don't want to! I don't know! He did something!"

"Why are you crying?!"

"I don't know!"

"Stop crying or I'll start crying as well! You're the older one! Stop acting like a bitch!"

"I feel so weird! It's like I'm high or something!"

"Then stop being high!"

"I love you, Raya! I missed you so much, you pesky brat!"

"Let go of me!"

Cero watched from a couple of steps away, leaning against the door separating both rooms.

"Cool, isn't it?"

The crying Rina struggled to wipe her tears while hugging her sister.

"It's cool as fuck! Never use it on me again! Super cool… Why am I crying though?"

"That's… Not from me."

"A-Are you sure? There's no way I would cry. I'm the older sister-"

"Then start acting like it!" Raya shouted with teary eyes. "You're going to make me cry, let go of me!"

Cero chuckled for a moment before pushing himself off the door.

"Group hug, yey."