(MC POV)
At the end of the visit, all I knew was that Tsuki had Origin Energy within her but she was not selected as an Origin Wielder through conventional means.
But she could still be considered an Origin Wielder even though the Origin energy within her was something different than normal.
Basically I came back with more questions instead of answers.
In the end, we concluded that restoring my memories would give us the answer to this anomaly and that it should be possible for Tsuki to create the Origin liquid. The only thing standing in her way was she had to be able to activate Complete Harmonious Avatar Origin State first.
Shouldn't be too difficult, I think?
Thanking Muon once again for her help, I teleported Tsuki and I back to the palace's dining room, finding it empty except for Shiori and Akari.
Shiori immediately stood up to greet me, "Welcome back Divine One."
"Welcome back Master!" Akari squealed, diving straight into my bosoms and burying her face in between my breasts, cuddling into it.
"Hello Akari, Shiori. Where are the others?" I asked, patting the red fox.
"After they heard Divine One's news about Brendan experimenting on the liquified Origin, they went to the alchemy room to take a look. Should I go call them here?"
"No need for that, let's just go there and find them. I'm curious to see if Brendan had found anything new about it."
I was about to move when I felt a tug on my sleeve.
Looking down, I realised Tsuki was pulling on me with a bashful look plastered on her face.
"Aniue… No matter what happens… I'm still your little sister… Right?"
I raised an eyebrow at her, "What's wrong? This isn't about your rivalry with Elaria, is it?"
Tsuki shook her head, "No… During the talk with Muon, I came to realise how little I knew about Aniue both in this world and the other one… I know that I had been arbitrarily insisting that you are my Aniue all this while but… Does it… Does it bother Aniue that I act like this?"
I smiled at her, "Is that what you're worried about? You know I don't really care about such things, right?"
"Aniue is always kind and magnanimous so…"
I patted her head, "Though we might only have met for a short time in this life, I already know that your feelings for me are not something fabricated or fake. It's a fact that we do have a history together in another life and the only thing is that I do not remember it. It does not mean it never happened. For you to still recognise me as your brother even in another life is my privilege."
Well, there's the fact that the current Tsuki is way better than the crazy, unhinged and merciless Tsuki that was torturing me in my previous life but that's beside the point.
Though I'm not sure if it was a coincidence that she ended up transmigrating to this world as well, the fact remains that her fate has become entwined with mine. I'm not heartless enough to abandon her and she does not possess any malicious intent towards me either.
Similar to Luna, I won't hold her responsible for the things she has done in her other life, which we already know was the result of a misunderstanding anyway.
I moved my hand to cup her cheek, "So you don't need to worry about that ok? In the first place, I don't really understand why you and Elaria are fighting over the position of being my little sister? I never said I only wanted one sister after all. I'm perfectly fine with two little sisters, you know?"
Now that I've stated this clearly, it might resolve the conflict between Elaria and Tsuki and–
"No! It is a universal rule that there can only be one little sister!" Tsuki declared aloud, suddenly regaining her confidence. "Now that I know of Aniue's feelings, I will strive to become the little sister you can be proud of! Look forward to it Aniue! I will definitely prove myself better than Elaria and become your number one imouto!"
And just when I thought she would actually be sensible for once… Look, even Shiori and Akari are staring at her in bewilderment.
Oh whatever, as long as they're happy.
Now can we go see what my disciples are up to?
*
When I entered the alchemy room with the foxes and Tsuki, the last thing I thought I would see was another female version of myself inside the room.
What makes it even weirder was the fact that she was naked and restrained while Feng Jie was also tied up in a turtle shell bondage and left on the floor in a corner of the room.
The girls were crowding over the other me while Brendan was hunched over the table as though trying to hide himself.
"Umm… Did I come at a bad time?" I asked, getting the attention of everyone in the room.
"Master!"
"Papa!"
"Daddy!"
Eh? I think I heard something extra that should not be there?
Everyone in the room turned to look at the other me who was staring at me with a bright smile on her face.
"Daddy! Daddy!" She cried out, trying to wiggle her way towards me despite the restraints.
I looked at my girls, "What happened?"
All of them immediately pointed their fingers at the bound Feng Jie.
Brendan raised his hand slowly, "Umm… I can explain… But I'll first need to tell Master about the properties of this Origin Liquid first…"
Oh? That was fast. As expected of Brendan I suppose.
I nodded my head for him to go ahead.
He picked up the vial of liquefied Origin on the table, "Master… I found out that this possesses properties similar to a transmuting agent, capable of transforming absolutely anything into anything the user thinks about, even granting life."
To demonstrate, he dropped a little of it on a block of wood and the cube glowed before changing into a small figurine of a dragon made out of gold.
I thought back to the experiment with the monsters and I realised what he said was true.
My mind was simply wandering and thought about all the random things while feeding those monsters so they transformed into the objects closest to what I had been thinking at that time.
Shiori and Akari gained an extra tail precisely because I thought they should have more fluff.
I'm a bit upset with myself for not noticing this.
Luckily I didn't think about anything absurd while feeding them…
Brendan placed the vial back on the table, "I realised that creating any living thing from something non-living with this results in the creature being hostile to us all the time, though I do not yet know why. Senior sisters were helping me test the limits to it with the condition of not creating a living thing and Feng Jie wanted to try as well…"
I sighed, "Let me guess, she thought of me and that's why there's another female version of me over there right now?"
"That is correct, Master. Thankfully she does not seem to have your powers so we could easily restrain her before she started hurting us."
I looked at the woman who was still being restrained while calling out "Daddy! Daddy!" in my direction.
"So why is she calling me that?"
"Ummm… That's something new for us too… Maybe because she was created with Master in mind?"
"So what should we do with her?" I asked them.
Lian Li scratched her cheek, "We were hoping that Master could decide that… It doesn't feel right for us to do anything to her since she has Master's face…"
I thought about transforming her back to whatever she was before this at first until I realised…
Isn't this the perfect opportunity to test some other things too?
