A few seconds later Aster, Alice and Lilia appeared on Lilia’s room in the castle without caring about the ruckus they caused a moment ago in Ghaleria, although Alice was curious about her brother’s technique.
“I remember you using one giant golden arm before but when you fought against the iron claw bear the result wasn’t such a horrible death as the guys from the Rein family?”, she asked.
Aster took off the mask and laid down on the bed before patting the space next to him which made Alice smile and lay down with her brother.
“Before I couldn’t manifest more than one arm but now that I’m on the earth origin realm I was able to use both of them and the reason as to why those guys bodies started falling apart was because I applied some of my attribute “annihilation” over the paragon body”.
Alice nodded, she already knew that her brother got the paragon body due to her and she was proud that her love for her brother was the reason of it.
Aster saw Lilia stealing some glances at them and he shook his head.
“Mom don’t look at me like that… I just wanted to lay down a bit because using both the paragon body and annihilation was tiring for me”.
Lilia smiled, she laid down at the right side of her son and before he could react, she kissed him.
“Mmm ♥”
“You looked so gallant protecting mommy and Alice from the bad guys hehehe”.
Aster was lost for a second but he came out of his daze when he felt Alice piercing his body with her gaze.
“Sigh, you two really like to compete with each other”, he said before kissing his sister but after a moment Lilia interrupted the kiss and “stole” him back, which caused Alice to complain.
“Mom… no monopolizing!!!”.
Aster stopped them and stood up before leaving the room, although he wanted to have some fun with them, he still needed to check on Aria since she should be finishing absorbing the Lotus anytime soon.
Once he entered the room where Aria was refining the Lotus, the first thing he noticed was that it wasn’t as cold as before, and the second thing was that Aria was sitting cross-legged covered in a thin layer of ice as if she was quietly sleeping in a beautiful chrysalid.
He didn’t worry about it since Lilia has explained him that her body condition protected her from coldness, in fact being near ice/yin related things was beneficial for her cultivation.
He still approached her to make sure that everything was okay but when he was about half a meter away from her, some low cracking noises started sounding in the room and he noticed the ice covering her trembling before it turned into a lot of little ice particles floating in the air.
For a moment he got lost in the beautiful scene in front of him, her beautiful platinum hair waving form side to the other, her skin that now had a paler yet still healthy tone and the most noticeable change was that her eyes now seemed to shine like a pair of beautiful light blue gems, all that complemented with the ice particles in the room made a magic scene which remembered Aster of an Ice fairy.
Of course, he didn’t miss the chance to flirt with her, he nodded as if he was confirming a supposition.
“Well, seems like the name “ice queen beauty” was quite an accurate name hehehe”.
Aria blushed.
“Hmph now you remember me? I thought you were occupied doing some shady things with Alice”.
Aster almost choked himself when he heard her, but he knew how to counter Aria’s occasional jealousy.
“Ahem, I wanted to see how my cute Aria was doing but it seems like you don’t want to see me right now so I will return to sleep with sis”.
He turned around to leave the room and as he expected after taking a couple of steps Aria stopped him by hugging his left arm.
Aster liked when she took the initiative to be close with him because she was still learning to behave more like a girlfriend, having successfully made her ask for attention he wrapped his arm around her waist.
“Now that is how my cute Aria should be like, let’s go to my mother’s room… I guess you already have your own suppositions but this is not the place to talk about that”.
Aria nodded, she already decided to confront him and Alice so the sooner they talked about it the better, they left and walked to Lilia’s room, once they entered Aster closed the door and then sat on a couch followed by Alice and Lilia, Aria took out a chair out of her spatial ring and sat in front of them.
The first one to speak was Lilia because she wanted to confirm if the assimilation of the bone chilling lotus went without any problems.
“How do you feel? is there any uncomfortable feeling on any part of your body?”.
Aria shook her head.
“No, in fact I feel as if a weight had been lifted from my body… I don’t know how to describe it but it just feels comfortable”.
Lilia nodded.
“That’s because you were supposed to cultivate you ice affinity due to your special constitution, so now that it has awaken it’s as if you were born again”.
For a moment no one spoke as if it was a tacit agreement between all the people in the room that once anyone touched the subject things were bound to change in either a good way or a bad way, the silence remained until Aria decided to say what was on her mind.
“I… I want to know two things, Aster, are you blood related with Alice and Lilia?”.
Aster limited to nod without saying anything.
Aria internally let out a sigh before continuing.
“And are they only you “mother” and your “sister” or…?”.
Aster turned to see both Alice and Lilia and saw them smile and him as if they were saying “whatever you choose as your answer will be fine”, which made him steel his resolution, with all the future girls that he might try to court in the future this situation will repeat, at some point they will have to know about their relationship because they were his precious mother and sister and he didn’t regret not doubt about his love for them not even a bit.
“No, I think you probably guessed this because how close I’m with Alice but the two of them are also my… lovers and I don’t regret nor feel any shame for it”.
… Aria sighed before smiling.
“Seriously you are one hell of a shameless wolf in sheep’s clothing and yet I… fell for you ♥, so I guess I’m not in a better moral position hahaha”.
Both Aster and Alice were genuinely surprised by how she easily took a notice that would have made a lot of girls angry, after all it’s not exactly common that your love interest one day just tell you “Hey, I also love my mother and my sister”.
Lilia on the other hand looked as if she knew this would happen, she held Aria’s hands in hers before saying.
“Little girl, I understand all what you have t go through all these past years because I lived some similar situations, I can’t say we are a normal family but I can assure you we will always support each other and love each other and there is no better description of what a family should be than that”.
Aster smiled.
“What mom said is true I Aster might not be the most gallant nor the smartest man to exist but there is nothing I wouldn’t afront for my precious family… let me ask you again, even knowing about all this do you want to be with me forever?”.
Aria’s eyes got teary but she managed to nod before throwing herself at Aster to hug him.
“You better treat me well”, is the only thing she said while hiding her face on his chest.
“Hahaha”, Alice laughed before saying.
“Treat you well you say? He literally almost eradicated about two hundred people from the Rein family including that Kray Rein Guy for you today”.
Aster felt a bit ashamed, after all he didn’t want to go to such lengths and his original purpose was just to give Kray a lesson for the time being since his plan to get rid of him needed him alive for some time but now, he was not likely to return to Ghaleria for a long time.
Aria rose her head to see Aster’s face directly.
“Did you cause another commotion just like the first time you went to my clan ♥?”.
Aster carefully wiped the little tears in the corner of her eyes before answering.
“Of course, since that idiot dared to hit on my cute Aria, he was needed to be taught a lesson… although he didn’t know that it was me”.
He took out the sword he bought for her on the auction before handing it to Aria.
“This sword is called “Winter Blossom”, it’s a gift for my cute ice beauty”.
Aria exploded in redness when she heard this new nickname Aster invented for her but she still accepted the sword.
Lilia clapped her hands to draw everyone’s attention.
“Now that we are all a big happy family then… it’s time for some family bonding activities hehehe ♥”.
Listening to her Aster couldn’t help but think “you succubus of a mother”.