Reward

Ivan thought it sounded like the typical hero on a white horse story, but he was sure that it wasn't like that, so he kept quiet and waited for her to continue.

"Even now I don't understand how you did it but you killed all the goblins surrounding us in seconds. You then gave us some pills which helped us heal our wounds.

Then when we wanted to thank you, you said that there was no need, since you would take a reward."

"Then the reward was...", he started, but was unable to finish the sentence.

"It was me. You took me towards a cave and then without asking for my opinion forced yourself on me."

When he heard that he was shocked. It seemed like his former self wasn't really of the nice category.

"I'm sorry.", he couldn't think of anything to say.

"Don't be. It was your former self who did it and besides it isn't unusual. To be honest it happens quite often. I just never expected it to happen to me. Having to offer my virginity for my teammates and my lives wouldn't have been a bad deal. Of course I wouldn't have been happy but I could have accepted it if not for our family rule."

She once again paused and took a sip of tea.

"A long time ago one of my ancestors made a system enforced family rule, that anyone who has sex with a partner of the opposite gender will be automatically married to this partner. And that is why I was so unhappy about it and also why we are married according to the system."

"Huh? But in my character screen you aren't listed and Jane too isn't mentioned.", Ivan says after checking the family section of his character screen.

"That's weird. We really should be listed there. Maybe it is because of the reset?", she looked thoughtfully into her cup of tea.

"Whatever it doesn't really matter since you are listed for us and we got the titles too. So you have to take responsibility even if the system doesn't display us."

<< New Quest: Taking responsibility

Someone from your life before the hard reset has asked you to take responsibility for the actions of your former self?

If you do take responsibility then you will gain Lara as your wife and Jane as your daughter along with whatever else pops up.

If you don't, the connection between you and Lara as well as you and Jane will be severed and you won't have to take responsibility for the actions of your former self.

>>

Below the quest window there were two buttons.

<< Accept Responsibility >> << Reject Responsibility >>

The answer was easy for Ivan. Even though he didn't know what would come out of accepting responsibility, since it was the riskier option he just couldn't accept the fact that if he didn't his connection to his daughter would be severed. Although he had only known her for a few hours he really liked that child and was happy about having her as his daughter.

So without any hesitation he clicked on the << Accept Responsibility >> button.

<< Congratulation you have decided to take responsibility for the actions of your former self. >>

<< Congratulation you have formed the Hope Family. The family screen has now been unlocked. >>

<< Congratulation you have married Lara von Berg : Luck +1 Remark: You really lucked out to find such a great looking wife. >>

<< Congratulation you have sired a daughter : Charisma +1 Remark: You really are way to lucky. >>

<< Congratulation you have earned the title: Honorable Man (SS). >>

<< Congratulation you have unlocked the Honor Shop, which you can now access via the shop interface. >>

<< Congratulation you have earned the title: Founder (F). >>

Directly after clicking on the button a row of notifications popped up and looking at the surprised face of the woman in front of him he wasn't the only one.

"What did you do?"

"Um,", Ivan was nervous because of the stare of her, "I just accepted to take responsibility like you asked me to."

"So because of that the system reacted like this?"

"I don't know how the system gave you, but I guess so."

"Nothing much, I just got a notification that I have entered the Hope family and was now the first mistress of the family. What did you get?"

Ivan listed the things he got and for the first time he got to see an amused look on her face.

"Well the system got that right. You really lucked out with the two of us."

It seems the remarks had lead to her amusement and for the first time Ivan was glad for the ruthless remarks of the system.

"I have heard about the Honor Shop. You are really lucky to get access to that. But it will be useless if you don't have a way to get any honor."

Ivan checked out the title which had unlocked the Honor Shop and then shared the description with her.

<< Title: Honorable Man (SS) Lvl. 1

You have taken responsibility for the actions of your self before a hard reset.

+ 1 Honer each day

>>

"Wow, from what I heard it is really hard to gain any Honor and you will gain 1 each day without doing anything. No wonder it is ranked SS, but I bet there is something coming for you, because you have decided to take responsibility."

After he shared the description another prompt popped up.

<< Congratulation because of the trust you have shown towards your wife Lara von Berg you can now share certain things with her.

Currently available: Honor

Do you want to share your honor with your wife? >>

Ivan wasn't sure what could be bought in the honor shop, so he wanted to check it out first before making the decision but wasn't able to close the prompt.

<< You have to decide now whether you want to share or not. >>

It seemed like he could only share blindly. He guessed that was because it got triggered because of trust and that is why he to had to choose based on trust. To be honest he didn't really trust her but thought that he would be able to get her to soften her attitude towards him. Sharing what he got after deciding to take responsibility didn't really mean much to him but sharing his honor would be another thing altogether, after all it seemed a rare resource.