The Troubles & So Daring

Ling Lan started to story tell her past life as if it wasn't hers. And Luna, being the older one silently listens at her.

"I just became a burdened of my family for 24 years, if not for the fact that my disease is so bizarre that my household was already loitering in the streets. Doctors said that my disease was worth researching so my medical fees was shoulder by the government. All my life, I was bed ridden and put painful memories for my family. I can't even get angry to my other past relatives that felt relieved after I died, I understand my situation so I really can't find faults at them. Now, that I finished my part. Let's go to yours big brother." She smiled bitterly with red cheeks and red eyes.

Luna caress her head. "You'll be fine now. As for mine, it's not really that good though. I live my life all around wars before I died. But before that happened. I studied Liberal Arts to Chemistry to Pharmacy and Military studies. Around that time, war will happen any moment in any part and corner of my country, past country. Then while I'm in the army, I became a fledgling army. But as I'm a sharpshooter myself. I organized professional guerrilla soldiers to be known as the "Luna Sharpshooters" and the "Black Guard". My three-tier defense, was known as the Luna Defense Line, gave the American troops a hard campaign in the provinces north of Manila. This defense line culminated in the creation of a military base in the Cordillera... Haaa." Smiled bitterly. "As I reached the position of the General, and as my title says 'Fiery General' my temper cause some people to abhor me. But what they can do for me to change that? It's a time of war, any moment we can be killed. So, I need to discipline the army and serve the country. That's all about it." Stared blankly as reminiscing some good memories.

"I see..." She muttered and look at this man at his early-thirties. "You know, big brother..."

This sudden call at him made him pull back to the reality. "What it is, little sister?"

"... I died because my soul was stronger than my body that made it vegetable, my body can't sustain my soul which is called Spiritual Power. Now, I'm doing something to make my Physical Body stronger so it can sustain my immense Spiritual Power."

"Ah. I see." He replied with a deadpan expression, showing that what's the point of what she said.

Ling Lan got some tick on her forehead. "Dammit! You and me have the same situation! I got a helper so I can prolong my life and somehow prevent it, the deterioration of my body, that is! And the bodies today, bodies of this future, can only withstand up to Tier - 4 and still can't be sure that they won't die!"

"Oh... ... ... Ok, that's worrying... What's this Spiritual Power, Tier - 4 or whatever?"

"It's a measurement system of the federation, or the current one. First is Physical Fitness, as it said already, it measures your physical body's potential.Until the day that you didn't get measured, it was only to [SS] Rank. Oh, by the way yours was only [SS] Rank but suddenly changed into [XX] Rank and it's only above [SSS] Rank, so, no worries. Next is Spiritual Power, power of the so called 'Soul'. Tier - 1 is the lowest and mine is Tier - 3, and again yours is only Tier - 7 that changed into Tier - 9, so there's really no problem at all big brother. Last but not the least is Potential, it's for operating Mecha, you will know about them soon, and the highest was [S] Rank which the same with mine, and yours of course, there's really no universal warning or whatever that can destroy the common sense of the people in federation, it's was only at [X] Rank that went into [XXX] Rank, So~ There's really no troubles at all!!!" She shouted while shaking Luna non-stop and breath heavily after explaining to him. "Hu! Hu! Hu!" Red eyes staring intently at him.

"Err... ... That's really troubling lil'sis." He scratch his cheeks for not knowing what to do.

"Yeah~ Right..." She rolled her eyes. "Now, mother and granpa Qin is trying to suppress and to edit your results to be like mine as we are twin and it won't be suspicious if we got the same assessment. But that's not my point! You will die earlier than me in my past life!!!"

"Lili'sis, to be frank with you. Why do you care so much for me? I mean, yes we're twins but it doesn't affect that this is our first encounter to each other. We are strange-"

*Pak

"Fuck you! Damn you! Maybe for you it is our first encounter! But for me that has been awake from the moment we're still inside of mother's womb. I already care for you as my real brother not only being a blood relative but in my mind too!!! It's fucking 10 months for me that I'm with you!!!" She pound her fists on his chest. "You're already my brother the moment you're staying with me in the womb of mother!" And she jumps to hug Luna tightly and sobs loudly.

Luna was stunned, he traces his cheeks that has been slapped with his hand and raise his head and closed his eyes. Tears flow down from his eyes.

With unknown time, Luna stopped crying and opened his eyes that got red for the sudden feeling of warmth he got from this little girl. 'No, it's little sister now.'. "I'm sorry for being insensitive. I didn't thought for how you felt in that timeline of me being asleep until now." He reached to hug her too and caress her back and head as her big brother. "Don't worry, I won't be like this anymore and I can guarantee you that you can beat me as long as you like if you feel that I'm being one."

"Uhmm... Make sure you're telling me the truth..." She said and sneeze at his clothes and looked at his face. "Big brother... Promise me?" She reached out his pinky onto him.

"I swear as your Big Brother and being a man that the moment I break this promise, I'll have 60 wives without having a penis at all to enjoy them." And shakes his pinky with hers.

"Pfftt... You pervert and vulgar, big brother. But that's assures me that you won't do that." She laugh that made him laugh too.

"So, let's go back to the point of your problem-" She was stopped as her big brother raised his palm to stop her.

"First of all, let's break that trading earlier. Since we got both problems and we're twins. I'm going to tell you what I know to prevent that problem. Of course, without exchange, lil'sis." He smiled at her.

Ling Lan felt more warmer with this simple gesture. "Ok, sure big'bro. I'll tell you how to meditate too and how to cultivate."

"Don't cultivate those energy yet."

"Huh? But I already started while I'm at the womb..." She felt down. She have this feeling that her big'bro knows more than Little Four.

'Hey, that's so rude! I'm not speaking here for not to disturb your siblings time and privacy and you will just put some malice at my back, just like that!? That... That's so disappointing, boss! Wahh! I won't talk to you anymore!'

"Little Fo-" She suddenly blurted out but covered her mouth with her both hands.

"Little Fo?"

"It's nothing..." She said softly but still staring at him. "Ne~ Big'bro... Can you tell me how can I sure that I can trust you?"

"Hmmm?" He stared back at her. For a couple of seconds. "If you ask me like that... Is it about your helper then?"

She nods to confirm his question.

"I see..." Scratch his head and look seriously at his lil'sis. "I am very confident that your helper's knowledge can't be enough to fit into one arm of the person who helped me to reincarnate or to remember my past life..."

'That's bullshit, Boss! I'm telling you, no one can rival my knowledge!'

'Shut up, Little Four.'

They staring at each other and no ones backing down.

Ling fan first breaks the silence. "Can I see your helper?"

"At this moment, you can't, even me, I can't reach him for now. But I can, for sure in the future. Because I already promised myself to find him."

Silence covered the room again.

"Ok, I believe you. Then ask something that you might know from your helper that my helper might not know?"

"That's easy, lil'sis. Does he know how many Counted Known Universes is currently or, at the moment that my helper told me about it?"

'Little Four, your answer?'

'This... ... No... I don't know.' He answered Ling Lan truthfully. 'But how can you tell that he is telling the truth then!?'

'Hmmm. You're right.'

"He doesn't know about them. But! How can we tell that you're speaking truthfully?"

"Oh! Now, this is another trouble... Wait I'll try to remember a way from what my helper said to me."

It didn't took him a long time to find from Sherwin's free Random Memories that isn't from the Soulscape.

"I found it! There's an Oath! Ok, I'll do this... Eherm..." He closed his eyes and recites. "I, Antonio Luna now named Ling Fei, swears to Akashic Records of Universe 999 to delete my existence to nothingness from his Living Records, if proven that I lied about what I said earlier to prove something that I'm not lying about the knowledge that I received from my helper named..." He stared at Ling Lan that make her raised an eyebrows. "Sherwin Montaniel of Earth 101 of Universe 101."

After he swears an Oath of Existence. A beautiful red line or rope that connected and phased through his heart suddenly appeared. Somehow Luna got a gist of what the red rope is for. He broke into sweat. And it didn't took a long time for a not totally transparent hand that consist of universe to appear and made a gesture of a scissor over the red rope.

Luna's eyes widens, got goosebumps and felt so scared after the hand appeared. He can't explain what he feels but he was sure that he will be killed and erased to nothingness the moment that scissor hand snaps at his red rope.

Ling Lan wasn't exempted by the pressure exuded by this Universal Hand. She broke into sweats too.

'He's not really kidding!' Little Four shouted at Ling Lan's mind.

Now, Ling Lan knows that even Little Four felt the pressure even though his already on her mind. 'Wait, we're inside of my Virtual Learning Space! Oh... My... God... !!!' She felt so scared the moment she realized this. 'This is no joke!'

Luna and Ling Lan waited and waited that can make anyone go insane for how long it felt. Until they saw the hand didn't snap and disappear slowly with the red rope next.

They didn't speak for another unknown time.

Luna woke up first. "This... I... Didn't know that I'm so awesome!!! Fuck! That scared me to death and almost pissed myself from that pressure. And the fuck for the fact that's only the hand! And I guess that, that's not the maximum pressure it can release by that hand only. But!... I'm still so manly! So daring to do the Oath without analyzing it first. Damn!"

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[AN: For checking.]