The First World 5 - The Runes’ Free Day Out—Gets Ruined

"Aaahhh! Aleic!"

"How are you buddy?"

Yi Yin gave his cousins a small smile.

"I'm doing fine."

Eleanor quickly took out a jar of cookies.

"Here! Have some cookies!"

After eating some cookies and catching up, the four decided to go to bed, as it was pretty late. Eleanor and Andrei both went back to their rooms while Yi Yin and Yi Yang went to theirs.

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Yi Yin got up an hour earlier than Yi Yang.

When Yi Yang opened her eyes, she saw that her dear cousin had left the room already. She quickly got ready and went to the dining room.

"Good morning dear." A beautiful woman with midnight blue hair and honey amber eyes greeted her.

Yi Yang smiled at the woman, "Good morning Mother."

"Your siblings and your cousin are playing in the manor's arena. You can go there after eating some breakfast."

Yi Yang finished breakfast in under five minutes and hurried over to the Rune Arena.

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Eleanor felt chills.

The fight was intense, the two swords clashed against each other swiftly.

Despite Aleic being a few years younger than Andrei, the two were evenly matched. Actually, Aleic seems to be overwhelming Andrei slightly.

Andrei was able to win in the end because he had more strength and is bigger.

Eleanor expressed that she had surrendered in total defeat and have no hopes of winning against either of them in sword fights.

They switched to archery after swords. Yi Yang joined them right in time. All four of them managed to hit the target perfectly.

They were about to switch to another game when Eleanor got a phone call.

"Hello?"

"Hey Lean!"

"What is it?"

"I was wondering if you would like to come over for a sleepover with your siblings at my place?"

"Hmm…I'll have to think about it. What kind of sleepover is it." Eleanor asked suspiciously.

"Games! Chats! Movies! You get the idea. I'm going for an ideal sleepover, its not like an important party with all those boring things."

"Despite how weird you are Sonata, you do have some good points."

"Haha! I already invited a lot of others as well, and you Runes should come join the fun! I'm sure a lot of people would be surprised if you came, after all, you don't really go to those business gatherings/parties often. Even your parents only appear publicly about once a month and sometimes even less!"

"I'll have to talk about it with my siblings…also, do you mind if I bring someone else along? He's a special guest of ours that came last night."

"The more people there is, the more exciting things would be! Of course! Anyways, I'll send a special invitation, you can bring along as many as you want with this particular invitation. You don't have to come if you don't want to, but trust me, I'm going to make this event absolutely unforgettable."

"Ha, it seems like you have a lot of trust in me."

"You are a respective Rune after all. Not to mention that I also know you personally and I'm your really trustworthy. But still, don't do bad things with my invitation's rights, even if you are a good friend of mine, I refuse to let this sleepover be ruined!"

After chatting for another few minutes, Eleanor hang up the call. She turned toward the three dark haired kids staring at her expectantly.

Eleanor told the three younger kids about the call, then they started discussing about the invitation.

The conversation was like this:

Eleanor: "Do you want to go?"

Andrei: "What do you think? I mean, I don't mind either way."

Alice (Yi Yang): "Is it going to be fun?"

Eleanor: "Sleepovers are usually fun, and this is Sonata Orre's sleepover, so it's bound to be interesting."

Alice (Yi Yang): "So, we're going?"

Eleanor: "I haven't gone to a fun party for quite a while. So. HELL YEAH!"

Andrei: "Sure, I have to finish my training first though."

Aleic (Yi Yin): "Why not. When is it?"

Eleanor: "Tonight apparently."

Alice (Yi Yang): "Then we can prepare later after we have our fun in the city!"

After the quartet finished making a plan for the day, they got dressed and went out to the city.

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"I'm happy that we can do whatever we want now. If it was before, the Runes won't be able to have a day out like this since their all so focused on other things." Yi Yang let out the words she had been holding when Andrei went to the restroom and Eleanor left to get their food.

"Alice was really naive, Eleanor was too trusting and busy, and Andrei wasn't really sensitive." Yi Yin lamented, "But then, you can't really blame them. They're wealthy children with great parents. They had never been in any sort of real critical danger."

"Ha..." Yi Yang sighed, "They also can't perform revenge. That Liliana bitch had poisoned Eleanor, leaving her skills and moves useless as she had a body too fragile to handle them. Andrei was still healthy, but he was too busy with managing everything as Eleanor was starting to get too weak to handle most things. He then left for the military. The military has a nice pay of $3,000 per month, Aruhen values their military after all."

The poison was a deadly but slow one, Eleanor would have died in five years without treatment. Her body got weaker and weaker, but she didn't noticed the symptoms until it was too late. She couldn't blame Liliana either, as the Greenes quickly became one of the top families with the help of the three male leads.

As for how Andrei ended up serving in the military instead of some other jobs...it was because of Liliana's threats. Liliana had declared that whoever associated with the families that had fallen will become her enemy.

Nobody wants to oppose the new power family, so Andrei wasn't able to find a job. The military was the only option. The power families can't just boss the country military around, and they also have a good pay.

"The strong gets to rule while the weak don't have any choice other than listening to the strong." Yi Yin muttered darkly as he recalled what had happen In the original plot.

"The weak will have to listen unless they wanted to bear the consequences instead." Yi Yang stared dazedly at Yi Yin's silver eyes.

"True, ha."

After the other two Runes came back, they had their lunch. Then they went shopping.

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They had shopped at more than 10 places, but it doesn't seem like Eleanor had enough yet. Yi Yang is also quite keen on buying things, so she went all out as well.

In the end, they had to buy some carts to carry everything, there was too many things for them to carry.

After they went back to the Rune Mansion and put the things they bought away, they made a quick stop at a cafe for some tea and cake.

The Runes made small talks and had conversations about many things. Eleanor and Yi Yang was in the middle of a debate. The topic of the debate: Strawberry ice cream or vanilla ice cream, which is better?

Eleanor vouched for strawberry, but both the original Alice and Yi Yang are obsessed with vanilla ice cream.

When it seem like the argument was about to turn into a fight, a voice boomed, drowning out the two girls' voices.

A figure of a man stood by the front counter. The man has a black mask and cap on, streaks of brown hair peaking out. His eyes were covered by dark shades.

He seem to be a robber.

"Hand over all the money." He took out a gun from his duffel bag.

The female cashier acted calm but sweat can be seen trickling from her forehead. "Sir, please. We can talk this—"

"DO IT FAST. I am not afraid to shoot. He loaded the gun and shot one of the customers—a woman—on the left arm.

The man had shot the woman quite casually.

The cashier's face paled and she quickly took out the cash from the drawers.

As she was about to hand the money over, the man suddenly stepped back two steps.

A chair hitted spot he was at.

The man was soon apprendhended by the four Runes. All of them launched onto the man and took him down. The man yelped as Eleanor immobilized the man's hands by pressing it down aggressively onto the floor. His gun and duffel bag were taken by Yi Yin.

Yi Yang flashed a sweet smile, "Aunty? Did you call the police?" The cashier nodded absentmindly.

They dragged him outside, Andrei tied him to a pole in a complicated knot and they stood there, waiting for the police.

The police arrived and questioned them and everyone else in the cafe. The four of them was taken to the police station for interrogation.

Eleanor threw herself on to the couch in the middle of the room. "Wow. Just wow."

"Yeah, I can't believe it either." Yi Yang sat next to her.

Andrei sighed, "Well, there goes the rest of our time off today."

"Kinda sad." Yi Yin commented.

They eventually got out of that place. By the time they left, the sky was already dark. It was almost time for Eleanor's friend's party, so they went home and started preparing.

"So, what do we bring?" Yi Yang asked.

"Just bring a whole suitcase of many different useful things. Your going to need them. Sonata's parties are the wildest. You never know what may happen. The theme for this party is a sleepover, by the way." Eleanor ran around the manor, looking for things she think would be useful.

"We're done." Yi Yin and Andrei each dragged a suitcase, ready to head in the car.

"How are you done so fast!? I'm only halfway done!" Eleanor groaned. She picked up her speed.

Aftet they'd finished packing, they headed to Sonata Orre's place.

The four Runes gave the security guard their invitation and went past the gates and into the large villa.

A girl with bright violet eyes and dark navy hair sat at the far end of the long table in the middle of the area. There are also many others around.

The girl smiled, "Hello Runes."

"Hey Sonata." Eleanor return her smile, then proceed to introduce the rest of her acquaintances.

"This is Alice, my younger sister. My younger brother, Andrei. And finally, Aleic. He is our cousin from abroad."

"Hello! I'm Sonata Orre, it's a pleasure to meet all of you!"

They exchanged greetings and had small talks for a while before leaving to walk around and enjoy the party.

The others had long noticed that Eleanor is here, but they didn't go up to greet her since she was busy talking with the hostess. Now that Sonata finished talking her, a lot of people began flocking over to where Eleanor was.

"Hey Lean!"

"Selene!"

"You wanna hang out?"

"Sure! Sorry guys, I'm ditching you all for now!"

Eleanor left with Selene.

"And...we just got ditched by the eldest." Andrei blankly stated.

"Yes. A great start it is." Yi Yin joined in.

"So, what should we do?" Yi Yang blinked.