Chapter 35

[when Anastasia, Hunter, and Margret came to the immortal domain a few weeks ago]

Anastasia spit out water. "Holy shit! What?!"

"Yes, suddenly there's a lot of deaths in the fae kingdom and that's why many families have been sending you two requests to convert them into your kind."

"Yes, but to convert them we should conduct an autopsy on them to check if there's anything wrong in their body and what precautions we should take. Then also note if they died naturally or in... a weird way." Hunter added his point.

(don't worry, the parts go back where they belonged, in a creepy way. I don't want to talk about it.)

"Yup, that's why you two are going to be leading the autopsy."

"eh? You do know I'm vulnerable to diseases right?"

Hwei-ru sarcastically asked. "Then how are witches able to convert dead bodies into their kind?"

"We have a special cover for it?"

"Then use it."

Hunter held in his laughter and looked away, but Hwei-ru noticed it. "What are you laughing for? You are a half-dead person as well, you should be happy. You'd be meeting your friends later."

Cassandra and Anastasia snickered while Hunter turned red. "Anyway, you three are dismissed. Go and… do your research."

"Okay."

"Thank you."

"Bye."

When the trio opened the door, they found their younger siblings standing there. "What are you two doing here?"

"We're bored," Zenobia said. "Can we play together? Please?" Both of them gave their older siblings the biggest puppy eyes they could make.

Cassandra and Hunter looked away. "Uhhh my wife's been acting weird for a while and she'll kick me out. And I even have more documents to check."

"And I have teenagers to train! So I better go right now!"

"Yeah, me too."

Anastasia rolled her eyes and pulled her older siblings by their ears, dragging them into their younger siblings' room. "You two better stop being busy and spend some time with your younger siblings!

"Oww! We get it! We're sorry! Ow! Stop pulling our ears!"

"Nope! I'm not going to!"

Stellamaris and Zenobia giggled while following her. Their big sister can easily handle her older siblings.

When they reached the twins' room, she threw them inside and shut the door from inside. "Alright what are we going to play again?"

"Dungeons and Gargoyles!"

"Do you even know what that means?"

"No."

"Alright then. Who's going to be the bad guy then?"

They pointed at Anastasia. "You!"

"me?"

"Yes! You are the bad guy who kidnapped Hunter and Cassandra, me and Zenobia will rescue them!"

"Alright. You two I'll tell you two were to sit. I'll tie you both then."

Anastasia's older siblings sighed. They couldn't change that brat's mind easily. "Okay~"

"Big sister! Here's the rope!"

"Oh thank you, Stellamaris."

She smiled at Anastasia then ran off somewhere. Anastasia pointed at the door. "You two should go stand there."

"Okay.'' They stood near the door and she tied them up. She turned around and saw her little siblings wearing boxes as armor and long cylindrical cardboards as a… sword?

"It's the golden hair witch!"

"I'm a what now?"

"You're the evil witch! You have to try to kill them." Cassandra whispered.

"What?!"

"I'm not meaning literally kill them, you idiot! Take something and try to hit them with it. Or act as if you're making a spell to kill them!"

"Oh, okay. I got it." She turned and made an ugly face. "I'll first boil you brats and then those adults and feed you to the evil gods!" she added a villain's laugh and then,

"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" she looked down and saw her younger siblings crying. Was that face too scary for them? She panicked and started to console them somehow.

"I'm so sorry! My face was that scary?" But they kept crying. She kept apologizing, but then a plot twist came.

She hugged them, and five seconds later, she was pinned down and hit with jelly beans. "Let's kill the evil witch with our magic stones!"

Oh, they faked their crying. Such actresses. She decided to go along. "Oh no! The magic stones are killing me!" She dramatically cried and then acted as if she died.

Her younger siblings cheered. "The golden-haired witch is dead! Yay!"

The entire afternoon, the royal siblings were playing and laughing in the youngest siblings' room. When they were done, they plopped on the bed.

Zenobia was snoozing along with Hunter and Cassandra while Stellamaris was playing with Anastasia's hair.

"Oww! Don't pull it too hard!"

"No! Momma said it has to be tight only then it'll look good!"

"Well then, our mother's a nutsy cuckoo."

"Stop calling momma a nutsy cuckoo!"

"You'll understand a lot of things when you grow up."

"Oh. Big sister, why are you always not at home and in the mortal world?"

"Why? Do you miss me?"

"Yes."

"Oh. Well, I have work in the mortal world."

"But big sister Cassandra has work to do there, but she never goes there."

"It's because she has work to do here."

"But you also do!"

"... You'll understand when you grow up."

Stellamaris remained quiet while playing with her elder sister's hair. Five minutes later, she asked. "Big sister, is it true you like girls?"

"Yeah. Who told you about it?"

"Sister in law."

"I knew she'd say it sooner or later."

"Then do you stay there because you like a girl?"

At that question, Scarlett came to her mind. Anastasia shook her head. "No, it's because I have a friend there and some people from here are targeting her. I still haven't caught them."

"Why are they targeting her?"

"I don't know. She has never even met anyone from here except me, your aunt, your sister-in-law, and your brother."

"Does she know you are an immortal?"

"No."

"Hmm, then why are they targeting her? Unless they are your enemies or maybe they are jealous of her knowing you and they like you."

"Where did you learn this kind of sh- I mean stuff?"

"Sometimes I watch tv with momma and she watches dramas. And stuff like that happens in there."

Anastasia smiled in disbelief. "That crazy woman."

"Who?"

"Nothing. Also, stop watching that sh- stuff. I don't want you growing up fast and then watching stuff that'll drain you."

"What does that mean?"

"Nothing. Don't watch them."

"Okay~"

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Later, Stellamaris and Anastasia started snoozing. Their mother came in to tell them that dinner's ready and was greeted by a cute sight.

She fondly smiled and took a picture. She was going to frame this. Then took a pillow from the floor and started hitting them while yelling. "Get up! Get up! Dinner's ready."

Cassandra rubbed her eyes. "What?"

"If you five don't get up this instant, I'll turn on the lights."

Nobody heeded that warning, and Hwei-ru rolled her eyes. She turned on the lights and her children whined.

"If you don't get up now, then I'll turn off the ventilation also."

"Alright we're up! We're up!" Hunter rolled over the bed and stood up. Then his mother pulled his younger sister down by the legs.

"You idiot! Wake up!" She hit her with the pillow.

"Mommy! Take us!" Stellamaris and Zenobia acted cutely and reached out their arms. Hunter sighed. "Two Anastasias once again!"

"Shut up!"

"Oh, you're awake."