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"Big bro!"

Shouted Harriet as she jumped and threw herself into Aegis' arms.

"Hey there, next time you wish to come on the adventure, please tell it to me beforehand."

Aegis said with a teasing glint in his eyes as Harriet huffed.

"I didn't go on an adventure! But look, I made new friends!"

Harriet said as she showed Aegis the fidgeting Nora and calmly looking, Ren.

"This is Nora Valkyrie and her friend Lie Ren, and they are friends who travel together but aren't like together together."

Harriet said with a smile as Nora grew scandalized.

"Hey, that's my line! You line thief!"

Nora said as she jumped on Harriet, who just evaded.

"Pleasure to meet you, mister Schnee."

Ren says, overly mannered.

"Stop it, and you are Harriet's friends, that means that you are my friends too, call my Aegis, ok?"

Aegis said with a smile as he watched how Harriet is battling Nora on the ground.

"And we are just air, dear sister?"

Weiss says with a huff as she watches how Harriet transforms from an overly cheerful attitude to one nervous.

"Eh, ehehe, hey there, Weiss."

Harriet said as she tried not to look into Weiss's eyes that promised pain.

"Weiss."

Pyrrha nudged Weiss lightly.

/Common Icy, don't be a spoilsport./

Neo said from the other side, and Weiss just huffed.

"You don't know how glad im that you are alright."

Weiss says slowly as she embraced the surprised Harriet.

"Don't, don't ever use that thing again just to run from us, understood?"

Weiss said and to Harriet, who was still in shock.

"U.D.E.R.S.T.O.O.D?!"

Weiss says, menacingly slowly.

"Y-YES! Ye-s I promise!"

Harriet said quickly as Weiss released her and smiled at Harriet.

"Now, I think it's time for a gift."

Weiss said, and Nora perked up.

"Gift? What gift?!"

Nora said but stopped when she saw Weiss delivering a punch to Harriet's stomach, who crumpled to the ground as she preset her hands on her stomach.

"O-k, I-i d-eser-ved i-t."

Harriet said between breathing as she smiles at huffing Weiss.

"Is there something you want to tell me?"

Aegis asked as he watched the happenings before him.

"Nothing, big brother, it was just little disagreement, right Harriet, I said right Harriet?"

Weiss says to Harriet, daring for her to tell Aegis the truth.

"Ye-ah haha, just little incident."

Harriet said with a nervous smile as Weiss's menacing aura changed to a calm one.

"Well, ok, no matter, we should go back home. There is a lot of work waiting on me..."

Aegis said as he watched them, completely ignoring the laughing Neo and scandalized Pyrrha.

It was not like Weiss wanted to lie to Aegis, it was just that Weiss didn't wanted ever kiss someone else than Aegis, the sole reason she just punched Harriet was that she saw her as a sister if someone other tried to kiss Weiss that someone would be glad if she just froze them to death.

"Hey, big bro?"

Harriet asked Aegis, who nodded at her to continue.

"You see, these two don't have a place to go, and I thought, I mean that if they can't come with us? I mean, you surely would have some work for them, right? Ren said he doesn't want to bother, so if they work for you, they won't bother, right?"

Harriet said quickly as she watched Aegis's face that stayed on his gentle smile through her entire speech.

"Hm, I don't mind, but what about you? Do you wish to come with us, Nora, Ren?"

Aegis asked the duo, one exited on the prospect to come with their new friend and these cool-looking guys, and the other weighed his options.

"Are you sure we wouldn't be an inconvenience?"

Ren asked Aegis, who just smiled at the boy.

"No, Im sure that if you ever feel like one, we could always find work if you wished for one."

Aegis said with a smile as he saw how Nora hugged Harriet with happiness, and then she hugged him too.

"Thank you, mister!"

Nora said, and Aegis just chuckled as he patted the oranges girl head, who just beamed at him as she found his patting pleasurable.

"Hm?"

Weiss hummed to herself as she watched Nora's action. Weiss looked at Harriet, who shook her head and looked at Ren.

"Oh? I see."

Weiss said, but she still didn't throw her idea aside. After all, even if she couldn't read minds like Harriet, Weiss had a talent for reading people, and she knew that Nora didn't have any ulterior motive. Thus it made Nora a good candidate for Weiss's plan.

Pyrrha just smiled gently at the idea of new people who she could call friends and family, and Neo just smiled.

*Bzzzzzz*

Aegis looked at his scroll that showed a new message.

"Hm, you know what? Why don't we go on ice cream, we are in Mistral, so we could use look around."

Aegis said as he watched Weiss's eyes narrow, but others were for the idea of looking around.

"Renny! We could show them around! There is one good place, and oh wait, we don't have a lien."

Nora started excitedly but stopped herself as she remembered their financial situation.

"Oh, don't worry about that, today everything is on me, there you have and buy anything you want. After all, nobody knows when we return there."

Aegis said as he fished out his snowflake card and gave it to Weiss, who smiled at him.

"And don't be shy to use it. Even if you buy entire district, it would still not touch reserves."

Aegis said as Nora's eyes shone with delight, and Neo smiled evilly.

"Neo, No, any hazard, this is family time, yes?"

Aegis said as he already could see Neo's thoughts.

/Booooo!/

Neo stuck her tongue on Aegis, who just smiled at her in return as he came to her and squeezed her butt and kissed her.

"You will have your fun, now go and take care of your sisters."

Aegis said quietly to Neo's ear, who just kissed him back as she nodded at him and winked.

"Ohoh? Are you like together together?!"

Nora asked as her cheeks were red from the view.

"Of course, didn't Harriet tell you? All of us belong to big brother."

Weiss said with smile.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAT!"

Nora said in surprise as even the ever calm Ren looked in surprise at the news.

"Aw, crap, I knew I forget something."

And as Nora started to ask any question, she thought of, and Pyrrhas face started to gain color of her hair the girls and Ren, who was dragged by Nora, started to gossip about their relationship with Aegis.

"Heh, good kids."

Aegis said with a smile as he liked that his sisters have more friends than were two-faced, as were most in Atlas, but then he looked at his scroll and tsked.

"It seems I need a new type of droids for close combat."

Aegis said as he looked at the statistic that came from the surprise attack at the Everwinter fort, the fort proved to be sturdy enough to withstand such an attack with minimal loss of life, but the fleet that was stationed have 60% losses with 20% being in such condition it would be better to just scrap them and build new ships.

Not speaking about the airship personnel that was lost, veteran sailors are hard to come by, and he lost 1450 veteran sailors and soldiers that were stationed either on airships or fort.

"And the new design for ships too..."

Aegis mumbled as he already started to work on sending money and proposals to families of death. Money was standard compensation, but Aegis always like to go over mere Standart and prioritized loyalty, especially for families of men and women who laid their life in his services.

Who was Aegis not to ask their families if they didn't want to move to a better place that was more secure and under his protection, with money and scholarships for children that Aegis provided for them.