Family Bond IV

The siblings both had an expression of longing on their faces as they watched their parents unwillingly leave.

After their parents left, Zen broke the silence and asked, "Are things going alright for you inside the game?"

Hearing her brother's voice, Sera looked at him and replied, "Yup, there's something like a disciple recruitment that will be happening in the place where I am and I'm gonna try my luck on them."

Sera's words made Zen think of an important question.

"By the way, is there a huge building that looks like a cathedral in the place where you're at?"

"Hmmmm…. I don't think so… Yup, I didn't see anything like that there. Why do you ask, brother?"

Sera replied curiously after thinking hard for a while.

She then noticed her brother's worried expression and said, "Hehe, you don't need to be so worried about me anymore. I'm all grown up now!"

She knew that her brother was clearly worried about her.

Startled, Zen looked at her and paused for a while.

Afterwards, he chuckled softly and said jokingly, "No, I don't agree! You will always be a kid in my eyes!"

Sera made a face in reply and giggled.

Deep inside, she felt warm in her heart. It had been a long while since she had a carefree conversation like this with her brother.

The reason for that was because every time they conversed in the past, the atmosphere was heavy. No matter how much Zen tried to hide it, Sera could still fill the worry, the helplessness and the despair that he felt.

Likewise, Zen felt as if a huge boulder was lifted out of his chest when he looked at his little sister.

Zen felt happy and blessed by the recent unbelievable things that happened. He felt happy because he can finally be a brother to his little sister again.

He wanted to make up for all the years that have passed. He wanted to put smiles on the faces of his family.

This was his goal even with the apocalypse that would descend on them.

Therefore, even with all the complications and looming danger that awaits them, Zen decided to take this time to bond with his sister.

At this moment, he did not care about anything.

And so, the siblings conversed about the past and random things that they experienced.

They also opened up about what they have gone through alone in the past.

They had a midnight talk without any worries.

They got sad, happy, angry and felt all sorts of emotions as they told each other their stories.

Just like what they often did in the past.

***

At this time, Ren and Rina were walking through the hallway just outside Zen's room.

While they were throwing the bags of trash in their hand to the garbage bin, Rina asked her husband, "So? What are we going to do now?"

After thinking and sorting his words for a few moments, Ren replied, "For now, we will investigate to see what we can find about the government's plan. Then we will look for a suitable house where we can move in."

He clapped his hands after throwing the trash bags and continued, "Hmmm, that's it for now I guess… We will go on with the following phases of the plan after Zen recovers."

Hearing her husband's words, Rina got excited.

"What?! For real?!"

Ren smiled as he saw his wife's reaction.

"Yes, my girl."

The blushing Rina pouted and pushed her head deeper in Ren's arms, trying to hide her blushing cheeks.

As they walked towards the parking lot, she asked, "Then where will we move?"

Ren thought for a few seconds before replying.

"Hmmm… I still haven't thought about that."

This reply made his wife giggle.

"I thought you had it all planned out!?"

Blushing in embarrassment, Ren defended himself.

"It's because of the game! I still need to know how we can benefit from this. Besides, there's still the fact that we offended the president and with the president's personality, I'm not gonna be surprised if he ever planned something to get his revenge on us."

As they got to the latter part of Ren's words, a serious expression replaced the joyous expression on both the couple's faces.

Looking her husband in the eye, Rina asked worriedly, "Then… will it be possible for them to target our son instead?"

Ren did not reply, but Rina knew that what she said had a high possibility of happening.

Seeing his wife's worried expression melted Ren's heart. After a while, he caressed her back lightly while saying, "Look, I know that you are worried about our son. I also know that you wanna be by his side 24/7, but rest assured that they will not make a move immediately. We still have some time, we just need to complete our work quickly."

"How can you be so sure that they won't move immediately?"

Ren responded to his wife's question with a smile, "Just a hunch."

As soon as she heard the words that came out of her husband's mouth, Rina suddenly became a lot calmer.

If there's one thing that she knew, it would definitely be the fact that she could put 100% of her trust in her husband.

Besides that, she also knew that Ren also wanted to be by their son's side as much as she wanted to.

However, the other reason for her sudden change in mood was the words that Ren said.

It was because those were the words that he always said whenever he saw through his enemy's plans.

After all, the nickname of Clairvoyant Tactician was not given to Ren randomly.

'Hehe, such a cringey nickname~'

Rina stared at her husband's face while random thoughts appeared in her head.

After a while, she fully calmed down and remembered something that caused her eyes to shine with curiosity and asked.

"By the way, what do you mean about moving out? Are we going to move to another city… or country?"

As they arrived in front of their car, Ren opened the door for his wife, like how a gentleman treats his lady, and walked to the other side of the car to get in the driver's seat.

After making sure that Rina was comfortably sitting in the car, he said with a thoughtful expression.

"I'm talking about moving to another country. After all, we have offended the president and it would be inevitable that they will make some things hard for us even if they don't focus all their manpower onto it."

Hearing her husband's words, Rina became full of joy.

They are currently situated in the United States and are working for the U.S. Government.

Even though they did not have any major problems in living here, it would still be nice to travel around and not be chained in one place. That was why now that they have offended the government, they also gained the final push to make their dreams come true.

As such, anticipating the recovery of their son, they could not help but become excited.

The couple thought hard about where they could move as they fastened their seatbelts and drove off.

They looked at the clean streets and roads without any sign of dirt. There were also electric cars and self-driving buses that drove on the road.

Their expressions were cheerful, as if unbothered about the fact that they offended the president and the power behind him.

***

The Earth now does not look that much different to the Earth a century ago, at least that was what it looked like externally.

Electric cars, self-driving buses, and other various technologies that were more "eco-friendly" became more popular as time passed by.

However, all of this was only the result of what happened one century ago…