Chapter 17

"Sreya!" Lakshmi shouted in shock when she saw it.

"You're Lakshmi's sister?" Michael asked surprised as he held her spear.

"Damn right I am! You bastard! How dare you cause her to lose her leg!" Sreya shouted at him in anger.

"I didn't— Hey!" Michael tried to explain before shouting as he grabbed a shaft of the naginata which the second girl used to attack him.

"I'll make you pay!" The second girl said to him in anger as tears streamed down her face.

But before it could escalate further Lakshmi's whip wrapped around the two girls surprising them before they were pulled away from Michael by Lakshmi.

"I don't know what you two are doing here but don't you dare talk bad about him!" Lakshmi shouted in anger as she glared at the two girls.

"L-Lakshmi." Sreya said surprised at hearing her sister saying that.

"Both of you get away from him!" Lakshmi said as she moved towards them.

However she had forgotten that she didn't have her left leg which caused her to fall forward due to not having the balance. The two girls were about to go to her but Michael beat them to it as he appeared beside her and grabbed ahold of her and stopped her from falling.

"Hey hey, you lost your leg remember. You have to be careful." Michael said to her gently as he looked at her.

"Y-Yeah. Sorry." Lakshmi said as she apologized to him.

The two girls looked at the two and glanced at each other and then back at the duo. Michael and Lakshmi looked back at the two after he had placed her back on her bed.

"Can we do this peacefully now?" Michael asked the two girls.

"Yeah. I would like that as well." Lakshmi said to him as he looked at the two girls.

Sreya and the second girl looked at eachother at that before they sighed and their weapons vanished, though they kept their eyes on Michael.

"Fine." Sreya said as she looked at them.

The four of them stayed quiet for a few moments before Michael looked at Lakshmi, wanting her to start. She noticed his look and realised what he is alluding to and nodded to him as she gathered herself and looked at her sister's.

"Michael, these are my sisters. The one who used the spear is Sreya, the oldest of us. The one who used the naginata is Adhira, the second oldest of us three. And my sister's, this is Michael, he has been my partner in clearing the Gates." Lakshmi said as she introduced each of them to the other.

Sreya is a beautiful girl with fair skin like Lakshmi and a darker shade of long grey hair and blue cat eyes. She is wearing normal clothes on her person right now. She also has a locket on her neck as well.

Adhira is also a beautiful girl with fair skin and blue cat eyes, but she is different in the fact that her hair is light brown in colour. She is wearing a blue blouse and white skirt, normal clothes as well.

"Why are you two here?" Lakshmi asked him a bit skeptically.

"Why? We heard that you got hurt after completing a Gate of course we would come here." Sreya said to her with a worried look.

"But I thought I was too weak." Lakshmi said as she looked down sadly.

"Yes you were weak. That's why you should've listened to us and stayed put instead of trying to clear the Gates." Adhira said to her immediately.

"I'm not as weak as you two think! I know I'm not as skilled as you are, and I know that I don't have a conventional weapon but that doesn't mean that I'm weak!" Lakshmi said to the two of them in a bit of anger.

"Why couldn't you just listen to us instead of putting your life in danger by going to complete Gates!?" Sreya said to her in response.

"I'm a Player okay. I can do it as well. I know that I'm not as strong as you two but I could get stronger!" Lakshmi said to the two in response.

"That's not what we're talking about here!" Adhira said as she stomped her foot on the floor cracking it a bit.

The two sisters looked downtrodden and angry as they looked at their sister while Michael was looking at the exchange, ready to step in if necessary.

"You were always so stubborn. Ever since you were little you would always try to prove yourself even when you didn't have to. Always trying to follow us no matter how much we tell you not to." Sreya said in a hurt tone to her as tears appeared in her eyes.

"That's..." Lakshmi said a bit surprised at hearing the tone of her sister.

"You were always like this. Always worrying the two do us even when you were little. Trying to do things that we clearly told you not to do." Adhira said to her as tears streamed down her face.

"A..." Lakshmi tried to say something but the couldn't.

"It's my duty to protect you are your older sister. But every time I tell you nicely to not do dangerous things you always do it and get hurt. Do you how many times you got hurt over the years doing things that we told you clearly not to do?" Adhira said to her.

Lakshmi stayed silent at her sister's words.

"You were always trying to catch up to us and prove yourself even when you didn't have to. Even when we advised you you didn't listen. We knew that our jobs as Players are very risky, which is why we said we didn't need you. We thought that if we were harsh to you you would stop trying to follow us. But you didn't, and now look what happened." Sreya said to her sister as tears fell down her face.

Lakshmi looked down at her sister's words while Michael looked at her.

'That's why they were acting like that towards me?' Lakshmi thought to herself in confusion.

"You lost your leg. And I couldn't even protect you. Damn it! Why can't you just listen to me for once!" Sreya said before she yelled at her with tears falling down her face as she walked to her sister.

Michael moved away when he saw it as Sreya reached her sister and hugged her as she cried in sorrow. Sreya is soon followed by Adhira who also hugs her sister with tears streaming down her eyes. Lakshmi meanwhile has a shocked face as she is being hugged by her two sisters.

"Why can't you just... listen to us?" Sreya asked in a quivering tone as she hugged her tighter.

Lakshmi didn't know what to do and stayed silent as she is being hugged by her sisters while Michael looked at the scene in front of him.

It took a few minutes for the two sisters to calm down before they moved away from Lakshmi and wiped their tears and looked at their sister who has a stunned look on her face.

"You two, you just wanted to protect me? You told me to leave our party because you didn't want me to get hurt?" Lakshmi asked her two sisters.

"Of course. It's our duty to protect you. You're our youngest sister. But..." Adhira said as she looked at her leg.

"Um..." Michael let out a sound as he looked at the three.

The three girls looked at him in unison as he became a bit nervous at having the attention of all three girls on him as he looked at them.

'This became a bit too eventful for me.' Michael thought to himself as he looked at them.