Adopted Soldier

The following day after the bet, Alex as well as Carlo headed towards Niel's house early in the morning. Lilitth who already heard that her Onii-sama was able to save the lives of the Amamamis, was very happy, so as she saw her onii-sama coming, she charged in and hugged him.

Carlo whose arms were wide open ready to receive his daughter's loving hug, was stunned as Lilitth passed him by. He simply stood there his arms wide open like a statue.

"Thank you Onii-sama!" Lilitth continued to hug Alex. Carlo on the other hand, slowly turned around and looked at Lilitth, hugging Alex.

Why is it you? Why is it you that gets a hug? Isn't that suppose to be for me? Carlo couldn't stop himself from thinking such things, as he enviously look at Alex being showered with affection by Lilitth.

"My daughter, how about me? Where's my hug? Why don't you hug your tou-chan." Carlo desperately looked at his daughter.

Lilitth really wanted to appease her tou-chan, but due to recent events, she wanted to punish him a bit as well. She knew that her tou-chan likes it when she hugs him, so this was the perfect punishment for him.

Yet when Lilitth looked at her tou-chan's pouting face, she wanted to give in and simply hug him. It was then when Lilitth had this thought Alex spoke.

"Why are you pouting like that? It's your fault for being so obstinate yesterday." When Carlo heard what Alex said, he suddenly knelt on the floor in a daze.

Seeing her tou-chan like this, Lilitth felt a bit relieved, the tou-chan she saw yesterday really frightened her. So seeing her clumsy tou-chan was back to normal, made Lilitth feel that it's alright now. So she let go of Alex and slowly approached her tou-chan.

Carlo slowly lifted his head and looked at his daughter. "Lilitth?"

"Tou-chan I really didn't like how tou-chan acted yesterday... But tou-chan did that for me, so even though I don't approve, I understand. You're only looking out for my best interest, but I really think you overreacted yesterday tou-chan. So if tou-chan apologizes, Lilitth will forgive you." Hearing what Lilitth said, Carlo without hesitation bowed his head.

"I APOLOGIZE PLEASE FORGIVE ME!" Carlo loudly declared, which shocked Niki and her family who were watching.

"That's a quick, turnaround." Alex said with his usual indifference.

"I already lost, so why should I cling to such tiny pride. I only want Lilitth to hug me." Carlo without lifting his head answered Alex.

Lilitth started to panic seeing her tou-chan's reaction. She couldn't help but go near him, and tried to lift his head, which Carlo resisted.

"I wont lift my head until you forgive me." Carlo as usual was being extremely stubborn, well he the messenger of death only acted this way in front of his children.

"I forgive you already, please lift your head tou-chan." The moment she said those lines, Carlo stood up, and hugged his daughter.

"Yay! I have been forgiven. Okay now for some hugs!"

...

Once the embarrassing hugging scene was done, Alex and Niel escorted their little sisters to school. For some unknown reason Niki kept on looking at Alex, as if she was scrutinizing him. Once the two had properly escorted their little sisters, the two headed towards their own school.

On the way to school the two met Oliver who told Alex if he needed him for anything like the mission yesterday he could call on him any time. The next to appear was Saya, who told Alex that she would send him the bill for using her specially made mask.

Finally the group saw Kei and approached him. Kei was a bit angry at Alex for what happened yesterday, so when he greeted him he spoke with a bit of anger in his tone.

Alex sensing Kei's hostility tried to calm him down. "Kei I'm sorry about what my dad did yesterday. So as a sort of compensation regarding that, I will give you anything you want, just name it and it's yours."

Hearing what Alex said Kei felt a bit better. "You said anything right? Okay then, help me get the limited edition Valkyrie card in my favorite card game, Angels and Demons." Kei asked for the hardest thing to get, that he wanted.

"Okay good, I will get it for you. So where can I buy that card?"

"That card is extremely rare, there are only five of them in existence. The only way you can get one, is if you find one of the owners and buy it from him." Kei explained, in his mind this was an impossible task. The reason why he ask Alex this, was because he was really angry at what happened yesterday.

Even though Alex, and Carlo have already apologized, and promised to give him whatever he desired. Kei was still a bit mad, so he just wanted Alex to tell him can't get the card, and apologize once more, then he will just ask for a free meal or something similar after which he will forgive him.

Yet what Alex said next, totally derailed his plans.

"Okay then, I have informed some of my dad's employees, and they said they can get you the card and it will be given to you tomorrow morning. It will be delivered right in front of your doorstep. So anything else you want?" Alex after a short call, informed Kei about the great news.

"Umm, no that's all I need. I forgive you Alex..." Kei didn't know what else to say.

"Hey everyone how about later, since it's Friday let's have fun after school." Oliver suddenly suggested out of nowhere. Ever since yesterday Oliver was in a pretty excited state, since he was able to do some cool role playing. So now to follow up on the excitement he wanted to invite his newfound friends to have some fun.

Oliver has been a loner for most of his life, because of the way he talks. So now that he had so many friends he wanted to experience having some normal fun with them. He thought now was the right moment since they know each other for a few days now.

"Damn it Oly! Now you invite me out! I can't go even though I want to... I need to do some work for the family business tonight. So I can't come... Oly are you doing this on purpose? Did you choose today of all days since you somehow knew I wont be able to come?" Saya who was always cheerful, and in the eyes Alex was the most mysterious of the club members, was now sounding really pissed.

"How should I know that you needed to help out at home. Also stop calling me Oly!" Oliver replied with a bit of irritation as well.

"Hmph! Fine I will let it go for now. But in return you need to invite me out on a date, just the two of us." Saya told Oliver a bit poutingly.

"Huh, why should I do that?" Oliver asked confused as to why she thinks he would do what she says.

"Just do it my junior Oliver. It's not really nice, making a lady mad." Niel advised Oliver with his usual radiant smile. "Also I wont be able to go with you guys, I have some important things to do later." Niel's important thing was his training with Lyner. Since he hasn't told them, that at the moment he was under the tutelage of Lyner, he didn't explain what the important thing was.

"So it's going to be just me, Alex, and Kei?" Oliver spoke a bit disappointed.

"Oliver is it alright if I bring my little sister as well?" Alex asked.

"Of course my comrade. At least with your little sister we have more people. Let's go out and have some fun.." Oliver who was a bit disappointed a while ago, was happy to welcome more people.