Adopted Soldier

When Alex and Emily got home they were greeted by a cutely dressed Lilitth. She was wearing a very cute purple cat eared pajamas which match the color of her hair and eyes. She was already pretty eye catching, but now with her pajamas her cuteness doubled, making her even more eye catching. Lilitth who was wearing cat pajamas jumped at Alex who caught her in his arms.

"Onii-sama welcome home." Lilitth happily greeted Alex, while looking upwards at him wearing a cute cat pajamas, any other person might have already have a nose bleed by the sheer cuteness they saw, but not Alex. He simply acknowledged Lilitth's existence with a nod.

"How about me Lilitth ojou-chan? Aren't you going to greet me?" Emily who saw Lilitth hug and greet Alex felt a little left out. Lilitth who finally noticed Emily's presence let go of Alex and did a little curtsy as she greeted Emily.

"Welcome home Emily nee-san." The moment Emily heard Lilitth and saw her little curtsy, it felt like Emily's heart would explode. Emily couldn't stop herself and hugged Lilitth.

Seeing the slightly bigger Emily who was wearing a gothic lolita dress hug Lilitth who was wearing cat eared pajamas was the cutest thing ever, but unfortunately the only one to witness this scene was Alex. Who in his eyes saw the scene as wasn't really anything special.

"So Lilitth what happened to dad?"

Lilitth who was being tightly hugged by Emily answered without breaking free. "Tou-chan went to his room and edited the pictures we took today."

"Pictures?"

"Yeah me and tou-chan took lots of pictures today. We went out and tou-chan bought me dozens of dresses! We took a lot of pictures with me and tou-chan in different attires. So when we got home tou-chan immediately locked himself in his study and said he needed to edit the pictures and create a holy album of some sort."

When Alex heard what Lilitth said, he almost face palmed. What had happened to his dad? Is this the result of staying away from the battlefield for so long? His dad turned into something he couldn't understand. What happened to the person who was always the voice of reason and logic?

While Alex was questioning what was happening to his dad, Emily stopped hugging Lilitth.

"Hey Lilitth ojou-chan me and your onii-sama are going to watch some anime. Want to watch with us?"

"Anime? I don't know what that is, but if onii-sama and Emily nee-san are watching then I want to watch as well."

"Good then, let's get going! Onward towards the audio visual room." Emily who heard Lilitth's answer didn't wait for anymore confirmation and dragged the two siblings towards the audio visual room.

...

Emily had a better understanding of the mansions layout than Alex or Lilitth, since she does clean the different rooms of the mansion. With Emily guiding them, Alex and Lilitth were able to get to the audio visual room using the shortest route.

When the three entered the room, the two siblings were amazed at what they saw. The room was bigger than Alex and Lilitth's rooms combined. In the middle of the room the seats were positioned escalating upwards. The seats were surrounded by six speakers, and in the front was a huge 110-inch Ultra HDTV.

"We're going to watch here, you two seat anywhere you want. I will set the anime we're going to watch. Magical girl Harurun!"

Emily excitedly started to set up, while the two siblings got a bit overwhelmed by her enthusiasm. Alex and Lilitth sat on the middle seats, and waited for Emily to finish setting everything up. Lilitth in this period of time, kept on glancing at Alex.

"Do you want to say something Lilitth?" Alex had obviously noticed Lilitth's glances, and her hesitation to say something.

"Umm onii-sama... Did you win the tournament?"

"That's an affirmative, victory was achieved thanks to Emily." Alex who thought that Lilitth was going to say something else, was surprised by her simple question.

"Congratulations onii-sama! I know Emily nee-san would've done well base on her skills alone, but I'm sure onii-sama was needed to win as well."

"Thank you, but it's the truth that Emily's technical skills are better than mine." Alex wasn't bothered in giving Emily all the credit, since she was the better player between the two.

...

While the two siblings were having their conversation about the tournament, Emily who was preparing was formulating a plan in her head.

'I need to slowly ease Alex, and Lilitth ojou-chan into the word of anime. If they see too much, they might be repulsed instead. So it's a good thing we start with this very light, very easy to understand magical girl genre. Magical Girl Harurun has been around even before I became a merc, and it's one of the animes I myself first watched. This was my gateway to the anime world, so I'm pretty sure that this could be Alex and Lilitth ojou-chan's gateway as well.'

Emily who was getting excited by showing the show to the two siblings was speeding up her work.

'Still, what if they might not actually like this? I need to prepare a back up? Alex would most probably be entertained by a war related anime, while Lilitth ojou-chan could like light hearted story lines... Okay a fantasy genre it is! I guess if this fails I can just show them a fantasy anime. I'm the demon lord but I died and now I'm the hero's best friend is quite good. Though the tone sometimes shifts to happy go lucky to tragic and back to happy go lucky. Though the tragic events happen during the second season... I guess I should only show them the first season.'

When Emily was done preparing her back up as well as setting up, she went in front of the TV. Emily briefly introduced the anime, before pressing the play button on the remote.

"Now let's watch Magical Girl Harurun."

As Emily started the show, she was unaware at this point what childhood crushing events would occur.