''Am I in heaven?'' Christian couldn''t help but wonder as he woke up, finding his sister on one side and Eva on the other. But as he glanced around his room, which now somehow felt much smaller thanks to the new double bed delivered just yesterday, he quickly realized he wasn''t.@@@@

    The bed had become necessary because of his sister, who no longer wanted to sleep alone, and Eva, who had already assumed her rightful place would be beside him. This led to a dilemma last night... who would he choose to sleep with? After all, a single bed couldn''t possibly hold all three of them.

    Naturally, he had considered suggesting they sleep in a pyramid, stacking themselves one above the other. But since he couldn''t bring himself to say that out loud, Eva resolved the issue with a single phone call, somehow managing to have a new bed delivered late at night.

    ''Are they still sleeping?'' Christian wondered as he freed one arm and rubbed his eyes with it. The situation felt a little off, as his sister had never woken up after him before usually, and Eva seemed like the type to wake up early as well.

    But instead of dwelling on the reason, he first took a moment to feast his eyes on them. Then, with a mischievous thought, he began using his hands, exploring which areas, when massaged, might wake them up the fastest.

    That was his original intention, of course. But as he found himself holding one breast from each of them in his hands, he couldn''t help but start comparing them!

    With a contemplative gaze, Christian gave his verdict: while Eva won in softness and even size, his sister''s breasts still had that distinct bouncy feeling that Eva''s didn''t.

    "So, which one did you find was better?"

    While the sudden question caught him off guard slightly. Christian, giving each breast a squeeze in his hands for a final check, replied promptly, "Well, both of them had their own..." But before he could finish, he abruptly halted.

    Snapping back to his senses, Christian, who had been closing his eyes to focus on the sensations in his hands, couldn''t help but open them. Turning his head to the side, he looked toward the source of the sound, the one who had asked the question.

    Looking at Eva, who wore a mischievous smile and seemed to have her gaze fixed on something other than him, Christian instinctively turned his head to the other side... only to meet his sister''s glare, paired with her unmistakably sulky expression.

    For a moment, Christian couldn''t imagine the situation being any more awkward. So, slowly and carefully, he withdrew both of his hands, inch by inch, before crawling out of the bed. Picking up his laptop from the side, he cleared his throat and said, "Well, I just remembered I have some urgent work to deal with, so I''ll leave first!"

    "Coward!"

    Ignoring the muttered comment from his sister, Christian left the room, swearing to himself that he''d make sure she knew who the coward really was... when they were alone later!

    ...

    After freshening up, Christian found himself alone in the living room, with no sign of either his sister or Eva. But, without bothering about them, he opened his laptop, and asked, "So, Iris, what happened with the investigation regarding the background of this Nina?"

    Christian had spent a few hours yesterday assisting Iris with hacking and gathering information about the assassin woman, as his sister and Eva had been quite busy. Surprisingly, they seemed to have hit it off, albeit not that much, after their private conversation.

    With no one to hang out with, Christian had decided to get some work done. However, he hadn''t finished the investigation and had simply left the rest to Iris, knowing that the hardest parts were already handled by him.

    [Due to Nina failing to enter the true program, where they would begin learning essence techniques and be exposed to the other side of the world...]

    [It was decided that there was no need to dispose of her, and she would simply be dismissed.]

    [However, the one in charge there, seemingly still seeing some potential in her, sold her to another assassination organization with ties to the government.]

    [And she was raised as an assassin and has acted as such until now.]

    Christian, expecting to hear more, felt both surprised and somewhat let down that there was nothing further to the story.

    Should he call her life simple?

    In fact, he could summarize her life in one word: puppet.

    Nothing more could be added. Christian didn''t feel anything about her personality in what Iris had said, after all.

    Still, most importantly, what about being sold?

    First, it''s Eva, and now this assassin woman. Is it normal now for girls to be sold?

    Had the world regressed to a time when slavery and people being sold were commonplace, or had nothing really changed... just that it was no longer conducted in public, but now in secret?

    While his mind was occupied with many thoughts, Christian still found himself lowering his guard, even if just slightly, around her. Even though he didn''t admit it out loud, he still felt bad about her situation after all.

    "What about this Supernatural Department? Is there anything worth knowing about?" Christian asked, deciding to move on from her depressing story.

    [There''s a lot of information about them... from their activities to many other things. I''ll compile it all into a long report and display it on the screen. But if you''re asking about something of value, there were actually two more essence techniques found in their database.]

    Feeling pleasantly surprised by this discovery, Christian immediately asked for them to be displayed on the screen and took a look.

    In the end, he was disappointed to find that the techniques were actually inferior to the one he had now. Most importantly, one of them didn''t even allow practice until the first mastery stage.

    Still, he saved them in his collection, as they would probably come in handy later. Then, without bothering to look at the very long report, he asked, "Is there any other information that seems important?"

    [There''s probably just one piece of information that could be considered important.]