The streaming studio of Myth Inc. HQ, on the top floor. Around 4:00 PM.
Alpha sat in a comfy black beanbag, holding her laptop and watching her father's stream.
*And that's all from us. Thanks again for helping find Yue everyone. And be sure to watch Alfi's stream two hours from now!*
In the stream, John smiled and waved. Yue noticed and did the sa.
*Yes! Please, co watch our dear daughter's performance as-*
*Yue! You're not supposed to say that!*
*E-Eh? But is Alphy not-*
*CUT!*
The stream feed suddenly cut off, replaced again with the cute thumbnail of a chibi John and Yue leaning against each other on a couch.
Alpha sighed and shook her head. "Papa... you should have told Mama ahead of ti."
It was essentially an open secret that 'Alfi' was really John's daughter. But it was still important to avoid confirming things... at least that was what Beta had told her.
But now Mama had gone and said that on stream...
"Well. It shouldn't be too much of a problem."
'Alfi' was definitely not her father's daughter. And Alpha was different from 'Alfi'. Just a tiny bit, but enough to not be a complete lie to say otherwise.
A sigh echoed from beside her. ggie, sitting on a light green beanbag pushed up against Alpha's. "Dad's an idiot. If he was going to do that with Mom, he should have explained more ahead of ti." She frowned and then hopped off the beanbag, shaking her head. "All he made Mom do was look like an imbecile."
Alpha closed her laptop and stood up as well, carefully setting it down behind her on the beanbag. After that, she turned to ggie and said, "I don't think so. If anything, it made Mama look cute."
Like how Mama fumbled around at the end trying to catch all of the CapsuMon. How she kept blushing at all of Papa's words and how she had eyes only for him...
Alpha smiled, rembering all of that, and then placed her hand over her heart. "I'm glad too. For Mama to not care about how she looks like to others and love Papa so much... It makes happy."
ggie glanced over at her older sister and then looked away, scoffing. "She should care. Even if Mom's happy right now, it still doesn't erase what Dad did."
Alpha sighed, staring at her youngest sister- No, her 'baby' sister.
Despite how mature she acted, ggie still got swept up in her emotions. And it seed like she was still stubbornly clinging onto that grudge against their father.
"ggie."
"What?" ggie looked at Alpha and said, "Don't tell you're going to try and convince to forgive Dad. Because I won't."
Alpha shook her head. "No. I wouldn't do that. That's sothing you and Papa have to sort out for yourselves."
"Good." ggie nodded. "And I will."
Alpha walked over to ggie and pulled her into a hug. "But I do want to tell you that we're family. And even if we hurt each other sotis, in the end we're still here for each other. Okay?"
ggie tensed and then looked away, huffing. "D-Dumb big sister. I know that." She glanced at Alpha, her eyes a bit red, and then looked away. After that, she mumbled, "You don't need to tell that again."
Alpha gave ggie a light squeeze and said, "I just want you to know that you're appreciated. And that I love you."
ggie squird, looking away from Alpha. "T-That's... Dummy! You don't say things like that so casually! That's how Dad got in trouble!"
Alpha held her sister close and shook her head. "I know. But I'm not saying it casually." She looked down and smiled. "You're my dear baby sister. And..." A guilty look crossed her face as she said, "Before, I was too preoccupied with my own emotions to notice how sad and lonely you were. But it won't happen again." She moved her hand and patted Oga's head. "If you ever want to talk or play, just co get your big sister Alphy, okay?"
ggie looked up at Alpha and then sighed. "...You're an idiot too. Just like Dad."
Alpha nodded. "That's right. Big Sister's been a big idiot to you."
"Dummy." ggie shook her head, burying her face in Alpha's shirt. "You aren't supposed to agree with ."
"But it's true."
ggie broke free from the hug and turned away. As she did, she quickly brought her sleeves to her eyes, brushing away her tears.
Alpha pretended not to notice and then picked up her laptop, walking over to the main streaming computer.
Betty said that she would be busy with her projects... Sothing about a bedwarr and rearranging her room to temporarily store ggie's belongings. And also about her new story.
Apparently, Betty wanted to make sothing in secret to surprise Papa and Mama.
When she tried to explain it to Alpha, Betty had gone into a lot of detail about different fates, changing world events, and multiple 'endings'... but Alpha couldn't follow it.
Her younger sister had been really excited about the project though, so Alpha was happy for her.
...Even though she was confused about why Betty kept talking about how great it was that she managed to get such a cozy and useful bedwarr to decorate her room with.
"Big sis- Ah, I an, Onee-chan?"
Alpha blinked, brought out of her thoughts by ggie's voice.
ggie had returned to Alpha's side, her eyes back to normal and her composure regained.
Alpha smiled and said, "Big sis is fine, ggie."
She shook her head. "No. If that girl calls you Onee-chan, I'm calling you Onee-chan! You're my real Onee-chan, unlike her."
A possessive and childish declaration. One that made no real sense. But it was cute.
Alpha nodded. "Okay. But then..." She placed her finger on her chin and smiled. "If I'm your Onee-chan, you're my imouto. Okay?"
ggie flinched and grabbed her chest. Then she blinked and stared at Alpha, her eyes wide.
Alpha gasped, quickly stepping forward. "ggie! What's wrong?"
"Stop!"
Alpha did.
ggie shook her head and stared at Alpha with a strange look. She frowned and then said, "...No wonder Dad calls you his Magnum Opus. Big- Onee-chan is very formidable. Too formidable. To be capable of rattling the core of one's being through words and actions..."
Alpha blinked. "What?"
ggie sighed. "And you aren't even aware of it. No, I guess that's why it works?" She paused and then said, "...Maybe I can learn this power?"
"Power? I'm not aware of it?" Alpha shook her head and said, "You're not making any sense, ggie."
"Don't worry about it, Onee-chan!" ggie smiled and grabbed Alpha's hand. "Now, you're streaming in a couple of hours, right? A singing stream? Can you show how this all works? Are they illusions? Transformations? Can you turn into that form too?"
Alpha smiled at ggie's enthusiasm and said, "I'm not sure if I can give you your own model... That's sothing for Betty and Papa to do. But I think it should turn you into sothing automatically... Here. Let turn everything on." She gently pulled away from ggie and then walked over to the main streaming desktop.
A few clicks later and the equipnt was up and ready to run.
Like usual, Alpha's form in the wall monitors turned into Alfi, the system automatically recognizing her. But for ggie...
"Huh?" ggie tilted her head and stared at her 'reflection' in the monitor. "This isn't ...?"
"Hm?" Alpha stood up and looked over. "What do you-"
And then she froze.
ggie was right. The person standing behind the wall monitor wasn't an Ani version of ggie, like the default for people without a model.
While there was a clear resemblance, the young girl standing there had light blue hair with green highlights instead of ggie's usual light green with gold highlights. Her eyes were different too, a sharp and frosty blue instead of ggie's warr gold. And instead of the casual t-shirt and jeans ggie wore, the young girl wore a billowing light blue robe, like the sort that female immortals would have worn in the Three Realms.
Not only that, but the young girl had wings. Delicate and lacy icy wings that looked ford from snowflakes, shimring in the light.
Alpha frowned and walked over to ggie's side.
ggie turned to look at her, which caused the young girl to do the sa with Alfi.
"Onee-chan...?"
Alpha shook her head. "I'm not sure what's going on either- Hm?"
A thought bubble appeared over the young girl's head. At the sa ti, she stopped mapping ggie's movents and turned to look at ggie directly.
"Eek!" ggie scread and then ducked behind Alpha.
Alpha froze as well, caught off-guard at the unexpected event.
The young girl lifted up her head and brought her right sleeve up to her mouth, silently laughing while looking down on the two.
As she did, words appeared in the thought bubble.
[So this is who I am to reflect? How amusing. To hide away in fear from such a simple act.]
ggie read the words and then stepped out behind Alpha, glaring. "And who do you think you are to talk to like that?"
[?]
The young girl flicked her sleeve, causing more words to appear in her thought bubble.
[I am Yukiko Yosei, the child of the great snow fairy Yue. Now, who are *you* to talk to ** like that?]
ggie crossed her arms and said, "What snow fairy Yue? I'm the daughter of the Celestial Jade Princess Yue and the Tiless Savant John Smith! Ex Nihilo Oga!" She raised her head too and looked down on the girl in the monitor, a smug smile on her face. "A better na than 'snow child bewitching spirit.'"
The young girl's eye started to twitch. [You...!]
At that ti, the elevator chid and then voices drifted out.
"Y-You an that our child will co from... 'there?' N-Not simply appear in my arms?" Yue's voice.
"If it's a normal pregnancy... Though to be fair, I didn't know that's how things worked in the Three Realms. But considering what you told ... it's looking like a normal pregnancy?" John's voice.
"Y-You will be there with then, Husband? Promise?"
"Of course, Wifey."
John and Yue rounded the corner, with John holding Yue in a one-ard hug on his right side and Yue looking slightly panicked.
When they did, four gazes suddenly turned to look. Alpha and ggie, along with Alfi and 'Yukiko.'
"Hey, kids!" John smiled and raised his left hand in greeting. "How's my two lovely daughters- Hm?" At that ti he noticed the anomaly in the wall monitor.
Alpha pointed and said, "P-Papa! I think the system has gotten possessed!"
ggie crossed her arms and then glared at Yukiko. "Yeah! This upstart keeps looking down on us!"
Yukiko crossed her arms and glared at ggie, words appearing in her thought bubble. [Upstart? Look who's talking, brat!]
"I am not a brat! I'm 10000 years old!"
[And I am eternally 16! Unlike this kid who looks like she's only ten.]
"You...!"
John looked at Yukiko and blinked. And then he let out a long sigh, facepalming. "Dammit Titor. Stop trolling the kids."
Yukiko looked to John and then laughed. Words appeared in her thought bubble again. [Fine, fine. But it's good for ggie to get a taste of her own dicine firsthand, right?]
"You're not wrong, but you also spooked Alphy." John narrowed his eyes. "So stop before I drag you back and make you do an endurance stream again."
[Okay, okay. See you kids. Be nice to your dad... or the boogieman will get you.]
Yukiko waved and then slumped, as if her spirit left her body. But then she shifted, suddenly mapping ggie's actions again.
ggie glared at Yukiko, a wary look in her eyes. As a result, Yukiko did the sa... which caused ggie's eyes to get sharper. And Yukiko's eyes to get sharper.
And then John sighed. "Relax, ggie. That girl's just a modified reflection now." He shifted his gaze to Alpha and said, "And sorry for the scare." He frowned. "...I guess that guy got too salty about spending ti with your mom and wanted to get back a bit."
Alpha let out a breath she didn't realize she had been holding and shook her head. "It's fine, Papa. I was just... surprised." She paused. "Though... Who's Titor?"
John blinked. And then he coughed and said, "A-Anyway... Let's get your stream prepped and do so vocal warmups."
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