Chapter 11
Next Step
With determination Lucius finally makes a resume about his power into an email form, of course he doesn't forget to use an alias and gives a statement about only giving his real identity after first screening done.
'Alright status number check, wing ability check, sixth sense check, strong lungs check… hmm is there anything more to add… huft.. Let's just go with those for now and follow the plan'
Finishing the resume he braved his heart to send this file to the representative of the research facility from South Korea, he doesn't want to give much hope that this will pass, but this has to be accepted or he might need to change plan
Yeah he should make a back up plan if the first one fails, and his backup plan is to contact the government of his late father's country.
While waiting for a response from the organization, Lucius tries to make mana more familiar to his body and control.
Last time he did that was when he hid his wings, now he is trying to feel the sensation of the mana while trying not to summon his wings.
'Uhh.. This is hard.. It's like sensing my own blood flow but without being able to hear or touch it..'
'Right, last time I'm able to sense mana because my wings are in a sense made of mana and connected to my body'
'If the wings are real and connected to my body then blood should flow toward it, as well as mana, i don't know how the things work, but i should be able to feel the mana again after i summoned my wings back'
'Alright let's just do that, wait… I should do it inside the bathroom and without wearing any shirt, or else my shirt will be torn again.. What a pain..'
Can't have anyone seeing his half naked body, Lucius prefers to go to the bathroom even though it's cramped and might hurt his wings when it's summoned back.
Entering the bathroom and locking the door, he removes his shirt while trying not to think anything strange.
'Summon wings… summon wings.. Summo..!'
He successfully summoned the wing back and it didn't collide with the wall!, what a great progress!
'Yes! Now I have get used to that flowing sensation'
Fortunately he has the trait ability of Beginner mana manipulation from his transformation race, now with this ability he should be able to do the process of summoning and releasing the wings more fast, precise and controlled, of course with training.
Doing the summoning and releasing the wings back for a couple times actually tiring him out, after all his mana core is almost empty.
'Ugh.. I.. Feel dizzy.. I think mana inside my body is almost empty.. I should stop now, i don't want to know what happen to my body if i spent it all'
'Hmm.. So my limits right now is about 5 times of summon and release, maybe 6 times if i spent it all'
Done with the practice, Lucius finds that his body is sweating hard right now.
'Right.. The combination of closed space and heavy workout.. Wait, is this counted as a workout? Well anyway now I'm sweating, i want to take shower but i heard that immediately taking shower after sweating like this aren't good for your body'
'Let's just dressed back and use the fan to cool down'
Coming out from the bathroom Lucius gets surprised by Eve's presence, she's staring at him while peeking from her bedroom door.
She made a doubtful expression, maybe the combination of Lucius' current appearance and how he just came out from the bathroom after a long while, made her suspicious about what he did inside..
"Brother… what are you doing there… why.. Are you sweating.., hmm…"
Finding this situation suspicious Eve want to tease her brother, but because of her last mood hasn't really gone yet.
She is only able to make a weak joke, by giving Lucius a smug expression.
"Hmmm~ i see."
Of course Lucius is panicked, he doesn't want to give Eve any weird thoughts, so he immediately wants to remove the suspicion.
"Wait! I'm not doing anything strange! I just practiced my wing summoning! And I can only do it in the bathroom!"
Eve of course believes the explanation, but because of Lucius' panicked expression she finds it cute and funny, so she wants to tease him more.
"Sure brother, sure, ehehe"
Realizing that Eve only wanted to tease him, Lucius wanted to remove those smug expressions from Eve's face and give her a lesson.
"Comw hedw!"
But! He just bit his tongue because he spoke too fast while rushing towards Eve to catch her, what an embarrassing situation for him…
"Kuuuuhhh! Come here!"
Sophia already sensing her siblings' unruly behavior and immediately stopped both from running around inside the bedroom, again..
'Damn.. I forgot about sister Sophia.. Eve.. Hehe now you can't run away, I'll tickle your feet as a punishment!'
By standing between the siblings Sophia then featured Eve to come closer.
"Eve why you always like to tease your brother, i mean i know the fun but don't keep doing it or your brother might hate you because of that"
"Hmph.. Right, Eve you have to receive my anger… hahaha it seems you forgot about my nickname! Feet destroyer!"
Lucius lunges toward Eve and manages to catch her in the feet and immediately tickle her to death!
"Ahahahaha! Stop.. Stop brother, I'm sorry hahaha…"
After being satisfied, Lucius stopped.
"Ha.. Ha.. Ha.. Brother luci.. You're mean!"
"Welp.. You deserve it"
With a satisfied expression, Lucius giggled after looking at Eve's spent looks.
Sophia is only able to watch and shake her head while smiling after her siblings' interactions.
"Oh right i need to cool this sweat out"
Finally the heavy atmosphere from before is all gone, Eve now able to calm her heart and mind and finally able to let it go.
A smile and laugh came from her mouth, Sophia also smiled, meanwhile Lucius was already back to the living room and sitting in front of a fan, cooling his body down.
'Let's see if there's anything new on news'
Scrolling through social media and You*ube he found another interesting news.
'Damn… right on my prediction, huft.. The government just announced new regulations about awakened'
'I hope the organization will read my email fast, i can't stay in this country for long now, they give everyone 5 days of limits to register'
'I can't risk to stay for longer than that because they might notice my unusual and sudden arrival on this place'
'Damn right those people on the mall are taking photos and videos of me and my sisters, it all must be circulating on the internet now..'
'Argh! This is annoying!'
While grumbling, Lucius suddenly received a new email notification, with an expectation he opened and
*Congratulations! Awakened Lucia you're passed the first screening, to continue to the next stage please enter the forms in this links, we need more of your information to proceeds with the procedure*
"Yes!"
Clicking the links he scanned all of the required information, at the bottom of the forms there's one section that caught his attention.
*all of information before this won't become an indicator for an awakened to pass the next screening, what important is what unique about your ability*
*Submit your video here*
Seeing that Lucius gave out sighs of relief.
'So my actual identity isn't required for now, but what should I record?? My wings summoning skill? But it's only summoning.. Wait! If I need to show that then how?! I need my back free from any obstruction..'
'Hmm? Wait.. Isn't there a piece of clothing that has an open back? Is it a dress? If I remembered it right, yes..'
'Sister Sophia should know about these thing'
Lucius goes back to the bedroom to find his sister, Sophia isn't there and the bathroom door is locked, so he chose to wait for her to finish her business.
Several minutes later she came out from the bathroom, Lucius again made an awkward expression.
"Let me guess, you want to ask for a favor "
"Hehe, is it that obvious?, right, sister Sophia i want to ask you about this thing…"
After explaining what he thinks of his next plan, Lucius patiently waits for his sister's opinion.
"Hmm i think it's possible with some type of dress, there's a lot of dresses that have an open back, but the question is, which one?"
"Let's see.. I have two dress with an open back, but i don't know if you can fit in, after all you're taller than me Luci"
Having his goal to join the organization presented in front of him, he doesn't really care about the appearance of the dress, if it's fit or not, looks great or not, he doesn't care.
'Well as long as my front is fully covered.. Then i can handle the embarrassing situation'
"Let me see the dress first sister, maybe i can fit in, even though I'm taller but I'm not fat, so i should be able to wear it just fine"
With a bit of hesitation Sophia looks Lucius in the eyes and asks.
"Are you sure you're fine? It's a bit revealing after all"
Thinking again and braving his heart, Lucius answered with determination.
"Yes, i should be fine if the front is covered, ah! of course it covered, sorry hehe"
Sophia smiled after looking at Lucius, gesturing to him to follow to the bedroom.
Opening the hanging wardrobe that hasn't been used for a long time, it sits on the corner of the room, its door facing towards the bed and gets blocked because there's no room in front of it.
"Eve get down from the bed, we need to move it so i can open the wardrobe door"
Eve immediately gets up from the bed and curiously asks why Sophia wants to access the wardrobe.
Because what is inside is used for special occasions only and all of them are expensive dresses that are passed down from their mother and a gift.
"Sister, why do you need those dresses? Is there an invitation? Party?"
While moving the bed together, Sophia told Eve why she needed the dresses.
"Actually it's not me who will use it"
Putting a surprised face, Eve eyes locked on Lucius.
"It's for my mission! Don't look at me like that.."
Still having a surprised face, Eve asks her brother.
"Brother.. Maybe I should call you sister now.."
"Hey! I'm still a man inside! And what I'm doing is for my future goals! So please… call me brother…or I might lose something.."
Eve feels back about the words that come from her mouth, she immediately apologizes.
"Sorry brother, i don't mean to tease you or anything, i won't do it again… i hope.. Hihi"
As always… She never forgot to slip a joke in such a serious situation.
"Fine, fine, I'm not angry or anything, but please tone down your jokes, or it will bite back in the future!"
Lucius already used to his sister tease after some time now
Eve actually doesn't really do much jokes on Lucius before transformation, it seems the barrier that separates her with Lucius finally removed.
If you ask what barrier, it's gender barrier. Even for having brother-sister relationships, some girls often prefer to keep cool in front of their brother, same as the boy's side.
But if it's between the same gender, jokes and conversations are easily conveyed.
Back to the present.
Moving the bed takes some time, well it's a Queen size bed and the frames are made of real solid wood, again it's an inheritance from their parents.
Finally done moving the bed so the wardrobe door is able to be opened, Sophia fetched the key from her cupboard and unlocked the wardrobe.
"Wait a minute, I'll look for those two dresses"
Sophia searches the dresses that are hanging inside the wardrobe, they're all cleanly stored and covered with plastic, so there's no dust sticking to the dresses.
Actually there's a men's suit and tuxedo for Lucius to use, well before getting his gender changed suddenly, of course it's an inheritance.
After a minute Sophia finally takes out two dresses from the wardrobe.
First dress is a V-neck dress with azure color, the second one is an Evening dress with red maroon color.
"Alright which one do you like to use"
Having the dresses on both hands, Lucius walks to a standing mirror and sees the reflection of him putting the dresses in front of him alternately.
'The blue one is a bit bigger and loose, but the red one is too tight, I can see that it can't fit on the dress, haaa.. The blue one then'
"I'll go with the blue one, uhh sister Sophia… I know the back is open.. But you know… that how am i gonna do to support this"
Lucius embarrassingly pointed at 'her' breast, knowing that with an open back he can't possibly wear a normal bra.
Sophia give Lucius an intense look on 'it'
"Good question, I have a matching bra for these dresses, but you know Lucius, it can't possibly fit with mine.."
'Damn! Should I go without one?... I can't! Mine is just too big to ignore! Arghh what a pain.., did i have to go shopping again… ahhh i don't want to do it again...'
A troubled expression displayed on Lucius face, he has a dilemma on which one to sacrifice.
Between going braless for the video that only went for a moment, or went shopping and experiencing an unruly crowd again.
Sophia suddenly said to Lucius not to worry.
"Don't worry about that, we can buy it from online shop, i don't usually use the services but you can ask Eve for that, she sometimes buy her things from there"
Having mentioned Eve finally being able to join the conversation after being silent for long because she isn't that experienced with wearing formal type dresses, she usually goes with more girly types like one piece dresses or western dresses.
"Count one me! But sister, what type of bra should I look for? And the size?"
While rummaging on a tools box to look for a measuring tape for a clothing or body circumference, Sophia answered Eve's question.
"Look for a sticky bra, search for the biggest one, as I don't know if Lucius' size is available there.. Ah! Let me do the measurement now"
Finally finding the measuring tape, Sophia comes close to Lucius.
"Lucius, I need you to do something.."
A bit confused, Lucius asked.
"Uhh what?"
Sophia hesitated for a bit, then told Lucius.
"remove your bra for a moment, ahh you don't have to undress, just the bra"
Another troublesome thing is coming for Lucius, as he doesn't know why he needs to remove the bra, he asks Sophia.
"But sister Sophia.. Why? is it impossible without removing this off?"
Very rarely Sophia will make a troubled expression, but now she is.
"Actually it can, but I can't get the right measurements if you don't remove it. Don't worry I'll make sure to do it gently and not touching anything strange, and it will be fast! I promise"
Feeling defeated, Lucius Finally removed it, but he didn't know how to remove it without undressing, so he just chose to pull it to the top. It's a bit difficult though, but he still manages to do it.
"I'm done"
Gesturing Lucius to raise his arms, standing behind him Sophia's hand began sliding inside Lucius shirt.
'Ah.. Damn! I almost make strange sounds.., i have to hold back!'
The stimulation is a bit too much for him, but he's able to hold his mouth from making any sound.
But not his body though, shivering from the stimulation, Lucius only able to stand and do nothing.
Sophia is finally done with the measurement, she is a bit stunned and makes a blank expression.
"Uhh sister Sophia… hello? The measurement is done right? You're not gonna repeat for one more right?"
Eve as a viewer chose to wait for her sister's answer.
Sophia finally comes to her senses, and tells them about the size and with a defeated look she says.
"It's 96 cm… and because your underbust size is 68 cm, so it's an H cup.. Almost I.."
Eve as a girl knows a bit about the size and the significance, so she's amazed about the results.
As for Lucius… he also gets flabbergasted because of that, he knows the cup size because of his 'adventures' on the internet, so he knows how crazy it is.
'Damn.. Right.. I know mine is big.. But not that big… wait women sometimes say that it's heavy for their back, but my back feels fine though.. Or does it take some time to feel the burdens?.. Wow.. What a complicated thing'
Finally get on her senses Eve then begins searching the size on the online shop, after looking for a while.. Long while… She was finally able to find one.
But there's only one left in the store! And the price was also surprisingly expensive, Eve looked at Sophia and asked for confirmation.
"Sister, I found it.. But there's only one left across all stores.. And the price is a bit expensive.."
Sophia and Lucius gathered near the phone and looked at the price tag, well it's indeed expensive, but the only choice is to buy it, because they don't have any alternative for now, and maybe in the future.
So Eve then ordered the item, paying with a m banking via Qris, she still got enough money on her account.
Now after finishing all of it, they cleaned up the mess, moved back the bed, and of course the dress already laying on the bed.
Sophia chose to bring it to the laundromat because it's already sitting there for quite a long time.
Done with the preparation, they go back to do their own activity.
So another hammer struck on Lucius' mind, the hammer called reality.
"What a pain.. Being a woman is.."