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Chapter 3 - Brother’s return

What's up everyone hope y'all are excited since the idea that started this all appears in this chapter!

Today's extra info is about the main characters anime experience

1496 words have fun :)

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Back at the Nura house Nurarihyon sips his tea staring across the table at his daughter in law, Wakana Nura.

Letting out a sigh he just says grimly "This may be random but I have to apologize Wakana. It seems like Ryuo has only picked up the worst qualities of my son." Her expression seemed knowing even if a little embarrassed.

"Yes…he's a nice boy, and has no problems fitting in. If only he weren't so…possessive." She says looking out worrying about him taking something too far as they spoke.

-Kana, 1st POV-

It's only been five seconds since we reached the bus and everything is already going wrong!

Ryou has that same creepy smile on his face and is slowly walking towards Jamie. I swear it's so weird when he does this! Whenever I look into his eyes it's like he isn't even seeing the same kid I am.

"Ryou, what are you doing?!" I said punching him in the shoulder. "Let's sit down already." Pushing him towards an open seat…he's just turning his head to stare the kid down still. OH!

Quickly I sweep something off the floor and place it into his hands.

"Your to- uhh friend is getting hungry." Slowly it looked as though he spaced out and then his head snapped back down onto the toy as he handled it with lightning speed, before looking back up at me saying.

"Thanks for the catch there Kana." Whew…well at least it's nice to know he cares.

Almost like he didn't want me to believe such a thing any longer he spoke out. "I can't believe he knocked them out of my hand…I'll never let it happen again."

Great. I hate this guy.

-Ryou 1st pov-

This is something…of course I'm sure she probably thinks I'm autistic or something but I didn't have much better of an excuse to explain my quick switch. Of course I just found something more interesting than Jamie.

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Lottery System

Welcome to the Lottery system where you will gain all of your {hopefully} amazing prizes!

Soon the canon will begin and as such you will be granted a free ticket for your first wheel! Sadly you must complete quests afterwards to earn more tickets, but do not fear. You will not be required to take up these quests as it would make it boring for the Gods above!

Instead we will use the carrot, allowing the Gods to make special quest offers to see things they like in return for tickets.

Have fun you lucky lion you.

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Lion? Oh yea…my name was Leo. It's strange that I can forget my own name and yet there are some things I'll never be able to forget…

Thankfully it seems like this is some slice of life world so eventually I will forget those things after not using them. More importantly, I CAN GAMBLE!! Please tell me there are some kinds of risks involved!

I imagine the screen opening and sure enough it brings me to a few options in front of me.

Lottery

Quests

Gains

Lottery is self explanatory, quests are likely just missions to complete which should be easy enough, but gains is a bit more loose.

I wonder if I can-oh

Gains

A section dedicated to showing you what you have won from our beautiful system here. Sadly things out of the system you got won't be added, but hey who knows maybe one day

;)

A winky face in italics looks like cancer. Anyway fuck all of that, I just wanna spin the wheel now!

Lottery

Wheel:All mixed

Orb:Magical based boons or curses.

Slots:Physical based boons or curses.

Wheel! Wheel! Wheel!

*Spinning*

Come on give me something good!

And just before I could see the prize the bus stops and I go face first into the seat in front of me.

"You're an idiot." Kana says plainly while staring at my unmoving body.

*Hours later*

Yea I waited until school ended to check my undoubtably big win, because if someone interrupted me when I tried to look again…either way it's time!

Congrats user you have -Contract- we wish you the best of Luck.

Huh..feels familiar. Like it was made for me in a way, but at the same time my old world didn't have magic or anything. Maybe I'm just going crazy.

Just the thought of it made me begin cackling while I walked down the street on the way home. Didn't want to take the bus this time to make sure no one would have stopped me.

The moment I opened the doors to my home I was bombarded by monsters wishing me a happy birthday each with their own gift of some kind.

"Young Master Ryou, Zen has arrived. He told me to let you know he'd be in the living room when you arrived."

Oh great, My brother actually came! I'm kinda surprised honestly.

Bursting through the doors into the living room I shout out "Your amazing brother has made his entrance!"

Zen focuses in from what seemed like a nap before standing up spreading his arms wide.

"Ryou! About time you showed up."

After an hour or so of talking Zen gains a saddened face and asks "So…when are you gonna become the Nura clans leader?"

Huh, This is interesting. I thought it was pretty much certain I'd be taking over. Which I'm pretty sure is when the plot will begin, most likely some romcom between me and a human or smth.

"Easy answer, I already am." We laugh heartily, even if not for long due to him suddenly coughing up his lungs.

"Hey, are you alright?!" I ran over to his side watching him clutch his chest. A smile grew over his face as he looked up and said "Hah, got you! It was just my poison see?"

Looking back down the crimson blood turned to a purplish black color on the floor. Sucks for him though I'm not an idiot. The color was absolutely a crimson red and he likely used the poison in his blood to change its color.

The most important thing in the world is information and I've already done more than enough research on Youkai.

"Descendant of the Gumyōchō a bird yokai with two heads always opposite to each other it takes form in your families ability to poison, but also create a healing salve. Sadly your family also gains the curse of a weak constitution more than likely due to the legacy of Gumyōchō's own poisoning that led to their death." His eyes widen hearing how deep I went into his families history, and even my own offered theory.

"Really there's no reason for you to lie to me, because I'll know." I scoffed looking down at him.

Moments of silence passed before he tried to speak again. "I-"

Of course I couldn't just let him finish just for the sake of pettiness. Who would I even be if I did?

"Now let's move on to finding you a way to raise your constitution. I've been at a loss for a few months now, but with your knowledge in medicine maybe we could figure it out."

This time he spoke up with a bit more conviction so I quieted down and let him speak. "Brother, wait! Why do you know all of this? And how long have you known…?"

Oh yea that. I'm not quite sure why he would ask such an obvious question when "I clearly knew the entire time?" After this declaration I could have sworn his eyes popped out of their sockets.

"Wha-why?!?" I could tell by watching that just him raising his voice this much strained his body more than normal.

"It's my job to know. Every single youkai that has come under the Nura clan has been thoroughly investigated by me. Weaknesses, strengths, characteristics, origins, and anything that could be found."

" What kind of leader would I be if I can't even do this much?" With a cocky smirk I offer my hand to Zen and continue on.

"You are my sworn brother. I'd be a failure if I let you someone who could more than useful for healing troops due to some damn curse."

With a little shiver in his body Zen goes quiet for a bit taking my hand into his. "Don't you regret your word, my brothe- no. Master Ryou."

"As if I would, brother." And just like that we continued talking about what could work on his curse for the near future, and even if we drew blanks I could tell the quality of our brotherhood had grew.

*5 days later*

Today is the day…the time has come for the entire Nura clan to meet up and decide on the 3rd leader of the clan. My family is here, and I won't trust them in anyone's hands but my own.

Failure to succeed isn't an option here, after all I've never been good at sharing.

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