The Eternal Family



Harry and his daughter lay naked in each other's embrace, with Harry looking at the side of her face and Evis looking up at the vast ceiling,

Evis broke out of her brief daze and said, her voice a mixture of experience and naivety, "Then I figured out, That it was all a part of your plan, That you wanted me to struggle," She paused for a breath and then proceeded, "You wanted me to reach the end of my line, you wanted me to age, you wanted me to cry…you wanted me to die."

"What do you mean?" Harry asked calmly. He had some ideas about what she was talking about because he too had some encounters with his past or future self or his actions more than once and understood how deeply his schemes went.

"Ha, Dad, you look like you have no clue what I am speaking about," Her voice was a bit choked, but still, she continued to vent her frustrations, "Your time-travelled-self created me and then groomed me into his lover Dad...and I am deeply in love with you, to the point I can't see a way out without you even now, yet even I understand, I was played like a fool, you just needed someone as a cog in your scheme, a scheme that runs across timelines and I just ended up being that cog..."

Harry nodded with a slightly heavy heart, this was his conjecture too. He looked at her face, waiting for her to continue.

And she did, her eyes glistening with unshed tears. "All my efforts Dad, the fact that I reached Stage 5 with both my abilities, The fact that I did that while being chased and surrounded by the royal family, my experiences, my life... everything. Your other self expected everything and then let me do it so that once the clone dies, I will come and bring you my Born-dragon ability, right?"

Harry had no answer, But Evis was not looking for one, so she just continued, "You never loved me did you? You never cared for your daughter right...You even planned for my death..." Her tears started streaming down,

Harry's hand rose and went to her cheek, slightly rubbing the tear out, he continued listening, there was nothing to speak for him, he just had to listen.

"...And then I died, hoping for the misery to end and serenity to come, But no, I was reborn again, making me be reborn into the same place where I thought I had to reach through defeating people I can't seem to defeat no matter what."

She turned her face away from the ceiling and then looked at Harry's face, right into his abyss-like eyes, "Then I started thinking Dad, You never meant for me to die struggling against the chaos of the Lust Family or their Kings, You had a plan for me...As I said before, you even had a plan for my Death."

Gulping, Harry nodded, he could see where she was going.

Evis smiled, her tear-stained face brightening like a budding flower, "You are as smart as ever, Even though I find you much too immature, I can see the phantom image...You are my true Dad, No question about it."

Harry chuckled lowly, "I will take it as a compliment."

"I meant it as one," She added calmly, Having finished the important storyline of her whole life.

Harry, seeing her stop couldn't help but ask broodingly, "All your details and things relating to your unique body are missing from the status bar in the system though, why is that?"

"...Status bar? system? What are those?"

Turning silent, Harry said after a second, "I will tell you about that later...For now, tell me your story, tell me the life you had here after rebirth, why were you called a promiscuous woman who even had encounters with butlers when my sword was the one that broke your barriers?"

"Pfft...that..." Evis laughed, her laughter ringing with a dark tone as she said, "My life here was pretty ordinary, like any other princess until I turned 15. My dual-gifted status was then revealed when my abilities awoke, which was a shocker since I had used a lifespan increasing Gu, and it was revealed to some high-level people that I'm talented, making some brats covet me for themselves..."

Gloomy, Harry chuckled darkly, "Which brats?"

"Some idiotic princes with bloated egos," Chuckling, she added with her golden eyes shining, "But I was weak, so I had to put on a show of promiscuity to shoo the flies away, but I had gotten my abilities back even though it was just stage 0, So I started building my power back up in anticipation of your return, and four years later...you came, and as expected, forced me to have sex with you."

Harry blinked but then asked, his mind sharp for details as ever "Why didn't you come to me earlier then, I was here for years right?"

"Eh? What the hell are you talking about, There is no Harry in existence inside the royal family?"

Harry blinked again, and dumbly thought, 'Oh yeah this me too is a time traveller, I look old because I used points...'

Breathing out, the tension seemed to leave the room as he asked, his voice a bit dry due to speaking so long, increased stat had increased his need for food and water intake greatly,

"So evis—" but he suddenly stopped and Chuckled, a weight lifted from his mind.

Confused, Evis asked: "What are you chuckling for?"

"I found out why my pleasure points are lesser than what they should be, it's replacing my food and water intake."

"Oh! That's...what's that?"

"Hehe, don't you want your bath?"

"Did you figure out why I don't appear clearly in that status thingy?"

"Maybe because you are special?"

Evis smiled smugly, that made sense.

And then suddenly said, "And by the way, don't think I accept my fate as simply a cog in your machinations; since I had thought it through clearly that if you don't make me one of your truly loved ones, I will make you love me.

In my own ways."

Harry smiled in pride and gave a small peck on her cheeks, "You don't have to my child."

Nodding with a glistening eye, she said, heaving in a deep breath, "Bathe me then!"