The Earth After Rebirth

The next day, Kiro and Isla did as they promised by taking Alora out. Isla had never had a younger sibling, she was a younger sibling, so this was a nice change of pace for her.

They ran up and down the entire place, Alora wanted a bit of everything. She dug deeper into both of their personal bank accounts. Kiro wasn't complaining, his sister deserved the entire world in his eyes.

He felt sorry for Isla though, she found herself buying her stuff. Alora was the princess who decided who buys her what next.

"Ki, buy me this place." She said with an enchanting voice.

So enchanting Kiro almost said okay.

'Dangerous!' He thought to himself.

"We can't, Hiro owns this entire place!"

"So Hiro does, I'll ask him to give it to me for my birthday!" She thought that was the smartest idea in the world.

"He's more likely to give it to Isao." Kiro said chuckling, but stopped realising he'd done more damage. "But he might give it to you, both of you." He amended.

That put her in a better mood, as she skipped ahead of them. She felt like a princess and this entire place was her palace.

Kiro noticed before it even happened. But his feet weren't fast enough to carry him there. A man in a rush bumped into Alora, sending her to the ground. He didn't even stop to look whether she was okay.

Kiro was livid, but took solace in the fact that he was walking straight for them. He didn't even stop him to ask, he planted his right fist on his nose, sending him to the ground.

Isla had already ran ahead to ensure Alora was alright.

The man's nose was bleeding, it looked like Kiro had broken it.

"What the hell is wrong with you, nutcase?" The man asked, pinching his nose to make it hurt less.

"I'm a nutcase? Don't make me punch you again, you bump into little girls and don't even show them any courtesy. Who the f*ck raised you?" He was beyond angry, he wanted to go for another punch but didn't want Alora seeing him like that.

"Apologise to her!" Isla demanded.

"Bi—"

The word hadn't completely left his mouth, Kiro's fist made him swallow it. As much as he didn't want to be violent in front of Alora, he also didn't want her to think people could walk all over her as they pleased without consequences.

The man spat a mouthful on the really clean floor, he put his hand up in the air as if to shield himself from the monster in front of him.

"I'm sorry okay? I'm sorry!"

Security was already at the scene. They, by now knew who Kiro was so they apologised on the guys behalf too. Asking whether they would like him to be banned from the mall.

"That's alright, but he should clean this up."

The man got up, his pride squashed. He'd originally been so confident because he was from around here, but not in Area One. He usually strutted around the mall as if he owned it because his family had a designer shop squatting in one of the plots.

When he heard the security threaten to ban him for these people, he quickly became obedient.

"Spineless." Kiro mumbled.

"Are you okay?" Isla could tell his knuckles were a bit bruised.

"Dammit, punching in-game isn't this painful." He said massaging his knuckles. "Are you okay Freckles? I'm sorry you had to witness this."

"I'm not a kid, he's a bad man!" She proclaimed. Even though she scraped a knee she acted brave and tough. She was a kid who was used to harsher conditions after all, it'd take a lot to dumpen her mood.

Even after that incident, she continued to drag them throughout the mall. Kiro left the guy to the security trusting them to make him finish his punishment.

On their ride home, Isla was rubbing some stuff on Kiro's knuckles, even though he told her, he was fine. She didn't believe his tough guy act, and applied the medicine. Something she always carried around in case of emergencies.

The car was full with everything Alora bought. She fell asleep on Kiro, it had been a very long day after all.

"She's really nice, makes me want to have kids at this point in my life." Isla commented almost a whisper.

"You want kids? Today was fun, but imagine today, being every day!" Kiro countered, he wasn't sure yet he wanted kids.

"You're such a big baby. With Alora as my child, everyday would be an adventure."

Kiro shook his head, he couldn't believe how naive Isla was when it came to this. He was about to argue but stopped himself when he remembered she was the last born, therefore never had the burden of taking care of younger siblings.

"You'll find out, soon enough." He said with more confidence than he had.

"Oh yeah, you're the one who's going to make me find out?" She joked.

"So what if I am?" He didn't know where this was going but he wasn't going to stop it.

Isla turned red, she was saved by the car having arrived at her house. She quickly hopped out of the car.

"Tell her I had fun today because of her." She walked away, not waiting for an answer. Kiro watched until she was inside her estate and told Raul to drive them home.

"Why did you leave me behind?" Loki enquired seeing everything Alora bought, it may have as well been the entire mall.

Kiro clicked his tongue, "Freckles loves me and respects me, what about you?"

"I—do that too."

Kiro lightly laughed, because Loki blushed as he said this. He'd planned to open up an account for him and give him a monthly allowance, since he's starting school next year, he'll need it amongst rich kids.

"Ki my baby boy, we need to talk."

Kiro knew she wanted something, when she used such soft words to melt him, making him want to agree before she even said anything else.