As ruby slithers away from the slave duo she contemplates the choices infront of her.

The sharks and the dolwhatsis how ever its pronounced look cool on paper but they seem be the end of the evoutionary rope so to speak.

This made ruby contemplate being a baby kraken, lucky the only thing Ruby can find wrong with it is that if she becomes the baby kraken she will become too big for the dungeon since from the sand bed to the floor it's all but 3 meters.

Ruby is interrupted by the duo coming up to her not with the and weapons and other stuff but a leather bag that emits a slight magic aura around it.

She wonders if this is one of those magic bags she's heard of in some RPG games she played when she was human, which could hold nearly anything with it also reducing the weight of the object inside.

her train of thought is derailed when Alice Runs at her before tackling Ruby into a hug where she starts Rubbing her face against Ruby's skull.

This stuns the Skeel and Gemini serpent but the first of the two to react is Ruby by her saying.

(Ruby):"Alice what you doing?"

(Alice):"Expressing my love for by Br. . .Sister."

From hearing this Ruby is stunned again.

after a moment of calming down tries to process this but is beaten to the punch by Riley peaking out in a pair of voices that are complete opposites,one of the voices sounds like a high pitched young girls voice while the second voice sounds like a gravely old man's voice, I'm hearing both at the same time it leads to a symphony where it's at perfect pitch, making Riley's voice seem gender neutral in the process.

(Riley):"when you gave Alice her command to swap the perception that she had between her brother and you, it must of made the love she saw for her brother becoming the love for a sister towards you instead."

from hearing Riley's new voice and not the usual gargling's of Riley saying 'yes mistress', Ruby is happy over the improvements Riley has gained while contemplated of the situation of Alice constantly hugging her.

(Ruby):" Alice revert to your past state of mind and let go of me."

Ruby says this clearly to Alice since she is face to face with Alice pushes her head way from Ruby and looking directly into her eyes while holding onto Ruby's skull and replies with.

(Alice):"no, I love my sister and im not gonna let her go no matter what."

after she says this she waits a moment with the 2 still locking eyes, in this moment Ruby notes how the pupil in her eye (the black part) has become a vibrant red colour, after the moment Alice face hugs Ruby again

from hearing this obvious defiance to her command Ruby is shocked till she hears Alphard's voice.

(Alphard):-yeah sorry, but I forgot to tell you something about your powers.-

(Ruby):-well im waiting, why my powers not working- (°ㅂ°╬)

(Alphard):-your powers all have gained a hidden quirk that weakens them, it seemed that Lucia is the cause when you gained her hatred, you should see the actual effects of her hatred but my gift made the hatred super weak so now only the quirks and exp minor gain rate-

(Ruby):- im just gonna ask what was the original hatred?-

(Alphard):- it was turn you back to goblin-fish, remove your intelligence and skills, then made you lose the ability to gain EXP forever, but because I inter-vied it was reduced to variant skill quirks and a minor EXP reduction gain rate-

From hearing this Ruby just feels like she just survived a nuke by getting in a fridge like she saw in a movie that one time when she was human.

After learning of the 'Lucia nuke' she focuses back on the Alice problem.

(Ruby):-Alphard whats the quirk with the red-eye enslavement?-

(Alphard):- Lets see. . . it seems its that the ability has been changed from full control of the subject mind and body to full body control which is no different from normal but it's only allowing a single command that effects the mind, other than the single mind command their isn't a single difference, and this is the worst of the skills effected.-

Ruby contemplates this, the single mind command on Alice must of been the perception swap and the command she gave to tell her to stop did start with a mind command so must of not worked.

(Ruby):" Alice stop hugging me."

(Alice):"Ok Ruby"

as she says this Alice backs off and stands next to Riley, after she returns to Riley, both of Riley's faces give a toothy grin before slithering along Alice's arms and goes to behind her neck before settling down on her shoulders to sleep.

From seeing Riley go to sleep, she finally gains a sense of being tired and becomes drowsy.

(Riley):"Alice if all the equipment the body parts are in the bag, I want you to pick me up and go in that direction till you hit the boss room, if you see enemies or humans wake me and Riley."

as she says this Ruby points with her bone stub of an arm in the direction of poll's room before going to the sand bed before going to sleep but before she rests a thought of the situation goes though her mind.

(Ruby):" I always wanted a younger sister."

[chapter 18: I always wanted a sister]

well im back from holidays,

(BIG NEWS)

recently a sad thing has happened, i got a message while on my holiday that my proofreader got captured by the GB's so my friend can't do the proofreading anymore, if you want to take the job send me a private message, since i am in desperate need of a proofreader as well as I can't pay with money but the perk is that you get to reader ruby_eye's first before everyone else.

also i need one for my other series but i won't ask you to proofread it if you don't want to.

thanks for reading