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Chapter 126

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Chapter 126  Remembrance Week! by Harem-Fan

 

     That night, my father-in-law, Hana's father, was so thrilled with the state win and hopes I will take us to win the Eurasia Cup at the end of the year. South City University had been buying ringers for the last 20 years, and prevented us from going to the Nationals.

     From what I heard, the odds of running into Masters is higher in the Nationals Tournament, so I can find some fun bouts.

     No University this week, so our time to just lounge around has opened-up for us all, and I plan on going out on more dates, work on my business, and visit the girls' families.

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     Around 11 pm, I tucked Mary into bed and told her I would go out for a bit, but I would be back before she wakes up. Seeing my look she could guess what I really wanted to do, but she let me go anyway.

     Because of the snow, I bundled up and used my stealth to leave the house. I am not doing anything bad, just want to beat the crowds and alone, visit my father first, so I can say what I want without holding back in-front of the girls.

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     After waving to the security guards I walked out of the compound, and as I was near my old BMW I parked on the main road, I noticed someone had entered my car due to the snow on it being disturbed. Stealth is harder in bad weather like this.

     Recognizing it was Mei in the passenger seat, I get in the driver's seat.

     "How did you know I was coming?"

     "Rick, I would be a bad lover if I could not guess what you are thinking, so I am coming. I want to do the same thing."

     Mei is in her off duty mode. She is wearing her bluejeans, white-sweater, and bomber-jacket. Plus she isn't calling me Master. This is such a rare sight for me, I find this side of her cute. I started the car and slowly drove, and she smiled seeing I am bringing her along.

     "Mei, we were going as a group before, so why did you sneak out with me?"

     Mei unwrapped two Tootsie-pops, one cherry and the other chocolate. She put the last one in my mouth. After she licked the cherry she told me something shocking.

     "Even if you did not go tonight, I would have gone alone. I need to burn incense for your father."

     "Why my father? Is it because of my grandfather or something?"

     She pulled the lollipop from her lips and leaned over to kiss my chocolate flavored lips, while we were at a light, then she sat back down and spoke.

     "I told you I was saved by a spy, right?"

     "You told me in the beginning, when you were 7 and he trained you to be a double agent for Eurasia, yeah I remember."

     "I did not have parents, and he raised me for a short time, to teach me how to survive in this world. But, he passed away before I could see him again. He gave me my first Cherry Tootsie-pop, and he ate the Chocolate ones. He would even tell me stories before bed, about the wonderful Disneyland park he took his little boy to."

     I slowly pulled over and put the car into park. When I looked at Mei, her eyes were wet. My heart tightened a bit, because I know what she is trying to tell me. I just had no idea my father was more than a Police Officer. I let out a deep breath and started to use my calming exercises, as I assessed her words.

     "Mei, I am fine, go on with your story."

     To reassure her, I took her cold hand into my hand, so she can tell I love her and am not letting my feelings cloud my thoughts.

     "When he was in the China Empire, he used a different name, so I had no idea you were his child before I came to you. I really hated my actions. Hurting the son of my foster father, what kind of joke was that. I wanted to make it up to you, so I took the mission. Not because of your father, grandfather, but just you."

     I know there is more to the story, but she probably has told me Top Secret things she should not have, so I won't push, but I do say.

     "Just tell me what you can and when you are comfortable with it. I know you have reasons for secrets, so just know I love you, and I am glad my father saved you, because I would not have been able to love you if he didn't."

     Holding her lollipop in her hand she leans in and gives me a passionate kiss, giving me her feelings. I can taste her salty tears with the taste of cherry, and shortly, she sat back in her seat. She put her cherry-pop back in and said.

     "Let us go, I want to tell him that I went to Disneyland with his son, and... I love him very much. And you cannot lie to the dead."

     She already wiped her tears and is back in her normal mode. I can tell she had been dying to tell me just this much all this time. I pulled back into the street...

-

     Star City Public Crematory and Cemetery...

     Only the nobility, in the nobles graveyard, use caskets and bury the bodies of their family members, like in my old world. Probably a ritual brought by a past me.

     For 90% of the civilized humans in Pangaea, we cremate our dead, then shallowly bury the ashes to return us to the earth. Most humans do not like the idea of maggots eating our bodies after death, feeding the lowest of lifeforms. Plus, by cremating bodies, many plagues of my last Earth were avoided on this Earth.

     We still use headstones however to show the place of rest, and for burning incense on top of the stone.

     So it is rumored that if your body is left out and not cremated or properly buried, you can't enter reincarnation. Well, it is a good method for humans to properly take care of the dead, and show respect.

     Even as a noble, I will still want cremation, due to growing up being taught about worms and maggots nesting in you. Sure I don't need my body when I go, but damn, it's just an ugly thought.

     Mei and I are walking in the dark snow covered cemetery, and we are arm in arm, just slowly making our way to my fathers grave. This is Mei's first time here because she did not know my dad's true name before, so she could not visit.

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     Deep inside the cemetery we had noticed a few people here burning incense at midnight, the hour it starts, wanting to be first. So when Mei and I neared my fathers and mothers stone, I froze because there was a man already burning incense on the top of my father's grave.

     He was as tall as me, but more muscular, wearing a cloak with his hood up to cover himself from the snow. His cloak was white in color, alluding to a non-criminal. But what shocked me was the aura of a Grandmaster coming from him. His every movement screamed danger. A simple flick of his fist, could end a normal man's life.

     I slowly moved Mei behind me, and the man spoke without turning his head.

     [We are not fighting today. This is a sacred day, so no fighting, with fist or words. I will be done shortly.]

     I really had the urge to yell at him, but his words are right. Mei held onto my arm and sank into my back, afraid of this man striking her down. Not that he would, but his skill gives others an illusion of seeing an executioner.

     Soon after the man said a few words to the smoke, he then walked past me and stopped beside us, not once letting us see him. He said.

     [Your life should be peaceful till your 24th birthday, so I advise you to build your Empire by then, if you want to resist the chains of fate.]

     Without me being able to dodge or avoid it, his gloved hand landed on my shoulder and patted it, he then said to Mei.

     [He is more your Emperor than anyone else, so concubine, take good care of him.]

     He then slowly walked away, then as we turned to see where he went, he was gone, like a ghost. His body is at Grandmaster level, and he could easily defeat me at my current body strength. Even I could feel his intensity, that I never felt in the past. The strongest man in Eurasia, General Lee.

     Mei was holding me from behind, slightly trembling from his oppressive charisma, from a man who has killed thousands with his bare hands and not even using firearms. I smile and turn her into my chest and pat her back. Seeing Mei afraid is new for me. Maybe, I can only face him because of who I am?

     "You alright dear?"

     "Hmm! I think meeting him in a graveyard was a bit much though, fufu. I am always terrified when I meet him, my instinct tells me to run."

     "Let us greet my family, we are here after all."

-

     A few hundred feet from me and Mei...

     General Lee, still in his fully white-cloak looking like a white-Reaper, is standing in-front of a woman in a long white fur-coat. The woman is Lucy Shen, aka May Lee.

     "So?"

     [The hair on the back of my neck stood. I have not felt danger but from one other person. He is taking his training better than I thought. With all of his wives, I thought he had fallen into debauchery, but I was wrong.]

     "The more he loves, the more he wants to protect. It moves him forward, fufu. Here, this USB has everything you need to know, and nothing you don't need to know. Kimberly Long is in there, so deal with her for me, she is a poison pill to the Long. Rick needs her gone. Don't rush it, but just deal with her the normal way."

     [Why does it seem I am working for you now, brat?]

     "Because I love him more than all of you. I will make sure his enemies fall, even the Traditionalists. They have become rotten. So I will make Rick stronger than them before the showdown with Central. Just don't die before that wastes 18th birthday. Rick can use your help then, and a dead old man is not good. I won't burn incense for you if you die before then."

     [You are so much like your mother it is scary. She was the only person that could beat my ass. She was too intense in her love for me, so I guess your obsession was passed to you from her. That said, don't go dying like your mother did, that will break his heart.]

     "Yup, I don't want Rick to be like you with a cold-heart. But mother killed most of those traitorous bastards, so they don't look sideways at us anymore. I can only fight with computers, so I am a different kind of blade. Well, I guess I will see you again a year from now, here?"

     [That is right, you are dead, so I don't want them to find you till Rick is ready to defend you. Try not to drown him in your deep affections, bye.]

     Lucy stuck her tongue out at her father as he vanished. Then her eyes looked to where I was, and smiled. She then started walking in that direction, muttering.

     "My deep affection can only be his, and he can have all he wants, I am his, fufu."

-

     [Sally Lee, Rick Lee, Lucy Lee]

     The nice thing, my real mother and my step-mother are both laid to rest with my father. So simply burning incense one time is convenient. Commoners can basically have their whole family be buried in a small 10 x 10 plot of land, for generations. Simply engrave the name into the stone and shallowly plant the ashes.

     Because of secrets, I back away so Mei can whisper the things she wants my father to know. I almost feel like my father saved her , Linda, and Mercy for me. I know this is bullshit except for Linda, but... It makes his life mean something to me. He protected people. I look at my smartphone and am surprised, then I shake my head with a smile.

     Soon I smelled the strawberry I expected, as Lucy hugged me from behind and said.

     "When I noticed you here, I was going to surprise you, but I forgot about the Cat and Mouse, fufu. Hello Rick, saying prayers to your parents?"

     "I am, and may I ask why you are hugging me so tight?"

     "First, I am cold, second, it is a graveyard and I want to feel safe, and third, I just really wanted to hug you."

     "Your honesty is both refreshing and scary. So why are you out here so late, come to burn incense here?"

    She slid to my front and the warm air from her breath was making steam.  Now she is blatantly hugging my waist and I don't know what to do with my arms. Her eyes look challenging at me, but she speaks.

     "I will burn some for your father, but I really wanted to see you first. Oh, and if you don't want me to hug you, just push me away."

     I roll my eyes at her because she slightly tightens her hold on me. I see Mei look at us, and I can swear, she is complaining to my father about Lucy. Well that is what my gut is telling me. I am helpless, because pushing her away both feels wrong, and I think that is a bad sign for a 'special' woman.

     I just say fuck it and let my arms hold her gently, looks less awkward than dangling them like a bird. She smiled brightly seeing me do that and she said.

     "Rick, I won't bite or force you to kiss me or anything like that, but letting me hug you makes me so happy. And you are very warm, I think winter is my new favorite season, well until summer, then I can show you my bathing suits, fufu."

     "You are really 13 years older than me, right? It is hard to tell, because you look 25."

     Her smile looked almost erotic as she shuddered a bit in my arms, creepy.

     "It is because of good family genetics. When my mom was 50, she looked no older than 30, so I am going to age like that. Something to consider, right?"

     Her fur-coat feels nice and I realize she is a beautiful woman, then I am reminded of the Island bathroom, I remember a lot of moments, including my childhood memories. I had not noticed a smile on my face. Lucy has been there for me in the shadows, like right-now, in a graveyard hugging me.

     "Cough, I am done."

     Mei is standing next to us with her arms crossed looking at Lucy like she is a bother. Lucy laughed and said.

     "Your timing is horrible Mei, he was about to kiss me, Ufufu, fine, let me say my prayers."

     As Lucy let me go to burn a stick of incense, Mei jumped into my arms to keep Lucy out, and I smiled at the fact Mei is sticking her tongue out at Lucy. Their relationship must be really good.

     Seeing Lucy kneeling in-front of the stone, I noticed Mary's mothers name is also Lucy. So it was not the anime that made me say the name but Mary's mother must have been who my brain thought of. Both women had black hair and blue-eyes. Lucy is a common name like Chris, Tony, Kim, Kimberly, and even Rick.

     Mei asked or stated. If this story is on any-other site than Scribble Hub, then it was stolen without permission!

     "Do you like that Lucy woman?"

     "I know I should say no. I want to say no. But, I might."

     "Don't let her bully me. She seems like a bully."

     Lucy told me to not tell Mei I knew about Lucy, so I for now will respect her, she must have her reasons. I kissed Mei and said.

     "No one is allowed to bully my Mei. But don't start a fight because of that, be respectful."

     "Damn, you saw through me, now I have to annoy her some other way."

     "Why do you want to bully Lucy Shen?"

     Mei forgot for a moment that she is not supposed to know her, but she thought of something.

     "Because in our fake threesome, she was hogging all the finishes!"

     "...................."

     I was speechless that a woman was petty over a fake sex?! Mei felt she scored a victorious blow to my common sense, then Lucy came back to us and looked unhappy she lost her chest spot. She said.

     "Rick, are you going to say anything?"

     "I talk to him in my dreams. I only have to protect everything he left behind for me. He left me a mission before he left us. He has had a lot of important people he gave everything for talk to him, so let him rest a bit, I will come back, let's get you two out of the cold."

     Mary, Linda, Mercy, Mei, and Lucy. These are all important people he protected. So I will do the same, that is my prayer to him. I think both women understand this is what I meant.

     "Miss Xia, is that your wallet laying on the tombstone?"

     Mei seeing that had her eyebrow twitch, she knows damn well that Lucy picked her pocket to get her spot back!

     "Can you please get it for me, thanks."

     Before these two went to stupid-town trying to hug me, I broke away and picked up her wallet for her, making both women pout. Ha, Got them!

     "Rick dear, please walk me back to my car, thanks."

     So here I am now, walking through the graveyard with two women in my arms, sigh. Come with one, leave with two.

 

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