LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 13: Another gacha
Claire pov
I'm so happy and grateful with how excellent my children are. I'm not gonna pretend I don't enjoy Harry's talent and good intentions for his parents. From hiring a maid as a present and making a few suggestions about moving. I know he is making a lot of money, way more than my own father. I'm very grateful that my own son is gifted, and I'm not gonna be a hypocrite that pretends I don't enjoy the money that my son makes.But at the same time I'm a bit worried about my husband's reaction to my own son's money making abilities.
Today is the day my son asked us to have an important meeting, and he said it's gonna be the 3 of us without other people, including Haley,Alex and toddler Luke. So after making sure all of them went to bed, we started the meeting at the master bedroom.
"Mom, dad, I want to talk to you about our house. We live in a good house and in a pretty good neighborhood. But I think it's fair to start thinking about moving to a bigger house, maybe some mansion that has enough space for a few live-in-maid with some security guard working 24 hours a day. I know we kept a low profile, but I'm afraid it's gonna get more dangerous as our company is getting bigger. We never know who will have some bad thoughts to our family, maybe they want some ransom money, maybe they want to steal, maybe they want our companies ? we never know. I believe it's time for us to prepare better, and if you don't want to buy the one available, we can afford to build one, our money is useless if we don't use it.. Do you agree with me ?" Harry explained to us in detail.
From what he wants and what he is afraid of. And to be honest I personally agree with him and I was persuaded that we need to keep our family safe, maybe even bring Mitch and his boyfriend to live with us. My parents too, but they already live in gated communities so I guess they are already pretty safe.
I simply look at Phil, I think he will understand that I agree with Harry from my expression alone. But boy…. I was wrong… big time wrong…
Phil pov
I can feel my wife's expression, and that means she wants me to handle this, alright Claire. I will see what I can do in this situation. How should I convince Harry that his mother already loves this house and the sentimental value is too big for her to abandon this house. I understand that my son wants to keep his family safe. I understand it very very well after I see a few bad people walking to approach me. I just pretended I forgot something and immediately went home.
"Well Harry, I know you want to keep your family safe, how about we renovate the house so it's fully bulletproof ? and we can make some room in the basement so we can have some professional bodyguards staying in our house?"
"Wait what ?" Suddenly my wife seemed frozen with what I said. Did I make a mistake? Is she not happy with strangers in our house ? but she doesn't have any problem with the maids Harry hires.
Harry just smiled helplessly without saying anything, while my wife seemed to be angry with what I said.
"Honey, I love you but I do agree with Harry on this. I even want to bring Mitchell to live with us, we can have separate buildings for him to live in, I don't want to compromise our safety honey." my wife said to me.
Aah so she decided to agree with Harry, that will make it easier.
"Then where do we want our new house to be built ? or we want to buy an existing mansion ?" I asked my wife.
"Harry , where do you think will be good for us ?" Claire asked Harry.
"I think we can buy some private land nearby, just buy a big one and not on HOA, just some free land where we can build our mansion, so we don't spend too much time in commuting, and we can build some other building around our mansion so Uncle Mitch can live with us but with his own privacy, grandpa and grandma as well, if they want to move in together with us they can."
"To be honest, father and mother can choose the details with the architect freely, even if both of you want to live in a grand palace like a Versailles we can still afford it." Harry joking around.
He must be joking around right ? The grand palace is over 2000 acres in size. If we walk around the outer perimeter, 1 round will be more than 20 km , that's crazy.
"Alright, I will discuss this with your father Harry." my wife said so, and then Harry just said goodnight and went to his bedroom.
"What do you think darling ? should we choose some land ?" I asked her.
"Yeah, we need to choose a nearby land, a big one so we can build more than 1 main building, so Mitchell and my parents can move into the side building if they want it" Claire said.
"So we are going to make our own gated community ? only with a lower number of houses ? like maybe 7 or so ? " I asked her.
"Why 7 phil ? "
"One for us, one for Mitch, one for your parents, and another 4 for our children in the future." I said honestly.
"That's a good idea, but why make Harry pay for everything ? just build 3 first, the main mansion is for Harry after all, we can live in his house first, in the future we can build our own for retirement and Haley,Alex and Luke can build their own in the empty land nearby if they wanted to." my wife said to me.
"That's fair enough, after all he is the one saying he wants our family to be safe and invites Mitch and his grandparents to live with him. Honey , should we have more siblings for Harry ? I think he would love having another sibling." I ask my wife.
"What, no, we already have four children Phil, FOUR, it's not easy having four children."
That's what she said… but not long after that she agreed to have some exercise with me at night.
Harry pov
After trusting my mother to choose the new house, I'm relaxing on my bed before I notice that I have already accumulated over 252 million idle points, that is enough for 2 level 5 gacha or 25 lvl 4 gacha. Hmm should I do it ? Well, I don't have anything to lose.
System draws 2 gacha at level 5.
Start the gacha….. And i got
Passive abilities : Divine Metabolism shop privileges x 1 [can be given to other people]
A pack of gum x 1.
So I got another category in my system, a shop panel. Inside the shop, there is only 1 item.
Passive abilities : Divine Metabolism [can be given to other people]
Cost 50 million idle points
Divine Metabolism : make your body healthier, look younger, and cannot get fat no matter how much you eat. Your body will have some lean muscle.
Damn… this is the perfect gift for my family, now haley doesn't need a diet, and my mother can stay beautiful for a long time, and my dad can stay healthy for a long time, and basically make their body look even better… but it's so damn expensive, i can only buy 1 for now and then buy one every 290 days, that almost one item per year.. And for the starter I need to buy 5 for my family alone.
Well for now I will buy one for my mother, I will give it to her tomorrow morning, after that I went to sleep.
Today is sunday and as i woke up a bit later than usual, my mother came to my room to check in on me, and i used this moment to give the passive abilities : Divine Metabolism to her, she doesn't notice anything. And I don't see any change in her. Maybe it took time ? well I trust the system won't give me fake abilities. So I forgot about it.
General pov
Harry did forget about it for a while, and when he notices it, it will be too late. When he goes to high school in the future, other people will think that Claire is his girlfriend, because she looks as young as one. She will look like 18 years old until she is over 40, and she will look like in her 30's until she is over 80.
Harry never notices that his mother is looking younger and younger every day because the change is very slow, but after 2 years Claire will look like an 18 year old.
Phil is so happy with his wife's beauty that he keeps making her exercise every single night. One can say Phil loves his wife way too much. Harry is lucky he doesn't have another younger sibling after Luke.
On the other side, crack in Jay and dede marriage is getting worse and worse, they are sleeping in separate bedroom, Jay is cleary avoiding his wife and Dede is cleary avoiding her husband , the two of them already thinking the same thing, divorce is better than continuing this marriage, the ship already sinking slowly and no one can rescue it, Jay is looking for a divorce lawyer, and Dede is talking about wanting to divorce with her friends who in the end introduce a divorce lawyer to Dede, and in the end, Dede will use him as her divorce lawyer.
While Alex grew up happily, with a straight a student as her brother, Harry does help her a lot, and he always tell her that knowledge is important, not grade, stop focusing on the grade and just focus on the knowledge that you need, then you will get at least B in class, that makes Alex love to study and gaining knowledge but not making her stressed if her grade are slipping a bit, and that help a lot, making her happier and because Harry always supporting Alex, she change a bit and have more confident in herself.
For Luke he is only a toddler, he is just playing around everyday, but when he grows a bit, Harry already decides to hire a tutor for him, that will help his grade and make him care about study even if it's only a bit.
Haley has an above average grade in school, not really a straight A student but she still got A from time to time, and because she has such a handsome and smart twin like Harry, her standart in men is higher than other girls. Making her have some difficulties in searching for a boyfriend.