1st person POV (Ekaterina)
Ugh, I’m sorry. Thank you, Flora.
But today is Big Brother’s birthday. I’ve been preparing for this day, and I’m so excited, so please forgive me. Since last night, I’ve been thinking too much about what I’d do if he wasn’t happy with all the effort I put into it.
No, I don’t think there would be anything that he wouldn’t appreciate, because Big Brother is a siscon. But still, I want to give him something that he would be happy with, not because he is a siscon, but because he genuinely really likes it and finds it useful. That’s why I chose to give a glass pen.
I don’t think that anything is good enough to make Big Brother happy. My brocon will not be beaten by Big Brother’s siscon!
I still don’t know what the fight is about, though!
So, as soon as lunchtime came, I headed for the office.
When I arrived, I saw that Alexei had also just arrived, and he looked surprised when he saw me along with Novak and the others.
“What’s the matter, you seem to be earlier than usual today.”
“I wanted to wish you earlier… Happy birthday, Big Brother.”
Alexei’s neon blue eyes widened when I told him with a smirk.
Ah, this reaction. Big Brother…you forgot your own birthday! You’re so busy with household matters that you don’t care about yourself at all.
No, maybe you didn’t forget, but you didn’t plan to do anything special? What if he had a traumatic birthday or something?
Alexei smiled.
Then he reached out and gave me a hug.
“Thanks. I thought my birthday was no different from any other day, but if you’re celebrating it, then it’s a great day.”
Kyaa, I’m glad. Big Brother, the original tsundere, is just a deredere today.
I didn’t expect him to react this way when I congratulated him before presenting the gift. As expected of Big Brother.
I extended out my hands and returned a hug to Alexei.
“I’m glad to hear that. I’ve brought you a little gift to celebrate. Please take a look at it and see if you like it.”
Alexei smiled at these words and gently stroked my cheek.
“How could I not like a gift from my Goddess? I’m more than happy with just your feelings alone.”
As expected of Big Brother….
Anyway, I finally presented the gift box. It was a blue velvet box with a light blue ribbon. The box was also custom-made as a case for the glass pens, and was stuffed with padding and lined with silk to hold the pen in place and prevent the delicate nib from being damaged.
Alexei untied the ribbon and opened the box to reveal three glass pens inside laid out.
I think that Rev’s talent is even more evident in the finished product in the colored glass versions of the glass pens.
One of them had a ‘twist’ design. There were in fact two sparkling colors, light blue and indigo, twisted together. Of course, the color scheme was inspired by the color of Alexei and Ekaterina’s hair.
The next one was designed to be thicker and fuller at the handle and thinner towards the back end. It is transparent as a whole, with two blue roses, one light blue and the other indigo, drawn in some way inside the thickest part. On the outside, the leaves of a flowing rose vine were painted with lines of green glass.
The third one was designed to resemble a dagger sheath. The outside of the pen was transparent, but only the core was light blue, making it look like a transparent glass sheath wrapped around a light blue blade. Indigo was used for the back end of the pen, the part that resembles the handle of a dagger.
And on the outside of the transparent glass, there were words written in gold. Since Ekaterina could not read nor write Astra, she only told Rev that the dagger scabbard she was referring to was decorated with what looked like letters, and he chose words that were often used for this kind of decoration.
