Esper Harem in the Apocalypse

"He said he is a friend of father. Do you know him, Jess?" Rebecca asked Jessica.

"...." Jessica raised her brows and squinted her eyes at Rudy as though she was judging him in her mind.

'Should I use hypnosis?' Rudy wondered.

He was conflicted about making that decision as he didn't want to use his powers on the people close to him, although it was his first time meeting Jessica, he was already acquainted with her.

"Yes, I remember him," Jessica responded.

No, Rudy didn't use hypnosis or any mind-related abilities. Jessica was covering up for him on her own.

"You do…?" Rebecca asked with a curious yet confused look on her face.

"Yes. Father brought him here once."

"When? And why don't I recall something like that?"

"You were here at that time. This person… uhh… Rupert was with father, but he left within a minute as he was only here to check the house…" Jessica answered while averting her gaze left and right.

"Is that so…?" Rebecca glared at Rudy and said, "Why are you here?"

'I hate to say that even though I usually get turned on when girls glare at me, I don't want mom to look at me like that. I feel anxious,' Rudy uttered inwardly.

"I am… here to inform you that your father is busy and can't make it here. So he sent me to check up on you and help you girls out with the… Well, this house. You can think of me as a friend," Rudy answered calmly.

"What help? We don't need anyone's help. We are doing just fine."

"I am sure you are, but what you call fine is not actually fine. Let me help you. I can't watch you live your life like this."

"Why do you care so much about someone you are meeting for the first time?"

Rudy didn't want to answer more questions, so he walked to Rebecca and took the bag and eggs from her hand.

"I will make lunch… oh, it's dinner time already. I will make food. Why don't you girls take a bath or something in the meantime?" Rudy suggested.

"We already took one yesterday. We don't have water to waste, and carrying water from the well is too tough. I can't do it every day."

Rebecca tried to take the bag from Rudy's hand, but Rudy raised his hand, and Rebecca couldn't get it because of her height.

Rudy placed the bag and the eggs on the kitchen platform and said, "I will get the water. Take me to the well."

"..." Rebecca stared at Rudy for a while and turned around before saying, "Follow me."

Rudy left the house with Rebecca while Jessica stayed there. A minute or two later, they reached the well where there was a rope and a bucket tied.

"This."

Rudy looked down the well and thought, 'This well was dried when I was a kid, and then it was covered with sand, and a street was made on it.'

"Okay. Leave it to me."

Rebecca glanced at Rudy's hands and then circled around him once.

"What are you doing?" Rudy asked with a confused look on his face.

Rebecca glared at Rudy and yelled, "Where is the bucket?! How are you going to carry the water to the house?"

'Oh… well, I was only here to look at the well, not to collect water. In fact, I don't need to collect water as I can just create it.'

"What are you talking about?" Rudy touched the bucket that was tied with the rope and said, "I brought the bucket with me."

"That's the well's bucket. You can't take it home."

"Oh, no. Not that." Rudy pulled out another bucket from the well's bucket and said, "This one."

"...." Rebecca checked the bucket and asked, "How did you do that?!"

"There was this bucket inside the bucket."

Of course, Rudy had used his duplication ability to duplicate the bucket, and then he shrank it a little so he could pull it out from the well's bucket.

"Still… this is not our bucket. We can't take it home."

"Yes, I know. I will return it here after I am done collecting the water."

Rudy threw the bucket with the rope into the well and pulled the rope after the bucket was filled. Then, he grabbed the bucket and emptied it into the other bucket.

"Let's go."

Rudy went to the house with Rebecca, who took him to the bathroom.

"Be careful, or you might slip," Rebecca warned.

"Okay, madam."

"I will make dinner while you get the water." Rebecca left after saying that.

Rudy immediately cleaned the entire bathroom using his powers and filled the buckets, tubs, and bathtub with water.

'Hmm~ I can take care of the waterline by filling the water tank. But… it will eventually get empty. I don't know how long I am going to stay here. I might just disappear in an hour or so, so I should take care of the house as soon as possible.'

Rudy pretended to leave the house and destroyed the bucket into ashes so no one could find it. Then, he went to the kitchen to see Rebecca cutting the vegetables to prepare an egg dish.

Jessica was watching Rebecca cut vegetables from the other side of the platform.

'There is no way they can be satisfied with just two eggs…'

"Okay, I am done with the water. You girls take a bath, and I will make dinner," he said to them.

"Do you know how to cook?" Rebecca asked with a judging look on her face.

"Of course I do. I am an adult man."

Rebecca reluctantly decided to trust Rudy with food and left to take a bath with Jessica.

Rudy watched Jessica as she stared at him continuously.

'I should talk things out with her. And, of course, thank her for keeping everything a secret.'

"But for now..." He cracked his fingers and said, "Time to make the best dinner."