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The mansion of the Duke of Knight Sustaind, one of the few ducal families in the Perion Empire.

Three couples, male and female, are gathered in a splendid reception room.

“How have you been? Marquis Jude.”

A small, black-furred female squirrel picks up some nuts and asks Marquis Jude Goldbunny how he is doing.

Sitting next to her is her husband, Sir Knight Sustaind, a fellow male squirrel.

“Of course, Duke Reese. The profits have been increasing little by little these days.”

Smiling and answering the Duke of Reese Knight Sustained is Marquis Jude Goldbunny, who is surprisingly plump and looks like Bandit. Beside him is Sir Goldbunny, a male fox who elegantly crosses his legs and flutters his ornate fan.

It is the turn of Countess Miho Iron Foxtrot, Hoyo’s mother, to appear, but for some reason she is not there, and only Sir Iron Foxtrot, a male weasel, is sitting there.

“Iron Foxtrot, what about Count Miho?”

“He said he was going to get the newspaper…”

Sir Iron Foxtrot answers Duke Rhys with an embarrassed smile.

“Count Miho in a newspaper? Doesn’t that look so out of place?”

Marquis Jude also pretended to look surprised.

Since the three families that wield power within the empire are gathered together, some may wonder if these nobles are gathered together for some kind of conspiracy, but in reality, they have a cute and trivial purpose: ‘a gathering to wait for a son-in-law for a daughter who was believed to never exist.’

“Hey, look at this!”

At that moment, a female fox rushes into the living room.

Miho Iron Foxtrot Countess, who looks remarkably similar to Hoyo, but unlike her, has a slender body, not-so-large breasts, and a smooth hip line, bursts into the reception room without a head.

“Oh, the rumors were true!”

Despite all that running, Countess Miho Iron Foxtrot, without showing any sign of being out of breath, proudly opens the front page of the newspaper and shows it to the Duke of Rhys, the Marquis of Jude, and their husbands (and her own husband).

The Duke and Marquis’ faces were half in disbelief, half in emotion as they watched the moving picture of Ain kissing Hoyo and Bandi over and over again, and the husbands ended up shedding tears of emotion.

“Isn’t this totally awesome!!”

“Nice to meet you. My name is Reese Night Sustained, the mother of Bami.”

The Duke of Reese, with his black fur and a compact body like the night, greets you.

“My name is Ain Frostgarm. Please take good care of me, Mother-in-law. Then this is Marquis Jude Goldbunny, and Countess Miho Iron Foxtrot.”

After receiving the Duke of Reese’s greeting, I looked into Bandi’s parents’ eyes and bowed to Hoyo’s parents.

To my eyes, no matter how I look at them, they look more like older siblings than mom and dad, but parents are parents.

The Duke and Duchess of Reese and the Marquis and Duchess of Goldbunny accepted my courtesy somewhat, but Countess Miho…

“Hehehe, look at this, honey. Doesn’t Hoyo look like a total loner?”

“Excuse me, honey. My son-in-law just said hello to you…”

“Oh, really? Nice to meet you. I’m Miho, Hoyo’s mom.”

Count Miho, who had thrown away his noble manners, suddenly stood up and grabbed my hand, shaking it.

“Please take care of me, mother-in-law.”

“Woohahak, honey, did you hear what our son-in-law said? It was his mother-in-law! Oh my, I thought my daughter-in-law wasn’t even born yet!”

Then it was not Lord Iron Foxtrot, Count Miho’s husband, nor the Duke of Rhys, nor the Marquis of Jude, who burst into laughter.

“Woohahak, Mom! This is so funny! A son-in-law who isn’t even born, hi-hi-hi-!”

It was none other than Hoyo himself.

The Duke of Rhys remained silent, his forehead pressed against his, while the Marquis of Jude pretended not to hear at all. Their daughters generally reacted in a similar manner.

“I heard that the Empress, Duke Moratium, and Marquis Anastasia visited first.”

“Yes, mother-in-law.”

I bow my head slightly and answer the question asked by the Duke of Reese, who is trying hard to ignore the laughing Iron Foxtrot mother and daughter.

“Looks like you didn’t say anything.”

“Fortunately, everyone liked it so I was able to get permission without any problems.”

Sir Goldbunny, who had been swinging his fan while looking at me with sharp eyes at my answer, opened his mouth.

“As a baron, he knows his manners well… His speech and choice of words are appropriate. His gestures are also restrained. Even the empress would have no reason or justification to reject a male like this.”

Sir Goldbunny, who had said so, gave me a gold coin with a very strict, dignified, and serious face.

“Thank you. What is this…?”

“Oh ho ho, is my husband giving me a ‘Starstream Coin’ on our first meeting?”

Marquis Jude Goldbunny, who had been watching her husband’s actions, smiled and explained.

“My brood mate, Viscount Nicholas Starstream, is from a family that has prospered greatly through commerce. Receiving a Starstream Coin from the Starstream family means, ‘This person has the full support of the Starstream family.’ It has a similar meaning to the family badge that you, my son-in-law, wear on your chest. ”

Marquis Goldbunny pointed to the five badges that now hung on my chest, shining brightly.

“It’s an honor, Master.”

“Don’t mention it. Bandi must have paid a high price to become a female cub, but it’s only natural for him to be the father. ”

“Yeah, Bandi. If it was a son-in-law, the bleeding would have been quite severe. How much did you use?”

I wonder what this is all about, so I look back and forth between the Marquis and his wife and Bandi.

“I… I’ve said this before, but my family is not very competitive ‘in terms of looks’, so we try to appeal to males in other ways…”

Ah, I understand. It seems like a family that appeals to males in the form of dowries.

The ideal beauty here is a female with a slender figure, a B-cup bust, and streamlined hips that are expected to give birth naturally.

However, Bandina Jude Marquis has a small stature with a bust size that can be called overwhelming, a plump belly, and a charming hip that would easily fit twins, as well as charming thighs. Her genes are the complete opposite of the typical beauty image of this world.

In order to save his wife, he starts the Baptism of Praise Protocol for the Marquis and his wife, Jude.

“Mother-in-law, I didn’t receive a single penny from Bandi.”

At my answer, Marquis Jude did not understand for a moment what I had said, and Sir Goldbunny glared at Bandi, his already sharp eyes squinting even further.

“Bandi. Didn’t your father teach you that anything worth having should have a fair price? How disappointing.”

Is this some kind of male-selling market? But in this world, there is common sense. I gently grabbed Bandi’s slightly timid hand and defended her.

“No, Master. It’s the opposite.”

“Son-in-law, what does that mean?”

Marquis Goldbunny with an expression of incomprehension.

“Bandi was just a female who was ‘worth it’ to me. If I had to pay, I would have given it to Bandi. But my family is in the North, and most of our wealth is used for military maintenance, so I decided to give Bandi love and affection instead.”

In my defense, Bam closed his eyes and nodded, and Hoyo (and Count Miho) looked as if they were moved on his behalf and their eyes sparkled.

At this point, he must have saved his wife’s life, and he looked at Bandi with a proud expression on his face from an angle that the adults couldn’t see, but surprisingly, Bandi…

“Oh, are you crying? Did I say something wrong…”

As I was flustered at the sight of Bandi’s face, which was shedding tears with a blank expression, I heard the excited voice of the Marquis Jude.

“Bandi! Daughter! You are the first female in our family to receive such an evaluation from a male in the group. Haha! ”

Marquis Goldbunny praises Bandi with an excited expression.

“I see. Did you hear that, Bandi? Your responsibility is huge.”

Sir Goldbunny, who had always had a sharp and serious expression, now had a smiling face, and although he was surprisingly handsome, his serious and sharp expression seemed to be fake.

“What about our Hoyo? Is Hoyo like that too?”

When Count Miho, who was laughing cheerfully and wagging her tail, answered yes, Sir Iron Foxtrot squealed and hugged him.

And when she turned her head, her eyes met with Duke Rhys’s, who seemed to be expecting her, even though she was hesitant to ask for the sake of honor, so Bam answered yes.

“…Hmm! My daughter is not like that.”

“No, Mom. I told you not to lie and say things like “what kind of a bunch of guys are you” until last week…”

Night sighed and said, but Duke Rhys had a ‘so what’ look on his face, so he laughed a little.

After that, it was time to explain the conditions I had set: no hierarchy, no overprotection, and the eldest being the gregarious male.

“It doesn’t matter. Just station the Knight Sustained Knights near the Academy.”

“Mother, this is a clear armed provocation.”

“Tsk.”

Duke Lees didn’t look like that, but he seemed to have a bit of a sense of humor. Of course, not as much as Count Miho.

Because Count Miho boasted that he would enter the Academy as a professor, and then got stabbed in the back of the head by Sir Iron Foxtrot.

The only ones who had the luxury were the Marquis and Marquis of Goldbunny.

“There’s nothing in the Empire that money can’t buy. With Gold Bunny, Anastasia, and Starstream, you can buy three-quarters of the Empire. ”

“…Is the remaining third by chance Lily Blossom’s own author?”

Marquis Jude smiled brightly at my question.

“Son-in-law, you know a lot. Are you by any chance acquainted with Viscount Youngsik of Lily Blossom?”

“He is one of the first male friends I made when I entered the academy.”

“It’s over.”

If I think about it carefully, my female lineup is really awesome.

The shield of the Empire, House Moratium, the powerful House Anastasia, the Knight Sustained House, who are in charge of the Empire’s administration and internal affairs, and the Goldbunny House, an amalgam of the merchant group. And then there’s House Iron Foxtrot, one of the most powerful families in the Empire.

Here, with the Hwalongjeomjeong Palace and the Imperial Palace, I began to wonder if there was a place within the Empire where they could mess with me.