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Episode 8

Suddenly taking off her clothes and telling me to take off my clothes too? It’s unlikely, but maybe she wants to share in the hot camaraderie between men?

‘If you tell me to take it off, I’ll take it off.’

I was embarrassed, but at that moment, I did as I was told and took off my top and was about to lower my pants.

“Why are you taking off your pants?”

“Ah.”

“You don’t have to take off your pants, so come here.”

As I approached the Duke, I noticed his muscular and scarred body, the most noticeable of which was a hideous, distorted scar in the center of his chest, near his heart.

The numerous scars seemed to prove that the Duke had crossed countless death lines.

But there was something unnatural about the distorted scar in the center of his chest.

The Duke, who had been examining my body for a while, soon opened his mouth.

“When I first brought you here, you were very skinny, but now you’ve gained just the right amount of weight. I guess you can start training in earnest.”

“I will try my best.”

“Of course you should. Just turn around and sit back.”

Following the Duke’s words, I sat cross-legged and turned around.

The Duke, sitting behind me, gently placed his rough, callused hand on my back.

“From now on, you must never open your mouth until I say it’s over.”

-Nod, nod!

“Okay, let’s get started.”

From the hand that touched my back, I felt something hot and ticklish spread through my blood vessels to every corner of my body.

At first it was weak, but it gradually grew stronger, and soon the energy burst out like a faucet with the handle turned all the way, and it began to spread through my body.

I wanted to groan in pain as if my narrow blood vessels were being forcibly dilated and scraped away, but I gritted my teeth and held on, as I was told not to open my mouth.

After a while, the Duke’s voice, sounding a little tired, was heard.

“Whew… Now that it’s over, you can open your mouth. You held out well.”

“Your whole body feels hot?”

It feels like steam is rising from my body.

“I will forcibly expand your mana circuit with my mana and clear any blockages. There will be wounds all over the circuit, so you will feel a hot sensation and muscle pain all over your body for a month until the wounds heal.”

“I don’t think it’s a classic method.”

“That’s right, it’s a method to raise the rank by forcibly growing the mana circuit and the heart core, but there’s a minor side effect that it shortens your lifespan considerably.”

‘Isn’t this just a minor side effect?’

“But I don’t feel anything in my heart?”

“The heart was not touched. To modify the heart, you have to risk your life, and the success rate is low. From what I remember, only one in ten thousand people succeeded.”

“…”

“I have no plans to touch your heart in the future, and your lifespan hasn’t been shortened, so relax.”

“Oops.”

I was worried about how much my lifespan would be shortened, and it seems like it’s been revealed.

“You and I will share many secrets in the future, this is one of them.”

“Is the Duke’s life short because of this?”

“…Yes, I am an artificially created Sword Master, and I killed everyone who knew this fact.”

It’s a shocking fact.

If you can artificially create a Sword Master, this is definitely an incredible technology.

You can become a Sword Master, but is it worth it if your success rate is extremely low and your lifespan is greatly reduced?

Of course, I want to live a long and ordinary life, eating well, rather than becoming a Sword Master.

“Don’t expect me to tell you anything, I plan to take this technique to my grave and cut off the lineage.”

“I don’t want to know such a scary technique either.”

It is a technology that would shed a lot of blood if it were known to the world.

I think it would be better for everyone if they just quietly disappeared.

“Yes, from now on, I will build my body for a month while my mana circuit recovers, and after that, I will teach you mana management and swordsmanship together.”

“Didn’t you say that you would have muscle pain all over your body for the next month?”

“What’s the problem? Muscle pain gets better faster when you move your body.”

‘I see, I will work hard.’

“This is fucked up.”

What I really thought and said came out opposite to what I really wanted.

“Ah.”

The Duke’s expression looked pleasant as he smiled as if he didn’t care about what I said.

“Hehehe, it’s nice to think back to the old days, I trained like that too, so don’t worry. I’ll definitely make you a Sword Master, even if you’re not one before my life ends.”

“I’m still 12 years old?”

‘This is child abuse!’

The Duke, who looked somewhat happy, slowly approached me, tapped my shoulder, and whispered.

“If it can’t be done, make it happen. That’s my favorite saying.”

“Hahaha…”

#

“Ugh…”

“Master, are you okay? Yum yum…”

“No… I feel like my whole body is going to break…”

“Angmarah, how are you?”

“Eat and tell me.”

“Gulp… Would you like me to give you a massage?”

“…Please.”

Alice climbed on top of me as I lay face down on the bed and began massaging my arms and legs with her fern-like hands.

But perhaps because the force of the touch was weak, it didn’t feel very refreshing.

Thinking about it, I remembered my younger sister stepping on my back when I came back from my part-time job as a pick-up and drop-off worker in my past life.

Alice and I are similar in build, so it might feel pretty good if I put my weight on her and step on her back.

“Alice.”

“Huh?”

“Step on me.”

“Hmm? What are you talking about, Master? Are you ordering your exclusive maid to do something unhealthy right now?”

Alice said, narrowing her eyes and giving me a suspicious look as if she had heard something very unwholesome.

“I don’t think a hand massage is very effective, so get on top of me and step on me.”

“Sob sob… As a slave and exclusive maid, I have no choice but to follow my master’s orders, no matter how strange or unhealthy they may be…”

“Don’t say anything weird.”

“Tsk… not fun.”

Alice, who was playing the role of the tragic heroine, soon took off her shoes and socks with a pitiful expression on her face, climbed on top of me, and began to carefully put her weight on me and step on me.

The feeling of the soft and warm soles of my feet being pressed down with just the right amount of weight was so refreshing.

-Keep going… Keep going…

“Oh… It’s refreshing.”

“Here, here is good, right? Eight! Eight!”

“Ugh…”

It sounded like a line from a sexual novel that women like to read, but the massage was so refreshing that I couldn’t hear it properly.

The moment I thought about closing my eyes and falling asleep while getting Alice’s foot massage…

-Bam!

“Hey Leon! You ate my cupcake…!”

Tania opened the door and came in.

” in?”

Tania, who had a dumbfounded expression as if she couldn’t believe what she was seeing, soon ran out, slamming the door shut with a red face.

-Bang!

“You shameless commoner! Doing something unwholesome with your maid in your room? Idiot!! Pervert!!! I’ll tell mommy and daddy!”

Beyond the closed door, Tania’s voice could be heard screaming and running away.

“Alice, is this so strange?”

“Oh my, you didn’t know, Master? This is one of the scenes from the popular novel ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’…”

“I told you not to look at such weird stuff.”

“I’m 13 now, so I’m all grown up, right? In two whole years, I’ll be an adult?”

“At 13, you’re still a baby.”

“Master, are you 12 years old?”

“…”

I need to grow old quickly. I can’t get used to people around me constantly treating me like a child.

-Bang!

“Leon! Eat my chocolate…!”

“Oh, nice to meet you.”

This time it’s Serena.

I awkwardly raised my hand and waved while being stepped on by Alice.

“Gyaaaah! I don’t know, Mommyaaah!!”

-bang!

Serena runs away, covering her face with both hands.

He’s an 8 year old reading erotic novels.

Should I establish some discipline among the maids around me?

“Oh my… It’s refreshing…”

The next day, the Duke’s household conducted a large-scale search of the maids’ belongings on Leon’s orders, and many of the maids’ unwholesome books and erotic novels were confiscated.

##

Summer, the season when mountains and rivers grow lush and the sun burns hotter.

In such a hot summer, the Normandy Duke’s mansion had a rather cool tension.

The reason is that the Duchess’s birth is imminent.

The sudden onset of the Duchess’ labor caused a state of emergency throughout the Duchess’ mansion, and the Duke of Norman ordered a midwife to be brought in at once.

“Keep going!”

“Madam, you need to give me more strength!”

The Duke was pacing around in front of the room, trying hard to hide his anxiety, where only the voice of the old midwife and the Duchess’s painful groans could be heard.

The Duchess’s moans from beyond the door are getting quieter, and she is panting as if she is exhausted.

Even though the Duchess had already given birth to Tania and Serena, giving birth was still a risky undertaking.

“Madam, we’re almost there! This is the last one!”

“Ugh…!”

After a while, the Duchess’s moan rang out loud.

“Ugh!”

A cry echoed through the mansion, announcing the birth of a new life.

After a while, a midwife with a tired face opened the door and came out.

-Squeak…

“Both mother and baby are healthy. Congratulations. Your Highness, you may come in now.”

“Thank you.”

The duke, unable to hide his joyful expression, entered the room cautiously.

When they entered the room, Maria was lying on the bed holding her newborn baby. She looked very tired, but she smiled at the Duke with a really proud and happy smile and said:

“Lyon, a healthy boy…”