Ch.252Chapter 252 – Meeting the Parents

“…Excuse me, Miss Microny.”

It’s been several minutes since I entered Microny Holmes’s house.

“I understand you’re happy to see me, but I’d really like you to let go now…”

I’m still trapped in her embrace, unable to move an inch.

“…….”

“This is getting scary, you know?”

If it were just a simple hug, that would be one thing, but as Sharlotte would call them, her “massive flesh” was pressing against me, making it increasingly difficult to breathe.

“I’m going to die at this rate…”

“…Oh.”

Only after I muttered that with a slightly pale face did she come to her senses and step back a little.

‘…Am I now losing in strength to Miss Microny too?’

“How… How is this possible?”

As I made a dejected expression at the fact that I’d become so weak that even a woman who hadn’t exercised, let alone run, for over 20 years could overpower me, Microny’s question flew at me.

“Surely… Surely… You… should have disappeared from this world…”

“…I came back, that’s all.”

“But… how…?”

Of course, I wanted to explain in detail, but System was already sending red warning messages.

And I wasn’t confident I could explain it in a way she would understand.

“Does it matter?”

“…Ha.”

When I asked that with an awkward smile, Miss Microny, who had been staring at me with tears in her eyes, broke into a smile.

“I suppose that’s not what’s important.”

*Swish…*

“I think I know why you’ve come to me now.”

Eventually, she hurriedly wiped away the tears flowing from her eyes with her sleeve and rushed to sit at her desk.

Even though I hadn’t told her anything, she knew what I wanted. I guess that’s just who Miss Microny is.

“I’ll devise a perfect plan for you.”

“Oh.”

“A perfect escape plan.”

“…Huh?”

I had been looking at her with quite expectant eyes, but I started tilting my head at Miss Microny’s suddenly serious voice.

“I’ll make it so that no one, whether it’s the professor or my sister, can ever track you down…”

“What?”

“It’s possible if I’m by your side. From today, you’ll live as a completely different person, with a different identity…”

“Uh-oh.”

Somehow, something seems to be going wrong here.

“Don’t worry about the lifespan issue. I’m conducting research on Vampires by manipulating the British Prime Minister. We should be able to complete research on immortality in secret within 20 years.”

“Wait a minute.”

“Oh, if you’re worried about the impending world war, there’s no problem. I’ve already calculated how to keep the British Empire safe… Once I step forward and deal with that professor…”

“…No, how do you even know about that?”

After staring blankly at her for a while, I eventually had to scream before it was too late.

“Or should I just take over the government? I could if I wanted to. It would be the cleanest solution to hide your identity and lifespan issues…”

“That’s not it!”

“…Uh, huh?”

Only then did she pause for a moment, looking at me with a puzzled expression.

“Didn’t you come here because you wanted to live with me?”

“Well… that is…”

As I stumbled over my words, not knowing what to do with her innocent appearance that was several times more sinister and sharp than Sharlotte’s.

“…As if that would happen, sister?”

“Huh?”

I was immediately deprived of my right to explain by Sharlotte, who had been waiting behind the door.

“He just came to ask for your help.”

“…..Sharlotte.”

“What’s wrong? Whenever you get stuck on a case, you’ve always swallowed your pride and come to me, haven’t you?”

An incredibly chilly atmosphere began to flow between them.

“He’s just here to get some help this time too.”

“……..”

Sharlotte muttered with a cold smile in that chilly atmosphere, but her smile, which would normally have given me goosebumps, somehow didn’t affect me much.

“Little sister.”

From Microny, who had been staring at Sharlotte strangely quietly.

“…You’ve never seen your sister being serious, have you?”

This was because an eerily small but hair-raising chill was emanating from her, unlike anything I’d ever felt before.

“Shall I show you for the first time today?”

The aura she was emitting as she rested her chin on her hand, squinting with a smile in her eyes, was clearly that of a predator.

But there was also a subtle madness that I had never felt from Sharlotte or the professor.

‘I need to do something quickly…’

Thanks to this, my survival instinct started ringing alarm bells in my head again, but unfortunately, there wasn’t much I could do.

I was no longer a Vampire or a Demon, and I couldn’t even use magic without someone else’s help.

What I could do was, quite depressingly, only one thing.

*Swish…*

Knowing this better than anyone else, I sighed deeply and quietly approached Microny’s desk.

“……..”

Whether fortunate or unfortunate, Miss Microny seemed not to notice my approach as she was quietly calculating something in the air while staring at Sharlotte.

“…Phew.”

In that situation, after briefly worrying about the aftermath, I quietly sighed and leaned my head toward her.

“Haup.”

“……!?”

Then, with my eyes tightly closed, I bit down on Miss Microny’s nape with all my might.

“”………””

And then, a brief silence began.

“Haaaaaah…”

In that silence, Miss Microny, whose strength suddenly left her body, buried her head on the desk with a deflated sound.

*Shudder… Shudder…*

“…Hnngh.”

And then, after a few more convulsions, she let out a moan mixed with heat.

“…That’s it, damn it.”

She glanced at me with predatory eyes and muttered in a voice mixed with laughter.

This action of the prey desperately biting at her neck seemed to have returned to her as quite a strong stimulus.

I had already figured out she had such tastes, but I didn’t know it would be this effective.

“…I’ll ask for one favor.”

“……..”

“In return, I’ll grant you one wish.”

Anyway, it was a very suitable timing for making empty promises.

“Any wish, no matter what?”

“…Yes.”

Actually, it does matter, but I don’t care anymore.

“…..Even if it’s doing something with me in front of my sister?”

“………”

My future self will figure it out.

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Meanwhile, at that time.

*Trudge, trudge…*

An unidentified elderly gentleman leisurely walks down the corridor of Auguste Academy, which has become quite peaceful after the bizarre incidents disappeared overnight.

“Wh-who are… ugh?”

“H-hey… who are you….. gack?”

Of course, not everyone encountered him, but whether professor or student, they all collapsed at his feet, foaming at the mouth within seconds.

“…The level of these youngsters is truly pathetic.”

The elderly gentleman muttered, looking down at the sight as if looking at insects.

“So the inferior species are indeed inferior?”

“…I-intruder!”

“Damn it! It’s been peaceful all this time, why suddenly…?”

Just as he started moving forward again, security forces armed with weapons finally began charging toward the elderly gentleman, but.

“Huh? Aaaaargh…!”

“…Bleeegh.”

As he waved his hand once in annoyance, the charging forces either writhed on the ground feeling as if their bodies were burning up or panicked and vomited.

“…Tsk.”

The elderly gentleman passed by, looking at the scene with contemptuous eyes.

“…Hmm.”

He soon stopped in front of an office and began to smile chillingly.

“My daughter has done quite a cute thing.”

Then, the elderly gentleman quietly extended his finger forward and caressed the door in front of him.

*Crack-crack-crack…!*

“…But it seems time was lacking?”

At that, dozens to hundreds of intricate magic circles that were interlocked with each other began to crack along with the door.

“Or was this level of protection meant to stop me?”

*Crash…!*

“That would be somewhat disappointing.”

At that moment, the seal that was so intricate it would have taken decades to undo shattered like glass.

*Whoosh…!*

“…Oh.”

A gray spear made of mana flew directly at the elderly gentleman’s face.

“Hoo.”

*Shaaaa…*

But when the elderly gentleman simply blew a light breath with a faint smile, that sharp spear turned into smoke and dispersed in all directions like a lie.

“”………””

And then the silence began.

“James… Moriarty.”

“…My, my.”

When a voice full of hatred echoed in that silence, the elderly gentleman, who had been wearing a relaxed expression, began to move forward with his hands behind his back, but.

“You, you should have been… killed and eliminated by me…”

“My beloved daughter, what kind of language is that…”

His expression, which had not changed once since he returned to the world, finally distorted for the first time.

“Gyao…!”

“Kyao…!”

Two babies, who were clinging to Jane Moriarty’s arm and resisting to avoid entering the subspace she had summoned, caught his eye.

“…….Huh?”

Thanks to this, the elderly gentleman, who had a blank expression for a moment, began to tilt his head from side to side.

“…Kya?”

“…Kyaa?”

The babies, who happened to have the same habit, followed suit, and a long silence began.