Ch.257Chapter 257 – 3P

“…excuse me.”

“…….”

“Hey, Adler.”

A few days after James Moriarty, who had almost reclaimed London, was sealed by Adler’s hand.

“Why exactly did you call me to such a secluded place?”

“……….”

“Even sending me a secret letter?”

Charlotte, who came to the secluded hotel after casting an anti-eavesdropping spell by pouring all her mana into it in response to Adler’s secretive contact, quietly questions Adler who was waiting at the entrance wearing a robe.

“Is this a trap? To neutralize me and escape from London?”

“…How could I do that?”

“If you just neutralize me, evading the rest of those idiots would be nothing for you, right?”

“That was when I was a Demon. Besides, the professor is watching with both eyes wide open.”

Charlotte’s suspicious expression finally softens a bit after hearing those words.

“That’s… true. Though I find it somewhat offensive that you’re comparing me to that professor.”

“Ahem…”

“So, why did you call me to such a quiet place?”

She finally asks with a haughty tone reminiscent of two years ago.

But perhaps due to recent trauma, her voice carried a slight anxiety unlike before.

“Um… it’s nothing much… I have something to tell you.”

“What could it be that makes you act so dramatically?”

Despite this, perhaps conscious of the weakness she showed a few days ago, she maintains an indifferent attitude while glancing sideways at Adler.

“W-well… I found a solution.”

“A solution?”

“For that incident before… I mean, a way to deal with the professor’s father.”

Her eyes immediately widen.

“What is it?”

“I-it’s… it’s simple. Actually, we could end it right now.”

But somehow Adler starts stammering while blushing and avoiding Charlotte’s gaze.

“It’s just that… Miss Holmes needs to give a little… just a tiny bit of help…”

“…What do I need to do?”

Charlotte asks, puzzled by his unusually shy demeanor.

“A, aaa… ah…”

“…….?”

“A ba-ba-baby… yo.”

Adler answers stutteringly, feeling his cheeks burning.

“A baby?”

“With Miss Holmes… um… that is…”

Then, squeezing his eyes shut, he blurts out the rest all at once.

“We need to make a baby here today.”

“………”

And then came the silence.

“N-no, no, this isn’t a joke. It’s real. Your baby is the key.”

“……..”

“I-I know it’s hard to believe…! But the child born between us will be the only one who can face ‘James Moriarty’? So… well…..”

Adler, who had been spewing words haphazardly in the silence, gradually trails off.

“Today, in this place… we must accomplish… for world peace…… um… hmm…”

He faltered because Charlotte was staring at him with a blank expression, her face red all the way to her ears.

“…So, what you’re saying is.”

“……..”

“I need to get pregnant with your child today… to save the world?”

When she asked this while clenching both fists, Adler, who couldn’t overcome his embarrassment and had lowered his gaze, quietly nodded.

“I see…”

“I-I know it’s hard to understand… but please. It’s like a prophecy…”

Adler pleaded in an almost tearful voice.

“…Alright.”

“What?”

He raises his head with a surprised expression at Charlotte’s unexpectedly calm response.

“I understand the situation roughly. To save the world, I need to get pregnant with your child, right?”

“But… you believe it just like that?”

“Of course.”

Charlotte smiles quietly while looking at him.

“I believe in you.”

“Ah…”

“Even if I didn’t believe you, I would have gone along with your wishes anyway.”

As Adler still looked uneasy, Charlotte tilted her head and whispered, pointing to her eyes.

“Why do you look so apologetic? Don’t you see these eyes?”

“………”

“If you think about it, from the moment your existence first shook me—someone who couldn’t feel interest in anything—this was already decided.”

Then, she leans close to Adler’s ear.

“It means you don’t need to feel any guilt about taking me?”

The nervous, anxious look she had days ago had completely disappeared from her eyes.

“Ah, perhaps your guilt isn’t directed at me but at other women?”

“N-no…”

“Or is it guilt toward those bright-eyed children?”

Instead, there was only the gaze of a predator, more secretive and sinister than years before.

“Yet you’re still going to impregnate me?”

“M-Miss Holmes.”

“Just like I did before, this time you’re going to crush me?”

“……”

“Just for the purpose of making me bear a child?”

Emitting that eerie glow in her eyes, Charlotte ensnares Adler with her aura like a snake hunting its prey, and whispers with a cold smile.

“…Hopeless. Trash. Beast.”

“……..”

“You really are the worst villain.”

Adler trembled, overwhelmed by her presence.

“Do you remember what I told you before?”

“…….”

“That I would end you with my own hands.”

Charlotte, caressing his cheek, begins to pull on Adler’s arm.

“You had a chance to escape. You actually did escape once.”

“……..”

“But you came back in the end.”

And so, Adler is dragged into the hotel by the small girl’s strength, which was still greater than his own.

“You know better than I do what that means, right?”

“…….!”

His eyes widen at Charlotte’s declaration, as definitive as stamping a seal.

“And you must know what’s going to happen to you now.”

“……..”

“But I think it’s better to make it clear now.”

She glances at him and whispers in a low voice.

“…Issac Adler, I’m arresting you.”

Her face was intoxicated with the sense of victory.

“I’ll escort you inside the hotel.”

Unlike Adler’s completely resigned expression.

“…The detention site is my lower abdomen.”

“Haah…”

“And the sentence is life imprisonment.”

It was the moment when one man’s brief, intense struggle quietly came to an end.

“You’ve lost, Issac Adler.”

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A few minutes later.

“My, you’ve prepared quite meticulously like the loser you are.”

“…Sigh.”

“It looked suspicious from outside, but the inside is quite nice.”

Charlotte, who had reached the VIP room located on the top floor of the completely empty hotel, pulls the dejected-looking Adler forward and mutters quietly.

“By the way… if I knew it would come to this, I wouldn’t have bothered with the brand…”

“…What?”

“Nothing at all.”

She quickly brushes it off and stops walking.

“…Let’s get ready to make a baby.”

With her arm wrapped around Adler’s waist, she grabs the doorknob of the VIP room.

– Creeeeak…

And moments later, the door slowly begins to open.

“Oh my. The room is much larger than I thought…”

Charlotte, who was resting her head on Adler’s shoulder while taking in the lovely scene inside, suddenly stops and opens her eyes wide.

“…What’s this?”

“Hmm.”

On the bed that should have been a private space for just Adler and herself, someone was sitting wearing only a bath robe and holding wine.

“Why are you… here…”

“…Isn’t it obvious.”

The person with the same golden eyes as Charlotte, tilting her head side to side, was none other than Professor Moriarty.

“Did you think I would just sit still knowing you two would be rolling around here today?”

“P-p-p-professor…”

As she slowly got up and walked toward them, Adler began to tremble in fear.

“Mr. Adler.”

“S-so… this… let me explain first…”

“Issac.”

Finally, choking under the suffocating killing intent, Adler stops speaking, overwhelmed by the professor’s gaze as she called his name.

“I remember holding you in my arms, crying until I fell asleep exhausted… just a few days ago.”

“……..”

“I received vows of eternal love with a girlish expression, abandoning my usual manner of speech, just two days ago.”

He starts sweating profusely at the chilling voice of the professor, who had somehow brought her face right in front of his.

“It’s funny that I’m saying this, but we promised to be good parents to the children, at least, probably just yesterday.”

“…………”

“And it was only a few hours ago that I, while personally breastfeeding the children and writing a love letter filled with the affection of the past two years, noticed something strange.”

Meanwhile, the professor continued speaking in an eerily calm voice.

“Suddenly this youngster disappeared from London with a poof.”

“…..Tsk.”

“As if he had suddenly erased his existence.”

She lowered her voice even more as she glanced sideways at Charlotte, who was biting her lip next to Adler.

“And our lovely husband, as if feeling guilty about something, was circling the outskirts of London, gradually heading somewhere.”

“…….”

“So I calculated the destination point and arrived early, and here you two come in.”

After pausing, the professor gave a spine-chilling smile.

“Ah, it’s alright.”

“W-what is?”

“…I won’t make flimsy threats about killing you now.”

She begins to whisper in a fresh voice to Adler, who had unexpectedly crumpled.

“Should I kill myself, Issac?”

“…What?”

“If you don’t stop right now, I’ll hang myself in front of you.”

“W-wait…”

“Yes, should I start with self-harm first?”

Adler, greatly alarmed by her statement, grabs the professor’s arm.

“I-I’m sorry…!”

“I’m joking.”

But the professor bursts into laughter and withdraws her statement while stroking his cheek.

“What mother in the world would say she’d die leaving such cute babies behind?”

“………”

“And actually, I heard what you were saying at the entrance.”

At those words, both Charlotte and Adler flinch simultaneously.

“Dragons have sharp ears, you know.”

“Ah…”

“I know it’s unavoidable.”

“Then…”

Adler was about to speak with a glimmer of hope, but.

“But as your one and only wife… I can’t help feeling jealous.”

At the professor’s continued words, he closes his mouth with a dejected expression.

“…So I’ll make a proposal.”

“A proposal?”

After staring at him for a while, Professor Moriarty spoke in a calm voice.

“Let me join in.”

“What?”

Her statement was more devastating than any that had come before.

“Not just today, but in all future bedtime activities.”

“…..???”

“…Grant me the exclusive privilege to participate without limits.”

After making this outrageous statement, she quietly stares at the completely dumbfounded Adler.

“Then, as your lawful wife, I’ll tolerate that promiscuous lifestyle.”

“Who are you to call yourself the lawful… no, that’s not it. Are you insane?”

“Why do you ask?”

Instead of Adler, Charlotte, who had finally come to her senses, raised her voice in a fit.

“You want me to lie naked next to you? It gives me the creeps!!! Even if I die, I would never…!!!”

“I’ve always believed that Charlotte and I could be good friends.”

“Y-you really are crazy!?”

“…And honestly, aren’t you attracted to the idea?”

The professor’s gaze remained fixed solely on Adler.

“The opportunity to lay two mortal enemies side by side and take them both at the same time.”

“……..”

“Would you pass that up?”

As she whispered again in a low voice, a deep silence began to fill the room.

‘…But no matter how I think about it, it seems like I’m the one being taken by two enemies.’

Adler, who had been staring blankly for a while in that silence, suddenly muttered to himself, but it was already too late.