Ch.61Chapter 61 – Black Veil, White Veil

The day after subjugating Rachel Watson.

“…Miss Holmes?”

Visiting Microny Holmes’s mansion on the weekend as usual, I couldn’t help but open my eyes wide with a surprised expression.

“Oh my, which one of us are you calling?”

“……..”

Unlike usual when only a few attendants would be waiting in the living room, Sharlotte Holmes was sitting on the sofa, quietly staring at me.

“What are you doing here?”

“Is it so strange for a sister to be at her sister’s house?”

After staring at her with a blank expression for a moment before asking, I received an extremely sensible answer.

“…Now that I hear it, I suppose that’s true.”

“But it’s a bit strange that you, Mr. Adler, are visiting my sister’s secret residence.”

At the question she threw back at me, I quietly glanced at Microny before speaking.

“The highest person in England wanted to secretly see my performance. So I was coordinating schedules with the person who is the British government itself.”

“I didn’t know Her Majesty the Queen was interested in theater.”

“Surprisingly, it’s true, Sharlotte.”

As I calmly countered Sharlotte’s skeptical voice and quietly gazed at Microny, she defended my words with a smile in her eyes.

“I need to discuss highly confidential royal information with Adler now, so shall we end our meeting here?”

“…Hmm.”

At that, Sharlotte rested her chin on her hand and tilted her head to the side for a moment.

“How nice for you, Mr. Adler.”

“………”

“A child actor so desperate to sleep with the highest authority in England.”

Then she whispered to me with a mischievous smile.

“…Miss Holmes, you shouldn’t use such language.”

“I’m particularly missing my magic stone powder and cigarettes today.”

Then, muttering that, Sharlotte reached her hand toward my head.

“If your genes weren’t combining in my stomach right now, I would have been high already.”

“…I thought you said you were quitting.”

“Why don’t you try it too, Mr. Adler?”

With familiar hand movements, she plucked a few strands of my hair, dropped them into her mouth, and chewed while leaning her head forward.

“It might cure your chronic disease of lewdness.”

“Miss Holmes.”

“Puhah, hahaha…”

Then, she suddenly burst into laughter.

“You’re cute, Mr. Adler.”

“……..”

“If you keep making such cute expressions, you might be able to throw the other half of women onto your bed too.”

Taking my hand and twirling around as if dancing, she headed toward the exit with light steps.

– Click…

Then, she suddenly pulled out a pistol from her pocket.

“Stay still.”

“Uh-oh.”

As I froze completely, thinking the moment had finally come, Sharlotte, wearing a cold smile, raised the gun and shouted loudly.

“Bang!”

And then came silence.

“…Miss Microny.”

“Yes?”

“Excuse me, but is your sister on drugs here?”

“I don’t think so.”

To my question, asked while looking at Sharlotte with incredulous eyes, Microny replied with a gentle smile.

“This is the behavior my sister usually shows when she’s about to die of boredom due to the absence of cases.”

“…Is that so?”

“My sister actually becomes more calm when she’s on drugs.”

In her narrowed eyes, deep gray irises were shining.

“She’s been in that state ever since you appeared before her.”

“………..”

“But for some reason, my sister has now returned to how she was before meeting you.”

That was good news.

According to Watson, Sharlotte had been locked up in the boarding house in a broken state since the Lygate case.

If she had escaped that state and returned to her original eccentric genius girl state, it was truly fortunate.

“Or perhaps she’s turned 180 degrees again after already turning 180 degrees, making it appear as if she’s returned to normal.”

“……..”

But at Microny’s gloomy conjecture that followed, I was wearing a slightly worried expression when:

“…Mr. Adler.”

Sharlotte, who had been staring at me intently through the sight of her gun, suddenly smiled and opened her mouth.

“After you finish talking with my sister, come to the boarding house.”

As I tilted my head at those words, she quietly winked at me.

“I have something I want to tell you.”

“…Why don’t you just tell me now?”

“I don’t want to.”

“Is there a reason it can’t be here?”

She shook her head firmly and whispered in a slightly lowered voice.

“It’s a new puzzle.”

And the next moment.

– Bang!!!

“……!”

Her gun suddenly fired.

“If you don’t come, that might happen.”

The Queen’s portrait hanging in Microny’s room had fallen to the floor and shattered.

“That’s lèse-majesté, Sharlotte.”

“It’s fine. The British royal family owes me quite a few debts. Her gracious Majesty the Queen, who has avoided national crises by my hand several times, will turn a blind eye.”

Spinning the gun in her hand and looking at the scene with satisfied eyes, she began to walk again with a cheerful expression.

“And I do have some patriotism. That’s why I just made it fall to the floor.”

“………”

“I think just replacing the glass should do it?”

Sharlotte, who was about to open the front door and step outside, suddenly turned her head and flashed a grin.

“…Of course, you’re not Her Majesty the Queen, Mr. Adler.”

“………..”

“So don’t forget to come to the boarding house, okay?”

The look in her eyes as she stared at me until the door closed was no longer darkly shining.

– Click…

The problem was that now, instead of her eyes, her black pistol was shining through the door crack as it was being loaded.

“The madwoman of London is back!”

“………”

As I stared at that light with blank eyes, a languid voice came from behind.

“Now she’s finally acting like my sister.”

Microny Holmes, with her chin resting on her hand, was muttering with a smile.

“…What was she like before?”

“Like an adolescent girl going through a stormy period.”

“Hmm.”

After briefly rubbing my chin at her accurate analysis, I asked with a curious expression.

“Then, what do you think is the reason Miss Holmes suddenly returned to her original self?”

“Because she escaped from the maze she had been wandering in for a long time and found the answer.”

“That’s a very ambiguous answer.”

“She finally realized and accepted it—is that sufficient?”

Then, covering her mouth with her hand, Microny Holmes answered with a voice mixed with laughter.

“So, what exactly…”

“You know very well.”

She slightly opened her eyes and began to smile coldly.

[Sharlotte Holmes loves you.]

“…Hmm.”

And at that moment, yesterday’s message appeared before my eyes as if it were the answer.

“The moment you enter the boarding house, you might receive a proposal from my sister.”

“You’re quite the joker.”

“I’ve heard rumors that Miss Lestrade has been searching desperately for you lately, I wonder how this will turn out.”

Microny Holmes, who had reminded me of one nerve-wracking situation after another, cleared away the documents in front of her with a delicate smile.

“That’s not all. Her Majesty the Queen has also been continuously requesting to meet you personally. You certainly have a way with women.”

“What?”

And then, she uttered something unbelievable.

“Of course, I ignored it. I’ve fallen slightly out of the Queen’s favor because of it, but my power won’t be shaken by something like that.”

“Why did you do that?”

While feeling a chill down my spine at the realization that my lie to escape the situation was actually true, I also felt a slight regret.

After all, it was a golden opportunity to potentially make the Queen of England my backer.

“There was no need to put yourself in a politically difficult position just to make things difficult for me.”

“You don’t understand.”

When I asked with a slightly regretful expression, she opened her eyes completely and began to whisper in a low voice.

“…That’s what makes it more exciting.”

Her voice had become slightly suggestive.

“My sister is about to confess, your official lover is searching for you while blaming herself for her mistake, and the Queen, who is always a nuisance, has her eye on you in one way or another.”

“………”

“…Imagine spending a day under my desk without anyone knowing.”

Saying that, she pulled her chair back slightly and quietly tapped the desk with her finger.

“Wouldn’t you feel like dying, buried in the sense of transgression?”

With a sigh at that now-familiar signal, I pushed my body under her desk, and Microny Holmes quietly pulled her chair in, pressing herself against me.

– Swoosh…

And a moment later, her top was quietly lifted up.

“…Bite me.”

Her snow-white lower abdomen, marked here and there with my teeth marks, came into my view.

“…Hnngh.”

After hesitating for a moment, I quietly put my head between her legs and buried my face in her lower abdomen, inhaling the soft scent of her skin.

– Haap.

“Mmnh.”

As I bit into her flesh while breathing heavily, Microny’s moan came with a slight vibration.

“”……….””

And so began the blood-sucking that had now become familiar.

“Look up at me with your mouth still on me.”

“………”

“Stare at me.”

As I was in the middle of sucking blood, Microny Holmes, who was stroking my head, whispered to me.

“…That’s right.”

When I quietly raised my head to look up at her, I saw Microny Holmes’s expression steeped in transgression.

– Rustle…

After meeting my eyes for a moment, she lowered her clothes, covering my face.

“……Ah.”

And then, leaning her back against the chair, she closed her eyes tightly and began to make a dreamy expression.

“…Important government officials are scheduled to visit today.”

“…..?”

“There’s an important meeting.”

After holding me inside her clothes and caressing me for a while, she whispered in a low voice.

“It will probably end around evening.”

“……….!”

“Can you be good until then?”

When I tried to pull my head away, worried about being discovered, her legs quietly began to tighten around me.

“Come in~”

While I was bewildered by the strength coming from her fragile legs—strength that seemed impossible for her to possess—Microny called out in a cheerful voice.

– Creeeeak…

Then, the sound of footsteps began as the door opened.

“It’s okay.”

As I looked up at her with resentful eyes from inside her clothes, her small voice reached me.

“…My face will get paler as time passes, but I’ll just look more sickly than usual.”

“……..”

Judging by her still dreamy voice, she seemed to need more stimulation.

“That makes it more thrilling, doesn’t it?”

In that case, I had no choice but to give it to her.

– As the Demon Lord said, all the guards are positioned outside. Should we take care of them?

– Hmph, it looks like a trap to me.

– Master. The Cat Princess has a point. Be careful.

As I was thinking this while quietly biting her lower abdomen, the voices of my minions reached my ears through the sound transmission magic that only I could use in this world.

‘…No matter how I think about it, today is the only chance.’

It was time to choose a direction at the biggest crossroads I had faced recently: whether to take the risk to grow my organization further, or hesitate and be slowly crushed.

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Several hours later.

In front of Microny Holmes’s secret residence, where the VIPs had temporarily left for a break.

“…If that’s true, the situation is serious.”

“Yes, it’s an emergency.”

Her loyal servants, who were standing guard outside, were sweating nervously as they discussed.

“I didn’t think he would target such a short window.”

“Should we break down the door and rush in?”

“…That’s risky. We don’t know how Adler will react.”

In the eyes of the woman standing in the center of the group, the situation inside the room was being reflected in real-time, surprisingly.

– Ugh…

– Why do you keep going along with this so compliantly? Aren’t you being too careless?

– S-stop…

– It’s useless. Just surrender and become mine.

Issac Adler was on top of the pale Microny, roughly gripping her hands, his eyes glowing red as he sucked her blood.

– It hurts…

– I told you not to be fooled by the contract so easily.

To anyone watching, it was clearly an unexpected situation.

“Miss Microny…”

The so-called “hounds,” Microny Holmes’s loyal servants.

The eyes of their leader, who possessed the ability to always detect her master’s danger, gradually began to grow anxious.

“One on top of the building, one in the alley… no, two.”

“They must be people prepared by Issac Adler, so the risk level is expected to be extremely high.”

“What should we do?”

The agents reported calmly to their leader.

“…What else?”

The leader, who had been standing still, quietly gritted her teeth and answered in a low voice.

“She’s the only one who called my Curse a blessing.”

At those words, the agents nodded quietly and began to look at the enemies before them.

“”………..””

A bloody battle for London’s hegemony was about to break out.

“………?”

The leader, who had been watching the situation inside the room with a cold expression, suddenly looked puzzled.

“…What’s wrong, Captain?”

“Did something happen?”

Despite the urgent questions from her subordinates at this sudden change, the captain couldn’t open her mouth and just stood still.

“Well…”

This was because Microny Holmes, who had seemed frightened by the unexpected situation just seconds ago, began to look serious the moment Adler buried his head in her neck.

– Ah, ungh. Uh…

– P-please stop…

While making delicate moaning sounds, she quietly began to move her lips.

‘Read. My. Lips.’

“………”

At the message that was so clearly directed at someone, the captain’s eyes began to glaze over.

“What on earth is happening?”

“…We need to rush in now.”

“We’ll take care of this place, Captain, please hurry inside…”

Whether they understood her master’s mind or not, her subordinates urged with urgent voices.

– Squeeze…

As the captain’s eyes wavered at those voices, Microny Holmes quietly wrapped her legs around Issac Adler’s waist as he was on top of her.

– You shouldn’t do this…

“……..?”

And then, with a shy look, she twisted her head and avoided Adler’s puzzled gaze.

“…I think it is a Curse after all.”

“What?”

Discovering the melting expression on her face, the captain made a face of enlightenment and began to walk forward.

“Let’s go get something to eat.”

“”……..???””

The twisted love affair between Microny Holmes and Issac Adler continued throughout the captain’s meal with her subordinates.