Chapter 41: A Strange Triangle Relationship Between Daughter and Mother

“That guy is yours?”

“Yes.”

“Huh? What do you mean ‘yes’. What do you mean ‘yes’!”

The mother looking at her daughter as if she couldn’t understand at all.

Moira looked very resentful.

“No. I spent months raising his affection. And you just snatch up the best part? Are you a thief?”

“Calling your daughter a thief! I had raised his affection in my own way too! Mom, you don’t know anything!”

“No, you always paired Sion with me whenever you saw him. Isn’t that right? It is, right. If you were going to eat him up yourself, why did you pair him with me?”

“Th-that’s… I was a bit embarrassed to express that I liked him directly. That’s why I did that. Yeah yeah.”

“What nonsense is that! You used me as a shield? I thought it meant you were allowing Sion to be your new father?”

“Huh? What are you saying. New father? I don’t want a new father.”

“You little brat. You were the one who allowed me and Sion first! That tiny little kid who said she didn’t want a new father… I thought you finally wanted mom to be happy. But it wasn’t that. Hah. You ungrateful girl.”

“Ah mom. That’s not it. Geez.. I just don’t want a new father.”

“What? You don’t want a new father? Then what about me? What about me!”

Yuria was flustered by Moira’s anger.

It seemed Yuria had blocked Moira’s dating from childhood until adulthood.

In the end, this was a situation where she didn’t bring in a new man for her daughter’s sake, but now that her daughter has become independent and she’s finally found a husband candidate, she’s had him snatched away by her daughter.

No, it’s even stranger now that I understand.

What kind of situation is this?

This strange triangle relationship between me, Yuria, and Moira was more complicated than the labyrinth.

No matter how much I racked my brains, I couldn’t find any strategy.

At least with the labyrinth, you could find a strategy if you kept banging your head against it.

But I have no idea which way people’s hearts will go.

“No. I absolutely can’t allow you two. He’s my husband candidate. Let go, Yuria. No matter how much you’re my daughter, I can’t listen to this nonsense about making your new father your boyfriend anymore. You need to yield too.”

“B-but.. Sion and I have already done everything.”

“Already what? What have you done? No, wait a minute. You two. How far have you gone?”

Moira asked how far we’ve gone.

For a moment, I couldn’t give any answer.

Right now, Moira seems to be mistakenly thinking that Yuria and I have just held hands.

‘We’ve already enjoyed slave play and everything.’

The moment I recalled Yuria’s naked body, Moira looked at me.

“Don’t tell me. You two. Have you even kissed?”

“Huh?”

“Oh come on, mom. Why are you saying such embarrassing things. Of course we’ve kissed.”

“…”

Moira covered her face as if she had received a shock.

For some reason, Yuria was twisting her body in embarrassment.

This situation doesn’t look good.

Moira looking like she’s about to explode any moment, and Yuria grinning without grasping the situation.

What’s even more serious is that Lady Lea will join this chaos soon.

‘This is driving me crazy.’

My thoughts stopped at the continuous abnormal situations.

I didn’t want to be this popular.

Above all, the people who like me are all far from normal.

It felt like I was walking on thin ice.

“Huff. Fine. Nothing will change by arguing. If it’s come to this, there’s no helping it.”

“What do you mean there’s no helping it? What?”

“The only way for you to keep your boyfriend and for me to get married.”

Moira pointed at me with her finger as if she had made a decision.

“Let’s share.”

“Cough!!!”

Saliva went down my windpipe.

Share, she says. I’m not some object.

“Mom!”

“Yuria. You said you don’t want a new father, right? You probably feel uncomfortable seeing me with an unknown man. Then we can do this. Use the familiar Sion as your lord and new father. How about it? Isn’t it perfect?”

“No, wait a moment. So I’d be Yuria’s boyfriend and.. the Guild Master’s lover?”

“That’s right. Think about it carefully, Sion. You’ve now become the luckiest man in the labyrinth city.”

So this is what a platinum badge adventurer is like.

No, to come up with such an answer in this situation.

Should I say, as expected of an adventurer who’s touched the 7th floor of the labyrinth and come back?

“Sion… what do you think?”

“Huh? W-well..”

I was at a loss for words at Yuria’s question.

To be able to have both Yuria and Moira.

In fact, if you think about it, it’s good for me since I can have both of them.

No, but can I tell Yuria this feeling as it is?

The mother and daughter with flame-like red hair are both looking at me at the same time.

Somehow, I’ve gained the choice to decide the direction of this strange triangle relationship.

“I’ll follow Sion’s decision.”

“Choose, Sion.”

They’re both extremely beautiful.

Not to mention their figures.

Moreover, if I accept Moira’s proposal now, I’ll gain an opportunity to move forward on a new route.

‘The mother-daughter route.’

I feel like I’m going crazy.

Realistically, a mother-daughter double is impossible in some aspects.

First, assuming the daughter is an adult, the mother has naturally aged.

Inevitably, the problem arises that one side has gone bad.

But what if she hasn’t aged?

What if she still maintains that tight skin from her youth even now?

Furthermore, it’s estimated that her only male experience is with her deceased husband.

This is certainly a pass.

“Wait a moment. First. Let’s talk about this topic again later. I don’t think we should decide so suddenly like this right now.”

“Hmm. Is that so.”

My heart is telling me to accept Moira, but it’s only been 1 day since I started dating Yuria.

I thought it wasn’t right to insert other people between me and Yuria already.

Isn’t it premature to insert her mother when I haven’t even properly dated Yuria yet?

Above all, once Lady Lea joins soon, it will become a chaotic mess.

“Alright. Since the person in question says so. Tch..”

“Hehe. You heard that? Mom, you’re out!”

“You brat!”

As Moira and Yuria were about to fight again, I quickly shouted.

“Th-then I’ll be going now!”

“Where to?”

“I’m going to rest for today. It’s almost dinner time too.”

“Is that so. Then have dinner at our house before you go today.”

“Dinner?”

“Yes. Yuria, you come home and have dinner too after so long. Stop eating strange street food all the time.”

“Dinner? Should I? Let’s go together, Sion.”

“Right. Let’s go together and have dinner and such. It’s about time to get off work too.”

Even though I didn’t answer that I’d go, somehow I ended up visiting the Guild Master’s house.

“Oh, are you leaving work?”

“Yes. I’ll go first. Good work.”

“Yes! Thank you for your hard work!”

As we went down to the first floor, Edwin saw us off.

The Adventurers’ Guild operates 24 hours.

Because you never know when adventurers will come out of the labyrinth.

I know the guild’s counter girls operate in 3 shifts too.

For some reason, it seems like Edwin is always there whenever I come, but that must be my imagination.

‘So the Guild Master lives in the south.’

As I walked following the Guild Master, we arrived at a wealthy neighborhood in the south.

It’s a clean street without the characteristic messiness or roughness of the labyrinth city.

No homeless people in sight.

Almost no adventurers visible either.

Literally a neighborhood where the big shots of the labyrinth city would live.

Almost all the houses are mansion-level big.

It was a bit different from the neighborhood where Yuria lives.

If Yuria’s neighborhood is where successful adventurers would live, this place feels like where the really rich people would live.

Probably many merchant guild leaders or high-ranking people from religious orders.

“It’s here.”

“Wow..!”

As expected, it was a quite large house.

With this scale, there should be maids too, right?

‘No way, there really are!?’

Surprisingly, the Guild Master’s mansion had maids.

Maids wearing maid uniforms.

This is the first time I’ve seen real authentic maid uniforms while living in the labyrinth city.

It’s different from the maid cosplay prostitutes in the red-light district.

“Are you surprised by the maid?”

“Ah, yes. It’s my first time seeing one.”

“The house is too big for me to clean alone. Slaves are essential for busy adventurers.”

The Guild Master’s words are certainly correct.

Yuria’s house was a mess too.

I guess slaves really are essential for adventurers.

“Welcome back, Lady Moira.”

“Yes. This man is my guest. Dinner for three today.”

“Yes. Understood. I’ll escort you.”

She’s a well-trained maid, I see.

She looks quite old, and you can feel that level of experience.

Above all, the interesting point is that she’s an Eastern person.

Black hair and black eyes.

She was of the same Asian race as me.

In this world’s terms, she’d be someone who came from the East.

I wonder how she became a slave.

It might be that becoming a slave was the only way to make a living.

Or she might have become a slave because she didn’t have money to pay the resurrection cost after dying in the labyrinth.

Well, one of the biggest criteria for becoming a slave is the presence of relatives.

Foreigners without relatives to pay the resurrection cost to the church mostly end up on the slave route.

So it’s only natural that the slave ratio is high for barbarians or Eastern people who have no guarantor or connections.

Anyway, by this world’s standards, she was from the same homeland as me.

Of course, I’m originally from Earth so we’re not really from the same homeland, but racially it was enough to think of her as being from the same place.

“Sion.”

“Yes?”

“Should we buy a slave too?”

“What? Really?”

“Yes. If Sion wants one, we should buy one. Do you want to buy a young woman?”

“Well. I guess a woman rather than a man?”

“Then shall we go look at the slave trader together tomorrow?”

“What? Really?”

“Yes. Let’s go see together.”

Yuria gently held my hand and whispered in my ear.

She was like a girlfriend saying she’d buy me a game console.

She knows I like slaves, so she must be catering to my preferences.

“Okay..”

“Hehe.”

Buying a slave together with Yuria.

My heart is pounding.

I feel a sense of depravity I can’t quite describe.

I’m already looking forward to tomorrow.

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After entering Moira’s house and waiting for a while, dinner was soon served.

Various dishes came up on the dining table.

Stir-fried vegetables, something similar to dongpo pork(?), and wonton-like dumplings in soup.

‘What? This is totally Chinese food.’

Instead of Western-style food commonly eaten in the labyrinth city, it was Chinese food that you could eat at a Chinese restaurant on Earth.

I guess she specializes in Chinese cuisine since she’s an Eastern person.

To think I’d eat such proper Chinese food in the labyrinth city.

It’s the first Chinese food I’ve had in almost 6 months.

Of course, since all kinds of races gather in the labyrinth city, you could probably find Chinese restaurants if you looked hard enough.

But I didn’t even have time to explore restaurants separately.

The past 6 months have been days of struggling for survival.

I didn’t have time to go around finding good restaurants.

“Thank you for the meal. Oh! It’s delicious.”

“This friend is quite good at cooking. Especially, this goes well with it.”

As I was eating the wonton soup, the Guild Master brought out some alcohol from somewhere.

“It’s huangjiu from the East. It should be familiar to you as an Eastern person?”

“Ooh..!”

What the Guild Master brought out was a distilled liquor somewhere between soju and baijiu.

It’s a liquor that goes perfectly with greasy and spicy Chinese food.

You can’t drink sweet wine while eating dongpo pork, right?

Huangjiu is perfect. The Guild Master knows well.

“Here, have a drink.”

“Ah, thank you.”

I couldn’t refuse the drink poured by the Guild Master.

Above all, the dinner was completely like drinking snacks, so I couldn’t not drink.

I should just drink enough not to get drunk, right?

“Yuria, you drink too.”

“Alcohol? Okay. I like it!”

And so, one drink, two drinks went down.

“Phew…”

This really heats you up.

It’s stronger than I thought.

It wasn’t to the point where my head was spinning.

But the effects of alcohol were starting to rise.

“Phewww. Gu-Guild Master.. I.. can’t drink anymore..”

“Is that so? You’re weak with alcohol.”

“N-no I’m not.. Guild Master is.. hic.. the alcohol is strong…”

“I see.”

Yuria also seems to be half-asleep, almost passed out.

This isn’t good. I need to go home soon before I get more drunk.

“Hey, Sion.”

“Yesss..?”

“You don’t look so good. Just sleep here tonight. We have plenty of empty rooms.”

“Whaaat? N-no, I can’t…”

“Just sleep here, dummy. I won’t do anything. Just drink comfortably and sleep.”

“Uh.. hic. Is it really okay..”

What should I do. My vision is starting to spin.

This is the kind of alcohol that suddenly hits you hard.

I feel dizzy and tired.

I don’t feel like I’m going to throw up though.

My body feels like it’s floating and it seems a bit difficult to walk.

I’m sleepy. Ah, what should I do…

“Come on. Rin, prepare a room.”

“Yes, Lady Moira.”

Before I knew it, I was being carried in Moira’s arms.

My eyes are starting to close.

I’m sleepy.

I’m tired.

I want to sleep.

“Has he fallen asleep?”

“It seems so, Lady Moira.”

“Take care of Yuria.”

“Yes. Understood, Lady Moira. Shall I not come up to the second floor?”

“Right. Don’t come up until I call for you separately.”

“Yes ma’am.”

The maid Rin returned to the first floor.

Moira, who was looking down at the sleeping Sion, grinned.

“Stupid guy. I told you to be careful so many times.”

Moira quietly lay down next to the sleeping Sion.

“How dare you kiss my daughter? I can’t forgive that. This is karma.”

Moira clumsily embraced Sion.

Excited by Sion’s body, which was firmer than she expected, Moira couldn’t hide her excitement.

“This tiny guy. You’re more solid than I thought. Hm..”

Knowing that the other person was asleep.

Moira went wild.

Moira put her hand inside Sion’s clothes and fiddled with his muscles.

“Hehehe..”

Moira hugged and fiddled with Sion’s body for a long time.

The problem was that she couldn’t progress any further than that.

“Hehe. Eastern person.. cute. Black hair.. cute..”

Moira.

Was more of a bumpkin than Yuria.

Moreover, she had a preference for Eastern people.

Even her maid was an Eastern person.