episode_0098

“Hello? Yes, sis. I’m doing well. How’s your husband? Hmm… I guess so.”

After my instrumental lesson with Hamuwa, I was playing the lute lightly to practice what I learned today.

Ion was looking through the standard swordsmanship compendium he had bought the other day with interest, while Elfin was lightly studying the art of kingship on his own.

“What? Both? Hmm… Things are complicated. No, Ain is fine. You’ll find out why when you get there. Seriously. Yeah…”

Lulu is flipping through a very difficult vision engineering book to find ways to further optimize the arcade machine’s circuitry, and is talking to someone on what looks like a large phone that the maid, Shiru, has brought.

“…Yeah. Haa, that’s true. Ain’s opinion is more important than Nana or the other kids. I’ll say it, but you know you can’t say no to Ain, right? Phew, I get it. Just take good care of your husband. ”

After Lulu finished the call with a complicated expression and placed the receiver on the phone, the maid Shiru greeted her politely and left the room.

“What’s going on?”

As Lulu’s call ended, Ion, Elfin, and I all turned our gazes to Lulu.

“From what I’ve heard, it seems to be the voice of the Marquis of Asteroids.”

“Hmm. I guess so.”

“Asteroid Marquis Youngae?”

Lulu nods her head to my question and explains to me.

“She’s the daughter of the Marquis of Asteroids, the youngest female of her father’s group. Well, she’s older than me, but… It’s complicated. Let me explain it to you.”

Lulu explained why the Marquis of Asteroids had called.

“Marquis AsteroidㅡSo, the little mother only has Lumislight Asteroid and the Lumis sister I just spoke to. But the male in Lumis’s group is sickly. She’s over twenty-five years old and still doesn’t have a child.”

“Wait a minute, I think I heard something about this from my mother-in-law. Is that it?”

When I asked her why something felt strange, Lulu shrugged her shoulders.

“Hmm… I think I know what you heard from your mom. If you don’t want to, you don’t have to, but your little mom and sister Loomis asked if you could get some seeds.”

“Hmm.”

As Lulu said, if I say no, it will fall through, but I feel a bit uneasy when I suddenly find myself in a situation where I have to fight with the little mother and older sister of the female group.

“I don’t mind, but are you guys okay?”

When I asked cautiously, the females in the group looked at me as if they were wondering what I was talking about.

“A family line is in danger of being cut off. Are you okay with that? Rather, it’s a situation where we should be persuading you, Ain?”

“The Marquis of Asteroids is a prestigious family, and their master, the Marquis, is a talented central noble. The risk of their line being cut off is not good for our royal family either.”

Ion and Elfin gave their opinions in turn. Lulu nodded in agreement.

“No, I mean what about you guys?”

“How should I put it… I heard that my great-grandmother gave birth to my grandmother that way.”

It was only after Ion’s words that I realized that this situation was not so strange in this world.

“If possible, I would like to ask you a favor. My little mother is a promising central noble, and my sister Loomis barely joined the group after she turned twenty. But the male in the group is sickly, so I would like you to help me.”

“Yeah… I see.”

Of course, my holy sword is always ready, and if I just hold out for a day or two, I can store up enough power to send anyone to Hong Kong, but I was cautious because I didn’t know what the females would think. (Of course, Hong Kong isn’t here either.)

“Are you okay?”

“You know?”

“Well… So I told my sister that there was no problem at all. But my sister didn’t believe me.”

“There really isn’t a single male like Ain in the world.”

Ion smiled faintly at Lulu’s words and said playfully, and Elfin also laughed lightly.

“Now that we’re on the subject, let’s get started. Sister Loomis is like that, but her little mom was really worried. She has only one daughter, and Sister Loomis couldn’t see her child either.”

“Aren’t you all only children?”

At my question, Lulu, Elfin, and Ion looked at each other.

“Our parents won’t be particularly worried. Because you’re out of standard.”

“Ah…ha.”

This time I was convinced. In fact, if I wanted it, it wouldn’t be a problem at all for the females to get pregnant.

“Okay, how should I prepare?”

Lulu replied to my words, “If there’s nothing you absolutely have to bring, you can just go. They’ll take care of everything.”

“The Asteroid family is not as wealthy as ours or the Gold Bunny’s, but they are a wealthy family. You don’t have to worry.”

Instead, Lulu asked me how long I would be at Asteroid Street.

“How long does it usually take?”

“If there is only one person to give seeds to, it usually takes about a week. The male… well, ‘normally’, he can’t just put things up with any female, so he gets to know each other, spends some time with each other, and if he feels like it, he usually gives seeds. ”

“Not you, though,” Lulu added.

“And the seeds will be once?”

“That one time is usually great. They say that most males don’t do it well.”

At Elfin’s words, I thought for a moment and then called out four days.

“Since the other person needs a day off, wouldn’t it be okay if we alternate days?”

Lulu, who was about to ask me if it was okay, stopped talking and nodded on her own, seeming to understand.

“Ain, you’ll be enough.”

“Thank you for recognizing the abilities of a group of males.”

Lulu’s face turns red as she says that playfully and laughs.

“Okay, okay. Get ready. I’m going to call Sister Loomis.”

“Okay.”

In response to my answer, Lulu leaves the room and I pack various things into a large trunk.

“What is that?”

Ion asks as I grab a small potion bottle.

“Ah, it’s the energy potion I made last time during the alchemy practice.”

“Energy potion?”

I put a dozen stamina potions into my trunk and answer.

“I said I have to carry on the generation, so I think I need this since I’m going to be doing it all day. To be exact, I think I need two bottles at most.”

“Ah…”

Only after hearing this did Ion understand why I was carrying energy potions. He knew that I was going to feed these to the asteroid mother and daughter and have them do all day.

“You wouldn’t do that to us, would you?”

“Why? We still have a long time left to live together, so I wonder if this is necessary. If you want, I’ll do it.”

“Oh, no. No. I think I’m fine!”

At my words, Ion laughed awkwardly and even waved his hand, and Elfin and I laughed.

I’m going out? After a while, Lulu also comes in after getting ready to go out.

“Are you ready? Mom and Dad told me to say thank you.”

“Yeah, I can go right out. Just take care of the arcade.”

“Okay, it’ll be optimized by the time you get here.”

When I said goodbye to Ion and Elfin, they thanked me and saw me off.

“Thanks for the good work, Ain.”

“I don’t know. The first one who could give birth to my child is a female’s younger sister and a younger mother.”

“I admit that male fatherly love is outstanding, but don’t worry too much about it. If they have a child, they’ll be the ones to do it. If you miss the child, Lulu will bring it to you.”

“That’s the subtle thing.”

Even though I said that, it seemed like neither Elfin, Ion, nor Lulu really understood.

“Hello, Ain Youngshik. I am Lumislight Asteroid, Lulu’s older sister.”

“Meet the noble blue blood. I am Ain Frostgarm, the male of Lulu’s flock.”

Lumislight Youngae, Lumis was an Abyssinian female with sleek brown fur and black points.

“I have nothing to say, Ain Youngshik. I am Marquis Tethys Asteroid, Lulu’s little mother and Loomis’ mother.”

“It’s an honor to meet you, Marquis Thetis.”

As expected, Marquis Thetis was also an Abyssinian female like Loomis, and she felt like an older sister to Loomis, although they were not much older than her.

“Little Mom, Sister Loomis. Phew, look at these dark circles.”

Lulu frowns and grumbles at the sight of the two.

I heard that Marquis Thetis was getting sicker because of her overwork, and Loomis wasn’t getting enough sleep because she was taking care of her husband.

“It was something we had to handle, Lulu.”

“Okay, and neither Little Mom nor Sister Loomis should come out of the mansion for the next 4 days. I promise it’ll be harder than working or taking care of them…”

As Lulu said that, she cast a few stacks of energy-replenishing spells on the two, and the Asteroid mother and daughter’s faces looked much better, but they seemed to have doubts about Lulu’s words.

“But 4 days? Is that okay?”

Lulu shakes her head at Marquis Thetis’s words.

“Little Mom, did you see me talking nonsense? I’m going to go, so don’t try to do anything and just do what Ain says.”

“Oh, I got it.”

Marquis Thetis nodded, bewildered by Lulu’s (normal female) incomprehensible words, and while Loomis looked at me with a dazed expression, Lulu boarded the Anastasia family’s vision carriage and returned to the estate.

“Look at my mind. Ain Youngshik, I’ll show you to your room first.”

“Both of you are comfortable with Ain.”

“Haha, thank you. Ain, this way.”

The room we arrived at after being guided by the Asteroid mother and daughter was quite luxurious and large. In terms of quality, it was on a par with the mansion of Marquis Jude in the Yellow Sea.

After unpacking, we took our seats in the reception room. There was a slightly awkward and subtle atmosphere between us.