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104. Gresha (4)

Zion had great pride in his family line.

And in order to live up to the expectations of the head of the family and the many people in the family who praised his talent and had high expectations for him from a young age, he spared no effort to always become the best.

And the result of that effort was that he was confirmed as the next head of the family at the age of 10, was admitted to and graduated from the Imperial Academy at the top of his class, and was given the title of the Empire’s greatest genius.

If she were the daughter of a lower-class noble, she would have had a splendid body, beauty, and outstanding brains that would have made her a candidate for marriage with a count or higher rank, and even had the potential to connect her to the royal family.

Zion himself was thrilled by the fact that he could proudly contribute to the experiments of Leon Gresha, the current head of the household.

Perhaps it was because she had grown up so perfectly without any failures and had never experienced negative emotions, but her stomach was so weak when she saw the lab that was close to madness.

“Woweeek!!!”

And thanks to her genius brain, she was able to perceive the truth more quickly, and so she fell even more deeply.

“No? Miss…?”

The butler is embarrassed at the sight of Zion vomiting in front of him.

The sight of Zion’s mental state was something even the butler had never seen before.

Although members of the family had often shown mild resistance when entering the laboratory for the first time since becoming adults, Zion’s reaction was never as violent as it was.

“Hmm… I’m disappointed, Zion.”

“Ah…Father?”

Suddenly, Leon Gresha came back to her, as if he had heard her vomiting, and spoke to her in a flat voice.

Zion barely managed to raise his head to look at Leon, feeling nauseous. The moment he saw his usual expressionless face without a hint of worry, goosebumps ran down his entire body.

“Fred. Send me some soju. Not today, I guess.”

“Yes.”

The head of the household, who had expressed disappointment at seeing Zion sitting on the floor and vomiting, immediately turned around and left for the inside of the laboratory.

It was the first time she had heard someone say that she was disappointed since she was born.

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Bam!

“Miss!!!”

“….”

“Are you okay?”

The next day, Marie came to check on Zion’s condition and looked at her complexion with a worried face.

“Ugh…uhhh…”

Mion, who saw Zion laughing absentmindedly as if she had lost her mind with her hair disheveled, hugged her tightly.

“Miss….”

“Ugh….ugh…”

“Zion…”

“Uh…Sister…I’m fine…”

Zion starts to cry as she calls Marie “sister,” a title she had never called her since they were children.

“Easy… It’s okay Zion… It’s okay….”

After holding Zion in her arms and comforting him for a long time, Marie slowly opens her mouth.

“Miss. The master told me to stay in my room and rest for ten days without doing anything outside.”

“…..What?”

“You said that if you said it like that, I would understand.”

“That’s…..”

“After that….”

Zion’s head quickly turns as he cries in the arms of the plump Marie.

I also saw collateral relatives of the family and long-time servants from the castle walking around.

I saw my uncle and cousin there at dawn, so going there must have been like a coming of age ceremony for the Gresha family.

Most people would be shocked by the madness that had built up over a thousand years, not just one or two years of family affairs, and I thought they were given ten days to collect their wits.

“….Okay.”

“And Miss… I don’t think I’ll be able to take care of you for a while.”

“What?”

“Ahahaha… That’s… Because the lord ordered it.”

“What!”

“Um… I can’t tell you right now.”

Seeing that Zion’s condition had improved slightly, Marie let go of her, got up from the bed, adjusted her clothes, and turned around.

“Ma…Mari!!!”

“Then I won’t be able to see you for a while. I’ll go.”

Clank-

Sion’s mind broke down once again as he watched Mari leave the room, holding out her hand to Sion, who was reaching out with an expressionless face like a housewife, rather than her usual lively expression.

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Squeak-

Deep in the night, the door to Zion’s room slowly opens.

“Invisible.”

Swish-

In a simple gesture, Zion’s appearance disappears.

During the ten days that Gaju gave him, he barely managed to recover his broken spirit and find stability.

And the place she secretly heads to late at night is the head of the household’s office.

‘Even if the butler said that it was officially recognized by the Empire… the royal family may not know everything about the experiment.’

She remembered that a document had been issued stating that they would ‘cooperate’ with the business plan to bring in foreign races, and she decided to search the head of the household’s office to properly understand the current situation of the household.

‘If it comes down to it…’

Although he was clumsy, he took the step without hesitation because he had connections he had built up at the academy.

“Unlock.”

Crunch-!

Kkieeee-

“What the…”

Zion laughs helplessly as he watches the door to the office open with ridiculous ease.

Hit-

Zion, who had stopped laughing, quickly entered the office and closed the door.

“After…”

Zion approaches the desk in the office with a tense expression and recalls his memories.

“Hmm…?”

There was a document on the desk in the office. Unlike Leon’s usual habit of keeping his office neat and tidy to the point of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the document was thrown around a bit carelessly.

Zion glances at the title of the document that was uploaded as if he knew for sure that Zion was coming and told him to check it out quickly.

“Family….do?”

Flutter-

Sion had clearly memorized the family tree, but he was curious to see it in the form of a document, so he unconsciously handed over the document.

Phalang-!

[Leon Gresha] – [Natasha Gresha] (Nosan X)

-> Zion Gresha, Mion Gresha

– [Imelda] (Nosan X)

-> Pedro Grecha

– [Zion Gresha] (On Hold)

– [Mion Gresha] (Reserve 1)

– [Marie] (2nd reserve)

“…Huh?”

What caught my eye was some strange letters that were different from the ordinary family tree I knew.

“Maid..?”

The moment Zion saw the name under his biological mother, Natasha Gresha, his mind stopped spinning.

“Oh..brother?”

Zion’s mind becomes complicated as to why the name of her cousin, who is the son of her collateral uncle, is written as something that came from between the chief maid and her father.

Her father is in his mid-40s, and her maid, Imelda, is in her 50s.

My cousin Pedro is twenty-five years old.

And Pedro’s magical talents were as poor as lukewarm.

“Seo…No way!!”

Chomp-! Chomp!!

As Zion flipped through thick stacks of documents in an attempt to deny the truth, he discovered that there were numerous records of incest committed to continue the perfect bloodline of the previous heads of the family.

And the last page of the family tree has annotations.

1) Children born from mating between a father and a daughter have more stable magical circuits and a higher chance of awakening than children born from mating between a mother and a daughter.

2) However, in the case of incest, there is a high probability that the child will be born with a rare disease, and in the case of siblings, the probability is even higher, so it is not recommended. Unless it is an emergency, it is recommended to first produce spare parts as a wet nurse for the child.

3) In the case of a nanny, she will be selected after a physical examination to see if she has similar or good compatibility with the genetic traits of the offspring.

4) Since there is a risk of disruption to the use of magical power during pregnancy and a negative impact on the magical power circuit during miscarriage or childbirth, if a woman is designated as the successor, a spare part should be produced in advance through the uterus of the head of the household’s sister or maid.

5) When giving birth after the age of 30, since old age and the child’s magical power awakening will be negatively affected, always keep at least two other spares in case the succession plan is suddenly disrupted.

“Ah….ah…..”

Unlike other noble families, all of the vassals of the Duke of Grecia are collateral blood relatives.

What was thought to be a family tradition or a family trait was actually passed down through generations, with only excellent bloodlines maintained and those with defects due to inbreeding being driven out to collateral branches, and the bloodline itself was a breeding ground.

In that moment, Sion realized why Mion, who had absolutely no magical talent and was not capable enough to fight over the succession, was not even harassed by the other servants or the head of the household, but was cared for at a level similar to his own.

dump-!!!

Ten days ago, Zion barely managed to control his shock after seeing the family’s secret and took action, but when he encountered an even bigger secret, his heart was broken even more and he collapsed.

“Haa… Miss, no, Zion.”

“Heeek!!!”

And then a soft voice was heard behind her.

“It’s a little late. I thought Zion would wake up and get up earlier.”

“Ma…mari?”

Suddenly, Zion heard a sound behind him and turned his head with a scream to see Marie standing there wearing only a sexy night dress.

“Whew….”

“Ma…Marie? Are you okay?”

Marie’s condition seemed a bit strange.

Even in the living room where only moonlight streamed in through the window, her skin was bright red and she was groaning as if in pain.

“It’s okay…..”

“Oh my god, your body feels like a ball of fire!!!”

“That’s….”

Seeing Mari in poor condition, Zion got up from his seat and hugged her. When he touched Mari’s body, which was burning like a ball of fire, he was startled.

“Adjusting…”

“What adjustment.”

“You just saw it… Phew…”

“…!!”

Unless it’s an emergency, we recommend that you produce spares as a first step for your child’s nanny.

“No way…!”

“First of all… I’m taking the test I took when I was selected as a nanny again… and I’m getting my body adjusted after taking the test to see if I’m compatible with the owner of the house.”

“Ah…..”

“I don’t have a magic circuit, but I get along well with you guys, and I get along well with the lord too, or something like that, haha…”

Zion asked, looking at Marie, who already had a look of resignation on her face.

“Uh…since when did you know?”

“Huh? When I became an adult, the head maid told me everything.”

“There’s a lab in the basement too?”

“That’s right.”

“My…my!!!”

“What can you do?”

Snap-!

Marie muttered, holding Zion’s arm.

“I… Ugh… I was going to confess to Alex when I became an adult?”

“Ah….”

Alex was the same age as Marie and was the leader of the city’s security force.

Even when Zion was young, he could see that there had been a strange current between the two of them, and he remembered Mari happily chattered about the man she was in love with.

But at some point, Marie stopped mentioning Alex’s name, and Zion simply thought that things had ended badly between them.

“I was proud of myself working in a glorious ducal household, and I thought it was cool to take care of girls of noble blood… but I didn’t know that nannies like that existed only to act as surrogates.”

“…..”

“If I knew…!!!!”

Toouk-!!

Marie clenched her fist and struck Zion in the chest with a sound that was almost a scream.

But it was a playful punch without any force at all.

“If I had known….I wouldn’t have loved you this much…..”

“Marie…!”

Sion hugged Marie with a bittersweet expression and cried, and Sion also hugged her and cried.

And the women who had been crying for a long time while embracing each other look at each other.

“Zion.”

“Yeah… Marie.”

“If you still can’t make a decision after the ten days the Lord gave you.”

“Yeah.”

“Lukewarm….”

“What?!!!”

“That’s why I said I would do it.”

“That’s…!”

“Even if you give up the experiment and there is a vacuum in the succession, or even if you remain the head of the household, one day Mi-on and I will have the head of the household’s child.”

“……”

“Your talent is real…. He probably thinks it’s better to coax you than to make you pregnant. He’s probably trying to tie you up with this document. If you don’t want to see your sister giving birth to your father’s child, then just follow his good words.”

“Ugh…!”

Zion was disgusted by the actions of the author who called himself her father, and by his family’s insane obsession with bloodlines.

“So Zion. I’ll buy you some time.”

“What…?”

“I already told the master. If you have a child in case of an unexpected situation, make me…make me first.”

“….”

“The maid…. Is that the price you pay for giving birth to such an idiot? You’re the maid right now.”

“That’s…!”

“Hehe… Anyway, this is the only territory that uses commoners as nannies, and I’ve already done enough to be filial to my parents.”

“Marie…. ugh….!”

“Don’t cry, just like you were assigned a nanny when you were 5, you have to be 5 to test a child who was born. Since Mion is not an adult yet, it will be safe for at least 2-3 years, and up to 5 years. Then you can find the answer somehow in the meantime!”

Sion burst into tears again at the sight of Marie talking to him with tears in her eyes and a smile on her lips.