episode_0125

000

“Seriously…. How many people do you think are living in this house together right now…. Put up a soundproof barrier or something….”

Lyla muttered, cutting the fried egg in front of her with a knife, dark shadows deeply cast under her eyes.

“I’m sorry. I’ll be careful next time. Here, coffee.”

“…Hmph.”

Lyla accepted the coffee Kleon offered, but still seemed unappeased, turning her head away.

Last night, she had barely fallen asleep after working late into the night on research, only to be kept awake by the loud noises coming from Luti and Kleon’s lovemaking.

She might have been able to stop them if she had gone in midway, but the sounds coming from the room were so intense that she didn’t dare enter. Lyla had put up a soundproof barrier before anyone else woke up, but still….

One of Luti’s blunt, small horns had also shrunk to half its length compared to yesterday.

Luti rubbing her stomach and looking happy while eating made her even more concerned.

“You had a good time last night.”

Ferdia quietly said to Luti.

Thanks to Lyla’s sacrifice(?), the others hadn’t lost sleep and had been able to spend the night peacefully.

She didn’t seem particularly tired.

“Was it two people yesterday….”

Galatea sat next to Kleon, leaning her face against his shoulder with a jealous expression.

Kleon, knowing what that meant, flinched and looked down at Galatea with a slightly stiff smile.

“Whatever. I don’t care. I’m generous. Besides, I was the first one to get pregnant. Just remember that the twins, Luti, and that dragon are all beneath me.”

Her voice itself wasn’t that cold, but the possessiveness close to obsession that could be felt within it ran down Kleon’s spine.

“Hey~! Kleon! What kind of name should we give the baby when it’s born! It takes about 10 months to lay the egg, but about 10 years to hatch, right? I think we’ll need a name to call it until then….”

Luti ignored Galatea, clinging to Kleon’s arm from the other side and talking to him.

She had been furious when she found out that her sister had kidnapped Kleon, and that she had slept with him there.

However, after Kleon’s explanation, some of the misunderstandings were cleared up, and using the power of the Dragon Ring, which could be said to be her sister’s gift, she had successfully conceived a child in her womb once again by Kleon, who had gone berserk in dragon form.

Lyla, Sasha, and Kuon were looking at Luti with slight envy and longing.

Only Ferdia was clapping softly and nodding her head.

“As expected of Kleon-nim. The probability of fertilization and implantation is very low for dragons compared to humans, but Kleon-nim is overcoming even such difficulties.”

“No… that’s…”

Kleon tried to respond to Ferdia’s words that it was all thanks to the `Dragon Ring`, but Kuon cleared her throat before he could.

“Um…. Isn’t talking about that kind of thing at the table a bit much?”

“Y-yes! I think talking about these kinds of things in the morning isn’t good for e-education! Right? Caliburn?”

“That’s right~ All I can say is~ I’m looking forward to the future because it seems like there will be a lot of siblings~”

Although they had become quite close while spending the day with Sasha yesterday, Caliburn’s way of thinking still seemed a bit different from humans, which troubled Sasha.

In addition, Sasha was the only one in this house who didn’t use honorifics with Caliburn, who was outwardly younger than her.

Lyla sighed at the situation and looked at Kleon.

“Kleon, you…. You have a date with Aruru today, right?”

“… I just made an appointment to hang out with her.”

As Kleon spoke awkwardly, a vein popped out on Lyla’s forehead and she pointed out.

“If you don’t acknowledge that as a date, you should cut off what’s down there…. It’s not that I want to say anything about you hanging out with her, but if you get her pregnant like Luti or those twins….”

Not only did he steal the premarital chastity of the Tromia family’s daughter, the kingdom’s greatest aristocratic family, but he also got her pregnant?

At that moment, Kleon might have his head cut off by Sir Percis.

“…O-of course. I’ll be careful….”

“Yeah. Do that.”

Lyla finished all the coffee left in her mug and stood up from her seat.

“I’m going out during the day today too, so I need to get some sleep, even if it’s just a little….”

“Going out?”

“Yeah. Sigh… It’s annoying…”

Lyla said that, dragging her tired body to her room.

She would probably fall asleep as soon as she collapsed on the bed.

“Innis. Do you know something?”

“Erm… I know, but I’ll keep it a secret from Papa for now. That’ll be more fun ☆”

“…You’re a bad kid.”

Innis listened to Kleon’s words and followed her master to her room.

After all is said and done, she was a homunculus who prioritized her creator and master, Lyla.

“Kleon. Isn’t it about time to get ready?”

As Kuon looked at the clock and said that, Kleon nodded and stood up from his chair.

“I’m going with you today.”

Galatea also said that, turning into the form of a sword and hanging at Kleon’s waist.

She seemed quite sulky that he hadn’t taken her out with him yesterday and the day before.

For a while, she hadn’t been able to spend time with him because of Caliburn’s matter and the Demiurge’s matter.

There were many situations where he was walking around outside unarmed, something he couldn’t have imagined when he was busy as an adventurer.

Galatea seemed quite dissatisfied with that. She clung to Kleon every day, telling him to leave the academy quickly and go to the royal capital, where danger and adventure lurked.

The reason itself was impure, but as she said.

It was about time to leave the academy.

He was just trying to keep the last important promise before that.

Kleon headed to his room to prepare to go out.

Kuon watched Kleon’s retreating figure and felt something unknowingly solidify in her chest.

But she soon shook her head, brushed it off, and continued her breakfast with the people still at the table.

001

The place where the two had promised to meet was in front of the Tower of Aion.

During the academy festival, the Tower of Aion was a popular meeting place for general visitors, including the square where the Monad’s Hall was located.

The reason for this was, of course, that it was a tall building that stood out even from a distance, and it also had a bell tower and a clock, so people could immediately check the time.

Usually, the guards guarding Vitos’ warehouse were also stationed near the entrance of the tower, so ordinary students were reluctant to approach it.

However, during the festival, the guards were only stationed in front of the warehouse in order not to spoil the cheerful atmosphere.

Thanks to this, quite a few people had gathered.

They were standing there, each paired with friends, family, and lovers.

However, a large gathering of people also meant that impure people would gather.

“You standing over there~”

Kleon, who was quietly waiting for Aruru in front of the bell tower, turned his head at the sudden voice from beside him.

There, he met the eyes of a female student who was looking up at him, with shiny golden-no, yellowish hair, slightly tanned brown skin, and an outfit that seemed to have been illegally modified from a uniform to increase its level of exposure.

At first glance, she could be mistaken for a student in the Holy Arts department, but he had never seen a student like her.

“Are you waiting for your girlfriend, by any chance? If you don’t mind, would you like to hang out with me?”

She said that, blatantly showing her cleavage and creating an angle where her skirt was slightly lifted, revealing a glimpse of her underwear.

No matter how he looked at it, she seemed to be trying to seduce Kleon.

“… …”

Kleon looked at her for a moment, then sighed and said.

“I’m sorry, but I have a prior engagement, as you said.”

“Ehh? But most of the students here are picky about being nobles and stuff, right? If you hang out with me, I can do all the good things your girlfriend can’t do….♡”

Kleon politely pushed away the female student who said that and tried to grab his arm and pull him to her chest.

“That’s enough of that.”

He responded as he expected.

“What, what is it… I tried to seduce you because you looked quite skilled, unlike the pathetic students around here…. Hmph. You only look the part, and you’re still a virgin, aren’t you?”

The female student seemed to have her pride hurt by Kleon’s reaction, and she frowned and spoke to Kleon.

“…In the first place, is it okay to walk around here in that outfit? I know there are places where the modification of uniforms is allowed and places where it isn’t…. For example, the academy badge that you wear on your chest….”

“There’s no way I’d wear something that old-fashioned on a holiday like today…! Are you a virgin and a scold?”

“Sigh…”

He thought he had been caught by a troublesome woman.

[What is this woman…. Should I kill her?]

Black magic began to creep out along with Galatea’s voice, which suddenly came from his waist.

Come to think of it, he had forgotten that he was going out with her for the first time in a while.

Kleon was flustered and tried to suppress the black magic and calm Galatea down.

[Calm down, Galatea. This girl is just…. She just needs a little attention.]

[But do I have to just watch Kleon being hit on?]

[She’s a student, not an adventurer…. Let’s just put a hallucination spell on her and send her back.]

[Hmph…]

While they were having a conversation in that way in their minds, Kleon quietly stood there, and the female student, thinking that he was ignoring her, grabbed Kleon’s hand and tried to pull him towards her-

[You’ve crossed the line.]

The next moment after he thought he heard Galatea’s cold voice.

“I’m sorry. Do you perhaps have something to say to my date?”

A voice that was heard just before Galatea was about to be drawn and brandished herself.

“Eh… Aruru Tromia…!?”

[Tch…]

It was Aruru, who had appeared exactly on time for their appointment, who stopped the female student with her hair fluttering in the wind and her dignified voice.

She was sending a smile on her lips and piercing blue eyes to the female student.

“Oh, so your date was Aruru… Tsk…”

“That’s right. This Kleon instructor has promised to hang out with me all day today…. I’m sorry, but I’d like you to get away from him.”

If you approach him any further or interfere between the two of us- she didn’t say the same words directly, but the spirit she felt from her was enough to show her intentions.

The female student seemed to be frightened by the invisible pressure, and she `patted` away from Kleon and took a step back.

Soon, she ran away without even looking back.

“…That female student just now….”

“Do you know her?”

Aruru looked at the running girl for a moment, as if she was worried, but shook her head at Kleon’s question.

“No. I must be mistaken. Anyway-”

Aruru cleared her throat, straightened her posture, and faced Kleon, as if she was catching herself for being a little late for her greeting with Kleon, whom she had met after a long time, due to an unexpected interruption.

“Sorry, did you wait?”

She asked as if she was recreating the greeting from that time that they had shared sometime ago.

Kleon returned the answer as if it was decided, along with her smile and the greeting she had given.

“No. I just got here too.”

After exchanging such greetings, Aruru burst into laughter, perhaps because she herself found it funny, or perhaps because she was satisfied that Kleon had remembered it.

Kleon also smiled as he looked at her laughing.

[He came 20 minutes ago…]

Only Galatea seemed to be dissatisfied.

“She’s with you today too, Galatea.”

Aruru looked at the sword attached to Kleon’s waist, looking at Kleon’s magic sword with interest, as if she was concerned, saying `Hoo…`.

“When you’re in the swordsmanship department, you get to see all kinds of famous swords. But she’s a really beautiful sword. The black handle and the silver blade. It’s like a crescent moon floating in the night sky.”

[…She has an eye for things. Tell her that the holy sword hanging on her ear isn’t bad either.]

Galatea seemed a little shy, but she spoke to Kleon in a tone that didn’t show it.

As Kleon conveyed her intentions, the blue glass earrings on Aruru’s ears seemed to shake on their own.

“…Ah. Sorry. I’m sorry for talking about swords as soon as we met…. It’s my bad habit.”

Aruru suddenly realized that the conversation they had just had was not the kind of conversation that should be had in a `man-woman relationship` and apologized to Kleon.

Kleon himself didn’t seem to have any thoughts about it.

Even so, Aruru straightened her clothes, cleared her throat, and made eye contact with Kleon.

[Clothes.]

“Ah. Ah, that’s right, you have a different style today. It suits you well.”

Kleon noticed what he had to do with Galatea’s advice and took a good look at her outfit.

It was a sophisticated and feminine outfit that was different from the white dress or the red suit he had seen before.

The clothes she wore on top were a black off-shoulder blouse. Her shoulders were exposed, but that didn’t mean it was something that looked cheap like the female student from earlier.

Her more voluminous upper body than others was tightly constricted, and the small ribbon on her chest was the point.

And a long skirt with a length that started from just below her chest, at the part of her stomach, and came down to her ankles.

It had a white base, with a clear blue line like her earrings.

It was like a normal girl’s outfit for her age, but Kleon, who couldn’t even say that he was detailed about clothes in vain, could only admire her coordination, which maintained the minimum level of elegance that she had to have as an aristocrat. He was purely impressed by how cute or beautiful she looked.

“R, really? If that’s the case, then I’m glad. Because I was meeting Kleon today, the servants paid so much attention to my clothes that it was a bit too much… Sigh… I’m so glad.”

Aruru let out a sigh of relief and smiled at the corner of her mouth.

Even so, she reached out her hand to Kleon and grabbed it.

“Then…. Shall we go now? There are many places I want to look around. It looks like it’s going to be quite busy.”

“Of course, it’s okay. I’ll go to all the places you want to go today.”

She, too, was one of the biggest victims in this incident.

She had her memories stolen and her life almost twisted, and she lost a precious friend.

She had a bright face, but there were still wounds in her heart.

If he could heal those wounds, even just a little.

Kleon took a step forward as the girl led him, thinking that way.

002

“Haa…. A failure. I guess this kind of low-level honey trap doesn’t work after all….”

The red-haired woman was enjoying tea at a stall a little away from the Tower of Aion, looking at the scene with magic of farsightedness.

Turning her gaze away from the fleeing female student, she closed her eyes slightly and opened them, and the magic that had been applied was released and returned to her original eye shape.

“…Does that taste good? It looks incredibly sweet.”

Then, she asked the black-haired, black-eyed girl who was always with her, who was diligently drinking iced cocoa in front of her.

The girl made eye contact with the red-haired woman for a moment, then drank from the cup again without saying anything.

“If you drink that much, you’ll have to go to the bathroom soon…. Well, do demons not have that.”

Unlike her, who was half-human, half-demon, the girl in front of her was a successful work who had succeeded in being completely reincarnated as a demon.

The woman sighed and laid down on the table.

“The royal capital and here. It’s a headache because of the Swordsman of Magic…. What happened to your clan?”

“… …”

The black-haired girl finally put the cup down on the table.

“…In the first place, the failure was in possessing the succubus on a person who was not related…. If you want to seduce that person, you should target the woman who is related to him….”

“…Is that so easy…. Um…? No. Wait a minute. Right…. There was such a method?”

The red-haired woman was about to sigh again, but stood up from her seat as if she had remembered something at the girl’s words.

“Okay. Then shall we prepare right away! Thanks Lilim! You’re still my best partner! One more cocoa here please!”

“… …”

The black-haired girl stared at the empty cup for a moment.

Her eyes, looking at the scenery reflected through the glass cup, were subtly shining with black magic.