Chapter 255: You Didn't Know...?
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 255: You Didn't Know...?
“Oppa, I’m hungry~.”
I had just finished replying to Camel’s text on the group chat, telling her friends that she was busy with work and that entry was strictly forbidden. After taking a few photos of her sprawled out like a dissected frog while leaking semen, snapping a picture of my own tool for her to use for masturbation later, and boldly writing 'F-Rank (Garbage-Tier)' on her thigh, I stepped out of the room only to be greeted by that voice.
“...Look at the time. Dinner's already passed. You haven't eaten yet?”
“I was waiting because you said you were in the middle of a career counseling session, but… look over there.”
The youngest pointed toward the living room, where our mother’s friends were gathered in the dark, engaged in a pathetic gambling session without even a single light on. Even though it was getting dark as the sun set, they were all silently rotating the deck, seemingly intent on proving they were big shots—the kind of people who were called Swordmasters and Archmages.
“Everyone, let’s eat first! Food! Food! I’m hungry! I’m hungry!”
I turned on the lights and protested to the aunties, who were all struggling to win even one more ‘Jeong Yong-hwan Usage Ticket.’
“....”
“....”
It was as if they couldn't even hear my voice; they were that focused on the game. Looking at the youngest, she shook her head, suggesting she had already tried and failed.
“They’ve probably put up mana barriers so they can concentrate. They won't hear us even if we scream.”
“Should just the two of us go out to eat?”
“Really?! Just the two of us!?”
The youngest’s face lit up. She must have been really hungry.
“Yeah, yeah. I just got paid for that tokusatsu shoot. I’ll buy you whatever you want to eat, Grasha~!”
“Heehee… Then let’s go! Let’s go!”
The youngest grabbed my wrist and started pulling me, still wearing nothing but her swimsuit. This crazy girl—it was winter, and her outfit was a goddamn masterpiece.
“Hey, look at the temperature outside!”
“Oh, right! Oppa, wait!”
Being the youngest, she was a handful. She scurried upstairs, brought down my coat, and put it on me.
“What about your clothes?”
“Me? I can regulate my temperature with magic, so I’m fine.”
The youngest spoke as if it were no big deal while she tightly buttoned up my coat. It was nice that my sister was taking care of me, but walking around with her in a swimsuit was a bit embarrassing.
“Still, you should wear clothes. Go put on a coat. It’s cold.”
“No one cares if a woman walks around half-naked. You’re the one who needs to be careful, Oppa. If you dress lightly, everyone will look at you with weird eyes!”
At her words, the male self-esteem that had been at its peak just moments ago began to cool down rapidly. In this world, I was generally the one being protected, not the protector.
“Come on, Oppa. I’m fine with anything! Let’s just go eat! You pick the menu!”
“My hand hurts, go slow. Slow! Hey! I said slow!”
“You’re just slow, Oppa! Come on~!”
The youngest grabbed my wrist and started walking fast. It seemed this damn brat was forgetting the concept of respecting her elders just because she’d grown a bit taller and stronger than me.
Once we stepped outside, I saw several sisters walking around in short sleeves, just as she’d said. Since we had traveled quite far south from where we usually lived, the temperature was actually closer to cool than freezing. I tried to take off my coat, but the youngest kept it buttoned all the way to the top.
“Starting next year, we’ll be in the same grade, right~?”
The youngest grinned and clung to my arm. Back when she was much smaller than me, I felt a strong protective instinct toward her, but now that she was slightly bigger, that instinct was long gone.
“If you try to act like my equal, I’m telling Mom.”
“You’re not a kid anymore, why do you keep tattling to Mom?”
“We are kids.”
The youngest burst out laughing as if she found it absurd.
“Is that so~? Is our Oppa a wittle baby~? Is he~? Is he~?”
“If you keep messing around, I’m going back to the hotel.”
“Aww, don’t be pouty!”
I was a little annoyed by her poking my cheek, but I softened easily at her quick apology.
“Oppa, where are you going after graduation?”
“Somewhere quiet that isn't too tiring.”
I wanted a place where I could play around and have an easy life. Somewhere not too far from home, where I wouldn't get involved with troublemakers, and where I could mature into a happy house husband… no, a seeding uncle.
“Huh? Weren't you going to Agalon Academy with Su-yeon Unnie?”
“Me? Why?”
The youngest blinked her emerald eyes.
“You’re not going? Su-yeon Unnie said she was going, so I thought you were too?”
“Why would I follow that girl?”
The reason I fought with Im Su-yeon was because that unlucky brat kept blocking my path, so I had to beat her down. There was no reason for me to follow her around and deal with her nagging.
Originally, I could have lived a pleasant life maintaining the top rank in the whole school, but the problem was the sow at our house, who didn't know her place and dragged Im Su-yeon into our school.
Thinking about it made me angry. I should give Mom a round of face rape while she’s sleeping tonight.
“Hmm~ Then you’re planning on going to a men’s higher education institute~?”
“I’m thinking about it.”
If anyone asks why I’d go to a 'dick field,' it’s because the growth difference between genders is so vast that if you want to go into the engineering fields from my past life, you usually have to go to a special-purpose school.
The typical routes were the police, the military, or the Academy-Empire University track.
But I didn't want to eat military rations again in this second playthrough, and seeing my mom work, being a cop didn't look easy either. Plus, going to an Academy, which was basically a private educational institution, and busting my ass there sounded tedious.
A rose-colored life was waiting for me—graduating from a public institution, becoming a matrilocal son-in-law for the La Croix family, and calling over onaholes to play with. Why would I need to do anything more troublesome?
Learning sports or instruments was just for personal fun or for playing the 'genius' card occasionally; it wasn't anything grand.
“I’m a bit relieved, but also worried.”
“What’s there to be relieved or worried about?”
“I’m relieved because you’re so easy, Oppa. If you went to the Academy, I feel like you’d get caught by some weird woman and be led around by the nose~.”
I wanted to refute her assessment.
While it was true I was giving it to various women, I was the one doing the sticking, not the one standing around waiting with an erection.
However, since masochistic, premature ejaculation pussy sows were the default setting, it was true that I ended up being dragged around by weird women. It was a mix of truth and lies in such awkward proportions that it was hard to respond.
“Then what are you worried about?”
“They say that when men gather in one place… well… it happens often.”
“What does?”
“You know… ahem, homosexuality.”
The youngest cleared her throat and answered cautiously.
“Homosexuality?”
She nodded tentatively.
“Don't women do it a lot too?”
“No, that’s… well… that’s common. Even Aunt Hindel does it.”
The youngest started bashing homosexuality with a narrow-minded perspective.
She should have a stance like mine, where I criticize everyone regardless of gender, but saying it’s okay for women and not for men was hypocritical.
Thinking, 'Lesbianism is a mental illness, so I'll cure you, you bitch!' while planning to NTL Mom to Hindel, teach her some loser masturbation, and enjoy a lover-threesome—seeing as she lacked such firm resolve, she was a lost cause.
“What if Hindel wasn't around?”
“Hmm… I don't know. There are quite a few female couples. It’s not that strange, is it?”
She hated male couples but approved of female ones—a cowardly stance that accepted yuri but not gay. If you’re going to allow it, allow both; if you’re going to ban it, ban both.
This was a problem with her home education. I found another reason why I shouldn't stop at just face-raping the sow, but should whisper for her to get pregnant while I ejaculate inside her.
“Don't worry about that regarding me more than anyone else. I already have someone to marry.”
“What…?”
The youngest looked at me with a shocked face.
“Ophelia Noona asked me to marry her.”
“Ophelia Unnie? Really? When?”
Gracia’s green eyes went wide as she asked.
“I don't remember exactly, but she said she’d marry me when I grow up!”
“...Wasn't that when you were a kid?”
“We are kids right now.”
The youngest let out a long sigh and pulled my arm.
“A selfish and angry man like you won't be popular, so give up on Ophelia Unnie. She’s going to be a Duchess; your statuses don't match. Status. Don't worry, I’ll take good care of you~!”
The youngest beamed and clung to me even tighter.
“No, what do you mean status? Our family is a noble family too.”
“Huh? Our family?”
The youngest asked back as if she truly didn't know.
“Our mom is a Baroness.”
“...Why am I hearing this for the first time?”
“Alicia Noona is the next Marchioness, Camel Noona is a Countess, Tiria Noona is a Countess, and Cassia Noona is a Countess. Until Grandma was convicted of war crimes, we were a Ducal family too.”
Gracia blinked, unable to comprehend.
“Those bums playing in the dark in the gambling den right now are nobles?”
“...And real nobles with actual power, at that.”
“Liar! You’re joking, right?!”
The youngest shouted. It might be because our mom never acted like a Baroness. I only found out she was a Baroness when a security guard told me when I went to ride Alicia’s airship.
“...You didn't know?”
“No, I mean, if we’re nobles…. I’m not saying our house is lacking, but… like, a mansion or something….”
“We’re here because of Mom’s job, but our family has a mansion too.”
“...?”
I knew my mom’s salary slips, taxes, and asset details very accurately. Even though I called her a sow and used her as I pleased, I had already prepared a 1/3 distribution plan in case the sow decided to dump all her assets on me and ruin the sibling bond.
“Is our family rich…?”
“Objectively speaking?”
The youngest couldn't close her mouth.
“Mom always eats discounted food and looks for the cheapest places when grocery shopping….”
“She’s from a stubborn knight family like Grandma, so the idea that saving is good is ingrained in her.”
Gracia Cal Degrain’s eyes twitched.
“Mom is a high-ranking police officer, so her salary is high, and since I’m here, she gets a lot of subsidies too. Even excluding the assets, that alone is a huge amount. Did you think we were poor? We’re living in an apartment in a city building.”
“No, I thought most of that went to rent from Mom’s salary…. Haaa….”
The youngest let out a hollow sigh.
“It’s not like we ever lacked food or were stopped from doing what we wanted, right? Was there anything else?”
“No! But still, if we’re nobles…!”
“Mom’s friends are nobles too.”
It seemed the youngest’s fantasy about nobility was shattering. Well, the major nobles of the Empire might live like the House of La Croix as she imagined.
But she seemed disappointed by the reality of the pathetic noble bastards of the United Kingdom.
For the record, all of Mom’s friends who belonged to the Empire were from major families.