Chapter 260: You're Becoming an Adult!
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 260: You're Becoming an Adult!
As soon as I finished my workout and shower, I bypassed the executive elevator and sprinted down the stairs toward the first floor.
"Master! Are you doing this again today?"
"You know Aoi, the one helping me, is the bad one, right?"
Aoi Takahara giggled, then immediately bent her knees and got into a position for a piggyback. Since this was a familiar routine, I wrapped my arms tightly around her neck.
"But you're so cute!"
"You're real trash, you know that?"
"Look who's talking, Master."
Aoi kicked off the wall. Then she kicked off another, and another. Instead of running down the steps, she used a bizarre method of wall-running between the flights of stairs, moving downward at high speed. In the blink of an eye, she transported me from the 30th floor to the 2nd floor, several times faster than any elevator.
"Alright, bye-bye for now~! If I drop you off on the first floor, she'll get mad. Today was truly amazing."
"It was hard for me because Aoi was such a total loser premature ejaculation pussy today. Make sure to train a bit during the winter break."
"Ahem, ahem...!"
With a bright red face, Aoi cleared her throat loudly and disappeared back up the stairwell walls. I didn't have time to play around here. I ran straight to the first floor, kicked open the door, and dashed toward the entrance.
Just as I reached the building's exit, the high-speed executive elevator opened. A blonde bull sister, with two watermelons larger than her own head attached to her chest, widened her eyes and began charging toward me.
I didn't lose today, either. I dove into the passenger seat of the red sports car waiting in front of the building with its door open and slammed it shut.
—Vrooooooooom!!!!
At that exact moment, Lisar, who was in the driver's seat, slammed on the accelerator.
"Ma-Master! Master! Master!!! Don't abandon me!!! I'm still a virgin! I'm still a virgin! You son of a bitch! You said you'd do me!!! Why won't you eat me!? Why only me...!"
Lisar rolled up the window. The supercar, which would take fifty years of my mom's salary to afford, used its magic internal combustion engine to hit top speed in an instant. I felt a slight chill as I watched her chase after us for a few minutes.
"Is... Youfei a bit too much for you?"
"Isn't she cute?"
Lisar let out a short sigh.
"...So you're saying you're leaving her alone because she's cute?"
"Yeah! It's incredibly cute how she follows me around all day, wondering when I'll finally have sex with her."
She had been following me since I arrived at the fitness center. Every time I needed a break during my workout, she would bring me a drink or a towel to quench my thirst or wipe my sweat, constantly gauging my mood while trailing behind me. It would be weirder if I didn't find that cute.
"Youfei is a fairly fierce Ranger. If you tease her like that, I don't know what might happen..."
"At worst, I'll just get raped, right?"
"...I suppose so?"
Lisar thought about it for a moment and agreed.
"And it's a bit hypocritical for you to say that when you, Marika, and Aoi are all in on it together."
"That's... only because we're cooperating to monopolize you for a short while, Master."
Lately, one of my favorite games was to deceive Youfei's senses or dump work on her to create a gap. While she was distracted, I'd have a sticky mating session in the CEO's office or an executive room, then come out to see the little heifer looking at me with a face like the world was ending.
"If you tease her too much, Youfei might actually get upset."
"If I mate with her for about four days straight without resting, don't you think she'll forgive me?"
"...I think two days would be enough."
Lisar offered her analytical conclusion.
"Make sure you take good care of her so she doesn't get any bad ideas. Tell her it's just because I'm busy."
"...I don't know anything about that."
"It's because I'm busy, so Youfei will understand. Right?"
It was true that I was busy. Unlike my other companions who managed to snag a bite of me whenever they found a spare moment, Goldie's lack of tact was her own fault for being left in a state of neglect play.
Though, it was precisely that lack of tact that made her so cute to tease.
Regardless, I didn't dislike Goldie, so I had to consistently emphasize that I was just too busy to help it. I picked up the phone.
—Ma-Master!
Youfei's voice came through the receiver.
"Ah, Goldie~! Sorry, I have an appointment with my grandmother today!"
—I-Is that so? I-If that's the case, then it c-can't be helped... A-About earlier, I'm s-sorry...!
"Hmm~? About what~?"
—Uh... did you not hear me?
I heard everything, but it seemed better to pretend I hadn't.
"Did you say something?"
—A-Ah, no! I didn't say anything! Yes! Nothing at all! A-And... w-when are you coming back?
"I'm not really sure. Goldie, you're on winter break, right?"
—Ah, yes! Starting tomorrow! From tomorrow until the week after next, I'm completely! Completely! Free! You can call me whenever you want!
"Oh, really? I'm not sure about the schedule regarding my grandmother. And after that, I'm supposed to go see Iris..."
There was silence on the other end of the line. Just as I thought the call might have disconnected...
—T-Then it can't be helped! Yes! Yes! I'm free anytime, so! P-Please call me whenever it's convenient! I go to the Empire quite often, too! If you call, I'll run to you anywhere!
"Yeah, Goldie~ thanks~ I love you! Oh, right. I'll send you a few of those female mating videos you like so much!"
—Ugh... Y-Yes... P-Please do!
One might call it teabagging, but I was making a special exception for Youfei by sending her my female training videos, which I rarely shared with others.
The bull sister, who initially thought I was just mocking her, had begun to believe my words that I was sending them out of guilt.
Now, she had developed a taste for loser masturbation to the point where her tail would practically wag like a dog being offered food whenever I mentioned sending a video.
Everyone was happy.
"...For now, I'll take you to the orbital elevator airport. After that, the people sent by Duchess Rune Cal Degrain... I mean, Her Grace, will guide you directly to the prison."
Since I already knew this, I gave a simple nod and sent Youfei a few of the mating videos I had saved up. Because I was generating them faster than I could consume them, my backlog was overflowing. I could probably go on a detox without draining any essence for a while without any issues.
"My grandmother is locked in prison, but she still has many followers. She uses people as she pleases and has visitors whenever she wants..."
"The title of 'war criminal' was a charge forced upon her, after all."
At Lisar's words, it felt like an opportunity to hear more about my grandmother. My mom tended not to talk about it, and the other bitches kept repeating that I should hear it from Mom, so I had nowhere to learn about the past.
I could have poked around my mom's holes and begged her to tell me, but even if she was a sow, forcing her to do something she disliked would likely trigger an event that lowered her loyalty. Besides, since it was family history, I didn't want to find out that way, so I had been holding back until now.
"I know the gist of the stories. What was it... the Demon Realm Resistance Army massacre, the Empire-United Kingdom war massacre, the resource planet labor disposal operation, and a few more Gate massacres."
"Calling it a massacre is... well, 'extermination' would be a more accurate term, but yes. That is the kind of person she was."
"Lisar, you seem to know a lot about my grandmother."
The dark elf sister gave a bitter smile and continued speaking while looking straight ahead.
"You can think of her as the person who shouldered most of the sins of this planet. She is respected in both the Empire and the United Kingdom."
"They respect her even though she killed that many people?"
"There's a saying in the colonies... Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill a million, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god. Rune Cal Degrain is a person who reached that level."
Lisar's words gave me goosebumps.
"I've only heard the word 'massacre' over and over... just how many did she kill?"
"Far more than a conqueror, but just slightly short of becoming a god."
I found myself unable to say anything in response to the dark elf's chilling words.
"It's best to reserve judgment on Rune Cal Degrain. Even if you are her grandson, her followers are radical... numerous... and most of them are crazy bitches."
"...I'll be careful."
Lisar rarely warned me about anything, but her unusually serious demeanor made it impossible for me to be stubborn.
"Well, I may follow Rune Cal Degrain myself, but you are above her, Master, so don't worry."
"Was that warning just now a threat?"
"No, no. It was a warning. For a female to threaten a male would be a ridiculous thing, wouldn't it?"
Lisar lightened the mood with a joke mixed with the kind of vulgar language usually reserved for sex. I turned my head to look out the window.
We had almost arrived at the orbital elevator.
"Perhaps it was a blessing that Rune Cal Degrain wasn't present during the large-scale rebellion in the Earth Colony twenty-four years ago. Or perhaps it was a curse."
"Did something happen...? Aren't colonial rebellions common?"
"It wasn't the kind of small-scale thing we have now that can be chopped up and finished in a few days. It was a rebellion that broke out across most of the Governorates. It took anywhere from a month to two months just to punish those involved."
I thought two months sounded more like a protest than a rebellion, but considering Earth's current situation where Swordmasters are rare, an event of that duration back then must have been quite significant.
"Quite a few of the people dispatched at that time died. I can't say it was everyone, but most of the middle managers who experienced that incident turned into radicals. They became crazy bitches who believe that the merciless massacres and thorough crushing policies Rune Cal Degrain carried out were correct."
If twenty years had passed, the people who were in charge of units or personnel during that colonial dispatch were likely now high-ranking officials or very close to it in the home country.
I was surrounded by many long-lived species, but considering the non-long-lived friends who make up the majority, many of them would have reached high positions by now.
"Why are you telling me all this? Do you think my grandmother is going to pull some kind of stunt?"
"Because you're becoming an adult now, Master. I told you this in the hope that you'll start looking further beyond your immediate surroundings. If you tell the CEO or the Chairwoman about this, I'll probably have to spend fifteen years as the head manager of an underground labor camp."
Lisar giggled and brought the car to a halt.
"We've arrived. My personal wish that I'd like you to keep in mind before you go... I just babbled a bit because I didn't want you to look at Rune Cal Degrain as just your maternal grandmother."
"She is pretty, though."
It was cute to see Lisar's face contort at my comment.
Before getting out of the car, I gave the dark elf sister a light kiss, pulled my suitcase out of the trunk, and headed toward the main entrance of the orbital elevator.