Chapter 275: A Story Told as if It's No Big Deal
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 275: A Story Told as if It's No Big Deal
By the time we stepped out of the hotel, the sun had already passed its peak.
She was a spellcaster, so her physical stamina was pathetic, but as if to prove her overwhelming wealth, she kept chugging potions like water to keep from fainting. The behind-the-scenes story of how she shook her hips until she was finally satisfied—only after I’d ejaculated twice—didn't really matter.
Despite being a private beach, there were plenty of things to eat nearby. Perhaps because they were paid a steady salary despite having no customers, or because they only served people related to the Ducal family who visited once in a blue moon, the staff were all incredibly unfriendly.
There was no conversation at all. If you wanted food, you just picked whatever you liked, and a few dishes would appear on the table without anyone even showing their face.
Normally, this would be the time to suck up to Her Excellency the Duchess and appeal to her about how serious one is about cooking, but it was almost bewildering how not a single soul was in sight.
"Aaahn~!"
Then again, this was probably better than having to watch the female Duchess—a woman much older than me, older than her own daughter—acting all coy and making noises as if begging her future son-in-law to feed her.
I took a piece of some nameless fried dough smothered in various sauces that the Duchess wanted me to feed her, held it out, and then popped it into my own mouth.
"...I might actually get upset."
"It's a joke, a joke. Here, say aaahn~!"
I had planned to tease her three or four more times and then soothe her with a bite just as she was about to sulk, but the Duchess’s gaze turned so dead serious from the start that I had no choice but to just feed her.
"Isn't it wonderful being at the beach with just the two of us like this? The sound of the waves is so pretty, and there's not a single sound of other people~."
"Next time, let's bring Ophelia Noona along too."
"...Are you really planning on marrying Ophelia?"
Garnet looked at me with narrowed eyes.
"Didn't you know I already proposed to her?"
"Even though Ophelia said yes, you're still going around doing that with so many other people...?"
Seeing the Archmage big sister, who was significantly older than me, looking at me with her eyes trembling made me feel unfairly accused.
"I don't think you're one to talk, Mother? Not when you're the one dripping semen from your panties."
"I-I... ahem... Well, I was just confirming my future son-in-law's reproductive capabilities..."
Garnet looked away while spouting that bullshit. She looked so cute that I didn't press her any further.
"Even after I marry Ophelia Noona, I'll make sure to give you plenty of love, so don't worry. If I coax her well enough, we might even be able to do it with all three of us. Don't worry."
"...Are you saying you're going to ravish both mother and daughter at the same time?"
Thinking about it, in this world, it was already a feat for a male to seduce multiple women, but I realized a bit late that talking about a mother-daughter threesome was really crossing the line.
In a normal situation, I would have apologized or tried to smooth over the atmosphere somehow, but...
"It's obvious Ophelia Noona will have a pathetic premature ejaculation pussy just like her mother, so what else can I do?"
"Ugh... I-I told you, it's not premature..."
Seeing the perverted Duchess blush and press her thighs tightly together just from that light insult, I felt like I could get away with even harsher verbal abuse.
"You might be excellent as a woman, but as a female, a superior male is sowing his seed into pathetic, inferior genes like yours, right? Shouldn't you say thank you?"
"...."
Did I go a bit too far? If my dick were currently buried in her cervix, she would have accepted anything I said with total affirmation, but I felt I should avoid being too cruel while she was sober.
Still.
"Answer me."
"Ye-Yes... Thank you very much..."
Whether we were alone or I was threatening her while thrusting into her cervix, the conclusion for this Duchess—who was in heat and desperate to get pregnant despite her hopeless, trashy, inferior female genes—remained the same: she would always give in.
I fed her about three more bites of food from the table to soothe the strangely rebellious look in her eyes. Seeing her eyes immediately light up with joy, it was clear that my mother-in-law was such a pushover that she’d probably hand over the entire family fortune if she ever met a bad boy.
I began to feel sad about my life, realizing I even had to manage my mother-in-law for the sake of domestic peace.
***
A private beach sounds romantic, but if it's just the two of you, it's boring as hell.
It's better when there are crowds of pretty sisters and events worth watching, where I can barge in with my dick to make everyone get along—or get along even better. I didn't need the luxury of enjoying a vast area in silence.
Barging in with my dick on a potential yuri couple who are staring at each other intensely but are afraid of being rejected.
Barging in with my dick on a yuri couple who are already dating but are too shy to even touch each other properly.
Achieving a total victory of conquest by barging in with my dick on a yuri couple who have already mastered scissoring and are craving each other even more.
Or drawing in two people who find each other attractive but are stuck in the "friend zone" into an orgy to cultivate their lesbian tendencies.
I just wanted to pick and choose from a buffet of various ways to have fun. I didn't particularly want to spend my time on a date with a mother-in-law whose lips were parched with anxiety because her egg expiration date was approaching and she was desperate to get pregnant.
In my past life, there were no such things as Swordmasters, Grand Swordmasters, Enlightenment Realms, Profound Realms, or Life and Death Realms. From that perspective, I could understand Garnet's impatience regarding her age.
But even if her mother, Rune Cal Degrain, didn't have the title of the world's strongest swordsman and was just a regular old elf, the fact that her eggs were still putting up a fight showed she was still in her prime.
If natural pregnancy were easy, I could have easily had her give birth to about twenty kids, then hit it and quit it, only to come back and get her pregnant again once the kids were all grown up!
I tossed those trashy thoughts aside and looked out at the sea. Even though only a few people visited a year, the place was impeccably managed; there wasn't a single piece of ocean trash or seaweed washed up on the shore.
There wasn't even that characteristic fishy smell of the ocean; it felt heavily artificial.
"Mom, do they manage the water quality here too?"
"We use magic to some extent. It's not difficult. We just mix purification magic into the magic circles that keep marine monsters out."
Come to think of it, this was a bizarre planet where dozens-of-meters-long marine monsters lived. Though I hadn't seen one yet!
I remembered seeing a worm several meters long, wriggling with hundreds of legs or cilia, when I went deep into the ocean while holding Yuseoha's hand.
"Are marine monsters strong?"
"Hmm... well, by my standards, most of them are simple creatures... but by normal people's standards, they'd be very threatening. I hear there are occasional incidents where creatures that break through the military's defense lines attack people."
That sounded like an interesting story.
"I know the planet is much larger than Earth, but how is the ecosystem for such giant creatures structured?"
"I heard they're investigating beyond the Gates, but they haven't found anything significant yet. If you're interested, I can call an expert for you?"
I almost fell for her when she offered to call an expert just because I was curious, but I wasn't such an easy man, so I managed to shake my head.
"I heard there are Gates other than the ones in the colonies. How many are there?"
"It's hard to estimate if you include the small-scale ones... but if we're talking about the major Gates, there are probably fewer than ten. Each country likely has its own secrets as well."
It seemed like Gates were treated as a vital resource. No, seeing as they turned the worlds beyond the Gates into colonies, they definitely were vital resources.
It was almost funny how these pieces of trash, who were invading everywhere and ruining economies by dumping cheap goods, were so certain they would never be invaded themselves.
"We're making colonies all over the place, but since Gates are essentially random... what if there are beings stronger than us?"
"If they want war, there will usually be war, but higher civilizations tend not to prefer war. It's very unlikely to happen. Besides, we have contact protocols in place just in case."
Information that one would never hear unless they were a high-ranking official of the state began to flow from the mouth of this pathetic sow. Despite how she would cry out "Hiik! Hik!" the moment a dick was shoved into her, and how she loved being whispered words like "trash," "loser," "pathetic," or "premature" in her ear, she was still the head of a family at the core of the Empire.
I immediately understood that "contact protocols" were just the same kind of bullshit they did in the Murim world, so I didn't need to hear more about that.
"So, for higher civilizations, should we assume economic exploitation comes first?"
"Hehe, you're quick to understand. Well, there were strange cases like the Demon Realm. The war was only difficult in the beginning; by the middle, we completely overwhelmed them to the point it was called a subjugation campaign."
"...That's the story about my grandmother, right?"
Garnet nodded as if it were obvious. Every time I heard stories about the past of that crazy war-mongering mass murderer who casually sliced through millions of people, I wanted to claim I had absolutely no relation to her.
"Duchess Degrain did indeed achieve great feats. She trampled over several planets so cruelly, yet established a system that allowed them to be operated as if nothing were wrong."
"Several planets...?"
That was a piece of information I couldn't just let slide.
"Since the land is overflowing with mana, the productivity is great, and we're using them well as plantations."
"...No, wait a minute. There are multiple planets in the Demon Realm?"
"Yes. They're connected by artificially created Gates, but it's still correct to describe them as planets, right?"
She tried to move on as if she were stating common knowledge, but I couldn't let it go.
"How many planets are there in the Demon Realm?"
"Five that we manage directly, eight that were sold off to the private sector for supply. And were there twenty-three moons?"
"You're running large-scale plantations on thirteen planets?"
"There are also factories that make daily necessities and such; it's not just agriculture."
Garnet spoke as if it were no big deal, but from what I was hearing, I could be certain that whether it was the Demon Realm or the Earth colonies, none of this was normal.