Chapter 89
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Translator: Ebonarch
Chapter: 89
Chapter Title: Taming the Villainous Young Lady (1)
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Thud, thud, thud, thud.
Reika Calliope hurried down the corridor at such a brisk pace that her green curls whipped wildly behind her.
The usual Reika would never walk so frivolously, but right now, she had good reason to rush.
'...Eugene Calliope.'
As Cale had said, sending the servants would just get them turned away, so she was sneaking off to meet Eugene in person.
And just like that, Reika arrived at Eugene's door without so much as a single interruption.
"...What? That was easy?"
Reika muttered with a disappointed look on her face.
Unlike Cale's claims of trying dozens of times, she'd gotten here way too smoothly—it was almost suspicious.
'...Just how incompetent is my brother that even this...'
Reika let out a sigh laced with pity and reached for the door just as a strange sound leaked out.
"..Hic... Ha.. Hic.. Pl-Please..! Hnng.. L-Let.. me.. go.."
"Not yet. Hold on a little longer."
"Haa... Th-That.. li-line.. ho-how.. many.. times.. now..! Hic... Haa..!"
The woman's frenzied gasps and Eugene's voice.
'...Hmm..'
Reika pressed a finger to her right cheek and tilted her head slightly.
To think that the seemingly prim and proper Eugene was already tangled up with someone before the sun had even set.
It was curious, but hardly shocking.
Even the sons of low-ranking nobles could toy with a whore or two like playthings if they set their minds to it.
And Eugene, though the third son, still carried the blood of the Calliopes.
If he wanted, he could fill the room with whores to the brim.
If anything, it was more unusual that Cale was jerking off alone.
'...Not my business, anyway.'
Normally, you'd give folks privacy during their fun, but Reika had no intention of showing Eugene that courtesy.
"Haak!.. Haa.. Haa... N-No.. more.... Pl-Please... Let.. me.. go.. I'll go.. mad..."
But the moment she grasped the doorknob, a vague sense of dread washed over Reika from the woman's voice.
'...This voice... I've definitely heard it somewhere?'
She'd never conversed with whores in her life, so that shouldn't be possible, but it felt unmistakably familiar.
Frowning, Reika pressed her ear to the door to pinpoint the source of her unease.
"If you want to go, answer me. Is my cock that delicious?"
"Ahk.. Haak.. H-Ha, y-yes... So.. delicious!.. Let.. me.. go.. please!..!"
"Ha, Mother. Begging your own son just to cum?"
"N-Noo!..! Pl-Please!.. Do.. it.. for.. me...! Haak.. N-No.. more..!.. I.. can't.. ta-take.. it..! A-Ahk.. A-Ahh.. Ah..!"
The instant "Mother" slipped from Eugene's lips, Reika's heart felt like it stopped dead.
There was only one person left in this world he could call that.
'...N-No way.'
Mother would never.
It was just a similar voice.
Garcia Misha would never.
Eugene was just playing some perverse game.
Reika stood frozen, desperately convincing herself, before tremblingly easing the door open with a shaky hand.
─Ssshh
Fortunately, the well-oiled hinges barely made a sound.
'Ugh...'
The moment the door cracked open, a thick stench of semen hit her so hard her face instinctively scrunched up.
Reika held her breath and peered through the narrow gap.
"Haa... Haa.. Heuuk.."
"Come on, Mother. We're not done yet. Get up."
"..Hnnng.. G-Give.. me.. a break.. I.. just.. came.. a minute.. ago..."
"You're enjoying it anyway, aren't you, Mother! Now, let's switch positions this time."
"..I-I'm.. not.. enjoying.. it! It's.. just.. to work.. off the drug... Kuuh...! F-Fine.. then... Don't.. spank.. my ass!.. L-Like.. this?"
"Yes, perfect. See how much deeper it goes like this? Mother's pussy never gets old no matter how much I eat it up!"
"Kuh... D-Don't.. flatter.. me.. haa... like.. that... It.. doesn't.. make.. me.. happy..! ..Hnn..!"
"How can you say that when your pussy's squeezing me so tight!"
Having spied on Eugene and Garcia's tryst, Reika staggered, dizzy from the unbelievable reality.
"...What... in the world...?"
Reika could tell.
This was no rape.
She couldn't say if it was blood ties or shared womanhood letting her sense it, but Mother was reveling in this more than Reika had ever seen.
'Mother... with Eugene...?'
This couldn't be real.
Her strict, prideful mother groveling under Eugene Calliope—it simply couldn't be.
"...Ugh.. Urk!"
The moment comprehension hit, a disgust like falling into a cesspit surged from her toes to her scalp.
She wanted to flee this scene right now.
But the mind honed by Garcia's upbringing wouldn't allow escape.
─Slap!
Reika slapped her own cheeks with both hands and took a deep breath to steady herself.
"...I... have to fix this.."
She knew, but the shock had her mind blank.
And how was she supposed to resolve this anyway?
'Father...? No... that's out.'
Telling Father was off the table from the start.
If she did, Eugene would lose his successor status entirely, but Mother would face punishment too.
What if both Eugene and Mother vanished?
Erdeman, sitting idle, would be the sole beneficiary.
'...Then my maternal family...'
Reika shook her head.
The Misha family was her mother's side, but she refused to believe she shared blood with those fools.
With their daughter as Lady Calliope, they'd scheme for power—instead, they chuckled nostalgically about their backwater estate days. It turned her stomach.
'Get it together! Think rationally! You're on your own right now!'
Reika chewed her lip until it bled.
Whenever overwhelming hardship struck, she'd always conferred with Mother.
Pooling their heads in debate always yielded a solution.
But with Mother like this, she needed someone else to fill that role.
Someone loyal, who shared her interests.
"...Cale."
Reika murmured Cale's name.
Cale Calliope.
That was it.
Incompetent, cowardly, arrogantly prideful—utterly unreliable on the surface...
But right now, he might just be the ally she needed.
'I can't see things objectively right now... So first, explain the situation to Cale and regain my cool...'
To plan, she needed to vent what she'd seen and reclaim her composure.
"...Sigh, I step out to pick some flowers for a moment, and company arrives."
A chill ran down her spine—
The voice from behind made Reika flip up her skirt, snatch the dagger strapped to her inner thigh, and swing it with lethal intent.
If it was one of Eugene's lackeys, fine. Even if just a regular servant, Mother's disgrace had to stay hidden.
Whoosh—!
"....Swinging something so dangerous? And with decent skill too. I thought you had no interest in this sort of thing, miss... Where'd you learn?"
But Emma casually caught the blade bare-handed and disarmed her effortlessly.
Reika clenched her fists, weaponless in an instant.
She'd only learned enough self-defense since she'd never see battle—that was her mistake.
'..Kuh... Should've practiced more!'
Too-late regret flooded her, but the past couldn't be changed.
"...I.. won't.. resist.. anymore.. so don't.. attack."
Raising her arms, Reika turned slowly—and yelped in shock.
"....You... what are you?"
Standing there was no ordinary human.
Emma's pupils were long vertical slits, and beast ears twitched atop her head.
"Why the shocked stare... Oh, they popped out again. ...Sigh, miss. You've seen way too much you shouldn't have."
Emma twirled the dagger in the air and whispered pityingly.
Reika's legs gave out completely.
Not wetting herself was the best she could manage.
"D-De... demon..."
It was a demon.
Childhood tales of demons flooded Reika's mind, overwhelming her with unbearable terror.
"...I'd prefer 'demi-human,' though. And I'm a human-leaning half-breed anyway. ...Not that you're listening."
Emma shook her head with a sigh at Reika's state.
The shock of Garcia's betrayal plus the demi-human's terror had broken her mind.
"...Sp-Spare.. me..."
Before Reika could finish, Emma's arm whipped around from behind, coiling her neck and squeezing tight.
"You know what they say, miss? Curiosity killed the cat..."
"Kehk... Ku.. ha... uh... kuhk.. Lo-Loosen... pl-please.."
"Or was it the cat that did the killing?"
Moments later, Reika's body went limp, limbs twitching, face turned blue.
"...Sweet dreams, miss."