Yuan winced. He looked at the refreshnts set on the table. Gillen’s teacup was completely empty, and one piece of cookie was gone. He had not shown any sign that the tea tasted bad.
Is this what aristocratic etiquette is?
Yuan set down his teacup. For so reason, he did not feel good. He had received an apology from Gillen, filled out the new sponsorship docunt, and even kicked Gillen out, so why did he feel so awful?
’Co to think of it, the butler of the Blake household talked a lot about tea.’
It was probably in accordance with the tastes of his master, Duke Blake. In that case, he was surely particular about tea, yet he did not find fault with attendant Number 2 or insult his master, Yuan. Any other noble Yuan knew would have surely done so.
"Damn it."
Yuan ran a hand through his shoulder-length hair and stood up. It seed that he could not just let Gillen go like this. It was not sothing Yuan should be sorry for, but since the parrot that he had given life to made a mistake, he should apologize on its behalf. Even a shaless person like Gillen Blake apologizes when he makes a mistake, so why could Yuan, a better human being than him, not do the sa?
However, as soon as Yuan left the drawing room, he witnessed a ridiculous scene. He found Gillen standing in front of the castle gate, gathering the robots in one place and pondering.
"Hmm, since your hair color and eyes are red and you seem to have a cheerful personality, how about ’Ignis’? It ans fire in Latin. Do you like it?"
The maid who received the na ’Ignis’ showed a smile that Yuan had never seen before. Anyone could see that she was happy.
’What on earth is so great about a re na...?’
Seeing the happy face of the robot he had created, Yuan fell into a state of confusion that was hard to describe. Shouldn’t they be grateful and satisfied just by the fact that a being like created them? Since when did they want nas? From the beginning? But why did they not tell ? When you think about it, I am their parent.
"Since your eyelashes are like feathers and your skin is clear, how about Crystal? Crystal is very clear and transparent, so it is very popular."
"I like it very much. Thank you, Your Excellency Duke Blake. You are full of wit and wisdom."
"Don’t ntion it."
But now that he looked at it, Gillen was not just giving nas; he was hitting on Yuan’s robots. What kind of na-giver in the world gives nas with such a lecherous gaze and a sly smile!
Yuan, who had been staring blankly at Gillen from a distance, finally ca to his senses and stomped over angrily.
"Duke Gillen Blake!"
Yuan’s angry heeled shoes kicked against the marble floor. As soon as the robot footn, maids, and attendants heard Yuan’s voice, they straightened their backs and ford a line.
"Hampton, did you co out to see off? Or are you curious about what nas I’ll co up with?"
"Didn’t you say you were leaving? What on earth are you doing here?"
Yuan asked sharply. But Gillen, on the contrary, asked Yuan back as if he were puzzled.
"Didn’t you tell to na each and every one of them and rember them? So I am doing just that."
"...What did you say?"
He had certainly said that, but... words have context. There was no way a man who was a duke would not be able to understand the true aning behind the words.
"That was not a literal request to na them."
"Hmm? I thought you were asking a favor. A mber of the Blake family always respects the other party."
Gillen said jokingly, winking his eye. In the end, he was doing this on purpose. No, perhaps from the beginning, he had provoked Yuan to elicit the answer he wanted. After all, Gillen was a middle-aged man who was almost twice Yuan’s age, and he seed skilled at manipulating others’ emotions.
Just look at him now, bewitching the robots with just a single word. Yuan was displeased. And he did not want to express that displeasure with re words. So he stared intently at Gillen and released his pheromones.
Sssss, the released alpha pheromones spread aggressively. As expected, Gillen’s brow furrowed. He covered his nose and mouth.
"Hampton!"
"As an alpha, you should know. How unpleasant it is to try to steal the property of another alpha in their territory."
Those robots were clearly Yuan’s property. Because Yuan made them, and they belonged to Yuan.
Yuan’s pheromones, which he had not slled in a long ti, were even more sharp and stimulating than before. Gillen felt a sensation as if his skin were prickling and standing on end. It was a sensation that felt both itchy and stinging.
"Stop it, Hampton."
Gillen said, releasing a little of his own pheromones. However, his pheromones were not directed at Yuan. He wrapped his pheromones around the group of robots and himself like a shield.
"Hah, what a spectacle."
Yuan muttered.
Right now, Gillen was acting like the leader of a pack of animals protecting its own kind. Even while struggling with the pheromones of the sa dominant alpha, it seed that protecting the robots was his priority over attacking Yuan.
Yuan said, as if mocking Gillen’s goodwill.
"They do not have pheromone glands. The pheromones of a person with a secondary gender are useless against robots."
"Ah, I see. I thought that since you’re a genius wizard, you might have even implented secondary genders."
Gillen laughed heartily and retorted sarcastically. Yuan noticed that he, too, was a little angry. Because he had such a kind face, he had not even realized he was angry.
But so what, what are you going to do about it? Yuan was about to pout his lips.
"I did find it quite cute when you acted like a child, Hampton, but a pheromone attack crosses the line."
Gillen said that and fully released his pheromones. He poured out an enormous amount of pheromones, just like when an alpha gives their oga a pheromone shower.
"Ugh..."
Yuan felt a severe dizziness from Gillen’s pheromones, which seed to penetrate every cell in his body. Gillen’s pheromones slled of the forest. A deep woody scent, the scent of earth as if it had just been rained on, the crisp and chilling sll of a winter dawn, and even a slightly sweet fruity scent. It was a rich scent that was reminiscent of the ti he went on a picnic in the forest not long ago.
As it was the pheromone of the sa alpha, it certainly grated on Yuan’s nerves and caused a rejection response in him. The strange thing, however, was that this response did not co as displeasure or pain, but rather in a form that stimulated excitent. To the point where his lower abdon ached.
’Wait. Ached?’
Yuan’s thoughts stopped for a mont. He slowly looked down to check himself. Fortunately, it was still quiet, but this feeling of his lower stomach tensing, feeling itchy and heavy, and blood rushing to his dick... was definitely an erection.
As soon as he noticed that, Yuan cast teleportation magic. Yuan’s figure suddenly disappeared from the hall.
"What, what was that?"
Gillen was flustered and reined in his pheromones. Ignis, who was standing behind him, answered diligently.
"The Marquis can use teleportation magic whenever he wishes. He has just disappeared using teleportation magic."
"Ah, thank you for the kind explanation...."
It was not that he asked because he really did not know what it was. Gillen swallowed the rest of his words and checked the condition of the robots standing behind him.
"Well, well... I know they are all robots, but they look exactly like people, so it’s confusing. Still, it’s a relief that they don’t have secondary genders."
At Gillen’s words, robot attendant Sebastian (forrly Number 2) chid in.
"The Marquis once said that because he made our appearances identical to humans, we might suffer damage related to our secondary genders. That is why he deliberately made us so that we can neither feel nor emit pheromones."
"Ah, for that reason...."
It was a more humane reason than he had expected. In fact, in this world, there were many alphas who would lose their minds and commit rape just by slling an oga’s pheromones, and human traffickers who raised alphas and used them like tools or sold ogas as sex slaves were rampant.
Shortly after being transmigrated and learning that fact, Gillen established the Blake Foundation and radically reford Blake Academy. The foundation began by helping children with nowhere to go and providing them with what they needed when they were found to have secondary genders.
As ti went by, Gillen also proposed several bills related to people with secondary genders in the noble council and persuaded the emperor to work on eradicating human trafficking. There was one reason for this. Because the world of secondary genders was too barbaric.
If he had to add one more reason, it was because his daughter, Cecilia, was also an oga. He knew from reading the original novel that Cecilia, the female lead, would not suffer any terrible things, but as a father, he could not just stand by and watch.
’Whenever I see young children or ogas, I imdiately think of Cecil.’
But it was quite surprising that the seemingly cold-hearted scientist-like wizard Yuan, who did not even bother to give them proper nas, had thoughtfully made them all betas.
"If I may state my conjecture,"
Robot attendant Ricardo (forrly Number 1) stepped forward and said.
"It seems the Marquis deliberately did not give us nas out of concern that he would beco too attached to us. Whenever the topic of nas cos up, the Marquis’s expression darkens and his pupils turn to the left. His body temperature rises slightly, and he feels a subtle sadness and anger. It appears he likely has a tragic past related to this."
"Ah... um...."
Gillen nodded awkwardly. If that was the case, he felt a little sorry, but... don’t these guys have any sense of confidentiality or keeping their mouths shut about their master’s information? Is that not programd into them? Seeing them blabbering on with TMI that he did not even want to know, he was worried about Yuan.
"It would be best not to talk about such things elsewhere, you all. It is a basic principle of an employee to keep your mouth shut as much as possible about the master you serve."
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