༺ Vow ༻
System ssage
[ ‘Skill: Fatal Charm’ is activated! ]
[ The favorability level of target ‘Riru Garda’ has soared from ‘Interest Level 3’ to ‘Trust Level 1’! ]
[ Rewards Available! ]
System ssage
[ Verifying that crisis has been averted. ]
[ Title ‘Playboy’ has been deactivated! ]
Yeah, okay. Great. Cool. I get all that, but…
I really couldn’t sympathize with the last part about how the crisis was averted.
Reflexively, I checked Eleanor’s figure, who was gazing at while standing on the center of the stage.
No way in hell that she didn’t hear what I had just told Riru.
The fact that she alternated her gaze between and Riru with a look of disbelief was more than enough proof of that.
System Notification
[ Using ‘Scan’. ]
[ Gathering information on the target. ]
[ A 24-hour cooldown applies before reuse is available on the sa target. ]
[ Elnore Elinalise La Tristan ]
Characteristic: Grey Devil’s Vessel (2 Fragnts), Lady Tristan
Status: Intensely contemplating the aning of Dowd Campbell’s ‘I like you’.
The only fortunate thing was that, upon hearing those words, she didn’t imdiately throw herself at , trying to end my godforsaken life.
It bought so ti. Enough to make up so bullshit to go through this situation.
“…Y-You, what on earth are you sa—”
Riru, who was being held in my arms, stuttered with a face flushed to the tip of her ears.
Her expression clearly showed that she herself could not believe what she had just heard.
I was in complete agreent. If I was sane, I would never have been able to say such things.
Especially not in front of Eleanor.
[He’s racking his brain~ Dowd Campbell’s racking his brain~]
“…”
[I wonder how you’ll survive this ti. Wow, I’m so excited already.]
Has the world ever witnessed a person who was as fucking unhelpful as him?
How could you say such things when soone’s life was in danger?
[Why don’t you just be honest with her? Wouldn’t it be better to go like ‘My situation is like blah blah blah, so can you cooperate?’ or whatever?]
No. How many tis do I have to tell you that I’d die if I were to do that?
As soon as I inford the Vessels about the existence of Devils, the already twisted scenario would likely descend into chaos.
Soon, I would be entangled with Faenol as well, and when that happened, the events would beco even more catastrophic since it would involve the Heretic inquisition. I was already getting fucked left and right because of my relationships with the Devils, but it could go beyond even that and unfold a shitfest that was beyond salvation. Basically, I wouldn’t be able to progress at all.
Of course, that didn’t an I could just sit still here and die.
I combed through my mories.
The ga settings, Eleanor’s current condition, the Grey Devil’s disposition, everything.
As if my Swordsman’s Focus skill was activated, my thought process accelerated, making it feel like my entire surroundings were slowing down.
[Damn, it seems like this is a checkmate. Is there any way out for you?]
In such a situation, Caliban spoke with a voice mixed with amusent.
[Last ti, it ended by slamming your lips over hers. What will you use this ti to calm her?]
“…”
[Even if you do that again, the issue this ti is way too big to contain, so I don’t think she would listen to you, right?]
I agreed.
However, still, just brazenly doing sothing like you said is way too—
“…”
Wait…
Brazenly doing sothing?
‘Perhaps, couldn’t that actually be…’
‘Possible?’
Even I, who was the progenitor of this idea, got dizzy when I thought of it, but…
There was no doubt that it would work.
[…Your face doesn’t look all that bright, though?]
Just because it would work, didn’t an that it was a good thing for .
Honestly, I really didn’t want to go that far…!
However, the scene unfolding right before my eyes spared from such aningless concerns.
After all, Eleanor, who was in the center of the arena, ‘launched’ herself straight in my direction.
At this point, her physical abilities had transcended being re excellent and reached the level of a walking man-made disaster.
“…What does that an, Dowd?”
Her red eyes were blazing.
“You said you liked her, what does that —”
“…It ans exactly what you’re thinking.”
While sweat coalesced in the palms of my hand, I answered.
“…I like Riru.”
Upon hearing those words…
As Riru’s jaw dropped once again, at the sa ti, sparks flew out from Eleanor’s eyes.
However, before she could say anything, I continued with another statent.
“Isn’t she the perfect person to take as a concubine?”
“…”
“…”
Both Eleanor and Riru’s expressions simultaneously turned blank.
A hellish silence lasted for a few minutes.
Eleanor alternated her gaze between and Riru with an expression that seed utterly lost, as if she didn’t know what to say.
“…A concubine?”
Seeing as how she hesitated to speak the word out, which was unexpected of her, it was clear she was quite flustered.
She probably never could have imagined soone would utter such a word right in front of her face.
And while facing the flustered Eleanor, I brought forth a ga setting that I knew before.
“According to the Empire’s laws, all nobles above the rank of a count are legally encouraged to practice bigamy.”
Due to this influence, in the ga, there were tis when Iliya brought around several n with her.
Just their existence themselves were enough for high-ranking nobles to be walking and talking lumps of influence. By using the institutional strategy known as marriage, nurous connections could be ford into a hub; Since the Empire could utilize such a hub, they also encouraged this to so extent.
However, it was clear that such encouragent was for a specific purpose.
Unlike ‘legal wives’, ‘concubines’ had a very clear distinction in their ‘purpose’.
Essentially, there was an absolute gap between the wife that was truly loved and other won, bound only in marriage out of necessity.
“…After I marry you, I plan on taking Riru as a concubine.”
Usually, when soone said sothing like this, the majority of the Empire’s noblewoman would understand and yield. After all, according to the Empire’s laws, the ‘difference in treatnt’ was that significant between legal wives and concubines.
“…Do you really think that’s an acceptable excuse right now?”
Of course, even so…
If the person in question was a Devil who was fundantally embedded with obsessive attributes, they were highly likely to listen with only half an ear.
This was also the reason why I hadn’t used this thod on Yuria despite having it in mind.
“Of course.”
However…
The turning point was here.
In the end, a Devil’s obsession ca from the desire to ‘monopolize’ that person. Even the Grey Devil, who was almost unfailingly favorable to , could not yield in this regard.
So, just like how I accepted the ring that Eleanor handed to …
I needed to give her ‘proof’ that could definitively quell that desire.
Proof that Eleanor was the most precious person to that no other person could possess.
“…”
Fuck. Seriously.
I really didn’t want to do this.
I closed my eyes internally.
And with a feeling that was akin to pulling a trigger, I spoke.
“Riru takes very good care of children, after all.”
Eleanor, who was about to lose her temper, froze in her tracks.
Then, her face imdiately distorted.
She seed to be half in doubt about what she just heard.
“…Child?”
“Yes.”
Even while my five viscera and six entrails felt like they were getting twisted, my face still maintained a smile as I continued.
“Our child.”
Eleanor’s face flushed so rapidly, it looked like it was about to explode.
She even took a step backward, as if she had been hit by sothing.
“C-Ch-Chi-Child…?”
“Yes.”
“D-D-Dowd, w-what are y-you saying right now, so-”
“My plan…”
From inside the amulet, I could hear Caliban roaring with laughter while rolling around. He was struggling to breathe; It honestly sounded like the last gasp of a near-dead person whose breath had been cut off.
But even so, I continued to maintain my smile as I spoke.
“Is to have a child with you soon, Eleanor.”
“…”
“As the leader of her clan, Riru has a lot of experience in taking care of children very well. She would be a great help during the—”
“S-Stop. Stop!”
Eleanor urgently cut off.
She was covering her face, flushed to the tip of her ears, with both her hands. She was extrely out of breath as well.
“H-How could you say s-such things i-in front of o-other people, have y-you actually g-gone insane?!”
“…”
‘I know, right?’
I found myself miserable, deplorable, and distressing for saying such things completely sober without even the activation of the Playboy Title.
But the effect was clear. After all, Eleanor, who had been filled with rage, could not even think properly due to the topic I had just brought up.
However….
Even though Eleanor had cald down, there was plenty of room for a problem to occur from the ‘other side’.
“…”
I snuck a glance at Riru.
Surely enough, her expression had turned icy.
Near her body, a faint blue aura could even be observed with the naked eye.
Yeah. I know. I get it.
A man just confessed that he liked her, then proceeded to casually bark absolute dogshit about taking her in as a concubine; If it was , I would have been so enraged, sothing inside would have snapped.
As such, I needed to take further action.
“…”
I took a deep breath and tapped the amulet with my finger several tis.
This was sothing that was possible to do since they were people who could read the sentences in my mind without needing to say it aloud.
Valkasus. Please. I beg you.
I’m sorry for waking you up after such a long ti and imdiately assigning you a task like this, but…!
[…You really lead quite the colorful life, don’t you?]
A voice full of pity flowed out from Soul Linker. At the sa ti, Riru’s eyes widened.
Even if it was Eleanor, who could detect all kinds of auras and energies because of her insane General stats, there was no way she could sense a very tiny note written by using ‘Forbidden Sorcery’.
And thanks to that, Riru, who was about to vent her anger, suddenly wore a bewildered expression.
It was probably because she felt ‘letters’ being carved on top of her skin.
While using a pressure that was at the level of rubbing soone with a finger, I was drawing a text on top of that person’s skin.
And with that…
I carved ‘words’ that would be able to calm this person down.
After all, I only had a few Tattoos, so my Forbidden Sorcery abilities were only at this level.
[Cooperate. Death if don’t. Save .]
A shoddily written sentence.
It ant that if she didn’t cooperate with , we would both die right here and now.
Fortunately, it seed as if she understood, since Riru’s eyes widened even further.
“A-A concubine for r-raising t-the c-children…”
Eleanor muttered with a tone of disbelief.
With her face reddened as if it were about to burst, she alternated her gaze between and Riru.
“L-Let’s have t-this conversation a-again later—!”
With those words, Eleanor left the room.
She left a crater with a single stomp and, at the sa ti, she vanished at a speed that left an afterimage.
It felt like sothing out of a manhwa.
“…”
Yeah, okay.
I survived this ti as well.
But at what price…?
[What do you think? Soon enough, you’re going to get sucked dry until you beco a dad. Congratulations, sheeeesh. I’m jealous. So impressive. How amazing.]
“…”
Shut the fuck up.
[But how do you plan to deal with that Yuria lady?]
Wot?
[If she hears that you’re taking soone as a concubine, she won’t sit still, right? Her level of obsession is many tis more severe even when compared to Lady Tris—]
‘…Caliban.’
I replied with a transcendent smile, as if I was above such unimportant things.
‘Let’s cross that bridge when we get to it.’
[…]
‘There’s no point in worrying about it now, so isn’t it better to see how the situation turns out before figuring it out?’
[Didn’t you just do that exact sa thing and all that’s left for you now is to get sucked dry?]
“…”
[You know~ I don’t even know what to say. I’m looking forward to what kind of things you’d do to dig up more of your own graves—]
I released the amulet from my hand and let it clatter onto the floor.
Sorry, Valkasus.
Only Valkasus.
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