Chapter 63 - Cause you are my girl
Lumi’s shocking statement completely shook my language center and thought circuits.
Lucia was going to be my mother?
How nice to have two mothers?
A mother who hits two area-of-effect normal attacks is quite effective?
Of course, Lumi’s mental attack didn’t discriminate between friend and foe.
“Uh, um…?”
Lucia’s deathly black eyes momentarily flickered.
As if a light was turning on, red was overlaid, disappeared, and then turned red again.
Lumi’s eyes were always the deepest red.
The color of Lucia’s eyes, now tinted, was the same.
Up to this point, I was trying to brush it off with an “Ah, no way”, but.
“Hm? Lumi? Is that Lumi? That’s right? Isn’t that my clothes? Did Daddy give them to you?”
A very bright smile bloomed on the face that had been cold like a killing machine.
I could slightly understand Cho Maeng-deok’s feelings.
“Mommy woof!”
And Lumi jumped.
She lightly leaped and hugged Lucia.
The scene of a mother-daughter reunion unfolded very neatly without any additional actions, like succession to the throne or such events.
Why is this real…?
But somehow it felt like I shouldn’t interfere with the atmosphere.
I led the rest of the thieves, no, heroes, to line up for a moment and volunteered to be the background for this heartwarming scene.
“What have you been eating to grow so big? Wow, you’ve grown even bigger than Mommy now?”
“Woof!”
“Tsk. No acting cute.”
“Hehe. Lumi grew a lot, right?”
“That’s right. I almost didn’t recognize you because you’re a clone. Have you been well?”
What the.
Lumi, was the woofing just a concept…?
My world just collapsed.
“I’ve been well! I met Master too!”
But Master is still Master.
My world was just restored.
“Hmm? Master…?”
Lucia, who had been continuously stroking Lumi’s head, looked up.
The moment I met those red eyes.
I saw death.
How can such powerful spiritual pressure come from a human body…!
I felt my sins crawling up my spine.
“Hmm, it’s true? You smell like Lumi? Quite strongly?”
Lucia’s voice suddenly came from behind, not even in the blink of an eye, without even blinking.
When I came to my senses, Lucia who had been stroking Lumi was nowhere to be seen–
“Eek.”
I froze stiff at the very chilly sensation on my nape.
The surrounding heroes also looked dumbfounded, as if they couldn’t keep up with that speed.
“Wh-what are you doing!”
“Let go of Master nya!”
“Mommy woof!”
Protests erupted from the heroes’ mouths as they belatedly grasped the situation, but.
“Hmm. Lumi’s friends? Stay still, okay?”
When Lucia’s dagger emitted an ominous light, everyone fell silent.
Huhu, Lucia, who let out a satisfied smile.
Started to slowly stroke down from the tip of my chin with her finger.
This, maybe.
The firetruck game…?
“Your face is quite handsome.”
Passing the nape.
“Hmm, no muscles on the arms.”
She traced an arc, passing through the shoulders and arms, then straight to the side.
“But no belly fat. Even if there was, it would be cute.”
Uh oh.
Red light! Red light!
“Mommyyyyyy!”
Lumi, with her cheeks completely flushed, let out a lion’s roar befitting a beast king candidate.
“Oh my, why are you making such a fuss over a little teasing?”
Fortunately, the firetruck stopped at the red light.
But there was still a sharp blade at my neck.
“Boy, what kind of relationship do you have with our daughter?”
The ominous question that sounded as sweet as candy in my ears, suggesting she might slit my carotid artery and make me spurt like a fountain depending on my answer.
For a moment, time seemed to stop as my thought circuits accelerated.
Various options flashed through my mind.
[We’re not in any relationship]
[→ Then die]
[We’re in a relationship with a promised future]
[→ Then die]
[Actually, I like you more, mother]
[→ Then die]
Ugh.
Think.
A boring and pedantic answer…!
“He’s my Master woof! And he’s the Revelator woof!”
Fortunately, before I could give an answer to this hellish subjective question with only death as an option.
Lumi, the earth-attribute flame of filial piety, raised her tail and growled.
Moreover, Master came out before Revelator.
Emotion welled up in my chest.
“Yes, yes, our daughter. Don’t bare your fangs just because Mommy teased a little, okay?”
Fortunately, Lucia seemed to have a daughter-doting side, as she finally detached her chest that had been pressed against me and whooshed back like the wind.
She returned to where she had been standing originally.
It feels like there’s a huge peanut-shaped sweat stain on my back.
Lumi’s genes seem to have manifested a bit more strongly on the maternal side than the paternal side.
For a moment.
Lucia looks human no matter how you look at her.
If that’s the case, then on the father’s side…
“Anyway, it’s a bit difficult to overlook just because she’s my daughter. Now, babies, shall we look over here?”
Just before I fell into rude imagination.
I raised my head at Lucia’s voice.
As the huge door of the passage Lucia had been blocking creaked open.
“Wow…”
“Owah!”
“Woof!”
“Nya…!”
A mountain of gold and silver treasures.
Here and there, treasure chests that had given me various hi-ddens were also buried in gold coins, emitting brilliant rainbow colors.
Glancing with an eagle eye to estimate.
Vast wealth that could build about 5 of Ark’s General Stores and still have plenty left over…!
Before I could fall into all sorts of happy delusions.
“These are the treasures I was supposed to receive in exchange for guarding this place. Even if it’s our pretty daughter, we Tuners have a rule to keep our promises, you know?”
However, Lucia’s following voice brought us back to reality.
“So decide. The guardianship promise disappears after thirty days, so come back in thirty days, or challenge me now. I’m fine with either?”
“Can we think about it for a moment?”
“Hmm. Go ahead. Lumi? Let’s talk a bit, Lumi.”
“Meong…?”
It’s clearly disadvantageous to fight.
The approximate specs I confirmed with the Revelator’s eyes were Level 130.
The gap was such that the heroes would barely not die from one casual normal attack.
The fortunate point is that it’s not the main body but a clone.
But even so, the gap in combat power is not easily bridged.
“Kyang!”
“You little rascal, hm? Didn’t I tell you not to bare your fangs at Mommy? Are you going to bite like when you were little?”
“Kin…!”
Moreover, every time that super-skilled butt spanking technique “based on affection for her daughter with strength fully controlled” landed, 5% of Lumi’s health was flying away.
If that had been a serious punch.
Ugh, I don’t want to think about it.
Still, as a Revelator, I must engrave in my heart the horrific sight of our hero being captured and tortured by the minion of an evil enemy, so.
“Ark, you’re drooling…”
“Ah.”
Slurp.
I gathered back the reaction that came out involuntarily.
Still, thirty days is too long.
If I don’t recruit Neb, I can’t improve the performance of my Miracle-Hair Defense-Potion (Limited Time).
It will take time for the beast-kin’s tail fur to grow back, and if the supply of hair loss prevention medicine is cut off due to lack of materials?
Even on 21st century Earth, there would immediately be terrorism and riots targeting pharmaceutical companies.
There must be a way, there must be a way.
Lucia was not at all satisfied with the son-in-law candidate.
She acknowledges that he’s handsome.
But his face is slick, looking like he only knows how to talk.
He seemed to have the face of someone who would cleverly deceive and enchant others, then suck a woman’s marrow dry and squander her fortune on gambling.
Of course, it might be wrong to have such a misunderstanding based on first impressions, and it could be distorted because she’s seeing through a clone, not the main body.
Despite that, he had properly enchanted her lovely daughter.
And when she looked into that guy’s heart with her ability to read minds, ‘Eyes of Truth’, his feelings were more like fondness for a puppy than love.
Of course, it seemed her daughter was also making efforts in her own way, as she had left quite a strong marking, suggesting she might pounce soon.
Finally, it seemed the discussion was over.
The gigolo-like son-in-law candidate stepped forward.
His first words were.
“I’d like to make a proposal.”
It was an attempt at negotiation.
“Alright.”
With the mindset of ‘let’s hear it’, Lucia nodded, and at that moment.
Ark’s tongue began to spin like flowing water.
“This might be a rude question, but is the reason you made the promise because of those treasures?”
“Yes, that’s why I can’t give them up.”
“Then please lose to us.”
“Hmm…?”
“If we win against you, Mother, we gain rightful ownership of those treasures. We’ll immediately hand them over to you. Then you won’t have to guard this place for thirty days, and you’ll get the treasures. Isn’t that good?”
“Hmm…?”
At first, she wondered what nonsense he was talking about.
But as she listened, it started to sound a bit plausible.
Lucia began to feel slightly tempted by the proposal.
But Lucia held the initiative in the negotiation, so.
“Well, as you know, I’m a clone. Unless I’m directly manifesting like this, I don’t really need to be bound by time, you know?”
Lucia smiled as she saw a momentary look of dismay cross the gigolo’s face.
Huhu, if that’s the extent of your tricks, I’ll be a bit disappointed?
But Ark didn’t give up.
He took out a strange stone tablet, and when he casually pressed it, all sorts of potions popped out of thin air.
After carefully gathering them into a prepared bag while they briefly hovered in the air, Ark.
Timidly approached Lucia and handed over the entire bag.
“Hmm?”
The opened bag was sloshing with various types of potions.
“Th-th-they should be really expensive…”
After saying this in a voice that lacked confidence, the gigolo hurriedly ran away.
If it weren’t for her daughter clinging to him and whimpering, worried he might be harmed, Lucia would have liked to trip him for his impudence.
They say raising a daughter is useless.
Lucia sighed and appraised the potions.
“…?”
They were aphrodisiacs.
Moreover, because all sorts of top-grade ingredients were used.
They were of the highest quality, effective with no side effects.
To carry around such things.
This philandering trash, is he asking to be killed?
Lucia’s expression twisted.
Because of her daughter’s face, wagging her tail while giggling beside her, she couldn’t immediately throw the dagger, so.
Instead, she activated ‘Eyes of Truth’ again.
And the shocking truth was revealed.
‘…Is he impotent? Or does he not even need such medicine?’
Despite being a gigolo.
He sincerely thought of those things he gave her as ‘expensive gifts’.
Rather than feeling regretful, he felt refreshed and relieved.
Lucia felt sorry for her daughter.
At the same time.
She recalled the face of her dog-like husband who made excuses even a dog wouldn’t believe, saying he’s been weak ever since their daughter kicked him in the groin in a dream recently.
Finally.
“…I’ll forgive you this time for my daughter’s sake.”
Lucia decided to be a good mother.
She absolutely did not think about quickly returning her clone to pour the potion down her husband’s throat and squeeze him.
And the demon of sloth, Neb, who had been watching this whole process through a Magical-CCTV.
“…”
Plop.
From her hand, unable to continue speaking.
The potato chip bag slipped and spilled onto the bed.