Lackey's Seducing Survival Odyssey

Chapter 1931: Humanity’s Traitor.

The Entire Empire received the message and news about a girl who had become Humanity’s Traitor.

The sky-high buildings that usually displayed advertisements were suddenly filled with the image of the girl.

Her face appeared on massive holographic screens, towering billboards, and every available public display, spreading across the Empire like an incurable plague.

Every display showed the girl’s image… Every news sector broadcast the same words…

Humanity’s Traitor.

Even social media was flooded with news about the girl, with countless posts, videos, and accusations spreading faster than anyone could keep up with.

“Listen up, people! Take a good look at this girl… Don’t let that innocent face fool you, guys. I’m telling you, she’s a real bitch, just like her mother! I know because I’ve seen her a few times at TipTop. She was already an attention seeker back then, and now…!”

“Yo, brothers and sisters! Have you seen this girl? I heard she made a pact with otherworlders just to destroy our Empire for fun! For fun, people!…”

“Hey, guys, listen carefully! Remember this bitch’s face. If you see her anywhere, report her immediately! And if she tries anything funny, don’t hesitate to stop her! Someone like her doesn’t deserve to walk around freely…”

“Hello, guys~ I think we should calm down and stop jumping to conclusions. She’s still young, after all, and you know how a woman’s hormones can mess with her judgment when she’s young, right? I don’t think she deserves this much hate… Honestly, it could all be because of her hormones! Believe me.”

Social media was flooded with opinion after opinion, each one louder and more outrageous than the last.

Within minutes, the girl who had once lived an ordinary life had become the Empire’s most hated person.

Even the news sectors showed no mercy.

“We’ve just obtained exclusive footage of an otherworlder believed to be associated with the individual accused of betraying humanity!”

As the reporter spoke, the footage appeared on the screen.

A little purple fairy could be seen flying gracefully through the sky, her tiny wings fluttering as she drifted between the towering buildings.

The footage was grainy, but that hardly mattered. The news networks had already decided what it meant.

“According to our sources, the Alpha Governor encountered this unidentified creature during her routine surveillance of the city. More importantly, the Governor reportedly noticed the individual now identified as Humanity’s Traitor roaming around the same area. The two were apparently seen together, raising serious questions about the girl’s involvement with otherworldly entities!”

The reporter’s expression grew increasingly solemn as the footage replayed behind her.

“Could this mysterious creature be connected to the alleged conspiracy against our Empire? And what exactly was this girl planning? Stay tuned for more information”

The news viewership exploded.

Meanwhile, inside the pawn shop…

Lily stared at the news with a horrified expression, her face growing paler with every passing second.

She couldn’t believe it.

Humanity’s Traitor?

Her?

Why?

She hadn’t done anything! She didn’t even know what that creature was, let alone understand why its existence had suddenly become connected to her.

Her fingers curled tightly against her palms as she stared at the screen, watching strangers tear apart her life with accusations she couldn’t even begin to understand.

‘What’s going on here…?’

She muttered inwardly, struggling to make sense of the situation.

She was still trying to understand why the Alpha Governor had become involved in all this, and now the entire Empire was accusing her of betraying humanity?

How had everything spiralled out of control so quickly?

Her eyes trembled slightly as another, far more terrifying thought crept into her mind.

Her mother.

Her little brother.

What would happen to them?

What if they were threatened, blackmailed, or even arrested just to force her to surrender?

Lily’s breathing grew uneven as her imagination filled with one horrifying possibility after another.

‘N-No… I can’t let that happen.’

Her heart pounded against her chest.

‘I-I need to go… I have to find them. I need to make sure they’re safe…’

She couldn’t afford to remain here any longer.

Just then,

Click!

A sudden clicking sound echoed through the pawn shop.

Lily froze.

Slowly, she blinked and turned around.

The old man was staring directly at her.

Lily swallowed nervously.

She was still wearing her cloak, which concealed her appearance.

Had he somehow discovered her?

The old man slowly pushed his chair back and stood up from behind his desk.

Lily instinctively stepped backwards.

He didn’t say a word.

He simply began walking towards her.

Tap.

Tap.

Tap.

Each approaching step made Lily’s heart beat faster.

Her eyes darted towards the entrance before returning to the old man.

‘If I run now, I might still make it…’

The thought flashed through her mind.

Without hesitation, Lily spun around and rushed towards the door.

She reached for the handle and pulled.

It didn’t budge.

Her eyes widened.

“W-What?!”

Panic surged through her as she desperately tugged at the handle.

It was locked.

The clicking sound… It had been the door’s locking mechanism.

Her face drained of colour as she slowly turned around.

The old man was already standing behind her.

Lily stumbled backwards, her shoulders pressing against the locked door as she stared at him in terror.

“N-No! Don’t come any closer!”

Her voice cracked as she reached for the knife secured at her hip. She yanked it free with trembling fingers and raised it between them, desperately trying to keep him at a distance.

“D-Don’t you dare come near me!” she shouted, tightening her grip on the handle despite her shaking hands. “I-I’m warning you! Stay back!”

“G-Get any closer, and I’ll kill you!”

However, to the old man, who had once been the Commander of Beta City, this was nothing.

The knife trembled in her hand, as though she had never seen blood or even witnessed death before.

Pat…

In the next second, the old man simply patted her head, making the girl flinch in confusion.

Lily cautiously looked up and saw the old man smiling at her.

“I promised him I’d keep you here until he arrived. And I’m a man who keeps his promises.”

Lily blinked in confusion.

“T-Then why did you lock the door?”

“Because I had a feeling you might try to run away.”

The old man replied matter-of-factly.

Lily swallowed nervously.

“B-But if you do that, you’ll be labelled a traitor too! Didn’t you hear the news?” she asked, pointing towards the ongoing broadcast.

The old man glanced at the screen and nodded.

“Yeah…”

“T-Then why are you still—”

“But it was about that girl, wasn’t it? I don’t know who she is or where she is… I don’t think they’d point fingers at me, right?”

He let out a sly smile before winking at her.

Lily blinked, slowly realising something.

She hadn’t shown her face, after all. From the old man’s perspective, he was merely keeping an unidentified girl inside his pawn shop.

However…

“Even so, t-they’ll still—”

Before she could finish her sentence, the old man crouched down to her level and looked into her frightened eyes under the hoodie.

“I don’t know what’s going on, and… honestly, I don’t think I want to know. But I can’t just leave a little girl to get herself killed, can I? If my daughter knew I had done something like that, she’d be furious with me.”

He smiled gently, the wrinkles on his face deepening as he spoke.

“Your daughter?” Lily blinked, looking at the old man with curiosity.

His gentle smile reminded her of Aether’s.

The old man nodded slowly.

“I had a daughter… just like you. Maybe you two could have become friends if she were still here.”

His smile lingered for a moment before his expression suddenly grew sad and gloomy.

Lily blinked.

“You… had?”

Without saying anything more, he walked back to his desk and sat down. He switched off the news broadcast.

Then, he beckoned Lily to come closer.

She hesitated for a moment, still holding the knife in her hand, but the old man’s gentle expression gradually eased some of her fear.

He reached for a small photo frame on his desk and held it up for her to see.

It was a photograph of his family.

Looking at it, the old man’s face softened into a warm smile, as though he had momentarily returned to a time when the world had been kinder to him.

“She was around your age… A good girl, really, though she was always getting into trouble. She’d do something naughty, her mother would get angry with her, and then she’d come running to me for help.”

He chuckled softly.

“Ahaha… You should have seen the look on her mother’s face whenever I took her side. The two of them would gang up on me afterwards, and I’d end up being the one getting scolded!”

His laughter was quiet, tinged with the warmth of old memories.

Little by little, Lily’s attention drifted away from the news.

The old man seemed to know exactly how to handle a frightened teenager, gently drawing her attention away from her panic without forcing her to explain anything she wasn’t ready to share.

Meanwhile…

Back at Lackey, inside the control room, Beta received a direct order to locate the girl.

Lackey said nothing. He merely stared at the news broadcast for a moment before shifting his gaze towards Grace.

‘You’ve become famous, Elder Sister.’

Grace barely reacted, as though the entire affair had nothing to do with her and wasn’t worth her attention.

Lackey, on the other hand, felt no urgency to rush back to the pawn shop.

He knew the old man wouldn’t harm the little girl simply because the entire Empire had decided she was a traitor.

The former Commander of Beta City had spent years helping the people of the slums improve their lives, offering them assistance when the rest of society had turned its back on them.

That man had even saved him in the previous timeline when the soldiers came looking for him, so Lackey knew the old man wouldn’t simply hurt Lily just because he had seen the news, especially when the reports had barely mentioned her killing anyone.

But the reason the old man had hurt Aether in the previous timeline… well, let’s just say that, in his eyes, Aether was the one who was wrong and dangerous, a man responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.

In the old man’s eyes… Lily and Aether were two entirely different people.

But anyway…

‘So, you’ve chosen to go down this route? I thought you would blackmail her using her family… Hmm…’

Lackey’s eyes turned cold as he continued watching the news.

He had genuinely thought his stepfather would use this opportunity to get Lily back.

After all, A family was always a convenient weakness.

And Lackey knew that better than most.

After all, if he were in his stepfather’s shoes… he would have done exactly that.

From his stepfather’s perspective, Lily wasn’t merely an ordinary kidnapping anymore. She was a potential source of information, a person connected to an unknown creature from another world and… why kidnap Aether’s Mother?

Why would that man simply issue a warrant against her instead of using her family as leverage?

There had to be a reason, right?

For a man who always sought the most efficient results, this wasn’t the approach he would normally choose.

Lackey knew his stepfather well enough to understand that the man rarely did anything without considering the consequences. He was the sort of person who would calculate every possible outcome before making even the smallest move.

He wouldn’t waste an opportunity like this without a good reason.

Unless…

Just then, Lackey’s eyes widened as though he had finally connected the missing dots.

For a brief moment, he remained perfectly still.

Then, a twisted smile slowly spread across his face.

‘Oh, Father… You really love me, don’t you?’

His lips curled upward, and a quiet laugh escaped his throat.

‘Hahaha… You really do love finding ways to tear me apart, don’t you?’

His shoulders shook with quiet laughter, but there was no genuine happiness in his expression.

After all, according to Jonathan, they had been searching for him even before he made his appearance, hadn’t they?

That meant someone had already informed them that he was alive.

And Lackey knew exactly who it was.

Who else could it have been other than his self-proclaimed first wife?

‘That woman… She really can’t keep her nose out of other people’s business, can she?’

His eyes narrowed slightly.

He leaned back, his fingers tapping idly against the armrest.

‘Oh, well… If Father wants to play a game, then who am I to disappoint him?’

A dangerous smile crept across his face.

‘Little brother… You’re making that weird face again,’

Grace said telepathically, noticing how he was smiling with those cold eyes, as though he were… enjoying something a little too much.

She tilted her head slightly, watching him with a mixture of curiosity and suspicion.

‘What are you thinking?’

Lackey glanced at her for a moment, his grin widening even further.

‘Who knows, Elder Sister? Perhaps I’m simply looking forward to a pleasant reunion.’

His voice carried a sweetness that didn’t quite match the chilling look in his eyes.

Grace stared at him for another second before quietly sighing.

Her reform… clearly wasn’t going to be easy!

Meanwhile…

Far away from Beta Tower, in one of the neighbouring divisions, Delta…

Inside a large, luxurious apartment, a man sat comfortably on a plush sofa.

The man’s attention remained fixed on the news.

No, not the news itself, but the image of Lily, the thirteen-year-old girl who had been labelled Humanity’s Traitor.

The man’s lips curled into a smirk as he slowly licked them, his eyes gleaming with sinister delight.

“She messed up… huh?” he murmured, and his smile widened into something far more lecherous, revealing the twisted excitement simmering beneath his expression.

“Looks like no one’s going to protect her from me now~”

His face lit up with predatory delight as he looked down at the two naked figures kneeling before him.

Both of them were sucking his cock… serving him like a king.

To this man, Lily’s predicament presented an opportunity he had been waiting for.

He lowered his gaze towards the two naked women kneeling before him.

“Sasha… Maiuri… Get ready. We’re about to get ourselves a new toy!”

He said before plunging his cock deep into Sasha’s throat. He groaned as he started cumming hard, flooding her mouth while staring at the image of Lily’s flushed red face.

Then he pulled out and shoved his cock into Maiuri’s hungry mouth as well, forcing her to deepthroat him.

“Hmm… I wonder what kind of face you’ll make… hahaha~”

Filling both their mouths with his cum.

“But there’s one thing I’m certain of…”

He smirked, slapping their face with his cock.

“You’re going to have a very difficult time finding someone willing to stand between you and me.”

A low, delighted laugh escaped his lips.

“Hahahaha~ I can hardly wait to find out!”