The Noble Lady of Lust

Chapter 387: Immoral Situation

’What the heck? Wait, those ears... ufff! I was more scared than when Rosy dressed up as Aeloria.’

Something almost came out of my fright; I hadn’t been paying attention to it, but the girl my brother was holding bore an almost identical resemblance to my mother Victoria.

"What are you talking about, what’s your purpose, what do you plan to do with the antidotes and contracts?"

"Ah, yes, well... hmm, no, before that... can you tell me who that girl in your arms is and why she looks like m-your mother, Mrs. Victoria?"

"Huh? I look like who?"

The woman seemed puzzled by my words, but they are almost replicas, at least in appearance... except for her short pointed ears, typical of half-elves or dwarves.

She also didn’t seem to have that soft, comfortable feeling and, of course, she doesn’t have the aura of a milf, so she falls far short of my stepmother... wait, what was the point here?

I felt that I had strayed from what I had set out to do, but I really couldn’t let it go.

She seemed unable to move much; apparently, detoxification from the poison is not immediate with the antidote.

And mostly I was curious that, even in this situation, she seemed very happy in my brother’s arms...well, that was until I mentioned that he looked like my mother.

"This is Lirena Argent , my sub-leader, and she looks like my mother because her mother and my mother were sisters."

"What?!"

"What!!!" (x2).

There were three surprises: Lirena’s, mine, and my doppelgänger’s. Although it was a short and concise explanation, I just heard some puzzling things I didn’t know.

"Who are you to be shocked? I am the shocked one here. Rather, Sir Raphael, what do you mean?"

"Yes, explain." (x2)

"...This is not the time for this... make your intentions clear. What are you planning to do? Are you going to let everyone die of poison?"

"I am an ally... I will help you, I will give you the antidotes, but, more importantly...what is this ’Argent ’ thing?"

"What is Mrs Vitoria’s relationship with them? Is there something between you? Is there something immoral going on here? Do you have an Oedipus complex?"

My doppelgänger and I asked; it really got my attention more than anything else and I wanted to know the full gossip.

That girl I don’t know, but she must have had the same fate as my brother; now that she will have a different ending, I wonder if there will be more things and connections than my alternate self came to understand.

’Yes, definitely, it’s to understand the situation better.’

’Yes, and even if it wasn’t, it doesn’t matter. I am a noble lady; gossip and our status go hand in hand.’

’Especially if it’s from our family.’

Yes, this was very much a priority. The shadow eminence and Batman stuff can wait for later.

"I don’t know the reason for your question, but if you are not an enemy, I would appreciate it if you would first ensure the integrity of those present."

"Yes, yes, whatever... let’s see, a full-scale purification... Lustratio Magna."

"...Lustratio Magna."

Me and my doppelgänger, who put on a mask, extended a large-scale purification.

I had already asked Ophelia, and she did not know how to bless the poisons she made; so, however dangerous, complicated, and difficult to purify they may be, as always, if they have nothing to do with a divinity, to me they are no different from any other poison.

"...so easily..."

"Yes, yes, it was very easy. Let’s see, now..."

Since I took care of the poison, now only the contract remained, and I approached my brother while extending one of the sharp claws of my gauntlet towards his forehead.

"What do you plan to do?"

"Hey, don’t look at me like that. I’m going to help you a little here, I’m going to help you with that contract; hold still, it’ll just be a small wound."

I’m still not very good at distinguishing things like contracts and such, but I learned that, even without seeing it, if my legacy weapon makes a wound, even a superficial one, and I want some present contract to be broken, it will be done, just like the people who drink my mystery potion and come under my influence.

"..."

But it looked like he wasn’t going to let me near his forehead, maybe because he just saw how I pierced Saelis’ skull.

"Tsk, how cautious. Anyone would think you were a coward... including your sister if she ever found out."

"Ugh, w-well."

It seemed like mentioning myself worked well. This guy must definitely be like my father; memories of the original Seraphina told me so, but even after five years he seemed the same.

"Yes, it’s just a little... well, yes, that’s all. No contract, I also freed you from everything else, but I don’t think it matters, does it?"

"Are you serious?"

"Yes, Well, we’re done with the side issues. But I don’t understand: my... Mrs Victoria is human, isn’t she? And this girl here is a half-elf. If she’s from the Argent , it makes it even stranger since they’re all human. Explain that."

"Yes, Sir Raphael, even I am not understanding what you are implying."

"...I really don’t understand your interest in this matter, but I thank the sirs or miss, for helping us. Please wait a moment...Sir Vasil, Clarens, can you take over while I talk to them?"

"...I...yes, I will take care of my brother’s subordinates... I... no, sir Clarens, help me a little."

"Ugh, Vasil, I’ll charge you extra for this fiasco just now. ugh! I feel like I lost years of life in there... it’s all so confusing still, but you must be worse off. Okay, first things first."

If the two leaders stood up after my purification, that bastard’s brother looked a bit confused, but seemed to quickly get himself in order and do as my brother asked.

My purification was more effective than the antidote; in fact, by concentrating on the gossip I almost forgot that bastard’s subordinates.

Fortunately, instead of running away, they seemed to want to try their luck and attack me. If I looked, it seemed that they were cautiously taking advantage of the conversation I was having with my brother to surround us.

Unfortunately for them, I don’t think they thought the poison could be eliminated so quickly, and all at the same time, without side effects, and before they could react, they were easily surrounded.

They tried to resist, but with two faction leaders and over a hundred people, it is only a matter of time.

"Ah, yes, besides that guy and that woman, there are ten other spies. Let’s see, who were they? Ophel... I think I figured out who they were, but... ah, that one there is one... let’s see... I’m not giving up, I forgot, look it up yourselves."

"...I’ll keep that in mind..."

"well, now if I’m done, then, Raphael, go on: are you having an affair with your cousin who looks like your mother?"

"...No, she and I don’t have a relationship of that kind. Ss. Isn’t that right, Miss Lirena?"

"Y-yes..."

"Really? I feel like there’s someone here not so much agreeing with that statement, don’t you think so too, Number One?"

"Yeah, and that she looks so much like Miss Victoria... I smell immorality. Hey, break out the popcorn, this is definitely more than that and I feel like the more we know the better it’s going to get."

"Cheese or caramel?"

"Hmmm, cheese? Ah, why decide? You take the caramel ones and I’ll take the cheese ones."

"I don’t understand what you mean by immorality...but in any case, I’ll answer your other questions. As I mentioned, her mother and mine are twin sisters. Our grandfather was an elf and our maternal grandmother human, and both of them, instead of being born half-elves, were born different races."

"Oh, that’s crazy. It’s a very rare case, isn’t it?"

"Yes, isn’t it? I didn’t expect the Argent and the Silvercrest to be connected."

"Neither did I! How come I only know this now?"

"Huh? Miss Lirena, didn’t you know?"

"No! My mother died when I was very young, I never knew anything about my origins or my grandparents. For us Argent , it is very difficult to leave our home, especially for me, as I had my father’s expectations and was almost locked up until I went to the academy. He never talked about my mother, and my other mother never knew her."

"You know what surprises me the most? That Mrs. Valeriene’s sister would mess with the... nah, forget it."

I guess I won’t say more; I mean, I myself have two people with that last name in my harem. Saying anything would be counterproductive, although I want to believe that the problem in that family is men... and I’ll deny that I also have a friend with that last name, since, unlike his relatives, this one doesn’t even catch a fly.

"Ugh, today has been the most shocking day I’ve ever had. I feel like I’m not able to digest a lot of things."

"Yeah, it must have been shocking... life is hard when you look like the mother of the one you like."

"Hey, you...I don’t know what or what you are, and while I appreciate your help, you should stay out of other people’s personal business."

"Hey, just pretend I’m not here, ignore my comments, oh! But in any case, the immoral one here is you."

"Shut up, don’t talk nonsense! Who’s an immoral one? Besides, it’s all wrong, it’s not even close to what you’re talking about, hmph."

"What the hell, another tsundere? Fuck, why do they keep popping up? Is it something contagious or something as-? Will I wake up tomorrow saying ’hmph this, hmph that’?"

"I don’t know what you’re saying, but I feel like you’re being rude to me."

"Nah, this is imagination...well, you’re not my problem."

"Ngh! I definitely feel like... No, I’m going to ignore you like you say.. sir Raphael, so... I wonder if... the reason you approached me first...?"

"Yes, as you think. My mother asked me to take great care of you, as we are family too. I am really a bit dumbfounded that you were not aware of this fact. I think I mentioned many times that you were like family and-"

"Yikes! Don’t tell me you somehow mistook that family-like approach for some other kind of interest and fell for it. Oof—yeah, you’re really red. So it is something that—ugh!"

"Shut up, you fucker! You should know what to say and what not to say. o(≧口≦)o"

"Ugh! She’s one of those violent tsunderes, ugh! Why me?"

What was the problem? I was just making some harmless comments. I mean, I just saved her from being crippled, she should be thanking me. But instead, she’s strangling me, and the fact that she looks like my mother didn’t help at all.

But for some reason, I don’t think it’s bad, but it’s serious, because she has at least seven metamorphoses of strength, and the popcorn in my mouth is going down the wrong way.

’Hey, bastard, help me.’

’Which is not that you’re going to die, but the situation is curious, isn’t it? She seems to seriously like our brother, but that she looks like our mother gives her that immoral edge. More importantly: our brother wasn’t lying, But I feel a little doubt coming from him... Perhaps he is also interested in her, even though he does not understand it yet.’

’Yes, here’s something very good—good gossip; I have to take it to the girls. But now what do we do? We unintentionally broke our role.’

’What’s the difference, let’s forget that already. It seems we’re not destined... Or wait, why don’t we make Elena-’

"Huh!!!"

"Miss Lirena, will you... please stop? In fact, we owe them a debt."

"Ah! I-I’m sorry."

"... Oculus Fines"

Well, that didn’t matter; my attention was diverted because at that moment I felt a glance on us and, as soon as he let go of me, I looked in that direction and improved my sight.

Apparently Saelis and those present were not everyone: there was someone else in the vicinity.