Ella was another capture target. She might not have much when it came to strength, but her innate ability gave her high intelligence.
She was the right-hand girl of Carmel. When it came to planning, organization, and everything else, no one could beat her.
After entering the room, I was stared at by countless eyes. It was as if I were a rare specimen, and I got goosebumps on my body.
Looking in front of me, I could see the girls behind Carmel. If my guess was right, they would be using projection magic to display themselves here.
The chessboard in front of me might be using some magical connection to the chessboard in front of them. When I made a move, the move would be done on their side too.
It's just like playing chess on the computer with your friend, except this is on a higher level. While I was running the magical theories in my head, a voice was heard.
"Nora, don't you know the rules? No boys allowed."
A voice was heard from one of the screens. I couldn't see the figure, but I could guess that she was an important person.
"I know, but I am not inviting him to join, plus he is my brother."
Nora replied defiantly.
"Nora, are you sure he can help us win?"
Olivia asked her with doubt. After all, she didn't know that this cousin of hers was such a talent in chess.
"Affirmative, I am sure."
Olivia then looked towards me, who was looking around as if I had no idea what was going on. But I did get the gist of what was happening.
'Looks like this is the perfect opportunity to show off.'
"What's happening here, big sis?"
I raised my "doubt." After that, Nora explained to me what happened and what I had to do.
"So, I should defeat this big sis in chess."
I said, looking towards Ella.
"That's right."
Nora nodded. But instead of her expectation of me agreeing, I did something else.
"But why should I help?"
My question brought about a silence in the room. The previously uninterested girls started paying attention. After all, this was the first time they heard someone say no to them.
"Umm? So you are saying you won't help me?"
Olivia asked, intrigued instead of angry.
"Well... I can help, but is, you know what you might have to give me."
Hearing my words, my sister went silent. But then she spoke.
"One week's worth."
"Two weeks' worth, then we are done."
I directly stated my price, causing her to flinch. But after thinking about it a bit, she finally agreed.
"Fine, you can have my two weeks' worth of sweets."
Hearing that, I gave a pose of success and moved to play the game. But then Olivia spoke.
"So you are saying that you won't do what I want for free?"
"Why should I?"
Hearing the same answer should have made Olivia angry. But somehow, instead, she was feeling happy.
'It is a different experience to be rejected.'
+35 affection.
'Humph... girl, I know you inside out.'
Instead of focusing more on Nora, I moved to Ella, sitting in front of me, whose expression had turned for the worse.
"Kid, do you think that you can beat me?"
I shrugged my shoulders and gave her a smile.
"Who knows?"
After that, we sat to play the game. She made the first move. Like this, we continued to move our pieces. Several of the girls had their concentration on the game.
It continued for 15 minutes before I placed the final piece.
"Checkmate."
Silence...
Everybody had a disbelieving face on them, especially Ella. She couldn't understand where she went wrong.
"Ho-how?"
"You're too perfect."
My reply caught her off guard, and everyone looked towards me, waiting for me to continue.
"Each of your moves is strict or rule-following as if it's predetermined. There's no uniqueness within it, hence they create cracks in your plan."
"Because you're too perfect, there is no flexibility, hence you lose."
It was silent for a moment before a clapping sound came. Everyone turned towards Carmel, who was clapping with a smile on her face.
"Amazing, it was an amazing game."
"Nora, I lost this one."
After she said that, others also started clapping and marveling at my performance. My sister came to me and ruffled my hair.
"I knew you would win. My sweets are not wasted after all."
"That was amazing, Austin. I owe you one."
Olivia interjected.
At that moment, Ella stood up and came to me. She was just a projection and couldn't do anything to me. She came in front of me and pointed her finger.
"Your name is Austin, right? I will remember you. The next time we have a match, I will win for sure."
After that, she disappeared.
"Don't take her word to heart. She's just competitive."
Carmel spoke up.
"I am really surprised that there is such a chess genius here. I hope to meet you personally in the future."
After that, she went into the room to speak with the others while I was quickly thrown out of the room. Shaking my head, I walked back to my assigned room.
'Fight Ella in chess the next time? I'd probably lose.'
The only reason I won against her this time was because of my information from the game. It was one of the prerequisites to win her affection. There was personally a flaw in her gaming style, which the players must use to win against her. I had just used that, though it will only work once.
Tired, I entered my room and fell asleep.
The next day after the party, I and my family set out to return to our home. I received a gift from both the Emperor and Olivia.
Currently, we were standing near our ship, getting ready to leave. The Emperor and Empress had come to see us off.
"Have a safe trip. If you have any problems, just inform me, okay?"
"Sure. You don't have to worry about me."
I stood there, looking at them, and I directly looked into the Empress's eyes. I felt my body go cold for a moment. Saying my goodbye, we boarded the ship. I didn't even want to stay close to that woman at all.
The Empress felt like a storm that was only calm for now. Why, you ask...?
I had found over five recording devices in my room, hidden in different angles. Normally, a child who hadn't awakened wouldn't be able to feel it, but I could.
Looking through it, I could feel mana similar to the Empress. I would be an idiot if I couldn't understand it till now. As much as I want to deal with her, currently, I can't.
Well, the thought of cucking an Emperor does sound exciting, but I must live after all that. So, I couldn't move against her until I awakened my bloodline.
So like a nice boy, I kept it all back, as if nothing had been changed. Taking a deep breath and confirming my goals, I entered the ship, knowing not what the future held for me.
3 years later:
It's been 3 years since I came to this world currently I am 11 years old and am going through the files about the dukedom.
Yup, you heard right, I am dealing with the affairs of the dukedom, a year ago I asked my mother if I could help her with her work, at first she didn't agree but later on she gave in, after all, I had earned the title of a genius in studies, my teachers couldn't stop praising how smart I was, leaving the boasting aside after I took part in her work the time she spent on her work decreased.
We got to spend more time as a family and all of us became closer, these few years had been a crazy year and a lot had happened, first of all, Clara had awakened her bloodline shocking the people of the house, taking my eyes off the document I looked towards the girl standing beside me.
She looked 11 years old, she had black hair tied in a ponytail and brown eyes, what was different about her was the 2 small horns poking in her head instead of looking bad it gave her a cute look, her face though still immature and cute, no one could deny that she would be a beauty in the future, unlike how she was a few years ago, the girl right now stood both proud and elegant.
She wore a maid uniform, her flat chest had a small sign of protrusion, and her eyes whenever she looked at me were full of love and subservience, overall she had changed.
[
Name: Clara
Sex: Female
Age: 11
species: Human(partial demon)
Talent: 8/10
> Bloodline awakened: demonic darkness
Power: origin level 1
Title: The awakened, stalker, madly in love, love demon
Love: 140%
Description: completely devoted to you
> She wants nothing more than to spend eternity with you
>trains harder than anyone to be worthy of you
Remark: what have you done??
]
Yup.....I went a bit overboard with her, during the awakening of her bloodline her chances of survival itself were small so I had to buy something called the Pearl of Darkness to help her succeed.
Also due to her awakening a demonic bloodline, there were a lot of problems too, so at that time I stood beside her, the act of using a "priceless" treasure to help her and standing beside her gave me a lot of affection but I might have gone a bit overboard.
Her love for me increases no matter what I do, as, for her titles, I pretend as if I don't see it, suddenly the door to the room opens and two girls enter one having black hair and the other white, it's the fox girls.
They have changed during this time both of them had grown taller, and the aura of depression they had was completely gone, and what replaced it was a fierce aura covering them.
"Boohoo, master you are always in the room, why don't you come and play with us"
"Yes, we would like it if you could take some rest"
Mika who entered first spoke supported by Rika.
[
Name: Mika
Sex: Female
Age: 11
species: black wolf beast women
Talent: 8/10
Power: origin level 1
Title: crazy fighter, combat addict
Love: 100%
Description: you are her light, your words and support brought her confidence back
>swears to protect you and be your sword, she dreams her body and soul to be yours
Remark: Impressive
]
[
Name: Rika
Sex: Female
Age: 11
species: white wolf beastwomen
Talent: 8/10
Power: origin level 1
Title: water mage, loved mage
Love: 100%
Description: in her heart your position is unshakable
> Her shy character over the years has disappeared, and she strives to express her feelings for you
Remark: both the sisters??, enjoy bro
]
Both Rika's and Mika's feelings had grown a large margin this is mainly because of the support I had given them, a year ago when they saw that their plate was still not forming they had gone into despair but I was there and completely supported them at that time, so I was able to rack in more affection.
My mother was very surprised, to say the least, having one person with a talent such as theirs would be a blessing but there were 3 of them, she couldn't stop smiling for some time, leaving my documents I looked for the time, seeing that it was late I stood up and stretched.
"Seeing that it's late I don't mind taking a break"
Saying so I began to walk but suddenly both Mika and Rika came to my side and took my shoulders, Mika on my right and Rika on the left their still-developing breasts pressed against my hands.
"Girl, what are you doing?"
"We are just giving you support to walk"
"Yup that's right just a support"
Mika spoke and Rika assured.
"Girl, do you think I am an old man that I need your support to walk?"
"We are just protecting you"
"Yup that's right"
'Protect me??, girl's who's going to harm me inside my dukedom surrounded by an army, can't you girls make a better excuse'
Suddenly I felt a hug on my back and a voice was heard.
"Ohh, c'mon don't you all just hug Austin, you might make him irritated"
"Clara you don't have the right to speak here, you are always with him while we are training"
"Yeah that's right, you are always hoarding him, give us some time with him"
Like this, their conversation goes on.
'girl am I not still here??, sigh...'
This is one of the problems that arose with their affection, they publicly started to display their affection for me not hiding it, there were countless times when my mother made fun of me about it, plus there was a small rumor going around that I am a playboy too.
I haven't responded to their feeling yet but they are adamant about being with me, of course, I won't reject them but the time is not right, but the biggest problem right now is my sister's, their love has reached 100% but the problem is that the love remains "sibling love".
I had tried many things but it remained the same my instincts tell me that it was just the calm before the storm, I get the feeling that once it changed the points would flow in, and I could at least proudly say that I had turned them into bro cons, while they were still bickering I got tired and made my move.
I took my hand from Mika's and Rika's grip, my hand then holding their waist, my sudden movements surprised them.
"Austin?" They both asked.
Without answering them I gave a mysterious smile and then suddenly gave both Mika's and Rika's cheeks a kiss, which stunned them both.
"A-Austin you"
Both the girls looked at me surprised this was the first time that I had responded to their advances but then they suddenly blushed from the kiss, while I was enjoying their shy look I felt a huge aura of jealousy coming from behind me, I looked back to see a pouting Clara, smiling wryly I let both the girls go from my arms and turned around.
Without giving her any time to react I pulled her and gave a kiss on her cheeks too, now I had 3 cute girls blushing and surrounding me, and when I felt that I needed to do some more a maid suddenly dashed into the room.
"Yo-Young master! the eldest miss sh-she"
Before the maid could finish I had already dashed towards my sister's room, entering it I was greeted with the sight of both my sisters lying on the bed in pain.
"Mom, what happened?"
I directly asked me about the situation of my mother, there were a bunch of healers in the room dealing with the situation.
"Sigh...it's nothing severe it's s just that both of your sisters are awakening their bloodline"
But when Grace said this there was no happiness in her expression, only fear, and helplessness.
'both of them at the same time. how is that possible?'
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