257 Ramusas asks for help

"I know. He's a pretty important person here, right? Member of the Demon Council or something."

"The group you're trying to wipe out by some complicated means."

Eiji casually said with no worries at all, the heroines would not be surprised; but Ramusas who met Eiji for the first time was different.

Putting aside Eiji who didn't seem to fear retaliation from the Demon Council, Ramusas knew the boy was strong; strong people who were confident did not need to worry about that kind of retaliation.

But what made Ramusas a little strange was... Was it just him or did Eiji know that much about him? His intuition told him this boy knew a lot about his plans including his disguise.

Even so, he did not panic.

It didn't matter whether Eiji knew about it or not because...

"That's right. With the power you showed earlier... When you fought with Jin Toujou's son, and an unknown demon destroyed many things in the city. You repaired all the destruction, and even revived the casualties in this city."

"Even Demon Lords and Gods can't do similar things as easily as you, Eiji."

Ramusas addressed Eiji in a more familiar manner. Since he had heard reports of what had happened from Lucia when he went out of town, he had also watched the scenes from CCTV-like surveillance footage.

He ruled out the unknown demon, Bella. Ramusas thought it was just a troublemaker sent by another faction and Eiji had taken care of it for him.

Ramusas turned his chair around, he looked at Eiji favorably like a satisfied father-in-law looking at his future son-in-law; that was what Eiji thought.

"So what did you call me here for?"

"Don't rush...what about Mio? I heard you made a Master-Servant contract with her."

"Yes and we did too."

Did what? Even after knowing Ramusas' true identity, Eiji dared to admit he had fucked the other party's daughter.

The experienced Ramusas naturally understood this, his lips twitching.

[I'm honestly not sure if Ramusas... No, Wilbert really cares about his daughter. In my previous life, I only watched anime and found out light novel spoilers from Wiki.]

[Ramusas' other identity is Wilbert, he's Mio's father who faked his own death. In order to deceive the other Faction and the Demon Council in the Demon Realm which became a stone in his plan to unite the Demon Realm under one person.]

[Wilbert had previously done this, but due to the existence of the Demon Council, he knew he was just a puppet master who would eventually have to follow the orders of those old men. It was fine if the Demon Council gave good orders, but those people just wanted to fight and their goal was the Divine Realm.]

[They want to increase the power of the Demon Realm as much as possible to fight against the Gods.]

[To that end, Wilbert was often told to do things he didn't want to do and didn't match his peaceful ideals; in the end he rebelled which led him to deliberately fake his death for the sake of long-term plans.]

[He created the Moderate Faction which aimed to overthrow the other Factions and the Demon Council. Of course, in order to do that, he was also willing to use cruel means such as extracting the power hidden inside Mio's body.]

[If it wasn't for seeing the protagonist who somehow made him change his mind, Wilbert might actually do that to his own daughter. Even at the risk of the death of Mio whose power was forcibly extracted because he didn't have any other more gentle methods.]

!!!

Lucia widened her eyes, she glanced at Ramusas. This old man was actually Wilbert?! As his servant, she just heard about this! And Eiji, how did he know all that?!

Unlike her mother who heard the inner voice earlier than her, Lucia did not know about the original work Eiji had said.

However, she didn't doubt what Eiji said because so far what he said was often true.

In the bathroom, Mio froze. Or rather her expression made Noel who was rubbing her back ask in confusion.

"Mio-sama, what's wrong?"

"It's...nothing, Noel."

"Really?"

"Yes, by the way put your hands away; you perverted maid, hmpf!"

Hugging her plump and frothy breasts, Mio slapped Noel's hand that started to be dishonest while rubbing her back.

The orange-haired maid who was also naked screamed. Mio snorted, she also ignored the worried gazes of the other girls who were bathing.

It was true what Eiji had just said about her biological father being alive, and the fact that her own uncle was her father was surprising. She was a little happy, but also complicated because that person didn't seem to love his daughter very much.

Otherwise, how did Wilbert have the idea to take the power inside her without regard for her safety? Good father!

The peace of Demon Realm is more important than the life of your own daughter!

Mio wasn't sad, after all this wasn't the first time people had targeted the power inside her body, she was just disappointed that her biological father was the same as those people.

Even if in the original work Wilbert changed his plans, probably because the protagonist's halo was too bright‒Mio regretted making Eiji and the others bother to accompany her to the Demon Realm.

This trip was a waste of time and only made her realize the true face of her biological father.

...

At this moment, Eiji smiled slightly, Ramusas didn't realize many women including his own daughter had labeled him as a bad father.

Even if he knew, Ramusas wouldn't actually care. Ever since he first faked his death and pretended to be his older brother Wilbert, Ramusas. He was ready to sacrifice anything to achieve his goals; his own daughter was no exception.

Originally he invited Mio to his castle to take the power inside her body, the power was actually very strong, and the girl's personality was not suitable for using it. At least that was what Ramusas knew; so instead of wasting money, it was better to take Mio's power to strengthen himself.

With that, Ramusas also gained more confidence to defeat the people from the Demon Lord Faction and Demon Council who opposed him all this time.

That was before of course.

Now after seeing Eiji, seeing how strong he was and knowing the boy's relationship with his daughter...

"That's good. If it's you, Eiji. I'm relieved to leave my niece to you. There are many people who want Mio, especially people from the Demon Lord Faction and the Demon Council."

"Because she is the daughter of my younger brother, the previous Demon Lord. Mio is Wilbert's heir and the most potential next Demon Lord."

"The unwanted seed of the demons who are now vying for the power of Demon Realm... Many demons from other factions want to kill her or make her a plaything. The latter is what the people of the Demon Council want to do."

[This old man spoke at length and continued to emphasize how bad Mio's situation was because many people had evil intentions towards her. Ramusas, what do you really want?]

[If I didn't know the original work, I might have been fooled by this old man's acting. Obviously you're Wilbert, you're relieved to hand over your niece to me? I mean your daughter? Seriously?]

[You must have other ideas!]

Lucia felt the same way, this was the first time she had seen Ramusas talking at length with someone. There was also a slight sycophantic tone to his words; Lucia felt that the Wilbert/Ramusas image in her mind had been crumbling.

Eiji glanced at Lucia, judging from the silver-haired maid's expression; he knew her impression of Ramusas must have decreased. That was a good thing, Eiji didn't do it on purpose, he took this as a bonus. However, he deliberately stared at Lucia for quite a while; just with a casual gaze of course.

How could Ramusas not notice? The old man must have misunderstood.

¶{Isn't that what you want?}

Miss System, be quiet for a moment. I'm being serious here... No kidding.

¶{...}

I believe you! Should she have said that? Miss System continued watching with some melon seeds in her hand.

"I'll protect Mio. Ramusas-san, don't worry. Whoever dares to hurt her, I'll slap him to death."

"Mio is my woman after all."

Lucia was suddenly a little envious of Mio. There was something wrong with her brain for thinking so, she must be too tired today.

And Eiji, don't you mean one of your women? You're a man with a harem!

Feigning surprise at Lucia's gaze at him, Eiji looked at the woman indifferently as if to say "What's wrong with you? Stop staring at me, I'm not a nice man."

"You... Wait, that's right. You really aren't a nice man."

Not knowing since when Eiji and Lucia were good at communicating through their gazes, Ramusas was confused; it seemed Lucia did not include how good her relationship with Eiji was in the report she gave him not long ago.

"*Cough* That's why I have a request for you, Eiji. Of course, it won't be for free."

"Oh?"

Eiji widened his eyes; sure enough, Ramusas had other ideas. His arrival changed the old man's mind, just like Basara in the original work. But unlike the original work, Ramusas was more optimistic about him and lowered his pride to ask for his help.

Ramusas did not even mention his idea of taking Mio's power to his face; aware of his power and concern for his daughter, the old man must have been worried about being slapped to death by him.

"Let's hear it first. What do you want from me, Ramusas-san?"

The wrinkled face of Ramusas who pretended to be an old man although his real appearance was not that old was expressionless. But Eiji could see the old man was excited as he looked at him.

"You sure you don't want to sit down first? You've been standing long enough."

"Thank you for your concern. But no, I can do this all day."

Lucia's lips trembled, oh no. She covered her mouth to stifle her laughter. This man, Eiji. Can't he be serious? The silver-haired maid felt Eiji was joking.

Ramusas knew Eiji was just reluctant to sit with him. It was honestly his hobby, in the evenings he usually liked to sit in a place like this to relax. Ramusas was a bit regretful... He should have invited Eiji to the living room where the atmosphere was more normal.

However, he suddenly had an idea.

Ramusas glanced at his servant.

"Lucia, prepare one more chair in front of me."

"Ramusas-sama? Sure."

Lucia did not know, or rather she was rather slow to think of the reason why Ramusas told her to prepare another chair. She took out another chair from her magic storage and placed it next to the empty chair in front of the old man.

"Lucia, you sit there."

"Yes?

"Eiji, are you sure you still want to stand there?"

"Since Ramusas-san insists, I will reluctantly sit next to Lucia-san."

Eiji walked over to the table and sat on one of the chairs without even glancing at the dumbfounded Lucia. His attitude that treated the beautiful woman beside him as if she was air; made Lucia want to scream and say who had recently been mesmerized by her and praised her in his heart?!

What are you playing at? You must be pretending!

Although reluctant, Lucia could not refuse the simple command of her master. She sat down beside the smelly man.

Their distance was quite close.

[The smell of orchids, is Lucia wearing orchid perfume or is this her natural smell? It's more fragrant than this morning. Has she taken a shower?]

Lucia tried to keep her face expressionless, especially in front of Ramusas; otherwise, she would blush because the truth was that she had not had time to bathe, Ramusas came so late in the afternoon when the sun was about to set. She welcomed him and gave him the report she had collected.

Afterwards as usual Ramusas wanted to relax on the walls of his castle, Lucia had to work again to prepare the table and chairs. She also had to prepare hot tea for the old man.

So this must be her natural odor! As a Succubus, her sweat was even more fragrant than an ordinary woman.

Lucia was embarrassed when she thought of this. And Eiji, this man is two-faced!

Looking at Eiji who was calm, and Lucia whose shoulders were slightly shaking despite her expressionless face. Ramusas sighed, has this girl's spring finally come? He was a bit hesitant before, but now he was getting more and more convinced with his idea.

Sheila probably wouldn't mind either.

"Would you like to have some tea first?"

"No, just continue what you wanted to say earlier Ramusas-san."

Eiji waved his hand, refused and...

[I feel like this old man is going to say something good, reminding me of Odin back then.]

[Even though I can get it without anyone's help, it saves effort... As the saying goes; if you can get what you want the easy way, why should you choose the hard way?]

¶{Sage level 999!}

Your praise makes me a little embarrassed, Miss System.

¶{My host, I'm actually not complimenting you and you're not embarrassed at all.}

Even the heroines including Lucia were embarrassed at what Eiji said.

The man himself looked at Ramusas seriously.

"Well... Eiji, can you help the Moderate Faction? With your power it will be easy for us to deal with the people from the Demon Lord Faction and the Demon Council."

Eiji rubbed his chin as if he was thinking about it even though he had guessed Ramusas would say this. It was important to increase your reluctance in order for the other party to give you more advantages.

"I know you haven't used all your power to do the things you did before."

"Indeed."

"Then..." Ramusas actually wanted to save costs if possible.

But Eiji shook his head. "What will I get? Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't want to help my woman's uncle. After all, we're going to be family in the future."

"It's just that you said it's not free. I'm curious...and I'm actually quite busy too."

Is my daughter not enough? You're obviously reluctant to help your woman's uncle for free!

Ramusas knew he had no other choice, bite the bullet now or lose this golden opportunity; although it would be a bit inconvenient if he lost a servant like Lucia who was a great help to his office work.

Another problem was that he was not sure if Eiji would be satisfied with what he had to offer. According to reports from Lucia, apart from his daughter, Eiji also had many other women. The girls who came with him were also his women.

Ramusas was also unsure if someone as powerful as Eiji wanted money or possessions? He himself was not interested in this. He only knew Eiji was a young man, a young man of his age must be very interested in beauty. So...

"How about I give you Lucia? You and her seem to have a pretty good relationship. Of course, if you want, I can also give you some of my wealth. Some of the territory of the Moderate Faction can also be given to you in return."

"...."

Lucia was dumbfounded, Ramusas was selling herself! But unlike Rossweisse who at least said something in this situation, she was just silent. Before this, it was actually what her mother wanted from her as well... Basically, just like her younger sister, that woman also wanted her to become Eiji's woman and follow that man.

Her mother urged her on the grounds that she was at the right age and lost to Maria who was younger than her in this regard. Her mother was saddened and threatened her with her adult form.

That's despicable, are you really my mother? However, Lucia did not refuse.

It was just that Eiji was...

"Lucia huh? I do lack a maid in my house. But that's not enough! Other than Lucia I'm actually not interested in what you're offering, Ramusas-san."

"It's just a servant, I can look elsewhere and it'll be easier. Only one person, I can get more elsewhere."

"My house is very big and has many people living in it... Helping the Moderate Faction's problems is easy for me, but it definitely takes time... As I said before, Ramusas-san. I'm a busy person."

"After you said that, I remembered that I seem to need more high-quality servants to do the housework."

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