Chapter 78
No longer busy?
I got the feeling that I made her upset somehow and now that she was gone I couldn’t apologize. What if she was upset? I still owe her my life don’t I?
I had some thoughts about this and felt maybe it was better if I didn’t have that many mothers. I was going to be with Erisu after this anyway.
I thought hard about this as I ate my food and I kept thinking about how I cried. There was indeed a lot to think about and I wasn’t sure how to approach it. I went to bed and curled up staring at the ceiling, the wall then outside the window. There were so many things I had to think about.
Erisu was going to have to fight against the demon lord wasn’t she? What if she didn’t come back the same or she sacrificed herself. Would I be able to find anyone else in this world? considering my status there would be women who wanted to be with me but that was only because of the moms I had.
If I used the army I had there were many things I could accomplish and I could try and become some great warlord but the system didn’t provide any real means for me to get stronger and I would always be vulnerable to physical attack especially if the woman were to get very close to me.
The army would also disappear if I was captured or injured. Being powerless like this my moms were the only ones who would protect me… Erisu might protect me but she was still young and what if she got tired of me? She could let me go at any time and there would be many eligible nobles and even perhaps a Prince would want her badly to make her the Queen of their own nation.
She came with two other girls that the public also deems very beautiful because they promised to go wherever she went. A holy maiden from the temple and a red haired magician from the Arcane Sanctum.
I really didn’t deserve any of it.
I don’t even deserve to be with these women who considered themselves my mothers. Considering the fact the elves did not care about incest and the maids who witnessed what happened between the both of us had no expression whatsoever it was kind of obvious human ideas of what a proper relationship was did not matter to them.
Telling Alondra I hated her. What mother would be happy if her son she loved so much said that? I spent the night by myself and then the next morning there was still only the maids who gave me cold stares.
Maid:”Master Roy, breakfast is being prepared. Do you need help getting dressed?”
All the elves were beautiful but I couldn’t be happy. Erisu, Sarai and Mana were still more beautiful than them, and Alondra was an elf beyond the elves. Why did mom leave me? I said it out of anger… Even if she forced herself on me I wouldn’t have hated her. I hated that she was pushing me to that point.
I would love to stick it in her mouth. I wanted to do it. It’s because of the promise I made to Erisu that I won’t. I have to talk to her about it. I have to talk to all my moms about it. It isn’t that I don’t love them but I didn’t want to do something unless Erisu allowed it. Erisu was going to be the first wife and when two people get married they belong to each other.
If Erisu allowed it then I would have children with all four of them, but I need to talk to mom. I feel so bad now. Her only crime was that she wanted me that badly.
Also, she wasn’t blood related. It’s like a boy having a surrogate mother who gave birth to him for his real parents, and then later he meets her again and gets married. They’re not related by blood right? So if they have children there won’t be any problems even if society might think it was weird who really cared about society anyway?
In this reality, I don’t have a real mother. My real mother is gone, as well as my dad. I don’t have blood relatives here.
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Alondra was in her private office within the castle. She was leaning on the desk not able to do much of anything. She was only trying to seduce Roy into wanting her. It wasn’t as if she was trying to force him. Restraining him was just something parents did to their children when they wanted to change behavior right?
No, Alondra knows what she did was wrong. The other three had talked to her about it hoping she could be the one to break Roy’s abstinence. They already received permission from his fiance. There was no reason for Roy to refuse when his body clearly wanted it.
Roy however, said he hated her.
It was words that Alondra could never imagine someone she loved would say to her. Wasn’t she the most beautiful elf? Amongst all the races the elves were already a standard higher than everyone else. How would this happen?
Dorfus walked into the room.
Dorfus:”Your highness, you’ve been in here for more than a day already. Is it something with your human son that you can’t handle.”
Alondra looked at Dorfus. Though his look was similar to a man in his mid-twenties, he was nearly a thousand years old. The elves were blessed with long life and cursed with low birth rates. As such, wars were always devastating for them.
Dorfus was her mentor as she grew up, the only one who supported her in joining with the other five in the exterminator party. She had grown very close to them after, they were her sisters and Dorfus always supported her while still in the Elven Kingdom.
Dorfus:”Your Highness, normally you’re a very mature elf who does her responsibilities without problem. Is there an issue today that you can’t get through? I know, it has to do with your human son Roy doesn’t it?”
Dorfus sighed.
Alondra had some tears in her eyes as she looked up to him and was not able to put into words what she wanted to say. Normally she was intelligent and well spoken but when it came to her son it was hard to guage.
Dorfus:”You want to have his child don’t you?”
Alondra nodded.
Dorfus:”I’ve told you before. Humans have taboos that we elves think nothing about. Their short life span makes them put out rules that we normally wouldn’t think of. From what you told me, all four of you want a child from him and he is just a human boy. He’s not nearly as old as any of you and hasn’t experienced as much.”
Alondra kept silent noting Dorfus’ words. It was true that Roy was reincarnated but even with his previous life experience the amount of years lived when compared between the two of them was vast.
Dorfus:”After a hundred years, people start thinking differently from those who haven’t lived long. The Elves experience this far more than the other races since we have our own societies. The vampires tend to live by themselves and the succubi live among humans but are also different from them with lives about half of our own.”
Alondra:”This is true… but I still don’t want my son to hate me.”
Alondra took a deep breath.
Dorfus:”You tried to forcefully seduce him didn’t you?”
Alondra:”I… the others are counting on me to seduce him. If I can get him to willingly bed me then he will need to do that with the others due to equality.”
Dorfus:”You’re putting a lot of pressure on him aren’t you?”
Alondra:”Well, he needs to be pressured to go for it doesn’t he? I’m not forcing him, I’m just seducing him.”
Dorfus:”You took off his armband that was given to him by Dhalia.”
Alondra:”Dhalia! Why did she give him that?”
Dorfus shook his head. The Old Elf had fought with the humans during the last war and interacted them in his many years. He understood that human nature was different from elven nature. While humans would go back and forth with pretense, elves would simply go for what they want when they want it. The pretense was what made humans hard to understand as it was often used in negotiations and interactions between friends.
Dorfus never understood pretense, but he understood that humans were more interested in their reputation than they were in their own actual abilities.
Alondra was a good leader because she learned this pretense from her human companion. All four of them did, and when there was another man who came twenty or so years ago that she loved there was a lot of pretense with him as well. Now Alondra was using pretense on a human thinking it would work.
Dorfus:”Alondra, you can’t blame her. This is something that Roy wants to do. The best thing to do is try talking to him honestly. Talk to him like an elf. Drop the pretense with him and tell him what you want from him directly.”
Alondra:”He’s a human… he needs the pretense. Almost all humans use pretense.”
Dorfus:”Pretense is something humans use but it is also something that hinders them. You’re an elf. Talk to him like an elf would.”
Alondra sat there at her desk looking up to Dorfus still unsure of what she should do next. After a moment of thinking she realized Dorfus was right. She was an elf and should talk to him like one. Pretense about seduction and being counted on, all those things masked what she really wanted.
She wanted a good relationship with Roy and she wanted him to give her a child. The four of them missed their chance with his father and he was all that was left from him.
Alondra:”You’re right Dorfus. You’re right. I have to approach this like an elf. Pretense is only to be used when negotiating with humans. It’s also what I taught to my successor.”
Dorfus:”I wish you didn’t have a successor your highness, but I understand it is sometimes more important to be happy in life.”
Alondra smiled. She picked herself up and got ready to go to Roy again. There had to be a lack of pretense and a lack of playing around. Roy would not be happy if his feelings weren’t considered in all the seduction, he even broke down crying in front of her.
She had caused him pain because her own longing was far beyond what it should be.
Dorfus left the room, the maids had reported to him that Roy was wanting to see her so he knew the boy didn’t hate his adopted mother. The boy wasn’t one who held a grudge.
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