Chapter 481 – 481: Locke’S
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Before meeting Mrs. Gracia, we first took the deflated Alex to Gracia’s room, which happened to be nearby.
Gracia’s room was a typical noble’s room, but it had an unadorned feel similar to Ryphe’s room.
“Hic… hic…”
Even at his young age, Alex seemed to have genuinely liked Ryphe, as he sat on the bed, tears streaming down his face.
“Alex, here’s a handkerchief.”
“Thank… you, Gracia. Hic…”
Alex wiped his tears with the handkerchief Gracia gave him, then…
*PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENG!*
He blew his nose loudly.
“I’ll wash it and return it later.”
“Just keep it.”
Alex wiped his eyes again with his sleeve, then got up from the bed and bowed his head to Ryphe.
“Ryphe… I… I… I… Hic! Congratulations on finding a mate!”
Even after being heartbroken, he could still bless the person he liked so much.
Alex seemed like a truly kind and promising child.
Ryphe seemed very uncomfortable with Alex’s blessing.
“Uh… yeah, thanks. Alex, you’ll find someone nice too.”
“Hic…! Yes…”
The younger brother’s perspective.
His crush’s friend suddenly has a boyfriend.
And even his crush is that boyfriend’s woman.
Come to think of it, this is like a BSS spin-off of an NTR story.
Translating the words of the sisters from across the sea, it’s like, “I liked her first!”
Usually, the boyfriend role is a black man, a macho tanned guy, or a college senior.
There are generally two patterns here: one is to be taken away and wallow in sadness, or to secretly attack the sister’s friend or the sister at night, using the hidden power of a huge dick or super stamina to take back the sisters from the boyfriend.
In the former, if the intensity increases, the boyfriend character becomes trashier, filming a video letter and telling the younger brother to jerk off to it, or showing the difference in the level of males in front of him.
In the latter, if the intensity increases, the sisters, reduced to moaning females on his dick, are no longer seen as sisters but only as females to satisfy his lust—a sad story!
But Alex was a righteous child who didn’t belong to either of those categories.
Let’s hope that Alex will have a good woman in the future.
“I’m sorry for the delay. Let’s go to where my mother is right away.”
We followed Alex again to the room where his mother was.
On the way, Alex asked Ryphe a question.
“Ryphe, are you happy right now?”
“Huh? Well, that’s…”
“Please answer honestly.”
“Uh… yeah, I’m very happy.”
“Hic! I’m… I’m glad…”
How could he have such a kind heart at such a young age?
I wasn’t the only one who felt sorry for Alex.
“Elsie… it hurts to look at him.”
“M-me too…”
“He’s going to be a great kid in the future…”
“Alex is so kind.”
“…When you’re heartbroken, Magical Girl Marin is good. That’s how I healed my dried-up heart.”
Tikia, I don’t think that’s quite the same thing?
As his older brother, I feel a growing desire to do anything for Alex if he asks me for something in the future.
After walking for a while, Alex stopped abruptly.
“My mother is currently here.”
“Here… Ah, now that I think about it, it’s that time.”
“That time?”
“My mother always gets a beauty treatment from a beautician every day before dinner for her skin.”
Alex knocked on the door politely.
“Mother.”
“Alex, I’m getting a beauty treatment right now. What is it?”
A woman’s voice came from beyond the door.
“Gracia is back! And…”
Before Alex could finish his sentence.
*Squeak!*
The door opened.
“Gracia, you’re back!”
A Langin woman with cucumbers plastered all over her face came out.
“…”
*Slam!*
The door slammed shut, but unfortunately, I saw everything.
*Squeak*
The door opened again, and this time a Langin woman with blue hair, having removed all the cucumbers, appeared.
This must be Nevia Locke, Alex and Gracia’s mother.
The mother covered her mouth with her hand and smiled gracefully.
“Oh ho ho, I didn’t know we had guests. Excuse me. Gracia, welcome back. Ryphe, how have you been?”
“Yes, Mother.”
“Of course, Auntie.”
“I’d like to have a long talk. Before that, Gracia, did you report to your father first?”
“That’s…”
“Mother! Gracia has become a female!”
“What!?”
At Alex’s words, the mother’s eyes widened.
“Is that true?”
“Yes, Mother. This is my husband.”
I bowed my head to the mother and said,
“My name is Rent.”
“…It’s good that you came to me first. Gracia, please wait in the reception room. I’ll send the beautician back first.”
“Understood.”
“Alex, go back to your room until dinner.”
“Yes, Mother.”
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We followed Gracia to the reception room.
There were four sofas in the reception room, so we sat down as we had in Ryphe’s mansion.
After waiting for a while, the mother came in.
The mother immediately sat down on the sofa opposite the one where Ryphe, Gracia, and I were sitting, and then immediately asked us.
“Gracia, you’ve become a female… First of all, as your mother, I want to congratulate you.”
“Thank you, Mother.”
“And you said your name was Rent?”
“Yes.”
“Gracia went to Pludan with Ryphe… So, you must be an adventurer from Pludan, right?”
“Yes, that’s right. I’m Rent, the S-rank adventurer Dungeon Crasher from Pludan.”
“Dungeon Crasher…! You were a hero of Pludan. Indeed, it’s understandable why Gracia would take you as her husband.”
The mother nodded once and then looked at Ryphe.
“But Ryphe? Even if you’re close to Gracia, isn’t it rude to be next to Gracia’s husband?”
“Ah, don’t worry, Aunt Nevia! I’m also my husband’s female! And all the companions who came with me are also my husband’s women.”
“What…?”
The mother looked around at us, then sighed deeply, holding her forehead.
“Haa… It’s natural for heroes to be womanizers and have many females… It’s understandable, but… this is a headache.”
“Is there a problem, Mother?”
“There’s a big problem, Gracia. I wonder how your father will react when he finds out…”
Nevia, like Grafa and Ryling, was worried about Galf.
“…Mother, before coming here, I went to Tizanga with Ryphe and greeted Lord Gwine and Aunt Ryling. But they had the same reaction as you.”
“To Lord Gwine? There wasn’t any commotion?”
“Well, there was! But my husband knocked out our father in one blow, so he was immediately recognized!”
“Lord Gwine… in one blow?”
“And he knocked out my brothers in one blow too!”
“Indeed… The S-rank adventurer from Pludan who stopped the disaster. You’re on a different level. Both in skill and in the scale of women you have…”
“Mother, you haven’t answered my question yet.”
“Ah, that’s right. I’m sorry, Gracia. Don’t you understand why I… and Lord Gwine and Lady Ryling are reacting like this?”
“No. I don’t know what you’re worried about. Of course, Father will be surprised when he hears that I’ve become a female. But if Father knows my husband’s strength, he will accept it like a knight of Bridan. Just like Lord Gwine.”
“…If only it were that easy.”
“What’s the reason, Mother? I really don’t understand. Father is the greatest knight of Bridan, and I respect him. The father I’ve seen respects the strong, and he would be proud that I’m a female of such a strong person. “
At Gracia’s words, Nevia sighed deeply again.
“Haa… If only it were that easy. Gracia, you are our precious daughter.”
“Yes, Mother. Even if we’re not related by blood, I know that you both cherish me. And I love you both as my mother and father.”
“It’s always a pleasure to hear those words. Yes, you are our precious daughter. Cute Gracia. But do you know? Your father, especially… he really, really cherishes and loves you.”
“I know that Father cherishes me, Mother. Didn’t he personally teach me swordsmanship? Recently… I had a feeling that he wasn’t happy about me becoming a knight.”
“…That’s all because he loves and worries about you.”
“Even so, I chose the path of becoming my husband’s female, not a knight as Father wished. What path could Father want more than this?”
“Aaaah…”
Nevia held her forehead again, looking very troubled, and sighed.
“Gracia… It’s partly because your husband didn’t show it, but you’re really dense.”
“Huh? What do you mean…?”
“Gracia, I have to tell you this much. Your father… is someone who will absolutely not accept you becoming a female. Even if you lose completely to Rent, whom you’ve recognized as your husband.”
“Huh? What do you mean? A knight of Bridan is supposed to show respect to a strong person who has defeated them. My father, who is called the best knight of Bridan and a model knight, would never do such a thing…”
“As a knight, that’s true… But Gracia, when it comes to you, your father abandons his knightly persona and becomes just a father. And a very… very doting father.”
“Huh?”
At her mother’s words, Gracia tilted her head, looking completely confused.
“A doting father, Mother. Father certainly cares for me, but he’s not a doting father.”
“…That’s because he’s putting on an act in front of you. No, it’s not an act. He’s always the wonderful man I admired in my youth. But when it comes to you, he becomes a complete doting father. It’s to the point where I, who love him, am disgusted.”
The mother continued to speak like a broken faucet.
“After you left for Pludan with Ryphe, do you know how much he worried about you every night before going to bed? What if a bad man gets attached to our Gracia, wife? Is Gracia eating well, wife? What if our Gracia’s beautiful skin gets hurt, wife? He asks me every night, every night, without getting tired of it. Honestly, if I didn’t love him, I would have slapped him to shut him up.”
“M-Mother?”
“Honestly, these questions are repeated every time you go out on a quest with Ryphe. But the periods were short, so it was bearable, but three months is honestly too long, isn’t it? I also wanted you to come back and free me from having to soothe this man.”
Oh, I could tell from this conversation alone that Galf was quite the doting father.
But that wasn’t the end of it.
“Gracia, you think your father doesn’t like you becoming a knight? But that’s a big misunderstanding. Rather, your father is the one who hates you becoming a female more than anything because you’re too pretty.”
“N-no way…”
“In the past few years, he didn’t like you training in the morning at the training grounds, right? That’s all because he didn’t want the knights or male servants working in this mansion to see you training.”
“W-what?”
“You’re an adult now, so you have a female figure, right? And when you train, you don’t wear a cloak, so he couldn’t bear to let other men see our beautiful daughter’s body. That’s why he prepared a private training ground for you.”
“B-but these days, other knights don’t come to the training ground at all…”
“That’s because the knights are using the training grounds outside the mansion, afraid of your father’s glare. In fact, your grown-up body is a magnificent female, so it was natural for you to attract the attention of male knights, and it was understandable that you would receive your father’s glare.”
Indeed, Gracia’s outfit was a black, super high-leg that clung to her skin.
It would be strange if she didn’t attract attention.
“That… can’t be…”
“Do you know how much your father whined when your body was growing? How dare they cast lewd glances at our Gracia! I’ll cut off all their heads! He said, and it was so hard for me to calm him down…”
*Thump!*
While Nevia was talking, Gracia slammed the table and stood up from her seat.
“T-t-that’s a lie! I can’t believe it, Mother!”
“It’s true, Gracia. Your father is really a doting…”
“Then I’ll go and declare to Father myself that I’ve become a female! The truth will be revealed then!”
“Wait a minute, Gra…”
Before her mother could stop her.
“Wind Boost!”
*Whoosh!*
Gracia wrapped herself in the wind and rushed out.
…Somehow, I have a strong feeling that things are going to get even more complicated than they did in Tizanga.
『It’s going to be a mess.』
