Reincarnated as a Son of the Sword Saint and the Sage

Chapter 404: Not Found

It had been a day since I had an oyakodon with Rubina and Melville, and my overall experience with it was fantastic.

Not only did I extract valuable information from Melville beforehand, but I also got the opportunity to do so without the influence of Lust. I basically violated her, as she did not want to be dominated, but it did not matter to me because I was the master of my domain.

After recasting Lust on Melville, I did convince her to do incest lesbian sex with her own mother in the context of treating her horniness. To be honest, two gorgeous women hooking up was always absolutely hot and arousing.

Even though they were doing it awkwardly, they seemed to exert effort to get better. I indeed used my authority to command them, but that was also the reason why Melville did it—she wanted to please me by not betraying my expectations.

Anyway, I was greatly satisfied with my experience yesterday, but I had lists of things to do on the surface. Some of them were postponed, and a very few that I regarded as insignificant were cancelled.

At the moment, I remained in the Imperial Capital while my family was in the City of Lavender. We should be all back in the city of Louisiana right now due to the important matters we should settle there, but we decided to stay in our current locations for our own reasons.

My family extended our stay in the empire until this morning for political and personal reasons, like my sister's engagement with Christine. We were basically dealing with the empire's internal affairs, so we should deal with it seriously.

The Grise Archduchy had accepted their entanglement recently, and right now, my sister and Christine were trying to get to know one another's family well.

My family visited the Grise household in the Imperial Capital last evening. The Grise family prepared a banquet for us so that they could introduce us to the lords and ladies under their archduchy.

Today was the day for the Grise family to learn about our family, which meant their turn to come visit us. Of course, we absolutely did not want them to gaze at the abyss of our dark side. Our dark secrets were so sickening that they put some Habsburg wannabe families to shame.

However, our manor in the empire was not that huge to hold such big events. The garden and yard were not spacious enough, and the mansion itself was not big since it was previously owned by a knight family.

That was why we decided to hold the event in two separate places: in the city of Lavender and in our queendom's capital, Louisiana. The plan was that we would spend one day in my city and then go to the capital after that.

Earlier this morning, the Raevender family and the Grise family departed the empire and went to the City of Lavender through my Portal. By the way, the reason we went to Lavender was to show off our railway system as well as have them experience riding the train to go to the queendom's capital.

I really wanted to personally receive them at the mansion, but I apologized to them, saying that I had something of an unfinished business to settle in the empire. Thankfully, they understood me, but I made a promise to them that I would follow suit as soon as possible.

While the head of the territory was gone, I had Mom, the temporary ruler of the domain while I was studying, receive and guide the members of the Grise family. On the other hand, I had something to settle with, and I was about to meet this person.

"Do I look presentable?"

"Absolutely, Master Raphael."

"Thank you, Cynthia."

Standing side by side on the porch of the mansion, Cynthia, one of my personal maids, complimented my formal attire with a gentle smile on her face. Given that she was formerly a noblewoman, regarding my attire highly according to her standing meant that I was indeed presentable.

Since Mary joined my family, I summoned someone I could rely on to attend to me here. It was not like I did not trust the servants working here; I just felt comfortable being with someone I had a relationship with.

"You are not a person who pays heed to how good they appear, my lord. May I ask why you have had this anxiety?"

"Well, even though we have known each other for quite some time, I am kind of nervous, to be honest. We used to get along the whole time, but now that I changed how I see her, I have been wondering if a single mistake would ruin our relationship."

The reason I was here was because I was patiently waiting for someone to arrive. Although I had not been standing here for long, I felt like every second mattered.

And after a few minutes of waiting here, I could finally see a horse-drawn magic carriage passing the gate, rolling its wheels on the brick path of the front yard. The carriage then encircled the fountain at the center of the roundabout before it halted in front of the porch.

Shortly after, the coachman hopped from the box seat before he opened the carriage's door. Before my eyes, the person who I had been yearning to see disembarked from the carriage with such grace and elegance. Iris Arcenciel had arrived at our residence.

"Good afternoon, Raphael."

"Good afternoon to you too, Iris. It's been a while."

As fellow aristocrats, we took a light bow as we politely greeted each other. Since Cynthia bobbed her body as well, Iris took heed of her, but I caught a glimpse of her narrowing her eyes on Cynthia.

"She is different from the last time. Is she perhaps another maid of yours...?"

"You are correct, Iris. Her name is Cynthia, and she is indeed one of my personal maids, just like Natasha."

"Oh, really? You sure have a rather strange taste."

"You think so?"

While we were chatting, I oddly remembered that I had the Eye of Providence for some reason. Subsequently, Iris's strange stats surfaced in my mind. Curious as to why these two occurrences appeared at the same time, I tried to appraise her again.

(?!)

With my enhanced Heavenly Gaze, I indeed saw an entirely different result. No, it was not even different; the only thing I could see was...

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