The Lustful Villain: Every Milfs and Gilfs are Mine!-Chapter 295. So Many New Information, So Yeah, I’m In! (Let’s Go Ruin Their Plans!)
They had breakfast together at the eastern table, bathed in the morning light that patiently illuminated the city outside. The conversation flowed through their recent expedition, resembling the natural progression of discussions among people engaged in the important task of clarifying what they understood and what they required. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
After that, the walk to the Academy felt distinctly like that of a group who had experienced something significant together and was now, a few days later, trying to understand how their shared experience appeared in the light of day.
Apollo walked like someone who was still carrying the weight of the last week but had chosen to do so while moving instead of standing still. And Mireya stayed close to his left.
"It seems like there’s something happening between those two," Rex thought. "That ice girl seems really close to him... don’t tell me she already confessed her feelings?"
’Amelia once said that Apollo is one dense pussy, so I bet Mireya was the one that made the first move until Apollo accepted her feelings, probably with a sense to protect her so that the Kaelira incident didn’t happen twice.’
’But... Mireya appears in my desire system, so...’ Rex smirked. ’I had to steal her from him for sure.’
At one point on the main street, a section of the cordoning appeared on their right. Apollo observed it with the demeanor of someone who was monitoring something under their control, remaining unfazed. Rex stayed silent as he watched Apollo’s gaze linger on it.
They were two blocks from the Academy when Mireya said something quiet to Apollo in a register that was meant for him, and he looked at her with the expression of someone still learning how to receive things that were offered without strings.
Rex saw that Nerith noticed this exchange.
"Are they together now?" Rex asked plainly.
Apollo clearly heard what Rex said, and then he looked at him with a faint surprise. "I—yes."
He glanced at Mireya, who was looking at Rex with the calm directness she had deployed since their conversation on the secondary approach.
"A few days ago," Apollo said. "It felt—I didn’t want to keep waiting for things to be right."
"Mireya said that waiting for right is how things stay undone."
"Well..." Rex said, "She’s not wrong."
’Oh yeah... this is going to get interesting soon.’
"Not just Mireya," Apollo said, and there was something in his voice that made it sound like he was being careful with something important. "Most of them."
"Talyra came to see me two days ago."
Rex kept his expression steady.
"She brought Aisella," Apollo said. "They stayed for most of the afternoon."
’Hoh... those two... I knew I could count on them,’ Rex thought, already aware of what those girls were planning. ’I told them that if Apollo confessed to them, they should accept him, but they shouldn’t let him touch them.’
’With this... I can make his pain even deeper, without knowing that both of the two girls in his harem were already mine.’ Rex looked at Mireya and Nerith. ’And next... both of them are going to be mine as well.’
’Don’t forget about his mother as well...’
"Good," Rex said, and he meant it in every way.
For a moment, Nerith was quiet beside Rex.
After that, she said, "Not me."
’Huh...?’ Rex noticed her slight change of expression.
Apollo said, "Not yet," in a soft voice that showed he had learned the hard way what it meant to let people be where they were and not leave them alone.
Nerith didn’t say anything else, but the ears moved to the front.
’What the fuck is he doing...? This fucking druid is smoking hot, and they’re telling me both of them haven’t been official yet?!’
’What’s stopping them...? And what does he mean by not yet?’
’If this keeps going, then I’ll just steal her fast.’
...
The Academy’s front approach had a different texture than it had during the regular term period, which was lighter and more purposeful simultaneously, people moving on specific errands rather than between classes.
They can see Iris Morr Nightwing were at the side entrance.
Rex spotted her before she noticed him, as the Foresight was always active. The sight of Iris Morr Nightwing standing by the wall possessed a distinct quality that the Foresight automatically emphasized.
"She’s back faster than I expected, which likely means Aurelia is also nearby."
’But... something’s wrong with her.’
She looked worn-out. Not the post-battle worn-out of someone who had pushed their physical limit past a comfortable threshold, but the worn-out of someone who had been managing several things simultaneously for an extended period and had not had uninterrupted time to set any of them down.
And then she spotted Rex about eight meters away. Her expression shifted into the evaluation version, as it always did when she encountered him.
"You’re here, Rex Rexilion," she said. "It seems like the situation is going to get interesting."
"I was at the Nightwing household yesterday." Rex said, "And I didn’t see you at all there, but I know that you probably won’t like it."
"Getting cocky here, are we?" Iris’s face changed in some way. "I heard about the contest, and my father’s lost for the first time in a magic contest."
"Well, with all due respect," Rex said, "your grandfather is a good mage indeed."
"He is, but..." she said, and then she looked at him with a full look. "What EXACTLY did you do to him to just beat him like that without any experience in magic?"
"Read the structures’ magic from the books and worked with what was there," Rex said. "And it probably takes a lot of good luck."
She looked at him for a little longer, and then her body language changed in a way that showed she had decided to stop asking questions for now. "I’ll change the topic to something more important for now."
"Aurelia is missing," she said abruptly. "I know that you’re probably trying to look for her."
The statement sounded flat, as if it had been repeated so many times that its rough edges had worn away. This didn’t mean the topic had lost significance; rather, it was a necessity for them to express it without breaking down to survive.
’Huh...? She’s missing just like that...?’ Rex thought. ’Wait... is this a chance? But eh... I don’t want to raise her desire just from saving her.’
’I want to fight here in front of everyone and make a fool out of her just like Therion, so I’ll just leave that to someone else.’
"The expedition to the canyon site," she said, looking at Elizabeth, who had appeared in the doorway behind Iris. "We ran into a coordinated ambush at the second chamber entrance."
"Twelve fighters, structured deployment. Not bandits."
Rex asked, "How many got out?"
"Four," Iris said. "Me, Alexander, Korren, and Liset."
She then clenched her fists. "Aurelia, my boyfriend Veylor, and the other five went deeper into the cave system to draw the attackers. The plan was for them to circle back through the upper ventilation shaft."
’Oh...? Boyfriend...?’ Rex smiled with full interest. ’I didn’t know every Nightwing member was taken, and that’s... what makes it even better.’
"That was two days ago," Elizabeth said.
Rex looked at the expression on Iris’s face, the one she wore when she was being precise about something at significant personal cost.
"Your boyfriend," Rex said.
Iris stared at him.
"I wonder what kind of a man he is to stay there." Rex said, "He did a good job for letting you out of there."
Iris’s face changed in some way. Not a lot, but enough.
"I know, but... he saved me out of his own carelessness," she said. "And he’s also a reincarnator with exceptionally powerful wind magic."
’Reincarnator, huh...? Good shit.’
"He’s been working with our unit for eight months."
The economy of that sentence was notable, Rex thought. ’Eight months... working with our unit...’
He filed all of it, and the filing remained internal.
"The key to the Underlayer expedition and the rescue become the same mission," Elizabeth said, addressing the group. "The canyon site is where we have the best evidence for the artifact’s location, and Aurelia and the others are somewhere in the same system."
"We prioritize the people." Apollo said, "Their lives are more important than that key."
"Of course," Elizabeth said in her usual tone for trivial matters.
Rex was paying attention to the problem’s shape and what it could do.
The canyon site was likely near a subsurface access point, which was why the Key to Underlayer was there in the first place. If the ambush had been coordinated and structured, it was either a competing party looking for the artifact, which suggested the artifact’s location was not as obscure as Elizabeth believed, or it was something else entirely.
’I need to dive deep down into this information...’ Rex thought. ’I don’t plan to save the Underlayer, but still... I don’t want any humans just ruining my soon-to-be kingdom as the Lustful Villain.’
He thought about what the Key to the underlayer represented if the academy retrieved it. Then he thought about what it represented if he was on the team that retrieved it.
The second choice let him have a direct say in what happened to it.
Rex said, "I’m in."
"What a coincidence." She looked at him. "I was going to ask you in private."
"Well, now here I say I want to join that expedition." Rex said, "It saves your time."
