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"Will the Young lady be okay, Veronica-sama?" asked Ozgeth, as he emerged from within Veronica's shadow, as a Shadow Ghost, he had the power to merge inside Shadows with ease and not even be noticed by normal folk, this coupled with his new Stealth Skill made it easy for him to even be undetected by strong Adventurers, not even Vairvec knew about his presence, despite being a strong Ghost of Rank 8.

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"I am also worried about little Kuro…" sighed Shade, appearing out of Veronica's soul.

"My lady, you could at least tell me to accompany her, I am sure that she wouldn't have bothered!" said Albert's ghost, floating around Veronica.

"Are you dumb? Kuro has Limited Death Attribute Magic, she will easily spot all of you and get angry that I am not trusting her strength… And I want my daughter to forge some confidence in herself too. If I babysit her, although I love to do it, it will detriment her growth… It has only been like 6 months since she was born but she had grown a lot already due to evolution, but her mind still is yet to develop completely," said Veronica.

"Hm, perhaps we should try to get her a Spirit like Shade or Gaia…" said Ervas.

"Oh right… Well, she is always with Dead Spirits around her, but she has not tamed any Ghost yet. I believe she has a large group of Undead too, but she doesn't carry them with her, her soul has yet to develop the ability to be able to store things inside," said Veronica.

"A Spirit would be nice for her to bond with, Fei too should get one, Spirits are good as they can assist us with magic… I never thought I would be able to use magic until I got my little Sylphid with me," said Pekonisia, like a little tornado of green winds, floated around her, this was her Wind Attribute Spirit, Sylphid.

"It was hard for her to attract a Spirit because her mind is always somewhere else… the same for the rest of the kids. But maybe that they had grown up a bit more they will be able to properly call upon one… Kuro-chan, much like me, does not have any other element affinity other than no-attribute and death, so it would be nice if she could get some spirit of another attribute to get her magic some more coverage," said Veronica.

"My Fei is more of a physical fighter, that girl doesn't really like to use magic that much… Her magic Skill is still at level 2! Sheesh… But her Unarmed Fighting Technique recently reached level 6, so she is diligently getting better and better with physical combat," said Pekonisia.

"Fei-chan has a really good kicking talent! Her talons are covered in hard scales and she has sharp claws, so I am teaching her all I know about kicking techniques! However she also likes to use her fists too, and even her head, she is quite the crazy fighter, peko," said Pekorina while recalling teaching her little niece all about kicking.

"I have noticed that her tail is very strong as well, she doesn't even need to use weapons, her entire body is covered in natural armor and her superhuman strength skill is high level too, she's lethal by itself… even her claws are sharper than most swords," said Ervas.

"Isn't she very talented? Fufu," laughed Pekonisia, feeling proud of her beloved girl.

Much like Lilith and the rest, she had been told that her children were born by Ervas and Veronica's powers, as they had cleansed the "evil" that these monsters commanded by Oggoth seeped into their wombs, bringing to life children that were not monster nor… demi-humans, a new race of beings.

Telling them the truth would go against what they did before, which was extracting the memories of rape and other things that they did not want them to keep.

Although Ervas and Veronica knew that Fei and the other blood-human children were born from such a vile act, they treasured the lives of the innocent, and desired to not kill the small fetuses that did not fault what the world outside had done to their mothers, they were innocent and clean souls and deserved to live.

Due to that, they modified their genes and took out their monstrous nature and appearance, so they could develop advanced intelligence like demi-humans and also look more demi-human-like.

The thing about having a demon husband was but a blatant lie from Pekonisia, a little thing that Ervas and Veronica told her to say whenever she was asked what Fei was and who would even be the father of such a chimeric-looking girl.

And thanks to their authority, Vairvec did not pursue the subject anymore and let her be, as he feared to unleash Veronica's rage.

Although before they were to even chose violence, she would ask Ervas to brainwash him using Mind Encroachment and Psychokinesis.

"Well, I suppose the young lady is strong on her own…" sighed Albert, who had grown attached to Kuro as he liked to serve the girl… he was now an Undead Ghost, so he was very easily encroached by the girl's Death Attribute Charm and made into a very loyal subject.

"Don't worry father… You seem to treat Kuro as your second child or something… Our lords know better than us, so trust them," sighed Percy.

"Y-You are right, Percy…" sighed Albert.

"Though, maybe it would be time to let Kuro tame her first Ghost so she can learn Dead Spirit Magic, right?" wondered Veronica.

"Oh right, we had forgotten about that… She should be capable of using it too," said Ervas.

"Oh then I can be young's lady-tamed ghost!" said Albert.

"Albert you are too high level and rank, she won't accept you…" said Ervas.

"It's clear that she doesn't want help from us in these regards, she probably will want to get a Rank 1 Ghost, and slowly raise it as we did," said Veronica.

"O-Oh…" sighed Albert, a former Paladin Knight who served directly after Bestellen's church, he was now obsessed with serving an Undead young master, something that went against all of the church rules and beliefs…

"Well, you're still with us, right?" asked Ervas.

"Yeah, cheer up! You should be happy that we did not just crush your soul. Now you can serve us as a Ghost," said Veronica.

"Oh! That is right… All thanks to Percy, my son…" said Albert.

Veronica and Ervas were originally going to crush and eat Albert's soul after interrogating him, but after Percy convinced them a lot, they ended up accepting to not crush his soul, only converting him into a ghost that had become part of their main repertoire of Ghosts, such as Pete, Feroya, Alraune, and more.

"Don't worry about that father, you are a citizen of the Igni Kingdom now, so make sure to behave with our lords," said Percy.

"AH, yes, yes, I will. I shall serve them with all of my brilliance!" said Albert.

"Good to know. Anyways, what do we do now?" wondered Veronica.

"Well, I don't feel like going to look for a ship yet, so let us go to the restaurant… And our clones are looking for fitting materials underwater anyway, so there is no rush," said Ervas.

"Oh, you're right. I guess. Let us go serve some clients! It's always fun to make new friends," said Veronica, leading her group back to the Red-Light District.

"Will you wear a sexy maid outfit again?" asked Ervas.

"Of course! Don't I looked amazing with one~?" asked Veronica while winking.

"Sigh… We are supposed to be aristocrats… It is a bit weird to serve our clients like that," said Ervas.

"Well don't you enjoy wearing a little butler outfit though?" asked Veronica.

"…Well yeah, but that's because Pekorina thinks I look handsome in one," said Ervas.

"Well, that's right, peko! Ervas-kun always looks so cute with one, peko! …I-I mean handsome! Not cute, he's… very manly, peko!" said Pekorina, remembering that Ervas didn't like to be called cute because he wanted to be manly, so instead he liked to be called handsome.

"Well Anna-chan always says that I look pretty sexy with my dress, and why wouldn't I want my wife to feast her eyes with my body, huh?" asked Veronica teasingly.

"I believe that you might be going a bit too far there, more than Anna, a lot of strangers are also feasting their eyes with you… Kireina's teachings had gotten into your head…" sighed Shade.

"Eh? Teachings? What do you mean? I am completely fine! I-I am not a degenerate!" said Veronica while crossing her arms, averting her gaze, and glaring at the several things people sold around in the town.

"That's… questionable," said Shade.

"Hmph! If you are getting bold like that I will not give you any pleasures tonight!" said Veronica.

"Eh?! W-Wait, y-you can't say that now!" cried Shade, Veronica meant "pleasures" by the things she did to stimulate his ethereal existence, giving him a bit of pleasure even if he was a Spirit, something they did waiting for one day for Shade to get a physical body.

"Hehe, now I got you beneath my grasp!" laughed Veronica.

"We can clearly tell who's the dominant one in this relationship…" laughed Pekonisia.

"Ervas, what are pleasuring things?" asked Gaia while floating around Ervas.

"N-Nothing… Don't let these people contaminate your mind, Gaia-chan," said Ervas while petting the adorable Gaia.

"Why am I known as a degenerate now?! That is now how it was supposed to be! Damn it…" sighed Veronica.

"You can make up for it by not dressing in those maid outfits," said Ervas.

"Not gonna happen," said Veronica.

"…At least I tried," sighed Ervas.

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