Chapter 86: Securing a Right.

(Ria’s POV)

In the dead of night, there weren’t any maids to peep on my actions. Using some of my power, I split off myself to make a double. Unfortunately, with the limits of this dimension, I had to make a compromise…

Zia: “Leave me here as long as you need to.” She said with a smile.

Ria: “Oh? I thought that you would be upset about this…” I reply with a raised eyebrow.

Zia: “How could I be upset? I get to spend my days leisurely, all while you have to do a bunch of work.” She said with a smug tone.

Ria: “…I get to have sex with Celia first.” I say with a stern tone.

Zia: “Now hold on… You have had sex with her not that long ago… It has been literal years for me… Or did you forget that? And I don’t need to remind you whose fault that is.” She said with a serious tone.

Ria: “…Fine. You win this round.” I give up with a sigh.

Zia: “Yay. Now go help our daughter, okay?” She said, waving me away before slipping back into bed.

Ria: “…”

Damn cheeky girl. Does that count as an insult to myself as well? Zia is still me, after all… Ah! I feel myself slowly becoming like Zia and Celia by the day… Does this count as them corrupting me?…

Ah, I am just running myself in circles… Or… maybe I am just still feeling odd? I can’t help but feel like I have forgotten something important… Shaking my head, I soon left Amelie’s estate.

Zia still deserves to relax and be pampered, that’s not something that I will argue about. As for me, I can finally get some damn work done. But the real question is… what do I even do?

A Few Hours Later.

With me being able to disguise myself, or more useful in this case, to become invisible, it wasn’t hard to invade a very busy office building. From my snooping around, this is the HQ of Nina’s family.

Vale, her stepmother, had killed her original mother and her father. But for many years, Vale has never been able to take full control over any of the companies. It was funny seeing how openly the employees gossiped about such a topic…

After searching the most interesting places, I was left with the knowledge that… I really didn’t have to do much at all. I assumed that, as Nina’s mother, I could secure her right to be the family heir.

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The problem with that is… that Nina is already the heir. Vale is just her retainer for now, but pretty much in name only. I can only assume that Nina just can’t kill off her stepmother so easily.

And Vale can’t do the same to her daughter, either. Both sides are lacking things needed to secure their victory. Vale needs her name on those documents, but such a thing will probably never happen.

Nina needs to kill Vale, but she can’t do that at all. Currently, Nina is living in an estate. Her estate, that is, all the maids of it, are on her stepmother’s side, not hers. I doubt that Vale is aware that Nina wants to kill her, but a woman like that would always be looking over her shoulder.

My daughter didn’t seem to be given any knowledge of how to plan the perfect murder, either. And with how controlled and spied on Nina is, doing so is a seriously annoying task, to say the least.

Moan!

Ria: “…”

This should be Charlie, the one that is currently running Nina’s family businesses. Or rather, she is the one that was given the job of watching over them. And right now…

Well, to be fair to them, I snuck into her private office, which was locked. Inside, I witnessed Charlie having intense sex with a woman. I was afraid that she was being led astray, which would affect Nina.

But luckily, this woman had no connection to Vale, and was actually Charlie’s lawful wife. The walls of the office are seemingly soundproof, sure. But is it wise to have sex in your office?

With nothing left in this place for me to find, I left the building with a long sigh. Even hours later, I was nowhere close to figuring out a way to help my daughter out.

Ria: “…”

This can’t be… It wasn’t like that sex scene I saw was anything special… If so, why do I feel so aroused right now? Wait… I am being pleasured? Zia…

Ria: “Are you having sex with Amelie?” I ask in my head.

Zia: “Ahhh… huh? Oh, yeah, I am.” She admitted.

Ria: “…”

Zia: “I didn’t expect you to also feel this, sorry…” She said with a remorseful tone.

Ria: “Is this really the time to be having sex? Not to mention, but why is Amelie having sex with you? Our cover is that we don’t have any memories of her at all…” I ask with an annoyed tone.

Zia: “Look, she said, “Why don’t I try to make you remember me with my body? Without your memories, I have much to teach you about.”… How was I supposed to resist her blatant temptation?” She said in defense.

Ria: “…”

Dammit… Amelie was always good at seducing me. Celia… frankly, she was kinda bad at seduction most of the time. That is, rather than seductive, I just always found her attempts to be too cute for me to even think about resisting her.

Amelie, on the other hand… That woman knew how to get you to have sex with her. Since I know this, I can’t blame Zia for giving in to her temptations. And I have no right to tell Zia not to have sex with Amelie.

That woman is just as much her wife as she is my wife. Rather, I don’t feel that it is the same as sharing Celia with the rest of her wives. Zia is me, and I am her, as well. Separate, but the same. We are, for lack of a better way to express it, a contradiction.

Ria: “Zia, just don’t go all night… I would like to actually be able to get work done.” I plead.

Zia: “What!?” She exclaimed.

Ria: “Huh? What’s wrong?…” I reply with a confused tone.

Zia: “Oh… Sorry. I thought that you wouldn’t like me to continue having sex with Amelie all while you were trying to work. As such, I used sex magic to just have a quick session with her…” She explained.

Ria: “…”

Zia: “Oh, well. I guess that I will sleep. Unlike you, I haven’t had the pleasure of using one of my wives as a hug pillow in a long time.” She said with a laugh.

Sometimes, I wonder if Zia even is me in the first place… She acts so differently from how I do. Is this… will I really end up acting like that as well? Is Zia my true self? For now, such a thing doesn’t need to be focused on. Instead, I need to figure out a good way to kill that Vale woman…