Preference

"Oh…. That's Osier?" Vesper lazily mumbled as he gazed at his wife then gazed back at the interface and frowned slightly.

"Then how is his Neuro-SIM private?" He mumbled, and Liana who was just about to exclaim and ask him to stop peeping, hearing what he just mumbled, she froze.

"Private?" She asked.

"Indeed, that's the actual reason I sent the scouts to check out the situation….." Vesper mumbled as he gazed at the car nearing the Stidolphe household.

[Retreat, it was a false alarm] He instructed and called back the robo-scouts and allowed the people in the mansion to relax.

Noticing the car near the mansion gates, he stood up from his seat with a yawn as he walked towards Liana and went down with her to welcome his daughter and his daughter's fiancé, whom Iria went to meet yesterday night.

VRRRRrrrrrr...

The emerald green targa soon stopped in front of the stairs that lead up to the mansion doors, which the maids of the mansion opened wide upon noticing the mansion masters walk down the curved stairs in the middle of the kilometres wide hall.

Then as a silver haired young woman whom they were all familiar with and a pink haired handsome young man, whose charm had an immediate effect on the women in the household, walked up the stairs, with the young man, who was now the eye candy of every women in the mansion, teasing the young lady of the Stidolphe Dukedom, who had a frivolous blush dyeing her face.

"Hahaha~" Osier laughed lightly, but his melodious laughter rang in the minds of every women that heard it, and as if hypnotised by his voice, maids in the mansion stopped whatever they were doing and came out to peer at whom the voice belonged to, from wherever they were.

Then the man turned to face who stood at the doors and glanced at every women there with a strange smile on his face that made them feel butterflies in their stomach and blush slightly as they were either enthralled by him or avoided eye contact, unable to gaze at him for more an a second.

[DING]-!

[Master's actions have incited naïve emotions in the hearts of women, an ability is being granted]

[[Ability: Suggestive Smile (lv:1)] has been obtained]

[[Please select a preference: [Women]/[Men]/[Others]]

As soon as that notification popped up, only Osier knew how badly he resisted the urge to curse at the system for even having the need to pick an option!

He then quickly clicked on [Women] and wished for that notification to never pop up ever again!

With the ability now in his arsenal, Osier once again flashed a demonic smile that enthralled any and every women in sight, and this time the reaction from women was extremely obvious as they blushed profusely and turned away, and the not so strange thing here was that in the mentioned women, Liana Stidolphe, Iria's mother was included.

"Ma! Pa!" Iria exclaimed as she rushed towards her parents and hugged them, tightly before she jumped and strode towards Osier, dragged him by his arm and stood in front of her parents once again.

"Hehehe" Without saying anything, she just smiled foolishly at her father, who was looking at her with a warm smile, then towards her mother who instead was looking at her Osier with a white tinted blush on her cheeks and the elongated sharp tips of her ears.

She then turned to face Osier, who looked at her with a soft smile that made her heart skip a beat, as she saw him loosen her grip around his arm and walk forward, towards her parents.

"Hello uncle, I apologise for my immature self from the past" Osier said without any apologetic expression conveyed by his demeanour, but his words seemed to be heart felt, hence;

"Why bring up such things on such a joyous occasion!?" Vesper exclaimed subtly with a soft smile and wave of his hand as he gently pulled Osier into an hug and whispered, "You have been through a lot, sorry I couldn't do much, and thank you for forgiving this lazy father-in-law of yours"

"Don't say that father-in-law, you have done more than enough, I was just blind to notice the things you have done for me" Osier replied back in a whisper as he eyed the fae, who was gazing at him in a daze.

He released the hug, walked towards Liana and smiled as she opened her arms and, "I won't get a hug?" She feigned sadness as she gazed at him. He laughed lightly, nodded his head and took a step towards her for hug, it wasn't a side hug nor was it 'light,' but instead there was no difference in the way he hugged her and Vesper, unlike what those gazing at him expected, including Liana herself.

"Oh my…." She exclaimed in a whisper in his ear, but still hugged back with a blush she couldn't hide.

"I apologise to you as well, mother-in-law…." Osier whispered loud enough to be heard by Vesper, who merely smiled, without even knowing what was actually going on.

With a tight hug that squeezed her breasts on his firm chest, Osier whispered in her ear, with his lips sensually tickling the end of her ear which was being teased by his hot breath, but Liana didn't push him away but instead clenched the sides of his baggy t-shirt, and as his words neared their end they felt a tremor in his voice, and that was exactly when Osier released the hug.

When he released the hug, except Iria who stood behind him, everybody there were able to see the tears he held in while his breathing had turned moist from holding in the urge to cry on Liana's shoulder, noticing the sight many had the urge to rush towards him and console him, but as the masters of the mansion stood in their way, they could only bit their lips and hold in the bubbling urge.

"Hey, why are you crying….." Vesper mumbled in a tease, but inwardly he could tell that it was probably because he missed his parents and hugging them reminded him of them.

"N-nothing…." With a sniffle and a bashful smile, Osier avoided eye contact and wiped away the tears in his eyes.

"Come on in, don't be shy if you ever want to call me or her father and mother!" Vesper said to Osier as he tapped him over his shoulders with a side hug, before he turned to face Iria and, "Bring him to the room on the third floor, next to ours, while I assign a few maids for him. Since today there will only be gathering among the children from the noble households, you do not need to attend as it will only be useless chatter anyway, so take a rest for today." Vesper said to Iria who walked towards Osier, hugged his arm and dragged him towards the stairs.

"Want me to stay with you?" Iria asked in a whisper.

"No, it'll probably be better if you take a rest, if you stay with me, I'll definitely not let you sleep~" He teased.

"You pervert"

"Hahahaha"

When they stepped foot in the third floor,

"...I'll stay if you want me to" Iria said in a loud enough whisper only for him to hear.

"How sweet of you, but don't worry, I'm alright."

"….. if you say so" She mumbled as she released his arm and waved at him as she walked away, towards her own room.

He stepped into the room after closing the door behind him and flashed a quick glance at the room that was much more luxurious than the one he had seen from the OG Osier's memories.

"A Noble household is Noble household after all~" He mumbled with a smile as he strode towards the bed and pounced on it, bouncing on it for a couple of times before he relished the cushy feeling, but that didn't last for long as he realised that he had to become somebody that was unique for only himself.

It was something he did all this time, but he left like it wasn't him because of all the memories in his consciousness that wronged everything about him and made him someone he would never want to be! Though he persisted through since 'he' gained his consciousness as Osier, but he wouldn't last long like that, and he WILL become somebody or something he wouldn't want to be.

Hence there was one thing he could do now, in the state he was.

And that would be to recreate himself and readjusted his character like he want it to be….and to do that he planned to accept all the memories etched on his consciousness and give birth to the one that he himself would name and live as.

With a deep breath, he laid on the bed in the state he had pounced on it and dove into the very depths of his own consciousness, where he 'sat' in a lotus position while gazillion memoirs tornado(ed) over his head as if it wanted to dig to the very depths of his existence.

With a deep sigh that resolved his will, he accepted every single one of the gazillion memoirs as his own.

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[AN: People, is the pace alright or should I go a bit slower while explaining things in much detail?]