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Inside of her personal bathing area within the Gremory mansion, Venelana was taking a bath after dealing with most of her duties for the day. As Lady Gremory, she has many responsibilities to attend to within the Gremory territory. It could be stressful and annoying at times, but she did enjoy what she does. Even if it meant having to deal with the problems her husband causes within his harem. 

As the main wife Venelana does spend the most time with Zeoticus out of all of his harem. But she does get neglected as well just like the rest of them. She never held it against Zeoticus and understood his position. Because of her understanding and help, Zeoticus offered her a deal that allowed her to have lovers of her own outside of her husband. This deal is also why Venelana's relationship with her daughter is the way it is. She has the freedom to act without consequences to her marriage and position.

Unfortunately, not all of Zeoticus' harem members are as understanding as she is. Which is also understandable since it's obvious her husband tends to play favorites often. Regardless of what schedule Venelana sets up for her husband and his harem, he still has final say in what he wants to do. 

Thankfully Venelana made sure to form great relationships with all the women in her husband's harem. So even if they are jealous of her, none of them truly has any ire towards her since they know she does her job well as the manager of the harem. She never tried to hog their shared lover's attention even during both of her pregnancies. 

"It's not easy managing a harem when the one you're managing a harem for doesn't do their best to make all of their harem members happy. It's a shocker none of the women has left the harem yet, though I do not how much longer that'll last. I even suggested to Zeoticus to use clones as a way to multitask, but does he listen? Sigh, and he wonders why mother-in-law gets on his case. If any negative rumors get out, it'll affect the Gremory family just as bad as Zeoticus." Venelana sighed, sinking herself deeper into the water. 

She was lost into her thoughts, so lost that she didn't notice a flash of red appearing behind her.

"You seem stressed, mother." Rias instantly picked up on her emotions.

Venelana yelped and jumped as her daughter's sudden appearance took her by surprise. Her sudden movement caused her to create waves in the bath water. "Oh Satan." She held a hand to her chest as she turned around. "Rias! What have I told you about doing that?" She gave her daughter a stern gaze.

"….to not do it.." Rias answered.

"And what did you do?" Venelana questioned.

"Sorry, I just wanted to give you a surprise visit." Rias replied sheepishly.

The Madame of Extinction simply rolled her eyes, knowing her chaotic daughter will keep doing the same no matter how many times she says not to. "Uh huh you surprised me alright, so why are you here?"

"No particular reason, I just finished visiting big brother, Grayfia and my precious Millicas-chan. I figured I would visit you as well. I know father is busy and I can sense grandmother is sleeping, I'll visit her another day." Rias replied.

"Oh? I would've thought it was because you missed your mommy's milk?" Venelana teased her while showing off her naked breasts. 

"….I won't deny it." Rias smirked.

Venelena chuckled. "Ufufufufufu you're such a pervert my daughter, so much so that you even turned your sweet mother into one as well."

"I won't deny that either." The Chaos Creator said.

"Wanna join me?" The brunette milf offered.

Rias nodded, she won't reject such an invitation. She changed into her red slime form and hopped into the bath water. 

Her mother brightened up seeing her cute slime form, instantly reaching out and pulling Rias closer to cuddle her. Allowing Rias to enjoy the sensation of a pair of wonderful naked tits. 

Neither said a word for a little while, just comfortably relaxing in each other's presence in silence.

Eventually Rias broke the comfortable silence. "So mind telling me what has your emotions unsettled?"

"Your father and his harem is causing me unnecessary stress, I'm trying to hold it all together to prevent any of the other women from acting out of spite. People are looking for a reason to tear our family down now more than ever because of your Senzu Beans. As you know, because of them the prestige and riches of our family increased exponentially throughout the Underworld. Your brother informed me that even the other factions have taken notice. If someone from your father's harem started speaking negatively about him in public, it'll give all of the other jealous families a reason to band together and act against us." Venelana explained.

Rias didn't understand why such a thing was bothering her mother. "Mother, I fail to see what's the issue? So what if bad rumors are spread about father? He can easily kill off any threat? If it's about politics then that can easily be handled too. You know this."

Venelana shook her head. She understood her daughter's mentality very well. Rias doesn't care about anyone's opinion of her outside of her loved ones, why would a goddess care about the opinions of weak mortals that she can easily kill? 

"It's not that simple, as a duke, your father is getting sloppy in how he's handling everything. I'm having to clean up more and more of his messes, if this continues it'll start causing headaches for your brother. People already know you are already stronger than your father and are the reason for our rise in prestige and riches. As idiotic as it may sound, our reputation will take a big hit no matter what if people start saying your father is not only a figurehead but he can't even control his own home life. It's not ideal to have our subjects and allies start having those opinions about the Duke of the Gremory Clan. It can lead to unnecessary problems." Venelana said.

Rias understood, while she still didn't see this as a big deal to stress over, she knew dealing with all of this could be frustrating if one were in her mother's position. Her father is making her mother's job harder than necessary. Plus Rias knows her grandmother will not stand for any self inflicted harm to their family's reputation. Although Chysis gives Rias some leniency for obvious reasons.

"I see, that is a bit troublesome. But mother you still shouldn't be letting this stress you out so much. Let father handle his own mess if he's going to cause issues, for now how about I help relieve you of all of your burdensome stress?" Rias offered, having clear naughty intentions in mind.

The brunette milf smirked. "I would love it if you could take away my stress dear~."