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Translator: Nemui
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◈ Reincarnated as the Villain's Heir
Chapter 56: The Balfont Family Table
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On the night of our day off, we were gathered around the table as a family for the first time in a while at the House Balfont mansion.
My mother Lisania, my father Leorg, the eldest son Vaid, the eldest daughter Mirei, the second son Gillium, and me.
Even the servants must have felt the tension drifting through the room.
"Heeey, pick up my fork."
"Yes!"
"Thanks. Father said he will raise your salary."
"Huh?"
The nearby servant handed Sister Mirei the fallen fork at incredible speed.
Of course, there was no salary raise.
Leorg glared sharply at Mirei.
In my previous life, I would have thought not to use a fork that had fallen, but thanks to living in the mountains, that way of thinking had disappeared.
If you worried about things like that, you could not become like Brother Vaid, at least.
He would not get an upset stomach even if he ate something dirty.
"Speaking of which, Father. My castle is finally complete. Its name is Gillium Castle! Now I am lord of a castle too."
"Oh, that is joyous. The location was near the eastern border with Gears Country, correct?"
"Yeah. I have to keep a close watch so that country doesn't get full of itself again. Hey, Father. Don't you think I'm working harder than a certain youngest child?"
"You are producing suitable results. Be honestly proud."
Gillium looked at me from the corner of his eye with a grin.
Why did I have to spend a fun holiday night with this trash brother?
After I hurt him when we were children, he stopped getting extremely carried away, but whenever he saw an opening, he tried to assert dominance like this.
"Hey, Alphys. How is academy life? What is your duel record?"
"Don't know."
"Hey, hey, won't that get you looked down on? If you get looked down on, that means I get looked down on too. I was already third in my year as a first-year."
"That's amazing."
From my perspective, being unable to take first place as a first-year meant he was finished.
In duels, monsters could not be used, so raw ability was tested. It could not be helped.
Even now, he was probably absorbed in gathering monsters.
"I've already gathered three thousand monsters. They're already deployed at Gillium Castle, and if I feel like it, I can destroy Gears Country anytime."
"That country isn't doing anything right now. And that isn't the side we should be wary of."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"You really don't see anything, do you?"
When I provoked him, Gillium grabbed me by the collar.
The moment I stirred him up a little, this happened.
"Don't get full of yourself. Want me to show you things are different from when we were kids?"
"Let go."
"Guaaah!"
When I gripped Gillium's wrist hard enough to nearly crush it, he screamed and crouched down.
That was what happened when weak people acted tough.
"Anyone who cannot follow table manners can disappear."
"Y-you... Gah!"
I kicked up Gillium's chin as he knelt and looked up at me.
He collapsed spread-eagled on the floor, and the servants screamed.
Ignoring them, I sat back down and continued enjoying my meal.
"Alphys is such a little rascal."
"Hmph..."
Sister Mirei was acting as usual, and Leorg merely laughed.
Brother Vaid silently crunched through bone-in meat, bones included.
In other words, this kind of scene was everyday life.
The servants did not seem used to it, though.
"By the way, Mirei. I hear you accepted research into summoning magic."
"I did, Father. I accepted even though Alphys would not let me tongue-kiss him. Aren't I amazing?"
"Report your progress frequently."
"Yes."
As expected of our father, he lightly ignored my sister's remark.
My mother had almost no presence at all.
She always smiled and followed Leorg, so it could not be helped.
"The other day, we made the man Vaid and Alphys captured during their mission spill everything. It seems things have become rather foolish."
"Then Allgan really is plotting something?"
"At this stage, I will deliberately not say. Truly foolish... foolish... so foolish that..."
At that point, we covered our ears.
At the same time, we released our pulses and wrapped them around Leorg.
"I cannot contain my anger! That rotten weakling nation that pretended to be neutral during the neighboring-country war! How dare they touch my garden! Who the hell do they think they are? Damn it! Who! Who said they could mess with my garden?"
The fear pulse leaking out along with Leorg's abuse would make the servants kill themselves all at once if they received it directly.
Even so, it felt like it took the three of us together to hold it back.
The faintly leaking pulse touched the servants, and they immediately sat down trembling with tears in their eyes.
Incidentally, my mother Lisania continued eating without breaking her smile.
Then, after Leorg's anger settled, she quietly leaned close to him.
This was fairly normal.
"Dear, calm down. You are always at the summit, so you must not do anything unsightly."
"You are right. I am sorry, Lisania. I worried you."
"It is all right. I am here supporting you..."
In this world, my mother was the only person the fear pulse did not work on.
Was it because she possessed the pulse of love and overcame any fear?
"Yes, I am always calm. Let us calmly consider what should be done. Of course, I do not mean countermeasures. You understand, yes?"
"It is only a question of how to settle this."
"Vaid, exactly. As the eldest son, I am happy you answered first. Hahaha!"
Leorg laughed cheerfully as if he were a different person from moments ago.
He really was small-minded.
Flatter him a little and this was what happened.
"We can proceed as usual. We make the first move."
"Mm, Vaid. That is fine. That is exactly House Balfont."
How to settle this.
That was nothing more than a discussion about how to torment a rat.
It was not a topic that should come up at a family dinner table.
"Moyu, moyu."
"Moyu, if you want to eat it, eat."
The one attached to Brother Vaid was magical creature level twenty-five.
After that, she seemed to have acknowledged Brother Vaid as her master and had become completely attached to him.
He had even named her, and it was a little funny how readily he had gotten into it.
The name was exactly as-is, though.
More importantly, how to settle this, huh.
Well, I was thinking about it seriously too.
"Father, may I make one proposal?"
"Alphys, how rare. Say it."
I had thought of something.
As long as I was Alphys, I was free to decide how to develop the Alphys route.
In other words, the development from here on depended on me.
If that was the case, I might as well enjoy it.
When I explained the plan I had thought of, the entire family fell silent.
"That carries risk."
"Brother Vaid, do we really have anything like that? This will be the most effective."
When I said that, Leorg drove his fork into the meat with force.
The servants trembled again.
"Alphys, good. I adopt it."
"I am grateful."
"That will be best for those ignorant pieces of trash. I will make them thoroughly regret disturbing my garden."
Leorg wolfed down meat.
With both his mood and appetite improved, Leorg raised the salary of the servant who had picked up the fork that day.
As a result, that servant was able to send more money to their family living in the countryside.
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