Chapter 412: Grayfia (Part 3)
Outside the door, listening to Grayfia's increasingly rapid breathing, the strange restlessness that Venelana had forcibly suppressed began to resurface.
Fortunately, those suggestive sounds soon returned to silence.
Just as she breathed a sigh of relief, an ambiguous, seductive scent suddenly drifted through the door crack.
Her delicate nose twitched slightly as Venelana found this scent both unfamiliar and familiar—she seemed to have smelled it on her future son-in-law and Rias before.
Could it be... Haruto is inside too?
Grayfia's delay in opening the door... could she really be with him inside...
Fortunately, this ambiguous seductive scent only appeared for a moment. When the fragrance at her nose tip disappeared, the strange thought flashed through Venelana's mind and was gone. She instinctively didn't want to think in that direction, or one could say she was deceiving herself.
The gentle flaxen-haired lady suppressed the chaotic thoughts in her mind and quietly waited outside the door.
Meanwhile, inside the room, Haruto had just withdrawn his dragon from the silver-haired beauty's pink chrysanthemum.
Since this wasn't proper cultivation, only a small portion of the rich life essence could be absorbed, with most of it remaining stored within Grayfia's body.
That peculiar fragrance had appeared precisely because when he withdrew his dragon, it brought out some life essence mixed with both their scents.
Fortunately, although Grayfia lacked experience, her Satan-Class physique and strength were present. The moment she detected the scent dispersing, she immediately tightened her entire body, firmly retaining all of Haruto's life energy within herself.
"Haruto, quickly return to the training room..."
Grayfia broke free from Haruto's large hand encircling her slender waist, her charming face flushed crimson as she said, "When the lady asks later, I'll say you've been breaking through all along, to avoid disturbing..."
Haruto instantly understood Grayfia's meaning. Although this lie would be full of holes upon closer inspection, it couldn't stop Venelana from deceiving herself.
He had detected the issue with his so-called mother-in-law shortly after her arrival, which was one reason he dared to continue boldly later.
As for the other reason? Naturally, Haruto had been looking for an opportunity to try and conquer Venelana.
And was there any more suitable opportunity than now?
The answer was: no.
Therefore, faced with Grayfia's hastily conceived clumsy excuse, he neither agreed nor refused.
While the silver-haired beauty was talking to herself while cleaning up the battlefield and looking for new clothes, Haruto quietly moved to the room's doorway.
His powerful mental energy instantly spread out but retracted just as quickly.
Venelana and Grayfia frowned, feeling the discomfort of being watched, but the briefness made them uncertain.
Confirming that there were no other devils around the room—that is, within this independent villa—except for Venelana, Haruto directly opened the door.
The sudden opening of the door left Venelana momentarily stunned.
Based on the faint sounds she heard from inside, according to her estimation, Grayfia shouldn't have opened the door for a few more minutes.
But when she saw the handsome youth before her, she completely forgot to be surprised about what was happening.
The gentle lady with flaxen long hair stared fixedly at the beautiful youth standing naked before her with his tall, perfect physique. Her gaze involuntarily moved downward from his face—more perfect than when they last met—to his sexy Adam's apple, perfect collarbones, firm chest, well-defined abs, perfectly sculpted V-line, and the still slightly erect Purple-red Dragon glistening with traces of translucent fluid...
Only when she saw that massive symbol of masculinity did Venelana seem to wake from a dream, blushing as she awkwardly turned her head away.
"Haruto... why, why are you here? And... without clothes?"
"Hmm, if I said I ruined my clothes while breaking through, would you believe me, Miss Venelana?"
Facing this mother-in-law who closely resembled Rias and looked like a youthful maiden, Haruto felt that terms like "madam," "matriarch," or "mother-in-law" were too dated and didn't suit Venelana's image at all.
He wanted to use more intimate address, but since Venelana was still an elder with considerable age, he ultimately settled on this compromise.
Venelana was already too flustered to care how Haruto addressed her. Without hesitation, she followed along with Haruto's words: "So that's why... no wonder Grayfia didn't open the door for so long."
Haruto watched with amusement the former flaxen-haired Annihilation Lady before him. He knew full well that Rias's intelligence was entirely inherited from this woman. Apart from hair color and bloodline power, she could almost be considered a younger version of Venelana.
Moreover, due to her life experience, Venelana's wisdom surpassed even Rias's.
This could be glimpsed from how she had managed the crumbling Gremory family into increasingly better condition, and from how skillfully she had dealt with prying devils earlier.
Venelana's current behavior was purely feigned ignorance.
No matter how much she might have rationalized things to herself earlier, now that she had personally seen the naked Haruto with clear training marks on his body, coupled with the strange noises before and Grayfia's unusual behavior, she absolutely knew what had just happened.
Haruto's undisclosed preferences remained hidden. Seeing Venelana act this way, while amusing, also strengthened his confidence in his upcoming plans.
Amid Venelana's adorable exclamation of surprise, Haruto pulled her into an embrace, and the two spun closely together into the room.
After bringing his sexy and beautiful mother-in-law into the bedroom, Haruto closed the door behind them and locked it.
The moment they entered the room, just as Venelana was about to ask Haruto what he intended to do, she was stunned by the scene before her.
Also frozen was Grayfia, who was frantically cleaning up the intimate traces and scents.
From Venelana's perspective, she clearly saw the silver-haired beauty's small hand reach between her thighs to wipe away, removing the residual thick white essence of life from the outer valley of flowers, then adjusting the black garter stockings tightened around her thighs.
Then Grayfia picked up the brand new dark blue carved lace panties nearby, turned and sat to the side, parted her legs half-wrapped in black silk stockings, and slowly pulled the panties up along her calves and thighs onto her petite yet full rounded buttocks, putting them back on.
The way the dark blue sexy panties tightened around Grayfia's perky mature buttocks, with the flesh trembling slightly from the sudden pulling motion, was truly quite erotic.
Just as Grayfia finished putting on her panties and was about to wear her bra, she looked up and saw Venelana and Haruto embracing each other.
Having been focused solely on talking and cleaning up the battlefield earlier, she hadn't noticed when Haruto had opened the door and brought in Venelana, who was both her mistress and mother-in-law.
Knowing that her affair with Haruto had been discovered, a trace of shame instantly appeared in her heart, but it was quickly replaced by tension and worry.
Before Grayfia's stiffened delicate body could react, Haruto, the instigator of it all, spoke first: "Miss Venelana, care to join us?"
Grayfia was startled by Haruto's words, yet simultaneously found it completely expected.
If even she had been decisively pursued without missing a beat, then it was completely reasonable that he would be attracted to Venelana, who appeared even younger and more beautiful, and was also Rias's mother.
Faced with such a blatant invitation from Haruto, and seeing the undisguised heat and desire in his eyes, the beautiful flaxen-haired lady finally stopped pretending to be ignorant.
She gently twisted her body, broke free from Haruto's embrace, took a couple of steps forward to maintain a safe distance, but showed no intention of leaving the room.
After freeing herself from Haruto's embrace, she regained much of her composure, returning to her usual dignified elegance. However, the faint blush on her delicate face revealed that her inner emotions weren't as calm as they appeared.
Her amethyst eyes kept shifting between Haruto and Grayfia, as if contemplating something.
While Venelana was observing and thinking, Haruto finally had time to properly appreciate her beauty.
The well-fitted blouse and long skirt hugged Venelana's slender figure, yet added to her gentle and graceful charm. Her long, beautiful legs were wrapped tightly in white sheer tights, appearing straight and slender.
Having just woken from an afternoon nap, her adorable petite feet were casually slipped into comfortable fabric slippers.
But after looking for a long time, Haruto couldn't see the symbol of love on Venelana's pale, delicate hands.
Though not all married people consistently wear wedding rings, according to the customs of devil nobility, this shouldn't be the case.
Just as Haruto was puzzling over this, Venelana finally spoke.
"I can pretend I didn't see what happened between you two, but only this once. Don't let it happen again."