Footsteps can be heard approaching.
Dylan looks up and Viscount Demian lifts him up.
"Son, your mother will be fine, you mustn't worry, she is strong," said the viscount, his steady gaze attempting to hide the fact that he was slightly frightened.
Demian just hugged his father, and a few hours later, Demian was asleep with his head resting on his nurse's chest, sitting on her lap.
The door opens.
The midwife came out with a baby wrapped in a sheet.
"It's a girl, a very beautiful girl."
The viscount took the little baby in his arms. She had almost pink skin because she had just been born, blue eyes, and a tuft of fine golden hair.
The baby cries.
Dylan opens his eyes and sees his father looking at the baby with love.
"You will be called..."
Dylan wanted to intervene so that at least the baby's name would be changed, but he couldn't do it in time.
"Elena Gray." That was the name the Viscount gave his daughter.
"Viscount Gray, the baby must be hungry. We'll take her to her wet nurse," said the midwife.
"Well, well. The name of discord, Elena Gray, who suffered an unfortunate end after the king ordered that Dylan's sister be given to a newly promoted nobleman, a perverted man, when she was 16 years old, in order to satisfy him. My parents could only stand by and watch, as they were threatened with losing the last title they had left along with their wealth. It was a great tragedy, and after that, my mother, who was pregnant again, grew weak and died giving birth to what would be my second brother." Dylan looked at his father, and his father took his hand and said:
"Go to sleep, your mother must be tired. You can see her tomorrow."
"Okay, I love you, Dad," Dylan said, so as not to lose his place as the favorite.
The nanny took Dylan's hand and they went to Dylan's room, which was right next to the nanny's room.
••••
Dylan was in his room making several drops of water of different sizes float in the air. He moved them around and merged them at will to perfect his control over the elemental magic of water.
"Who will be the archmage of the element of water? Yes, it will be me. I have to do something or I'll go crazy. The problem is that my nanny watches me very carefully and the gardener also seems to be some kind of guardian," thought Dylan, who found it difficult to resist the urge to explore the surroundings outside the mansion's grounds, because in three years his parents had not taken him to visit the town of Gray County.
••••
A month later.
Dylan saw Elena's young, pretty nanny heading to the bathroom. He entered shortly after, his clothes covered in mud, and saw her in the bathtub.
"I want to take a bath," Dylan said in a tender voice.
"Young master, how did you get here?" asked Elena's nanny, who shortly after removed Dylan's dirty clothes, and the two entered the bathtub.
"Hmm, the view is pretty good," Dylan thought as Elena's nanny washed his hair.
[You have committed perverse acts: +1]
"Only one point for seeing a naked woman. How boring," Dylan thought.
"Put the point in strength. I need a strength point to make my body stronger, because even though I run and eat well, my attribute hasn't gone up much," thought Dylan.
[Strength + 1 Perverse Point]
[Strength: 3]
After Elena's nanny covered Dylan with a white bathrobe, she took him to his nanny.
••••
Two months later, Dylan's parents were invited to another noble party. Since they had been away from social life, they didn't want to seem indifferent to the rest of the nobility, who were intolerant and very resentful, so they decided to attend.
"Wow, I'm finally leaving the mansion grounds," Dylan thought as he looked out over the county town.
It was still daylight outside. Around 3 p.m.
Although the atmosphere was somewhat gloomy and old-fashioned, most of the buildings were made of concrete. Most were simple, and the ones that stood out belonged to commercial enterprises.
"Son, sit down, you could get hurt if the carriage hits a pothole," said Anelia, somewhat concerned about how they would be treated at the party.
"This is great, maybe I'll kill someone and get Perverse Points. Who would suspect a little boy?" thought Dylan with a friendly expression as he sat down next to his mother.
At first Dylan was excited, but the carriage ride lasted more than two hours.
"If there's magic, why are we traveling by carriage? It's so inefficient," Dylan wondered.
"Are you bored?" Anelia asked with a warm smile.
"Just a little. Because I like traveling with you," Dylan said, smiling at the end.
Anelia hugged her son, and they still had to wait almost an hour to reach the place where the party would be held.
The carriage stopped in front of the entrance to the imposing perimeter wall of the Oiront marquisate mansion, and the inspectors at the wall laughed contemptuously when they saw the carriage's flag with the Gray viscountcy emblem.
"Laugh, I'll kill you and your families," Dylan thought as he watched from the carriage window.
[Perverse Thoughts: +1 Perverse Point]
The gate in the perimeter wall opened, and the carriage drove down the evenly paved road.
At the end of the journey, Viscount Demian was the first to get off, followed by his son and finally his beautiful wife.
"They came, apparently they had a talented son."
"Don't exaggerate, they just postponed the inevitable."
"Yes, their destiny is to become commoners."
"Yes, it's just false hope. In the end, they'll only suffer more."
There were many negative comments against the Gray family, but contrary to what anyone else would feel, Demian felt like he was breathing fresh air as he looked at the people he would use as a wild card to increase his Perverse Points in the future.