Chapter 70.1

Louis spoke with a soft whisper. His eyes looked at her, seemingly aware of how good she looked at the moment.

‘This is quite unexpected again.’

The way to distract is to seduce using the body. Wasn’t it quite desperate of a choice to be made by someone who didn’t seem to agree with her? It was clear that the subject of Mel made Louis impatient.

Seira decided to change the subject at this point.

“Let’s finish our work first before we think about that.”

After she confirmed his response to some extent, Seira decided it would be better not to provoke him any longer. However, she didn’t know anything else, but she felt she had to add one more thing.

“And… Baron is a pretty good partner. Don’t get me wrong.”

To be honest, she didn’t like the thought that her relationship with Baron would be bad.

‘A good example of how terrifying a genius could be when he tries… I don’t even know if it’s okay to use that word…’

“I see…” he trailed off, “That’s a relief, you were satisfied.”

Seira didn’t miss the slight frown on his eyebrows. The fact that she said Baron was good at sex seemed to annoy Louis.

She opened her mouth again, pretending that she didn’t notice, “By the way, what was the urgent news written in the letter?”

“Ah! I wanted to deliver it as soon as possible, so I came to see you myself. It’s nothing really, but… the results show that the wheat harvested from the Dews estate is no different from those harvested from other territories.”

Seira’s eyes widened with the news that she heard.

“Really?”

“Yes,” Louis confirmed, “I don’t know about anything else, but there is nothing to worry about the type of experiment done since it is highly accurate with its results.”

The study was done to determine how much of the components of the two substances matched.

In fact, there was a funny reason why this kind of research was developed in the empire. Alphas and Omegas were pretty promiscuous before marriage, so often there were doubts about the lineage of a child immediately born after marriage.

In an aristocratic society, bloodline was more important than anything else, and it was essential to identify a noble child’s biological parents. This then led to the development of research comparing blood and other components.

“Go check it out.”

Seira’s face flushed with anticipation at his convincing words. Louis smiled softly, sweeping Seira’s red cheeks with the back of his hand.

* * *

Arriving at the Magic Engineering Institute, the two of them headed straight to Louis’ private lab.

“Here it is.”

Louis handed her a thick stack of papers. Seira scoured every page of the report, and was able to confirm that all 100 samples obtained from Dews came out with the same result.

There was really no sign of contamination from their first harvest after 15 long years.

“Wow… what’s going on here?”

A big smile spread across Seira’s face.

The fact that components of the crops were the same meant the land had completely recovered and not just the appearance. It meant that crops, animals, and even people could live and reproduce prosperity just like in the past.

“I don’t need to buy wheat anymore.”

Louis’ eyebrows lifted with Seira’s words of delight.

“Do you want to try it yourself?”

“Of course.”

In fact, even with the positive results, she needed to be careful about distributing them on the market right away. It would be a big problem if it harmed common people who couldn’t avail treatment if any aftereffects of consuming the crop occurred.

Since most poisons only gave her a stomachache, she intended to expand the scope of the test bit by bit after she confirmed it herself. Wouldn’t it be fine to experiment with a small group of volunteers among Askan’s knights that were used to eating spoiled food, saying that it was a waste to throw out?

It would be better to dispose of the rest of the crops, even if it was wasteful.

“It’s the first harvest to celebrate Askan’s revival,” she said, “But who else would eat it besides me?”

Louis, who was looking at the corner of Seira’s excited mouth dancing, laughed at one point. It was more like a burst of laughter too rather than a broken laugh.

“I’m glad that you are happy.”

“Thank you for always bringing me good news, Louis.”

“Can I kiss you?”

Seira blinked several times before she looked at him and said, “…what?”

“Because your smiling face is so pretty. If you don’t mind, will you allow me?”

Although somewhat puzzled, Seira couldn’t think of a reason to refuse. What’s the big deal about kissing someone when she already agreed to have sex?

“Okay, then…”

Before she could even finish speaking, Louis reached out his hand, clasped her wrist, then pressed his lips over hers. The movement of his tongue rubbing her lower lip was slow, contrary to his somewhat rushed approach. As if carving the shape of her lips, he slowly and carefully licked it then parted their lips.