Chapter 271: Faking A Death (3)

|Author's note: My internet has been really wonky as of late, don't know if it's cuz of the rain or what, so there might be a few delays, and for next week, the profs somehow coincidentally have tests, and essays around the same date, so...yeah, hell.|

Perseus POV

"Hmmm...dad...ahh, what are you 2 doing!?" Ivy exclaimed as she woke up.

It hasn't even been a proper half hour after she fell asleep, and she woke to catch me and Maple kissing each other.

"You were snoring like 5 minutes ago."

"I felt that Mom was no longer sleeping behind me...what are you 2 trying to do in front of your own daughter?!" she demanded.

"We were just kissing, besides, your mom was the one who initiate it."

"What?! Me?!" Maple blurted, "You-"

"Look, you're on my side of the bed, it's clearly not helping your case. Don't worry, we didn't plan to do anything further."

"Yeah, you're even on top of him, Mom, I thought you were better than that." Ivy added.

"But he was-" Maple couldn't even get a say in and just silently complained in frustration.

"Look, it's okay, I get it, my fault for freaking out," Ivy apologized, "You can continue, I'll just try to ignore the sounds."

She then fell quickly asleep again, like she was a freak cuz that was fast, how do you even have the ability to completely fall asleep in seconds, the author would love to have that ability, cuz the motherfucker got really terrible sleeping habits, university life doesn't make it any better.

"I'll just sleep to forget all of this embarrassment." Maple said, "I'll forgive you fo- hyaa!"

"Sorry, she interrupted us earlier."

She's now the one below me, her face is beet red, and she was incredibly nervous.

"I'll be quiet, don't worry."

*****

"Oh wow, this looks exactly like you."

Currently in front of me is the fake body of Lilith, they made it so life-like, and they inflict injuries on it several times over and heal and remade each part so that there are proper traces of magic as if she's been in a really tough battle.

Same lean muscles and everything, I then lift the fake body in a princess carry and it even weighs the same, it's kinda scary in a way, there's even the aura of death on it, they got both maple and Leilah too put that aura of death on it so that even the fake body can't be used to like be reattached to other things and regrow for various purposes.

It's to counter a copy of the homunculus project of Zoris, apparently, it's not really successful, but they have achieved a recent success using 10-star mages. Remember that project? It was in the same book I got from the pyramid.

Well not them specifically, but their body parts, and they used it to create this artificial homunculus contained in a large tube that is working as an artificial womb, that project is to recreate a hero that was actually born from this world.

I got all that from the chief's investigations, it was supposedly worked on to be a plan B for when the demon lord attacks when no heroes are summoned or to delay the demon lord's progress when the heroes are not strong enough.

It's supposedly stronger than a hero the last time they tested it, several times stronger than several 10-star heroes combined, even though they said it's not powerful to fight the demon lord, it's estimated to be enough to handle me in times of danger. They even updated their plans to release it on me if I go rogue.

The homunculus was made to imitate the demon lord that has the powers of the previous demon lords combined, and that one got body parts of different heroes in the past, all put together to create a 'perfect being'.

Scary in a way.

The chief found all that out, but unfortunately, the location of the site is unknown, the only thing he knows was that it's not in the western continent, it's kept somewhere else, don't know where though.

"Try not to do anything inappropriate to it, I know that I look very tempting, but I rather not have you do anything to a thing made to duplicate my looks." Lilith requested.

"I'm not a weirdo."

"..."

"Alright, I'm a weirdo, but not that kind of weirdo."

"It was kind of easy since she didn't really have any large...physical assets." Leilah commented, "So we didn't have a hard time replicating the different textures. So, you can now bring it to the demon lord and present it to him, cry a bit, and come back, this will then be secretly buried somewhere."

"Does that mean I can live here permanently while I'm not in my realm helping my believers and people?" Lilith asked

"Sure."

"I wasn't asking you." she then turned to Leilah who accepted the proposal.

"It's my house, why don't I get a say in it?"

"Since when did you get a say in anything? Even your brother got more say than you."

"That's cuz he's the younger one, they're always more loved, and the older one just gets blamed for their mistakes even if they're nowhere near being at fault, I'm lucky that I don't have an older sibling, cuz I doubt being the middle child would help my case."

"Come on, chop chop, end my double life, you have the honor of directly helping a goddess."

"Why did I like you again?"

"Beautiful, cute face, you like my straightforward attitude and being dominated."

"What?! No!"

"Get to work."

I then went to write a letter to send to the demon lord, it's to inform him of her death and the location where I will present them the body, I even had to drop a few tears on the paper in case they got something to sniff it to check if I'm truly sad.

They should learn of my return and should be questioning why Lilith hasn't made a report to them, and this formal letter will answer their questions.