That's my lord and Lady Solar, right?
Heh, heh, there's Mr. Hestia.
'Who's the other girl?　I think I've seen that somewhere.

　There was a buzz around us.
　If they didn't, Erica's identity could be exposed, and if that happened, it would be a bigger mess.

'It's going to be a mess,'
Will you hurt it?

　Erica said something fussy with her pretty face.

'Don't turn it off!　We just need to change the location.

　I put my hand on my forehead as I said this.
　With magic power, I exercised a simple magic.

　The next moment, a pah! from my forehead.　And a dazzling light was emitted.

'Kya!'
What is this light?

　My sister, Hestia, Erica, and Eleni, as the people of the city screamed and screamed.
　I took the four of them and flew up with my flying magic while they were blinded.

　I came back to the mansion at maximum speed and landed in the courtyard, in case they could see me while I was flying.

'There we go.'

　Once you get back to the mansion, you'll be fine.
　As expected, it's a nobleman's mansion, and there's no need to make a scene just because a nobleman is there.

''Eh?　This place is.....
It's my house.
Darling's house?　Could it be, darling, that's a great guy?
Hermes Cano. Just a nobleman.
'Cano..... Ehehe.........

　For some reason, Erica became happy when she heard my last name.
　

''Welcome home, master. I have a report for you.
What?
A visitor arrived earlier. He'll be back.
All right. You come back later, we can talk about it. You can take your sister back with you.
Well yes, I understand.

　The maid still wanted to say something, but I made her back off with a bit of a strong look.

　The maid of the mansion, who is used to being a nobleman, doesn't make a fuss because she's there, but as long as Erica is calling me 'darling', I don't want her to listen to me as much as possible.

　The maid obediently obeyed orders and called someone to carry her sister, who was still unconscious, into the mansion.

　There were four of us left, me, Hestia, Erica and Eleni.

'Well,'

　I looked at Erica again.

'Hey, darling,'

　Erica, who called me darling, looked like just a little girl.

'Are you sure you're the Queen of Calamba?'
But you're so rude!

　Eleni protested.

'Shut up, Eleni,'

　Erica silenced Eleni.
　The moment I gave her the 'order', Erica's profile face had that look in her eyes that is typical of a ruthless human being, the opposite of the innocence that is directed at me.
　But when she turned to me, it disappeared without a trace and returned to her innocent and brainy eyes again.

'Erika Rica Karamba. She's a true queen.
I can assure you of that.

　Hestia said quietly.
　She is also connected to King Aegina, and she was the one who first called Erica's name.
　It seems there is no doubt that they know each other.

''I see.......then why?''
Why?
'Why is the Queen doing the kidnapping herself?　Why don't you just let your men handle it?

　This was a different matter than good or bad.
　Apart from the good and bad of her kidnapping her sister and the other girls, it was one mystery in itself that the queen of the largest country on the continent would be at the scene of the kidnapping.

'You see, the Queen of Kalamba has been building a garden of roses for generations.
'The Rose Garden...?　No way!

　A disgusting sight flashed through my mind.

'Is it that the blood of a virgin makes the most beautiful roses bloom or something!
'What?　Ha-ha, no, darling.

　Erica giggled and laughed in a funny way.

'It's not really a rose, the queen's harem is called the Rose Garden,'
'Oh...'

　I'm a bit relieved.
　No, there are a lot of stories like that in history.
　A queen who was massacred for bathing and such, because the blood of a virgin was good for her beauty.

　I'm relieved it's not that kind of story.

It was started by Ricca Calamba, the founder of the Calamba dynasty, who gathered beautiful women from all over the world, turned them into a harem, and offered them all to the man of her choice in the Garden of Roses. Haven't you heard of it?　The Story of the Lord of the Rose Garden.
'Well I don't know how it went.

　I don't know if I've ever heard of anything like that....

'It's about your darling ancestor, isn't it?
What?
You're a wizard, the ancestor of Darling and Erica. Oh yeah, he's also the Demon King's father.
Not that guy again!

　Don't listen to him!　How much of that stuff does that guy have to go through?

That's why Erica goes around looking for the right girl.　Real good girls are hard to come by. I choose from slaves, but with slaves, only one in 100,000 is available, so it's not very efficient.
Well....
I'll be building my own harem, so I'll have to go around looking for a girl of my choice.
Your own?

　I mean, that's what women do to each other, right?

"The Queen of Kalamba has done it for generations.

　Hestia explained from the side.

'Is that so?'
Yeah, me too.
Huh?

　That's the most surprising thing I've seen today.
　Does that mean you knew her mother and not Erica's father?　Hestia.

"Hey, darling. I'm going to give Erica's entire rose garden to you, darling, starting today.
What?
I'm going to try to build a harem of darlings from now on!
'Stop!　Don't do the same thing with your sister!
Same thing?

　I told her about my sister's recommendation, HHM48.

I said, "Oh, well, you're my darling sister, I'm impressed.

　As she spoke, Erica's expression changed a bit again.
　Her eyes became the kind of eyes that people who don't like to lose tend to have.

　I finally fully understood the story and put it to rest.
　I was relieved.

''Fufu........''
"Darling,
Yeah?
Have you been offended?
No, I'm not mad at you.
Really?
Oh, I don't care if it's about a harem.

　Erica is the queen.

　Erica Rika Karamba.
　She's the queen of the continent's most powerful kingdom of Calamba.

　It's counter-intuitive that a person of that much power doesn't have a single harem.
　There is no person in history who has not had a harem among the king's level of power.
　The kidnapping of people, well, that's fine.

　I glanced at Erica's subordinate, Eleni, and then.

"Don't be so disposable,
Oh....

　Erika hurts.
　She's probably a smart and quick-witted kid for doing normal things.
　She immediately understood what I wanted to say and what I was angry about.

''I'm.......sorry.''
You won't be doing this, will you?
Yeah. Erica, I won't make my men disposable anymore.
That's okay. And no, not my darling.
Why?　Darling is not darling.

　Unlike the honest reflection just before, I could sense a firm determination not to do anything to fix it.
　The tone of voice was just a casual rejoinder, but the stubbornness and determination came through loud and clear.
　You're an amazing kid, Erica.

　No, no, this is not the time to be impressed.

　Anyway, I've got to get my darling to stop.
　I've got to do something to get her to hate me or go cold turkey.

　I think about what I have to do to make that happen.

"Hey, little guy, I've come to visit.

　Boom!

　Immediately after the familiar voice, a deafening explosion and an earth-shattering shockwave spread.

'What are you doing all of a sudden, Kaori?'

　The owner of the voice is the Demon King Kaori.
　Kaori appeared before I knew it and attacked me with an attack (joking) as a greeting, and I almost didn't think about it (...) when he attacked me.

'It's not a sudden attack. I came over earlier and told my nephew's maid that I'll be back later.
'What?　Oh, that's how...

　I'm pretty sure the maid said something like that.
　Well, I can remember Kaori with my body and I can react to her even if I didn't hear anything at all, since we're flirting anyway.

''More importantly, what are those guys?''

　Kaori points behind me.
　I turn around - a huff.

　Hestia, Eleni, and - Erica, who was butt-crushed by the shockwave.

　Among them, Erica's eyes glittered as she was on her buttocks.

'Even with the Demon King.......as expected of a darling.
'No, no, no, no, wait, it's not like it's evenly matched or anything. That was just a jostle.
''The Demon King is at the insistence of the previous Demon King, and you can't touch him unless you're an evenly-matched human.
Oh....
I knew that darling was great!
Oof....

　Thanks to my reaction to Kaori, I felt like I was going deeper and deeper, and that's how I felt.