(BL) Rejected by daughter's second male lead-Chapter 26

"We are not employees. We are magical life forms created by the Marquis."

"Uh, yeah, that is true... but still, you have each been assigned the roles of attendants, footmen, and maids, right? Then it is best not to divulge matters of the Hampton household to guests."

"I see. We did not know as we have never had guests until now. We will rectify the situation."

At Ricardo’s words, the rest of the robots followed suit in unison.

"We will rectify the situation."

It was all well and good when they were giving names and exchanging compliments just a moment ago, but this scene now certainly had a creepy aspect to it. It was a moment that made one realize that they were machine humans made of magic.

"Uh, yeah. I will be on my way now. There aren’t any, uh, robots I haven’t given names to, right?"

Gillen took off his hat and bowed to the robot servants who were seeing him off with benevolent faces, and hurriedly got into the carriage.

"Haa... I don’t think I can come here twice."

His relationship with Yuan seemed to have been thoroughly ruined, and the reaction of the robots at the end was slightly, just a little bit, scary.

’If Cecil finds out, she will say I was being a busybody.’

Even without going as far as Cecilia, the owner of the house, Yuan, was thinking the same thing right now. The aggressive exchange of pheromones, almost like giving each other a pheromone shower, was close to a duel.

"I must make sure we never meet again."

Gillen nodded his head and made a resolution. However, a few days later, a strange rumor began to spread within the capital.

*

The day after visiting the lord’s castle, Gillen shut himself in his room. He had left instructions outside that he had caught a severe flu and not to come near his room at all for fear of infecting others.

Most of the servants, including Ivy, believed his words. However, Cecilia and Claire, who were omegas, realized that Gillen’s rut had arrived. Navard, who had served Gillen closely for a long time, also realized it early on and had placed a box of suppressants inside Gillen’s room.

"Dad seems to be really sick, so everyone be careful."

The servants they had brought to the villa were all betas except for two. One of those two was Claire, and the other was the coachman, so they had no contact with Gillen.

Cecilia, being his blood-related family, was not affected by Gillen’s rut at all, but she knew better than anyone that even among close relationships like family or friends, it was best to avoid each other’s ruts or heats.

"Dad’s rut cycle was quite slow, wasn’t it? Why did it suddenly start?"

Cecilia asked worriedly. Navard also answered with a concerned face.

"I am not sure. His intervals are usually three to four months, so he was certain that his rut would not come during this vacation. My calculations were the same. It is a relief that we brought emergency medicine, but...."

"When he takes suppressants, he usually suffers for about 3 days, right?"

"Yes, my lady. Please do not worry too much."

"Yes.... It would be best to go up to the capital a little early after dad’s rut ends."

Thus, the vacation that had been planned for six weeks came to an end a little over four weeks in. As Cecilia had said, Gillen finished his rut in three days. He came out of his room with a face much thinner and rougher than before his rut and said.

"This was the hardest one I have ever experienced, Navard. It was truly a pain that made me think death would be better."

He had suffered many times from his periodic ruts or from his rut being triggered unexpectedly by an omega’s pheromones, but it was the first time his rut had been triggered by being stimulated by another alpha.

And as it was the first time, the pain was excruciating. It was not just a libido that made him lose his reason, but his whole body tingled and throbbed. It could be said to be similar to a state where a rut was combined with a body ache.

When Gillen heard that Cecilia had suggested shortening the vacation and returning to the mansion in the capital early, he readily agreed. He did not want to stay in Capelli any longer either. Although he had come to dislike Yuan less than before, now, just imagining his pheromones made his whole body tingle.

’Throughout my rut, the smell of Hampton’s pheromones lingered at the tip of my nose.’

Was it because he was exposed to too much pheromone at once, or was it because those pheromones had an aggressiveness that was trying to subdue and penetrate Gillen? For three days, Gillen endured by taking suppressants by the box and masturbating like crazy, all while being enveloped in Yuan’s pheromones.

Fortunately, the pheromones were all gone now, but he never wanted to experience masturbating while covered in another alpha’s scent again. He wanted to stay as far away from Yuan as possible.

’But in the first place, can a rut be triggered by being stimulated by an alpha’s pheromones? Is there really not something wrong with my body?’

Throughout the journey back to the capital, Gillen dazedly had such thoughts. In consideration of Gillen’s physical condition, Cecilia and Claire rode in a different carriage, so there was nothing to do but to reflect on this rut.

’At times like this, I should go to a social party once to gather information.’

When he was first transmigrated here, Gillen was surprised to learn that the Omegaverse existed within a romance fantasy childcare story.

What is the Omegaverse? The female-oriented 19+ fantasy, which he had only vaguely known as ’a perverted worldview where men can also get pregnant,’ gave Gillen, a Korean man in his mid-20s at the time, a huge shock. The only reason he knew even this much was because he had been an aspiring webtoon artist.

In this world, there were the third genders of alpha, omega, and beta. Alphas were a secondary gender with superior physical abilities, intelligence, and leadership, possessing an instinct to spread their superior genes as widely as possible. Omegas, regardless of their biological sex, also had a uterus in their body and, like alphas, had a strong instinct for reproduction.

They reacted to each other’s pheromones and felt sexual desire. Alphas had a periodic ’rut cycle,’ and omegas had a ’heat cycle,’ and if they had intercourse without contraception during this time, they could have a baby with 100 percent certainty.

At the first social party he attended after being transmigrated, Gillen learned the specific settings of the Omegaverse through people’s conversations. The story of people with secondary genders had been a hot issue that had not ceased for several hundred years of the empire’s history.

At that time, as soon as Gillen had grasped the settings to some extent, he immediately recognized the origin of this fantasy.

’They just made this up because they wanted to see men have sex and get pregnant, didn’t they?’

The setting, which seemed to be thoroughly derived from animal instincts, and the characteristics that were entirely focused on sex and reproduction, exuded a very blatant desire.

What in the world is the Omegaverse doing in a childcare story? There was no such setting when I saw it as a webtoon, author-nim.

At first, Gillen cursed the fact that he was an alpha. When he found out that Cecilia was an omega, he felt as if the sky was falling. You said the majority of the population are betas. Make us betas too. He shed tears of blood and prayed every night.

Betas referred to those who were not alphas or omegas. According to the records of the Moore Empire, betas had always maintained around 85 percent of the total population.

Alphas and omegas were a minority of special beings, and there was even a theory that they were chosen by God. And the 15 percent of people with secondary genders were mostly concentrated among the royalty and nobility. Because of this, their status was considered even more noble, but looking at history books, it was nothing more than the result of the royalty engaging in indiscriminate incestuous marriages to solidify their power.

The establishment is the problem wherever you go.’

Inside the carriage, Gillen leaned his weary body back and continued his thoughts.

’Still, things like pheromones, ruts, heats, and suppressants... have all become a part of daily life now, but I never thought about a pheromone shower from an alpha.’

But if a rut can be triggered through an alpha’s pheromone shower, why has no one ever talked about such a precedent until now? He had never seen anything like this in history books either.

Could it be that Yuan also had a rut, just like Gillen? Since he was a self-proclaimed genius, he might know something about this rut.

But that did not mean he wanted to contact Yuan separately.

’I’ll just go to a social party once more and snoop around. I’ll also call the family doctor and get a full check-up.’

Come to think of it, has the strange love affair rumor that spread in the capital died down by now? About half of the reason he decided to go on vacation was because of the strange scandal with Yuan.

Gillen yawned and then closed his eyes. Let’s get some sleep for now. Once they arrived at the teleportation station, it would be a quick trip to the capital, so sleeping even for a little while would help in recovering his stamina.

And Gillen’s decision to recover his stamina was the right one. After arriving in the capital, Gillen came to see a gossip column article with astounding content.

[Shocking! A Secret Tryst at the Lord’s Castle! What is the Identity of the Lewd Pheromones Leaking Out Late at Night?]

The expression of the butler, Brian, who was welcoming his master back after a month, was utterly wretched. He stood in front of Gillen, who was trembling and holding several copies of the newspaper, and bowed his head.

"The reporters followed us all the way to Capelli and got a scoop there, so they are all excited. Now, not only the gossip columns but also major newspapers are speculating whether Your Excellency the Duke forced a pheromone shower on the Marquis—"

"Me? I forced it? Get me the contact information of all the reporters who wrote this article, Brian! Are there any real people with secondary genders among them? Do they even know what kind of pheromones they were talking about?"

Gillen’s face turned red and blue. Brian hurriedly sat Gillen down on the sofa and brought him a glass of cold water.

"First, please have some water, Your Excellency."

"Haa...."

Gillen gulped down the water.