Deflower Me If You Can Chapter 3

The gentle suggestion prompted the child to immediately state what he wanted. As Koi smiled and nodded, Grayson stepped forward as if he had been waiting.

“You don’t mind if I go with him, right? It’s okay, isn’t it, Bliss?”

Seeing his son’s bright, smiling face, before Ashley could say anything, Koi answered first.

“Sure, go together. You see over there?”

The children looked in the direction Daddy pointed and readily nodded. Grayson, who had taken Bliss’s hand and gone straight to where they were handing out ice cream, got a strawberry ice cream just as Bliss wanted and passed it to him.

“Here you go.”

“Thanks. Thank you.”

When Bliss, speaking calmly as if his emotions had subsided somewhat, also thanked the staff member who had given him the ice cream, the man pulled up the corners of his mouth and nodded with satisfaction. Seeing his favorite ice cream, Bliss’s mood immediately brightened. He opened his mouth wide, ready to put the soft cream in—

“Ouch, ouch.”

His swollen eye throbbed painfully and he couldn’t help but let out a groan. Just as he was wrinkling his nose and pressing a hand to his eye, he heard Grayson clicking his tongue above him.

“That’s why you shouldn’t self-harm, dummy.”

At those words, the fury in Bliss that had barely calmed down flared up again.

“I told you! That bastard made fun of me, saying I don’t have purple eyes!”

Unlike Bliss, who glared with both eyes wide open asserting his righteousness, Grayson remained as unruffled as ever.

“That’s what I’m saying—why self-harm?”

Repeating the same thing he’d said earlier, Grayson added unhurriedly.

“If you get hurt, you’re the only one who loses. In the first place, why do you have to make your eyes purple just because of what that bastard said?”

At the unexpected point, Bliss faltered. Uh, now that he heard it, that did seem to be the case…

“Then, what should I…?”

At his younger brother’s hesitant, tentative question, Grayson smiled brightly.

“You just have to make sure that bastard can’t say stuff like that.”

Hearing something he’d never thought of, Bliss’s head couldn’t wrap around it easily.

“…Huh?”

“Make it so he can’t spout that crap—about whether they’re purple or not.”

Toward his younger brother who still didn’t understand, Grayson explained one more time. Then, looking down at Bliss with narrowed eyes, he gave a faint smile.

“Want me to teach you how?”

“Yeah!”

Unable to contain his impatience at his brother’s drawn-out manner, Bliss nodded his head vigorously.

“Tell me, hurry up and tell me, Grayson! What do I do? Tell me quick, quick!”

Watching his little brother stamp his feet and urge him on, Grayson gave his answer with a satisfied expression.

“Shoot their mouth with a gun. Then no one will ever be able to spout that crap at you again.”

At the completely unimaginable answer, Bliss was so startled his eyes went round as saucers.

“A gun?”

A gun? Hadn’t Papa said over and over that you must never use something like that? There was a gun in the house, but it was inside a secret safe, so he only knew of its existence and had never even gotten a look at it. Yet Grayson was telling him to shoot a gun so casually—was that really allowed?

Before he knew it, he glanced back, and Papa and Daddy, who had been watching them the whole time, came into view. Tearing his gaze away from Daddy, who was smiling and waving at his son, Bliss lowered his voice as if wary that someone might overhear.

“How could I shoot a gun, something like that…”

“Of course, if you don’t have one on you like just now, you can’t help it.”

Just as Bliss was about to say ‘you can’t,’ Grayson’s next words shut his mouth again. That’s not what I was going to say. Toward his younger brother who was just blinking his eyes, Grayson, with a fresh, smiling face, offered an alternative.

“Then just grab whatever’s nearby and smash their mouth in. Knock out three or four teeth and they won’t be able to say that ever again. Even better if their tongue gets cut and they can’t talk for the rest of their life. Then they can never spout that crap a second time, right? And other guys who see it will learn a lesson.”

“Uh…”

There was nothing wrong with what Grayson said. Except for the fact that one corner of his heart felt uneasy. Bliss blinked blankly, then nodded, saying “uh-huh.” At that reaction, Grayson arrogantly lifted his chin and declared.

“If you have any troubles, tell me anything. Like today, I’ll give you a solution.”

“Yeah, okay.”

Nodding again this time, Bliss, still tilting his head in puzzlement, nonetheless spoke words of thanks.

“Thanks, Grayson.”

“It’s nothing.”

Smiling, Grayson took his own vanilla ice cream from the staff member and added.

“Helping others is always my greatest joy.”

∞ ∞ ∞

What on earth could they be talking about? Watching his two children whispering in front of the ice cream stand, Ashley Miller quietly furrowed his brow. Grayson wouldn’t be spouting nonsense to Bliss, would he? Just as he was feeling uneasy inside, Koi suddenly murmured beside him.

“To think something like that happened the moment we took our eyes off him.”

Glancing sideways, he saw Koi, like Ashley, was staring at the children as he continued.

“I didn’t realize Bliss would care about something like that. I thought he was still too young to understand about traits…”

Everyone in the family except Koi and Bliss shared the same trait. Purple eyes were one of the characteristics of an Extreme Alpha—when one manifests, one’s existing eye color changes to purple. Papa Ashley, too, had possessed bright blue eyes before his manifestation, but now he had deep purple eyes just like his other children.

Only Koi and Bliss had blue eyes, and that was because Koi was an Extreme Omega and Bliss was only six years old and had not yet manifested. If Bliss also manifests as an Extreme Alpha, Koi would be the only one in the household with different-colored eyes.

That is, assuming the child manifests as an Extreme Alpha…

Having suddenly recalled that fact in his mind, Ashley’s heart grew complicated. The reality that five out of the six children between himself and Koi were Extreme Alphas was a hard one to accept. If even the youngest, Bliss, who took after Koi, were to manifest as an Extreme Alpha, he would truly come to deny God.

Not that he believed in the first place.

“Hey.”

Koi’s cautious voice brought Ashley back to reality. When he directed his gaze wordlessly at him, Koi continued.

“Should we teach Bliss about traits?”

“No.”

Ashley shook his head without even thinking long.

“He wouldn’t properly understand yet, and no one knows what trait that child will end up with.”

“That’s true.”

Koi acquiesced with a face that didn’t look particularly willing. Once Bliss learned the details about traits, he would naturally start to have expectations, and if he actually ended up with a different trait from the family, he would be terribly disappointed. So perhaps it was better to leave him be, knowing nothing.

Though of course, Ash would absolutely never want that outcome.

“Bliss wouldn’t understand anyway. He’s stupid.”

The voice that suddenly cut in belonged to Stacey, Grayson’s twin. Seeing the child’s unabashed face, Koi couldn’t help but be taken aback.

“Stacey, saying something like that about your little brother… No, forget it.”

He had been about to warn the child again, but ended up giving up. He didn’t know how many times this had repeated already today. To Koi, who was already feeling drained, Ashley spoke.

“Then let’s discuss this more later… Shall we head back? Our business here seems to be done.”

As if those words were a signal, Nathaniel was the first to turn and walk toward the entrance. After confirming that his other children were following behind his tall, grown son striding away, Ashley still stood with Koi, waiting for Grayson and Bliss to return. We’ll think about the rest once we’re home. With this, everything is settled…

Or so he thought, but an unexpected incident occurred. Suddenly, Bliss dashed off in one direction, and Grayson returned to them alone. Ashley immediately furrowed his brow and asked.

“What happened? Why did you leave your brother and come back alone?”

At the natural question, Grayson answered nonchalantly.

“He went to the bathroom to take a leak.”

A sigh escaped Ashley’s lips unbidden. Having unconsciously pressed a hand to his forehead, he spoke in his usual low voice.