((I think they are ready. Let's start.))
In the projection in front of them, it showed the figures of Mylene, Claire, Gabrielle, and Louise standing beside the bed, chatting. Given that they were in their lingerie, Dane immediately felt that the atmosphere in that room was off.
"Raphael... can you tell me what the meaning of this...? Why is Her Highness Louise in your parents' room thus late?"
"You will find that out later."
A moment later, Dane squinted her eyes to the screen, and she could see that the four of them got to the bed before they sat facing one another. In a clockwise manner, their sitting order started with Mylene, then Gabrielle, Louise, and Claire.
Shortly after, Mylene leaned her upper body toward Claire before she kissed her lips. Since the footage had audio in it, Dane could hear the faint sounds of their smooching lips. After Claire, Mylene then went toward her other wife and kissed her as well.
Being intimate with one's partners was normal, but what baffled Dane the most was why they would do that in front of their child. To top it all, they were being watched by Raphael and his fiancees, which was making Dane even more cautious.
((Mmmh...))
After breaking the kiss with Gabrielle, Mylene turned back to Claire and kissed her again, but deeper and more passionately. From that moment on, Dane started to feel more unsettling and uncomfortable.
As Mylene and Claire were lovingly making out, Louise and Gabrielle then looked awkwardly at one another for a few seconds. After that, they slowly drew their faces closer, and the thing that Dane did not want to think about actually happened.
Smooch.
With closed eyes, Louise had kissed her stepmother. Dane's eyes widened so hard that she felt like her eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets. She could not believe what she was currently beholding.
"W-why are they kissing, Raphael? Even if they aren't related, aren't they supposed to be a mother and daughter...?"
"..."
"How long have you been doing this...?"
"Just a few days after my fifteenth birthday. The autumn last year."
"So way before we met, huh...?"
Lowering her head, Dane could not believe the words coming out of his mouth, and she was speechless. She truly believed that the members of the Raevender were lawful and righteous people, but it turned out that they were guilty of practicing the forbidden acts of incest.
The Kingdom of Astley was probably the most religious nation on the continent after the theocracy. Dane was born into a strict family, and she had been following the doctrine of the church, so her mind was blown up upon seeing and learning such an incestuous act.
Suddenly, she remembered that his other fiancees were in the same bed as well. She raised her head and looked at Iris and Sophia back and forth once.
"Lady Iris, Lady Sophia, I assumed that you already know about this..."
"Well," Iris spoke first. "If you were to ask what I could say to this, I should say that Raphael can do whatever he wants, including loving his family romantically and erotically. I was indeed surprised when I learned that, but maybe I am so open-minded that I accepted it."
"I, too, was shocked when Raphael confessed to me about his relationship with his mothers, especially since they started doing it behind my back while I was engaged with him. I felt betrayed at that time. I was so angry that I could not stop slapping him. But in the end, I still blindly loved him and just forgave him so, as well as letting him continue loving his family."
"Such things..."
Hearing their responses, Dane questioned whether they were forcing themselves to answer that way since they were too absurd. But judging from their expressions, that did not seem to be the case at all. They were all loyal to Raphael, and that roused a question about herself.
"So, Dane," Raphael said. "What do you think about it? Will you accept this dark side of this family of mine?"