Chapter 367: The Hands Of The Devil

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"Don't talk about my daughter, you playboy bastard!" Marina yelled with an infuriated tone.

She was about to build up energy and kill him right then and there, but before she could, he interrupted, saying:

"Why do you keep calling me 'Playboy'? I'm not a playboy," Azmond said.

"Well, that's because you played around with my daughter's feelings, only to go after my maids afterwards!"

"... You know I never touched your daughter, don't you?" Azmond asked with a puzzled expression.

"L-Lies! Why would she call you her 'husband' if you haven't even made it to second base yet!?" Marina spat back.

"..." He didn't know how to respond to that without making Aqua sound like a crazy person, so he simply replied, "Maybe Aqua has been craving the attention of her gorgeous mother, so she fabricated a relationship with me to fill that gaping hole in her heart."

Azmond was, of course, speaking complete and utter nonsense, but he had looked at the status screen of Marina. And if he was right in his assumptions, then this should do the trick just fine.

"..." Marina heard his words as they put her into a deep state of thinking.

'Is that really the case? But I thought my relationship with my daughter was pretty good. Was I wrong?' She thought.

A few memories came back to her in that moment, as she remembered all the times that she and Aqua got into a fight, and that was especially the case after the arranged marriage with the FireGod Empire was finalized.

'... Has our relationship really soured enough that she started imagining a marriage with a man she barely knew?'

"Y-Your flirtatious comments won't work on me" She mumbled with a blush.

"You're still a perverted playboy in my eyes! I'm simply asking you these questions before I kill you, so don't get the wrong idea!" She added.

"... Is that so?" Azmond inquired with a sh*t-eating grin.

He didn't know why, but he was becoming quite fond of this tsundere Milf, who had been on his mind for a while now.

"St-Stop giving me that look, you bastard! I can still kill you if I really want to! ...But if you could tell me how else I could become closer with my daughter" She murmured the last part with embarrassment in her voice.

"Heh~" Azmond chuckled a little after seeing that shameless look on her face.

He moved his muscular figure a little closer to the frazzled Milf, as he felt like he should keep close skinship if he wanted to continue his 'lecture'.

And that's exactly what he did, as he slid behind the jittery woman, put his mouth right next to her ear, and whispered, "Are you sure you want to know what you can do to improve your relationship with Aqua~?"

"!?" She felt a presence near her, but it was already too late as his hot breath mingled with her earlobe, causing her to moan, "Aahn~!"

Marina attempted to cover her mouth with her hand; however, before she was able to get it all the way up, a large, veiny hand clasped her own.

"Your voice is so pretty~, don't you think you should let the world hear such a melody when it's at its finest~?"

Azmond's honeyed words dripped into her ears as she lost sense of reason for a second, but it didn't take long for her to snap out of it as she said, "G-Get off me, you playboy pervert!"

She tried to get out of his grasp a few times; however, she quickly figured out that she couldn't move an inch out of the seemingly inescapable grip of the Half-Step Soul Transformation Realm man before her!

'Wait! Half-Step Soul Transformation!? Wasn't he just at the Middle Stages of Nascent Soul, not even a few months ago!?' She thought with an astonished look on her face.