Just before the Sorcerer King would teleport her away, she remembered to ask her question.
"Your Majesty? Do you like my current hairstyle?"
Neia has not cut her hair for quite some time.
"Should I cut it to what it was before? Maybe let it grow even longer?"
He put his chin to his hand, and seemed to think very hard about the question.
"Hmm... I think it's always looked nice. I would like to see how it looks when it is even longer than this."
She blushed at the compliment.
"If that's all, are you ready?"
"Ah, yes!"
With that, they appeared in some sort of house, which seemed quite cozy. It had all the things one might expect of a family home.
In front of her stood the two children.
"You two. Remember what I said before?"
"Of course, Lord Ainz!"
"I leave this to you, then. Miss Baraja?"
"Yes, thank you."
"In that case, take care. I will be back in half an hour, like I said."
And so, he disappeared, and she was left alone with the two children.
The boy spoke to her in an energetic tone.
"Hello, Miss Baraja! Lord Ainz entrusted us to you! We were supposed to meet and talk, right?"
"That's right. Mister Mare, was it?"
"Eh? N-no, he's Mare. Mare?"
"Y-yes... t-that's me..."
"Wait, what? But, he's wearing a skirt..."
Neia was quite confused.
"Don't worry about it. Bukubukuchagama-sama made us this way!"
"I see..."
"I'm Aura Bella Fiora and he's Mare Bello Fiore!"
"I'm Neia Baraja! Nice to meet you!"
Aura nodded.
They sat down on some pillows next to a low table.
Neia spoke first.
"You mentioned your creator, Bukubukuchagama, right? What kind of person was she?"
"She was a great person, obviously!"
Neia frowned under her visor a bit.
"Other than being a Supreme Being, what kind of species was she?"
"She was a slime!"
Neia did not know much about slime, but she previously thought of them as simple beasts.
It was clearly wrong, the same way the undead hating all life was wrong.
"I see. Can you tell me even more about her? What sorts of things did the Supreme Beings do?"
"Well, they conquered and killed! They collected great treasure and... Hey, Mare! Why aren't you talking at all?"
"S-sorry, sis... I-I'm just nervous, I s-suppose..."
"Nonsense! This was a task given to us by Lord Ainz!"
The sister seemed quite angry, though there was no venom or real hostility.
"Please, it's fine."
"Hm."
Aura crossed her arms in anger, still not satisfied with her brother's behaviour.
"But back to your creator, if that's okay..."
"Sure. Well, those things were all something the Guild did together, so perhaps you wanted to hear something else? She was also a voice actor! She often 'voiced hentai'!"
"A voice actor?"
"Yes! She could give objects life using her voice! ...Or something like that..."
Neia had never heard of such a thing, but that was only to be expected.
"And there was her little brother, Peroroncino. She could apparently get quite scary when scolding him."
This sounded like what she saw unfold just before.
"Do you two see her as your mother, then?"
"Hm. I suppose you could say that."
"Y-yes... I-it's s-sort of like that..."
Neia wondered. If this was the case for them, was Pandora's Actor the Sorcerer King's son? If she were to one day marry His Majesty, would she become the mother of Pandora's Actor?
She would think about that later.
"Were you created looking like this, or did you have to grow up?"
"We were created pretty much exactly like this!"
If one simply wanted the best servants or pawns, they would not create children, and they would not give them the personalities she could see the guardians had. Knowing this, Neia smiled. Nazarick was indeed something made with love and care.
"She must have really cared for you."
It seemed natural to say, but the twins made uneasy expressions.
"I'm sorry, did I say something wrong?"
"Hmm... it's nothing, Miss Baraja..."
That seemed like at least a little bit of a lie.
She decided not to press the matter further. Their creators and their current… state seemed to be a sore topic for both them and the Sorcerer King.
"May I ask you about His Majesty?"
"Y-you m-mean Lord Ainz?"
"Yes. I wanted to ask how you saw him. Is he also like a parent to you?"
The twins looked at each other.
"I suppose it's something like that."
"I just thought that the way he treats you and how he spoke of you was very fatherly."
Aura's ears moved in response to this.
"Are you sure? What did he say about us?"
"Ah, perhaps I shouldn't talk about that behind his back? Couldn't that be said to be rude?"
"Hhaaa... I guess you're right..."
"Still, if I may say, I believe you are very lucky to have him."
"Of course!"
Mare made nervous noises of approval.
"His Majesty truly is someone great. The closer one is to him, the more they can consider themselves blessed."
Both the twins nodded vigorously as she spoke.
...
Ainz was watching the Theocracy's movements from above, hidden with [Perfect Unknowable].
"It seems they're moving. The attack on the elven capital might start any day now, huh?"
It still seemed there were some preparations happening, but they seemed quite ready overall.
He already decided he'd use that as an opportunity to steal all the magic items in the elven palace.
It was a thing which needed to be kept secret, so he did not plan to tell Neia anything.
Right now, he kind of wished he could.
Her being brought to Carne was a large success. She seemed to have befriended Enri, and the people of that town really liked her.
The whole trip made her very happy, and quite excited about all the new material for future speeches.
Seeing her happy pleased him, though he wasn't sure why.
… …. …
It was late into the night.
Neia was thinking about her meeting with the dark elf twins, Aura and Mare.
She'd only met them a few hours ago, and then she also spent some more time with His Majesty.
Thinking about that seemed to have made her feel... certain things.
She was thinking about what could be in the distant future.
The way they spoke about the Sorcerer King just made her see their ideal future together even more clearly.
The way he acted like a father towards them...
It made her want her own children with him, too.
It made her want to marry him as soon as possible.
It made her think about the wedding they would have.
But right now, in the middle of the night, it also made her think about what married couples were said to do on wedding nights.
She felt like she could not sleep because of these thoughts.
They just made her too... excited.
And so, in order to fall asleep tonight, she would give her body what it craved.
But what sort of scenario should she create?
...
Neia and His Majesty were... sitting on the sofa in her room, like always. It was a date.
And... what should happen next?
The Sorcerer King spoke in a rather cheeky voice, a voice she wasn't sure she'd heard before.
"Neia... there is something that must happen before we get married."
Neia listened intently.
"There are many qualities a wife should have. And one of them is beauty. But I have not yet seen your true beauty."
"What do you mean, Your Majesty?"
"I need to see your whole body to know if you are truly worthy of being my wife..."
...
Neia's thoughts were pulled away from her fantasies momentarily as she heard a faint noise from somewhere else in the building.
The pause made her lose her momentum, and so she took a moment to get back into it, placing her hand back between her legs.
...
"So, strip for me, Neia. Let me see what your clothes have been hiding from me."
"I-if that's w-what Your Majesty desires..."
Neia started to get up, slowly unbuttoning her dress.
And then, her bra...
And then, her panties...
"Hmm... spin around for me, would you, Neia?"
She did as he asked, though she was very anxious about this.
After she was fully turned around to face him again, he got up and went closer.
"Well you do look great but... looks aren't everything... let's see how pleasant you are to touch."
Just like that, one of his hands found its way on her right ass cheek, squeezing it.
She made a noise of surprise, and blushed harder than she ever has.
Seeing this, her beloved chuckled and put his other hand on her left breast, squeezing it too.
The real Neia did something similar.
And it felt good.
"Hm? Turned on, are you?"
"Y-yes, Your Majesty..."
"Well, then... I'm not done. I need to know how you feel on the inside, too..."
And then, he took two fingers and-
...
And the real Neia felt a wave of pleasure.
She moaned several times, each more strained for breath than the last.
She slowed down both the hand caressing her breast and the fingers moving inside her.
And then, she let herself lay there...
Her fantasies were still vivid, but now that she got her release, they returned to being wholesome and romantic, instead of sexual.
"A wedding... me and him... wife and husband..."
Wondering if it was really ever going to happen, she got up to clean herself.
...
Neia was slowly falling asleep now, but still did not stop thinking about beautiful possible futures.
"Hmm... the way those twins view their creator as their mother... does Pandora's Actor view His Majesty as his father?"
Neia already knew that the Sorcerer King was very fatherly and loving to those twins, but she did not know what sort of person Pandora's Actor was, so she couldn't be sure that their relationship was also like that.
And if she really did marry her love one day... if they really were like father and son, would he accept her as his mother?
Such a thing would make her very, very happy.
She drifted off to sleep with a smile, the word mother repeating itself in her head.