Harem Startup : The Demon Billionaire is on Vacation-Chapter 547: Backup Option
Chapter 547 – Backup Option
He exhaled, leaning back, letting their voices and the scent of warm food surround him. The weight in his chest didn’t disappear. But it felt... shared. Like maybe the burden wasn’t just his to carry anymore.
Then his eyes flicked toward Corvus, who puffed his feathers proudly and struck a heroic pose on the windowsill.
"I mean... I do have one more backup option."
They all turned.
Corvus flared his wings. "Behold! Your digital infiltration specialist. Soul-immune. Network-hardened. Bug-resistant."
Lux pointed at him. "He’s the only one who can actually get inside without risking, you know, death."
Corvus preened. "You say that like it’s a bad thing."
Naomi muttered, "More like annoying thing."
Sira gritted, "We can train someone else."
Mira said, "We can build someone else."
Corvus gasped. "Excuse me?!"
Lullaby giggled. "Don’t bully the bird~"
Lux raised his hand to silence the chaos.
"I’m not going back for a while," he said. "The network’s recharging. My body’s healing. But I will finish it. We have one shot to erase Zoltarin from the grid. For real. His real self is in that code. If we kill the code..."
"He’s done," Sira finished.
Lux nodded.
"And you know what the best part is?" he said, his smirk slowly returning. "Even Grandpa’s eternal barrier can’t stop me in there. That’s the only way... That’s the only loophole..."
The CFO mask slid back into place.
Cold. Calculating. Confident.
Lux didn’t even blink as he brought the warm glass of milk to his lips and took a slow sip, his other hand resting lazily on the breakfast table while everyone around him reacted. Some with concern. Some with subtle panic. Some, like Sira, with that familiar glow of brewing violence behind their eyes.
Lullaby was the first to speak, still curled up, her soft hair cascading down like she hadn’t fully woken up yet.
"Then?" she asked softly, blinking. "What about that Lamia?"
Lux didn’t look up right away. He set the glass down with a quiet click. The sound echoed more than it should have in the sunny, glass-paneled dining room.
"Oh right," he said casually, voice smooth as cream. "That b*tch."
Lullaby blinked. Mira raised an eyebrow.
"She’s targeting Avariel," Lux added, fingers tapping a silent rhythm against the marble table. "Especially Ariel."
Mira stirred her tea with a delicate spoon and said, "But you look calm."
Lux gave her a glance, one corner of his mouth lifting slightly. "I already countered her hackers."
"You what."
"They tried accessing Avariel’s Vaults, Mira. Hacked it. Do you think I’d let a glorified snake brute-do what she pleases?"
Mira smirked, but it didn’t reach her eyes. "But?"
"But I haven’t handled her properly."
He leaned back in his chair. The sunlight filtered through the sheer curtains, casting soft gold across his bare forearms. Lux looked like a man on vacation. But the shadows behind his eyes weren’t on break.
Suddenly, the table gave a subtle thump as something hopped up.
Corvus strutted across the polished marble, puffing out his black-feathered chest like a smug crow-shaped knight.
"Then?" Corvus said with that raspy arrogance of his. "I believe you need my help again?"
His talons clicked like a countdown.
But before Lux could respond, another voice cut in.
"I will handle that Lamia," Sira said.
The air shifted.
Lux turned toward her slowly, his eyes locking onto her, arms crossed, crimson gaze, like she had woken up expecting violence.
Lullaby peeked out from her hoodie. "Sira?"
"I need something to vent my anger," Sira said flatly.
Corvus squawked, hopping a little in indignation. "What?! You’re taking my job!"
"I didn’t know ’standing around polishing your wings and leaking sarcasm’ counted as a job," Sira muttered.
Corvus hissed. "I am a strategic asset—"
"You’re a magical bird with attitude," Mira said, sipping her tea without looking up. "Calm down."
Even Lullaby nodded. "I think Sira should go."
"Of course you do," Corvus grumbled. "You’re all on team ’Let’s kill first and audit later.’"
"Oh, I’m not that naive," Sira said.
Lux raised an eyebrow. "Oh?"
He could tell the second the lie left her lips. Her aura was too hot. Too still. The same way it was before she dismembered a soul trafficker last month and turned his bones into bookmarks.
She wasn’t bluffing.
They locked eyes.
"Sira," he said slowly, voice dropping into that smooth CFO timbre. "We can’t kill mortals. Please remember that."
The girls went quiet.
Even Corvus.
Because that tone from Lux wasn’t flirty. Wasn’t clever. It was the tone of Hell’s Central Finance Overlord reminding the table that while he was technically still playing nice... the game had rules.
Sira didn’t flinch. She just stared back.
Lux knew that gaze.
That wasn’t the "I will investigate this" gaze.
Not even the "I’ll give her a lesson" gaze.
That was the "I will kill her and make it look like a tax audit accident" gaze.
And Sira wasn’t bluffing.
Lux exhaled and reached for the milk again.
"You’re pissed," he said. "I understand."
"She tried to manipulate you."
Lux didn’t look up from his glass of milk. He swirled it once, slow and thoughtful, before finally replying.
"I know... And I thought we were similar. I felt this weird attraction to her before. Like the smell of Greed. Turns out she is also a Greed."
He finally lifted his eyes, the usual glint of smug calculation behind them dulled by the throb of soreness running through his side. He hadn’t even changed his blood-streaked shirt yet. His pants still stained with dried crimson along the thigh. It looked bad.
But worse? He was still sitting calmly at the breakfast table surrounded by chaos, sipping milk like nothing had happened.
Across the table, Lullaby tilted her head. "Then you and her kinda cousin then?"
Lux smiled faintly, then scratched his cheek like he wasn’t sure whether to sigh or laugh. "Yeah. Kind of. Maybe I’m her uncle. I don’t know. Greed bloodlines get weird. Especially since she is a mortal."
He glanced down at the blood on his sleeve. "This is starting to look like a really melodramatic drama."
