Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 651

Chapter 651: Chapter 651 - Taming the Fifth Year - Pledge

"Can you forgive us in exchange for that information?" Jeannette said quickly, the words tumbling out with desperate hope. "We were brought with a bad purpose, yes. But..." she paused, something like guilt crossing her face, "we didn’t have much choice. Our families ordered. We obey or they throw us out."

"You didn’t have much choice?" Ren repeated, his anger diluting slightly at having heard only truths from them.

"Ren," Cassia said with a softer voice now, vulnerability replacing the normal pretense of charm, "we’re just pawns."

"We were chosen as political pieces from birth," Seraphina continued, her usual composure cracking to show the genuine emotion beneath, "We wouldn’t do this, but our families have reasons to want you to fail. Or at least, to want you not to have complete success."

"And you?" Ren asked, looking between the three. His eyes moved from face to face, searching for the smallest lie. "What do you want?"

Another heavy silence. Full of things they’d never said, thoughts they’d never been allowed to voice.

"Honestly," Jeannette finally admitted, her voice small, "at first we just wanted to fulfill our family orders and get out of this without problems. But after feeling your power..."

"After meeting you," Cassia completed, "we realized you’re genuinely... Someone who deserves their rewards more than anyone. Not like other nobles. And the idea of actively trying to sabotage you started to feel... terrible. We were dying of fear too."

"That’s why we never really tried it," Seraphina added, her mana eyes dimming as she looked down. "And we started to just... play along with your ’games’ and answer what you asked. Within what we could."

Ren observed them, trying to process all this. Three girls who’d been sent to seduce or sabotage him, who’d failed at both because they couldn’t bring themselves to actually go against him. It was... complicated.

"So what happens now? Do your families expect reports? Results?"

"Yes," all three said in unison, the word carrying the inevitable consequences.

’They’re still strangely honest...’ Ren thought, confused. ’Are they very bad at their job as saboteurs? Do they hate their families?’

"And if I tell you to leave now," Ren continued slowly, thinking through all this, "what happens to you?"

Cassia looked down, her perfectly styled hair falling to hide her expression. "We’d probably be punished for failing our mission. Maybe given away to pay some favor to some house to be married to someone our families choose to recover from the error."

The words were matter-of-fact, describing a fate she’d clearly contemplated before.

"Or less probable but we may simply be thrown out," Seraphina added with neutral voice that barely concealed pain beneath. "Losing access to family resources. Opportunities..."

"Basically converted into family shames," Jeannette concluded bitterly.

Ren felt something twisting in his chest. Anger at the injustice to these young women not having a ’real family’ like him, yes. But also... something more complicated. Recognition, perhaps. He’d seen Luna struggle with family pressure. Had watched Klein be destroyed by it before being able to rebuild himself.

"What if I pretend to believe you?" he asked slowly, an idea forming. "If I keep coming to these sessions as if nothing had changed? Would that help you?"

All three looked at him with surprise, their composure slipping to reveal genuine shock.

’Is he offering to protect us?’ Cassia thought, incredulous. ’Or... Is this another game? Layers of the same game from the beginning? Did he always know?’

’After admitting we were trying to sabotage him,’ Seraphina also thought, trying to understand the logic.

’He’s genuinely too good to be true,’ Jeannette concluded, suspicion and hope warring in her chest.

"Ren," Cassia said softly, carefully, "if you do that, it would help us but only until the year ends and we fail anyway, when you receive all the rewards. Though we could try to use the time to divide the blame, it won’t change the outcome much..."

"I see," Ren admitted, processing the limitations. "But I can’t just let you suffer for something your families forced you to do."

’Is he offering us an exit?’ all three thought simultaneously. ’What does he want?’

"Technically you could," Jeannette pointed out, still incredulous but curious to hear the offer. "But we tried to sabotage you. We deserve the consequences."

"But did you really try?" Ren asked, looking at her directly. His gaze was intense, searching for truth. "You said that after meeting me you stopped actively trying. That counts for something in my book..."

Seraphina studied his face, her mana eyes gleaming with her active perception. "I can’t read your patterns clearly, but your expression... you really believe that right? You forgive us?"

"Yes," Ren said simply, the word carrying his absolute conviction. "I don’t like that you lied to me. But I understand that being trapped between family orders and what you really want to do must be very difficult. I’ve seen Luna deal with something like that several times."

’He wants us to be his double agents,’ all three realized simultaneously.

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