Chapter 202: The Wives’ Result Presentation

“We have returned, Halt-sama.”

“Mai, Mei, welcome home!”

Mai and Mei returned while we were waiting for Kikyou to release the Dragon God from her spell.

They returned to the Spirit Realm, apparently.

Both of them looked really happy, but they didn’t tell me anything when I tried asking the reason for their good mood.

Afterward, Youko gathered all my wives together and warned Kikyou and me not to go anywhere near them.

They were talking about something.

What might it be?

I’m really curious now…

Why am I being treated as an outcast here?

I’m a bit lonely, you know.

“........................”

Got it, how nice of you guys.

If you’re not going to tell me, I’m going to use my mind reading technique and check whatever you’re up to!

I started activating my mind reading spell when —

“Halt-sama, you can’t read Youko and the girls’ thoughts.”

“Eh!?”

Kikyou exposed me when I tried using my mind-reading technique.

“W-why?”

“Even if I’m like this, this concubine is still part of the high class demon race. I can grasp the general gist of what you’re trying to do based on the flow of mana.”

S-seriously.

“Seriously. Well, this concubine’s hearing is quite sharp as you can see, so I can hear those girls even without using a mind reading spell.”

Kikyou’s ears twitched.

“T-then, maybe you can tell me what Youko and the others are talking about —”

“I apologize, but I cannot do that.”

Yeah, right.

“If you are worried, then please be at ease. Those girls will not do something that would be to Halt-sama’s disadvantage.”

“I-is that so…”

Hmm, but I’m still bothered.

Maybe I can ask somebody among those girls later?

“Also, please stop thinking about capturing one of those girls and interrogating her.”

“Eh.”

“Every single one of those girls view Halt-sama very favorably. If Halt-sama questioned any of them, no matter who it is, she will certainly answer truthfully.”

Kikyou stared at the assembly of my wives while saying those words.

“However, if you do that, there’s a possibility that the rest of the girls will blame the person who revealed the secret. It is best to avoid that scenario.”

She grasped my favorability among the girls, so she’s probably using her mind reading technique at full throttle — and yet she’s telling me not to use mine?

Isn’t that too unfair?

“This concubine is fine.”

Kikyou smirked, as if she was messing with me.

Really, all of her actions were too betwitching; I felt like I’ll be enthralled soon.

Well, I don’t want my wives’ relationship with each other to sour, and Kikyou told me that it won’t be to my disadvantage, whatever it is, so I decided to give up and let it be.

“ArrgghhHHH!”

“—!?”

Dragon God-sama suddenly moved.

“I-I’m...alive —”

Dragon God-sama collapsed.

“D-Dragon God-sama!?”

“There’s no problem. He is mentally exhausted so he fainted. Well, he’s a deity, so rather than saying he lost consciousness, it might be more accurate to say that he used up all the energy of his flesh body, so he is currently resting.”

“R-really?”

Wait, if Dragon God-sama used up all that energy, then isn’t he in a dangerous situation now?

Kikyou told me that he had been fighting with an opponent at the same level as him within his mind, so it’s hard to imagine just what Dragon God-sama went through for him to faint despite being a deity.

What the heck happened inside that mental world that Kikyou created?

“Please leave this guy to this concubine. I will not let him harm those girls, so please be at ease.”

I was still preoccupied about Kikyou’s magic, when she skillfully grabbed Dragon God-sama with her tail and lifted him up.

She probably meant Ryuka and Hakua when she mentioned “those girls”.

“Got it. Thanks, I’ll leave him to you.”

“Understood, Halt-sama.”

Kikyou vanished to the nearby woods while still carrying Dragon God-sama with her tails.

—***—

Halt’s wives gathered together inside the secret room in his mansion.

By the way, Halt went somewhere else alone.

“Thank you for your hard work. With this, let us open the second ‘Wives’ Assembly Meeting’ now.”

Tina was the one in charge over the meeting, and everyone applauded after she gave those remarks.

“Everyone, I am certain that you have all arrived from various places in order to research Bunshin Magic, so please present them. First —”

“Wait, before we report, what happened to you, Tina?”

“M-me?”

“Halt’s scent is all over you, Tina, meow!”

“Tina’s scent is also on Master. Moreover, the scent is really strong, as if both of you made skin to skin contact...Don’t tell me, did you do that while everyone was away?”

“Eh, no, that’s —”

Tina faltered in front of Merdie and Youko as they hounded her for answers.

“Tina-sama...what are those traces on your neck? Bug bites~..?”

“Ah!”

Tina hurriedly tried to cover her neck with her hands, thoroughly flustered when Leaffa pointed it out.

However, a few of them, like Leaffa, had already noticed the traces — kiss marks — on Tina’s neck.

Tina tried to hide it, so Halt’s wives confirmed what it was.

While they were running around searching for clues regarding Bunshin Magic, Halt and Tina were doing that all by themselves.

“Tina-sama, how far have you gone with Halt-sama?”

“We want to know the details.”

Seira, Mai and Mei drew closer and pressed Tina for answers.

“Teacher Tina, that maid’s clothes are different from the set you were wearing this morning.”

Luna could recall even the tiniest bit of embroidery from her memory, so she noticed that Tina’s clothes were different from the maid uniform she saw Tina wearing before they left the mansion.

In short, Tina changed her maid uniform.

She had undressed once.

“E-erm…”

Tina was steadily driven into the corner.

Even the most experienced magical swordsman didn’t seem to have any secret means to get out of this predicament —

Tina started to talk about what had happened after the entire family left the mansion.