Chapter 33: Idle Talk (3) - Yukishiro

Idle Talk (3) - Yukishiro

March the 30th.

Tomorrow would be the graduation ceremony at Toukyou’s junior high zone school. Currently a girl of a high family was visiting Yukishiro at the mansion of the Eternal Minatos.

“Please grant me your permission to become an indirect affiliate.”

“Of course, Mei-san. We are deeply indebted to your mother. I will definitely make sure to bring up the topic of you becoming an indirect affiliate so that Takuya-sama can approve of it right then and there.”

“Thank you so much!”

Today a female student had shown up at Yukishiro’s place to request being accepted as an indirect affiliate for Takuya’s high school class. She was one of the high family daughters whose acceptance as indirect affiliates was not quite set yet after they built relationships with the boys during the three years of junior high.

“Yukishiro-sama, this is but a small show of my appreciation,” the girl called Mei tried to hand Yukishiro something.

“Mei-san, such consideration is unnecessary.”

“B-But…”

“I told you, didn’t I? We are deeply indebted to your mother. This matter is my way of repaying some of the favors to your mother. If I were to accept your appreciation, it wouldn’t serve as much of a repayment. If you wish to show your appreciation for this time’s matter despite that, please direct it at your mother, and not me. I am sure she would be more than delighted.”

“O-Okay! Thank you very much!” Mei cried out of happiness while repeatedly thanking Yukishiro as she left the parlor.

“Pheew…”

“Good work, Yukishiro-sama.”

“I’m finally done.”

The number of girls, who had come to appeal to her on this day alone, easily exceeded ten. Of course, it wasn’t as though she could give them all a positive reply. She also had to turn some of the girls away with words she herself considered heartless.

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“Please forgive me for bothering you while you are exhausted, but our Matriarch Saori-sama is calling for you.”

“…I understand.”

Forcing her drained body, Yukishiro headed over to the matriarch’s office where her mother Saori was waiting for her.

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“Good work.”

“It finished without a hitch.” Thanks for reading on ManaNovel!

“I see. Tomorrow will be Takuya-sama’s graduation ceremony, huh?”

“Yes.”

With just a curt thanks for her work, Saori immediately cut to the main topic without bothering to hold any conversation you’d expect to occur between mother and daughter. This was usually a clear sign of Saori being in a bad mood.

And Yukishiro had an idea about the reason why Saori might be in a bad mood.

“You know that Takuya-sama made a move on the Yoshiwara girl, don’t you?”

“Yes, I do.”

It was unthinkable that Saori wouldn’t know information her daughter knew. Yukishiro still was no more than the next matriarch in this mansion. As such, it was impossible for her to hide information from Saori, the present matriarch.

“Good grief, what a troublesome issue. Seriously, that Takuya-sama…for him to make a move on the Yoshiwara girl of all things…”

Saori slowly stood up and walked over next to Yukishiro who was sitting on the floor in seiza.

“Please forgive me.”

Without being told anything, Yukishiro held up her palms higher than her head.

And then…

*PHWAAAT*

“You fool! How could you have failed to firmly get a hold of Takuya-sama’s heart!”

Saori’s folding fan struck Yukishiro’s palms. Yukishiro’s pretty face twisted in pain for an instant, but she didn’t talk back to Saori. She merely continued to keep her head low.

“How annoying!! For him to get attracted to the likes of that Yoshiwara girl!! Isn’t that because Takuya-sama considers you a useless deadweight!? It means just the name of Minato wasn’t enough!”

“Please forgive me.”

The sound of Saori’s fan hitting Yukishiro’s palms as she apologized filled the room.

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“Thank you for your kind guidance.”

After one hour of receiving Saori’s chastising, Yukishiro was finally allowed to excuse herself from the matriarch’s office. On her way back to her room, the people of the mansion showered her with stabbing looks. Their eyes were devoid of anything warm that would suggest they were worrying about Yukishiro. Rather, those were the looks of people evaluating Yukishiro.

At that moment, Yukishiro spotted a girl elegantly walking her way. Two attendants were following closely behind her.

“Oh my, Big Sister. A nice day to you.”

“…A nice day to you as well, Iori-san.”

“Did you receive yet another guidance from Mother? You’re as slow on the uptake as ever, aren’t you?”

“…You’re being rude.”

“Humph! Katsuya-sama, you see, told me that he wishes to visit this mansion in the near future.”

“……”

“I’m going to inform Mother about this now. It might be a bit early, but I think I’ll have her set up a room for Katsuya-sama in this mansion.”

“…I see.”

“A sunny room would be really dreamy, I think. I wonder whether any are vacant right now.”

“……”

“Bye. Make sure to reflect properly, okay?”

Iori, Yukishiro’s younger sister by one year, headed towards Saori’s office while revealing a smile full of mockery towards Yukishiro. The two women diagonally behind her followed Iori after bowing their heads.

For just an instant, Yukishiro could hear the sound of a fist being clenched from one of them.

No one approached Yukishiro after she got back to her room. At school she was idolized by many high family girls and was constantly surrounded by a throng of them, but inside the Minato mansion Yukishiro often felt so lonely that you wouldn’t be able to guess it from her usual demeanor.

“Haaah…”

She took a breather after finally returning to her own room. Looking at her palms, they appeared to be so red that it was questionable whether the swellings would disappear until tomorrow.

I’ll have to conceal it with make-up.

No one would come to treat swellings for her. Of course she could call someone over, but she didn’t want to do that. She got a medical ointment from the medical kit she had prepared in advance in her room, and spread the cream on her palms.

Uuh…

Because it was possible for her palms to be seen by Takuya, even Saori wouldn’t hit them too excessively. The beating was limited to a degree where the swelling would abate in around one day, if she applied some medical ointment on it. And even if some reddening remained, she likely believed that Yukishiro would be able to cover it with make-up.

However, she showed no mercy when it came to places that would be hidden beneath the uniform. Those places, which would stay out of Takuya’s sight, were covered with painful bruises. Especially the back.

Those weren’t injuries that wouldn’t heal for a lifetime, but they’d need several days or weeks to fully disappear.

In the unlikely event of me getting assaulted by Takuya-sama, it’d be best if I pleasured him from my side so as to not show him my back.

It was difficult for Yukishiro to apply the medicine on her back by herself. She could get someone in the mansion to help her with that, but quite some time had passed since she stopped doing so.

Things weren’t so bad before Iori entered junior high.

As soon as Iori entered junior high and started to mingle with the boys of her age, the atmosphere in the mansion began to slowly change. Mostly because of Katsuya, a boy in the same grade as Iori.

Katsuya was a boy who was regarded as outstanding since his first year at junior high, and once he finished his second year he became an elite as a D-Rank. It was a famous story that Katsuya was totally infatuated with Iori. He seemed to love Iori so much that he didn’t even allow other female students to get close during the School Days.

Katsuya treated all women seriously during his Service Activities, but when attending school, he was completely fixated on Iori. And Iori, who was quite capable of showing her violent and nasty side to Yukishiro, conducted herself as a flawless high family lady when in front of boys, and especially Katsuya.

The seat of the next matriarch of the Minatos…I’d love to hand it over, if only I could.

Iori didn’t hesitate to brag about her being suitable as the next matriarch. And some inside the mansion also belonged to Iori’s faction.

But, Saori had clearly stated that Yukishiro would become the next matriarch.

Her competitive attitude towards Nanase-sama…no, it’s a one-sided desire for revenge, isn’t it? She’s probably insisting on me becoming the next matriarch because Aoi-san is a classmate of mine. Besides, with Iori being like that…

Yukishiro’s mother, Saori, would turn 35 years old this year, and the matriarch of the Yoshiwaras, Nanase, was 38 years old. Because there was a difference of three years between them, both didn’t run into each other during their school time.

However, after having the greatest romance of the century, Nanase married her current husband. In the eyes of the Minatos, a Yoshiwara lass was allowed to accomplish such a great love affair that it actually shook society.

The matriarch of the Minatos from back then probably thought that her daughter had to achieve something similar. Hence she ordered her daughter Saori to win the heart of a man, have a passionate romance with him, and marry him in the end.

Saori followed that order with plain honesty, and tried all sorts of approaches to woo the boy whose classroom she had been visiting back then.

However, the result was a disaster. Because of her overly aggressive courting, that boy ran away from her, even saying that he didn’t need the Minatos’ power.

Flying into rage, the matriarch at that time ordered Saori to marry a man prepared by the Minatos. The family created a love story between those two, from their meeting all the way to their wedding, that didn’t take place in reality, telling people that they had married under those fake circumstances.

And thus Saori gained the family name Mochidzuki.

Of course society, and especially the high family, weren’t so dumb as to believe such a bogus story. It ended up being a token love story which would only receive compliments by those close to the Minatos when they were in front of the previous matriarch and Saori.

And then Saori gave birth to Yukishiro around the same time when the long-awaited daughter of the Yoshiwaras, who had been worried about Nanase failing to get pregnant, was finally born, but the Minato matriarch forced Saori to give birth to a second child so as to not lose to the Yoshiwaras. Both through loveless acts.

Yukishiro knew that Saori’s heart had been broken by all of these circumstances. After all, she was told about the events of that time by a certain woman.

Mother doesn’t want to realize that she’s doing the same things to me as her mother has done to her. She should logically understand it, but her heart denies the fact.

Saori had never told Yukishiro to marry out of love. That stemmed from her heart being broken to such a degree that she couldn’t even voice out such a simple wish.

But, it was clear from her attitude that she was demanding Yukishiro to do just that. Achieve what I couldn’t achieve, make sure to win the heart of a guy, and don’t lose to that Yoshiwara girl…Saori didn’t show the slightest forgiveness when it came to any of these points.

Saori had announced that Yukishiro would become the next matriarch, but she was awfully lenient towards Iori who fully enjoyed a genuine love story with Katsuya. She couldn’t help but dote on Iori who was pushing onwards towards a love marriage, something she herself never managed to obtain.

For this very reason, Iori believed that she’d be able to become the next matriarch. She thought that she had won her mother’s trust and that it was unfair for her older sister to be set as next matriarch just because she was born one year before her.

Some people agreed with that line of Iori’s thinking.

Such were the circumstances when the news of Takuya having made a move on the Yoshiwara girl flowed into the mansion. Many of the people working at the mansion closely observed the situation, wondering whether Saori would change the next matriarch until the graduation of both daughters from high school.

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After having finished applying the ointment, Yukishiro decided to go to bed early. In order to heal her wounds as much as possible through sleep.

Tomorrow’s preparations were done. She had also sent her request to become a direct affiliate to Takuya.

Yukishiro crawled into her bed, skipping dinner. Then again, the time for dinner had long passed since she had been listening to the appeals of the other high-class girls.

Once I become Takuya-sama’s direct affiliate…there won’t be no way back anymore.

If a girl became a direct affiliate once, she wouldn’t be able to cancel that connection for the three years of high school, unless she got exiled from the class by the boy. And building a relationship with a new man after entering university was difficult. All the more so if you aimed for a love marriage.

Yukishiro didn’t understand why Takuya had tried to make Aoi his direct affiliate while not telling her anything about it. If only he had consulted with her, it’d have been fine.

Am I missing something? Were my efforts lacking? Did something happen that hurt Takuya’s mood?

Yukishiro was at a loss.

Ugh…the gashes on my back hurt so much.

She had planned to go to sleep early, but the pain didn’t allow for it. As such she got up from the bed and headed to her PC. But only after making sure that her door was properly locked.

I must calm my heart.

Yukishiro brewed her beloved milk tea for herself. And then got her secret soothing ready. Or to be precise, she watched the stream of a male V-Streamer.

Of course, Yukishiro wasn’t naive enough to believe that real men were hiding behind the avatars of male V-Streamers. But, she didn’t mind either way. Them treating her kindly, even if it was just in her own imaginary world, became a surefire calming agent for her.

Konohamaru-sama…thank you so much for all your service up until now.

Just the other day, the male V-Streamer Konohamaru had retired. Yukishiro was one of his fans. She had joined his channel as an official member and bought his monthly Voice without fail. She also had a certain woman buy Konohamaru’s merch for her. Those merch items were now stoved away in a hidden cache.

His retirement stream was so dreamy. I couldn’t stop my tears.

The real person behind the Konohamaru avatar was a woman, just like Yukishiro. Although that woman should also desire to have a man shower her with kindness, she suppressed her own heart and worked as male V-Streamer to soothe other women as Konohamaru.

Yukishiro had used the final coin toss during Konohamaru’s retirement stream to express her gratitude.

Some women in society say that it’s a waste of time to delve in the imaginary world created by V-Streamers…and I’m sure, for those people this kind of activity must be a waste of time. But, I’m different. My heart was calmed by Konohamaru-sama. It was Konohamaru-sama who always supported my heart.

She watched the archived version of Konohamaru’s retirement stream. The comments were overflowing with warm and gentle words. Yukishiro’s own comment being one of those streaming down the screen.

Lilika: Konohamaru-sama!! Thank you! Thank you sooo much! And good work! I pray that your life from now on will be filled with nothing but happiness!!!

Yukishiro’s comment was displayed under the name Lilika. Normally, your real name would be displayed during a stream. Something like using a fake name for commenting as it was common in the Old World wasn’t possible in this world.

So, why could Yukishiro comment as Lilika?

Yukishiro had only one ally in this mansion. It was one of the attendants who had stood behind Iori earlier. She was one of Minato’s servants――a gentle elder sister character who was five years older than Yukishiro. She was also the one who taught Yukishiro everything she knew about male V-Streamers. And she was lending her own ID to Yukishiro.

Because Yukishiro used Lilika’s account whenever she bought male V-Streamers’ subscriptions and Voices, or did an in-stream donation (coin toss), her Mother hadn’t found out about it thus far. Given that the merch she bought was delivered to Lilika, Lilika secretly passed it on to Yukishiro after accepting the parcels. Of course, Yukishiro properly paid Lilika for all of it.

Moreover, Lilika’s mother Ena could be called Yukishiro’s emotional mother. Ena passed away two years ago. She was a gentle but strict woman who had supported and served the Minatos for many, many years as Saori’s assistant. It’d be no exaggeration to claim that Ena was the reason why Saori could perform her duties as matriarch despite her broken heart and why Yukishiro grew up into an honest and upright girl.

Yukishiro had heard about her mother’s ailing heart from Ena when she was lying on her deathbed. The sickness, which had festered in Ena’s body when Yukishiro was a first year at junior high, stole her life all too quickly. Having lost Ena, Yukishiro relied on Lilika, loving the older girl like a sister.

But, half a year ago Iori demanded to have Lilika assigned to her as attendant. And Saori allowed Iori to freely take Lilika as attendant. Yukishiro, on the other hand, had no attendants assigned to her. Ena had told her that a simple daughter, who wasn’t the matriarch yet, wouldn’t have any attendants appointed to her in order to become a woman who could properly handle things herself.

Yukishiro believed that it’d only trouble Lilika if she tried to get Lilika to look after her, so she didn’t comment on Iori’s move. After all, she knew very well that Iori would cling to Lilika harder, the more time Yukishiro desired to spend with Lilika.

Back then, Yukishiro still had a close relationship with Iori as they were both still small. Ever since that time, Iori always wanted to have what her older sister possessed. At that time, Yukishiro merely regarded Iori as a slightly selfish but cute little sister, telling herself to act properly as the next matriarch and give her sister as much support as she could.

Lilika lamented about her own inability to do anything for Yukishiro. And after brooding whether there was anything she could do for her, she told Yukishiro her own ID which was usually forbidden.

Originally Yukishiro couldn’t write any comments with her own ID, even when they watched the streams of V-Streamers together. If rumors about Yukishiro commenting on the streams of male V-Streamers were to start spreading, Yukishiro would obviously receive further, harsh guidance from Saori.

For the sake of avoiding such an outcome, Lilika always let Yukishiro write the comments she wanted to write on her ID. And now that they stopped being able to watch the streams together, she let Yukishiro use her ID.

Naturally, Lilika couldn’t write any comments because Yukishiro was using Lilika’s ID, even if she could watch the streams themselves. Believing that Lilika very likely wished to leave a comment during Konohamaru’s retirement stream as well, Yukishiro thanked her from the bottom of her heart.

She planned to stare at that stream until she would become tired. But, she wasn’t getting sleepy at all.

On the contrary…

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My body feels hot…this is…bad.

The injuries on my back; they sting. But that’s nothing unusual. It’s something I can ignore.

Those are simple injuries. If I sleep a bit, they’ll heal up. That’s all there is to it.

Nnh…

I feel something assail me alongside the pain.

When did this start to happen? Even though this usually doesn’t happen…

I must force my heart and mind to calm down…

What I’m feeling right now besides the pain is something bad. I mustn’t accept it. No matter what I do, I must keep it away.

I’m going to fall…

I feel like I’ll fall int a deep, dark hole.

I must not cross this line.

Haahaa…haahaaa…nnhn!

But, something abnormal is climbing out of that deep, dark hole. Coiling around my body…

Stop…don’t coil yourself around…my body.

Yukishiro’s body was constrained by that which didn’t exist. Yukishiro had no choice but to endure her body slowly getting hotter and hotter due to that which was stickily rising. Tumbling off the chair, she placed both her hands on the floor.

Kuuuh! Nngh!

My body is slowly being tormented with me being tempted by the sensation that is assailing me alongside the pain. It’s sweetly whispering to me. Tell me to fall.

But, that never shows its own appearance. It merely extends its tip drenched with sweet sap, toys with me, and waits for me to fall into the hole of my own accord.

Haahaa…go, vanish…why won’t those feelers leave me alone…

Many feelers keep extending into my body.

They were invisible to anyone’s eyes and Yukishiro herself also knew that they shouldn’t actually exist. But, they definitely existed. They had taken tight hold of Yukishiro’s heart and were trying to drag her into the deep and black hole.

No…please…endure….please hold out…..

“Nnhg!”

Finally my voice escaped my lips.

My heart is about to yield to that sweet, irresistible temptation. And if I accept it once, I won’t be able to come back anymore.

It’s a lure so luscious that it drives me mad.

“Ahn♡”

Sweet, sweet, overly sweet temptation.

If it’s painful, I just need to accept it. I just need to fall.

No matter what is done to me, no matter how much hurt I suffer, I can gratefully accept all of it with my fake heart while closing off my real heart.

Fall.

Give up yourself and fall, if you so desire.

“Aah…aahn♡”

You hate pain, don’t you?

People selfishly demand perfection from you. People selfishly push their own feelings on you.

And you don’t let anyone see yourself how you cry and scream while frantically answering their expectations.

“Aauu…aahn♡”

I will give it to you, if you allow yourself to fall.

I will grant you a fake heart.

It’s nothing you truly want. Just a dark, murky sham heart.

“Auu♡ Aah♡ ahaa♡”

I will fill you with this corrupted heart since no one else is going to fill you.

Right?

Or is someone going to fill and satisfy you?

No.

No, no.

No, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

“Aah♡ Ahaa♡ Ahahaha♡”

This is nothing you desire.

It’s not the gentle heart you want.

But, it’s something you can obtain.

Something you desire but cannot obtain, or something corrupted you can obtain; which do you choose?

Choose?

In the first place, you can’t even choose, can you?

What you desire…

“Doesn’t exist…no one…Ahaa♡”

It has fallen.

My heart has fallen.

My precious, precious heart…

I have been cherishing it.

Whenever I experienced something happy, it laughed.

Whenever I experienced something sad, it cried.

Whenever I saw something pretty, it was deeply moved.

Whenever I saw something dark, it was scared.

Whenever I got in contact with kindness, it was happy.

I sealed my heart.

I put a lid on my honest heart.

I kept living while dyed in the colors of falsehood.

Anyone.

Won’t anyone look at me.

Won’t anyone look at me crying all by myself…

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『Nice to meet you, everyone. I’m Yuuta, a junior high third-year student of Toukyou. Thank you very much for having come to watch my gaming stream today』

It was Yuuta’s initial greeting during his Gaming Stream that automatically started to play back after Konohamaru’s archived retirement stream came to an end.

Yukishiro’s consciousness was pulled back into reality due to Yuuta’s voice. As if the tentacles, which had tried to entangle her soul and make her fall, got surprised by Yuuta’s voice and scurried away.

Yukishiro was panting heavily. Her whole body was drenched in sweat. So much so that the ointment, which she had applied on herself, got washed away by the sweat.

『Thank you for all the nice comments. Please have fun watching my stream. Today I want to play a game called God of War』, Yuuta’s voice announced on her PC.

Yukishiro lent her ear to his voice for a while.

How strange…why is Yuuta-sama’s voice…so calming?

『This will be my first playthrough, so I’ll do my best!』

Yuuta’s Service stream wasn’t left in the archive. Service streams were only allowed to be real-time.

But, various bypasses existed. One could directly record it, and if you knew someone well-versed in such technologies, it’d also be possible to salvage a video of the Service stream.

What was currently playing back on Yukishiro’s PC was a video of Yuuta’s Service stream that had secretly spread across underground networks. Very likely that video would be deleted by the state sooner or later.

『Ahahaha, this avatar totally looks like I do』

Yuuta’s cheerful voice filled the room. It was not a live stream, but a simple video. It wasn’t as though Yuuta was streaming right now.

Yukishiro knew all that, and yet she started to feel like she always wanted to listen to Yuuta’s voice which had calmed her heart and mind.

That’s bad…Yukishiro…you mustn’t…

When she had watched Yuuta’s Service stream back when it was live, it had calmed her heart as much as it did moments ago.

She didn’t know why. She didn’t comprehend the reason. All she knew was that hearing Yuuta’s voice calmed her heart.

I recommended Akari-san, who’s a very trustable girl, as his direct affiliate to him, but…

Yukishiro would become Takuya’s direct affiliate. As such it’d be insincere towards Takuya if she were to deepen her connection with Yuuta. Because of that, she asked Akari and got in contact with Yuuta.

Among the people idolizing Yukishiro, Akari was a girl whom Yukishiro trusted very dearly. Yukishiro believed that she’d be able to learn from Akari how to deepen her relationship with Yuuta, if Yuuta had accepted Akari as his direct affiliate.

She didn’t intend to do anything that could be regarded as betrayal towards Takuya. Ultimately she wanted Akari to become Yuuta’s direct affiliate and have them both enjoy a wonderful marriage.

Alas.

Aoi-san was also interested in Yuuta-sama. Moreover…those two looked very intimate.

Aoi, the next matriarch of the Eternal Yoshiwara family.

Ever since she was very small, Yukishiro had heard her mother spew venom about that girl, telling Yukishiro that Aoi was her rival.

I’ve never seen…such a cute girl.

Yukishiro recalled her first meeting with Aoi. Back then she didn’t know that the other party was Aoi. She was simply dazzled by such an overly cute girl being present. She felt it’d be a pity if such an adorable girl were to have a terrible experience through the rude and rowdy boys present at the venue.

Yuuta-sama is with Aoi-san. In the first place, it’s just weird to do all this just to have him calm my heart.

『Umm, my time here is limited, so I had them disable the chat function. It’ll take a bit of time, but I’ll thank everyone who was kind enough to comment on my stream up until now, and then I’d like to finish the stream. Okay then…Lilika-san, thank you…』

Yukishiro had listened to the voice of Yuuta coming from her PC all the time while sitting on the floor. Yuuta had thanked her for the comment. But, that wasn’t her name.

I’ll take a shower…to not catch a cold.

She headed to the bathroom installed in her room. After putting her pajamas into a basket, she took off her night bra, which she wore for maintaining the shape of her F-Cup breasts, and her shorts, putting those two into the basket as well.

She adjusted the water’s temperature to be slightly lukewarm and set the shower’s water pressure to be somewhat on the weaker side. And then she gently and slowly rinsed off her sweat.

“Ugh!”

As hot water ran down her back, her gashes and bruises stung.

She gasped, “…That’s good.”

It hurts. I feel the pain. It’s only normal for back injuries to hurt.

“It’s okay…all is fine.”

She persuaded herself that all was normal. She tried to recall Yuuta’s voice to calm her heart.

Yuuta-sama’s…Yuuta-sama’s…kind voice…

Whether he was serious, surprised, happy, or playful; Yuuta’s voice sounded kind in Yukishiro’s ears.

Aahn…

Yuuta’s gentle voice.

As she remembered his voice, she started to feel something she shouldn’t feel.

W-Why…nnhn!

The weak water pressure of the shower caused Yukishiro’s body to feel something other than pain when it trickled down her back.

I-I mustn’t, yet…this is…b-but…aaahn

It was something she couldn’t afford to accept. It was the dark, murky something that made her think so.

Eh? T-This…nnhn

A single tentacle had crept up from the bathroom’s floor. Wriggling so as to entangle Yukishiro’s body once again, it…but, it wasn’t the dark, murky thing from before.

W-Why…aah, t-this…is no tentacle?

Upon a closer look, it was no tentacle. Its shape resembled those tentacles but it lacked their sinister ominousness.

What is this? Some sort of…tail? Nnhn!

That tail-like thing slowly crawled up alongside Yukishiro’s body. Her body rejoiced from its touch. Even though she usually thought that he had to reject these things, she felt that this tail was different for some reason.

W-Why…a gentle…nnhn!

The tail slowly and gently coiled itself around Yukishiro’s body. That, which had appeared from the floor, moved from her feet up to her thighs, and then it streamed from her back to the front through her nether region, just to go around her waist once more from her belly button towards her butt. From her butt it flowed once more around her hips and passed through the cleavage between her huge F-Cup tits.

Ahn, ahn, ahn.

At that point, it was right in front of her. In front of her mouth. It was so close to her face the she could reach it.

Ahn, ahn, I-I want it.

Yukishiro moved her face forward, try to get it into her mouth, but it nimbly moved past her neck to her back.

Ah…nnhn!

Even though she felt devastated that she could put it in her mouth, she experienced a pleasant feeling from her back the next instant.

Aaahaahn, t-this feels great…

What was hitting Yukishiro’s back was the warm water stream of the shower.

Why…why do I become like this…when thinking of Yuuta-sama’s voice.

She felt it. Her back pain had transformed into pleasure. Even though she wasn’t supposed to accept it.

“Aahn!”

She let it out in her voice. She made her heart’s voice audible, letting it escape her mouth. It wasn’t the dark, murky voice from before. No, it was a kind voice.

“Aahn! Nngh! Aaaahhn!”

She gradually increased the shower’s water pressure. Slowly. Very slowly. So as to change the pain into pleasure.

As if Yuuta’s gentle voice was embracing her body.

“Aaaahhn! Aaaahhn! Y-Yuuta-sama…”

She called his name. The name of the person she ended up desiring. The name of the person she wouldn’t be able to obtain.

Her heart, which should have sealed away the insincerity towards Takuya and her own ugliness, ended up screaming out.

“I’d like him to call…my name…Yukishiro.”

She wanted Yuuta to call her by name, and then, “Forgive me! Forgive me! Sorry, Aoi-san! Forgive me, Takuya-sama!!”

It ran down her cheek, falling to the floor. Blending with the shower’s water, it vanished.

“Aaahn! Aaahn! Aaahn! Eek…c-cuuumming…nnnghn!!!!”

Even though she hadn’t even touched herself, Yukishiro climaxed then and there. At the same time, a liquid dripped on the floor.

“Haahaa…haahaaa…forgive me…forgive me…forgive me…forgive me…forgive me…”

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After putting on new underwear and pajamas, Yukishiro stepped out of the bathroom. Once she looked at the PC, the playlist had automatically moved on to another stream.

She turned off the PC, sat down on the chair in front of it, and intently stared at the display.

While smiling as if wearing it like a mask, Yukishiro told herself,

I’m Yukishiro, the next matriarch of the Eternal Minato family. Tomorrow I’m going to become Takuya-sama’s direct affiliate. I’ll support Takuya-sama for the whole three years at high school. I’ll get him to give me a ball dress, dance with him, and receive his confession. After becoming his girlfriend, we will become engaged, and then I’ll soon marry him and bear his children.

I’m Yukishiro, the next matriarch of the Eternal Minato family.

It’s alright

There is nothing to fear.

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A smile filled with nothing but sadness was reflected on the black display.