Chapter 126

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Uesugi Muneyuki knew very well that, following the previous rhythm, it was only a matter of time before he and Eirina took the final step.

Although Eirina had explicitly told him when she moved into her new home at the Sakata Bridge Tower that she did not intend to date Uesugi Muneyuki with marriage as a prerequisite, nor did she intend to return to the home as a housewife or resign from her job as a Detective, wanting to continue to stay by Uesugi Muneyuki's side as a Detective.

But she also didn't say she wanted to maintain the purest colleague and friend relationship with Uesugi Muneyuki; she just didn't want to get married or quit her job. If Uesugi Muneyuki could guarantee that, she would be very happy to develop further with Uesugi Muneyuki.

In fact, as time went on, Eirina's attitude toward Uesugi Muneyuki repeatedly lowered its bottom line. Even the moment she took the initiative to put on silk stockings under her trousers and invited Uesugi Muneyuki to test the texture, Uesugi Muneyuki, as a veteran of the flower fields, knew that it was only a matter of time before the two of them had a relationship.

The reason Uesugi Muneyuki did not take the initiative was that he felt the relationship between the two was not easy to balance. Those Princess Connect targets outside were either one-off flings or the stable relationship of mutual need between him and Saito.

Eirina was completely different. Besides the Partner relationship, she was also a colleague who spent every day with Uesugi Muneyuki, a closely related master-disciple, and half of Uesugi Muneyuki's private bodyguard!

With this kind of relationship of being together from morning till night superimposed on the Princess Connect relationship, Uesugi Muneyuki really didn't know how to get along with her. Moreover, as he and Eirina became more intimate, the gravity coming from her became more obvious; clearly, she had already regarded him as the only fulcrum of her entire career and life plan.

This master of his, Eirina, was indeed a beauty who could sink fish and drop geese—in terms of appearance, and in terms of gravity too~

Even including combat power.

Uesugi Muneyuki had always been quite proud of his abilities. He had always prided himself on being well-endowed and skilled. Among more than a hundred Princess Connect characters, there wasn't one that couldn't be solved by one of his Noble Phantasm releases (if one didn't work, two definitely would KO them). As a result, he had truly met his match this time. Eirina had a superb physique and was full of flexibility, and she was a Judo black belt master herself, with extremely strong core strength and abundant energy. She was simply a match for Uesugi Muneyuki, a battle of wits and talent, fighting eight hundred rounds without a winner.

Uesugi Muneyuki himself even fell slightly into a disadvantage due to physical injuries, muscle tears, and excessive consumption of Courage.

From this, one can see how terrifying this woman is.

However, thinking of this, Uesugi Muneyuki instead let it go.

It happened, so what?

Before things happen, one must find a way to prevent them; once things have happened, then don't run away.

Whatever difficulties we encounter, don't be afraid, face them with a smile! The best way to eliminate fear is to face fear. Persistence is victory. Come on, keep it up!

"Of course, after I'm discharged, we can go to Sakata Bridge." Uesugi Muneyuki responded with a smile: "I agree that you can come to my house when necessary."

Ikeda Erena's eyes instantly regained focus. She turned her head abruptly to look at him, full of joy: "Are you serious?"

Uesugi Muneyuki said irritably: "Then shall we go to a hotel again? And then get checked for room opening records by that jerk Kashiwagi Jin?"

Seeing the trace of playfulness on the corner of Uesugi Muneyuki's mouth, Ikeda Erena also realized that he was teasing her on purpose!

Both happy and annoyed, Ikeda Erena no longer wanted to endure it. She threw herself directly onto Uesugi Muneyuki, used a Chodai Sotogari lock throw to counter-hug him, threw him rudely onto the hospital bed, and then threw herself into his arms, both joyful and fierce: "Bad thing, it's like you're being wronged by going to your house, when it was clearly my first time!"

Excessively intense emotions flipped rapidly in a short period of time, and a fierce blush appeared on Eirina's cheeks.

Seeing Uesugi Muneyuki silent, she was almost scared to death.

She thought Uesugi Muneyuki regretted it, or that she had scared Uesugi Muneyuki by being too proactive and rude. After all, she was the one who forced the kiss, and she was the one on top.

In traditional Japanese culture, an especially important evaluation indicator for women in society is "femininity." This concept is very abstract. In words people can understand, it means whether one has "womanly charm."

Perhaps this word will instantly cause a stress reaction in some people, but what needs to be said here is that the evaluation indicator of "femininity" itself is the result of the joint choice of both men and women.

As everyone knows, since the bubble economy burst, the status of Japanese women has plummeted from being unreachable. The Japanese have carefully designed two sets of plans to deal with the increasingly extreme feminist movement in society, namely the "labor dispatch non-regular employment system" and the "full-time housewife protection system."

The former is almost tailor-made for women entering the workplace to enjoy a large amount of paid maternity and childcare leave after becoming a Regular Employee, as well as the large number of sexual false accusation cases that have begun to appear to obtain workplace benefits. Through labor dispatch companies, many professional women cannot become Regular Employees from beginning to end, and naturally cannot enjoy gender dividends. If they dare to make trouble, they are immediately fired.

The latter is comprehensive protection for full-time housewives, including the government paying the full Welfare Pension and medical insurance for full-time housewives with an annual income of less than 1 million, providing childcare subsidies and legal protection in marriage. Husbands are not only in a weak position in marriage judgments but must also pay high alimony after divorce (although according to University of Tokyo data, 80% of husbands pay less or simply do not pay after divorce). Moreover, if the husband dies, the law allows the wife to directly terminate the family relationship, meaning she can divide more than half of the property from the husband, but does not have to bear the responsibility of supporting the parents-in-law.

With both measures, Japanese women generally tend to become a "full-time housewife" after graduation.

So the question arises, since you want to be a full-time housewife, it is me choosing you, not you manipulating me.

What's worse is that after the bubble economy burst, men's income also dropped significantly. During the golden age, more than 60% of families were male single-earner full-time housewife families. At that time, a man's income could easily support a family of four.

But 10 years later, the proportion of single-earner full-time housewife families has dropped to less than 25%. Less than 20% of Japanese men can earn a salary sufficient to cover the expenses of a family of four (i. e., 6 million yen). As for the 25-34-year-old unmarried male bracket, one can imagine how many can earn 6 million a year.

Correspondingly, in the survey, 60% of high school girls' future career expectations after graduation are to be full-time housewives.

Under these circumstances, whether "femininity" is sufficient is not only the requirement of qualified men but also the self-awareness of unmarried women who want to get married.

Eirina actually couldn't understand such a deep part, but she roughly knew that women around her were evaluated and evaluated like this. Uesugi Muneyuki came from that kind of traditional Old Nobility family, so he must value this aspect very much.

Before meeting Uesugi Muneyuki, Eirina didn't care about this evaluation at all.

After yesterday, Eirina found that she could no longer accept the cost of losing him!

How he evaluates her is very important to her!

Eirina's Judo technique was excellent to a certain realm. She knew very well how not to hurt Uesugi Muneyuki. After the man returned to the bed, recalling the bed sheet that was stained red that day, his expression was much gentler: "I know, but I think it's more like you are on top of me, rather than me on top of you."

Uesugi Muneyuki was not lying. He had summoned countless characters through Princess Connect, and Eirina was the first one to make him feel that he was the one being ridden.

This sentence made Eirina giggle: "Who told you to get hurt? No way, it can only be me..."

Uesugi Muneyuki shrugged: "So I think I am the one who sacrificed the most."

Ikeda Erena was a little angry again. This man, he took advantage and still acted innocent!

She retaliated by pressing Uesugi Muneyuki under her, and once again kissed his fascinating lips fiercely.

Sanction you!

………… (omitted below) …………

It was two hours later when the conversation between the two reopened.

The tall beauty was now like soft sand winding around fingers, lying gently in front of the ocean named Uesugi Muneyuki, enjoying the fine waves after the tide, she leaned contentedly in Uesugi Muneyuki's arms, one hand hugging his neck, the other drawing circles on his chest, a pair of gray-silk beautiful feet kicked off the strappy high heels, and the jade feet wrapped in silk stockings were slightly damp at the tips and soles.

"Uesugi-kun?" Eirina was still energetic. She was flushed, both shy and comfortable, and whispered in his ear: "Can we be together from now on whenever we can?"

"... Then should I call you... Master in the future?" Uesugi Muneyuki also asked softly.

"Hmm... I always feel so embarrassed." Eirina did not object: "Then should I call you Muneyuki directly?"

Now it was Uesugi Muneyuki's turn to feel embarrassed.

Both sides agreed in whispers that they could call each other that in private, but should be normal in front of others.

At the same time, Eirina finally got a guarantee from Uesugi Muneyuki that she could go to the Uesugi residence at Sakata Bridge Tower for dates at "appropriate times and under sufficient conditions."

She actually wanted to get the key to the Uesugi residence, but Uesugi Muneyuki dodged the question, telling her that the ownership of this apartment still belonged to the family and it was not easy to handle.

Eirina really didn't want to return to the family, so she had to give up for the time being.

Afterwards, Eirina couldn't help but raise a new question: "Muneyuki, why do you... go out and find so many women?"

After speaking, her eyes were bright, and she stared at him with focused attention.

(Let's just assume he went to practice his technique in advance)

"After all, I am a man," Uesugi Muneyuki said with a bitter smile. "I have normal needs, but in truth, I don't want to be tied down by marriage or have my career affected at this age, which is why I chose this path."

This was not an answer that satisfied Eirina, but considering Uesugi Muneyuki's personality, it could be considered acceptable.

He will have me from now on! Those filthy things outside will never have a chance to touch him again!

Eirina clenched her little fists, her gaze resolute.

"Then why do you go on so many dates with that Saito?" Eirina couldn't help but press further.

"Because she is easier to ask out, very easy to arrange a date with," Uesugi Muneyuki replied cleanly and decisively, but thinking of this, he sighed: "It is my fault that she is gone. Master, would you be willing to attend her funeral with me?"

"Of course!" Eirina was about to ask more, but her words were cut off by Uesugi Muneyuki, and she had no choice but to drop it.

"At the funeral, could I see you wearing the Metropolitan Police Department's winter female police ceremonial uniform?" Uesugi Muneyuki continued.

"It was already..." Ikeda thought to herself that it should have been like that anyway; if one isn't wearing Mofuku at a funeral, one can only wear a police ceremonial uniform!

Huh?!

The tall beauty's brain might not be great in other areas, but she reacted particularly quickly to these kinds of things.

Her beautiful, deep, and radiant face instantly turned bright red, and the softness wrapped beneath her tough exterior was revealed to this man without reservation.

"Mm!" Eirina only gave a soft response, then immediately buried her head in the man's chest out of shyness: "Then can you wear that white lab coat next time?"

"???"

Eirina discovered that she didn't care much about Uesugi Muneyuki's list of hundreds of contacts anymore.

She secretly came up with a reason to comfort herself.

Just for the sake of this incomparably perfect and comfortable experience.

Just pretend he was practicing his technique in advance.

(End of chapter)