Chapter 212: The Underworld Companion of the Inner World

In the classical Ryotei with its flower-bird-wind-moon tatami mats and hanging scrolls, Uesugi Muneyuki and Shirakawa Mai sat opposite each other. When his goddess senior immediately answered "No," she clearly realized that this lacked persuasiveness. A faint blush appeared on her cold, bright, and stunningly beautiful face, but she quickly became assertive again, her curved willow eyebrows knitting slightly as she transformed from "White Mai" to "Black Mai": "Is teasing me fun? Junior, it seems I really need to discipline you severely."

Able to make his goddess senior show a shy expression for him, Uesugi Muneyuki immediately raised his hand to signal surrender, then took the initiative to reach across the wooden table and grasp the small hand Mai had placed on it, apologizing deeply: "Senior Mai, you've worked hard."

Shirakawa Mai hadn't originally felt that aggrieved, but once he said that, a sense of grievance immediately welled up.

Thinking further about how she, a dignified National Goddess, a big-name female star, and the Head of the Kanto Shrine Alliance who earned over 500 million in annual income and brought 1.5 billion in net profit (after tax) to her agency every year, had actually been stood up by her junior—and he only took the initiative to see her when he needed her.

Senior Shirakawa Mai's mentality was a bit shattered.

In this moment, she felt she was very pitiful.

She was very successful in her career, but she didn't have anyone in the industry who could be called a friend. Women envied her, men desired her, and she herself knew that even if the other party were sincere in wanting to date, it would be very difficult for her to truly become a close friend with someone from the Outer World; she simply could not truly view people from the Outer World as beings equal to herself.

Sometimes she herself didn't understand what the meaning of her existence was. Fame, wealth, and power were already things within her grasp. If there had to be one, it was probably becoming the first New God after Nankobo Tenkai, but this goal was actually left to her by the master she had counter-killed.

She always had to prove that counter-killing her master was the right thing to do, right?

Therefore, having finally met a peer who was pleasing to the eye, Shirakawa Mai simply couldn't describe her joy in words.

And yet, this jerk left her aside, busy getting engaged to the Face of the Metropolitan Police Department, busy reuniting with the beautiful school doctor, busy running around performing autopsies and investigating cases, and even came to see her with the scent of some tall, mixed-race policewoman on him...

But meeting Uesugi Muneyuki's apologetic gaze, Shirakawa Mai quickly forced this sense of grievance down.

In a relationship between a man and a woman, whoever takes the initiative first and exposes their weakness first means losing the initiative.

Her advantage in this relationship lay in the information asymmetry; she possessed an overwhelming, asymmetric advantage over Uesugi Muneyuki, and Uesugi Muneyuki did not know how important he was to her.

She was the one who held the initiative!

I, the dignified Mai-sama, will not be easily defeated!

"So, Uesugi-kun, you need to learn to rely on me a little more."

Shirakawa Mai shyly grasped his large hand in return, their fingers interlaced, and amidst the soft whispers, there was a thick sense of reliance.

Appropriately showing weakness is one of the best ways to easily obtain a man's satisfaction.

Especially when the other party says they need you.

Uesugi Muneyuki was moved by Senior Mai almost instantly. He squeezed her small hand, which was like mutton-fat jade, and said softly: "That's why I came to find you immediately when I encountered a situation, didn't I?"

"We have already become Underworld Companions."

"Is that so?" Shirakawa Mai said with some resentment: "You don't even come to my house, and you're still planning to get engaged to the Face of the Metropolitan Police Department."

"Ha~ you should understand, Senior. If I want to obtain enough Otherworld Energy, I need the support of the Metropolitan Police Department. In this regard, nothing is faster than marrying the daughter of the Superintendent General." Uesugi Muneyuki had already thought of this explanation.

"The Superintendent General is not a lifetime position." Senior Mai squinted: "Watanabe Eiji has already been in office for almost a year and a half."

"You're right, but believe me, for us, immediate benefits are definitely greater than long-term benefits, not to mention that we can't predict whether the next Superintendent General will have a daughter of the right age, whether they will be willing to support me, or whether they will want to accomplish something—these are all unknowns."

"That's true." Shirakawa Mai thought about it and said: "Let's not talk about these things."

"How does it feel to be running all over Tokyo in July? Does it finally feel like you're getting busy?" Senior Mai teased, her stunning face suddenly changing from resentful to wearing a faint smile—she was truly a shape-shifting witch: "As energy accumulates, have your needs in that area become more intense?"

"Of course." Uesugi Muneyuki nodded immediately and said with a wry smile: "Minami only lets Eirina go to Sakata Bridge once a week, making the two of us have to often go to a hotel or a utility room in the department at noon."

"The side effects of practicing the Sacral Chakra are like this; I told you about this. However, it's actually useless for you to infuse that policewoman with a large amount of energy. Once we officially begin Dual Cultivation and exchange energy once a week, you won't have to feel like you can't help but 'Princess Connect' every time you trigger a Death Soul Contract... You like that term, right?"

Senior Mai tilted her head, her smooth, long hair flowing down her shoulders, bringing a thick, intense fragrance: "From now on, you just need to find me. Ikeda Eirina is no longer needed."

Ah, this...

Was Senior Mai planning to drive Eirina away?

Uesugi Muneyuki had a bright smile on his face, while inwardly complaining to himself.

Honestly, the "affection" between him and Master Eirina wasn't very deep, but her body was simply too amazing. If he really had to part ways with her, Uesugi Muneyuki felt he was truly a bit reluctant.

"What? Am I not as pretty as her? Or am I not as good at pleasing people as her?"

"Ah, of course not." In terms of looks, Eirina was indeed no match for Senior Mai, or rather, no one was a match for her.

"Hmph~ I always feel like you're a bit reluctant to part with that long-legged, big-chested kung fu girl."

Shirakawa Mai smelled the sunflower scent on him that didn't belong to her, nor did it belong to him.

That scent was significantly more intense, carrying the sunshine of the Iberian Peninsula and the flair of Southeast Asia.

Senior Mai's small hand couldn't help but clench fiercely.

With their fingers interlaced, Uesugi Muneyuki felt pain: "What's wrong? Senior?"

"Nothing, just feeling that you really are a sinful man. And at this frequency, Ikeda's body must have already been transformed by your Sacral Chakra into your energy circuit; she is already completely unable to leave you." Shirakawa Mai scrutinized the man, only feeling the displeasure in her heart rolling and spreading continuously.

Mine! I don't want to let him go! I don't want to see him being intimate with other women, I don't want to see him marry the Face of the Metropolitan Police Department!

However, our relationship is ultimately not easy to reveal in the Outer World, otherwise, it would have a huge impact on our plan to collect energy in the Outer World. Furthermore, we both need this identity in the Outer World...

Shirakawa Mai suddenly stepped forward, bypassed the table, and hugged Uesugi Muneyuki tightly.

"Senior? What exactly is going on?" With the soft, fragrant body in his arms, Uesugi Muneyuki was stunned. He subconsciously looked around, realized they were in a Ryotei, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief and hug her waist: "I know you like me very much, but being this passionate so suddenly, I'm a bit flattered."

"Shut up, you guy. Let me hug you for a while, okay?" Shirakawa Mai buried her face in Uesugi Muneyuki's body and said weakly yet stubbornly: "Then we'll talk about business."

"Mm." Uesugi Muneyuki didn't speak; he reached out to lift Senior Mai up, placed her on his lap, and hugged her tighter: "I know... on the inner side of the world, there is only us."

This sentence reached the deepest part of Senior Mai's heart.

Uesugi Muneyuki was different from her; he had family, friends, and multiple women. He could transition between the Outer World and the Inner World quite naturally. The Inner World was very important to him, but it wasn't everything.

But she could no longer do that. She had been brought into the fold by her master since she was a child, and her childhood had been spent in the Inner World. She could no longer let go of that side of the Inner World and live a normal life as a proper person of the Outer World.

I want to become a human!

Shirakawa Mai snuggled into his arms, but her small hand secretly climbed onto his heart area, pressing down hard, feeling his powerful heartbeat.

She pressed down with a little force, while trying her best not to let Uesugi Muneyuki notice anything unusual. In a place he couldn't see, her other small hand was clenched into a fist.

Anyone who wants to take Uesugi away from me must die!

On the back of her smooth, fair hand, blue veins were bulging.

A few minutes later, feeling it was about time, Senior Mai closed her eyes and kissed Uesugi Muneyuki directly on the lips: "Let's start the synchronization first!"

"Mm? Mmmmmm!" The moment Uesugi Muneyuki was kissed, he felt the world spinning. Subsequently, he discovered that the Otherworld Energy in his body was being uncontrollably extracted from within him, spraying out from his lips, eyes, nostrils, and ear canals as a liquid, colorful stream of light, surging toward Senior Mai.

"Mmm!" Being sucked away, all the energy was being sucked away!

————I am the separator line that has been drained dry————

Twenty minutes later, Uesugi Muneyuki lay on the tatami mat with vacant eyes, a trace of crystalline moisture still lingering at the corner of his mouth, while not far away, Senior Mai rested her head on Uesugi Muneyuki's arm with a look of satisfaction, her pretty face smiling: "How was it? It felt great, right?"

"A bit... too stimulating..." Uesugi Muneyuki stared blankly at the ceiling of the Ryotei with hollow eyes, his body splayed out like the character for "big," twitching from time to time: "Is this what energy exchange is?"

"Mm." Senior Mai giggled and tapped Uesugi Muneyuki on the forehead with her finger: "This doesn't even count as Dual Cultivation; I just drew the energy inside your body, purified and cycled it through mine, and then sent it back to you. Your Sacral Chakra was transplanted from me, so it cannot truly be used as your own without being cycled through my body first."

"The energy flows through the three wheels and seven Chakras, and we share the pleasure within it."

"Now take a look and see if a new ability has been unlocked?"

Uesugi Muneyuki checked and discovered that, indeed, there was a touch of bright red on the Qinghui Stone.

Besides the Death Soul Contract, a second ability had also been unlocked!

But he did not yet know what it was.

"Very good, it seems it was indeed effective." Senior Mai knew it had worked just by looking at Uesugi Muneyuki's face: "Let's eat first. While we eat, tell me what happened today. What exactly did you encounter?"

After saying this, Senior Mai shakily tried to get up to call the server to bring the food.

With the energy circulation complete, a hint of sweet charm was added to the goddess senior's pure temperament; she coiled up her long, dark hair, revealing her slender, fair neck, which, paired with that pure and elegant face, made her look like a fairy from a classical painting, breathtakingly beautiful.

After the dishes began to be served, Senior Mai gazed at Uesugi Muneyuki, her eyes as gentle as water, the flush of passion not yet faded from her face, her lips full and rosy, her skin so fair and tender it seemed as if it could be pinched to draw water, exuding a charming allure, while her pair of captivating, beautiful legs were wrapped in high-end nude-colored silk stockings, the long legs emitting an alluring luster under the wrapping of the stockings.

She took the initiative to come over to Uesugi Muneyuki's side, leaning on his shoulder and hugging his arm to listen to him recount the whole affair, feeling exceptionally satisfied.

Finding a partner from the Inner World was the right choice!

However, we do not need a third party between us.

Other Inner World existences? If they don't show themselves, fine, but if they dare to reveal their tracks?

Kill them all!

(End of this chapter)