Chapter 370

That night, Sakata Bridge Tower.

Shirakawa Mai and Watanabe Minami each took one side of the living room sofa, glaring at each other, while Uesugi Muneyuki sat somewhat awkwardly yet with unspoken understanding right in the middle.

"Who let you come over?" Beside the Minami Ojou-sama sat her attendant Eirina; Minami's eyes twitched with fury as she flung aside her chin-rest, lifted her thick black stocking-clad legs, and matched them against Ikeda Erena's pair of long, flesh-toned stockings, confronting the sudden strong foe: "Please don't interfere with my and Muneyuki's life! Kora!"

"Huh? Miss Watanabe?" Mai Xuejie smiled charmingly, with a hint of playfulness and scrutiny, outright refusing to acknowledge this so-called fiancée of Uesugi: "I boldly guess, Miss Watanabe, you don't know that I strongly advised Muneyuki not to touch Asuka?"

"Eh???" Indeed, Minami Ojou-sama stared in shock at Uesugi Muneyuki, and after receiving his affirmative reply, she said with lingering fear: "So it was your request? No wonder, Muneyuki-kun..."

"So Miss Watanabe, shouldn't tonight's celebration banquet include me too?" Upon hearing Minami's "shocking statement," Mai instantly looked pitying, but then shook her head, reached out, and grasped Uesugi Muneyuki's left hand, smiling: "Junior Student is my other half and the person closest and dearest to me; our relationship isn't as simple as you think!"

"Is that so?" Watanabe Minami tilted her head, absent-mindedly retorting: "Who has seen the parents and the head of the house, who got engaged to Muneyuki with everyone's blessing and recognition? It's not some senior student, but rather a Special Mission System Management Officer, right?"

—Indeed, between Uesugi Muneyuki and Shirakawa Mai there is always an inexplicable sense of stickiness, intimacy, and unspoken understanding.

But the Lakshīl ritual's outcome is settled—I am the high-ranking lord!

"Hehe, in short, Miss Watanabe, as Junior Student's other half and the person he is closest to, most trusts, most longs for, and most loves, you had your fees for hiring Nishimura Asahi Law Office covered by me, and I am also Asuka Sauce's good sister, having testified in court as a witness—tonight, no matter what, I should count as one too!" Mai Xuejie said with bright eyes and white teeth, smiling charmingly: "Without my help and support, do you think the Superintendent General of the District Prosecutors Office would come in person?"

What?!

Watanabe Minami's expression shifted slightly; she indeed felt it abnormal for the Prosecutor General to personally come to Sakuradamon for a press briefing, but this level of bigwig comes and goes as he pleases—something even Minami or Watanabe Eiji cannot control.

If anyone else said this, Minami would immediately not believe it, but Mai Xuejie saying it carries some possibility! The Kantou region's Shinto forces are deeply entrenched, each with centuries of history; once someone unifies them, even without saying more, casually pushing a few Diet members into power poses no problem.

And Mai Xuejie is precisely the one who can unify the Kantou Shinto forces!

No wonder my father emphasized I must not offend her...

"Mmm... limited to tonight only! Not to be repeated!" Minami Ojou-sama's attitude shifted instantly; she acquiesced humiliatingly.

Hmm? Ikeda Erena beside Minami stared in shock; to someone like the Tall Beauty, a Superintendent rank already counts as high-level, and if not for these past few months at the Metropolitan Police Department seeing numerous Superintendents, Assistant Commissioners, and even frequent encounters with Superintendent Watanabe Eiji, Erena's prior concept of such people was "celestial beings."

As a result, now she encounters a high-level celestial being even Minami dares not provoke?

Moreover, it's not just that.

Mai Xuejie has always given Erena a strange feeling; Mai herself is nationally renowned for her beauty, radiant and beyond compare, yet carries a special otherworldly aura, but she has always given Erena a sense of extreme danger, a causeless sense of peril, as if the moment she acts, Erena would be taken down in one move.

But... how could that be? Erena instinctively rebutted her own thought—she is a black belt in judo and karate!

The Tall Beauty firmly stood beside Minami, one soft, one hard, one large, one small—an unbreakable alliance!

Mai also withdrew her hand, laughing lightly as she smoothed her ebony hair falling over her chest, laughing lightly: "Don't be so hostile toward me; I've brought you much enjoyment—for example, Muneyuki's massage technique is something I taught him; don't believe me? Ask him?"

"Eh, yes, my Ayurvedic essential oil massage technique was taught to me by Mai Xuejie." Uesugi Muneyuki nodded with a smile.

Upon hearing "Ayurvedic essential oil massage technique," Minami showed no reaction, but Ikeda Erena beside her almost instinctively clenched her legs, her face flushing, her gaze unfocused and trembling incessantly.

Muneyuki's massage, she can't withstand...

"That oil from last time?" Minami's face unchanged, merely giving Erena a strange sideways glance.

During last New Year's, Uesugi Muneyuki had given her that oil, but she had been busy and hadn't tried it yet—only Erena had tried it once.

"Is that so? You haven't experienced it yet? Let Junior Student arrange one for you later; once you try it once, you'll definitely get addicted—Junior Student's massage is truly enjoyable, I even regret teaching him the technique; once you, Minami, try it once, you'll probably wonder why you didn't experience it sooner—for instance, I now am a captive beneath Junior Student's fingers, and if I don't tribute all my property and become a wreck unable to live without Muneyuki..."

Mai Xuejie flicked her hair ends, speaking half-truthfully.

Uesugi Muneyuki suppressed laughter—Mai Xuejie's weakness has been completely grasped by him.

"Too exaggerated? Are you really talking about essential oil massage? It sounds more like suspicious medicine?" Minami Ojou-sama wore an expression of disbelief, a faint blush appearing on her face.

Yet, Erena's expression beside her told her it's likely true!

Hey hey hey! Who would be conquered by their own essential oil massage technique, turning into a whimpering captive of Muneyuki?

You this annoying national actress, stay away from my husband! At least don't show up in my house!

"Safe, at least the massage itself is a very healthy and safe activity." Mai Xuejie laughed, patting her flushed cheeks, recalling that time of spiritual power short-circuit causing brain shutdown and ascension sensation, she winked at Uesugi Muneyuki.

When will you give your fiancée a try?

Do you want Minami to die? Uesugi Muneyuki replied with a white eye.

Minami is too delicate, so delicate she supervises him to shave every two or three days.

The household maintained this strange atmosphere until Saito Asuka returned.

The Chosen Girl in uniform, little leather shoes, and black silk stockings entered the door and instinctively wanted to complain, but seeing the confrontation in the living room: "Eh? Mai-sama?"

"Sorry for bothering you again today; I, I want to eat the rice Asuka Sauce made." Mai Xuejie beckoned to Asuka: "Come over, Asuka, to big sister's side."

"Asuka Sauce, you've really worked hard today—you don't need to cook, I ordered takeout arriving soon, a ultra-high-end sushi three-layer platter worth 28,000 yen!" Minami also gestured for Asuka to come over.

The household's factional feelings instantly surfaced.

The pure and moving Chosen Girl hesitated slightly, tilting her little head; past affection and earlier accepted feelings still caused her inner scales to shift; Asuka gave Mai Xuejie an apologetic look, yet still sat beside Minami.

Heh! Everyone in the house is mine—how dare you fight me? Minami couldn't help but laugh.

Tsk! Mai wasn't surprised by this result; after all, it's merely a temporarily established affection, not comparable to the deep feelings between Asuka and Minami, and Erena (?).

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Gazing at the situation in the Sakata Bridge household and at the three pairs of stocking-clad legs opposite—either full and slender, or thin and delicate, or delicate and even—Mai Xuejie couldn't help but want to laugh.

Weekly Bunshun is also trash; investigated half a day, yet failed to uncover that Junior Student is a severe stocking-leg-foot-uniform controller.

But I indeed feel somewhat isolated and without connections.

Should I also, like Watanabe nurturing Ikeda, nurture an attendant concubine to support myself?

Asuka definitely won't work... Mai Xuejie began calculating other candidates in her heart.

Who could stand completely beside me, still earn Junior Student's affection, and yet be easy to control?

"What about Mikoto-nee?" Uesugi Muneyuki, seeing only Asuka return, couldn't help but ask.

"Mom said she's not coming; anyway, at this time, whoever comes knows what will happen." Asuka pouted, muttering softly: "After all, she's the publicly recognized Sakuradamon Lewd Devil, Ooku harem man, and moreover, the morally upright, righteous kind."

"Hahahahahaha ahahahahahahaha~" Asuka's teasing made everyone in the house burst out laughing, especially the girls, who harbored some "you always don't bring me" resentment, yet also carried some "thank goodness Uesugi held the line" relief.

She truly considers Uesugi Muneyuki; she really doesn't want to part from him.

"Since you love news so much, let's just go on a Disney trip—we three will go with Uesugi to Chiba Disneyland and have a wild time!" Minami Ojou-sama sneered: "Let the nationals get used to the strange and self-destruct."

"Eh? Disney, I want to go!" Minami's suggestion immediately gained Asuka's support—she had long wanted to go to Disney!

"As for you, Mai Shirakawa, the National Actress of the Soul Agency, will you join us?"

……………………

The next day, at the ICU Ward of the hospital affiliated with the Japan Heart Disease Research Institute.

After a day of resuscitation efforts, the Executive Director of Weekly Bunshun, Shinjin Senmu, still stopped breathing despite having tubes inserted all over his body.

And it was at this time, near the ICU, that Uesugi Muneyuki and Mai Shirakawa had already been waiting for a while.

They wanted to find out who exactly had ordered Weekly Bunshun to open fire on them.

(Chapter End)