Chapter 666: New Year's Prayer Wish!

Inside Hankyo Bridge, it was completely silent.

When Senior Mai proposed that Uesugi Muneyuki could satisfy Saito Asuka's request, the expressions of everyone present turned strange. As mentioned before, Japan's age of consent is a very ambiguous area; theoretically, although one possesses the right to sexual consent after 15, if reported by someone else, even if the person themselves denies it and their guardian denies it, it is still very likely to cause a whole lot of trouble. If this were some years ago when society was more open, Japan followed Europe and America in emphasizing "sexual liberation" and "social progress"; back then they arrested people left and right, cuff first, ask questions later. And in Japanese society, once you get tangled up in this kind of thing, regardless of anything else, you get fired by your company, evicted by your landlord, alienated by those around you, socially dead — what they call reaching the "execution line" (lol).

As mentioned before, back then quite a few Japanese schoolgirls could easily extort several generous allowances a year this way; there was even a high school girl who earned over two million in half a year doing this. When she ran out of money she'd ride the train, wait for it to stop, then randomly pick a "lucky" salaryman, scream that he was a chikan, and the rest was naturally handled by police and station staff who'd "mediate" — thirty to fifty thousand per pop, no problem, one to two hundred thousand, no problem either. Japanese people are very conservative and withdrawn, they dislike trouble and causing inconvenience to others.

Of course, flip this problem around, and in the seventies and eighties, many women suffered chikan behavior but stayed silent due to this same psychology — which is also why the Japanese police later overcorrected.

Until her number of serial offenses grew so large she ran into the same group of police and drew their attention; investigation revealed she had already earned over two million this way, causing a public uproar, and they had no choice but to process her.

Therefore, the safest course is to wait until the girl is legally a complete "adult."

Japan has two tiers of adulthood: the first is 18, representing "sexual maturity" and "civil capacity maturity"; the second is 20, representing the ability to "smoke, drink, enter nightclubs, start a business, join the yakuza."

Yes, Japanese people take "no smoking or drinking until 20" extremely, extremely, extremely seriously, which is why in manga you have high schoolers transported to another world slaughtering entire nations, high schoolers with Death Notes engaging in intellectual battles rivaling Zhongli's fake death, high schoolers piloting mecha to save the world.

But... high schoolers absolutely will not smoke or drink in manga, no matter what — this is Japanese society's absolute forbidden zone. "Just a little over a month left, can't you just hold on? Asuka?" Uesugi Muneyuki couldn't help but retort: "If you do this, I might be breaking the law."

"No no no no, ada ada ada ada, boku wa ada!" The venomous-tongued bird shrieked in anger: "Mr. Uesugi! You... do you not care about me at all? Don't you care if other men hold me? Aren't you worried I'll be taken away by the Fujisaki Brothers? You, your head is full of nothing but yourself!"

"Pfft~" Ikeda Erena couldn't hold it in; she glanced at Uesugi Muneyuki.

Look at you, I told you from the start not to take her in, you wouldn't listen, and now there's a problem, right?

Ishihara Mikoto sneered and shook her head, thinking: As expected of Junior-kun, others fight to throw themselves at you and you still complain! Serves you right! Right, anyway you don't lack people to spend Christmas with, do you?

"Hehehehe." Senior Mai hugged the huffing little bird and laughed: "Looks like our Ashura Rei can't wait, huh." "How about this, I have an idea." The peerlessly gorgeous National Goddess in a mermaid skirt spoke softly to Uesugi Muneyuki: "Regarding the New Year special project for 'Hand of God', Congressman Suo's new son Suo Hinata strongly suggested Fuji TV arrange a New Year's prayer visit, together with YKC48 and Akai Saka 46. Since that's the case, why don't we set the project at Uesugi Shinai in Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture?"

"Uesugi Shinai?" Uesugi Muneyuki froze: "Go pay respects to Lord Kenshin and Lord Kagekatsu?"

"Yeah, not good? We'll also worship the former New God while we're at it, and by the way, bring Asuka Sauce along. We'll wait there together for the New Year's bell. When the bell rings at midnight, Asuka will be 18, and at that moment it'll be just right..." Senior Mai laughed hehe: "Asuka, what do you think?"

"Okay!" Asuka's cute little face instantly blossomed with moving radiance; she nodded vigorously, her little face shaking desperately, and a head of jet-black lustrous beautiful hair shook wildly along with it.

To welcome her 18th birthday adulthood alongside the New Year's bell and Mr. Uesugi at Uesugi Shinai — what a beautiful thing that would be! "Very good, it's settled then! I'll go tell Fuji TV that this year's 'Hand of God' New Year special project is the Uesugi Shinai prayer visit! Together with 4846!" Senior Mai giggled: "As for Uesugi Shinai's side, Junior-kun, you go contact them. As the direct-line scion of the Uesugi, surely you can handle Uesugi Shinai?"

"Hard to say, I'm Watanabe Uesugi now." Uesugi Muneyuki retorted: "And it seems you didn't ask for my opinion?" "You? Objection overruled!" Senior Mai and the venomous-tongued bird said almost simultaneously.

"Fine then." Uesugi Muneyuki nodded: "I'll go tell Grandpa."

Grandpa Uesugi Kuninori goes to the shrine every year during the Kenshin Festival to play Uesugi Kenshin.

And, Suo Hinata?

Uesugi Muneyuki remembered he was the illegitimate son of former Diet Member Suo Masao, seemed to have half a certain country's bloodline. After Suo Ryohei was severely injured and spent his days hanging a urine bag, this illegitimate son was dug out from deep within the Yoshimoto Kogyo theater and acknowledged by Suo Masao as the faction's new heir. But everyone understands that an heir produced this way is extremely hard to convince the masses, and Suo Hinata has not undergone genuine political heir cultivation and training, lacks sufficient prestige and understanding of the political world — under these circumstances a smooth succession is impossible. Fortunately, Suo Masao isn't that old yet; he still has time, at least a few more years to slowly cultivate this new son, a few more years to let him gradually grow and take over his forces.

"Then it's settled." Senior Mai hugged Asuka and suddenly said with a half-smile: "But before that, our Asuka Sauce still has one tiny request!"

"What request?" The muscles on Uesugi Muneyuki's face twitched.

"Want to..." Saito Asuka's little face was bright red; she shyly glanced at Uesugi Muneyuki, murmured a few words in a low voice, then buried her head in Senior Mai's embrace, too embarrassed to continue.

"Asuka here wants to sleep with Junior-kun you." Senior Mai's splendid gorgeous face rippled with thick amusement.

"?" A string of question marks popped up over Uesugi Muneyuki's head. Didn't we agree to wait for the New Year's bell and then... go all the way? How did it turn into this after all that talk?

"Not that kind of sleep, but sleep in the literal sense." Senior's eyes sparkled: "Just treat it as compensation for the fright she got today. Let her sleep in the master bedroom with you tonight."

"And, Senior me, I also want to sleep with Junior-kun!" Senior Mai blinked her eyes, pure and innocent, yet behind her a hungry, in-heat tigress was raising its head.

Uesugi Muneyuki instantly felt a chill crawl from his spine to the back of his head.

This was your real goal all along, wasn't it, Mai-sama!

He still agreed.

Late at night, Minami Ojou-sama hadn't returned from the Metropolitan Police Department; Erena and Mikoto both agreed to yield to Asuka, so Senior Mai once again occupied the wedding bed belonging to Minami. She changed into a loose, soft white nightgown; the white silk fabric couldn't compare to her skin's snow-white jade-like delicacy. The upper body was a white silk camisole dress, a pale blue ribbon tied at the collar, the hem knee-length but gathered extremely tight, outlining her slender waist and the curves of her hips.

Senior's legs wore a pair of thin black velvet suspender stockings, smooth as a second skin, glowing with a subdued pearl luster under the lights, setting off those straight, long beautiful legs incomparably enticingly.

On her feet were a pair of black stiletto red-soled high heels; the 8-centimeter heels made every step erect yet swaying.

On the other side, hugging a pillow, Asuka had also changed into a cute bunny nightgown; the red-and-white patterned nightgown matched with the girl's invincible kawaii little face was truly infinite charm. The venomous-tongued bird's legs wore a pair of pure white velvet tights, thick yet soft, glowing with a noble matte white luster, wrapping her delicate slender beautiful legs like works of art.

Asuka angrily kicked off the blanket, like an angry little bird, tracing a perfect parabola from her body, and squeezed hard between Uesugi Muneyuki and Shirakawa Mai, cheeks puffed high: "I'm here!"

"Hi~ hi~ hi~ Ashura Rei is here!" Senior Mai laughed: "It's okay, Ashura Rei tried really hard this time!"

"Yeah, Asuka Sauce, you worked hard today." Uesugi Muneyuki also rubbed the girl's hair, fragrant with a girl's fresh scent, rather distressedly: "I didn't expect the other side to be so utterly ruthless. Although we arranged things at Village Flower Palace... anyway, as long as you're fine."

"Sorry, Mai-sama, Mr. Uesugi, I feel so useless. I sensed malice but didn't know what to do. I thought..." The girl's mood was a bit low.

"No, your ability is very important to us, especially in this Uesugi Shinai prayer visit." Senior Mai's expression turned serious: "Junior-kun, you should still remember what we said before — about the entire YKC operation and even the Yoshimoto Kogyo behind it, every year's M-1 Grand Prix preliminaries and idol auditions are similar to searching for and screening people with Inner World potential, then cultivating them, right?"

"This time, we'll use Ashushu's power to see what the situation really is with the entire 48 System and 46 System, and how deep the management's hands reach."

"And also, that producer Akimoto Yasushi, who started from Onyanko Club, created everything and destroyed everything, then emerged again 10 years later to create an idol empire once more!"