Chapter 75: The third bride/ The emotions deeper within (2/2)

「……That’s true」

Taiyou nodded his head as he agreed with Kohaku.

If you were to perform a DNA test and the results of the test were ambiguous then there would be no point in making the test in the first place.

Especially with the possibility that “neither three of them” are her real mothers, he wanted to avoid an unclear result if at all possible.

Taiyou was thinking of a method in order to obtain the saliva from their mouths.

Naturally the answer didn’t come to him that quickly, in fact he was quite troubled as to what he should do. At any rate, it was the child that wanted to confirm who their real parents are…. He couldn’t really just ask the women to cooperate with him and give him a sample of their saliva… thus, there is really not much choice other than to do it stealthily or obtain the sample by force.

Doing it stealthily was difficult and so Taiyou could only think of methods that involved doing it forcibly. However, if he did it forcefully then regardless of Aoba being able to find the results, she might end up damaging her current relationship with her mothers.

And so he was desperately trying to find a method in order not to do that.

「I know of a method that will increase the accuracy of the results even if we use hair as the sample」

The person who interrupted and suggested this idea was Yurikago.

Because this was a matter that didn’t really involve her, she had just been quietly observing however, unable to stand it any longer she butted in the conversation.

「Is that really true?」

Grabbing on to her words as if they were a string that could let him escape hell, he determinedly asked her back.

「Yeah, although it is just a faint memory, I’m not talking about the hair itself, but the white part at the tip of the roots, if you used that part then I heard the results will be much more accurate」

「The white part at the tip of its roots… I see」

Taiyou murmurs the words that Yurikago spoke like a parrot. Although this was also slightly more difficult than just getting any strand of hair, it was not something that he couldn’t do sneakily.

「With this method, will the results be out quickly as well?」

「Yes, because the person doing the tests will be affiliated with the Junishima family, I can introduce you guys」

「Thank you」

Giving his thanks to Yurikago the discussions was settled for the time being.

Late at night in Taiyou’s Castle.

Just when the clock strikes midnight, Taiyou felt a certain presence outside. The three sisters were sleeping peacefully and he gave each of them a kiss on the forehead. After tucking them in and making sure they wouldn’t get cold by covering them with a thin towel blanket, he quietly got out of the bedroom without making any noise.

The living room terrace did not have any lights on, but moonlight was shining and Aoba’s figure could be seen.

She was sitting on the sofa, and just looking at something. It wasn’t like she was looking at anything in particular, she was just absentmindedly staring into space.

Taiyou approached her slowly and called out to her.

「You still not asleep?」

「Natsuno-kun」

Taiyou was a little shocked. Aoba was calling out to him in such a soft tone of voice.

Since the first time her talked to her, this was the calmest reaction he ever got from her.

At the very least he wasn’t just rejected immediately, therefore Taiyou sat down next to her.

「What were you doing out here?」

「I was just thinking about some things」

After saying that she stopped talking. Taiyou wanted to know what she was thinking about but he didn’t press her for an answer.

「Natsuno-kun, can I ask you something?」

「Ahh, ask me anything」

「Nastuno-kun, who do you like the most?」

「You asked me this question before haven’t you?」

Taiyou showed a bittersweet smile as he remembered that she had once reprimanded him while asking such a question. At that time, he couldn’t answer her properly and she got really angry. And now, the answer her gave may make her even more angry than before.

「Do you really want to hear the truth?」

「Yeah, let me hear it」

「For this matter…..my answer is probably, that it isn’t one of them」

「Eh?」

Aoba was surprised and it was a reaction he expected.

「If you were to ask me who she is, then it will be a little difficult to explain. To be honest I don’t even know her real name. I only know of her nickname, or perhaps it was an alias. Well, the girl I like the most right now is not, Kotone, Suzune, Kazane or even Kohaku-san, it was this girl」

「Do the other girls know about this as well?」

「Yes, they are aware of it. Or more like….」

Taiyou continued to speak..

「Kohaku-san told me this when we first began our relationship, she told me that ” she didn’t trust a man who claimed that he could love every woman equally” 」

「What do you mean?」

Aoba looked at him with astonishment.

「Equality is only an illusion, human beings are partial creatures. A man who says otherwise is someone she cannot trust. Rather than saying something like that, she preferred that I let her know how much I like on every separate occasion. I’m sure that she has thought deeply and experienced many things out in her life to be able to reach that kind of conclusion. That was just how much she denied the superficial connotation of the word “equality” 」