Chapter 109: Girls in Distress / She Who Could Not Be Protected (1/2)

Chapter 108: Girls in Distress / Advancing with Him Chapter 110 Mystery of the Girl / Domestic Telephone Call

Translator: Reflet

「You gotta do itー, and I mean do it as in violate herー」

Hera whispered in his ears, following him around like a small insect. Based on her elated expression and tone of voice, she was like a demon that had just defeated an arch-nemesis angel. There was in fact no angel there, but he didn’t hesitate. Used to this, Taiyou hit her, striking her into the ground. Also used to this, she powerfully bounded up and flew back to him.

「Hey, what are you doing?」

Grabbing the protesting fairy by the nape of the neck, he moved her in front of his eyes.

「What are you doing?」

「I’m just reminding Taiyou-chan about what he’s forgetting to do, okay? Now then, hurry up and kiss Pochi-chan, and then I’ll do what needs to be done with her.」

「It’s not that I forgot; I purposefully chose not to, okay? And what do you mean by “doing what needs to be done”?」

He shot a question back at her with cold eyes. He looked at her this way because she had said that Hera and Pochi, who had no way of contacting each other, had to accomplish something together, which sounded ridiculous.

Ultimately, it was exactly what Taiyou had thought.

「Playing ball, taking a stroll around the river beach――」

「Do you seriously intend to treat her like a dog!?」

「I promise it’ll be fun, okay?」

「For you, maybe.」

He said as he tried to hit her back down. She had nimbly dodged said attack, so in order to follow up with another attack――much like driving away a fly in front of one’s face, he waved his hands in a fluttering motion. Unable to see Hera, Pochi quizzically inquired.

「What are you doing, Master?」

「Eh? Oh, uhh, hmm…you know, shadow boxing!」

While thinking about how hard this was for him, he waved his hands frantically and made an excuse.

「Shadow boxing. Dodging an attack from an imaginary enemy while throwing a punch and so on; the process of moving by oneself to create attacks.」

After she had recited the usual dictionary information, Pochi made a content face.

「So that’s what you were doing!」

「Oh, so you accepted the explanation…」

「What a good girl…you are.」

Hera pretended to be moved to tears.

「Seriously, Hera…」

「Master!」

Pochi raised her voice. He initially thought that she had called him, but he realized that her gaze was actually focused behind him.

Kohaku came up behind him. Kohaku was smiling, but with earnest eyes. These were not the eyes of her usual jokes or jests, but rather the kind of face she would make when having serious discussions.

「Listen Pochi, I’m going tah be speaking with Husband right now. So be quiet and listen without getting in tha way.」

「Okay, understood!」

Nodding vigorously, she sealed her mouth with both of her hands. As usual, this was a rather childlike and adorable mannerism. Looking at her and nodding satisfactorily, she turned back to Taiyou.

「My Husband, I’ve heard the story.」

「Story?」

「Indeed; the argument between Husband and Hera. I am of the same opinion as Hera; I think that it would be best for you to kiss this girl soon.」

「…」

「Why are you refusing her in the first place, Husband?」

「Well…」

Taiyou hesitated. Now that he thought about it, even he wasn’t so sure why he had been rejecting her. There wasn’t exactly any reason; he had just partly refused her by spinal reflex.

「Is it that you resent the fact that I took in Pochi?」

「No, not that.」

Promptly responding, he shook his head. He didn’t have the answer as to why he rejected her, but he did have some composed ideas as to why.

「I think that you should do as you please, Kohaku-san. There’s no reason to oppose your decisions.」

「Then that’s even more reason tah kiss her. Living under the same roof and not being able tah even have a conversation about the unseen is inconvenient.」

「That’s true, but…」

「Or do ya perhaps have another idea? If there’s a better method then I’m all ears.」

「Method…」

Taiyou parroted back in a flat tone.

He soon opened his eyes wide, astonished.

Objective, and method.

He was ordinarily the type of human to distinctly separate those two things. The most important thing was to fulfill the objective, and the methods were pliable――to rephrase, he was the type of human that would use any means at his disposal.

He had come this far doing that very thing. Others had said that very thing about him, and even he thought in that fashion about himself. To relate this to the current conversation, the objective was for Pochi and Hera to both be able to recognize and converse with each other. And there was only one method, which was for Taiyou and Pochi to kiss.

The previous him wouldn’t have refused. After all, if there was only one solution, then no matter how much he worried or refused, in the end it all came down to the same thing.

That’s why he was surprised. Why he hadn’t done that immediately, and why he had continuously refused this time around. So he thought carefully about yesterday.

Taiyou Castle was broken, they made it to this hot spring area with Kohaku’s driving, met with Pochi, and took her in. He carefully recalled that string of events.