Chapter 193 – Sunlight Nachtmusik / Youran or Yurikago (2/2)

Sakura struck back, but Youran again continued.

「Means for and end, staving off Anoda, and then pretending to work to cooperate with us.」

「Princess?」

「In the middle of it all it changed…it became fun to be with Anoda…or Pochi.」

She changed the way she spoke while turning to Pochi.

「Isn’t it fun messing around? Is how I began to think, even though I thought you were kind of robotic at the beginning.」

「Robot…Electromagnetic power source, a doll that behaves through sophisticated mechanical equipment. You’re terrible sister! I’m not like that.」

Pochi reacted angrily.

「Ahah hah hah, that makes you funny too. It’s so interesting, ah, I’d like a little sister like this…thinking like that.」

「Am I not your little sister?」

Youran now turned to Sakura.

「So then I also thought, hm? I have another sister of a different mother, maybe I could have fun like this with her too.」

「I’ve never thought of you as a sister once in my life.」

「I thought the same, until I met Pochi.」

「So your methods have changed, is what you’re saying?」

「No.」

Youran said with a smile.

「I am just the same, I don’t choose the methods for my means, and that won’t change. Maybe that’s different with you and the way you do things, but I’m the opposite, so I want you to prepare yourself.」

「Prepare myself?」

「Yes, when you find your next goal, prepare yourself, I mean.」

「Next goal?」

「Yes.」

Youran put her hand on her hip proudly.

「The proper wife, the concubine, the lover. Even though we were born into three different stations in life we can be friendly.」

Youran laid it on the line.

Sakura was taken aback.

「So, that’s your own desire?」

「Yes, my own desire. But because I don’t choose the means to my goals, I will always succeed. And in addition…」

She stopped her words, and changed composure.

「My name is Shingetsu Youran Juunishima, the first successor of the 49th family head in the Juunishima line.」

Outside the window, a cloud covered over the moon.

「I will always succeed, I swear upon my name.」

Sakura was lost for words.

Taiyou silently walked away from the place.

He had heard that lengthy introduction twice.

He couldn’t just burst into a place with the deep significance he heard.

That’s why he silently crept away.

However, he swore also to himself.

Youran’s desire, that those three sisters of different mothers would get along.

A new goal that seemed so unexpected.

And the fact that he wanted it to be accomplished.

When it came time for him to help, he wanted to help them.

Thinking that, he silently crept away.

「…」

Hera silently landed on his shoulder. They looked at each other, and she smiled at him.

She was usually too cheerful but this time understood what was happening.

He flicked her in the forehead, and they slowly made their way out.