Chapter 324: The Most Fantastic Thing (1/2)

“Sakura? Who’s that?”

Akiha was just as expressionless as Youran, but for a different reason. She was the only person out of everyone here who didn’t have a direct connection with Sakura.

“Oh yeah huh, Akiha doesn’t know about Sakura.”

“Aoba, you know her?”

“I…yeah.”

Aoba made a slightly complicated expression. She had been deeply involved in the Juunishima affair and had ended up letting one of her mother’s get hurt. Although she hadn’t spoken directly with her, she knew quite a bit about Sakura.

“Umm…”

Aoba tried to explain, but faltered when she looked at Youran.

“She’s my little sister from another mother.”

“Oh, didn’t know those sorts of things happened. So fantastic!”

“And there’s another one, also from a different mother.”

“Fantastic! So what’s up? Hey, what’re you trying to say?”

“Well, let’s leave that to discuss at a more leisurely time…”

Taiyou cut off Akiha’s pursuit.

“Anyhow, what you all have on are rings that Sakura brought over.”

“Hm, if the Sakura lady is the one who brought them over, I doubt that they are mere rings, ja.”

“…”

Taiyou grimaced.

It wasn’t like he couldn’t say it. He didn’t regret doing what he did either, but in a sense, it was a bit difficult to give it to them straight, because it was embarrassing.

“””Taiyou-san?”””

“Master, shall I explain on your behalf?”

“No, I’ll do it. Even if you did, nothing would change if I just stay here.”

“Well that’s true too.”

Youran nodded.

Taiyou took a deep breath, turning back to his brides and speaking.

“It turns out that those rings are a product of ‘Blood Soul’.”

“Blood Soul?”

“Don’t worry Akiha, I’ll explain later.”

Aoba said to Akiha.

“And the last time I recall running into Blood Soul, it took the form of a magic sword that sucked the blood and soul out of you. Sakura mentioned that same technology was used to produce these rings.”

“So they’ll eat our blood and souls, lad?”

“No, not exactly, but…mmm…”

Taiyou faltered.

He couldn’t exactly say why. He had said plenty of difficult things prior to this, in addition to embarrassing things. Compared to those things, the current matter wasn’t even that big of a deal, but for some reason it was just difficult to say.

However, he strengthened his resolve, deciding that he couldn’t just keep putting this off.

“It sucks out your feelings. The more you love me, the more defense the rings give me, apparently.”

Taiyou blurted everything out at once.

Their feelings were his power.

That fact was tremendously embarrassing to say out loud, and he couldn’t help but look away. He could tell that he was red all the way up to his ears.

Silence drifted over the place. Unable to say anything further, Taiyou looked at his brides. The three sisters and Kohaku were staring intently at their rings. Youran already knew about this, but she was still lovingly stroking her ring.

“Fantastic!”

Akiha said. She hadn’t received any ring because of her rejection, but now she spoke with such vigor.

“Akiha?”

“Seriously? Is that actually true?”