Chapter 338: I’m Sorry, Master (1/2)
“Ah, don’t mind her. I won’t let her try anything. But can you tell me what happened to Sakura-san?”
“Y-Y-Yes! S-S-She’s being forced to marry.”
“…Hmm, couldja say that once more?”
“S-S-She’s being forced to marry.”
“…Who has?”
“S-S-Sakura-san has.”
“…With whom?”
“Taiyou, I know you’re trying to be the funny man, but that’s not quite how you do it.”
Akiha interjected from the side. True, this was usually how the straight man funny man combo worked in comedy, but in this situation, the person talking to Taiyou was actually divulging some important information, so it wasn’t really the situation for trying a gag.
“No, I wasn’t…well okay, maybe I was just a little bit.”
“So you were actually somewhat surprised?”
“Well…yeah, in more than one way.”
Taiyou made a slight grimace. He was surprised and intrigued as to why Sakura was not only getting married, but also in regards to why Juurokuya had been so panicked when she reached out to them.
“I guess…she couldn’t, get away.”
“You know about this?”
“Mhm…because we, are friends.”
“Didn’t you say the same thing earlier? Now I’m even more curious. This is too much to process all at once.”
“It’s not…that, difficult.”
“I mean yeeeah. You don’t even have to ask what the term “arranged marriage” means. And she’s a well-off lady, so you don’t have to question every little detail.
“…oh.”
“What, cat got your tongue? You look mighty surprised.”
Akiha had a surprised look on her face because she saw Taiyou looking at her with an extremely astonished look.
“I…”
“You what?”
“I had forgotten…Oookay, since she’s technically Youran’s little sister, that person must also be super well-off.”
“How do you forget details like that?”
“No…well, I mean, the way we met gave me a different first impression, and besides…”
“Besides?”
“Youran hasn’t really felt like a girl of high upbringing as of recently.”
“Ohhh.”
Akiha made a somewhat convinced face. Youran certainly had not had that impression as of late.
Although she technically had the title of “Juunishima New Moon Director Youran”, she had quite recently begun to live as one of Taiyou’s wives, even going so far as to call him “Master”. From the standpoint of Taiyou or Akiha, it was very true that the term “pampered girl” wasn’t even detectable from her current aura.
“A-A-And besides, S-S-Sakura-sama is the child of one of the mistresses…”
“Huh?”
“U-U-Unlike New Moon-sama or Adashino-sama, she is the ch-ch-child of a mistress, s-s-so it is imperative that she…”
“…Because of her status, she needs to become a pawn for political marriage?”
“Ohhh, that’s fantastic!”
“You think that’s fantastic?”
“Well yeah! It’s not every day you get to be in a situation like that, right?”
“I really don’t know what your standards are at this point…”
“A-A-And we need to stop this from happening.”
“Is the marriage meeting right now?”
Juurokuya gave a big nod. Taiyou nodded in understanding.