Chapter 360: That is that, and this is this (1/2)

“Over here, Taiyou-chan.”

With Hera’s guidance, Taiyou and Akiha went into the estate. As they did so, several burly men came out to attack them, but they defeated them without difficulty before progressing.

“Wow, they’re putting up a lot of resistance here!”

“No, it’s more of a show than anything. Feels like they’re pretending to have difficulty with us so that they don’t have to put up a fight and get beat.”

“Really? Seems to me like they’re serious, but okay.”

Akiha said as she looked back at the people who had been felled by just one punch.

“I think so too. You probably just became too strong to where they feel weak.”

“Agreed.”

“You think so?”

Taiyou nodded in a delayed manner. Sure, they said that, but he didn’t really feel that way.The reason why he didn’t feel any stronger was probably because Ruri, the person he aspired toward, was beginning to leave him behind again. Since he couldn’t win against her, he felt weak. Sure, from an objective viewpoint, that was totally false. As he was right now, Taiyou had far surpassed any human, considered a “monster” by any reasonable person.

“Well, who even cares. Not like it’ll change our objective here.”

“Ah, true enough.”

After having made up his mind in the afternoon, Taiyou had remembered something.

It was a great idea to gather all his brides and have a lovey dovey time together, but at this rate, there would be one empty seat: Youran, who had been hiding her whereabouts as of late. She wouldn’t come back home, in addition to cutting off contact with Taiyou. If she wasn’t there, they couldn’t truly have “everyone” assembled. Hence why Taiyou had come to bring her back.

Following Hera, they had arrived at the Juunishima Daimyo Mansion in Seikaen Town. This was the place where he had once infiltrated with Ruri in order to save the three sisters.

He had initially sought to go in by himself, but this time around, Akiha wanted to accompany him for whatever reason.

“…”

“Wazzup?”

Akiha tilted her head, noticing Taiyou looking at her.

“No, just thought it was interesting that you came along.”

“Well yeah, don’t you remember? I’ll be the one who cleans ‘em up! It’d be silly if I didn’t mean what I said.”

“Oh, so you meant it…no, you always do mean what you say.”

“‘Course!”

Akiha made a peace sign with a wide smile.

“No point announcing what you aren’t going to do, right?”

“You didn’t mean to say ‘I’ll go through with what I say I’ll do’?”

“No, no. I wanna do it, so I announce it.”

“As expected of you, Aki-han! What a worthy bride for Taiyou-chan.”

“Now, that way of speaking about it is also quite questionable, in my opinion.”

Taiyou continued through the mansion alongside Akiha. Some of their opponents would overhear their conversation and attempt to assail them, and Taiyou would give them a sloppy beating so that some of them would go for Akiha, who did not recoil but instead defeated them with well-developed movements (for a human, at least).

“That move just now was one of Ruri’s, right?”

“Oh, you figured it out?”

Akiha laughed elatedly.

“Yeah, you step in a half circle around to your opponent’s back and attack them once in an unguarded area. Ruri would always do that when she was even remotely serious.”