Chapter 370: Good Fate, Bad Fate (1/2)

“So that’s your reasoning. Because Tengai Ruri showed you the way.”

“And I do have a lot to say about that part.”

“Such as?”

“Like what is destiny?”

“So first we have a play on words, and now it’s philosophy?”

“Yes, I’m very sorry about this, but please bear with me for a moment.”

“That is fine by me. I don’t mind a good discussion on philosophy.”

“Great.”

She would make a great conversational partner for Kohaku, thought Taiyou as he continued.

“As a major premise, I want to believe Ruri. Of course because I like her, but also because I want to believe that what I experienced was real.”

“Right.”

“So on that premise, even if Ruri hadn’t conveyed that to me, I would have either come for you at some point or some sort of event would have transpired, bringing us together. This is destiny after all.”

“Sure, if that’s true then it would indeed be destiny.”

“So in other words, I’m here right now because of what Ruri said, but I’d eventually come here regardless.”

“Have you considered that someone might have told you that as well?”

“Still, destiny will occur as long as you don’t fight it.”

“And do you intend to fight it?”

“Not at all. Me coming here today was essentially fate after all.”

“So…”

Sakura’s expression changed.

She lifted up the corner of her mouth into a callous smile. He hadn’t seen that in a while.

“So even if fate decides that you may part with the seven, you wouldn’t fight it?”

“…”

Taiyou gaped.

He hadn’t thought of that at all.

Lose the seven?

Lose his brides?

He had not once thought about that. Not because he forced himself to not think about it. He legitimately hadn’t considered such a thing.

One reason for this was his personality.

Beginning with levelling up in games, Taiyou had been accustomed to steady accumulation rather than losing anything.

This was why he had eventually stopped playing online games. Unlike offline games at the time, online games would occasionally have features where experience points decreased whenever the player’s character died.

Taiyou could not handle this. Just as much as he hated not being rewarded for effort, he hated losing what he had gained.

As a result, he would never think of such things as long as no one reminded him.

The other reason was that he could feel their love.

Because they loved him, he couldn’t lose.

Plus he had gained power now. He would become even more powerful, gaining physical power and social power.

With these things, he could protect them from any enemy. So he hadn’t actually thought about the concept of losing.

But now it had been pointed out to him in the worst way possible. What if he was, in fact, fated to lose everything? Taiyou froze, his thought process halted.

“Taiyou-chan Taiyou-chan!”

“…”