Chapter 426: Partner of Fate (2/2)
The three mothers all reacted differently.
After a brief moment, Atsuko began speaking as if she remembered something.
“Oh yeah, Aoba, is there anyone among the seven…I mean, six brides who you’re particularly close with?”
“Close? Uhh…Akiha?”
Unable to interpret Atsuko’s reasoning, Aoba gave the simple answer.
“Oh, okay. Akiha-chan.”
“What about it?”
“Yeah, we were thinking of teaching you all sorts of things fairly soon.”
“All sorts of things?”
“All sorts of things.”
Atsuko lifted the corner of her mouth up in a grin.
Aoba had a bad feeling about this. She knew that whenever this mother made a face like that, she was up to no good.
“So we’ll have that talk sometime.”
“How about right now?”
Nazuna attempted to escape, but Atsuko caught up to her, smiling with a thrilled expression that showed she would not let her close the conversation.
“Atsuko-sama, could you be talking about…”
Mio seemed to have caught on.
“Mm, yeah. Are you opposed, Mio-san?”
“…”
“Interesting. I rarely see you hesitate like this, Mio-san.”
Nazuna remarked, and Aoba was of the same opinion.
Mio always had her priorities straight. So her actions were always clear and straightforward.
“How many years has it been since Mio-san hesitated?”
“I don’t even recall. At least ten years back.”
“I think maybe twenty years.”
“I haven’t the slightest clue…”
The three of them exchanged their thoughts. That was just how rare this occasion was.
“What is it? What are you hesitating about?”
“No, my apologies. I concur.”
Mio said.
Her expression was back to that of Akita Mio, the maid with firm decision-making.
“Welp, even if Mio-san did object, we were still gonna do it. Right?”
Atsuko sought agreement.
“Right. It’d be two against one.”
“And I understand that.”
“All that aside, what in the world do you want to discuss? What do you want to teach me?”
“Some. Thing. Good.”
Atsuko said in a playful manner.
“Aoba, right now you should call Akiha-chan over. Ah, it doesn’t have to be her specifically though. Just whoever you get along with is fine.”
“Seriously, what is it? Tell me.”
“You’ll find out once they arrive.”
“Whaaat…”
Aoba wasn’t sure what to do.
Was it really such a good idea to call Akiha over in this situation?
In one sense, you could say Akiha would be fine. She had a strong personality that contended with Atsuko’s.
But when she got out her phone…
“Ah.”
It was right at that moment that her phone rang.
“Who is it, who is it…oh.”
“Well would ya look at that.”
“Juunishima Sakura.”
The number in question belonged to Sakura.