Chapter 101 - Hiiragi’s Mother — Part 4 (1/2)

When I asked the second time for confirmation to have her talk to Hiiragi-chan, she immediately nodded.

“If it’s a request from my future son-in-law, I can’t really refuse.”

She jokingly smiled and said such impactful words before leaving the reception room. That quality of teasingly saying something ironic was passed onto Natsumi-chan, I see.

The reason that Hiiragi-chan in the future wanted to proceed with marriage without consent was due to her fight with Hiiragi Mama. If Hiiragi Mama has taken a liking to me, then she shouldn’t turn into an obstacle. Making up with Hiiragi-chan might not be necessary, but still, I honestly want them to return to a normal good relationship.

Natsumi-chan deeply leaned back into the sofa.

“Puhaaa. I was wondering what was going to happen there for a second, but that ended well.”

She took out a cell phone from her pocket, and pressed a button.

“Aaaahh. I was scared for a moment there…”

From the phone, Hiiragi-chan’s voice could be heard from the speaker.

“Umm. What’s this?”

“I thought it was weird getting a call from Natsumi, and when I picked up…”

“The conversation that we just had… Haru-chan has been listening in on it from the very start. ”

She laughed and waved her phone. The length of the conversation had surpassed twenty minutes.

“Seiji-kun?”

“Yeah. What is it?”

“Thank you…. Ah. She’s calling me now, so let’s talk after!”

It seems that the awkward make up between mother and daughter was about to begin.

After the conversation ended, Natsumi-chan returned the cellphone to her pocket.

“For the Hiiragi family, it’s been hard to have a male born into the family. Even Papa was married into the family, you know?”

“Aaah… so that’s why it was decided like that without your father.”

If I marry into the family, then marriage is okay. It’s not exactly something that should be discussed without her father, but if the power in the family was held by the mother, then I can understand.

“In other words, we’re a matriarchal family. Even my grandmother had my grandfather married into the family, and this has stayed in the family for a really long time. Since Haru-chan doesn’t listen to what she’s told, she probably would have essentially been abandoned, and I would have had to take on marriage interviews and had someone marry into the family.”

“I guess rich people have their own worries…”

I said that as if it was someone else’s problem.

“So… do you know what I’m trying to say?”

“What? Is it that Haruka-san is going to get a good spanking?”

“Nope, that’s not it… Thief-kun, it’s that you protected my freedom. The freedom to tell the person I like that I like them, and the freedom to marry them.”

“I didn’t do something that big.”

“Didn’t I say this before? Love is something that a girl risks her life to attain. Of course it’s big.”

She laughed.

“In a time like this, I wonder how should I convey my thanks…”

“It’s fine, don’t worry about it. All I wanted was for your mother to make up with Haruka-san.”

“I now understand very well why Haru-chan is so in love with you.”

Taking a sideways glance at me, Natsumi-chan swung her legs back and forth like a child.

“Is she okay, Haruka-san?”

“Do you want to see how things are going?”

After I nodded, we left the reception room.

Natsumi-chan thought they would be in Hiiragi Mama’s room, but when we arrived at the room, we found multiple servants standing outside the room secretly listening.

“If you guys don’t work, you’ll get scolded, you know?”

Shhh, the 4 or 5 servants all raised their index fingers.

“Haruka-ojousama and the mistress aren’t in a situation where they can converse, and yet, why all of a sudden…?”

The servants who had expressed their confusion opened up space allowing Natsumi-chan and me to also eavesdrop on the conversation.

“Your lover… Sanada Seiji-san… he’s quite the charming person, isn’t he? I was able to talk to him earlier.”

“I know, right? He’s the boyfriend I’m proud of.”

“Mind your words… Hah, never mind, it never works with you.”

Natsumi-chan jabbed me in the side with her elbow.

“You’re being praised.”

“Stop teasing me.”

After admonishing the joking Natsumi-chan, I lent my ear to the conversation on the other side of the door.

“Mother… I’m sorry for being so defiant over so many things… I could never say it before… but, I don’t regret the things that I have done… I also don’t intend to change…”

“Now that I think about it, the things that I did, maybe have only been forcing things on you, Haruka. While saying that it was for the Hiiragi family, I… somewhere in my heart, I might have been a little bit jealous of you being so free.”