Chapter 158 ~ Tooya City
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji returned to his room, switched on the lights, and felt the deafening silence in his room he hadn’t experienced in a long time. As for once since the adorable twin slimes came to his life, he was truly alone.
<span style="font-weight:400">After dinner, Alice and Aria, as well as Est and Ai stayed with Yuna and Nina to watch the video they took of his game and look at the pictures they’ve taken.
<span style="font-weight:400">Thus, he was left to his own ord, rummaging through his cupboard to find a luggage bag he could use for the trip and began preparing the things he’d need during it.
<span style="font-weight:400">And in just a few minutes, he was ready with a backpack of some shirts, pants, and underwear.
<span style="font-weight:400">He hadn’t brought much at all. Even this was actually too much for him since he had essentially everything he needed in his inventory. All the clothing and necessities he had prepared and bought from the other worlds during his missions were still there, ready for him to use just in case.
<span style="font-weight:400">He even had some female clothes that he had bought on asion and nned to give to his girlfriends when they met.
<span style="font-weight:400">So, there wasn’t actually a need for him to pack up, aside from using it as a guise. After all, it’d be strange if he didn’t bring any luggage for trip.
<span style="font-weight:400">He set the bag onto the chair near his desk andid down on his bed to rest.
<span style="font-weight:400">And just then, a message notification came to his phone.
<span style="font-weight:400">He picked it up and looked at it, and to his surprise, it came from someone he didn’t expect.
<span style="font-weight:400">Morishima Haruka: “Yuuji-kun~ Are you there~???”
<span style="font-weight:400">Her beautiful, smiling countenance shed across his mind as he looked at Haruka’s message that radiated with the same brilliance and warmth.
<span style="font-weight:400">Tsubakihara Yuuji: “I’m here, senpai. Good evening. I didn’t expect to receive a message from you.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Morishima Haruka: “Hehe~ Good evening~ Have you eaten dinner? What are you doing right now~?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Tsubakihara Yuuji: “I have. I’m currently in my room. I’ve just finished packing up for the trip. How about you, senpai?”<span style="font-weight:400">
<span style="font-weight:400">Morishima Haruka: “I’m also just rxing in my room after eating dinner. By the way, where are you going for your trip?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Tsubakihara Yuuji: “I’m not sure the exact ce, but I’ll be going to Tooya city.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Morishima Haruka: “Tooya City? That’s quite far. What will you be doing there?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Tsubakihara Yuuji: “My mother’s friend invited us for a small reunion and an overnight stay. So we will be staying in their household.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Morishima Haruka: “Oh~ That sounds so fun~ Hey, can you take a picture of the scenery~? I’ve never been there before~”
<span style="font-weight:400">Tsubakihara Yuuji: “Sure.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Morishima Haruka: “Hehe~ I can’t wait!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Morishima Haruka: “Oh! That’s right! There’s something I want to tell you!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Tsubakihara Yuuji: “What is it?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Morishima Haruka: “Don’t forget about our promise!!! You have to teach me how to y basketball on Monday, after school!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji smiled wryly.
<span style="font-weight:400">Tsubakihara Yuuji: “I won’t forget about it, senpai. But where should we do it in? I think the basketball club would be using it at that time.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Morishima Haruka: “There’s a basketball field near my home. We can do it there~!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Tsubakihara Yuuji: “I understand. Then, please just send the address to it.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Morishima Haruka: “Okay~ Hehe~ See you then, Yuuji-kun~”
<span style="font-weight:400">Tsubakihara Yuuji: “Mm. I’m looking forward to it.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji smiled softly as Haruka ended their chat with an animated sticker of a cute, animated, cartoon bunny jumping around in excitement.
<span style="font-weight:400">And just as he closed his phone, Est, along with Alice and Aria who were perched on her shoulders, entered his room and Ai also appeared on his phone.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Are we going to sleep already…?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Est tilted her head slightly.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Not yet. I’m just resting a bit.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mm…”
<span style="font-weight:400">She nodded, and approached her beloved master, climbed up the bed, and curled up against him as the slimes both jumped onto his chest.
<span style="font-weight:400">And as Yuuji made himselffortable, surrounded by the Spirit Sword Sovereign, the twin Yin Yang Slimes, and the super advanced AI, he took out his phone again and began chatting with his friends in the group chat.
<span style="font-weight:400">Unbeknownst to him, the exact opposite was happening in one of rooms within the Morishima household, as Haruka rolled around her bed, squealing in excitement and kicking her legs around like a little girl.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Aaaaahhh~!!!! I’m so excited~! I can’t wait for Monday!!!”
<span style="font-weight:400">She screamed into her pillow. And when that wasn’t enough to release her excitement, she opened her phone once more to call Hibiki.
<span style="font-weight:400">That night would turn into a very long night for Hibiki as she was forced to listen to her best friend’s rant about Yuuji.
<span style="font-weight:400">And it wouldn’t only be because of how long Haruka would talk…
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<span style="font-weight:400">With the twilight sky still barely lit by the morning sun that hadn’t risen past the horizon, Yuuji, Mira, Yuna, Nina, and Aika made their way to the station after having an early breakfast.
<span style="font-weight:400">Normally jam-packed in the morning, the station was still fairly quiet aside from a few early risers, store workers opening up their stores, and… “hard” workers, dressed in a full suit with a suitcase in hand, waiting for the first train to their workce, despite it being a weekend.
<span style="font-weight:400">Seeing their zed eyes and pale, exhausted faces… Yuuji couldn’t help but feel relieved that Mira was fortunate enough and didn’t have to go through such hell to raise him and the twins. And it motivated him to work harder, so no one in his family would have to suffer from such a faith.
<span style="font-weight:400">With luggages in hand, or at least the few they wanted to bring with them while the other rested inside Yuuji’s Inventory, the family made their way to buy a Shinkansen ticket to Tooya City.
<span style="font-weight:400">And when they were about to pay, Yuuji quickly paid for their tickets, shocking them.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yuuji? Why are you paying…?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“It’s fine, Mira. I just wanted to pay for it.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Mira’s lips curled into a slight frown.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I know that you’ve made quite a bit of fortune through your investments. But you should save them and invest them back.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Mira admonished.
<span style="font-weight:400">Although he was a much more talented investor than her and was capable of earning money beyond what a regr high school student like him could even imagine, she’d much prefer it if he were to use the money he had earned for future investments.
<span style="font-weight:400">After all, a Shinkansen ticket wasn’t cheap. And he had just bought five of them.
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji smiled softly and took her hand into his.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I understand, Mira. But truly… I’ve always wanted to be the one to provide for all of you from now on. And now, I can. So please, let me take care of all of you.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Their eyes all widened in shock, staring at Yuuji in disbelief as he smiled softly.
<span style="font-weight:400">“But…”
<span style="font-weight:400">There was still hesitation in her heart. Although she was extremely happy to receive his feeling, ecstatic even, as someone who raised the boy since he was young and loved him both as a mother and a woman, Mira was still worried for him.
<span style="font-weight:400">She didn’t want him to fall into a habit of wasting money, even if it was for her and her family. She wanted him to keep his money so that he could build an even brighter future than she could imagine for himself, which she knew he could.
<span style="font-weight:400">And Yuuji didn’t miss the worry in her eyes. Thus… he decided to tell his family everything.
<span style="font-weight:400">Everything about the assets he had earned from the Multiverse Group Chat Gacha.
<span style="font-weight:400">“...So, there’s no need for you to worry about money anymore, okay?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji ended with a soft, gentle smile filled with his overwhelming love for them… And they all stood frozen in shock, especially Mira.
<span style="font-weight:400">With her deep understanding of world economics and the intricacies of corporate businesses and influence… She knew very well what bing a major stakeholder of a massive technologicalpany like iApple, and “owning” thergest multinational technology and intepany as well as thergest multinational package delivery servicepany could mean…
<span style="font-weight:400">The world…
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji had the world in his hand…
<span style="font-weight:400">Without her even knowing, her little boy already had fingers controlling the strings of the world economy.
<span style="font-weight:400">With just a small tug, a few words from his lips, he could easily raise businesses to the world stage, or bury them undergroundpletely.
<span style="font-weight:400">How could she not be shocked…!!!
<span style="font-weight:400">“Now, how about we buy some snacks for our trip? It’ll be my treat.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji winked before wrapping his arms around the girls and pulled them around the stores that had already opened, buying some snacks and drinks that he knew they liked, as they were still reeling from the shock.
<span style="font-weight:400">It was only after they boarded the shinkansen did they finally snap out of their shock. At least… a bit.
<span style="font-weight:400">They were still reeling from it. And although they were happy for him, the shock from finding out that their beloved Yuuji was actually one of, if not, the richest man in the world, was not so easy to recover from.
<span style="font-weight:400">So, he spent the rest of the time in the Shinkansen calming them down. He held Yuna and Nina’s hand tightly in his, and talked with Mira and Aika to distract them from his revtion.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Arriving in Tooya station, Yuuji and his family immediately headed outside the station, where a chauffeur would pick them up.
<span style="font-weight:400">Considering how far their home was from the station, Mira’s friend, who had invited them for the overnight stay, had arranged a car to pick them up so they wouldn''t need to find and pay for a taxi.
<span style="font-weight:400">As they walked and looked around for the chauffeur, all five of them attracted many eyes. After all, it was extremely rare for such a beautiful and dazzling group of individuals they’ve never seen before toe to such a small city.
<span style="font-weight:400">With her hair loosely braided to the side and rested over her shoulder and dressed in a beautiful, long, white sundress that loosely hugged her full, voluptuous body, Mira had attracted the most attention from men. Although her face was slightly obscured by therge straw sun hat with a beautiful lily flower on her head, the small glimpse they managed to catch was enough to make them take a second and third look before freezing in awe.
<span style="font-weight:400">Meanwhile, to her sides were two identical twins who looked like a younger version of her.
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuna was dressed in a shoulderless, light pink top and a white skirt that flowed down just above her knees. While Nina also wore a simr top and skirt, but instead of light pink and white, they were light blue and light yellow.
<span style="font-weight:400">Standing to their side with her hands on her wide hip, Aika stood as she looked around, tyring to find the person Mira told them would be picking them up. She was dressed in a white, cored shirt with two buttons unsped, revealing the top of her deep cleavage, and tight, blue jeans which clealry entuated her round butt and long, slender legs.
<span style="font-weight:400">Andstly, Yuuji was dressed in a simple dark navy cored shirt with a button unsped, revealing the ne with silver chain and obsidian gem around his neck, and long, white pants.
<span style="font-weight:400">With their natural appearance, in addition to their immacte dressing, it would only be natural that they’d quickly be the center of attention of everyone in Tooya station.
<span style="font-weight:400">Fortunately, they didn’t have to stand around for too long under the sun and the gazes of everyone around them as they soon spotted a beautiful woman with short, light blond hair, dressed in a full suit, standing in front of a ck,rge, luxurious SUV.
<span style="font-weight:400">Seeing her figure, Mira immediately recognized her and led everyone towards her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ste-chan~! It has been quite a while~! How are you~?”<span style="font-weight:400">
<span style="font-weight:400">Ste turned to the beautiful voice and froze with her eyes widened in surprise the moment she saw Mira.
<span style="font-weight:400">“It has been years since Ist saw you, and you’ve grown into such a beautiful woman~! Ufufufu~”
<span style="font-weight:400">The jaws of her mouth ckened slightly as she couldn’t help but stare at Mira, dumbfounded.
<span style="font-weight:400">Yes… As Mira had said, it has been years since they’vest seen each other. That’s why, Ste had expected to see the beautiful woman she considered big sister when she was young, to have aged, even a little.
<span style="font-weight:400">But in contrast… Mira looked even younger and even more beautiful than before!!!
<span style="font-weight:400">“I-It has been a long time, Mira-sama… I am d to see you in good health. I have also been well. Thank you very much.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’m d~”
<span style="font-weight:400">Then, her eyes turned towards the two twins who immediately approached her and greeted her with beautiful smiles.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ste onee-san. I’m happy to see you again.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yuna-sama, Nina-sama. I’m happy to see you again and well.”
<span style="font-weight:400">The two bowed courteously, and Ste also smiled fondly at them. Yuna and Nina might’ve only met her once, and briefly at that, when they were young. Most of the time, they would be with her half sister and rarely talked with anyone else. So for them to still remember her made her happy.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yo, Ste. You seemed to be doing well.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Ste then turned towards Aika, who was a high school delinquent thest time she saw her. But now, she seemed a bit more proper and… gentle and mature, which was most likely thanks to the genes she shared with Mira.
<span style="font-weight:400">“It has been a while, Aika-sama. It is nice to see you again.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Thenstly, her eyes turned towards the sole male member of the family, and her eyes widened once again.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ste onee-san. It is nice to meet you again.”
<span style="font-weight:400">He bowed courteously. But the moment he smiled at her… the heart that had always been calm and stead, began thumping wildly.
<span style="font-weight:400">She fell into a daze… But a few secondster, she quickly snap out of it
<span style="font-weight:400">“I-It is nice to see you again as well, Yuuji-sama. Please forgive me. You’ve grown so much since I’vest seen you and I failed to recognize you for a moment…!”
<span style="font-weight:400">She quickly bowed her head, not in an effort to apology, but to hide her reddening cheeks
<span style="font-weight:400">To think she would freeze in front of a boy much younger than her and acted so unbingly of a butler… She wanted to dig a hole and plunge her head into it!!!
<span style="font-weight:400">“No no, it’s fine. I understand. I’m just happy that you still recognize me.”
<span style="font-weight:400">She could feel her heart tighten and her face heating up with every word that came out of those sexy lips.
<span style="font-weight:400">She was… truly caught off guard. Who would’ve expected that the regr, young boy who loved his twin sisters, his step-mother, and step-aunt a bit too much and could never be separated from them, would grow up into such a handsome young man that could make even her heart flutter…!
<i><span style="font-weight:400">Hah… I wonder how Sena would react when she saw her “cute Yuu-kun” now…</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">Perhaps… she would return to being the sweet, adorable, little girl she was in the past again…
<span style="font-weight:400">Ste fell into a thought for a moment before quickly shaking away her idle thoughts and opened the door to the car.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well then. Everyone, please enter. We shall start our journey to the Kashiwazaki Estate promptly.”