Chapter 95: She Doesn’t Love You

“You brought another woman back to take a bath, and she left wearing your clothes?”

“He even saw that child’s underwear!”

Himemiya Izayoi nodded, meaning she knew, then raised her chin at Minamoto Kiyomoto, meaning: you’d better explain this clearly.

Minamoto Kiyomoto looked at Shirako, who was complaining to Himemiya Izayoi, and really wanted to ask her, whose shikigami are you?

“Minamoto Kiyomoto,” Himemiya Izayoi called out someone’s full name.

“I came home and immediately hid in my room. I only came to the living room when I couldn’t hear any screams. Who knew it wasn’t over yet? It was all an accident—that’s how it is,” Minamoto Kiyomoto explained.

“What about the sportswear?”

“Shirako wouldn’t let me touch Miss Kamibayashi’s clothes. Yours, I didn’t dare to take, so I could only take mine—Your Honor, Judge Izayoi, can you declare me innocent?”

“No hurry,” Himemiya Izayoi said with a smile. “One last question, why are you explaining to me?”

Minamoto Kiyomoto was stunned, “Didn’t you ask me?”

“Are you afraid I’ll misunderstand? Do you like me?”

“…”

“Kiyomoto-kun, although I also like you very much, the person you like the most is not me,” she said with a lonely expression, pretending to be happy. “So, please allow me to reject your confession. I’m sorry.”

“Miss Himemiya, how can I be as… free and easy as you?”

“To show whatever expression you want is a necessary quality for a ruler, you know, little Kiyoshi~” Himemiya Izayoi made a peace sign in front of her eyes and said triumphantly.

She was like a young idol dancing in a short skirt, cute, very cute.

“Simply put, you have to know how to lie?”

“This is called strategy, silly child,” she turned into a caring big sister again, making people want to bury all their troubles between her tall and full breasts.

Innocent, playful, tsundere, lazy, shy, curious, dignified… does this count as being full of charm?
Minamoto Kiyomoto fully understood the power of Himemiya Izayoi’s ‘strategy’.

“Miss Kamibayashi,” his gaze turned to Kamibayashi Miko, who was concentrating on her book. “As Izayoi said, the person I like the most is you.”

“Lady Miko! Don’t be deceived by him!” Shirako put on a wary posture.

“Hey, Shirako,” Minamoto Kiyomoto looked at her. “You were clearly monitoring me on behalf of Miss Kamibayashi before, admitting our relationship. Why have you betrayed us now? Could it be that you were secretly bought over by the witch?”

“I was bought over,” the witch said.

“Nonsense!” Shirako stood up angrily.

“Don’t argue,” Kamibayashi Miko’s gaze moved from the book.

Shirako was fuming, her eyes glaring at Minamoto Kiyomoto, wishing she could rush up and fight with him, letting him feel the weight of a mountain with his body.

“You told Itomi Yuki about Lake Shikotsu?” Kamibayashi Miko closed her book and asked Minamoto Kiyomoto.

“No. What’s wrong?”

“Have you ever thought about what would happen to that child if you died? Without our protection, the officials’ handling of her would be different from now, and no one knows the outcome.”

“Should we discuss it with your father?” Minamoto Kiyomoto asked tentatively.

“No,” Kamibayashi Miko refused without hesitation.

In order to become a “Divine Miko,” she had cut off ties with her relatives. She would never break her own principles for Itomi Yuki.

Even for Minamoto Kiyomoto, she would only ‘sacrifice everything to protect his safety,’ not ask the “Ogosho” to allow him not to participate in the subjugation of yokai.

Minamoto Kiyomoto fell into deep thought.

“Me, ask me,” Himemiya Izayoi pointed at herself enthusiastically.

Minamoto Kiyomoto looked at her, “Then—”

“No,” before he could finish, Himemiya Izayoi refused with a cold smile.

“…” Minamoto Kiyomoto was speechless. He actually believed this witch.

“You really dare to ask me. The matter of you kissing Miko, I haven’t settled the score with you yet—” speaking of this, her tone became less firm and she changed her words, “I haven’t settled it clearly yet, and you still want me to protect other women.”

“Then what do we do?” Minamoto Kiyomoto asked them.

“Take her with us, and die together,” Kamibayashi Miko said.

“I only want to die with you. Forget about the others,” after saying this, Minamoto Kiyomoto looked at Himemiya Izayoi. “Sister Izayoi, just treat it as my birthday present. Help me.”

“You’re smart,” Himemiya Izayoi laughed. “You rejected my ring and still protected that high school girl. Two birds with one stone.”

“Will you do it?” Minamoto Kiyomoto asked her.

“Of course I will,” Himemiya Izayoi’s finger gently touched his nose, and she said affectionately, “How could I bear to refuse you, Young Master Kiyoshi?”

“…Scary,” Minamoto Kiyomoto moved away from her.

Himemiya Izayoi was wearing a Kyoto yuzen long-sleeved kimono with an ancient pattern. Her black hair was tied up in a charming bun. She looked at him with a smile, her appearance elegant and enchanting.

Minamoto Kiyomoto quickly averted his gaze and looked at Kamibayashi Miko.

“Miss Kamibayashi—”

Kamibayashi Miko slowly opened her book. It was unclear whether she was reading seriously or not, but she had an expression that said ‘don’t talk to me’.

Minamoto Kiyomoto cast a reproachful look at Himemiya Izayoi.

Himemiya Izayoi covered her lips with her hand, as if whispering, and said to him softly, “She doesn’t love you.”

“Sleep!” Minamoto Kiyomoto stood up and walked out of the living room.

Behind him came Himemiya Izayoi’s happy laughter.

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On September 6th, Itomi Yuki had been a little restless since the morning.

It wasn’t because she was going to a strange cultivator academy to study, but because…
If she had known, she would have been more honest yesterday and said directly that she was looking forward to going to the cultivator academy, so she couldn’t wait to run to Tokyo as soon as school was over on Friday, instead of saying she had an appointment on the weekend.

She couldn’t help but sigh.

“Is it not delicious?” Itomi’s mother asked.

“No, it’s nothing. It’s delicious,” Itomi Yuki took a bite of rice. “It’s delicious.”

Itomi’s mother couldn’t help but worry, “Don’t keep thinking about Sayaka’s matter. Her wanted notice hasn’t been withdrawn yet, which proves that she’s safe.”

“Okay,” Itomi Yuki replied.

The mother and daughter fell silent, each eating their breakfast with their own thoughts.

“Mother, I’m going out today,” Itomi Yuki suddenly said.

“Are you going out with the friend you stayed with last time?” her mother asked.

On September 1st, Itomi Yuki said that she was going to stay at Hayashima’s house and go to school directly the next day. She didn’t tell her mother the truth.

She hesitated for a moment, then nodded and replied, “Yes.”

“When will you be back?” Since her sister’s incident, her mother had been particularly concerned about her life and even planned to forbid her from going to university in Tokyo.

“Before dinner,” Itomi Yuki had originally wanted to stay out later, but she changed her words when they were on the tip of her tongue.

“Do you need money?”

“No, I still have some on me.”

“Be careful on the road. If anything happens, remember to call home.”

“Okay.”

Feeling her mother’s reluctance, Itomi Yuki slowed down her eating, wanting to spend more time with her mother.

After finishing breakfast, she left home as usual. Walking on the sunny street, her steps became lighter.

After walking a few steps, she suddenly remembered that she hadn’t arranged a place to meet Minamoto Kiyomoto.

From Monday to Friday, she could contact him by phone between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., but today was Saturday.

Go directly to Tokyo? What if she missed him?
A young girl with delicate features, holding her phone, walked on a quiet street with a troubled expression.

The next moment, a strong wind suddenly blew.

When Itomi Yuki came back to her senses and opened her eyes, the scenery around her was rapidly receding. She was already above the sea of clouds.

“Big brother, how did you know I was there?” she asked curiously.

“You still have my smell on you.”

“…Pervert.”

“A curse that smells things. I’m in Tokyo, and I can smell whether you’re in your bedroom or the toilet. Do you want to learn it?”

“Pervert. Isn’t there a more suitable curse for girls?”

“There is.”

“There are clearly other more normal curses, but you want me to learn from a puppy. You really are a pervert.”

“I’m going to throw you down.”

“You get angry when you can’t win an argument. Miss Kamibayashi will never love you.”

“…” Lake Shikotsu was dangerous or not, Minamoto Kiyomoto no longer cared.

At the cultivator academy, Itomi Yuki first received a set of textbooks and a school uniform.

Minamoto Kiyomoto accompanied her to class in a lecture hall. The class was about a healing curse, which happened to be one he had taken from the Xiangye crown and passed on to everyone at Heian Shrine.

Itomi Yuki took notes very seriously, and her handwriting was as beautiful as she was.

In the afternoon’s practical class, the students changed into combat uniforms and were divided into barrier, healing, and other departments for professional training.

“Lord Kiyomoto, could you please use the yokai body curse to let the students experience the atmosphere of fighting a yokai?” Teacher Amano requested.

Itomi Yuki’s eyes immediately lit up, and she looked at Minamoto Kiyomoto with anticipation.

She had touched a yokai’s body, but she didn’t know what kind of power a yokai had, or what a battle between cultivators was like.

“Okay. Call as many students as possible. Just treat it as my final contribution,” in his heart, Minamoto Kiyomoto had already prepared himself not to come back.

Unfortunately, he hadn’t had a second intimate contact with Kamibayashi Miko.

Teacher Amano gathered all the students of the school and found the few classes with the best grades in the school to be Minamoto Kiyomoto’s opponents.

The venue was chosen at the southernmost tip of Izu Oshima, half sand and half Pacific Ocean.

The selected students were on high alert. The other students and teachers watched from a distance.

“Lord Kiyomoto really likes your sister,” Itomi Yuki was using the curse Minamoto Kiyomoto had taught her, nervously looking at the battlefield, when someone suddenly spoke to her.

Itomi Yuki glanced at the other person. It was a short-haired girl.

Her personality was cold, and she didn’t bother to reply. She looked at the sea again.

“You were deceived by your sister, and you’re still so good to her,” the short-haired girl continued.

The battle had already begun.

In Itomi Yuki’s line of sight, Minamoto Kiyomoto’s whole body burst with black light and shot into the sky, disappearing into the horizon in a blink of an eye.

“Rumble!” As if a volcano had erupted, the earth shook and the mountains swayed, and the sea surface rose in great waves.

The mountain under her feet kept shaking, and dark clouds gathered above her head.

“Roar!” A dragon’s roar.

Just hearing it, Itomi Yuki felt as if her head had been hit hard by a heavy hammer. Her mind was in a mess, her blood was surging, she began to panic, and her legs and body were so weak that she even wanted to collapse on the ground.

She was shocked beyond words.

She couldn’t believe that the giant dragon that had taken her for a ride, from a distance of heaven and earth, could almost suffocate her with just a roar.

She tried to control her panic and looked at the battlefield.

The selected students, as expected of elites, their formation was not chaotic at all.

Looking at the sky again, the dark clouds were getting more and more numerous, and the sky was darkening at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In a blink of an eye, the dark purple and brilliant red clouds were pressing low on everyone’s heads.

The strong sense of oppression made people feel as if they were facing the end of the world.

The temperature rose sharply, and it was unbearably hot. Even the strong wind that blew was like a flame hitting their faces.

Since it was to let the students experience it, Minamoto Kiyomoto naturally would not use curses, but mobilized the instinct of the red and black evil dragon, the talent of a yokai born from lava.

The red and black evil dragon poked its head out of the dark clouds, like a god looking down on the human world.

“Are you ready?” the grand voice shook the island and made the trees in the mountains rustle.

“Yes!” the students on the beach shouted in unison.

“Good!” Minamoto Kiyomoto escaped into the clouds.

Everyone couldn’t see his figure, and could only hear the continuous dragon’s roar.

The earth shook and the sky swayed, red light erupted, and lava from an unknown source in the sky danced like a red dragon, and also fell like a meteor, burning half of the night sky a brilliant red, and the other half as black as lacquer.

“Barrier Department! Defend!”

“Combat Department! Support Department! Intercept the meteors!”

“Healing Department, pay attention to the surroundings and be on standby at all times!”

“Repair Department! Watch the earth spirit!”

“Yes!”

Itomi Yuki’s fair face was sometimes dark and sometimes illuminated by the firelight. Her eyes reflected the colors of various divine powers, and she stared at the scene in front of her in a daze.

It was simply… simply a scene from a mythological story, where heroes joined forces to resist the gods.

The gap between the two sides of the battle was huge. Even she, a beginner, could see it.

Under the pressure of the red and black evil dragon, these future elites were struggling to hold on, while the evil dragon was at ease and even paid attention to the strength of its attacks.

The tail that could stir up a hurricane did not directly hit the crowd, but hit the sea, causing a tsunami nearly a hundred meters high, which crashed onto the beach.

The breath was also just right. Seeing that everyone could not hold on, it just stopped.

In addition to the continuous fire meteors, the evil dragon had almost no other movements.

Even so, for Itomi Yuki, it was a battle scene that made her heart jump out of her chest.

She couldn’t believe that her sister, who fought with her all day, snatched her things, slept in at home, and used despicable means to take a bath with her, was actually as powerful as the evil dragon that caused the changes in the world.

However, such a powerful sister was still wanted and couldn’t show her face, and couldn’t even see her family again.

“Sister!” Itomi Yuki pursed her lips tightly.

She would definitely go to her sister’s side, accompany her, and help her, even if she objected.

When the first ray of crimson appeared on the sea, Minamoto Kiyomoto picked up the calm-faced Itomi Yuki from among the crowd and flew towards Chiba Prefecture.

“You look like you’ve gained a lot today?” In the sea of clouds, Minamoto Kiyomoto said with a smile.

“Why do you say that?” Itomi Yuki asked with confusion.

“Your eyes have changed.”

“Have they become impure? After all, I’ve been looking at you all day, big brother.”

“Haha, you’re much cuter than your sister!” Minamoto Kiyomoto laughed twice, then said, “You’ve become… how should I put it—from a literary girl to a fighting girl.”

Itomi Yuki looked at the nearby Chiba Prefecture, was silent for a while, then raised her head and cast her gaze on the boundless sky that was approaching dusk.

“Big brother.”

“Yes?”

“If I die, please help take care of my father and mother.”

“I’m afraid I can’t promise you that,” Minamoto Kiyomoto also looked at the beautiful dusk, his tone leisurely. “I don’t even know if I can live longer than you. If I die, you’ll have to take care of my old mother then.”

“Okay, then you have to promise me!”

“Okay, I promise you,” Minamoto Kiyomoto said with a smile, swooping down and falling towards Chiba Prefecture.

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