"Ah~ I had such a strange dream last night. Speaking of which, I still haven't done my daily quests for the past two days."
Sitting in the classroom, Nakano Yu yawned. For some reason, after using Moon Authority last night to send himself and Eucliwood back to their rooms to sleep, Nakano Yu had a strange dream.
In that dream, he married Eucliwood, and it was even before the Five Sisters, and they had even consummated the marriage.
Thinking about that strange dream, Nakano Yu couldn't help but rub his forehead, wanting to clear his mind and shift his attention away from it.
Recently, Nakano Yu hadn't been doing his daily quests. It felt like every day there were endless things he had to handle. Usually, he would leave those daily quests to the Moon God Envoys and the Impurities, but during the past two days he hadn't arranged anything for them.
It wasn't because of any special reason, nor because he was worried something might happen; Nakano Yu had simply forgotten, yes, simply forgotten.
"Yu looks very sleepy. Didn't you rest well last night?"
At that moment, a familiar voice sounded directly in front of the young man.
Hearing the voice, Nakano Yu looked toward the person approaching him and saw Tachibana Marika, whom he hadn't seen for several days.
"Yo, our young lady Marika actually knows how to come back. You took such a long break that I thought you had gone overseas again, Marika."
Seeing Marika, Nakano Yu straightened his lazy body that had been leaning against the desk, stood up, and teasingly spoke to the girl.
As for the illness Marika had, Nakano Yu had already used [Cut Through] some time ago to cure it. Although Marika's body was still a little weaker than an average person's, she was no longer in serious danger, and with proper care over the next two years she would completely recover.
Thinking about it carefully, the so-called hereditary fatal illness on Marika was actually [Izanagi's Curse]. It was obvious that... Marika should not have had any connection with something like [Izanagi].
While thinking, Nakano Yu looked at Marika with a trace of concern. Immediately afterward, a jade-green glow appeared in his eyes and on his palms. Soon, thin threads appeared within Nakano Yu's field of vision.
"It hasn't appeared again. Looks like this is a curse that doesn't regenerate."
After failing to find the threads representing the curse on Marika, Nakano Yu lightly nodded, withdrew the authority of [Cut Through], and thought to himself.
That [Izanagi's Curse] on Marika still worried Nakano Yu quite a bit, because he wasn't sure of the origin of the curse, nor did he know whether it could regenerate again.
However, since so much time had passed without any sign of the curse returning to Marika, Nakano Yu felt there was a high probability that it would not appear again.
"Heehee~ Is Yu worried about me? It's okay! Thanks to Yu, my body has completely recovered. During this period, I went back to my hometown for a while."
Hearing Nakano Yu's words, Marika's first reaction was to smile and look at the young man while explaining where she had been during this time.
"Hometown? Kyushu Island? Did Marika go back to inherit the Tachibana family?"
Raising an eyebrow, Nakano Yu asked. He knew Marika had returned to Kyushu Island, but he hadn't expected her to be gone for so long. Besides, considering that Marika actually disliked Kyushu Island, a certain guess appeared in his heart.
"Ehehe~ You guessed right, Yu."
As soon as Nakano Yu's voice fell, Marika's body couldn't help but tremble. Then she smiled at Nakano Yu, trying to avoid the topic.
"Did something happen to Aunt Tachibana?"
Although Marika was still her usual lively self, Nakano Yu could clearly tell that something had happened that he didn't know about.
The last time he saw Chika Tachibana, her physical condition had actually been even better than Marika's, so why had she suddenly become so critically ill?
Frowning, Nakano Yu suddenly thought of [Izanagi's Curse]. Earlier, he had suspected that the source of this curse was Marika or more precisely, something caused by the ancestors of the Tachibana family and that the curse possessed the characteristic of being inherited through generations, similar to a hereditary disease.
As for this [Izanagi's Curse], Nakano Yu originally thought it only had the characteristic of being passed down through bloodlines, and because its lethality was extremely slow, he had planned to simply find an opportunity to help Chika get rid of the curse.
Although Nakano Yu couldn't say he particularly liked or disliked Tachibana Chika, she was still Marika's mother and Nakano Reina's good friend; Nakano Yu couldn't just silently watch her die under the effects of the curse.
Rather than saying he didn't want Chika to die, it would be more accurate to say he didn't want to see someone he cared about crying.
However, what Nakano Yu didn't expect was that this [Izanagi's Curse] seemed far less simple than he had imagined.
Immediately after he helped Marika use [Cut Through] to break the [Izanagi's Curse], Chika Tachibana, who had lived in the Tachibana family for years without any problems at all, suddenly became seriously ill, to the point that they had to call Marika back to Kyushu to discuss inheriting the position of head of the Tachibana family.
That isn't right. Nakano Reina hadn't mentioned any of this to him. Could it be that Reina also didn't know?
But if Reina doesn't know, then what about Tachibana Gen? Why didn't Tachibana Gen come to find him?
Frowning, Nakano Yu helplessly sighed. It looked like tonight he would have to go find Chika Tachibana.
Coming back to himself, Nakano Yu raised his head toward Tachibana Marika, whose mood was visibly poor, and comforted her:
"It's okay, tonight we'll go back to Kyushu Island together, Marika. We'll go solve Aunt Tachibana's problem."
"Mm! Yu, you really are the best! Come here, kiss!"
Hearing that, Tachibana Marika vigorously nodded. While speaking, she stood up from her seat and stretched out her arms, wanting to wrap them around Nakano Yu's head.
Seeing Tachibana Marika like this, Nakano Yu quietly smiled.
Although it couldn't be said that Chika had been especially good to Marika, and her attitude toward Marika could even be described as strict, Chika was still Marika's mother. Moreover, when Marika had previously been tormented by the curse, it was Chika Tachibana who ran everywhere searching for famous doctors from the West.
Although it couldn't be ruled out that Chika did all of that from the perspective of the head of the Tachibana family, so what? As long as it was good for Marika, that was enough.
No longer thinking about it, Nakano Yu pushed away Marika, who kept trying to throw herself into his arms, and immediately asked about the main issue:
"Marika, do you know the history of the Tachibana family?"
"The history... of the Tachibana family?"
Hearing that, Marika was obviously somewhat confused. There really wasn't much to say about the Tachibana family from Kyushu; it was a samurai family led by female heads.
But why was Nakano Yu asking about that?
Although she didn't understand, Marika still honestly answered:
"Answering Yu, regarding the history of the Tachibana family, I..."
"I don't know either~"
"..."
Girl, do you know that making such a long pause while talking can very easily get you beaten!!
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