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Hell in Heaven
After escorting Mizuki to her hotel, Mikado headed back to his own. The time had already fallen deep into the night, no sights of guests in the entrance hall. Instead, he was immediately greeted by the staff.
“Kitamikado-sama. Your wife is already waiting in your room. Please accept this key card.”
“…Thank you.” Mikado gave an awkward bow.
He was given the key card, but the gaze that followed this was awfully reproachful, making him feel uncomfortable. Entering the elevator, he went up to the highest floor. He used the key card given to him, carefully entering and closing the door behind him. Only a faint light illuminated the interior of the room, with no other human sounds. Rinka must have fallen asleep while she was waiting for Mikado to return. Or so he was hoping at least. He was just escorting a friend home, so it’s not like he was off cheating, but he still felt guilty.
He tried to be as quiet as possible, heading to the living room—
“Mikado-sama! So you were safe! Just where did you go this afternoon?!” Rinka jumped at him with a pale face.
“I was…on some nearby deserted island…” Mikado was at a loss on what to say.
“No, I know that! I was not worrying about Mikado-sama in the slightest! Rather, another woman was with you the entire time, wasn’t there?!”
“Um…I guess you can say that.”
Rinka put both her hands together, letting out a saddened moan.
“Ahhh, how could this happen! To think that my husband would return home only early in the morning during our honeymoon!”
“It’s not morning yet, is it?!”
“The other person was Mizuki-san, wasn’t she…If you said that you preferred middle school girls, I would have become one just for you!”
“How would you even do that?!”
“Surgery…”
Her face looked dead-serious.
“You’re exaggerating…” Mikado audibly gulped. “Just to let you know, I don’t have any tastes like that. So stop with those ridiculous ideas.”
“It is not ridiculous. With the techniques in surgery in possession by the Shizukawa Family, I can even become a grade school girl! If need be, even a kindergartner…or a toddler!”
“I don’t want any like that! So please stop already!” Mikado threw a rebuttal at full force.
He didn’t know he would experience such a conversation right after coming home, leaving him unprepared. To that, Rinka sat on the sofa, all strength leaving her body.
“Either way, the fault lies with me…”
“You didn’t do anything wrong. I’m the one to blame for not even contacting you. I’m really sorry.” Mikado lowered his head, but Rinka didn’t accept that.
“It is my fault! Because I don’t possess any feminine charm! Unable to fully satisfy Mikado-sama, you ran away to cheat! I am a failure of a wife!”
“In my memory, we aren’t even dating yet though!”
Rinka blushed.
“Oh my, ‘yet’, is it? So you mean to say that we will eventually get married.”
“I don’t mean to say anything!”
“I can tell without needing any words from you…As a wife, that should be expected, right?”
“Don’t put words in my mouth!”
Rinka must have been really lonely all alone, because she was jumping even more to conclusions than before. Also, on a side note, Mikado is still wearing his swimming trunks from before. He had been wearing them basically the entire day. If possible, he wanted to change quickly because it was starting to get a bit freezing, but his fiance did not allow him to do so.
“I finally understood it. You must have left during the afternoon in order to pick out a proper engagement ring for me, have you not? You must have already prepared our marriage location! As soon as we come home, our wonderful newlywed life must begin! Mikado-sama would never cheat on me, never leave the house again!”
“Confinement?!”
Mikado thought that Rinka would not retort to such criminal actions, but looking at her now, there was no guarantee anymore.
—Why are there no normal people around me? What even is ‘normal’.
However, instead of going philosophical, Mikado instead retreated to the bathroom.
Late night.
Mikado stood in awe, in front of the king size bed.
—Seems like there’s only one place to sleep, huh…
There was no other possible sleeping place at his disposal, so Mikado offered to sleep on the floor, but Rinka would not allow that under any circumstances.
‘This is supposed to be our pre-honeymoon, so sleeping in separate beds would go against the entire purpose’ she said. Apparently, this is something she would not back down on. Since Rinka was overlooking Mikado’s questionable relationship with Kisa, he couldn’t go against her word, at least to a certain degree. In this love game which would decide his future life, the very fact of her being his ‘Fiance’ is enough of a weapon.
—Now that it has come to this, I have to fall asleep as quickly as possible.
This experience of merely sleeping in the same room as a girl of his age was a first for Mikado. He was not sure what kind of trouble would occur, but if he were to be out for good, Rinka wouldn’t try anything either. Luckily, Rinka was currently taking a shower herself, so now was the time to stack on his defences. Hence, he turned down the lights in the bedroom, lying on the bed.
However, he found trouble falling asleep. The more he thought to himself that he needed to fall asleep quickly, the more strength entered his body, leaving him more focussed than ever. He tried some calm breaths to get into a sleeping rhythm, but that didn’t help either.
At the same time, he heard footsteps approaching. What followed was the sweet after-bath scent, as well as a certain heat flushing in on him like a wave.
“…Mikado-sama, you are awake, are you not?”
“……!” Mikado carefully opened his mouth.
Shown in his field of view was Rinka, clothed in rather suggestive underwear. A normal bra and panties with black laces. They looked like they were connected, barely covering anything even though they’re supposed to be underwear. This might be her so-called sure-win underwear. Whether it was her well-endowed chest, almost about to fall out from her bra, her slender shoulders, her perfectly formed waist, or her healthy thighs, her entire body was brimming with female charm, as she sat down next to Mikado. Wherever Mikado looked, it was poison for his eyes and mind.
“Rinka, I…” Mikado wanted to argue with Rinka.
“I will not tell Kisa-san about this.”
“About…what?”
“Whatever will happen in this suite. Whatever you might do to me, how far we might go, I will not tell a soul. That’s why, please give me a chance.” Her words couldn’t be more powerful.
No matter how much they indulge in pleasure, the girl would not ask Mikado for responsibility.
“That would be the worst of me.”
“That is not the case. I want you to try it. Try, and see if Kisa-san really is better…or if the two of us have a better affinity.”
Rinka embraced Mikado from behind, resting her feminine body on his back. A scent sweeter than any flower made its way into his nostrils. Her silky hair tickled Mikado’s cheek. Mikado’s five senses, no, his entire being was currently resisting against his reason.
“Listen, Rinka. A man and woman should not be bound by lust. By meeting their hearts directly, seeing their deepest parts of each other, they long for this, and become one. You are a splendid woman, so don’t lower your value by throwing away your body like this.” He tried to say, but Rinka wouldn’t listen.
“…That is not the case. I am doing this to exactly show you, and heighten my own evaluation with you.”
She pulled out a small bottle from next to the pillow, as the mysterious liquid inside of it shook up and down, and she put it in her own mouth. Meanwhile, she approached Mikado’s lips. The monster of the night was on top of him. Inside this dim darkness, her eyes shone with desire.
“Mikado-sama. Please, open your mouth…”
Her kind fingers moved on Mikado’s mouth. Not even allowing him to breath, Rinka had the liquid drop down from her tongue inside his mouth. It was sweet, dangerously sweet. The second it passed down Mikado’s throat, his body started to burn like a wildfire. He became more consciously of every part of his body that Rinka was touching.
“What…did you make me drink…”
“A juice that heightens your perception. Everything will start feeling better, but everything you dislike will become more apparent. Meaning, if you really hate me, Mikado-sama, you will want to throw me out of the room, that is the effect of this juice.” Rinka used her tongue to lick up the rest of the juice that ran down from Mikado’s mouth.
That alone was enough stimulation, forcing Mikado to grit his teeth to work against that.
“What do you think, Mikado-sama? Do you think of me as disgusting…” Rinka laid her eyes upon his, looking like she was about to break out in tears.
Seeing this, Mikado felt his chest hurt.
“As if…I’d think of you like this…”
“I am happy…I studied a lot, hoping that I would make you the happiest possible…”
Licking her lips, she let down a rain of soft kisses on Mikado’s neck, the back of his ears, and his earlobes. Together with the tingling sensation he felt everywhere, the sounds of the sheets moving could be heard. Rinka’s beautiful limbs were all over Mikado’s body, revealing her affection. His consciousness got swallowed up by a scent obscene enough to bring back the dead.
“Mikado-samaaa…I want to…bear your children…Please, dye the deepest parts of my body with your color…” A desperate plea.
Mikado felt his head grow dizzy. He had prepared himself to be attacked at night, but Rnka using such measures was completely out of his range of expectations. His instincts as a mean were screaming to give in, but at the same time, the fact that he had a person he had feelings for fought against these instincts. He could not lose himself now.
He was more than happy that a wonderful woman like Rinka would go this far to gain his heart, but exactly because of her being such a great person, he didn’t want to hurt her in his irresponsibility. He wanted her to live a bright future. Hence, he started his counterattack. He had to render her powerless, so that the night would pass savely.
“Rinka!”
“Kya?!”
Mikado jumped up from the bed, and reversed the situation as he pushed Rinka onto the bed. The scenery opened up below him. The strings of her bra fell off her shoulders, revealing her two charming, snow white bulges beneath. Her beautiful Yamato Nadeshiko typical black hair was scattered on the sheets, looking like a sea of hair.
“Mikado…sama…”
Beneath Mikado’s body, Rinka was moaning in anticipation. Beautiful beyond belief, Mikado felt the desire to make her his own right this moment. And she wished to become Mikado’s. Her desire for him to do so was radiating from every fiber of her being. However, Mikado suppressed his desires, and instead spoke calmly.
“You really did something selfish here. It seems like you need to be educated a bit, how about it?”
“Y-Yes…Please, punish me to your heart’s desire…” Rinka begged, her voice about to break off.
Apparently, she really was the type that wanted to be dominated. Her body was shaking in anticipation, her eyes gazing at Mikado. That was the girl’s weakness. Grasping this, Mikado put his lips on her tender ears.
“Mmm…!” Rinka grasped Mikado’s hand, as her legs ran up and down the sheets.
A truly sensitive reaction. The effects of his mysterious juice must have set in for her as well. With her body smaller than Mikado’s, the effect would come into place even more fiercely than in Mikado’s case. The proof of that was found when Mikado softly bit into her lips, and she reflexively clung to him as she moaned.
“Mmm…mm…it feels…good…bite it, more…!”
“You’re saying you want bite marks? What a perverted woman you are.”
WIth these words, Rinka grew more intoxicated.
“Haaa…I-I have no apologies…I want you to bite me…give me marks that won’t disappear for a lifetime…” Her slender waist was clinging to Mikado, almost desperately.
With her warmth almost directly transmitted to Mikado, he was about to lose himself, so he gave Rinka the final push, whispering at her ears.
“…You really are cute.”
“…!!!”
Biting into her ear with all his might, Rinka’s body jolted up from the pleasure. She clung to Mikado fiercely enough for him to be unable to breathe. A voice not turning into words leaked out from her mouth After her body spasmed up and down a few times, Rinka stopped moving. No counterattack came.
“M-Mikado-sama…that’s not fair…this much with just my ears…”
“…Sorry.”
As an apology, Mikado gently put his hand on his fiance’s head. Though Mikado averted a worst-case scenario, his body was still boiling hot, fully overheating. If his response came only a few moments later, he might have truly lost himself. Mikado escaped from Rinka’s grasp to get up from the bad, opening the refrigerator in the living room, drinking a sip of water, which greatly helped him in regaining his reason.
Thinking back to it, biting the ear of his fiance was lewd beyond belief, but he couldn’t come up with a better method before. Though the results worked out in the end, he still couldn’t help but feel embarrassed. After satisfying his desire for cool fluid, Mikado brought another glass to Rinka.
“Drink this, it’ll help you cool down.”
“Thank you very much…” Rinka pushed herself up from the bed, and accepted the glass.
Cute drinking sounds rang out from her beautiful throat, and by the time the glass was empty, she let out a sigh.
“…That helped a lot.”
Her face was still burning bright, and as she touched Mikado’s fingers, who accepted the glass, she twitched again, but a more reasonable color had returned to her eyes. As Mikado sat back down on the bed, Rinka softly rested her body against his.
“…Why are you going this far? What made you fall for me this badly?”
“…Because you have been my prince ever since I met you.”
“What do you mean?”
“Do you not remember? The words you have told me so long ago?”
“The words…?”
Mikado looked through his memories, but found nothing that clicked. The Kitamikado and Shizukawa families had always been close, and they had met countless times at parties or such, so he might have said something.
“If you do not remember, then it cannot be helped. This is something I just kept in mind for all this time.” Rinka pouted with her lips, resting her head on Mikado’s thighs.
She acted oddly spoiled, as she kept her hands close to his knees.
“…Sorry.” Mikado could only gently run his hand over her head.
The distant waves were the only sounds filling the otherwise empty bedroom.
Meanwhile, inside the hotel next to the one of the two fiances, inside the suite on the highest floor. Having just returned from the sea, Mizuki turned into a sushi roll, as she laid on the floor. On top of having her body wrapped in a blanket, she was restrained even further by rope, on top of some thick chains, with a big, sturdy lock on them. In other words, she had no hopes of escaping. However, as one would expect, Mizuki was not bothered by this in the slightest.
“Eh, what?! What kind of play is this?! Am I going to be turned into a dumpling next?! At least make me delish!” She couldn’t be more nonchalant.
Even though Kisa was glaring down at her as fiercely as ever, she felt no sense of danger.
“Let me ask you one more time. What have you been doing all this time with Mikado?”
“I didn’t meet Mikado-kun~ When I was chasing after a crab, the boss of crabs appeared in front of me, so I had to fight that. Before I realized it, I was in America, in this city called London!”
“London is the capital of Great Britain!”
“Ah, really? Then I think it was the Catena Dziewulski!”
“The Catena Dziewulski is a chain of craters on the moon!” Kokage spoke up in protest.
Kisa, Mizuki, and Kokage all stayed in the same hotel. In order to avoid Mikado ending up as Rinka’s prey during this pre-honeymoon, the three of them came all the way over here from Japan. Though Kisa wasn’t sure why exactly Kokage of all people was joining them, having someone skilled at gathering information would surely not come at a loss.
“Stop spurting nonsense and tell me what happened! The two of you went missing at the same time, so it’s clear that you were together!”
“That’s what you’d think, right? But, reality is more suspicious than fictionality, right! You see, Mikado-kun was actually abducted!”
“From what star did they come from?! Give me more details! Please!” Kokage jolted at the blanket dumpling.
“I might be willing to tell you…if you could show me how you act as a puppy, Kokage-chan~” Mizuki glanced over at Kokage.
“Woof! Woof woof!”
Thus, Kokage became a dog.
“Wahhh, Kokage-chan is so cute! Come here, I’ll love you lots!”
“Woof woof!”
However, Mizuki was still restrained by the blanket prison, so that proved impossible.
“Give it a rest already ! I want to know what happened between you and Mikado, not some stupid aliens!”
“Ehehe, I ain’t telling you~ It’s a secret between the two of us!”
“Ugh…”
Mizuki stuck out her tongue, to which a vein popped on Kisa’s head. With a cold voice, she ordered.
“Kawaraya-san, do it.”
“But…” Kokage hesitated.
“We aren’t making any progress here. She needs to learn what comes after taking such an obstinate standing. Or…would you rather take her place, Kawaraya-san?”
“N-No, by any means no! I will do it!”
Kokage ran to a nearby table, picking up iron skewers from the torture set presented on there. Following that, she approached Mizuki with the sharp skewers.
“K-Kokage-chan, don’t tell me…”
“I’m sorry! Kisa-chan ordered me to do this!”
To Mizuki’s shock, at the tip of the skewers…were bell peppers!
“Hyaaa?! No no no no no?! Please, anything but bell peppers! I can’t stand the scent!” Mizuki desperately tried to avert her face from the impending doom, but being restrained like a dumpling, she was not fully able to do so.
At the same time, Kisa just calmly crossed her arms, flashing a devilish smile.
“Fufufu…they’re bell peppers, perfectly prepared just for today, from the chef of this hotel. Isn’t their scent just wonderful…? From thorough organic cultivation, they allow a perfect scent of what a bell pepper should smell like…they’re really good for your body, you know…?”
Using organically cultivated vegetables as a means of torture, that’s Nanjou Kisa for you. This showed how professional the family was with anything torture related.
“No…Something big like that won’t fit…Save me, Mikado-kun…” Mizuki tried her hardest to resist the approaching bell pepper.
However, as if to crush her hopes—
“Apologies for making you wait. I have brought you the additional bell peppers.”
The doorbell rang, as the words of capital punishment arrived from across the door. The bell peppers on the cart were brought into the room, lined up on more than ten plates on the table. The trained staff didn’t even raise an eyebrow at the situation inside of the room, just leaving with a never-broken smile.
It wouldn’t be too far to say that around 95% of the air in the room consisted of a strong bell peppers stench.
“I-I get it already…I give up…”
With her 14 years of hating bell peppers, fearing them more than her account being banned on her favorite mobile game, Mizuki admitted defeat.
“You could have just told us from the start to avoid all of this.” Kisa spoke down at her with a raised chin.
“But, is it really fine for me to tell you what Mikado-kun and I did? I feel like you’d suffer a heavy shock from it…”
“E-Eh, why?”
“Well…you know? You get what I’m saying, right…?” Mizuki’s cheeks turned red, as she fidgeted nervously.
She had the face of a woman, trying to hide a mistake with another man.
“Wait, I’ll mentally prepare myself,” Kisa said, as she picked up an electric saw from her torture tools.
“Why would you need this to mentally prepare yourself?!”
“If I have a saw like this, I don’t need anything else…”
“Onee-chan, you’re scary!”
“Don’t worry about me…I’m fine, I’m perfectly fine…”
“I’m worried about myself more than anything!”
“Now, say it, right now.”
Kisa didn’t expect Mikado and her little sister to have crossed the line, but she could never say for certain with that little sister of hers. Imagining the worst case scenario, the inside of her head went pitch black.
To that, Mizuki grinned.
“During the afternoon, Mikado-kun and I did some perverted stuff!”
“Sniff…” Tears fell from Kisa’s cheek.
“Have to kill…right now…”
Kisa readied the blade of the saw—at herself, about to press the switch.
“Onee-chan?! You’ll be the one to die if you do that, you know?!”
“It…doesn’t even matter…Mikado…Mikado isn’t a virgin anymore…he was stolen by some other woman…”
She was crying pretty hard. To that, Kokage muttered.
“Kisa-chan…you really like Mikado-kun, huh.”
“Silence! I’ll kill you!”
“I apologies for my mistakes so please don’t kill me Kisa-sama!”
Kokage escaped beneath the table, after Kisa pointed the saw blade at her. At the same time, Mizuki sighed.
“Onee-chan, I was just teasing you, so stop crying!”
“Teasing…?” Kisa wiped away her tears with the handle of the electric saw.
“Of course I was just joking. Mikado-kun isn’t the type of person to get swept along in a situation like that. It was quite the lovey-dovey atmosphere, but I couldn’t finish him off. I was just swimming with Mikado-kun, visiting a deserted island, and chasing crabs at the beach~”
“Really…?”
Mizuki nodded.
“Really really. It was really close though. I took him to a place with lots of lovey-dovey couples around, and invited him to do perverted stuff, but he said no~ What a shame!”
“I see…” Kisa sighed in relief.
She knew that Mikado was a proper man who wouldn’t fall to such temptations, but from her point of view, her little sister was undoubtedly cute. Together with her friendly personality, men must think of her even more cute. Being actively sought out by Mizuki, no way Mikado would really hate it. He could just pick Mizuki easily, without having to go through this entire game thing. Kisa couldn’t help but think that way.
“I confessed, so can I leave this blanket now? I can’t feel my arms and legs anymore!”
“That’s pretty dangerous, isn’t it!” Kokage ran towards the sushi roll.
Together with Kisa’s help, they took off the chains and ropes. Having been freed, Mizuki jumped onto the bed with momentum you wouldn’t expect from someone who was just restrained like her. Neither did she pay any mind to the fact she was still wearing only her swimsuit.
“Alright, time to start the sleepover! It’s my first time sleeping as the three of us, so I’m really excited! What should we do? What should we play?” Mizuki jumped up and down on the bed.
Kokage puzzled over this.
“U-Um…what about some…channeling?”
“Sounds great! Let’s talk with some aliens!”
“So you were interested in this sort of thing, Mizuki-san! If so, I can lend you the countless monthly magazines I gathered over the last ten years!”
“Really?! Can I burn them?!”
“Why would you burn them! Are you making fun of me?!”
“I mean, weren’t we going to call the aliens with a giant fire?”
“We won’t! Just read them normally!”
Mizuki and Kokage were excited, one way or another. The atmosphere had turned into one of a pyjama party, which Kisa wasn’t exactly a fan of.
“We’re not here to play around! Do you two remember the goal of our trip?!”
Kokage opened her eyes wide, putting one hand on her mouth.
“That’s right! I was here to take some great pictures of Mikado-kun!”
“Not that! We’re here to stop the pre-honeymoon of Mikado and Shizukawa-san!”
“Even though it’s their own trip?”
“I-It’s to stop any possible accidents from occuring!”
Mizuki crossed her arms, and slightly tilted her head.
“Hmmm, isn’t it already too late for that? Mikado-kun and Rinka-chan are probably going at it right now.”
“They aren’t! Definitely not!” Kisa emphasized with tears in her eyes, but she couldn’t say it for sure.
If they were to truly love the other, there were no walls in the way, looking at the two families they were from. On top of that, Rinka was a beauty to behold, always approaching Mikado with all her might. Leave the two alone for a longer period of time, it would be hard to assume that no accident might happen. That is why she came here in the first place.
“Anyway, we have to be aware of Shizukawa-san’s next move! We have to be ready to always intercept them!”
“Intercept them?! What if they are naked and in the middle of it?!”
“Then I’ll kill Mikado and myself after!”
Scared to actually run into a situation such as that, Kisa was running away from really invading their room.
Mikado’s consciousness slowly returned from his slumber. At his lower back, he felt a soft and comfortable sensation. The faint sunlight shining in from the window, as well as the different scent from his own bedroom, told him that they were still in a southern country.
Mikado remembered that he came here for his pre-honeymoon with Rinka. Last night, he had to fight the girl’s thorough attack, but somehow managed to make it out. He prayed that things stayed the same for the other few days.
At the same time, he felt something tickling his feet. Something small, running up and down, together with an odd, indescribable sound. A slipper sensation gently tickled his ankle. It wasn’t like he hated the sensation, but it was something he hadn’t felt before.
—A dog…? Or some apparition…?
Slowly opening his eyes, Mikado checked his feet.
“Fuah…Mikado-shama…Good morning…” While licking Mikado’s feet, Rinka gave him a greeting.
As expected of the always clean and proper young lady from the Shizukawa Family, she was already perfectly dressed in a beautiful morning one-piece, her hair in perfect order. In order words, a perfect Yamato Nadeshiko. However, she was licking and slurping on Mikado’s feet like she was on kelp.
“Ah…ahh…ahhhhh…?!” A meek face leaked out of Mikado’s mouth.
Because of this unprecedented sigh, he couldn’t find any words.
“What happened, Mikado-sama? Did you have a bad dream by any chance?” Rinka ran her tongue along his lower leg, as she tilted her beautiful head.
“What…are you doing?!”
“Me? I was looking forward to our second day of the trip so very much, which is why I went to check the preparations as early as possible.”
“Not that! Right now! This very moment is what I’m asking!”
Rinka smiled as calm as she could.
“I am eating breakfast.”
“My leg is?!” Mikado felt scared for his life, imagining being eaten by his fiance on their pre-honeymoon.
To that, Rinka awkwardly cleared her throat.
“Excuse me. I saw that you were sweating in your sleep, so I thought of wiping that, but I couldn’t allow the towel to take in all that precious sweat of yours.”
“What in the world are you talking about?”
Even though he tried to his utmost, Mikado was unable to grasp the words of his fiance. Every person had their own thought process, but Mikado’s ability to grasp that was reaching its limit here.
“I just took a small sample before I wanted to start wiping you dry with the towel…but it was too delicious I was about to gobble you up.”
“…?!”
Before he realized it, Mikado had lost his bathrobe, merely wearing a single pair of trunks. This was the reason he felt so wet and slimy all over his chest and waist.
“Do please wait a moment…I will finish licking the rest…” Rinka moved her tongue across the back of Mikado’s leg.
“Stop licking already! How can you just calmly continue like that! My legs are dirty, aren’t they!”
“Do not worry…Mmm…because your leg is more beautiful than any treasure the heavens above could grant me…Lick lick…Ah, so delishous…” The girl’s red tongue tickled Mikado’s toes, going in between the gaps, drenching them in her saliva.
Every time she did so, a shiver ran down Mikado’s spine.
“Mmm…mmm…Mikado-sama, your toes…so sturdy…”
“Don’t…phrase it so weirdly…”
His fiance pressed her nose directly on his toes, making him feel the cold, pleasurable sensation.
“I cannot help it…your wonderful feet are seducing me…”
“I don’t remember seducing you! You’re telling me to put on socks while I’m sleeping?!”
Rinka gulped up Mikado’s big toe, audibly slurping on it. Her sweet teeth stimulated Mikado’s skin, as she gasped for some air.
“Mikado-sama…next is…this…”
Rinka started running her tongue along Mikado’s thighs.
“Pull yourself together already!!”
Mikado grew desperate to stop his fiance from pulling down his trunks.
Ten minutes later. In order to heighten his defense, Mikado put on some proper clothes, and now sat across the table from Rinka in the reception hall.
“I have no words…Mikado-sama, my apologies, I completely lost myself there.”
“It’s fine as long as you’ve calmed down…”
“Yes, that I did…” Rinka smiled awkwardly.
Though Mikado was a bit worried about Rinka, seeing how far she went just by losing herself, and even pondered if she had really lost herself, but not like he would be given a good response even if he asked. Just having been saved from that situation was enough for him.
“What are we doing today? I figure that going to the sea two days in a row must be tough on you, so maybe we can just walk around the city a bit, or visit the nearby ruins. I looked up a few routes that you might like.”
“My…going this far just for me?”
“Well, it’s a trip, so I at least wanted you to be satisfied.”
Rinka’s eyes lit up.
“Thank you very much…just for my sake…”
“It’s our pre-honeymoon, but we’re not going to do anything much like fiances, so this is the least I can do. If it makes you happy, I’m open…to a few things.”
Rinka brought her body closer.
“Then, a kiss please…!”
“Nope.”
“…Hmpf.”
The gesture of Rinka puffing out her cheeks was awfully cute.
“And, what do you want to do?”
“The thing is…I feel bad for crushing all your plans, but the plane and lodging receptions were a bit dangerous, so we have to leave this island today.”
“Really? Weren’t we going to Prince Edward Island1 next?”
“No, that’s…we changed the target location to Cotswolds…”
“Britain?! That sure is abrupt?!”
Crossing the Atlantic which had been the stage of [Anne of Green Gables2], they would be heating to the renowned most beautiful village in England, Cotswolds. Though Mikado wasn’t exactly involved with the planning of this trip, the reservations apparently were playing against them.
“Well, alright. I’ll hurry with my packing.”
“No, the packing has already been finished.”
“Huh?!”
“The shipping has been taken care of while you were asleep, Mikado-sama. All we have to do is head onto the plane. I have the tickets with me. We will depart at 3pm today.” Rinka put her hand on the bag close to her.
Now that she mentioned it, the suite was awfully clean and tidy. He couldn’t find the travelling case he brought with him either, and neither did his swimsuit. He had just assumed that a maid took care of that.
“…Night flight?”
“It is morning though?”
“That is not what I meant! I’m saying that this is awfully sudden, don’t you agree?!”
“C-Could you maybe keep your voice down…?”
“…Huh?” Mikado narrowed his eyebrow at the suspicious reaction of Rinka.
Something was off. Maybe she was wary of someone possibly watching them, someone hostile. Aiming for the time when they would be far away from Japan, wanting to erase the successors of two of Japan’s most influential families.
From inside the handbag of Rinka, Mikado heard the sound of an incoming call, which RInka accepted quickly after.
“…Yes. So the route is complete. Currently, there is no movement on the other side. I understand. Good work. Please keep watch until the final end.” Hanging up the call, Rinka tightly grasped her smartphone, looking at Mikado. “Mikado-sama, let us hurry!”
“..Yeah.”
Deciding that he’d ask for more detail later, Mikado left the suite behind him.
The limousine with Mikado and Rinka on them separated from the hotel. Waiting for the distance to grow a bit further, Kisa gave instructions to her driver.
“Now, follow them. So that they don’t leave us behind. Do well, and you get a reward. Fail, and you’ll be sleeping with the fish.”
“R-Roger!” The driver tightly grasped the steering wheel with a terrified expression, starting the car.
Besides Kisa, Mizuki and Kokage were also present in the car.
“Woah, this is my first time driving in a car like this!”
“Me too! Also…isn’t this a police car?!”
Exactly it was. On a side note, the driver was an actual police officer. With a gun pressed to his neck by Kisa, he was holding onto the steering wheel as he was shaking in his boots.
“To track someone, a police car is the most efficient. We don’t have to regard traffic rules, and the target will have to obey those. Perfect to follow Mikado.”
“That might be true, but…how did you even get this cop to…”
“Fufu, you want to hear? Well, I took his family hostage, and—”
“I didn’t want to hear that, and I feel horribly bad for this person!” Kokage covered both her ears with her hands, denying any new information.
“The effort was worth it. If he knows too much, he’ll be involved, so we can only make him one of us. On a side note, the family of this officer was captured by Sigma, and taken on a free of charge shark cruise…”
“Don’t just keep talking about it, I’ll have nightmares!”
Kisa tried to pull Kokage’s hands off her ears as she kept talking. At the same time, the poor driver, aka police officer, was praying to god. He was looking at a family portrait on the dashboard, making a cross with his finger. Mizuki was just fiddling on her phone, putting it to her ear.
“Ah, Mikado-kun? What are you doing right now?”
“What are you doing, Mizuki?!” Kisa’s eyes opened wide as she stared at Mizuki in disbelief.
Calling something during one’s tailing, how careless could she be. Apparently, the hotel Kisa and the others stayed at was supervised by subordinates from the Shizukawa Family—probably to allow them a quick escape if necessary—as the room was equipped with speakers and infrared sensors. Hence, Rinka should still be under the impression that Kisa and the gang were still in the hotel room, but now they ran the risk of her finding out they were not.
A voice came from the smartphone.
「Right now…we’re apparently being targeted by some people, so we’re on the run」
“Ah, that might actually be uguh?!”
The ‘uguh’ in the end resulted from Kisa grabbing Mizuki’s neck to quickly silence her.
「What happened? That was a weird voice just now… it might be uguh?」
“Cough cough, I wasn’t sounding lewd at all, Mikado-kun!”
「Nobody mentioned anything of lewd!」
“Yeah, I’d only make a voice like that if I was with Mikado-kun! Like that one night ago…right?” Mizuki softly whispered into the smartphone.
「That one night ago nothing happened! What are you doing anyway? I can hear a lot of noise on your end…」
“We’re playing a game of tag! The one hunting is Onee-chan, and Mikado-kun is the one running awa—”
Kisa forcefully stole the smartphone from Mizuki’s hands, and hung up the call.
Finishing the check-in in a rather rushed way, Mikado and Rinka boarded the plane. The faces of the guests were sleepy as expected, seeing how early they were departing, but Mikado himself was wide awake. With this unknown threat chasing them, his entire body was in a battle mode. Sitting on his designated seat, whilst checking his surroundings for safety, he asked Rinka.
“…Tell me the current situation. Who is aiming for us? Is it the Nagata party who’s against my father, the Rilke Union who disagrees with our country’s taxes, or someone who is against our two families becoming one?”
“It is…none of those.” Rinka tightly formed fists with both her hands.
“Then, who is it? In order to properly protect you, I have to know who I’m dealing with. I can’t have you end up hurt because of my unawareness.” Mikado repeated himself, which led Rinka to narrow her eyes.
“I-I have no excuses…They are not…an armed force…No, they might be, but not an organization that would harm you…”
“How does that make any sense…?” Mikado tilted his head.
“T-The thing is…I wanted to be alone with Mikado-sama. Not being bothered like we were yesterday, not having my husband return early in the morning…I want to have you all to me…that’s why I wanted to run away to a place without Kisa-san and the others around…”
“…I see.”
Though Mikado didn’t know what methods she had used, Kisa and found out the exact location of their pre-honeymoon, meaning that you wouldn’t be able to shake them off this easily. If they escaped early in the morning, Rinka hoped they wouldn’t be able to catch up fast enough, not coming up with any countermeasures.
“Mikado-sama…you must be…angry, right? Because I am this selfish…” Rinka’s shoulders were shaking in fear, as she looked up at Mikado.
In return to that, Mikado softly smiled.
“Why would I be angry? I’m just glad that it’s nothing dangerous.”
“You are willing to forgive me?!” Rinka’s eyes opened wide.
“I mean, it makes sense that you’d want to be alone during our pre-honeymoon. Rather, I have to apologize for not helping you out in that.”
“No! You haven’t done anything wrong, Mikado-sama! Ahh, how kind you are…! Let us enjoy the rest of our trip! We will not sleep again at night!”
“…No, let’s properly sleep, okay?” Mikado feared he might have woken up the beast.
Out of happiness, Rinka even went to rub her face against his chest. At the same time, Mikado didn’t want to get her hopes up even further, left unable to even embrace her shoulder.
“Haa…this is like a dream…a trip only with me and Mikado-sama…Now Kisa-san and the others definitely won’t be able to bother us…”
“My, what was that about us?”
“Kyaaaaaaaaaa?!”
Kisa’s voice suddenly came from the seat next to them, which led Rinka to let out a shriek. Past the two neighbouring seets of Mikado and Rika, at the aisle seat, Kisa gracefully sat down, gazing over at the two.
In fear, Rinka clung to Mikado’s side.
“What is this about?! Why is Kisa-san here with us?!”
“I just came past here on a walk. Then I spotted a chair that looked comfortable, and decided to take a break.”
“Why would you pass a plane during your walk?! You were tailing us, weren’t you! Even though I tried my best to keep it secret!”
“I would appreciate it if you weren’t talking badly about me. I would never tail you. Rather, I am surprised to find you here…are you a stalker?”
“Why would I end up as the stalker!”
As the two of them were in a harsh verbal battle, Mizuki approached them.
“Mikado-kun! Thanks for waiting, now carry me in your arms!”
Jumping over Rinka’s seat, Mizuki landed directly on Mikado’s lap.
“Mizuki?! Weren’t you playing a game of tag?!”
“I am! And now I caught you, Mikado-kun!” Mizuki clung to Mikado as she sat on his lap, rubbing her face against his chest.
“U-Um…excuse me…”
Even Kokage joined them, carrying some heavy-looking luggage. Sitting down behind Kisa, she took out her camera. In other words, they were the same members as always.
“How…could this happen…!” Rinka tried to suppress the tears.
“Who cares, who cares! Keeping Mikado-kun to yourself is not a good thing! Playing with everyone is much more fun! We can play cards, and the one losing has to jump off the plane!”
“So if I lose, I’ll die?!” Kokage jolted up in fear.
“If you open the window up in the air, we all will die!” Mikado tried to tear away Mizuki from his lap, but she desperately clung to him.
“This isn’t some sleepover party! Also, the company here belongs to the Shizukawa Conglomerate, so I’ll have you forcefully leave the plane!” Rinka pressed the call button above her.
However, no matter how long she waited, no stewardess or anyone comparable arrived. Instead, the rows of seats filled with guests, paired with the sound of the doors closing, as an employee stood in front of them.
“Alright, y’all! Turn off your phones, and hand them to me!”
A few brusque men lined up. They had ammunition belts around their waists, carrying submachine guns in their arms. Wearing pitch-black masks on their faces, only their eyes were clearly visible. They looked awfully muscular, with her arms as thick as a log, a black light radiating in their eyes. It was plain as day that they did not belong to the normal range of guests.
Kisa softly tilted her head, as she thought of his as suspicious.
“I understand that you would turn off your phones during your flight, but having them collected, isn’t that going too far? Not to mention how that guy was talking…Recently flight attendants sure have gotten rude.”
“They clearly aren’t flight attendants! This feels more like the plane is being hijacked!”
“Hijacked…? What a foreign name, is that a friend of yours, Mikado?”
“I don’t have any friends who’d get reported by walking around like this near a school!” Mikado turned around to gaze into the plane’s interior.
Three armed people next to the flight attendant. A guard standing in front of the door. And, although they aren’t openly armed, two other people in the back rows, keeping eye contact with the hijackers. Basically, there was no way of escaping this place. Though Mikado probably would be able to take care of these people himself, he couldn’t risk having the other passengers end up as victims, so no rash movement from him just yet.
At the same time, the passengers have caught on to the current situation, breaking out in a panic.
“Annoying! Hand over your phones already! If you try anything, you’ll be dead meat!”
One of the hijackers raised his voice in a warning. The passengers listened in fear, and did as they were told. Without any announcement, the plane started accelerating, slowly drifting into the air. Mikado assumed that the pilot was being forced as well, seeing that the plane showed rather ridiculous movement, as his back was pressed against the seat.
“Mi…kado…sama…” Rinka clung to Mikado’s arm in fear.
“It’s fine. I will not let them lay a finger on you.” Mikado tried to calm her down, as he covered Mizuki in his arms.
Looking over at Kisa, she showed a similar reaction to Rinka. And who could blame her. She might be the successor of the Queen of Darkness, but she was the strategic type, not fit for any fight like this. No way to win against people with submachine guns like them.
—I have to get them all home safely.
Mikado muttered to himself. Meanwhile, the hijackers collected the smartphones, putting them all into a bag. One of the men, carrying a big knife, made his way towards Kokage, grabbing her at the nape of her neck.
“Eeek?! What?! I’m not delicious at all!” Kokage screamed with tears in her eyes, shaking wildly, just as her breasts as a result.
Watching this, Mikado wondered if that very action didn’t actually make her more delicious for the hijacker, while praying that she’d calm down a bit.
“Keep it quiet! You got a death wish or something?”
“Eeek…”
Having the knife of the hijacker pressed against her throat, Kokage couldn’t even muster up a voice anymore. She pressed both her hands on her mouth, so much that she even stopped breathing.
“You don’t have to go that far! A hostage dying from suffocation would only give us more trouble!”
“Y-Yesh, I’m sowwy!”
Showered by the rage of the hijacker, Kokage removed her hands from her mouth, taking a deep breath. Following that, he took Kokage away from that place, somewhere deeper into the plane.
—Seems like they aren’t the type to use futil violence…
Mikado analyzed that situation. Fearing the loss of a hostage showed they were professionals. Though they were easier to read as a result of that, creating an opening for a moment to strike made it harder to act. On top of that, pros would pull through with their words. Cross their ultimatum, and you’ll suffer.
“…Kisa.”
Making sure that nobody heard him, Mikado called out to her, his gaze still forward.
“W-What?” Kisa returned a nervous voice.
“Their goal with this, what kind of organization they are, do you have any information about them? You must be more familiar with any groups like them.”
“No clue. I mostly got down every Japanese organization, and the weapons plus tactics they use, but this being a different country, they can get guns without having to pass them through our family.”
“I see…”
Mikado wanted to get at least some information about these people, but this just meant that he couldn’t act rashly. Meanwhile, one of the hijackers approached them.
“Now then…how about we start?” He put his hand into his khaki-colored pants, taking out a small box.
Written on this small box was [BOCKY3], a type of sweet loved very much by the Japanese. He pulled out one bocky stick, and pointed it at Mikado.
“Listen carefully. You’ll take this end into your mouth, slowly eating away at it, while someone else will do on the other hand. The one having eaten the most will be the winner, whereas the loser will be killed. Got it?”
“Um…” Mikado was at a loss.
“So you don’t get it. You take this end into your mouth, and—”
“I get it! I get what you’re saying, but I don’t understand why!”
The images of possible goals of this hijacking inside Mikado’s head all grew blurry. He knew how the rules worked, because he had heard about this game from the boys in his class.
“Isn’t this basically…”
“Indeed, the bocky game.” The hijacker put up his thumb.
“Why play this game in a situation like this…?”
“It’s the BOCKY GAME4.”
“Why would you repeat it again?!”
“Just shut up, and put my bocky stick in your mouth!”
Mikado was forced to bite on the bocky stick.
“Stop! Don’t force Mikado-kun to gulp down your bocky stick!” Mizuki tried to jump in to provide assistance, but she was just pushed away by the criminal’s hairy hand.
Mizuki fell onto the floor, to which Rinka let out a shriek, and Kokage hadher arms restrained behind her back. The other guests were all forced to stay in their seats. Though Mikado was still more than confused about the intention of this mysterious enemy, in order to lessen the amount of possible victims, he couldn’t rebel just yet. Hence, he took the bocky stick into his mouth, and glared at the hijacker.
“I did as you told me.”
“Keke, good guy. That bocky stick really fits you…The most in the entire world…”
“I ain’t happy about that compliment!”
“Then, your partner will be…that woman over there!”
“Me?!” Kisa’s shoulders twitched as she was pointed at.
Mikado tightened his fists. Kisa was the one person he didn’t want to be fighting against. Kisa could not be allowed to die here at any costs. But, if Mikado lost, he would suffer a terrible fate. He would probably be able to avoid it, but other guests could be hit in the process. Mikado was taken by the hijacker, forced to sit on the floor.
“H-Here I go…?” Kisa bit down on the other end of the bocky stick.
Their eyes met at close distance.
—Right in the middle. Aim for that spot.
This was the only chance to save Kisa’s life, as well as guarantee the safety of the other passengers. He just wished that Kisa picked up on his intention.
Kisa’s face grew terribly flushed, but her eyes were saying ‘I got it’, leaving Mikado relieved.
“Now, start! Your death bocky game, that is!” The order of the hijacker resounded in the plane.
With that, Kisa started munching at the bocky stick. At horrifying speed, as if she was desperate. That did make her look adorable, but Mikado wasn’t in the position to enjoy that.
—She didn’t get it at all!
Mikado panicked. At this rate, Mikado will end up as the victim, bullets being fired through a passenger-filled plane. Hence, he had to quickly catch up with Kisa. Their faces came closer, and at a distance close enough for their lips to touch, they froze up. He could see Kisa’s beautiful, clear eyes, radiating like a gem. A faint breath leaking from her lovable nasal cavity. Her plump, red lips were seducing Mikado, asking him to move closer. Yet, neither of them moved. If they were to move, their lips would overlap, and they would kiss. Then again, Mikado was not too perpetuated by that thought, as his heartbeat accelerated. He wondered if a kiss would be allowed in a situation like this. At the very least, her eyes showed no signs of rejection.
—No, I can’t!
Mikado resorted to his last ounce of willpower, and bit off the bocky stick. A bit later after that, Kisa did the same. Only a small piece fell to the ground, with a length of maybe five millimeters.
“Hm, a draw!”
The hijacker raised both his hands to announce the result. Mikado and Kisa on their last breaths, as they separated.
“According to the rules, the loser was supposed to get shot, but now that we ended up in a draw, nothing will happen, right?”
The hijacker nodded.
“Yeah, exactly. That being said, let’s stop with the idle talk. Mikado Kitamikado, we want the information you have.”
“……!”
—So it’s finally come, Mikado thought.
Hijacking a plane just for a bocky game was unthinkable. It was probably just a poor attempt of lowering Mikado’s mental strength so that they could play him better. As the successor of the Kitamikado Family, reigning the political world of Japan, Mikado possessed countless secrets. Private locations of influential people, the place of the safety shelter for the government, plans that reach around 100 years into the future, and many many more.
However, the one thing he could not leak was any information about a weapon of mass destruction, put into research from the Japanese government in order to guarantee the safety of its own people. If he were to reveal this, the future of Japan would be in grave danger.
Mikado glared back at the hijacker, forming fists with his hands. Whatever question they might have, he was ready to accept it, and answer to the best of his ability. Additionally, the hijacker pointed the knife at Kokage, starting his words.
“If you don’t want this girl to end up dead, tell me.”
“What is it?”
Mikado once again checked the position of the perpetrators inside the plane, reading himself to always be able to intercept.
“Mikado…say, who is the girl you like right now.”
“………………Huh?” Mikado spaced out.
“I’m asking about the girl you like. When you spend time with her, your heart goes doki doki, and you wish time would just stop moving, you have someone like that, right?! Say it!”
“The way you ask makes you sound like a maiden!”
Mikado was at an absolute loss. The man in front of him, resembling a gorilla with his physique, was asking something you’d hear during a girl’s sleepover. That made things even worse. For Mikado, he would have preferred to be questioned about the weapon of mass destruction.
“Maiden…? Both genders can fall in love! Are you trying to differentiate between man and woman?! That there is a manly, and maiden-like way to ask these things? What prejudice! Aren’t you embarrassed?! Go with the times, you old man!”
“Why am I being lectured about this?!”
“No more differentiation! No more prejudices!” The man, holding a submachine gun, was preaching about human rights.
“M-Mikado-kun… “ Kokage begged for help, tears in her eyes.
“Mikado! Hurry up and tell him! Who is the girl you like! This isn’t the time to be embarrassed! Kawaraya-san’s life depends on it! Now, hurry!” Kisa urged Mikado, her eyes sparkling.
“Tell us, or this girl here will die!” The hijacker equally put pressure on him.
So did the other passengers, as they screamed.
“It’s not that big of a deal!”
“Right right! This isn’t the time to be holding back!”
“Don’t agitate them even more!”
“What will you do if the baby got shot?!”
“You can do it, virgin!”
“Be courageous, virgin!”
“Virgin! Virgin!”
A storm of insults came raining down on Mikado, urging him to confess already. It was overwhelming pressure. The muzzle of the man’s submachine gun was turning towards Kokage as well. Any normal person would have been swept along this irregular situation. Several factors would be working to destroy the rational thinking of the person.
—No no no no no! This is definitely weird!!
However, Mikado was not just a normal person. There were countless times he was met with criminals or armed forces like this, so he wasn’t just going to break from a gun pointed at him. Though the bocky game caught him off-guard, a good portion of his rational thinking was still working.
And, the truth was right in front of him. Who would be going this far just to create a situation like this. Who would benefit the most from a situation like this. Who always succeeded at playing weak and scared, who Mikado assumed to be the one he had to protect, but actually pulled the strings behind the scenes.
Nanjou Kisa. As the future Empress of Darkness, she was the ruler of the current battlefield. Everything worked according to her plan. Now that he found out, Mikado didn’t have to worry about the passengers, the hostage, or Kisa even. She might be the successor of the Nanjou Family, but she would not dare hurt anybody that was important to Mikado, as this would lower her chances of winning the love game. Hence, he could relax, and just calmly make his way towards Kokage.
“M-Mikado?! What are you doing?!”
“Mikado-kun! That’s dangerous!”
Both Kisa and Mikado let out worried voices.
“Don’t move! Do you not care about this girl’s life?!”
The hijacker restricting Kokage pointed the blade of his knife at Mikado, but he showed no signs of stopping. Jumping into the air, he kicked down the knife, deep into the ground to make sure it doesn’t hit any passengers, whereas he delivered a strike to the skull of the hijacker with his free leg, rendering him useless as he dropped to the ground. Kokage fell out from the hands of said hijacker, and Mikado carefully caught her, whispering to her ears.
“You hurt anywhere?”
“I-I’m fine…” Kokage’s cheeks slightly turned red.
“You must have been scared, but it’s fine now. If I’m right, all these people here are Kisa’s subordinates, so they will not become too aggressive with us.”
“Fueh?! Knowing that they are Kisa-chan’s subordinates makes it even more scary though!”
“Shhh…” Mikado closed off Kokage’s mouth with his fingers, to which she started blushing even more furiously.
Feeling bad to cut off her air supply, Mikado took away his hand again.
“Until this situation calms down, you’re better off hiding below the seats. Can you do that?”
“L-Leave it to me! I’m fairly skilled at hiding!”
Something in the form of a tube flew past Kokage. It was something looking like a flash grenade.
“H-Hey, not inside the pla—”
Mikado tried to warn them, but the projectile already hit the floor. This time, he was quick enough to react, able to guard himself against the impending flash of light. However, that couldn’t be said about the rest of the passengers, as he heard shrieks of terror. When he opened his eyes, his surroundings were blinded by white smoke.
“What happened?!”
“Did someone smuggle an explosive in here?!”
“Is there an idiot who’d use that mid-air inside a plane?!”
“Shit, I can’t see anything!”
He heard the curses from the hijackers.
—No other choice but to see this through!
He still had the locations of the hijackers in his head, and he could faintly make them out inside the smoke. Hence, he dashed through the smoke, trying to render the hijacker useless.
“B-Bastard! What are you doing?!”
Stealing the submachine gun from one, he made certain. It was too light, so probably no bullets inside. And that was to be expected, if bullets strayed off, creating holes in the walls of the blane, everybody would be blown outside, dying a certain death. Kisa was not stupid enough to let such risks be unattended. The gun was just a fake, to threaten them. Hence, there was no need to be careful of them, not having to worry about the other passengers.
Now that he thought about it, the knife he kicked was awfully light as well. That must have been an imitation. In other words, Mikado could go wild as much as he wanted. He swung away the ruffian together with the machine gun, slamming him on the ground. In that fragment of a second, the ruffian was rendered defenseless, so he picked him up, slamming his head against the wall to completely knock him out.
Running towards the door, he dislocated the joint of another ruffian who was about to take out his knife, as well as his knees, leaving him unable to move. That made four of them. Mikado hurried back to the deeper part of the plane, as he was attacked by two passengers—the other two hijackers disguised as them, taking care of the both at the same time. Now all six hijackers he had been aware of were out cold.
“Rinka, hurry!”
“Yes!”
Mikado took Rinka’s hand as he ran through the corridor, entering the cockpit. He quickly looked around to figure out the situation, but he couldn’t find anyone armed. Only the pilot and co-pilot sitting on their seats. Seems like they were safe as well. At the same time, Kokage, Mizuki, and Kisa all stormed into the cockpit as well.
“I-Is it over?!” Kokage asked with a drop of sweat running down her cheek.
“Mikado-kun, you were so cool! That’s the Mikado-kun I know and Love!” Mizuki jumped at Mikado’s waist.
“Thank god…I’m glad it didn’t turn out worse…” Kisa said, trying hard to keep her terrified expression.
She must be annoyed that her plan failed.
“Captain, we silenced the hijackers. Please fly to London just as planned.”
Hearing this, the pilot looked over his shoulders, checking the situation inside the cockpit. Seeing that it was only Mikado and the girls, he nodded.
“Thank you for your help. I will get us back on the line to London, so please return to your seats.” He sounded awfully calm, even though the plane had been under a hijack not even a few minutes ago.
Though Mikado was admiring this iron psyche, that didn’t stay for too long. Said pilot didn’t change the way of the plane at all, no matter how long he waited.
“H-Hey, Mikado. Aren’t we going back to our seats?” Kisa pulled on his sleeve, looking slightly confused.
“Right! Let’s play some cards, just standing around is tiring!”
So said Mizuki, but she was already lying on the floor, playing with her smartphone.
—Weird.
Mikado muttered to himself. Though he appreciated the pilot staying calm, he was a bit too relaxed. On top of that, why were there no hijackers inside the cockpit? Normally, you’d have to watch over the pilot so that he doesn’t try anything weird. On top of that, the gaze of the pilot didn’t wander towards Mikado or the entrance to the cockpit, but rather checking out Kisa. Feeling that something was off, he slowly approached the pilot’s seat. Putting one hand on his shoulders, Mikado muttered at his ears.
“Just where…are you taking us?” He said, with a deep, cold voice.
“…!”
He could tell that tension filled the pilot’s body. When Mikado put a bit more force into his grab, the pilot started shaking ever so slightly, sweating profusely.
—No mistaking it, this pilot also belongs to the Nanjou Family.
That was dangerous. If he had left the pilot alone, he would have taken lord knows where. This was just like Kisa, stacking preparations upon preparations. Just because he took care of one obstacle didn’t mean that he was safe. Rather, he couldn’t trust anybody inside this plane anymore. The attendants, no, even the passengers, they might all belong to Kisa’s plan.
“Bring us to the nearest airport. And don’t even try anything fishy.” Mikado ordered the pilot.
“………Understood.”
The pilot could only answer with a strained expression.
1 Province of Canada and one of the three Maritime provinces
2 Red-haired Anne
3 Parody of Pocky
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