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◎Maki-senpai is so amazing◎
Shunichi Yuki is a good man.
Shunichi Yuki is a good man who dotes on his daughter.
But more importantly, he is a loving husband.
Shunichi Yuki coughed twice. He was about to say something more about Mika Yuki, but Mika Yuki gave him a sharp look, so he shut his mouth.
Oh, he's still a powerful figure in the workplace, but a husband who's extremely afraid of his wife at home.
Yuki Shunichi knelt down nonchalantly, coughed twice, smiled at the group of people, and said, "Where were we?"
Maki realized that there wasn't a single normal person in the Yuuki family.
*
"Yuki, why does your house have a hot spring?" Maki leaned down slightly.
She pulled her bath towel up a little higher and asked, "No matter what, it's not right to have a hot spring at home."
Yuki Matsuna tested the temperature with her toes, and after confirming it, she stepped into the hot spring and found a place to sit down.
She exhaled and replied, "Because I really like soaking in hot springs, but it's troublesome to go to a hot spring hotel every day, and it's also dangerous to go out. So Daddy and Mommy specially found a place near the mountains to settle down, and then commissioned someone to dig a hot spring on the mountain."
"Danger?" Maki noticed the emphasis in her words.
“Yes.” Yuuki Matsuna nodded and replied calmly, “Actually, I’m often kidnapped.”
“It’s much better now. When I was little, I couldn’t go out at all. If I went out, I would be targeted by a lot of bad people. Even if my parents hired bodyguards, it was no use. They would try every means to kidnap me and then ask my parents for ransom.”
The reason why Yuuki Matsuna had been attending a prestigious private school before entering junior high school was because of this.
She was kidnapped when she was very young.
On one occasion, if the police hadn't arrived in time, she would have had both legs broken by the kidnappers and lost her life.
Matsuna Yuuki smiled, realizing that the topic she was bringing up seemed a bit heavy, and said to ease the tension, "Besides, Daddy and Mommy said that this way, not only us, but the maids can also enjoy the hot springs, so they won't be so tired."
"Soaking in hot springs is a great way to relieve fatigue!" she said, giving Maki a thumbs up.
“…Indeed.” Maki stepped into the water, and she didn’t speak for a moment, lost in thought.
But Matsuna Yuuki didn't care; she was used to talking to herself, chattering away unilaterally.
After a while, Maki suddenly spoke.
"I always thought you were an idiot, I'm sorry." Seemingly embarrassed, she turned her head away and said, "I've just realized that you're not just an empty-headed fool who talks a bunch of nonsense."
Yuuki Matsuna's smile widened, and her eyes lit up.
"Does Maki-senpai mean we should be good friends?!" She jumped onto Maki, hugged her neck, rubbed against her, and said, "I'm so happy, I have another good friend!"
"I... I didn't say I wanted to be good friends with you, don't misunderstand me!" Maki retorted.
Regardless of what Maki says, Matsuna Yuuki has already included her in her list of good friends.
Now she has two good friends.
One is Mizuki Igawa, and the other is Maki-senpai.
*
Everyone had left, leaving only Yuuki Shunichi and Gojo Satoru in the empty room.
“Mr. Yuki.” Gojo Satoru took a sip of tea, smiled at Yuki Shunichi sitting opposite him, and said, “Why does Yuki have magical energy fluctuations, but you don’t?”
Shunichi Yuki didn't say anything; he was drinking his tea, lost in thought.
Gojo Satoru continued, "Why have you been hiding the fact that Yuuki possesses such powerful cursed energy?"
“Of course, it’s because the profession of sorcerer is too dangerous.” This time, Yuuki Shunichi didn’t dodge Gojo Satoru’s question. He answered, “What parent would want their child to embark on such a dangerous career?”
"Ah, is that so?" Gojo Satoru still smiled. "Then let me ask you a different question. How did Mr. Yuuki manage to keep it a secret from the higher-ups in the jutsu world, from the fact that he actually has a daughter with such powerful jutsu?"
"I'm really curious why people who are born to be sorcerers can live as ordinary people until high school when they can see sorcerer spirits."
"It doesn't make sense, does it?" Gojo Satoru's trip wasn't just about taking the students out to play; his original purpose was to find out about Yuuki Matsuna's situation.
After all, a teacher's job includes getting to know their students.
He then asked, "Mr. Yuki, how exactly did you do that?"
Shunichi Yuki stared at Satoru Gojo through his blindfold.
*
After soaking in the hot springs, it was already quite late, and everyone returned to their rooms.
But Yuuki Matsuna wasn't; she sat on the sofa in the living room, staring blankly at the ceiling.
Hearing a noise nearby, Yuuki Matsuna lowered her head and looked in the direction from which the noise came. The panda came out of the room that the servant had arranged for it.
"Panda-senpai?" Yuuki Matsuna asked the maid to bring two glasses of milk, then asked, "Can't you sleep?"
The panda sat down on the sofa opposite Yuuki Matsuna, and the servant placed a glass of milk in front of both of them.
Matsuna Yuki added, "If you can't sleep, drink some milk. Warm milk can help you fall asleep."
"Ah, thank you." The panda picked up the milk but didn't drink it; it lowered its head, seemingly lost in thought.
Yuki Matsuna wasn't in a hurry; she felt that the panda seemed to want to tell her something.
“Maki… doesn’t dislike you,” Panda said. “Maki’s family is very special, so she doesn’t have a good impression of the young ladies and gentlemen of aristocratic families.”
It knows about Maki's situation and why Maki never introduces her surname.
After hearing what the panda said, a thin mist welled up in Matsuna Yuuki's eyes. She sniffed, wiped the mist away with a tissue, and said, "Maki-senpai is so amazing!"
"Even if others don't approve of you, you still have to keep working hard and ignore what others think. Maki-senpai is so amazing." She knew that someone like Maki didn't need sympathy.
A person as strong as Maki doesn't need sympathy.
"That's amazing! I support Maki-senpai becoming the head of the Zenin family!" Yuuki Matsuna clenched her fist. "I'll fight alongside Maki-senpai to defeat those bad guys!"
"Ha." Panda rubbed his head, not expecting the other party to react this way.
Suddenly remembering something, it stood up and said, "Yuki, let's have a pillow fight!"
"It would be such a waste to fall asleep during such a rare opportunity to relax! Let's have a pillow fight!"
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