Chapter 82: China's Counterattack!
A massive fire destroyed the Karasuma family's ancestral home, causing heavy casualties. Only Karasuma Renya, the only son, survived, and not even a single servant remained.
Everything from the past was destroyed in that fire.
Fate, wonderful fate, everything is guided by the goddess of destiny.
Karasuma Renya realized for the first time that he was omnipotent.
“So I can kill them with just a thought. How strange. Why didn’t I do that before?” Karasuma Renya laughed almost morbidly.
He took control of his own destiny and experienced the joy of controlling it for the first time.
He is truly omnipotent!
“Even now, I can get whatever I want: wealth, power, loyal subordinates, beautiful women, even immortality.” Karasuma Renya listed them off. He didn’t need to ask for anything; with just a thought, the whole world would be on his side.
"but……"
but……
Karasuma Renya stared intently at China.
With hidden, dark thoughts.
“When you stand high up, everything around you looks like an ant, because I can crush anyone with a flick of my finger. Chika, when you go out for barbecue, do you ever think of cows and sheep as your kind?” Regardless of his emotions, Karasuma Renya’s eyes always held that unchanging arrogance that disregarded everything.
"I am also one of the ants."
"You are not. You have the same good fortune as me."
"But all of that is just magic. If I didn't use magic, I would just be an ant in your eyes."
Karasuma Renya said indifferently, "So what if it's magic? As long as it continues, if you can maintain this kind of luck by absorbing the luck of those around you, then of course you are someone who stands on the same level as me."
"But any magician could do that, why does it have to be me?"
Karasuma Renya didn't answer, but instead raised his hand and touched his face.
Chinatsu looked at this scene with a puzzled expression.
"You hit me, China."
Her mind went blank.
"You're the first person in the world to slap me." He curled his lips, as if it weren't an insult, but rather a great honor.
“You know what? When those pigs and dogs were controlling me, they would at most say a few words to me, but no one could touch a single hair on my head.”
"Pigs and dogs..." Takanashi Chinatsu was shocked. Karasuma Renya had called his parents "pigs and dogs."
“No one can really hurt me anymore, Chika. Bullets and bombs alike will fall silent when they encounter me, but you can slap me. Do you want to try again now? My face will feel the pain, and my luck is useless against you.” He raised one side of his face, gesturing excitedly to Chika.
Chinatsu took a step back.
Normally, hitting someone can vent anger and relieve the anxiety and stress she's been holding in.
but……
She was a little scared. She was afraid that Karasuma Renya would be even happier if she beat him up. Was this guy a pervert?
"Go ahead and hit them! Go for it!"
"Don't come any closer!"
"Chika, I will never blame you. You can hit me as hard as you want. Don't you want to hit me?"
"No, I don't want to at all." Takanashi Chinatsu retreated repeatedly.
Karasuma Renya chased after him for a couple of steps, but finally stopped. Instead, she smiled contentedly and said, "You really do love me; you can't even bear to hit me."
Chinatsuko: ...
This is insane!
No matter how you fight him, it doesn't work, and not fighting him doesn't work either? Can't Karasuma Renya just go to a mental hospital?
She's so unlucky; she got entangled with someone just because of a slap.
"You've agreed to marry me, right?" Karasuma Renya suddenly asked.
Takanashi Chinatsu curled her lip in disgust, but still agreed: "Yes. But you also have to promise me that after I hold a wedding with you and take APTX4869, you have to help my adoptive father break the hypnosis, and you have to let go of my friends and never cause them any more trouble in the future."
"I'll agree to anything as long as you agree to be with me." Karasuma Renya was in a good mood. He snapped his fingers to signal Takanashi Yuuki to follow him and then gave instructions to his subordinates on how to set up the wedding venue.
Karasuma Renya took the wedding very seriously, immersing himself in the joy of the wedding preparations for several days, which made China even more disgusted.
He's beyond being called a scumbag; he's downright scum.
Marriage...wedding...
Karasuma Renya never even considered informing Vermouth about something like this.
Vermouth is his biological daughter, his only family in the world, but to Karasuma Renya, Vermouth is like an ant he tramples on the ground, not even worthy of a glance.
She understood Vermouth's helplessness and acceptance to some extent.
The helplessness and resentment stemmed from the fact that Vermouth was indeed Karasuma Renya's biological daughter. She may have longed for her father's love at times, but it was all just wishful thinking.
Vermouth gradually understood the true nature of Karasuma Renya. This person loved no one but herself, and even his choice to marry her was just to satisfy himself.
Therefore, Vermouth felt affection for her and was not jealous at all.
Even without her, Vermouth would never have received any affection. She didn't steal Vermouth's love; she made Karasuma Renya experience the feeling of "love" for the first time.
It was just a little emotion.
He may think he loves deeply and is very affectionate, but in the end, he is just satisfying his own desires.
Chinatsu Takanashi would not hesitate to kill such a person.
The wedding preparations took half a month.
On the wedding day, Karasuma Renya did not invite any guests. He even dismissed the ravens, leaving only Takanashi Yuki to sit in the elder's seat and wait for the newlyweds to toast him.
Warm lighting, shimmering gauze curtains, crystal tables and chairs.
Luxury, fantasy.
Takanashi Chinatsu, dressed in a pure white wedding gown and holding a bouquet of gold thread, followed Karasuma Renya step by step to the center of the hall.
"Chika, I'm sorry, but I didn't invite Gin so as not to affect our wedding."
Takanashi Chika remained unmoved and let him be; she hadn't really wanted to get married anyway.
"The bouquet is beautiful."
She remained silent.
"But isn't there a sharp blade in the middle of the bouquet?"
A sudden, unexpected sentence.
Chika's muscles tensed, and she suddenly pulled a dagger from the center of the bouquet.
Karasuma Renya continued to smile at her, seemingly not angry.
He simply turned his head to the side helplessly and asked, "Is Matsuda Jinpei not dead?"
Panic, anxiety, anger.
A myriad of emotions flashed through Chizuru Takanashi's mind in an instant.
"Because I suddenly felt a little uneasy, I had someone check these past few days. There was no body in Matsuda Jinpei's grave, which is very strange."
Takanashi Chika pursed her lips. They had planned everything perfectly, faking Matsuda Jinpei's death in Hagiwara Kenji's territory. Although Karasuma Renya possessed great fortune, the earthbound spirits had considerable power in their territory.
That bullet might have actually hit Matsuda Jinpei, but Hagiwara Kenji would definitely do his best to protect him, at least to prevent him from losing his life.
They made Matsuda Jinpei kneel down and confess his love in order to force Karasuma Renya to reveal herself and to force Karasuma Renya to kidnap her.
Karasuma Renya would never let Matsuda Jinpei go, so they contacted Yato Shin in advance and used a deception to trick Karasuma Renya into sending Raven to deal with the soul.
They have to take risks; some things can never be accomplished without taking risks.
To make the act convincing, Chinatsu Takanashi resisted for two whole months before finally giving in.
They had considered everything, yet they still failed? After all, none of them had expected Karasuma Renya to dig up Matsuda Jinpei's grave.
Is this what luck is?
Under the immense pressure of fate, no matter how meticulous their plans, they still made a mistake and failed at the last minute.
"You put on this show so that I could break his hypnosis?" Karasuma Renya pointed at Takanashi Yuusei with his finger.
Takanashi Chinatsu took a deep breath and denied it: "No, it's to take your life!"
"Take my life?" Karasuma Renya found it amusing, and pointed to his chest with a smile, full of confidence: "You can try and see if you can kill me. I won't dodge or evade."
The hand holding the dagger suddenly felt heavy, and Takanashi Chika did not move.
"Why not stab? Is it because you know you'll fail?" he asked sarcastically.
Takanashi Chika looked at him coldly and suddenly said, "Do you know? We've improved magic so that we can completely transfer a person's luck to me in a short time. That magic is now complete."
"so?"
"So, my luck might not be worse than yours right now, and it's uncertain who will win or lose!"
“If we have equal luck, then who wins and who loses will depend on our strength, right?” Karasuma Renya flexed his wrists, his expression revealing that he didn’t really take China seriously.
Takanashi Chika, however, pointed the dagger at Karasuma Renya.
Karasuma Renya shook his head and lectured her again: "I've already told you, you'd be better off with a gun than a knife..."
"Bang--"
The dagger fired a bullet that instantly struck Karasuma Renya's body, completely interrupting his words.
Karasuma Renya reacted too quickly; the shot that should have hit a vital spot only struck his shoulder.
"A dagger-gun." His face darkened.
Takanashi Chika coldly replied, "I know that a dagger is inferior to a gun. How many times do you think I would make the same mistake?"
"Truly impressive, showing no mercy." Karasuma Renya's eyes turned cold, and his face gradually became ferocious. This was the first time he had suffered such a huge setback.
Takanashi Chinatsu finally vented all her pent-up frustration, sarcastically saying, "Why are you unhappy now? I'm the first person who can hurt you, and the only person who can hurt you. Didn't you want me to hurt you? What? You're happy when I slap you, but not when I shoot you? You pervert!"
Without hesitation, she pulled the trigger repeatedly.
Karasuma Renya retreated and flipped over a table to block in front of him. It was a beautiful crystal table, but it could actually block the bullets from the dagger gun, and they could not penetrate its defenses one by one.
"Bulletproof glass?!" Takanashi Chinatsu found it absurd. Who uses bulletproof tables at a wedding?!
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Author's note: Yay, let's start the counterattack!
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