And upon hearing Miyuri's frank answer, Hikari smiled and pulled her soft, delicate body tightly into his arms, "Then that's enough. As long as you like me, that's all that matters. Age, status, all that stuff doesn't matter." [T/N: Age matters guys. Not in this case, but in other cases.]
The reason Hikari asked Miyuri like that was because he knew she still cared a little about the differences between the two of them.
But since the rice had already been cooked, continuing to dwell on it would only make Miyuri suffer more, so it was better to bring it out into the open and comfort her directly.
And Miyuri naturally understood that what Hikari was doing was meant to ease her heart.
So after hearing Hikari's words, Miyuri showed a moved expression, and her body, which had been tense, relaxed a great deal.
"Thank you, Hikari-kun..."
Miyuri couldn't help but lean deeper into Hikari's embrace, at the same time reaching out to wrap her arms around his waist. But just as she was about to say something, she suddenly saw the ring on the ring finger of her left hand.
Miyuri's body trembled lightly, and she said sadly, "Hikari-kun, Auntie has already... already gotten engaged to someone else. I can't be with you anymore."
Hikari waved his hand and said, "It's fine. Anyway, Auntie, you haven't officially gotten married yet. Just break off the engagement."
"How can that be, I...", Miyuri looked anxious and was about to explain.
But Hikari directly cut her off, "I say it's fine, then it's fine. We already have the reality of being husband and wife. From now on, Auntie belongs to me alone. In any case, I won't let Aunt Miyuri leave me."
Faced with Hikari's somewhat overbearing, unreasonable words, like a child snatching candy without knowing how high the sky or how thick the earth was, Miyuri's body trembled, and a warm current surged through her heart.
In fact, Miyuri did like men like Hikari, men who took responsibility. After all, Natsuki Akito's personality of shirking responsibility and having no sense of duty had really disgusted her beyond measure.
So Miyuri had always hoped for an extremely reliable man she could lean on, someone who could make certain important decisions for her.
This wasn't just Miyuri's personal thought. A considerable number of women, in many situations, don't want to shoulder responsibility themselves and hope someone can help them make decisions at critical moments.
So at this moment, seeing Hikari's resolute expression, Miyuri's eyes couldn't help but light up. Her arms wrapped around him tighter and tighter, and she felt that her legs didn't seem to hurt as much anymore.
"Hikari-kun, Auntie really likes you so much. Auntie wants... wants to leave everything to you," Miyuri pressed her lips close to Hikari's earlobe and said softly, but with genuine feeling.
"Alright," Hikari knew that this meant Miyuri was making this decision while completely clear-headed.
Seeing Miyuri endure the pain and tremble as she sat up, Hikari supported her slender waist.
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Around noon, a black stretched business van sped along a rural road.
After passing a private house, several men dressed in black quickly carried a black bag inside.
Not long after, they came back out empty-handed and returned to the vehicle.
As the doors closed, the black stretched business van sped away once again.
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More than half an hour later, completely exhausted, Miyuri once again went limp in Hikari's arms.
Hikari helped her up and fed her some Pure Love brand Nutritional Express.
At the same time, he helped massage her sore and numb muscles and bones, helping her tired and swollen body recover faster.
With Hikari's help, Miyuri, who had never been so crazy before, finally slowly recovered.
"Hikari-kun... i-it's okay now!"
Feeling her bodily sensations gradually return, with a trace of tears still at the corners of her eyes, and her eyes carrying a hint of allure and satisfaction, Miyuri hurriedly spoke up, afraid that Hikari would exhaust himself.
"Can you stand up now, Aunt Miyuri?", Hikari patted her perky butt and asked with concern.
"Mm, I should be able to!"
With Hikari's help, Miyuri wiped her body clean and stood up from the floor.
"H-help Auntie get dressed," The hands she had just used to support her balance were still a bit sore and numb.
Seeing Miyuri looking like a child who still couldn't dress herself and needed a parent's help,
Hikari smiled, immediately picked up her light-colored underwear set, and helped her put it on.
Then he helped her put on that clean white nurse's uniform, buttoning each button one by one.
After getting dressed, Miyuri returned to her usual cute and charming image of a pure nurse.
However, her fair face was now stunningly beautiful. Not only was it still faintly flushed, but at the ends of her willow-like brows, there was also a subtle hint of a charm she had never had before, making her irresistibly captivating.
Every frown and smile was enough to make any man fall for her.
"Hikari-kun, let's go back," Miyuri patted her swollen, soft lower abdomen and smiled at Hikari with a satisfied tone.
"Alright," Seeing Miyuri's beaming expression, Hikari led her out together through the back door of Yoshizawa Hospital.
After everything that had happened today, Miyuri naturally had no intention of continuing to work.
And after being encouraged by Hikari earlier, Miyuri had also made up her mind.
She planned to go back today and have it out with her fiance, directly stating that she wanted to dissolve the engagement.
Now that her relationship with Hikari had deepened further, Miyuri didn't plan to have anything to do with any other man.
Miyuri held Hikari's hand the whole way, quickly returning to the front of her home.
But when she stood at the courtyard gate, her steps couldn't help but hesitate.
It wasn't that she regretted taking her relationship with Hikari further, or that she planned to go back on her earlier decision to break off the engagement.
On this, she had absolutely no regrets.
Because Miyuri already clearly knew that Hikari was irreplaceable to her.
That kind of joy and sense of security was something no other man could even dream of.
And she had also poured all her affection into Hikari, regarding him as the only man of her life.
It was just that breaking off an engagement was, after all, not a very pleasant thing, and it would bring some psychological pressure. So at this critical moment, Miyuri still needed to adjust herself a bit.
Hikari naturally understood this, so he didn't urge her at all, and instead quietly stood with her outside the door, waiting.
After adjusting for a few minutes and organizing her thoughts, Miyuri nodded to Hikari, then grabbed his hand, interlacing their fingers, and strode toward the house.
Passing through the courtyard and arriving at the front door, Miyuri raised her hand and gently pushed the door.
Creak!
The door, which had only been loosely shut, was pushed open. But the scene that appeared behind it made Miyuri incomparably shocked.
Even though she thought she had prepared herself mentally, her face was still full of utter astonishment.
"Kazuto-kun..."
Miyuri seriously pushed open the door, about to say in one breath the prepared speech she had just rehearsed, to speak out about dissolving the engagement.
But after seeing the scene inside the house, her eyes instantly widened, and that long string of words that had already reached her throat was swallowed back down into her stomach.
"Blood! So much blood..."
Miyuri's face turned pale with fright, her delicate body trembling as she instinctively clutched Hikari's hand tightly.
The scene before her terrified her. The living room tiles were covered in bright red bloodstains, and some of the blood had even splashed onto the sofa and the coffee table.
Turning her head to look, she saw two figures whose backs looked somewhat familiar, lying crisscrossed on the floor and the sofa, drenched in blood and completely motionless. They didn't look like living people anymore.
Seeing a scene like a murder site, how could Miyuri not be afraid? Having never seen anything like this before, she froze on the spot.
"Auntie," It wasn't until Hikari patted her shoulder that Miyuri came back to her senses.
"W-what? What happened?", Frightened, Miyuri's voice trembled uncontrollably.
"They both seem to be dead."
Hikari went over to the bodies of Natsuki Akito and Natsuki Kazuto, did a brief check, and then said to Miyuri, who was standing to the side with her body shaking.
"I-is it Kazuto and Akito? H-how could this happen?", Miyuri looked shocked, finding it hard to believe.
Just yesterday, even up until this morning, these two familiar brothers had clearly still been full of life. How could it be that after only being away from home for a short while, they came back as two corpses!
Even though she had already given all her feelings to Hikari, the Natsuki brothers were still people very familiar to Miyuri. So at this moment, the shock made her feel dizzy.
Hikari looked around at the unavoidable traces of human interference left at the scene and thought for a moment.
Then he said to Miyuri, "Auntie, do you remember the group of thugs who chased after you during the courage test event, trying to grab you?"
Clinging tightly to Hikari's arm in fear, Miyuri nodded repeatedly, "Of course I remember."
Hikari immediately continued, "That group of thugs first wanted to make a move on you. Then there was that doctor from your hospital who also had his eyes on you. And beside that doctor, there was also a group of fairly skilled bodyguards."
"One group after another targeting you, Auntie, isn't a coincidence."
"Obviously, these people were acting under the orders of some mastermind behind the scenes, deliberately targeting you."
Hearing Hikari's words, Miyuri also began thinking rapidly.
And with Hikari's earlier analysis, Miyuri easily guessed the answer.
"Yoshizawa Eigen? Is it related to Yoshizawa Takeo's death?", Miyuri blurted out.
Hikari nodded, "Mm. More precisely, Yoshizawa Eigen likely wanted to investigate his son's disappearance, or already knew that his son was dead, and was taking revenge."
"Yoshizawa Eigen might only have suspected it, but the fact that Yoshizawa Takeo disappeared in your house is undeniable."
"So Yoshizawa Eigen previously suspected Aunt Miyuri as the murderer of Yoshizawa Takeo, and thus set his sights on you."
"And Natsuki Akito and Natsuki Kazuto, who also lived in this house long-term, were likewise suspects, and were also targeted by that guy Yoshizawa Eigen."
Hearing Hikari's words, Miyuri, who had already been warned by him earlier to be careful of Yoshizawa Eigen, gradually understood.
"The Yoshizawa family really does have a lot of power in Ino Town. The reason Kazuto invited Yoshizawa Takeo to stay at our house back then was also because he didn't dare to refuse."
"And with Yoshizawa Takeo disappearing in our house, in Yoshizawa Eigen's eyes, we had to bear a huge responsibility."
"To investigate his son Yoshizawa Takeo's disappearance and punish us, Yoshizawa Eigen sent people after me multiple times, including those thugs and the doctor. But luckily, I had Hikari-kun's help, so he never succeeded."
"And at the same time, he also sent people after Akito and Kazuto, and then they were directly... killed by those people?"
By the end of her words, looking at the bodies of the Natsuki brothers lying on the ground, Miyuri's eyes were still filled with disbelief.
"Mm, that's very likely," Hikari nodded.
"When I rescued Aunt Miyuri at the hospital earlier, I caught one of the bodyguards. After interrogating him, it was confirmed that they were indeed sent by Yoshizawa Eigen."
"According to him, Yoshizawa Eigen treats human lives like grass, and his personality is suspicious and ruthless."
"As long as there's the slightest suspicion, he'll decide to act," Hikari explained a bit more.
"Director Yoshizawa... Yoshizawa Eigen is really too awful!", Miyuri threw herself into Hikari's arms and wrapped her arms tightly around him.
Hikari gently held Miyuri's slender waist. Her full, delicate body was trembling slightly, and her face was already covered in tears.
This was something Hikari could understand.
He had long since grown used to death.
And he wasn't familiar with Natsuki Akito and Natsuki Kazuto, so even hearing of their deaths didn't stir much emotion in him.
But Miyuri was different.
Even though before today, Miyuri already had very strong feelings for him, and after what happened in the medicine room today had taken their relationship further, she had already given everything to him.
But after all, she had known the Natsuki brothers for many years. Seeing people she once knew so well suddenly die like weeds, Miyuri was bound to feel a wave of sorrow rise in her heart.
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