"Then let's play the King Game." Yanagi pulled a few wooden sticks with numbers written on them from her item bar and spread them out on the coffee table.
Hana clapped her hands in approval.
Iris tilted her head curiously, her light blue eyes full of confusion.
After the Uzaki sisters explained, her eyes lit up. It sounded like fun.
Hana was about to draw a lot when she suddenly remembered something and looked at her sister suspiciously. "How do you have something like this?"
Yanagi's face suddenly turned red. A few seconds later, she looked away and urged her sister to start quickly. "Illis can't wait much longer!"
Actually, it was from last night, when Makoto had played with Yanagi and Mrs. Shizuka.
The King Game was considered one of the games that Makoto and his girlfriends often played at night.
In the Naruto and One Piece Worlds, or in the real world, Makoto and his group had played it many times.
Only in the ordinary King Game, the most extreme command was something like 'number X, go hug number Y', or at most a kiss.
But in the version that Makoto and his girlfriends played, the commands were not so simple.
At a minimum, it was 'number X, go lick number Y'.
The three sat down by the coffee table.
The wooden sticks were put into a bamboo tube, shaken, and drawn in turn.
Although there were only three players, which was a bit few, Iris, who was playing this game for the first time, still enjoyed herself immensely.
After a few rounds,
When she drew the king stick, she jumped up from the sofa, held the wooden stick with the character for [King] in both hands, and her little face flushed with excitement. "I am the king!"
The Uzaki sisters also courteously put their hands together, pretended to bow their heads in salute, and gave a slight bow. "Please give your command, Your Majesty."
Iris thought for a moment. "Hmm... number 1, tell me about the thing that made you most angry recently."
Well, the child was still too young. If one didn't give some sexy commands in this kind of game, wouldn't they be losing out?
Like having number X kiss the king's cheek, or something like that.
But Iris obviously hadn't reached that age yet. Hana didn't say anything more.
Hana looked down at the wooden stick in her hand... it had the number '1' written on it.
She pursed her lips. "Some little homewrecker has been getting too close to Makoto lately."
Hana didn't say any names, but the passing Shiho and the others all guessed she was definitely talking about Yunyun.
Hana really disliked that woman. She felt she was always playing the pity card in front of Makoto, crying at the drop of a hat. What was she acting for?
She had been unhappy about it for a long time and took this opportunity to say it.
Yanagi was startled. She patted her chest, which was not much inferior to her sister's. That pair of voluptuous softness bounced under her palm. 'You scared me. I thought you were talking about me.'
Hana looked at her sister's bouncing chest and suddenly felt that her sister's size was no longer much inferior to her own.
'Did high schoolers develop this fast?'
No one knew how long the three had been playing when Tsuki finally poked her head out of the kitchen and called them in for dinner.
Iris followed the Uzaki sisters into the dining room, and then she saw the person sitting at the head of the long table.
Nishikawa Makoto.
Iris was so scared she stepped back, her heel catching on the threshold, and she fell to the ground.
The Uzaki sisters quickly crouched down to help her up, each taking one of her arms.
"What's wrong?"
Hana asked with a surprised look.
"N-nothing."
Iris barely managed a smile, trying to appear calm. "I just didn't expect... the famous Nishikawa-san to be here..."
The Uzaki sisters looked at each other and said apologetically to her, "Sorry, we were having so much fun just now, we forgot to tell you about this."
Hana pursed her lips toward Makoto. "We're all Makoto's companions."
Yanagi crouched down, looked Iris in the eye, and comforted her in a coaxing tone. "Don't be afraid. Makoto is not a bad person."
Iris was stunned.
She couldn't help but look at Makoto again.
'Not a bad person?'
Iris thought for a moment, then summoned her courage and asked, "Then... the rumors over in Melromarc, about him turning King Aultcray and Princess Malty into human stumps and stuffing them into vases... are those false?"
"Oh, that part is true."
Makoto, who had been chatting with Yunyun, glanced at Iris.
Iris was dumbfounded again.
'Having done something like that, and you still say he's a good person?'
'How thick must your rose-colored filter be?'
"Senpai had his reasons for doing that, little girl."
Yu, sitting on the other side, said.
'Reasons?'
'No matter what the reasons were, why be so ruthless?'
Iris muttered inwardly, but to avoid drawing Makoto's attention, she didn't speak out loud.
Because the Melromarc matter had been brought up, Hana and the others were also quite curious, so they asked Makoto what exactly had happened.
In the real world, Makoto had also dealt with many heinous scumbags.
Monsters like Shinichi transformed, the cannibals, and so on... didn't they also die quite miserably?
But compared to Aultcray and Malty, it seemed almost merciful.
Makoto briefly recounted the cause and effect of the incident.
Of course, the part about Malty wanting him to be her dog didn't need to be mentioned.
After listening to Makoto's account, everyone briefly fell into thought.
To be honest, in terms of how evil they were, that father and daughter might not have been worse than the cannibals.
But there was no helping it. They had messed with Makoto.
Iris ate the meat on her plate in small bites.
'So that's how it was.'
She understood why Makoto had done what he did, but she still couldn't help muttering quietly, "That was still too ruthless..."
Makoto glanced at this girl. "Girl, you come from a noble family, don't you?"
Iris's hand trembled. She looked up, a flash of panic in her eyes. "H-how do you know?"
"It's too obvious."
Makoto put down his chopsticks. "Your whole body exudes an aura of naive ignorance."
Iris's mouth puffed up like an angry little pufferfish. She wanted to refute that she wasn't ignorant at all.
But before Iris could speak, the front door was pushed open from outside.
Darkness walked in, followed by Aqua.
"Makoto-sama, I'm back."
Darkness walked up to Makoto and gave a deep bow. "Thank you."
Darkness's father had long been troubled by illness and injury. His health was getting worse day by day, and it seemed he would not live much longer.
After learning of this, Makoto had her take Aqua to her hometown to have a look.
It turned out that her father wasn't sick at all, but was under a curse.
"It was probably Alderp who had Maxwell do it." Makoto leaned back in his chair. "The purpose was to get you."
Darkness clenched her fists.
'Alderp again!'
Too bad that bastard was already in Hell. Otherwise, she would give him a good punch herself.
"Lalati—" Iris saw Darkness's face and nearly called out her real name.
After realizing her mistake, Iris quickly covered her mouth and swallowed the last word.
Darkness also saw Iris.
The expression on her face changed from gratitude to shock.
'What was Princess Iris doing here?!'
Shiho noticed the change in the two people's expressions. Her gaze flicked back and forth between Iris and Darkness. "You two know each other?"
Iris frantically signaled to Darkness with her eyes. Darkness understood and shook her head like a rattle. "We don't know each other."
After saying that, Darkness walked to the dining table, clearly trying to change the subject. "Come, come, everyone, eat, eat."
Makoto watched this scene, the corner of his mouth curling, but he couldn't be bothered to expose Darkness.