Did Higashino Akira really not know?
Lying on the bed with his eyes closed, Akira thought back over everything that had happened today.
Ever since his accumulated fortune had grown deeper, whenever he encountered a good-looking woman, he had gotten into the habit of casually throwing Aura Reading at her.
Unfortunately, perhaps because this was a mixed anime world, the baseline appearance level of passersby in this world was absurdly high.
The so-called anime characters were not necessarily far prettier than ordinary people.
They were simply more distinctive.
The average passerby often had the looks of a school belle or school hunk from his previous life, so trying to cast a wide net with Aura Reading and rely on luck to find women whose fortune met the standard was honestly rather difficult.
Quite a few middle-aged men, on the other hand, were a different story.
Compared to their student days, they were practically different people.
It felt as if their looks had been ravaged by life itself.
And yet, with odds that low, he had encountered several women with purple fortune in a single day, and even one at the golden level.
If they had any shared trait, it was that their hair basically was not black.
That shop, translated literally, seemed to be called STARRY.
With so many high-looking, fortune-qualified women gathered in one place, it might very well be an important setting where some anime plot took place.
For some reason, Akira felt that place was rather lucky for him.
When he had time in the future, he could go sit there more often.
As for Tsukimi Eiko, Akira did not know whether reincarnation existed in this world, or whether it was purely coincidence.
But whether Kongming wanted to repay her kindness or raise her like a daughter, Akira did not care.
Sex was only a seasoning in life.
There were far too many options to choose from.
It only depended on whether he was willing to spend the time searching.
In any case, he did not feel much toward her.
So what if she was an anime character?
Yukinoshita Yukino and Hiratsuka Shizuka were right there, and he had not made a move on them either.
There was no need to do something that might make the people around him grow estranged.
Women were not that important.
A woman he did not know was even less important compared to Kongming.
‘I still need to make money and build my career.
Once I have money and a career, women will always come.
I could even switch to fresh eighteen-year-olds every year!’ As per his habit, Akira gently squeezed.
The soft, fragrant jade in his palm was smooth, delicate, and infinitely beautiful—especially when the girl tried hard to control herself, yet still occasionally let out a soft moan, adding even more charm to the scene.
[Name: Toyokawa Sakiko] [Rank: Fourth-Rank Beauty] [Fortune: Gold] At this moment, it was exactly 12:13 a.m.
Akira was not the sleeping husband from some movie.
An entire month had passed.
How could he possibly have failed to notice anything strange?
On the contrary, his sleep was relatively light.
If there was movement beside him at night, it would often wake him.
Even if it was not enough to make him fully conscious, being half-awake at this same time every night was already enough to prove something.
On top of that, he already knew this world had supernatural elements beneath its surface.
There was even less chance that he would ignore it.
So, all he had done was deliberately pretend to sleep one night and discover the truth.
For example, a certain “heavenly maiden” who did not know how to repay kindness and only knew how to hiss with a suspiciously guilty air.
He had even discovered that she seemed to be experimenting too.
Every night, she could only turn human at midnight, and it had to be beside him.
She could probably maintain that form for around half an hour.
The farther away she was, the shorter the time she stayed human, and beyond a certain distance, she could not turn human at all.
While she was human, Aura Reading could see through her true name.
Her name was no longer a string of question marks.
Akira silently observed and tacitly allowed her to secretly use his phone.
With malicious amusement, he pretended to sleep and did not remind her.
He even used the traces left behind after she used his phone to log into her account, and from her chat with a girl named Nagasaki Soyo, he learned Toyokawa Sakiko’s identity.
Another young lady from a wealthy family!
And one far richer than the Yukinoshita family too!
She was even an only daughter.
‘My beloved consort’s family background really isn’t bad.’ At night, Toyokawa Sakiko, who had already gotten used to someone’s wandering hands while he slept, held the phone and skillfully logged into her social account with a red face.
To save time, she did not even delete the account information anymore.
She directly logged out of someone’s social account and switched into her own.
After that came the daily blocking of Nagasaki Soyo.
This new phone was annoying in that regard.
Every time she logged out and logged back in, she had to set it again, forcing her to manually block Soyo every day to escape the bombardment of messages from the other girl.
Thinking of that persistent girl, Toyokawa Sakiko clenched her silver teeth.
Her eyes held both guilt and impatience.
‘If I’d known girls’ bands were this heavy, I never would’ve boasted like that or taken the lead in forming one!’ Toyokawa Sakiko let out a muffled sound and squeezed her legs shut, her face flushing with embarrassment and anger.
“You’re actually awake, aren’t you, desuwa!” Usually, Akira just touched the outside of her tights, and she had just accepted it, convincing herself he was genuinely asleep.
Honestly, after having almost every inch of the exterior groped, Sakiko herself had grown somewhat accustomed to it.
She was still shy, still sensitive, and it still felt strange every time, but at least she wouldn’t be so overcome with shame as to be on the verge of tears.
But this time—this sheer audacity—no one who was asleep could ever pull off a move like this!
After being scolded by the girl in a low voice, Akira’s movement paused.
He felt a little embarrassed.
This really had become a habit.
When he was with Kawasaki Saki, the process was usually similar.
But immediately afterward, he continued acting shamelessly.
‘If my eyes are closed, then I’m asleep!’ ‘Besides, what’s wrong with being intimate with my own beloved consort?’ “Pervert!
Lewd!
You’re way too awful, desuwa!” Sakiko grabbed his hand—which had already slipped in a knuckle deep—and yanked it out.
Her voice trembled with tears.
“How can you do this!” In the darkness, the girl’s broken sobs quietly rang out.
At last, she could no longer keep forcing herself to endure.
She had inexplicably turned into a kitten and had been starving three meals out of every day.
After finally finding someone who seemed to have decent conditions and enough kindness to act as her owner, she discovered she could turn back into a human.
But then she also found out that even though she had been missing for so long, a whole month had passed and not a single person in her family had noticed.
She had only just figured out the pattern behind turning human again, and she still did not even know why she had become a cat in the first place.
And now, in the end, someone was taking advantage of her too.
Why was this world so awful?
From trying hard to suppress it at first to finally losing control and crying out loud, Toyokawa Sakiko sobbed as if someone had stolen the budget meal she had finally put together.
“How can I not do this?” Akira asked softly, his tone laced with hidden intensity as he pulled her into his arms from behind.
“We’re not lovers.
At most, we’re only a pet and her owner, or maybe an owner and benefactor.
Doing this is wrong!” Toyokawa Sakiko loudly accused him.
Hearing that, Akira fell silent for a long while.
“I don’t think I’ve ever said you were my pet.
All this time, whenever I talked about you to anyone, I called you my little lover.” “And when I first picked you up and brought you home, you didn’t refuse either.” “That’s not right!” Toyokawa Sakiko panicked.
“I was a cat back then!
Anyone who heard words like that would at most think you just liked cats too much!” “Then you misunderstood.
I don’t like cats that much.” “I just like you.” “So I never once treated you as a cat.
Of course, you can also choose not to treat me as human.
I don’t mind.” …
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