Two Worlds, Starting with Kaguya of Penglai Mountain

As she spoke, Banai was somewhat surprised to find herself speaking so coldly.

The social butterfly, Hanami, is quite adept at reading the room.

Anna was actually quite perceptive of Kaguya Houraisan's attitude towards her and Kazuya Kurokawa.

Being adept at reading the room, she would naturally avoid inappropriately disrupting the relationship between the two parties.

But now, it's definitely better to make things clear.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Tsk tsk~"

The beautiful princess looked at the blue-haired girl's profile beside her with a rather amused expression.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Kurokawa only desires to live well in the present and cares about the feelings between us. So, Bana, guess what I care about?"

Hanami Anana: "Interesting?"

Kaguya Houraisan: "Half a correct answer."

The bright, full moon shone on the princess's face at that moment.

Kaguya Houraisan: "My time is almost eternal. At least until all the extraordinary perish, I will exist forever. I don't really value feelings at all. After all, on an eternal time scale, love, hate, obsession, anger, and everything else can eventually become topics of conversation and brew unique relationships."

She shook her head at the blue-haired girl beside her: "You ask if I would betray Kurokawa? From the moment he took the 'Eel of Immortality from Penglai,' I made my choice. He will be my eternal companion."

Yanai sees Ancai: "..."

Anzu Hachimi: "That medicine, is it really as important as you say? You just gave it away like that?"

Kaguya Houraisan: "Why not?"

The smiling princess looked at the girl in front of her and asked a question.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Who says I can't hand over the 'Eeleropegia of Immortality' to Kurokawa just because I find it amusing and on a whim? It originally belonged to me."

Since it belongs to her, she can do whatever she wants with it.

The capricious princess made capricious remarks.

That was a mindset that Banami, as an ordinary person, could not understand or empathize with at all.

The clouds on the horizon seemed to drift away with the wind at this moment, and the bright moonlight shone even more brightly on Kaguya of Mount Hourai.

The princess in the moon is like a work of art, possessing both the beauty of art and its unique quality.

Anna Hanami: "Haven't you been dating Kurokawa lately?"

After a moment of silence, the blue-haired girl looked at the princess on the moon and spoke.

When Kaguya Houraisan heard this, a mocking smile appeared on her face.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Hehe~"

She chuckled strangely, looking at Anna Hanami in front of her: "Hana, you're just envious and jealous, aren't you? If you are, I'll have Kurokawa bring you on our next date."

Yanai sees Ancai: "..."

When faced with Kaguya Houraisan's teasing, her gaze gradually turned to one of doubt.

In the blue-haired girl's mind, love is about possessiveness.

Even now, Yuyuko, who initially tried to matchmake Kurokawa Kazuya and Hanami, has developed a desire to leave Hanami and Youmu Konpaku aside and cook delicious food for Kurokawa Kazuya on her own.

That was probably just the young lady's slight possessiveness at play.

When you fall in love with someone, it's perfectly normal to want to completely reveal your flaws and negative desires to them.

I hope the other person understands me, and I also hope I understand the other person.

Making each other important people in each other's hearts is an essential element of love.

The simplest way to express what is important is to say it is unique.

It's not that it has to be unique; in fact, Banami doesn't really care about that these days.

But when you like someone, when you care about someone, when you place your emotions on that person.

You would always want to get the same feedback from the other person, right? You would hope to become an important person to the other person as well.

It's the same for both men and women: if you consider your lover important, but your lover doesn't consider you important, then you're doomed.

Then this relationship itself is problematic.

From Hanami's perspective, it's impossible for her to choose to date him. This has nothing to do with whether she likes him or not; what kind of relationship is it if there are no feelings involved?

However, from any angle, the Kaguya of Houraisan before us does not show any inclination in this regard.

The other party has no possessiveness whatsoever, and has no intention of becoming an important figure in anyone's heart.

She's just like she said—she doesn't care about feelings at all.

Anna Hanami: "Kaguya, were you putting on an act when you were with Kurokawa?"

She had heard Kaguya mention that the other party had sought punishment from Kurokawa Kazuya for attracting the Lunarians.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Performance? Why would you think that?"

Anna Hanami: "If it's not an act, why would you care about Kurokawa's resentment and try to eliminate it if you don't have love? You said you didn't care about feelings, right?"

Kaguya Houraisan: "Oh, this one."

The charming princess smiled once again at the blue-haired girl.

She shook her head at Hanami.

Although he had already expressed his thoughts, the girl in front of him did not listen to them completely.

Kaguya Houraisan: "I really don't know anything about love or romance. I just want to keep playing with Kurokawa."

"The game of finding love may last for an unknown period of time, but I have enough time to play with him. Before I truly possess him, ensuring he harbors no resentment is the prerequisite for the game to continue."

At that moment, the beautiful princess held up a finger to Anna Hanami.

Kaguya Houraisan: "This is a game where you only have one chance, and it will last forever. I can't be too careful, can I?"

The princess on the moon used a metaphor to describe her current state.

Her gaze fell upon Banami with a rare seriousness, her face radiant with a smile that mirrored the full moon in the sky.

Yanai sees Ancai: "..."

What's going on? The guy in front of me is actually a Moon Person who doesn't understand love at all.

Why did she feel like she was being shown off by the other person?

However, before Bana could form a complete idea, she saw Kaguya Houraisan reach out and start pinching Kurokawa Kazuya's face hard.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Hanami, do you want to give it a try? If we miss this opportunity, we won't have another chance after Kurokawa wakes up."

Hanami Anana: "!"

Anna Hanami: "Won't you wake up if you shake like that?"

Kaguya Houraisan: "Of course not. If I were to wake up, I would have already woken up when we shook hands. Don't underestimate the fact that the cultivation tradition, which has been revised for countless years, is effective in dealing with this kind of situation."

"Although Kurokawa has closed his eyes, he is not truly asleep. Unless it is someone he trusts, theoretically, he will wake up quickly and become alert if touched."

At this point, a smile suddenly appeared on the princess's face.

She pulled out a dagger from somewhere: "Want to try? If it were Banai seeing you, Kurokawa might not even wake up after being stabbed. After all, she's already a Hourai person, there's no possibility of her life being in danger, and she wouldn't be awakened by a threat to her life. If the affection level is high enough, she won't wake up even if you stab her with a knife. This can be used to test affection levels."

She nodded seriously.

Almost as soon as Kaguya took the dagger, Anna Hanami created a protective layer of stone around Kazuya Kurokawa.

After she finished doing everything, she saw the princess holding a dagger, smiling at her with a mocking expression.

Anna Hanami: "Kaguya, are you deliberately trying to provoke me?"

Kaguya Houraisan: "No, I simply found it interesting."

It seemed that he felt his actions had been a bit too provocative to Hanami in front of him.

Kaguya sheathed her dagger and casually sat down on the grass by the lake.

"The changes in Kurokawa should continue until tomorrow morning. Banami is going to keep watch, right? Then sit with me for a while. Come to think of it, you don't seem to have ever spent time alone with me like this before."

As the princess spoke, she adjusted Kurokawa Kazuya's body so that he was sitting cross-legged with his head resting on her shoulder, making it easier for her to hold his hand comfortably when they were seated.

"Would you like to sit down?"

She patted the grass beside her.

Compared to Kurokawa Kazuya, although Hanami Anna and Kaguya are said to be friends, they are actually just superficially good friends.

Perhaps in terms of relationships, Merry's relationship with Banami is better than Kaguya's relationship with her.

Because of her handshake with Kurokawa Kazuya, Hanami had no choice but to sit down at this point.

The three of them remained seated on the grass in the night, with the sleeping Kurokawa and Miya in the middle, and Hanami and Houraisan Kaguya on either side.

Anna Hanami: "Is there anything Kaguya and I want to say?"

Kaguya Houraisan: "Emmm... I'd like to thank you, Hanami, for letting Kurokawa go?"

The princess under the moon turned to speak to Hanami.

The blue-haired girl's expression gradually darkened as Kaguya spoke.

How come she never realized before that the other person was such a provocative individual?

Kaguya Houraisan: "Well~ just kidding. What I do with you, Yana, doesn't really affect my actions. If you had chosen to be a yandere with Kurokawa back then, I might have even thought about turning you two into NTR characters, since that would actually be quite interesting."

Anna Hanami: "Should I thank Kaguya for going easy on me?"

Perhaps it was the other party's overly direct attitude that made Banami gradually lose her social inhibitions, and she complained to the girl next to her in an annoyed tone.

Kaguya Houraisan: "No need for that. I have no reason to send you away. Oh, by the way..."

The princess in the moon pointed to her side as she spoke.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Just a reminder before the group chat, Kurokawa is someone you can manipulate at will now. Stabbing this one with a knife is one thing, but do you want to try it on the others, like Hanami? If you miss this chance, you won't have another one."

As she spoke, she quite brazenly reached out and lifted Kurokawa Kazuya's clothes, revealing his standard fair abdomen, which didn't have much abdominal muscle but wasn't fat either.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Don't worry, I did everything tonight. I saw you watching from the sidelines the most, so I won't tell Kurokawa about it."

Yanai sees Ancai: "..."

She stared silently at Kaguya Houraisan beside her, completely at a loss for words.

At this moment, Banami actually really wanted to shout and scold him.

But she found herself shamefully somewhat tempted.

Girls' curiosity and ideas in this regard are never less than boys'.

Kaguya Houraisan: "You know about Hanami, right? Kurokawa isn't really asleep right now. His consciousness has shifted to an illusion, but his subconscious is still alert to everything around him. If you do something that he doesn't mind, he won't feel anything at all. To put it roughly, this can actually be seen as Kurokawa's consent."

The princess in the moon emphasized, and began to utter words that sounded like the seduction of a devil.

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Chapter Eighty-Eight: A Strand of Hair on the Wrist

The morning sunlight streamed in through the window.

When Kurokawa Kazuya's consciousness returned from the illusion of their fusion, he found himself lying on the grass in the early morning.

I don't know if it's because I slept there for one night.

He felt a strange sense of unease throughout his body.

Looking down, I realized that my clothes and pants looked awkward and didn't fit properly.

Instinctively, I stood up and stretched, straightening my ill-fitting clothes as I moved.

After finishing everything, Kurokawa Kazuya turned to look at Kaguya Houraisan, who had been quietly watching him since he woke up.