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She was obviously the one who came first.
After a whole day at school, he barely spoke a few words. He can only wait until he gets home. But lately, Light Yagami has been getting home right at mealtimes.
Sometimes Kasugano Sora wonders if she would just stay out overnight if she didn't have to cook for her.
I was indeed a burden.
Isn't a father's love for his daughter just a one-sided sacrifice?
So daughters also need to grow up to the age where they can repay their fathers and let their fathers know that their daughters are also girls!
That being said, he brushed off one crazy girl after another who came to him wanting to meet Light Yagami at the airport.
Kasugano Sora was discouraged again.
They are all incredibly beautiful girls.
As school was about to end, Light Yagami looked serious. He had received a message from his father that he needed to go home.
"You'll be with Misa in the Service Department. She'll take you home later."
After explaining what was to come, Light Yagami boarded the train. In the center of Miyako Ward, there were two powerful families.
The Shinomiya family, and the Yagami family, which has been thriving in recent years.
"Zhuang Yu, have you missed me?"
Upon entering, he saw his junior high school sister doing her homework at the table. Light Yagami picked her up and spun her around.
He liked it this way with his relatives and his own sister.
"Of course I want to, but my brother definitely doesn't want Zhuangyu. He only comes back during the New Year." Ye Shen Zhuangyu, who had been put down, pouted and pointed upstairs.
"There have been a lot of people coming to our house lately, brother. You're going to have a wife soon." Yagami Sōyū whispered the news to his ear, and Yagami Sōyū responded with a sympathetic expression.
She's almost at the age where she should get engaged.
"..."
No wonder my dad called me home. I've never liked talking on the phone. Soichiro Yagami only calls home before going home.
The Yagami family's mansion has four floors. As he walked up the stairs, several maids greeted him.
After responding to each person, Light Yagami met several people waiting for him in the hall, including three he did not want to see.
Kaguya Shinomiya sat on the sofa to the left, with Ai Hayasaka standing beside her. Next to her was Untaka Shinomiya, the current head of the Shinomiya family.
On the sofa to the right, Toyokawa Shoko sat with her elders. Shoko's eyes were red and swollen, as if she had been crying.
On the sofa in the middle, Souichirou Yagami and Sachiko Yagami greeted him with smiles and invited him to sit down.
All eyes were on Light Yagami.
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"So what kind of development is this? My exes who broke up with me have become my adopted sister and my fiancée?"
Light Yagami had no chance to resist.
Coming from such a family, marriage is almost never a matter of personal choice, especially for the Yagami family, which has a near-monopoly on industries like online shopping and express delivery, short video live streaming, and smartphones, thanks to their vast resources.
"The Shinomiya family is in turmoil. After the former head of the family was punished by Kira, the family split up internally and needs to form a united front to stabilize the situation." Hayasaka Ai sat opposite Yagami Light.
"The Toyokawa family is the same, except that her husband's body was barely cold..." She hesitated, probably afraid that people outside would hear.
Having patiently accepted his father's arrangement, Light Yagami stayed behind with Hayasaka, wanting to hear news from her side.
He couldn't tell his family about his identity as Kira, and under the influence of other forces, he was forced to do something like betraying his own family for the greater good—something Soichiro was capable of.
"Mrs. Toyokawa has been kicking her husband out for some time now. He wasn't even her husband; he was just someone Kira punished. His crimes were written on the wall, and these became the means for other families to attack the Toyokawa family."
Returning to his long-lost home, sitting on the edge of the bed, Light Yagami rationally analyzed the current situation.
Pulled around and moved the whole body.
Those who commit crimes should be killed, but he did not anticipate that the butterfly effect after the killings would be so outrageous.
Toyokawa chose a concubine of Yoruichiro Nagakami for a marriage alliance.
Kaguya Shinomiya could become his wife or concubine.
Generally speaking, sons from large families tend to marry women from ordinary families, while having many concubines to maintain connections with various clans.
Over the past century, these powerful families have almost all been related by blood, their influence is deeply entrenched, and they have practically held sway over Japan.
"Why not consider the Shijo and Fujiwara families?" In Yagami Light's mind, these two families were the ones who had a friendly relationship.
"They are also struggling to protect themselves..." Hayasaka Ai recounted the current situation of all the major families in Kyoto.
So Rem, are you just killing everyone you see?
In order to teach these families a lesson and clear his own name, and to have an alibi, Light Yagami asked two Shinigami to wander around the famous families.
This also includes the Yagami family.
The two Grim Reapers cleansed up South Korea, then traveled all the way to East Asia, purging those who held positions of power but did nothing, and Light Yagami punished the corrupt officials below.
"Among these families, the Yagami family was the least affected. Only a few dozen members of the collateral branches died, and the family's businesses were almost unaffected. It is possible that they will all make requests to the Yagami family for a joint alliance."
Hayasaka Ai's statement was not an exaggeration, and Yagami Light's usual gynophobia was ineffective.
They just need a formal title; everything else is secondary.
Thinking of Fujiwara Chika, the cancer of the earth, and Shijou Maki, who had become his concubines, Yagami Light was in a state of headache.
"Hayasaka, you're not going to marry into this family too, are you?"
Hayasaka Ai paused for a moment, then replied, "As Kaguya-sama's personal maid, I naturally have to follow her and serve her. If necessary, I will need to perform duties similar to a concubine."
"...I don't accept batches."
"The young lady will generously share with me several times," Hayasaka Ai said with a smile, as if victory was in her grasp.
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Toyokawa Shoko's Request
consentnow, the x consent app, is a groundbreaking work that guarantees the rights of every concubine.
After purchasing property and paying a bride price to become a concubine, she will receive a legal number of sexual acts as allocated by her husband.
Depending on the amount of the bride price and the husband's health condition, it is generally more than 300 times.
Before marriage, the app can also authorize the transaction by scanning a QR code, confirming that the action was taken with the consent of both parties.
The husband and concubine could negotiate the number of times, meaning that if Hayasaka Ai could get Kaguya Shinomiya's support, she could also get a few times.
"My illness hasn't healed yet, so we'll consider these things when I'm an adult. The engagement will proceed as planned." Light Yagami's condition, caused by various medications that made him allergic to women, can no longer be replicated in the same way.
He already has a girlfriend with whom he has a close relationship.
Moreover, marriage can happen without feelings; it's just for show. Family alliances require marriage and formal status, and children can be obtained through IVF.
Light Yagami could only marry these few concubines arranged by his family.
Soichiro used his immense wealth to dedicate himself to charity. His father had never wronged him, and as the next head of the Yagami family, he also had to consider the family's well-being.
With the covetousness of other countries, the Yagami family, whose power is gradually expanding, needs to establish marriage alliances with several established families.
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"Is Yue going to take someone else as a concubine?" Misa Amane was on the verge of tears.
“My father already has enough pressure on him, and he still has to help me share it. He took a concubine from the Toyokawa family, so I can’t let him pay for it again.”
After returning home, Light Yagami patiently explained the difference between a common-law marriage and a marriage in name only to Misa Amane.
"To be honest, it's my fault. I wanted to accumulate wealth and then help those in need, which resulted in the family having no foundation and needing to form alliances with established families through marriage."
Yagami Tsukichi's father's goal in becoming a dragon was simple: there were too many rich and unscrupulous people who used their wealth to indulge in pleasure. Therefore, with his understanding of the industry in the future, in just over ten years, the Yagami family went from being a middle-class wealthy family to a family that was on par with the Shinomiya family.
The Yagami family, possessing such wealth, spares no effort in various charitable causes.
The wealth they displayed was enough to make others envious.
“Misa is my wife, and that will never change,” Light Yagami reassured the womanly Misa Amane.
"However, you should also have your own ideas. Don't always be obedient and hand over your fate entirely to others. You can only gamble on their conscience."
"The moon won't let me down." Misa rubbed against him nonchalantly; she liked this reassuring feeling.
Even after losing all her beloved family members, Misa Amane remains innocent and carefree, because Light Yagami is the anchor that keeps her in the world.
Light Yagami did not continue speaking.
He dislikes people who judge by appearance, those who only admire him but don't understand him, those who are obsessed with romance, and those who dress like sexy girls.
Misa Amane has many flaws; being too obedient is also a flaw. Her flaws are as numerous as the stars in the sky.
But her virtues are like the sun. Light Yagami once thought that the idea of dying for love was an ancient legend, and that the stars would disappear when the sun came out.
After cuddling for a while, Light Yagami was going to see his nominal adopted sister, even though they didn't live under the same roof.
But as family members, they had already added each other's contact information.
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"Brother."
This was a completely unfamiliar term, and the person she was referring to was her former lover. When Toyokawa Shoko opened her mouth, she herself was momentarily dazed.
Near Kawasaki Station as evening approached, Light Yagami weaved through the crowds, as if for a fateful reunion, to keep his appointment.
"Xiangzi, it's been a long time. You've become even more beautiful."
Light Yagami finally had a chance to take a good look at his long-lost ex. At home, he didn't want to stare at his stepsister so brazenly in front of the adults who were going to become in-laws.
Even if this past is revealed, it will most likely just be about him taking another concubine.
"My brother has also grown quite a bit taller than he has a year ago."
After taking a quick look at the height difference between them, Toyokawa Shoko had to admit that at over 1.8 meters tall, he stood out in Japan. The difference in height, which was a head shorter than before, now seemed even greater.
Once, the boy, as her lover, would lift her up to his height and whisper sweet nothings in her ear.
Now, however, they are reunited in this new capacity after a long separation.
Having experienced many ups and downs, Toyokawa Shoko, at a young age, already had a sense of having gone through many hardships.
"Let's not talk about the past. You asked me out because you have something to ask, and I happen to need your help too." After thinking it over, Yagami Light, who had been invited out, asked Toyokawa Shoko to keep an eye on Nagasaki Motoyo.
Ku Lai Xi Ku did not disband. The nearly one hundred songs he left behind were enough to make the band famous all over the world, even though Toyokawa Shoko had left the Toyokawa family with her deceased father and was renting a place outside.
“Su-se has been maintaining the band’s unity. She believes that the bond of fate still exists, and that one day you will come back.” Toyokawa Shoko knows that Yagami Light has his reasons.
She was also very open-minded; the bonds between people are not eternal, but seeing each other again rekindled a glimmer of hope in her heart.
"That must have been tough on her, but there's no need for that. A year is enough to forget many people and things. I've only spent a few months with you all."
Light Yagami was expressing his attitude not only to Motoyo Nagasaki, but also to Shoko Toyokawa in front of him.
It was unfortunate to have a relationship with him.
"I understand. Mu has nowhere to go right now, so I'd like to ask Yuejun to take her in."
Toyokawa Shoko took a deep breath and made her request.
As the child born from her father's wanton exploitation of actresses in his youth, Wakaba Mutsu was raised by the Wakaba family and provided with various educational courses from a young age. Now, with her father's death leading to the decline of the Toyokawa family, the original plan for Wakaba Mutsu to be adopted after reaching adulthood has been shelved.
Many people in her family opposed Wakaba Mutsu's return, since she didn't have the blood of the Toyokawa family flowing in her veins, unlike herself, who could return to the family because she had her mother's blood.
"Is the Ruoye family no longer willing to take care of them?"
"The scandal caused by my father's death was too big. Now the Ye family is also in deep trouble. Once this kind of thing is brought to the forefront, they can no longer show their usual harmony."
Toyokawa Shoko smiled helplessly. Even now, she still calls that scumbag "father."
Just like when her father was kicked out of the house, and faced with the two choices her mother gave him—to continue being the eldest daughter of the Toyokawa family, or to leave with her—she said the same thing: "As his daughter, I have a responsibility to bear the burden of his future."
Having received an education and financial support from her parents since childhood, she has no right to criticize her father.
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Nina's Explosion
Light Yagami agreed to the task. Ultimately, he also bore some responsibility for the situation turning out in a way that he couldn't understand.
Just as he was about to leave, he heard Nina's voice coming from inside the store.
"Because Kira punished them too late!"
Following the source of the noise, Nina seemed to have all her strength drained away, slumped onto the table, and muttered to herself, "I didn't do anything wrong. I reported the bullying to the teachers as soon as it started, but they just went through the motions, only asking if that student had been bullied..."
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