Kallen silently let go of Kika's hand and quickly fled the sofa.
"Mmmph, mmmph—"
Kika quickly covered her mouth, shaking her head frantically.
"You heard wrong! It's the back-flipping Maheśvara!"
"Hmm...? A back-flipping, pink-haired little fox?"
Yae Sakura seemed to have heard something she shouldn't have, and her eyes instantly narrowed.
She silently took out her katana and looked at Kika with a benevolent smile.
"Miss Kika, I didn't quite catch that. Could you please say it again?"
"Sakura, you must have been so busy lately that you're a little dazed! You mistook Maheśvara for a pink-haired little fox! I just remembered I have something to do, so I'll be taking Kika and leaving now!"
With that, Ryn quickly scooped up "Kika" and ran back to his room in a flash, locking the door behind him.
To prevent Yae Sakura from using her time-freezing slash, Ryn even activated a time stop to escape.
Leaning against the door, Ryn panted, his heart still pounding with fear that Yae Sakura would react and slash him a couple of times.
But why was the Kika in his arms so big? And why was she emitting a cold aura?
Hmm... and she has donkey ears... oh no...
Seeing Yae Sakura in his arms, Ryn's face turned ashen. He was already contemplating where he would reappear after being resurrected, and whether he should give Kika a little scare.
"It seems you really are hiding something about me from me, so flustered that you didn't even notice you grabbed the wrong person..."
Yae Sakura gently patted Ryn's cheek and then jumped down from his arms.
She had been prepared for Ryn to run away with Kika, so she had stepped in front of Kika to block them.
But she hadn't expected Ryn to be in such a hurry that he would just grab her and run...
"Haha... if I say it's a joke, you definitely won't believe me... so..."
Ryn seemed to have made up his mind. He threw caution to the wind and slid to his knees beside Yae Sakura, hugging her thigh.
"Sis! Sister Sakura! I was wrong!!!"
"Wrong about what? Just tell me what's going on!!!" Yae Sakura tapped Ryn's head a few times with the hilt of her sword and said with a pout.
But as soon as she finished speaking, Yae Sakura seemed to understand what Ryn was saying he was wrong about! No, whatever it was before, Ryn was definitely wrong now!!
"You pervert, what are you doing! Why did you start touching my leg!!!"
"I'm going to die anyway, so I might as well die happy!"
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In the living room, Kika and Kallen stared at each other, still not having processed how Yae Sakura and Ryn had suddenly disappeared.
However, both of them felt that their heads seemed a little heavier.
Kallen looked left and right, confirmed that Yae Sakura was not there, and then sat back down next to Kika, whispering in her ear:
"Share that video of the pink little fox doing a backflip with me, and I'll support you and Ryn with both hands and feet. For example, no matter how much noise you two make at night, I won't disturb you!"
"Th-th-that... we-we're not in that kind of relationship yet..." Kika covered her face shyly, her speech already incoherent.
"It's only a matter of time, only a matter of time~ Anyway, once you've entered this house, you can't escape anymore."
Kallen rubbed Kika's cheek, then withdrew her hand and turned to leave.
"Sakura and Ryn won't fight or anything. At most, they'll just exchange a few words, so don't worry about them. They should be back in a few minutes."
"Mmm..."
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"Where did you get this video? Is this really me?!"
Yae Sakura, wrapped in one of Ryn's coats, pointed at the video on his phone in disbelief.
On the screen, a drunk, large pink fox was holding a large wine bottle in each hand, taking a swig from the left and then the right.
One moment, it was letting out happy yelps of 'ying ying ying,' the next, it was dancing excitedly, occasionally throwing in a few high-difficulty backflips.
What Yae Sakura found most incomprehensible was that the fox on the screen could actually do a 360-degree backflip!!
Ryn, who was washing the silk nightgown Sakura had been wearing, nodded seriously.
"Don't disbelieve it, that's really you."
"But... but... but..."
Yae Sakura stammered, saying 'but' three times. The fox on the screen was indeed very similar to her fox form, but how could she have such an unseemly moment captured on video? Ahhh!!
"Ryn! Tell me! Did you Photoshop this using my pictures! This is definitely not me!"
Yae Sakura held Ryn's phone and questioned him angrily.
Ryn didn't explain, but silently rewound the video much further.
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_On a certain day when only Yae Sakura was home, while tidying up the house, she discovered some fine wine left behind in the basement by Welt, who used to live there._
_These were all gifts from Himeko to Welt, and he had kept them all._
_Not understanding modern labels, Yae Sakura, curious about what was inside the bottles, opened one and took a sniff..._
_With a sense of smell millions of times more sensitive than a normal person's, the moment Yae Sakura actively sniffed the wine, she, who couldn't hold her liquor, was immediately intoxicated by the aroma..._
_And so... Yae Sakura began to dance and act wildly in a drunken stupor..._
_At first, she was just talking nonsense, then she started performing a kagura dance... finally, she transformed into her fox form and began to wreak havoc._
_The most eye-searing part was Yae Sakura dancing in her large fox form..._
_(If you can't picture it, you can look up that video of Azhdaha dancing~)_
_Cortana, who was in charge of recording all interesting daily events, silently recorded everything through the electronic devices in the house..._
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After watching, Yae Sakura said nothing, but quickly tapped the delete button a few times, deleting all the videos of her drunken antics.
Then, blushing, she wrapped Ryn's coat around herself and fled his room.
Ryn peeked out of the room like a thief, confirmed that Yae Sakura had run far away, then picked up his phone, looked in the recycle bin, and restored all the videos she had deleted.
Blackmail material of Yae Sakura was rare; it would be a pity to just delete it~
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_After Yae Sakura went downstairs, she covered her face and rushed into her room._
_This left Kika, who was still on the sofa, completely bewildered._