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Yukinoshita Haruno's imagination had clearly run wild.
Her mother, Yukiko, had sent her away beforehand mainly because of the conversation she was about to have with Veyron—one that wasn't exactly suitable for her daughter's ears.
Of course, Yukiko knew perfectly well that if she wanted privacy, Haruno wouldn't be able to overhear a single word no matter where she stayed in the house.
Still, the thought of asking Veyron "how the fuck her daughters came into existence" while those same daughters sat just a wall or two away was enough to make Yukiko uncomfortable. Sending Haruno out for a while made things much easier.
...
"Those two girls…"
In the reception room, Veyron let out a long sigh.
Honestly, even he found this whole situation… a bit abstract.
Everyone knows how it's supposed to work: to have children, you need both parents.
A girl like Yukinoshita Yukino—destined to be the deuteragonist and blessed by Fate—would naturally need both her father's and her mother's karmic fate.
But by the time Yukino was supposed to be born, the fate of her father, Yukiko's supposed husband, had already been tied to Veyron.
Then, Veyron had completed the bond quest and left that world.
So when the destined daughter was supposed to be conceived, half of the required "luck and fate" was missing.
What then?
The world's will thought for a moment and said: "Eh, I may not have a brain, but I've got an idea!"
It simply boosted the mother's share from fifty percent to a full hundred. Problem solved.
And so, at the age when she should have become pregnant with Haruno, Yukiko's belly had swelled all on its own.
A few years later, when it came time for Yukino, the exact same thing happened again.
And not just to her.
The mother of Saki Kawasaki and Keika Kawasaki.
The mother of Komachi Hikigaya. As for Hachiman Hikigaya, the main protagonist of Oregairu? Veyron obtained his fate too, so he wasn't born.
The mother of Yui Yuigahama.
And the mother of Iroha Isshiki.
...
When the worlds merged and Veyron finally saw the truth, he had been floored.
Sure, he had expected that once all of the paternal "fate" had been gathered onto him, the world's will would have to improvise something to prevent girls like Haruno and Yukino from vanishing altogether— like Hachiman, who had been erased outright at the source.
But he never imagined the world's will would go this far.
And it wasn't just the Oregairu world.
In World-5, the one that fused "The Pet Girl of Sakurasou" with "Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai", the world will had copied the exact same solution straight from World-4's homework.
Yukiko sat dazed as she listened to Veyron's explanation, her expression complicated.
"…A fated daughter?"
She had always lived with integrity, yet one day her belly had mysteriously begun to swell. After mastering the Yin-Yang way Manual, she knew her body better than anyone—this wasn't an illness. A new life really had taken root inside her.
And even though the most rational choice back then would've been to "end it before the child formed," she had never been able to bring herself to do it. Every time, she had chosen seclusion for nearly a year, carrying the child in secret.
Her life, which should have flourished, had been thrown into chaos. And yet—whether it was Haruno or Yukino—she had never once been able to resent them.
"…So what you're saying is… if you hadn't left back then, Mr. Veyron, Haruno and Yukino would have been our daughters?"
She drew in a deep breath and asked the question.
"In theory… yes," Veyron replied with a small nod.
Silence stretched for a few moments. Yukiko took several deep breaths, as if steeling herself, then finally rose from her seat. She placed her hands together before her and looked directly at Veyron.
"Forgive me for being presumptuous," she said quietly, "but… may I be bold enough to make a request of you?"
"You can try. As long as it's not too much trouble, I'll do my best to help," Veyron replied.
"Regarding Haruno and Yukino… I know I've been strict with them at times, but aside from that, I've done everything I could within my means as a mother. Still, compared to a normal family, they grew up missing something vital—" Yukiko's expression tightened. "—a father."
Her voice softened as she continued, "Even if it's a little late now, I still hope someone can make up for that missing piece of fatherly love they've been denied all these years."
"…Do you even realize what you're saying?"
Veyron looked at her oddly.
"I do."
Yukiko forced herself to nod, though her composure was a fragile act.
"But from what I've seen, the two of them don't really seem like they've been scarred by the absence of a father," Veyron pointed out.
He swept his awareness over them, and in an instant, Haruno and Yukino's entire lives—from birth until now—unfolded clearly before his eyes.
"…I know." Yukiko lowered her gaze.
Of course she knew.
The one who truly ached from the absence of "a father" wasn't her daughters. It was her.
She couldn't explain it.
For over twenty years, she'd never once indulged in anything like lust. Not even a single moment of private release. But after learning the "truth" from Veyron—the truth that had weighed on her for more than two decades—she had only ever felt the faintest ripple in her heart when thinking of him.
Yet suddenly, that faint ripple had swelled into a craving so strong she could barely admit it to herself.
With his experience, Veyron needed only one glance to understand exactly what state she was in.
"…Really?" He silently sent the world will a questioning look. 'She's corrupted by lust too?'
「Ahem... It's not lust, it's fate.」 came the reply.
「The fate that should have bound her to you as her husband more than twenty years ago… it's finally caught up. Back then, you should have crossed paths, and a few years later the first fruit of that fate should have been born—Haruno Yukinoshita」
「Though you weren't there at the time, so us—well, not us, but the world will of her original world—found another way to ensure she conceived.」
「The method changed, but the essence of fate didn't. Which is why, now that her destined husband's fate has finally touched hers, all the years of suppression are breaking loose at once.」
「But don't worry. This anomaly won't last forever. Once this surge passes, she'll return to normal.」
"…"
Veyron had no words.
What can a man do when a beautiful milf starts showing him lust?
Anyone can answer that—except Veyron, who went ahead and did her.
「(⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)」
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A few minutes later, not far from Sōbu High School, in a quiet upscale neighborhood—
Inside Yukino's apartment, the door had barely closed behind Haruno when the younger girl suddenly frowned, pressing her hand to her forehead.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling sick?"
Seeing her stumble, Haruno's expression changed. She hurried forward, slipping an arm around Yukino in concern.
"It's nothing, really… it just feels like…" Yukino tilted her head slightly, confused. "Strange. My head feels… heavy?"
She had no idea that, at that very moment, someone carrying the fate of her "future husband" was bounding and thrusting with all he had against the core of her existence.
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