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“Akuru, no study group today, right?”
“At least I won’t be attending, but Haruka and the others should probably do it, right?”
“Of course we will, we decided yesterday to have it at Haruka’s house.”
“Oh, well, please take care of her for me, Sara, Ai.”
“Yeah, I’ll do my best for Haruka chan.”
“Yes, I’ll teach her well, don’t worry.”
“Please be nice to her, both of you.”
After such an exchange, I left the school.
Three days have passed since the first day of the study session, and today is Friday.
Nothing special happened during those three days, but there was something that bothered me a little.
Last night, I received a call from my father saying that he had something important to discuss at today’s dinner party.
It was completely unpredictable, but I guess I didn’t need to worry about it that much.
I headed to the dinner with that thought in my head.
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“Um… this is the place, right?”
I arrived at the venue for today’s dinner.
“I heard Mom and Dad are already inside. ……”
I thought as I walked up to the reception desk.
“Welcome! Do you have a reservation?”
“Yes, I think I have a reservation under the name of Sano Yuji… that’s my father, and I heard he’s already inside. ……”
Y”es! If it’s Sano Yuji sama, he’s already here. Please come this way, and I’ll show you the way.”
“Thank you very much.”
After saying that, I was guided to a private room.
“Oh, Akuru, you’re here.”
“Long time no see, Akuru chan.”
Mom hugged me.
Well, we met briefly three days ago though……
“Hey, Mom, we met three days ago. ……”
“That’s not part of the story. ……”
Well, it was so short that we could hardly talk. ……
“Well, well, sit down, both of you.”
Dad said, and I sat down as Mom took a seat.
“Hey, Akuru-chan? You haven’t told me at all, how are things with you and Haruka chan?”
Mom asked me.
“Why do you know about Haruka? You’ve never even talked to her, have you?”
“Well, yes, but from what I’ve heard, she seems like a very nice girl.”
“Well, it’s not that I didn’t tell you, but I’m actually already dating Haruka”
“IEh—f that’s the case, then why didn’t you let me meet her?”
No, it’s just that the timing wasn’t right.
Well, I’m sure you won’t be convinced even if I tell you that. ……
“The test is coming up soon, so I tried to fit it in after it was over. ……”
I responded with an excuse that sounded like that.
“Really? You must let me see her!”
“I know, mom,……, but don’t be against it or anything, okay?”
“That’s a given, Akuru-chan! I’d rather take care of her as much as I can.”
For some reason, Mom said that confidently and with pride.
“Well, that’s fine,”
“Yes, I’ll take care of it!”
I know it sounds strange to say that but it’s my mom, after all. ……
“I think it’s time… “
“I guess so. ……”
Dad and Mom suddenly became very serious.
“What’s wrong, you two?”
“Yeah, actually. ……”
Dad looked uncomfortable for some reason.
“Yuji san… let’s get this straight.”
“Well, as a matter of fact, Akuru has a new fiancée.”
“Hnnn?”
I was too flustered to make sense of it.
Fiancee? What’s that?
I didn’t know anything about this event, even from my video game knowledge.
“Umm, What do you mean?”
“So you got a fiancée.”
“No, no! I heard that. I mean, how did that happen?”
“Actually, a person to whom I am very indebted, who can be called my benefactor, asked me to get his daughter engaged to Akuru…”
“And you accepted?”
“Y-yeah, sorry.”
I was able to understand the content of the story.
I guess he wasn’t someone you could easily turn down…he said he owed it to him.
But what am I supposed to do? I’m already in a situation where I can say I have two lovers… and I also have Ai and Sara.
What am I supposed to say to everyone?
“Well, I understand that you can’t say no… what does the other girl think about this?”
No matter how good we think it is, if the other party doesn’t like it even a little bit, we can’t get too excited about it.
“Your fiancée doesn’t have to be averse to the idea.”
“I see…so what’s she like?”
If I ask him her name, maybe I can remember.
I might have met her in the game or in the past
“Her name is Jinguji Mari.”
“That Jinguji?”
Y”eah, her father is Jinguji Masakazu, the only son of the Jinguji family, a big company, and her mother is Jinguji Claire.”
Jinguji Masakazu is the best in looks, personality, and business skills, and he is a very famous man with about seven wives.
I didn’t know my father’s benefactor was such a big name. ……
And Jinguji Mari is said to be one of the most talented children in the Jinguji family. ……
Why with a girl like that…seriously, what’s the deal……
“Why me ……?”
“That’s the thing…Actually, he didn’t tell…Masakazu-san said that he didn’t have any malicious intent, so he just said that it’s okay if we don’t know for now…Someday, he’ll tell me why… ”
I don’t know what that means.
But I’m glad it doesn’t seem to harm me.
Well, there’s a lot I don’t agree with…
I should just say sometime that I might be in a relationship with 4 people at this point.
That way we might be able to do something about the engagement.
“But you know, Dad…I’m actually in a relationship with one person, but there are three others who might be potential lovers. ……”
“Four… that’s more than I thought… but they’re all serious, right?”
“Yeah… they’re serious.”
“Then there’s nothing wrong with that, not many people prefer monogamy, but I hear the other girl has no problem with polygamy.”
This is not at all the reaction I expected.
In this world, it’s not unusual for boys to have more than one partner in a relationship, so it’s not really normal. ……
“I can understand why you’re worried about it, but I’ve told the other girl that you might have a girlfriend. But she said it doesn’t matter, she wants to say hello to the other girl because she might be marrying the same person. That’s what she said.”
“I see…I understand.”
It seems that there is no way to resist at the moment. ……
Shall we just meet up for now?
However, it seems like it would be difficult to explain to Haruka and the others… If even one person objects, I’m sorry to my father and mother, but I think I’ll force them to refuse…
“Well, I’ll see her for now…”
“Oh, well, I’ll schedule it for next Sunday.”
“Yeah.”
I’m getting anxious all at once. ……
But still, Jinguji Mari…I wonder what kind of person she is. ……
I hear she’s very talented, but I hope she’s a good person……
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After the dinner party was over, Yuji and Akari were talking.
“Well, he wasn’t too keen on it after all. ……”
“I guess so…Akuru-chan already has someone he likes. ……”
“I thought it was just Haruka, but I didn’t realize there were three others.”
“After all, you can’t say no, can you?”
“It is difficult… for some reason, they are very aggressive, as if there is no other way except for Akuru”
“I see ……”
In fact, there were a number of aspects of this engagement that were not clear to either of them.
Therefore, they couldn’t understand why she was so obsessed with Akuru
Even if he asked that, it wasn’t a sign that she was planning anything or had any malicious intent, so it was okay, and Mari-chan would tell Akuru sooner or later, so she just told to wait and not ask her about it until then.
“But Masakazu-san is a trustworthy person, so there is no need for us to worry about anything else, the rest is up to Akuru and Mari-chan.”
“That’s true, but I wonder if the four people that Akuru-chan mentioned are going to be all right?”
“That’s a little worrisome… well, if there’s a problem with that, I’ll go down to them and explain it to them… and if something goes wrong, I’ll apologize to her, too.”
“I’ll apologize with you then. ……”
“Yeah, I’m sorry. ……”
“Yeah, I’m fine.”
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I wonder what’s the trigger for this?
Unexpected but interesting.