My Happy Marriage, Vol. 2 by Akumi Agitogi and Tsukiho Tsukioka

Author:Akumi Agitogi and Tsukiho Tsukioka
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On

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After being repelled from inside the Usuba house’s barrier and forcefully ejected, Kiyoka returned home in a complete daze, sitting idle until dawn broke.

Did an empty house always feel this cold?

The scene of his defeat replayed again and again in the back of his mind. He ruminated about how things would have been different if only he’d done this or that before realizing that it was futile.

Still, he thought his main assertion had been correct. The Usuba pair’s declaration was selfish; ultimately, they were only after Miyo’s Gift, just like the Saimoris. They claimed they were protecting her while prioritizing their own feelings above hers.

That was why Kiyoka couldn’t afford to lose.

He surrendered his body to his regret, enough to vomit up his empty, foodless stomach. When he quietly closed his eyes, Miyo’s crying visage was there waiting for him.

After a while, he heard a shriek from Hazuki, who’d arrived for Miyo’s lessons.

“Kiyoka?! Why, just look at you! What happened?!”

When his wide-eyed sister demanded answers, Kiyoka gloomily recounted the circumstances to her. He did this without adding any of his own feelings—just the facts.

When he’d finished the explanation, a forceful slap flew across his face.

Hazuki pinched her brow inward as she trembled with rage.

“And once you lost, you slunk back here with your tail between your legs? Unbelievable!”

“…………”

“Don’t you have something to say for yourself? You’re so pathetic, it makes your sister here want to cry.”

Hazuki roughly rolled up Kiyoka’s shirtsleeve, glaring at the wound on his upper arm.

The blood was already dried, but the untreated injury was red and hot to the touch.

“Look at this thing; it’s just awful. Don’t you have a reputation for being tough?”

“……Hgh!”

She grabbed the area around the wound, and pain shot through him. Though the injury itself was shallow, the mixture of burned skin, scratches, and lacerations had turned into a mess.

Hazuki held her hands on the lesion and closed her eyes.

When she did, a powdery substance of dim light floated down from the palms of her hands, and it smoothly melted into the wound. It healed in the blink of an eye.

Hazuki possessed the Gift of supernatural healing.

Though her ability had the power to treat any sort of injury instantly, it had no effect on poison or disease. This skill was less a product of the Kudou family and more an inheritance from Kiyoka and Hazuki’s mother.

“……Sorry.”

“That’s not it, my stupid little brother. Who told you to apologize? Hurry up and bring Miyo back here right his instant.”

Hazuki smacked his freshly healed limb, the look of a fiend in her eyes. “What else did I fix you up for?”

“I couldn’t possibly try to go back for her.”

“Why not?”

“…I lost the duel. I don’t have any right to bring her home.”

It had been a fair and square bout. Complaints and protests after the fact about the result were out of the question.

More than anything else, though, Kiyoka didn’t have the courage to face Miyo.

Miyo’s refusal to choose him had carved a deeper wound in Kiyoka’s heart than he had initially thought.

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