Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 317, White Hemp and the Little Bird
In the dead of night, Mai-senpai's bright, dark eyes reflected Asuka's charming and lovely appearance. However, the naginata that flashed in her hand was no fake!
What kind of unexpected development is this?!

Asuka was so frightened that the hairs on her body stood on end. Her legs went weak, and she collapsed to the ground, her little bottom slumped down. She struggled to move her small body with her legs, screaming, "No! No! No! No! No! Help! Mr. Uesugi!!!"

"Hehehe~ Cry for help now? Too late!" The radiant and stunningly beautiful Mai-senpai covered her mouth and chuckled, "You've discovered my secret. I can't let you live. What a pity, Asuka. We could have been friends!"

"No! Don't kill me, please! Shirakawa-san!" Although Asuka was terrified, the girl always had an amazing ability to read the room. She keenly sensed that there seemed to be no murderous intent in the eyes of the national goddess, but rather that he was thinking and teasing her. So, with tears welling up in her eyes, the girl quickly revealed her trump card: "I can't die! If I die, no one will take care of Uesugi-san!"

"Oh?" As expected, Mai-senpai seemed somewhat tempted by what the chosen girl said: "That's a barely acceptable reason, but you've discovered my secret, what do you plan to do?"

"I...I didn't mean to, I won't tell anyone, Shirakawa-san!" Asuka, seeing an opportunity, immediately pleaded in a very humble manner, "I swear, I...I can swear in my sister's name! I won't tell anyone! Is that alright, Shirakawa-san?"

After saying that, Saito Asuka, who was crouching down with her head in her hands, cautiously looked at the national goddess in front of her.

The girl knew that Mr. Uesugi and Mai Shirakawa had always been rumored to be dating, and that they were very close friends, schoolmates, and seniors/juniors. But she never imagined that Mai Shirakawa was actually someone with superpowers!
Did you really not realize it?
Actually, that's not the case. The girl had actually found traces of Mai Shirakawa's presence in the house more than once. For example, when she first moved into Sakata Bridge, she was cleaning one day and saw Mai-senpai in Uesugi Muneyuki's room. At the time, she thought she was seeing things, rubbed her eyes, and Mai-senpai disappeared.

But if you make a mistake once, will you make a mistake two or three times?
Moreover, the girl was very good at reading people's expressions. Sometimes she could hear conversations coming from the master bedroom even when no one else was in the house except her and Mr. Uesugi.

Wait a minute, if Shirakawa Mai is a superpowered person, then what about Uesugi-san?

The girl didn't have time to think it through; she just looked at Shirakawa Mai with teary eyes, thinking that no matter what, she had to survive!
To Asuka's surprise, when she mentioned her older sister, Mai Shirakawa's expression suddenly changed. Her face was filled with an indescribable sense of reminiscence and sadness. She had wanted to tease the "little bird" in front of her, but she couldn't keep up the act anymore. She put down the naginata in her hand: "Your older sister, is it Nanami?"

"Shirakawa-san, do you know my sister?" Asuka was surprised by Mai-senpai's reaction again.

"How come I don't know anything about this?!" the girl said, feeling wronged.

“Of course, after all, she and I are ‘lonely brothers.’” Mai-senpai finally dropped all her threats and teasing, and she gestured for Asuka to come over: “Actually… your sister once asked me to take care of you, Asuka, do you believe me?”

???

The girl thought to herself, "I don't believe you for a second!"
You're so rich and famous, even if I had to take just a little bit from your hundreds of millions in annual income, I wouldn't go on dates with Mr. Uesugi every day!

There's no one in this world you can trust except Mr. Uesugi!
At most, we can also include Minami-neechan!

“Yes, I believe you, Shirakawa-san.” Asuka said cautiously in a low voice, “Although I don’t know how you and my sister know each other, I feel that you and my sister must have met before.”

“Good girl, good girl, come here, let me hug you.” Mai Shirakawa was deeply moved by her words. She reached out and hugged the girl, her expression full of pity. “I’m sorry, Asuka. I did receive Nanami’s request to take care of you after she passed away, but I’m just too busy and don’t have time. So I had to ask you, junior, to come. I know you don’t believe me, but think about it, you’ve already found out about me. It’s not so strange that Nanami didn’t ask me to take care of you, is it?”

Huh? Is that so?

Asuka's little head was clearly not enough to keep up. Her silly and goofy appearance, coupled with her small head and round face, made her look just like an innocent little chick, which aroused Shirakawa Mai's tenderness and protectiveness. She couldn't help but hug her to her lap and rub her fair and beautiful face against Asuka's little face: "That's how it is~ Nanamin once said that the human world is hell, but we must live well and try our best to live."

"!!!" Saito Asuka's eyes widened.

"Hell is on earth"—this is a phrase my sister has only ever said to herself; even Mr. Uesugi doesn't know it!
Could it be that the girl's resistance lessened a little?

Sister! Thinking of this, Saito Asuka's eyes reddened again, and she almost shed tears again. Even though more than a year had passed, the girl still often felt sad and upset because of her sister. All she could do was try not to think about it. Only with Uesugi Muneyuki did she feel safe and warm like a family. She had always thought of Uesugi Muneyuki as her family. She never expected that another one would appear today.
Just as Saito Asuka was examining Mai-senpai, Mai-senpai was also examining the girl.

Clearly, Uesugi Muneyuki took good care of Asuka. Although losing her family, her only support, caused the girl's mental world to shift from independence to complete dependence, Asuka was actually much richer in both material and spiritual terms than in her previous days of hunger, cold, and uncertainty. When she first moved in, she was somewhat pale, thin, fragile, insecure, and sensitive. After being cared for by Uesugi Muneyuki for more than a year, the girl's physical and mental needs were greatly met.

Sure enough, this girl, like her sister, was actually born with a talent for the other world.

That's true. Without the talent of the underworld, how could Junior have made eye contact with Nanami, and how could Nanami's dead soul still ask him for help?
However, to actively awaken one's inner world abilities, one must personally perform a ritual within the inner world. Apart from this, awakening only occurs in the outer world by chance under extremely rare circumstances and for some special reason. Shirakawa Mai observed Saito Asuka and quickly, speechlessly, understood how Saito had awakened her abilities.

This girl probably often secretly wore Uesugi Muneyuki's shirts and smelled his scent on her bed... and the junior probably often brought women home, and afterwards, Asuka's scent would be found on the sheets, clothes, and towels...

Um, is this okay?
Mai-senpai was speechless.

At the same time, Mai-senpai also sensed something was wrong and clutched her chest.

Asuka will see my invisibility... Damn it, am I that badly injured?
With the year-end approaching, Mai-senpai needs to inspect the seals of the inner worlds of various shrines one by one before the Kohaku Uta Gassen (Red and White Song Battle). With her master killed by her and no successor, she has become the only person in the Kanto Shrine Alliance who has the ability to inspect and repair seals.

Repairing the seal consumed a lot of spiritual energy, and in one of the inner worlds, Mai-senpai even went through a battle and was slightly injured.

This is why Saito Asuka discovered her – she was injured and her spiritual energy was depleted, which is also why she was here.

Junior! Hand over all the spiritual energy you've collected lately!

I need you!

"Asuka-chan, just call me Mai-sama from now on. Nanamin is gone, but you still have me." Thinking of this, Mai-senpai hugged Asuka and gently patted her back: "Good girl, good girl~ Don't worry, you still have me. Don't worry, with me here, junior won't dare to bully you!"

"Mai-sama!" The girl leaned against Shirakawa Mai's chest, half obedient and half excited, her heart filled with sorrow, her eyes brimming with tears, and she pouted as she whispered, "But...but you're too late!"

"Huh?!" Mai-senpai tilted her head, her bright eyes full of confusion.

"Mr. Uesugi is already engaged to Minami-neechan!" the girl whispered weakly. "I also promised Minami-neechan that I would form the Metropolitan Police Department Alliance with that tall, fat woman... to protect Mr. Uesugi together!"

"Oh! This one?" Mai-senpai was amused by Asuka.

I never expected this child to be so committed to keeping contracts; that's rare!
"It's alright, Asuka-chan." Mai-senpai smiled sweetly and said very elegantly, "Actually, I'm a NTR enthusiast."

"Huh?!" Asuka turned into a dazed gray bird again, staring blankly at the national goddess.

“I love it the most to take over Watanabe Minami’s life and enjoy the life of my junior who has become a married man.” Shirakawa Mai smiled and pinched Asuka’s little face. “Besides, you should understand now, right? We are the same kind of people. What’s with the Metropolitan Police Department’s beauty or the judo beauty policewoman? They don’t understand our world at all, and naturally they can’t understand everything about my junior.”

Huh? Asuka suddenly realized that a whole new world was unfolding before her.

To become someone who truly understands Mr. Uesugi's world?
To become someone who can truly help Mr. Uesugi, to become his unique existence?
The chosen girl found herself utterly unable to resist this temptation!
Mai-sama is his goddess senior and close partner on TV variety shows; Minami-neechan is his boss; the tall, fat woman is his bodyguard, life assistant, and personal cup; his cheap mother is his forensic assistant. Each of them has their own unique attributes, but he himself is just a housekeeper, a shameful woman.

She's just a role that can be replaced at any time... The girl has been feeling conflicted lately. Uesugi Muneyuki is bringing more and more women home, and she's afraid that one day she'll be kicked out!

"So, Asuka-chan, how about we form a new alliance? Hmm... how about we call it the Nogizaka Alliance?"

Mai-senpai reached out her hand to the chosen girl.

"An unbreakable alliance!"

(End of this chapter)