My wife believes me; how could I be a cuckold?

Yuna Kamino frowned, completely baffled.

However, realizing that the uncle was still waiting for her at the door, she shook her head and temporarily put the matter out of her mind, then quickly walked over there.

Chapter 31: Yuna Kanno, Terrified

Seeing Yuna Kanno walk up to him, Makoto Asano smiled and asked, "Why are you so late? Did the teacher keep you late?"

His words weren't meant to be accusatory; they sounded like a joke. Yuna Kanno blushed upon hearing them.

The reason she came out so late was because she was feeling quite tired due to recent family matters, and as a result, she accidentally fell asleep during the last class today.

When she woke up, almost half of the people in the school had already left.

However, she was a very polite girl. Although she felt embarrassed, she immediately bowed and apologized after realizing that she had made Asano Makoto wait for a long time.

"I'm sorry, Uncle Asano. I was a little slow packing up after school. I hope I kept you waiting."

Even good kids sometimes tell harmless little lies.

To this, Makoto Asano simply chuckled and said understandingly, "It's alright, I just arrived myself, I haven't been waiting long."

He then added, "Shall we go? I'll take you to my place first. After all, you'll be staying there from today onwards, and it would be quite troublesome if you didn't know the way."

Seeing that Yuna Kanno only nodded without saying anything, looking rather uninterested, Makoto Asano was slightly taken aback.

However, after pondering for a while, he figured out the reason and a new plan came to mind.

But now, he didn't reveal his thoughts, and instead calmly walked towards the street corner not far away.

Yuna Kanno followed, and then she saw, with a look of astonishment, that Makoto Asano opened the door of a black sedan parked on the side of the road.

She didn't know the specific model of the car, but just by looking at it, she knew it was a very expensive luxury sedan.

The reason she was shocked was, of course, because she hadn't expected that this Uncle Asano, who looked to be about the same age as her, was so rich that he could afford such a nice car.

You should know that her father only drove an old Suzuki he bought many years ago, and he had recently mortgaged it to pay off debts...

On the other side, Makoto Asano had already gotten into the brand-new Audi RS7 and was beckoning Yuna Kanno to get in as well.

He had just made the car, of course. Considering the plans for later, he felt it would be more convenient to have a car, but the main reason was that he didn't want to have to squeeze onto a tram even in his dreams.

Since he was in a dream, he possessed the "Nightmare" skill and could conjure anything within his comprehension with just a thought.

However, in order to prevent Yuna Kanno from seeing anything too outrageous and doubting her dream, he did not do anything excessive.

Otherwise, wouldn't it have been better if he had just conjured up an airplane? Or wouldn't it have been faster to simply teleport Yuna Kanno to their destination?

As for why he conjured up this car, it's simply because, like Yuna Kanno, he's someone who knows absolutely nothing about cars, only Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi, aside from a few sports car brands.

He had seen the Audi RS7 in videos before and thought it was a cool car, so he remembered it. When he needed it again, he subconsciously thought of this car.

At that moment, Yuna Kanno sat down in a daze, and Makoto Asano started the car immediately after she was seated.

Because it was a dream, he wasn't actually driving; he was controlling it with his mind. If he wanted, he could make the car fly into the sky on the spot.

For the same reason, he didn't do anything too outrageous, except for one thing—in front of Yuna Kanno's shocked gaze, he floored the accelerator.

Watching the numbers on the dashboard rapidly increase and the scenery outside the car window constantly change, Yuna Kanno almost peed her pants in fright. Her delicate face turned deathly pale at a visible speed, and a pitiful scream escaped her throat.

But upon hearing the sound, Makoto Asano ignored it and stepped on the gas again, speeding the car to over 200 kilometers per hour, which startled Yuna Kanno into screaming again.

Makoto Asano did this intentionally; he wanted to provoke Yuna Kanno, preferably to the point of making her cry.

Because the timeframe of the dream he constructed was shortly after Yuna Kanno had just experienced a family tragedy.

At this time, she had not yet met that "hot senior" and was not affected by her. She was still the same as before, a very kind and innocent girl.

But in a sense, it is precisely because she is such a sensible and good child that she is unwilling to confide in others about her feelings, and thus has nowhere to release her pressure.

When Makoto Asano first came to pick her up from school, she sighed frequently, and when Makoto Asano said he would take her home, her lack of interest showed that she had accumulated a lot of pressure.

These pressures, if left unreleased, would only accumulate in her heart, which is why she was later lured into becoming a "hot girl" and extorting money on the tram, leading to the series of events that followed.

Simply put, the "good girl" Yuna Kanno has a desire to become a "bad girl" due to pressure.

What Makoto Asano is doing now is releasing the pressure in Yuna Kanno's heart through high-intensity stimulation. If I had to give an example, it would be similar to riding a roller coaster or bungee jumping.

He wasn't afraid of getting into a car accident because once he got in the car, he had already eliminated all other vehicles on the road except for himself.

And so, with Makoto Asano speeding along, he quickly brought Yuna Kanno to their destination—not his home, but the famous Shin-Okubo shopping district in Higashi Shinjuku.

Under the still-shaken gaze of Yuna Kanno, Makoto Asano pulled the car over to the side of the road and got out.

Once she realized what was happening, Yuna Kanno quickly unfastened her seatbelt and got off. In her haste, she almost fell to the ground, but Makoto Asano caught her just in time.

After regaining her footing, Yuna Kanno took a few deep breaths to calm her wildly beating heart.

Then, with her hands on her hips and eyebrows raised high, she put on an angry expression and said to Asano Makoto in a lecturing tone, "Uncle Asano, please don't drive so fast next time! You know that can easily cause a car accident!"

Despite being meant to be a lesson, her cute gestures and soft tone made it sound utterly intimidating.

So Asano Makoto just smiled and apologized, which didn't sound sincere at all.

Seeing him like this, Yuna Kanno almost fainted, but there was nothing she could do about it, so she simply stopped thinking about it.

Asano Makoto's guess was actually correct.

Despite being terrified on the train, fearing she might die that day, and nearly losing her balance due to the sudden change in speed after getting off, Yuna Kanno felt an indescribable sense of relief after regaining her composure.

Subconsciously, she didn't really blame Asano Makoto. She only said a couple of seemingly lecturing but actually complaining things out loud. After Asano Makoto gave a very insincere apology, the matter was considered over.

Compared to Makoto Asano's reckless driving on the road, Yuna Kanno was more concerned about why he had brought her here in the first place.

Does he live here?

With that in mind, Yuna Kamino directly voiced her doubts.

However, Makoto Asano did not answer, but instead gave a somewhat mysterious smile.

He brought Yuna Kanno here for the important business of this trip, which was also the most important part of his plan.

However, all of this is still a secret for now, because he wants to give Yuna Kanno a surprise.

Chapter 32 focuses on redemption.

The surprise that Makoto Asano mentioned was nothing strange; it was simply a pleasant surprise.

From the moment they arrived at the shopping street until the dream ended, he took Yuna Kanno to eat, drink, and have fun in this consumer paradise, enjoying everything they could possibly want to eat and do.

At first, Yuna Kanno was very reserved, but she gradually opened up and threw herself into having fun.

Moreover, at Makoto Asano's insistence, she has now taken off her plain school uniform and put on a white long dress, and has also let her previous unfashionable braids hang loose.

Looking at her completely transformed self in the mirror, Yuna Kanno smiled from the bottom of her heart.

She hadn't been this happy in a long time.

Although her parents are both very good people, they both have their own jobs and rarely have time to take her out to play. She has never had such a happy experience before.

Moreover, from that day on, the atmosphere at home was no longer as harmonious as before. The number of times the parents argued gradually increased, and even the number of times the family sat down to eat together decreased.

Having lived in this oppressive environment for so long, Yuna Kanno has finally relaxed completely under Makoto Asano's guidance.

Looking at the genuine smile on her face, Makoto Asano couldn't help but recall how terrible she looked when they first met on the train, and then he sighed inwardly.

His earlier guess was absolutely right. Yuna Kanno was essentially a pitiful child, not only burdened by a lot of pressure due to family changes, but also lacking love from her parents.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have developed a change in her filial piety after her father became a useless person who only drank and gambled, and she wouldn't have fallen in love with her mother who single-handedly supported the whole family.

She herself would not have been easily misled and gone astray, ending up in this terrible state.

It was just too late when we met, otherwise...

This thought only crossed his mind for a moment before Makoto Asano immediately shook his head and put it aside.

He felt that even now it wasn't too late; the time since Kanno Yuna had gone astray wasn't too long, and it wasn't that she was completely beyond redemption.

What he is doing now is to make up for Yuna Kanno's past in her dreams, and to give her the identity of an uncle as an adult so that she can feel "fatherly love", and to subtly influence her heart.

Although Makoto Asano did these things more to lay the foundation for his future path of pursuing the pure love route of Yuna Kanno.

Other things mentioned, such as correcting Yuna Kanno's personality and trying to turn her back into the innocent and kind girl she used to be, are actually just incidental in this process.

However, this did not affect Asano Makoto's desire to redeem her by turning her back into a good child. After all, compared to the annoying brat Jinno Yuna had been, he preferred her now, smiling happily in front of him.

Even if we take a step back and say that, Yuna Kanno looks much better now than when she wore gyaru makeup.

……

Yuna Kanno opened her eyes, looking somewhat confused at the classroom, which was now mostly empty, and the few students around her who were packing up their things.

After thinking for a while with her still somewhat groggy mind, she figured out the situation: it was time for school to let out, and they had been gone for a while already.

Although she didn't know why she fell asleep in class or why she slept for so long, she immediately stood up to pack her things and go home because she still had to rush to review the knowledge she had learned in the past few days.

However, the moment she stood up, her body suddenly stiffened, and her face turned pale at a visible speed.

She remembered—the dream she had just had while she was asleep, and the blond uncle who had given her so much fun.

The reason her body was trembling was precisely because of that blond uncle.

Why... why is the uncle in my dream the same pervert I encountered before?

Thinking of this, Yuna Kanno's already pale face turned even paler. She even wondered if she had taken the wrong medicine today, because she dreamed of Makoto Asano, and in the dream, he was the uncle who had been so kind to her.

She was completely baffled and couldn't figure out the reason in the end, which made her feel somewhat confused and disoriented.

However, as she packed her bag and walked out of the school building, she subconsciously looked up at the school gate.

Apart from the students leaving school, there was no one there, not even that blond uncle, nor that very high-end-looking black car.

It really was a dream. That pervert couldn't possibly become my uncle, and I can't go back to the past...

Yuna Kamino gave a self-deprecating bitter laugh, while also feeling relieved.

However, somewhere she herself might not even notice, a hint of regret was murmuring to herself deep inside.

"If only that weren't a dream, but reality."