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"Huia..."

"Just call me Sister Hui, Kotori. Of course, calling me Mom is also fine." Kato Hui gently held up Kotori Itsuka's head, her eyes full of tenderness, and her two thumbs quietly pressed on Kotori's lips.

Kotori couldn't help but shiver. It wasn't that she was interrupted in the middle of her words, but rather that she stopped talking instinctively. It was like being in the bitter cold of winter, and... the faint echoing of the bell? Damn it! Don't underestimate me as a human... spirit! Kotori roared in her heart, making up her mind for the sake of her dignity.

"Mei..." The word "sister" was stuck in her throat. At this moment, a bolder idea came to Kotori's mind. Could this be a test from her mother-in-law? As a parent, she must have seen that her feelings for her brother surpassed those of ordinary siblings. Since Shido and she were not biological children, Kato Megumi must not have excluded her. Hunter... This legendary word, what kind of customs do they have? For example, the requirements for the daughter-in-law.

Following this direction, Kotori began to associate, and her thoughts went back to the ancient and martial city-state, Sparta. It was said that in Sparta, when a baby was born, he would be taken to the elders for examination. If the elders thought he was unhealthy, he would be thrown into an abandoned baby field in the wilderness; the mother would bathe the baby with strong liquor, and if he had convulsions or lost consciousness, it proved that he was not physically strong, and he would be left to die because he would not be able to grow up to be a good warrior.

Hunters who are skilled in hunting various creatures, it is not difficult to infer their aesthetic values ​​from such a life. Yes, they would hope that their children’s partners are brave and strong, so, at this time, you must not be cowardly!

Kotori widened her eyes as if she had an epiphany, her eyes filled with firm belief. Without a doubt, this was a crucial round. Although it seemed to be a simple choice between two options, it could not afford to fail. No matter what the matter was, if it involved her mother-in-law, her importance was absolutely unquestionable. If she could defeat Shidou's biological mother, the final victory... would belong to me, Kotori Itsuka.

Kid, you think too much. Hunters don't have such a custom. As for whether Sparta has one, I can introduce Kratos to you... However, Hikigaya, who can't see through other people's thoughts, is destined to never get his chance to complain.

Kotori clenched her fists with high fighting spirit, and her body was still shaking. This time it was not because of the cold, but because she was too excited. She was so excited that she wanted to put her fingers into her temples.

"Why aren't you talking, Kotori? And, are you feeling cold? You seem to be shivering." The hands that were holding Kotori's face turned into hugging her, and Kato Megumi asked caringly. But... it's really interesting, a shivering little girl, Mana was also so flustered when she did something wrong before. The more I comforted her, the more she shivered. Although it felt very strange, I really couldn't help but want to tease them, so it was all their fault.

Sure enough, how to communicate with children is a very sophisticated art, Kato Megumi couldn't help but sigh.

"Thank you for your concern, Aunt Hui." Kotori had a confident smile on her face, and looked at Kato Megumi with emotion. I, Gokawa Kotori, finally put my idea into practice. After all, this is a decision related to my lifelong happiness. I said it out loud, so what is there to be afraid of? Everything is under my control.

She was a brave girl when she was alive. These words suddenly popped up in Hikigaya's mind: Shidou's sister... is so naughty, not as honest as her brother at all, Hikigaya sighed.

"That..." Shidou scratched his head awkwardly, not knowing what to say. What Kotori said was correct, and mother shouldn't be angry.

"So in Kotori's eyes I'm already an auntie. I'm actually a little sad."

Huh? ? This reaction is a little different from what I imagined... I actually lost points in this reading comprehension question? ? Kotori was stunned.

"Click." The sound of the door lock turning was heard.

"I'm back." A deep voice reached everyone's ears.

"Hey, Hachi, you're here too." Seeing Hikigaya, Van greeted him enthusiastically.

"If you have some free time, come... come to Shidao's house and have a seat." Hikigaya nodded.

"You are..." Van felt that the girl in front of him looked very familiar, but he couldn't remember her. This didn't make sense. He was not the kind of person who would forget such things. It was very strange.

"My name is Kato Megumi, long time no see, Van..."

"Long time no see..."

Shidou stood aside, nervously watching his parents stare at each other silently.

116. Takamiya’s family are all hunters

Oh, doesn't it look good without the black hood? Well... I warned Shinshi not to learn from his father. Sunshine is good enough. Why does he have to go for something deep and dark... If he learned from Solar and painted a soul-like sun on his clothes, I could barely accept it. But if Shinshi and Shina learned from Van... I wouldn't dare to take them out. Fortunately, the children's aesthetic concept still leans towards my side.

"It's time to return this thing to you, Van." Looking at this friend with whom she had an unusual relationship, or husband... Kato Megumi took out a skull emitting white mist and handed it over. Will the marriage that she proposed, which was accidentally formed because of two children, continue? Shinji is already so old, even if he knows that she is just pretending to be his biological mother's adoptive mother, it won't be a big problem, then...

"This is something very important that you forgot." Kato Megumi said, raising the skull in her hand. No matter what, since all the family members are alive, it is a good thing to let Van think about the past now. As for the role-playing game... she thought it was completely over at that time.

"Calm down, Van. Mana and Shinji...are gone. Stop causing this senseless destruction."

"Let me calm down, haha, maybe you can calm down, Hui, but that's my child!"

"Is this what you really think... It's a bit sad..." Kato Megumi murmured in a low voice.

"If you continue like this, you will eventually turn into a beast..."

"So, forget about it all, Shinshi, Mana, Megumi..." The voices became smaller and smaller until they were inaudible, and the clothes on Kato Megumi's body completely turned into pitch-black scale armor.

"Whoever is responsible for the deaths of Shinji and Mana will..." Van spoke to himself as if he couldn't hear what others were saying.

Kato Megumi slammed the huge black shield in his hand in front of him. The heavy shield sank deeply into the ground. The shadow of a giant dragon roared over and collided violently with the shield. The terrifying impact instantly blasted around, and the raised smoke and dust completely covered the figures of the three people.

"I'm sorry, my dear friend, maybe this is wrong, but it's the only thing we can do..." Herrington murmured, took off the cowboy hat on his head and threw it aside casually.

......

"What did you do to me?" Van said in disbelief. He took the thing handed over by Kato Megumi, held it up and looked at it. It looked similar to the head of a madman who contained forbidden knowledge in the Yharnam period. Was it used to store something? Something that belonged to him... If that was the case, Van kept increasing his strength and was about to crush the skull in his palm.

"Teacher, I think you're going to be a little excited. Why don't you find a place where you can calm down first?" Hikigaya suggested.

"How do you know?" Van looked at his disciple in confusion. It was amazing that I was the only one who didn't know about me.

"I just know what I should know." Hikigaya looked unfathomable.

"Hehe, where did you learn this sentence? You often say things that you can tell are not your own thoughts." Van laughed.

"But it's very appropriate to use it here." Even though someone else said it bluntly, Hikigaya remained calm.

"Forget it, let's just stay here. You guys are making me very curious." Crack... Van crushed the skull in his hand. The white fragments dissipated in the air and turned into light spots. As if being pulled, they slowly floated into Van's body. Then there was... a long silence...

"I say...that thing, isn't it expired?" It was so quiet that Hikigaya couldn't help but step out to liven up the atmosphere.

"No way, then doesn't it mean that we can only make dad remember mom and me by spending some time with each other? Should we recreate some scenes to stimulate dad's memory? What...what should we do, mom, is this period of time necessary? Dad doesn't seem to have any reaction, even though we were talking to him like this." Shidou asked Kato Megumi in panic. After crushing the skull, Van stood stiffly in place, his eyes never shifted, remaining at that moment.

"It should have been successful..." Although she said so, Kato Megumi couldn't help but feel a little unconfident this time. After all, this plan was theoretically feasible starting from the stage of sealing the memory. If there really were some flaws in the stage of returning the memory... then what would her previous psychological activities mean? Even the memories were interspersed in it... Kato Megumi thought helplessly.

"Van, this is your son Shinshi, don't you remember?" Holding Shidao's hand and walking in front of Van, Kato Megumi raised her hand and waved left and right in front of Van's eyes.

Why do I always feel that the lines and actions of these two people are weird? What is this inexplicable sense of déjà vu? It feels familiar, but I can't remember it... Looking at the scene in front of him, Hikigaya was thinking hard.

"Oh, what have I done." Van's sigh was heard by everyone.

"Dad?" Hearing Van finally speak, Shidao called out tentatively to see if he had remembered the past. Actually, he still hadn't remembered everything yet. He felt inexplicably tired. In TV dramas, children usually complained unreasonably about their parents not being around all these years, and they always wanted to see you. Although he didn't have the first idea after understanding the situation, he had to worry about whether his father could remember the past, and whether his mother would be sad. After all, she was the only one who remembered everything. It was tiring...

"Come here, Shinshi." Van stretched out his hand and beckoned Shidao.

"Oh." He called himself a real samurai, so... Shidao walked over absentmindedly, and only came to his senses when he was hugged by those strong arms.

Although Van had hugged me like this before, the feeling this time was completely different. My biological parents, whom I had always been thinking about, were right in front of me. Mom and Dad...really appeared. It wasn't a dream...Speaking of dreams...Mom looked a lot younger than in my memory. Was it an illusion?

"Zhenshi, you are still alive and have grown up so much..." Hugging his child tightly, Van didn't know what to say for a moment.

"By the way, at that time, I also prepared a birthday cake for you. It was Hui who suggested it. I thought I would never have the chance to say happy birthday to you, but that cake... um..." Van didn't remember what the cake was like.

"As for the cake, I ate it alone in the end." Kato Megumi said softly, and her calm tone made Van and Shidao tremble.

"I'm sorry, Hui, for saying something harsh to you." Letting go of Shinshi, Van looked at Kato Hui.

"Don't apologize, you were right then."

"How could it be... Isn't Shinji and Shin's child yours and mine?"

"Oh? Is this what you really think?" Kato Megumi asked with a smile.

"Ah."

"By the way, what do you look like now?"

"What do you mean now? I don't understand what you are saying at all. I have always been a sixteen-year-old girl."

"Okay, this time it's sixteen, so I'll just choose... twenty." Van spread his hands.

"Hmm?" Shidou looked puzzled and looked at Hikigaya with a questioning look.

"Don't look at me, I'm just like this at my age." Hikigaya laughed.

ps: The forgotten Mana-chan...

117. Eriri: I can be forgiven for being a pervert, right?

"Hikigaya, come and help me see which card is better to play." Yukinoshita was a little hesitant, tapping the nine-tube with her index finger, and kept picking it up and putting it down. Should I change the chapter? Looking at the six-f that she had just touched and was also placed on the side, Yukinoshita thought carefully. She already had a pokemon, but she still couldn't wait for the eight or seven tubes. Maybe they were all on other people.

Yukinoshita quickly glanced at the other three people at the mahjong table, Tohka, Shidou, and Yuigahama Yui. Logically speaking, she could easily beat an opponent of this level, but Tohka was lucky and her strength was unpredictable. As for the other two... their support was not simple.

Standing behind Shidou is Kato Megumi with a smile on her face; the two little dolls sitting on Yuigahama's shoulders, let's not talk about the one with two pigtails, Kiana Kaslana, at best she is at the same level as Tohka, a cricket mascot, not worth mentioning, but the other one, her control of the battle situation is as precise as a robot, she is a troublesome guy, Yukinoshita looked at the doll girl with hair like two drills with a serious look.

This is no longer a simple battle between four people, Yukinoshita thought silently.

"Are you still hesitating, Yukinoshita? Let's switch." Hikigaya said firmly, and then suddenly realized something. Hikigaya stopped his hand that was about to touch Yukinoshita's shoulder. He couldn't pat her shoulder! He raised his hand slightly and pressed it on Yukinoshita's head, and with his other hand, he shot out the Nine-tube.

"Shinshi, let me touch this card." This pattern is it, and a victorious smile appeared on Kato Megumi's face.

"Well... Actually, I can win." This is the reason why Bronya asked me to wait. It's really bad taste, Bronya! But this feeling of wanting to tremble and cheer, is it joy? Seeing Kato Megumi helping Shidou draw cards and preparing to push the cards, Yuigahama said slowly, picked up the nine tubes and raised them, with a shallow smile that looked a little embarrassed.

"I think I won too, so Yuigahama and I won this time together." Tohka said excitedly. According to her understanding, she also won in this situation, which was something worth being happy about.

"Ah..." Yuigahama paused for a moment, but still held a glimmer of unrealistic hope in her heart. She looked at the positions of other people in a counterclockwise direction, Yukinoshita, Shidou... What came into view was Tohka's delicate face and incredible crystal-like eyes. What an innocent smile. Damn it... She was intercepted. I, Yuigahama Yui, will never forget this humiliation. Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west...

"Oh, it's Eriri. Aren't you painting today?" Hikigaya asked while greeting Eriri when she opened the door and came in without bringing her own painting tools as usual. Of course, when Eriri was painting in the Service Club, she still painted the normal kind, after all, there were children around. I'm talking about you, Tohka. As for the others, well, it's hard to say.

"I want to... take a break today." Eriri responded casually, found a seat and sat down, and then began a mental struggle, should I... listen to the opinions of these guys? Eriri looked thoughtfully at the group of people around the mahjong table. Anyway, Yukinoshita and Hikigaya knew about it, and it was exposed in Egypt. Ah... Unknowingly, the members of the Service Club can get together two mahjong tables, but they all have clear goals.

"Hmm..." Thinking of this, Eriri covered her non-existent...but relatively speaking existing chest uncomfortably.

I don't know how to start... How do girls pick up other girls? How to turn a love rival into a girlfriend? I have no idea at all. Maybe I can... ask for their opinions in a tactful way. Looking at these guys who have a happy and fulfilling love life, maybe they have some skills.

"Actually... I have something I'd like to hear your opinions on." Eriri said with determination.

"Hmm!" Everyone noticed the interesting smell and instantly stopped shuffling the cards and all looked at Eriri.

"Uh... could you please stop staring at me like that? Gurgle... I feel a little... speechless." After swallowing, Ying Lili already felt a little regretful. Could she really rely on this group of people? Would this be a wrong choice?

"Tell me your commission, Eriri." Yukinoshita put her hands in front of herself and put on an extremely serious look, like a commander who was commanding an unprecedented battle.

"There's no need to be so serious..." Ying Lili said helplessly. She didn't know what she had done to touch their excitement.

"Don't take it too seriously. This is just a manifestation of my personal professionalism." Yukinoshita said seriously, nodded, and gave a very convincing look.

"Actually, I have a friend..." After thinking for a while, Ying Lili spoke.

"Oh, you have a friend, right?"

"Ahhh! I won't say anything if you keep doing this!" Looking at these guys who were smiling with squinting eyes and showing their true colors, Eriri exploded in anger and humiliation on the spot. The ending of the sentence was deliberately dragged out for a long time, as if it was looping 360 degrees in her mind without any dead ends!

"Okay, okay, I won't laugh at your poor way of covering up. Just say whatever you want to say." It's so easy to get angry, which takes away a lot of the fun. Hikigaya shook his head in disapproval.

"It's nothing special... It's just about... love... emotions." Seeing that everyone looked serious, Eriri stammered and said something that she was a little shy but couldn't help...

"So, Eriri-san has someone she likes! Who is it?" Yuigahama slammed the table and stood up excitedly, shouting. She was very excited to suddenly discuss such a youthful topic.

"I know what I said is very obvious, but Yuigahama, could you please cooperate with my performance and not just turn a blind eye to it..." Eriri murmured desperately, as if the color of her body was changing towards that of the photos from the 1960s and 1970s.

"I'm sorry... What kind of emotions are you talking about? Family, friends, or love?" After sitting down again, Yuigahama put on a calm expression and asked the question.