Chapter 324

Chapter 324: The Most Fantastic Thing

Translator: Reflet
Editor: ryunakama

“Sakura? Who’s that?”

Akiha was just as expressionless as Youran, but for a different reason . She was the only person out of everyone here who didn’t have a direct connection with Sakura .

“Oh yeah huh, Akiha doesn’t know about Sakura . ”

“Aoba, you know her?”

“I…yeah . ”

Aoba made a slightly complicated expression . She had been deeply involved in the Juunishima affair and had ended up letting one of her mother’s get hurt . Although she hadn’t spoken directly with her, she knew quite a bit about Sakura .

“Umm…”

Aoba tried to explain, but faltered when she looked at Youran .

“She’s my little sister from another mother . ”

“Oh, didn’t know those sorts of things happened . So fantastic!”

“And there’s another one, also from a different mother . ”

“Fantastic! So what’s up? Hey, what’re you trying to say?”

“Well, let’s leave that to discuss at a more leisurely time…”

Taiyou cut off Akiha’s pursuit .

“Anyhow, what you all have on are rings that Sakura brought over . ”

“Hm, if the Sakura lady is the one who brought them over, I doubt that they are mere rings, ja . ”

“…”

Taiyou grimaced .

It wasn’t like he couldn’t say it . He didn’t regret doing what he did either, but in a sense, it was a bit difficult to give it to them straight, because it was embarrassing .

“””Taiyou-san?”””

“Master, shall I explain on your behalf?”

“No, I’ll do it . Even if you did, nothing would change if I just stay here . ”

“Well that’s true too . ”

Youran nodded .

Taiyou took a deep breath, turning back to his brides and speaking .

“It turns out that those rings are a product of ‘Blood Soul’ . ”

“Blood Soul?”

“Don’t worry Akiha, I’ll explain later . ”

Aoba said to Akiha .

“And the last time I recall running into Blood Soul, it took the form of a magic sword that sucked the blood and soul out of you . Sakura mentioned that same technology was used to produce these rings . ”

“So they’ll eat our blood and souls, lad?”

“No, not exactly, but…mmm…”

Taiyou faltered .

He couldn’t exactly say why . He had said plenty of difficult things prior to this, in addition to embarrassing things . Compared to those things, the current matter wasn’t even that big of a deal, but for some reason it was just difficult to say .

However, he strengthened his resolve, deciding that he couldn’t just keep putting this off .

“It sucks out your feelings . The more you love me, the more defense the rings give me, apparently . ”

Taiyou blurted everything out at once .

Their feelings were his power .

That fact was tremendously embarrassing to say out loud, and he couldn’t help but look away . He could tell that he was red all the way up to his ears .

Silence drifted over the place . Unable to say anything further, Taiyou looked at his brides . The three sisters and Kohaku were staring intently at their rings . Youran already knew about this, but she was still lovingly stroking her ring .

“Fantastic!”

Akiha said . She hadn’t received any ring because of her rejection, but now she spoke with such vigor .

“Akiha?”

“Seriously? Is that actually true?”

“Eh, well uhh…I think so, yeah . ”

“Yes, it’s true . At least from the experiments I conducted . ”

Youran said .

“I see! That is amazing, ja . ”

“””Definitely!”””

“Alright, so that’s what it is . C’mon, you need to say things like this earlier . ”

Akiha said, pursing her lips .

“Well you see, it’s just…”

“Embarrassing to say?”

Aoba asked .

“Well yeah . I had originally intended to keep their functions a secret from you . After all, it’s not like you knowing would change anything or make anything convenient . ”

Taiyou declared, convinced that this was something that had to be spelled out .

“Nothing would change if I told you, and there wouldn’t be any issue with not telling you . But if I said something like that, I’d feel embarrassed . So—-that’s why I kept it hush-hush . ”

Akiha frequently nodded, saying “Mhm, mhm . ”

“Then, okay!”

Akiha lifted up the palm of her hand, thrusting it in front of Taiyou .

“Eh?”

“I’ll have that ring of yours . ”

“I thought you didn’t want it . ”

“At the time, yeah, but now that I know how fantastic it is, I just gotta have it!”

“Is that how it works?”

“Sure it does, so gimme!”

Akiha thrust out her palm as if asking him to quickly hand it over . Taiyou grimaced . Quickly adapting to change was one thing, but he wasn’t so sure about her straightforward response there . It seemed that Aoba was of a similar opinion .

“Akiha, that’s no good . ”

“How come?”

“I mean, you sure that’s fantastic? Trying to get the ring like that . ”

“Mmm, then what should I do?”

“How about this…”

Aoba grabbed Akiha’s wrist and moved it up along with the back of her left hand, holding both of them out to Taiyou .

Taiyou saw both of their hands held out . This meant that they wanted him to put the rings on them .

All the wives who saw this smiled jovially, as if affirming their decision .

Akiha quietly nodded, seemingly understanding what Aoba was saying and felt that she was right .

Taiyou took out two ring cases, then took out the rings . He took both of their hands and was about to put both of them on when he suddenly realized something .

“Why don’t we do something more fantastic?”

“”Something more fantastic?””

Akiha and Aoba were puzzled .

Taiyou flipped their hands over, putting the rings in their palms . He put Aoba’s ring in Akiha’s hand, and Akiha’s in Aoba’s . Then, grabbing both of their shoulders, he had them face each other .

“Okay, go ahead . ”

“Eh?”

“Is this…?”

Akiha and Aoba looked at one another . They were initially perplexed, but soon seemed to understand .

So then, with everyone watching…

Like a newlywed couple, they put each other’s rings on .