Chapter 319: Kaguya: Me and him were just playing around
In an elegant mansion, Shinomiya Kaguya and Hayasaka Ai sat in a Japanese-style room.
"I didn't expect Hayasaka to dare attach a bugging device to me, this really opened my eyes." Kaguya really didn't expect Ai-chan to pull this kind of trick on her.
Although at first glance it might seem like she was doing it to protect her, no matter what, this was still very weird, right? After all, it's a bugging device!
"I also didn't expect Kaguya to actually agree to that kind of request." Hayasaka Ai didn't show any anger toward her.
In the Shinomiya family, if she wanted to survive, Kaguya could only keep playing her part like this.
To put it bluntly, it was called struggling to survive — she had no power, and even if she allied with someone else, she couldn't do anything.
Who would be stupid enough to 'invest' in Kaguya? There wouldn't be any benefits to gain in the future anyway.
Shinomiya Kaguya had absolutely no ability to inherit the position of the Shinomiya family head — everyone understood that implicitly.
"Are you mad?" Shinomiya Kaguya quickly scooted over, sitting right next to Ai-chan. "I was just pretending, I didn't really intend to seduce Sakurai-san."
Besides, I already did that once, and didn't it fail?
"Just a delaying tactic?"
"Umu umu. Really! I like you the most, with Sakurai-san it was just playing around."
"Kaguya-sama, you still like lying so much. I really wish sometimes you could be a little more honest." Hayasaka Ai sighed.
And she still dared to lie to me, recently whenever she had free time she would talk with him, and she's saying she doesn't like him?
"Fine! I admit I kinda like Sakurai-san a little, but it's just the kind of like between friends…"
"How far have you two gone?"
"Kiss... cough, we didn't do anything." Shinomiya Kaguya frantically shook her head.
"So it turns out you kissed behind my back?" Hayasaka Ai couldn't believe it!
Even though she knew that during that winter camping trip, the two of them must have done something at the hotel without her knowing, but kissing?
Ai-chan suspiciously asked: "Just kissing?"
"What else would it be?" Shinomiya Kaguya shot back.
"What do you mean 'what else would it be'? Do you think kissing is normal?"
"In foreign countries, isn't kissing a way of greeting between friends?" Shinomiya Kaguya pretended to be dumb.
"Then why do you only greet my boyfriend?" Hayasaka Ai was speechless.
If you're going to make up an excuse, at least make up something more reasonable, right? Who would believe this kind of reason?
"He's the only male friend I have!" Shinomiya Kaguya's logic was extremely solid.
She tried to use this "friends" reasoning to push forward.
But Hayasaka Ai saw through it immediately —
"Kaguya-sama, have I ever seen you greeting Secretary-chan with a kiss? And isn't President Shirogane also your friend?" Hayasaka Ai asked suspiciously.
They'd been in the student council together for a whole year, doesn't that count as being friends?
"That's just a normal friend, but Sakurai is a good friend, there's a big difference. Like Ai-chan, you're my good sister, and Fujiwara-san is just a normal close female friend. The gap is like this!" Shinomiya Kaguya said while gesturing with her hands to show the distance.
"If Secretary-chan heard you say that, she'd probably cry."
From what Hayasaka Ai knew, Fujiwara Chika liked Shinomiya Kaguya almost to the point of obsession.
If Kaguya-sama were to cut ties with her, Fujiwara Chika would probably make a huge scene and even hang herself for real.
Cry, make a fuss, and hang herself — those three steps, Chika could do all of them.
"Fujiwara-san really is annoying. Speaking of which…"
Shinomiya Kaguya tried to change the topic.
Hayasaka Ai wouldn't let her escape, "When did you kiss him? Who made the first move?"
"Can I not say it…" Shinomiya Kaguya was on the verge of tears.
Getting caught by his girlfriend was bad enough, now she even had to personally say when her first kiss was given away, this is just…
'Just kill me already!!'
Truly the suffering of this world!
"Kaguya, don't be scared, I won't do anything to you. I'm just curious."
That sentence from Hayasaka Ai might mean something else depending on who heard it, but Shinomiya Kaguya didn't believe it. Even though Ai-chan was her good sister, she didn't believe Ai-chan could be that generous!
But not saying wasn't an option either, after all, she had already "played" with someone else's boyfriend.
"That night, the wind and snow outside the window were so strong, I was so scared I couldn't sleep. So I called him over to sleep with me…" Shinomiya Kaguya's face turned bright red halfway through her sentence.
Now she was both embarrassed and felt a strange sense of pleasure in her heart.
Kaguya felt the "Lancelot" soul inside her was about to awaken.
Hayasaka Ai immediately caught the key point:
"You and he slept in the same room?"
"Umu, the hotel ran out of rooms."
Shinomiya Kaguya continued: "I called him several times before he agreed to come in."
"When we slept, we didn't do anything."
Those words — were all lies.
Like a glass of 'flammable oolong tea', only 1% water, and the remaining 99% was all alcohol.
"The next morning, because I wasn't fully awake, I made a mistake."
Shinomiya Kaguya said apologetically: "I was just being stupid for a moment, I'm really sorry. Please forgive me!"
Hayasaka Ai didn't fully believe it.
However, she knew very well how Kaguya tended to do foolish things when she couldn't sleep.
"But it wasn't entirely my fault either. Sakurai-san didn't push me away, and then he even stuck his tongue out."
"What… else?" Ai-chan tilted her head, her face full of question marks.
Kaguya-sama, your first kiss even involved tongue!?
"Umu, I saw in manga that when adults kiss, they always use their tongue. That's the behavior of a mature woman." Shinomiya Kaguya felt that as an Ojou-sama, she had to do mature things to be worthy of her status.
"Sasuga Kaguya-sama, sugoi. You're really so clever and quick-witted!"
For a moment, Hayasaka Ai didn't even know how to mock her.
She didn't intend to say anything else to Kaguya.
The thing had already happened, what else could she do?
Of course, the only choice was to forgive her.
Was she supposed to break up with Sakurai Saki?
Not to mention there were too many women waiting to throw themselves at him.
The most important thing was — the reason why the Hayasaka family hadn't been purged by the Shinomiya family yet was because of the influence from the other side. Hayasaka Ai's mother had made that clear to her.
Sakurai's mother held great power in Japan. If they lost this connection, the Hayasaka family would definitely be brought back under the Shinomiya family's control again.
On top of that, Hayasaka Ai didn't want to lose.
Moreover, she was born into a conglomerate family, trained since childhood to be a close attendant, so she could accept a man having mistresses. Besides, Sakurai Saki didn't even bother to hide the fact that he was a playboy, he couldn't even be bothered to pretend — a true scumbag, the kind that could shine even in the dark.
Being open about it was better than sneaking around.
"Hayasaka, the way you're praising me sounds weird." Shinomiya Kaguya felt she was being mocked.
"How could that be?"
"I really know I was wrong, it won't happen again next time!"
You're already talking about "next time"?
"Alright, let's stop talking about this. Now think about what to do with your older brother." Hayasaka Ai deliberately changed the subject.
The matter with Sakurai Saki could be set aside.
The fact that Shinomiya Kaguya was being forced into marriage made her even angrier!
It was clear they didn't even see Kaguya as a human being!