Chapter 210
After sending Yuzu back to the Kurosaki household and covering her with a blanket, Yuta stepped out of her room.
Kurosaki Yuzu had already fallen asleep with a peaceful smile on her face, clutching the blanket tightly.
Outside the room, Kurosaki Karin held a cup of hot tea.
"Mr. Yuta, would you like to stay for some tea?" she asked politely.
Yuta accepted the cup and sat opposite Karin at the low table. Karin lifted her own teacup, gazing quietly at the ripples on its surface before turning her eyes to the fireworks outside the window. A faint smile appeared on her lips.
"All of this is thanks to you, Mr. Yuta. If you hadn't taken action, Karakura Town would have been destroyed long ago. We wouldn't be enjoying something like tonight's fireworks festival at all. Thank you... for saving all of us. We all owe you a great debt."
Yuta paused, his fingers tapping lightly on the table. After a moment, he spoke.
"Do you think it is right to sacrifice some people in order to save others?"
"Huh...?" Karin blinked in surprise, not expecting such a question from him. She looked at Yuta, who was staring out the window. His expression was unreadable, like someone seeing far beyond what she could understand.
Her grip tightened on her cup. It was said that those with greater ability carried a heavier responsibility. Everyone had only ever seen Yuta's calm and easygoing side, but the burden he carried had never been shown to them.
"Mr. Yuta, can you stand up for a moment?"
Yuta rose from his seat. Karin suddenly moved forward, wrapping her arms tightly from behind him, her hands clasped together in front of his waist. She pressed her cheek against his back, breathing in softly.
"...I don't know what's right and wrong, and I don't know the answers to everything. But I believe in your decisions, Mr. Yuta. You can change the world in your own way. Yuzu and I will support you."
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After finishing the tea, Yuta left the Kurosaki household.
The next day, Kurosaki Yuzu was humming quietly while cooking curry in the kitchen. Karin sat nearby, waiting for dinner, when she suddenly remembered something.
"By the way, Yuzu... yesterday, it was Mr. Yuta who carried you home and tucked you in with a blanket. I wonder if he might have accidentally touched your butt since you only had panties under your yukata when you slept..."
"W–What?" Yuzu froze in shock, her face turning bright red as she dropped what she was holding. The curry that day ended up boiling dry while Yuzu sat flushed and embarrassed, unable to focus.
Karin regretted mentioning it before dinner was ready.
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Time passed quickly. Two years went by in the blink of an eye.
Karakura First High School. The world had remained relatively peaceful in those years. After the crisis involving Aizen Sōsuke was resolved, no new major threats had emerged. Life was moving forward steadily.
On the grassy courtyard, Yuta was lying down with his head resting on Kuchiki Rukia's lap. Students passing by whispered among themselves but carefully stayed at a distance. Some of the older students remembered what happened two years ago when a classmate had challenged Yuta upon his arrival. That spar had ended with the student being effortlessly knocked away, three ribs broken, and months of hospitalization. From then on, no one dared to provoke him again, and his presence on campus became something everyone respected in silence.
Rukia's lap was warm and steady beneath him, and Yuta found it comfortable to rest there in the afternoon sun.
The school gate swung open, and a girl with light blond hair and green eyes leapt down from the high bridge. She landed directly in Yuta's arms, nearly knocking him back with the impact. His sturdy build absorbed the weight easily, though most others would not have survived that kind of leap unscathed.
"Rurichiyo," Yuta said with a sigh, steadying her, "can you stop jumping into my arms like that?"
"Yuta, when will you marry into the Kasumioji family and become my husband?" Kasumioji Rurichiyo asked without hesitation.
Two years had changed her appearance greatly. What once was the body of a young girl had matured into that of a young woman. Her height had increased, her features more refined, and her chest had grown noticeably. As the daughter of a noble house, her upbringing and diet had only emphasized her development further.
Two years ago, internal struggles over authority had erupted within the Kasumioji household after the early deaths of her parents. Yet it had taken Yuta only one show of his spiritual pressure to silence all opposition. What others viewed as an impossible political crisis, he resolved with ease. Perhaps that was when Rurichiyo's fascination with him began, for from then on she had persistently declared her wish for him to become her husband.
The household, of course, could not oppose the will of the young mistress. But Yuta had no intention of marrying into their family despite her beauty.
"Two years ago you said I was too young," Rurichiyo said proudly, straightening her chest to emphasize her maturity. "But now two years have passed, and I'm old enough to be your wife."
"You're still too young," Yuta replied from under the book covering his face, not even glancing at her.
"Hey, you didn't even look at me. Do you dislike me?" she said in frustration, pulling the book away and pressing herself toward him. "At least take a proper look!"
Yuta looked at her calmly. "Even after looking, my answer remains the same-you're still too young."
Seeing he wasn't shaken, Rurichiyo gave up and lay across his lap instead. "Well... I'm not in a hurry. One day you'll fall for my charm," she murmured with a quiet determination.
For nobles like Rurichiyo, marriages were usually arranged for political advantage, but she insisted she would never marry someone she didn't know personally. Yuta's presence had been her answer, and no one in her family dared oppose her decision after witnessing the depth of his spiritual pressure for themselves.
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