After breaking up, my ex asked me to win her back

"Why have you been avoiding me lately?" Ayakoji Chiyoko said coldly. "It was me who was deceived, yet, as the perpetrator, you act more aggrieved than I do. How is that reasonable?"

"..."

"Given your nature, you probably feel that you can't find anything to compensate me with right now, so you might as well stay out of my sight to keep me from getting annoyed, right?"

"..."

"I really underestimated you," Ayakoji Chiyoko sighed. "After all, we pretended to be a couple for so long, yet you can't even see my true feelings. It seems you really have no interest in me."

"...Ayakoji," Kagura Hikaru groaned, clutching his stomach, slowly sitting up. "At this point, I don't have any right to keep up appearances with you. Just say what you want, as long as it's within my limits, I'll fulfill your every wish."

"Really? If anything goes, then start by taking responsibility and get engaged to me."

"...Sorry, that's beyond my limits."

"Then let me become the prime minister of the Island Nation."

"Are you joking?"

"This won't do, that won't do, what a useless man." Ayakoji Chiyoko looked at him with disdain.

Then she bent down, pressing her hands hard on Kagura Hikaru's shoulders, pushing him against the back of the chair, "So how about this—stop running away, stop playing the invisible man, let's start over."

"What do you mean...?"

Kagura Hikaru's puzzled eyes met Ayakoji Chiyoko's, and to his surprise, he could not see any anger in them.

Unlike what he experienced with Kiryu Hina, he did not feel a surge of revenge emanating from her.

Instead, there was something deeper.

Kagura Hikaru did not perceive this as a display of Ayakoji Chiyoko's magnanimity—as far as he was concerned, this woman had never been magnanimous, not since he had known her.

The only thing that could make her behave this way was a desire greater than revenge.

"What exactly...?"

"Kiryu Hina threatened you in the same way back then, didn't she? She exploited your guilt and made you willingly become a spy for nearly a year."

Ayakoji Chiyoko ran her hands up along his neck to Kagura Hikaru's cheeks, fixed his face, gazing into his eyes: "Didn't she say something like this?—'This is what you owe me'?"

"..."

"It looks like I guessed right," Ayakoji Chiyoko smiled. "Forget it, let's not talk about that despicable woman anymore, it spoils the mood. Let's talk about our future instead."

"Our—huh?!"

Before he could finish, Kagura Hikaru's mouth was sealed by another soft pair of lips.

What was she thinking?!

Kagura Hikaru widened his eyes, lifted his right foot, and drove his knee into Ayakoji Chiyoko's body, pushing her away with all his limbs.

"What are you doing? We are no longer in a relationship!"

"Can't we kiss if we are not a couple? Such men and women are everywhere outside." Ayakoji Chiyoko's face darkened slightly, then she smiled with difficulty. "Weren't you considering what to use to compensate me? How about compensating with your body?"

"...Ayakoji, don't be like this, this kind of joke isn't funny."

"I'm not—"

"Ayakoji!"

Kagura Hikaru interrupted her, "Wake up, you're not the kind of girl who lacks self-respect. Even if it's not me, you can meet someone better in the future."

"...So why can't it be you?"

Ayakoji Chiyoko's expression grew colder: "What exactly is it about me, Kiryu Hina, and Kohinata Motoyo, that you dislike so much?"

"Love is something no one can make clear." Kagura Hikaru shook his head. "Sorry, Ayakoji, I genuinely can't see you as a romantic partner, I'm the kind of person who can't bring you happiness."

"Even during our intimacies in the past, you never wavered."

"...Yes."

"..."

"Sorry."

Kagura Hikaru picked up his backpack and stood up, giving Ayakoji Chiyoko a complex look before heading toward the school building.

"Wait."

Ayakoji Chiyoko's voice came from behind, "You just said you could fulfill a request of mine as long as it doesn't cross any lines, right?"

"Yes."

Kagura Hikaru turned around, then paused slightly.

Ayakoji Chiyoko was crying without expression.

It seemed to be the first time he had seen her cry, even on the day he revealed the truth, the day he told her face-to-face, "I don't have romantic feelings for you," Ayakoji Chiyoko had only teared up.

Seeing her like this, pain started to clutch at a part of Kagura Hikaru's heart.

Kagura Hikaru, Kagura Hikaru, look at what you've done.

"Then I'll say it, my request."

Ayakoji Chiyoko wiped her eyes with the back of her hand, sniffed, glanced away, and bowed her head slightly as she spoke softly, "Become friends with me... become friends with me, Kagura Hikaru."

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"Welcome home, you're early today."

After school in the afternoon, Kagura Hikaru returned to his room.

The jar of honey was still intact under his desk, seemingly untouched.

Just in case, he opened the lid to check if the volume had changed.

This jar of honey, maybe it was just ordinary honey, for after trying it once other than feeling special emotions when thinking of Komori Ai, he experienced no other symptoms.

It didn't suddenly make him want to eat more either.

This was completely unlike what Inspector Yamazaki had said.

According to him, everyone who got the honey and ate it consumed it entirely and re-entered the Happiness Sanatorium for another jar.

Was the police investigation wrong, or was it individual differences?

For an undercover mission, did he really need to consume the entire jar of honey?

After careful consideration, Kagura Hikaru decided to try it again.

He took a soup spoon from the kitchen and scooped another spoonful of honey into his mouth from the jar.

Having sat for just a day, it tasted slightly different, probably due to the hot weather, and maybe human blood had something to do with it. Experience more content on My Virtual Library Empire

Savoring the taste of the honey, confirming he had swallowed it, Kagura Hikaru closed his eyes and recalled the figure of Komori Ai once more.

Her delicate and gentle body, her beauty like the bright moon, her light red dress.

A sense of restlessness inexplicably aroused in his heart, a desire to immediately rush to the Happiness Cult's premises to ensure her safety, to protect her, to respect her, these desires and thoughts kept emerging.

It was as if thoughts not his own were being forcibly implanted into him.

If vampires create their Devoted Clan by sucking blood, was Komori Ai generating faith through being sucked blood from?

Kagura Hikaru roughly understood why the Happiness Cult had designated Komori Ai as both 'Shrine Maiden' and 'Human God'.

Her presence was a natural religious cornerstone.

If others who ate the honey were like him, then simply by entering the Happiness Cult's premises and seeing Komori Ai in person, they would probably easily be captivated and become followers.

He decided to end the experiment there, feeling no further change in his thoughts.

Kagura Hikaru looked at the honey stored in the glass jar and decided to finish it.