CHAPTER 364: CHAPTER 364: ON THE ROAD TO RUIN THIS TIME

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Just then, Kohaku, who was crouching to tie her combat boots, asked with a puzzled expression, "By the way, Papa. What about Alice-senpai and Aoko-senpai, the maids you hired?"

"I haven’t seen them since yesterday after school. Did Papa’s ’rations’ actually escape? How strange," Hisui, standing beside Kohaku, said with a surprised expression.

In Hisui’s eyes, every beautiful young woman who entered the house was Haru’s reserve ’rations.’ So, for the rations to be missing for over a dozen hours was quite surprising.

"They went to deal with the ley line barrier yesterday and haven’t come back," Haru said, a wicked grin on his face.

Seeing his smile, Akiha sighed helplessly and pressed a hand to her forehead. She knew what he was thinking. Some new method of... training...

"Well then, we’ll take Fujino to school," Akiha said, holding Fujino’s hand and waving at Haru.

"Go on, be careful on the road." Haru waved back and, after seeing the four of them off, stood up and turned his gaze to the Kuonji mansion on the mountainside.

"The auras of both of them are concentrated there!" Haru rubbed his chin, his gaze piercing through the dense forest, fixed on the haunted-house-like mansion.

The next moment, Haru passed through space, silently bypassing the Kuonji mansion’s magical barrier, and arrived at the entrance of the mansion’s west wing. As he was about to step onto the floor, he looked down at his leather boots with a silent sigh.

"Ah, of course not." Haru opened the shoe cabinet beside him and, seeing the small-sized women’s slippers inside, shrugged helplessly.

In Japanese residences, one had to wear slippers indoors. But the Kuonji mansion, with only two female residents, naturally only had women’s slippers. Helpless, Haru could only use magic to create a pair of men’s slippers.

If any magus were to see him using magic to create daily necessities, they would probably weep. To use the coveted miracle of magic to make slippers... what a blasphemous waste.

Wearing his slippers, Haru stepped into the mansion, which, though old, was exceptionally well-maintained, even the floors polished to a mirror shine.

Haru wasn’t surprised by the mansion’s condition. After all, this mansion was Alice’s most precious treasure. It was only natural that it would be treated with such care.

Walking down the spacious hallway, Haru followed the aura to a room door. He could feel Aoko’s presence within.

Creak—!

Haru pushed the door open, and when he saw the scene inside, his lip twitched.

From the layout and furnishings, it was clear that this was the Kuonji residence’s main living room.

But on the sofa, or rather, connecting the sofa and the floor, was a figure.

The half-baked True Magic User, Aoko Aozaki, was currently kneeling on the floor, her upper body draped over the sofa, her entire body in a strange Z-shape, fast asleep.

On the green leather sofa cushion, a puddle of ’clear water’ was currently flowing, and Aoko was pressing her youthful, beautiful face into it. Haru could clearly see that the source of the clear water was the young woman’s lips, which had made his mouth water just yesterday.

"Hoo~ Hoo~" Soft, even breaths came from Aoko.

Looking at the clearly exhausted young woman, Haru, a look of helplessness on his face, strode forward, scooped her up in his arms, placed her on a clean sofa, and, with a damp towel that had appeared from nowhere, gently wiped her face and her damp, deep brown hair.

After wiping her hair, looking at the sleeping young woman, Haru’s lips curved upwards. With a hint of wicked amusement, he unzipped the white down jacket she was wearing.

As the zipper was pulled down, the blue wool sweater inside came into view. But Haru’s movements didn’t stop. He grabbed the hem of the sweater and pulled it up.

After a few minutes of effort, Haru, with a teasing look, gazed at the little sheep, now stripped bare on the sofa, and with a wicked grin, he lowered his head.

"A true work of art~" Haru wiped the corner of his mouth, a look of satisfaction on his face as he looked at Aoko, who, besides her youthful, beautiful face, was now covered in bright red strawberries.

"Well, as a punishment for a maid not doing her job properly, am I being a little too kind?" Haru rubbed his chin and nodded sagely, as if praising his own kindness (depravity).

With a wicked grin, Haru covered Aoko with two down comforters and then, with the mindset of a nanny, he left the room and, following the aura, headed towards Alice’s location.

A few minutes later, Haru reached the second floor and, standing before a room door, slowly pushed it open.

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Time seemed to stop.

Haru, his hand still on the doorknob, stood silently, dazedly, at the entrance, his gaze fixed on the frail, sleeping figure on the bed.

Time seemed to lose its meaning. In Haru’s eyes, there was only the beautiful figure, like a sleeping beauty from a fairy tale.

Alice Kuonji was still wearing her black nun’s habit. From the black shawl on her body and the small black slippers on her black-stocking-clad toes, it was clear that the young woman had returned to her room in a state of exhaustion last night.

It was fortunate she was still wearing clothes. Otherwise, even in the warm house, the cold winter climate could have dragged the frail young woman into the clutches of illness.

Her breathing was soft and steady. With each shallow breath, her long, curled eyelashes trembled slightly, like a butterfly gracefully flapping its wings.

Alice’s normally cold eyes were tightly closed. Her doll-like, exquisitely cute face held a faint smile, like that of a mischievous, innocent child, filled with a pure and beautiful light.

The genuine smile on her bewitching face was like a blooming poppy, filled with a fatal allure and beauty.

"Mm~" Alice’s delicate brow furrowed slightly.

The young woman, who had been lying on her back, began to change her position. She slowly and gently moved to the right, her legs slightly bent, and fell back asleep on her side, her back to Haru.

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