After all, being an urban legend, Miss Mary wasn't some easy-to-handle entity.

Although during yesterday's battle, Miss Mary was obviously inexperienced in combat and was quickly overwhelmed by his relentless assault, battered with injuries and bleeding all over the place, she was basically beaten without any ability to fight back.

But even so, she was still far stronger than ordinary human girls.

All in all, if Hikari wanted to truly subdue this urban legend, he would still have to work much harder.

Fortunately, thanks to his experience, he managed to seal Miss Mary this time without letting her escape into the wraith realm like Hanako did after being defeated, so he now had a chance to continue his exorcism and demon-purging.

Accompanied by the respectful and earnest mature lady manager, Hikari left the Richter Hotel.

Some hotel staff, seeing the usually stern manager treating this youthful high school boy so deferentially, couldn't help but cast surprised glances.

Hikari didn't mind. After waving at the mature lady manager, indicating she didn't need to escort him further, he stood at the hotel's entrance and looked up at the towering 99th-floor rooftop of the Richter Hotel.

"When I get out of class, I'll bring a Cream Pie and pay you another visit, Miss Mary," Hikari silently murmured to himself.

Heaven helps those who help themselves.

Hikari believed that as long as he kept the spirit of 'moving mountains' alive and kept infusing Miss Mary with positive energy, that white-haired shorty would eventually stand on his side, meaning the side of justice.

Of course, subduing Miss Mary the white-haired shorty wasn't solely for the noble cause of peace in the city, Hikari also had some personal motives.

For instance, as an urban legend, Miss Mary possessed some peculiar abilities. Like being able to call anyone she wanted, anytime and anywhere, regardless of whether the other party wanted to answer or not.

Also, in order to completely deal with Hanako, that damp thing in the toilet, taking care of Miss Mary was also a crucial step.

After clearing his thoughts, Hikari stopped dwelling on it and quickly headed toward school.

———

Arriving at school and entering the classroom, Hikari had just put down his backpack and hadn't even sat down when he heard a crisp girlish voice from outside the window.

"Hi-kari-kun, good morning~"

Hearing this slightly artificial yet bell-like voice, Hikari thought it was one of the three cheeky gals: Reina, Yuina, or Ruri. But when he turned around, he saw a pair of seductive apricot eyes staring at him, and the owner had a mature and charming face.

Wearing a loose white teacher's blouse, her explosively large chest still jutted out high.

Her black pencil skirt hugged her plump figure, and her long jade-like legs were straight and slender.

This sexy and mature onee-san figure wasn't one of those playful girls, but the beautiful teacher Shirakawa Miwa, who was quite close to him and often let him in through the backdoor.

Seeing Shirakawa Miwa's dazzling eyes waving at him, Hikari raised his hand and smiled in response, "Morning, Shirakawa-sensei."

"Say, sensei, why is your voice today so... pinched?", Hikari asked.

"Pinched?", Shirakawa Miwa tilted her head slightly, her beautiful eyes carrying a trace of seduction.

"I mean, why is it so... cute?", Hikari looked at her speechlessly. Just now, it was exactly because she had pinched her voice like that to greet him that he didn't immediately recognize it was this mature onee-san and mistook her for one of the other girls.

"Hehe, thanks for the compliment. I'm just in a good mood today. After all, someone promised to thank me yesterday and said they'd treat me to breakfast today."

"Right, where's my breakfast?", Shirakawa Miwa asked.

Yesterday, because of the issue where Morishita hypnotized the voluptuous homeroom teacher, Hikari planned to investigate potential hypnotists on campus and find that skilled hypnotist surnamed Tanaka, so he borrowed the class roster.

And that roster was obtained through Shirakawa Miwa. To thank her, Hikari promised to buy her breakfast this morning.

So Shirakawa Miwa happily came looking for Hikari early in the morning.

Under Shirakawa Miwa's expectant and slightly suspicious gaze, Hikari reached into the drawer and pulled out two bento boxes.

"Don't worry, I'm a man of my word. I already prepared today's breakfast for you, Shirakawa-sensei."

"Alright then, let's go eat in my office~", Shirakawa Miwa cheerfully pulled Hikari toward her office.

Usually, she was the one buying him breakfast, his massage skills were just too relaxing, and rewarding him was only fair.

Hikari treating her to breakfast was quite rare.

But after sitting down in the office and opening the breakfast box, Shirakawa Miwa became a bit speechless.

"Hi! kari! Hikaru!"

"You bastard! This so-called breakfast treat is just a convenience store bento from Lawson?"

"The breakfasts I brought you before were all from my favorite breakfast shop!"

Seeing Shirakawa Miwa's furrowed brows and wide apricot eyes, looking like she'd slap him to death with her enormous... assets, Hikari quickly explained, "You misunderstood, sensei! This Lawson bento is actually really good! It's way better than other convenience store chains! Try it and you'll see!"

"Oh, so that's how it is…", Hearing his explanation, Shirakawa Miwa relaxed her expression.

After all, the price difference wasn't much, and Hikari didn't seem like a stingy guy, so she believed him naturally.

Seeing she wasn't angry anymore, Hikari breathed a sigh of relief.

Truthfully, the breakfast was just a random bento he bought near the Richter Hotel entrance. Since he'd spent all morning fiercely battling Miss Mary the white-haired shorty and was pressed for time, he picked something quick and convenient to hand over.

Seeing Shirakawa Miwa eating while seemingly savoring it, Hikari relaxed a bit more.

"Oh right, aside from the bento, why'd you also buy a Cream Pie? It's so early, eating this combo?", Shirakawa Miwa asked curiously, ignoring the cream around her lips.

"Uh... I have a friend who really likes this recently, so I bought it out of habit," Hikari casually explained.

After yesterday's intense effort to subdue Miss Mary, he was pretty drained. While he didn't really believe in 'supplementing form with form,' perhaps the image of 'Miss Cream Pie' left too strong an impression, so he reflexively bought one.

"Hmm... pairing it like this is kinda nice. Has its own charm."

Hearing his reply, Shirakawa Miwa immediately grabbed a pie and took a bite. Cream exploded out, and sticky white filling smeared her lips.

Seeing her mouth sullied in that way, Hikari's eyelid twitched slightly, recalling the white-haired girl still sleeping at the top of the Richter Hotel.

To avoid losing control and thinking too much, Hikari looked down and resumed eating.

But just two bites in, he felt a soft hand grabbing and shaking his arm.

Looking up, he saw Shirakawa Miwa pushing his arm with her little hand.

"Hikari-kun, Kyoko's coming! You should go! She hates seeing me eat breakfast with you in the office!"

Hikari looked up and indeed saw that familiar icy beauty approaching from the office entrance.

Yesterday's midday m*ans seemed to echo in his ears again.

———

Accompanied by the office door being pushed open.

A graceful figure slowly walked over to the workstation not far from Shirakawa Miwa's side.

Waist-length purple hair, a delicate yet coldly beautiful face, and a figure no less explosive than Shirakawa Miwa's.

This black-silk-clad mature beauty, wearing a purple teacher uniform skirt suit, with stunning looks and a bombshell figure, was none other than Shirakawa Miwa's best friend, and also Hikari's homeroom teacher, the famous ice-cold beauty witch of the class: Tsukishima Kyoko.

As a teacher and homeroom teacher, Tsukishima Kyoko was usually very strict, and her personality a bit cold. She had already criticized Shirakawa Miwa many times before for being too close with Hikari, a student.

Shirakawa Miwa knew too. If Tsukishima Kyoko caught her and Hikari eating breakfast together in the office, she would definitely scold the two of them harshly just like before.

As a best friend and colleague, she herself could handle it, just invite Kyoko over to her place to share a meal or a sleepover and it'd be fine.

But for Hikari, her student, it would definitely be unpleasant.

So right now, Shirakawa Miwa kept winking furiously, giving all sorts of signals to Hikari.

Looking at Shirakawa Miwa's big eyes blinking rapidly, Hikari naturally understood the meaning of those signals: telling him to get up and leave quickly.

But since breakfast was only halfway done, Hikari didn't like to leave things half-finished.

"It's fine, let's finish breakfast first before leaving," Seeing Shirakawa Miwa's extremely anxious expression, and watching Tsukishima Kyoko approach, Hikari remained completely calm, looking composed, which made Shirakawa even more anxious.

"You brat, usually you don't listen and like to interrupt, fine, but now you're even talking back, sigh…", Shirakawa Miwa stomped her feet anxiously under the table.

But she didn't dare scold Hikari directly, because it was already too late. Tsukishima Kyoko had already reached the workstation next to hers, barely two desks away from her and Hikari.

Seeing Tsukishima Kyoko already seated at her desk, Shirakawa Miwa instinctively turned her body slightly, trying to subtly block the breakfast and Hikari's presence on the desk.

Based on past experience, the strict Tsukishima Kyoko would surely scold her for dragging Hikari into breakfast again, and she didn't want him to be lectured.

'Hikari-kun, this guy is really clueless. Wouldn't it be better to just walk away? Getting scolded by Kyoko in the office will be so humiliating. I really don't get it, maybe it's teenage pride, sigh…', Shirakawa Miwa was already thinking in her head about how to help Hikari get out of trouble when Tsukishima Kyoko, the homeroom teacher, started scolding him.

But what happened next completely surprised Shirakawa Miwa.

Tsukishima Kyoko, just like usual, placed her briefcase on her desk without any expression. But after arranging her things, she merely gave a strange glance in their direction, stared for two or three seconds, then quickly turned her head away.

Not only did she not scold them as expected, she didn't even say a word. Like she had something urgent to work on and didn't have time to deal with them.

This strange scene left Shirakawa Miwa dumbfounded.

"Eh? Could it be… Kyoko-chan didn't see Hikari-kun? No way, that's a whole living person right there, of course she saw him…", Shirakawa Miwa's face was full of confusion.

At that moment, Hikari beside her smiled and said, "Shirakawa-sensei, I told you it was fine, didn't I?"

Shirakawa Miwa raised her eyelids, rolled her eyes at Hikari, and gently kicked him under the table, extremely speechless, "You little brat, enjoying the benefits and playing dumb, huh? I guess it's just because Kyoko's in a good mood today, so you dodged a bullet."

While speaking, Shirakawa Miwa also secretly glanced at Tsukishima Kyoko, sitting at her desk beside her.

After closely observing Tsukishima Kyoko's seemingly rosy cheeks for a bit, Shirakawa Miwa said to Hikari thoughtfully, "Kyoko seems to be in a good mood today, so you got away with it."

"Why does it feel like her brows are relaxed and she has a touch more feminine charm today?"

"Could it be that she finally got some marital satisfaction yesterday?"

"In all the years I've known Kyoko, this is the first time I've seen her glowing like this."

"No wonder she didn't scold us for eating breakfast together in the office today."

"Hehehe, Hikari-kun, you're one lucky guy."

Tsukishima Kyoko's unusual reaction, combined with her expression, led Shirakawa Miwa to a very reasonable deduction.

While speaking, Shirakawa Miwa even smiled and lifted her chin lightly, her big eyes sparkling as she looked at Hikari, an expression saying Wasn't my guess spot on? Hurry and praise me.

"Ah, yeah yeah yeah…", Hikari's expression didn't change much as he perfunctorily responded a few times, but inside, he felt a bit weird.

He didn't know how to respond to Shirakawa Miwa's deduction.

Because he couldn't say it was entirely wrong. In fact, she had guessed quite a lot correctly. But when it came to the subject, she was way off.

Looking at Shirakawa Miwa's overly confident and assertive deduction, Hikari was full of internal complaints, but naturally he didn't dare to reveal even a word about what happened yesterday.

As she excitedly shared her gossip about Tsukishima Kyoko with Hikari, Shirakawa Miwa got a little too loud, forgetting that Kyoko's desk was right beside her.

Shirakawa Miwa didn't notice at all that Tsukishima Kyoko's expression was gradually becoming stranger. That cold and beautiful face was slowly turning flushed.

Because the office didn't have many people in it at the moment, and there wasn't much other noise, Tsukishima Kyoko, who had entered silently and was now sitting alone at her desk, heard every single word of what Shirakawa Miwa said.

When she heard Shirakawa Miwa confidently say to Hikari that the reason she didn't pursue the matter was because she had been "satisfied" yesterday, Tsukishima Kyoko's cold and beautiful face instantly turned crimson.

Her hands, resting atop her black-silk-covered thighs beneath the uniform skirt, clenched tightly into fists. Her entire delicate body was trembling slightly.

Those round jade-like legs wrapped in black stockings were even trembling to the point of nearly crossing.

As longtime best friends who understood each other well, the two could easily notice when the other was acting differently. In fact, Shirakawa Miwa's guess wasn't wrong. Tsukishima Kyoko really had received quite a bit of "satisfaction" yesterday.

But it wasn't from the man she was legally married to.

It was from… the very person standing next to Shirakawa Miwa right now.

Thinking about how she lost consciousness yesterday, and even gasped into a trance, Tsukishima Kyoko's face burned up.

And those disreputable nicknames she unconsciously cried out during the memory-reel moments also resurfaced in her mind.

As her chest heaved violently, Tsukishima Kyoko's fingernails had already dug tightly into her palms.

She didn't really want to be Hikari's good little sister and obedient daughter.

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