CHAPTER 757: THE INFATUATED MARIKA

Marika blushed because Eiji had clearly called her father father-in-law, right?

Compared to Raku who always treated her coldly, Eiji who often teased her many times was better than him.

"You actually don’t need to bother bringing anything, Eiji-sama. But thanks! My father is inside."

"Then I’ll trouble you to take me to him."

"Leave it to me, Eiji-sama!"

Marika immediately hugged one of Eiji’s arms and pulled him into her house.

Eiji certainly did not resist, he enjoyed the soft and warm sensation of being pulled by a beautiful girl.

Shortly thereafter, a scene as familiar as in the original work took place. Eiji sat on the sofa while being hugged by Marika.

In front of him, sat an old man with black and white hair with a stitched scar on his face.

In the original work, the protagonist Raku was terrified when he saw Marika’s father’s appearance for the first time.

However, Eiji was different. Not because of his power, but because he knew the man in front of him was a friendly person.

[I’m not like the protagonist Raku who often judges people by their appearance. Marika’s father looks like a Yakuza leader, but I know he is a person who looks scary on the outside but is actually a good person on the inside.]

Eiji-sama, you’re right!

My father is very kind!

Hearing Eiji’s inner voice, Marika was relieved because she was originally a bit worried that he would be intimidated by her father’s appearance.

However, she didn’t expect him to know her father so well.

Sure enough, Eiji was better than Raku who liked to judge people by appearance.

"Sorry for making you come all the way here, Eiji-kun. My name is Gen Tachibana, I’m a commissioner in the Police Department and I’m Marika’s father."

"I heard you’re friends with my daughter, is that true?"

Gen asked the boy who was being hugged by his daughter in front of him.

Any father would be a little worried in this situation and he was no exception.

Although after meeting Eiji in person, he thought he was a good boy because he still looked calm when sitting in front of him.

"Yes, sir. Your daughter and I are friends."

Eiji said while smiling kindly at his future father-in-law.

"I heard you also helped my daughter by driving her to school when her car broke down."

"Hmm... I remember something like that happening."

[More precisely, it was when your daughter and I first met.]

[It was fate.]

F-Fate?!

Marika held her flushed cheeks with one hand.

The other heroines fell silent. Instead of fate, many of them thought it was just coincidence.

Or someone might have been pulling the strings behind the scenes?

Halo Romcom Protagonist: "....."

"So it’s true? Thank you for helping Marika, Eiji-kun." Gen said in a rather soft husky voice.

Eiji waved one of his hands. "It’s fine, it was just a little effort. A beautiful girl suddenly knocked on my windshield to ask for help. At that time, how could I refuse?"

"Beautiful? Eiji-sama, you said I’m beautiful? Hehe~"

Marika laughed with a silly smile.

Eiji grinned in his heart because Marika seemed to have really moved on from Raku and now she liked him.

Seeing his daughter so happy just because of a little compliment from a boy, Gen felt that the cabbage he had tended for years would be eaten by pigs.

This feeling made him a little sad.

"Even so, I still feel the need to thank you and even award you for stopping the fight between the Beehive Gang and the Shuei Clan not long ago."

"What kind of award? Isn’t that too much? Thanking me is enough, sir. I don’t want to receive anything troublesome."

Eiji really didn’t want it.

Imagining himself standing with the police and holding something called an award in front of many reporters.

That was troublesome.

He had come here purely to increase the positive level of Marika and his future father-in-law.

Should he have said that?

Of course not.

Gen widened his eyes slightly and laughed, "Hahaha! Eiji-kun, you’re a good boy. I’m glad you became Marika’s friend. Just like her mother, she has a weak physique and is often sickly, I hope you can take good care of her."

These words sounded like what a father would say to his future son-in-law.

Eiji patted his chest and with a serious expression said, "Leave it to me, sir. I will definitely take very good care of Marika."

"Ehh! Eiji-sama, dad, you two... W-What are you two talking about?!"

Marika felt very embarrassed, she felt that Eiji had just gotten permission from her father to marry her.

Isn’t this too soon?!

B-But if Eiji-sama wants it...

Marika lowered her head and couldn’t help giggling.

"Didn’t you hear it clearly, Marika? I want Eiji-kun to take good care of you since the relationship between you two seems to be more than friends."

Eiji gave his future father-in-law a thumbs up in his heart.

Marika was dumbfounded and said, "But dad, me and Eiji-sama are really just friends for now."

Gen sighed, "Marika, do you think your father is blind? Because of your illness, you’ve been spending a lot of time indoors instead of playing outside like girls your age.

"This is the first time I’ve seen you hug a boy and look at him with affection like your mom did to dad."

"You said you two are just friends? I don’t believe it."

Eiji knew Gen misunderstood, but he wasn’t going to say anything about it and pretended to be confused.

Right now, he was the type of protagonist who would not refuse and only accept good things reluctantly.

[Isn’t that what you usually do, host?]

’Huh? When have I ever done that before? Miss System, you seem to remember wrong.’

[You just don’t want to admit what I said is true.]

’No, I don’t understand what you’re saying, Miss System.’

Eiji continued to pretend. After all, he had a bad memory, right?

He really didn’t remember what Miss System said.

"That...!" Marika wanted to stop her father’s misunderstanding, but she was at a loss for what to say.

It wasn’t that she didn’t like Eiji. In fact, after Raku disappointed her, she found herself very attracted to Eiji and continued to listen to his inner voice every day since the first time they met.

However, Eiji had a harem which made her a little troubled. If possible, she wanted to have him for herself.

Therefore, she had a plan to make Eiji fall in love with her and be infatuated with her so that he would leave his other women just for her.

Marika knew it was difficult and almost impossible to do.

Even so, she still wanted to try!

"Am I wrong?" Gen asked in confusion.

Marika hurriedly shook her head and said, "No, father, you’re right! I really love Eiji-sama, our relationship is more than friends but still less than lovers."

"Therefore, I will make him fall in love with me first!"

Gen blinked his eyes before nodding.

"Dad supports you, Marika."

"Thank you dad!"

Marika hugged Eiji’s arm tighter, she looked at him with a flirtatious smile while holding back her embarrassment that she had just confessed to him.

She wondered what he was thinking?

Eiji rubbed his nose.

[As expected of the most aggressive heroine in Nisekoi. Marika just confessed to me in front of her father.]

[Honestly, I’m glad.]

Still, he knew what Marika was thinking, or rather her plan to have him for herself.

According to him, she is very cute.

Unfortunately such a thing was impossible. So after that, Eiji did not rush to answer and changed the subject.

He had to make Marika realize something. There was no way she could monopolize him, especially in bed, she wouldn’t even be able to satisfy him alone.

Hearing Eiji’s inner voice, Marika was very happy and thought there was still a possibility that her plan might work.

...

Shuei Clan territory.

In the largest traditional Japanese-style house there. A boy with spiky black hair was stretching his bandaged upper body.

He was none other than Raku Ichijou!

Since being beaten by Claude to the point of breaking several bones, he was hospitalized for two days before being discharged. From yesterday, he was also unable to move much and could only lie down until his injuries healed.

Perhaps because he was the protagonist, his injuries healed faster than normal people in his position.

"I’m finally healed! That four-eyed man (Claude), I’ll definitely make him pay!"

Raku clenched his fists with a hate-filled expression.

How could he not do it? After finding out his relationship with Chitoge was fake, Claude really beat him up brutally.

He wanted revenge on that man and even Eiji!

"If it wasn’t for him... Chitoge would still be with me and wouldn’t have cheated on me with him."

Raku said while looking at the pendant with the keyhole in his hand.

In the past, he promised to always wait for a girl who promised to marry him.

And he was sure it was Onodera because he had seen her in possession of a key-shaped necklace.

Because of that, he secretly liked Onodera even though he was pretending to date Chitoge.

That was in the past but now?

Ever since seeing Chitoge kissing Eiji, Raku understood that he seemed to have fallen in love with her!

He couldn’t let her belong to another man.

"Chitoge, I still have a chance, right? I heard it’s your birthday tonight..."

He heard that yesterday from Onodera who had visited him with Shu and her best friend, Ruri.

"Wait for me, I’ll definitely snatch you out of Eiji’s hands!"

Fire blazing in his eyes, Raku hurriedly dressed and called his father’s subordinate, Ryunosuke.

When he came to his bedroom, he burst into tears.

"Waahhh! Bocchan, you’ve recovered? We should celebrate!"

"I will immediately tell the leader and other members of the Shuei Clan about your recovery, Bocchan!"

Raku’s lips twitched, he was slightly disgusted to see a man with a Yakuza-like appearance crying.

However, seeing him about to leave to do what he said— Raku stopped him by saying, "Wait, Ryunosuke. Put aside celebrating my recovery. Quickly prepare the car, I have to buy a birthday present for Chitoge."

"...!" Ryunosuke was surprised and looked at his young master with a strange look, "Bocchan, are you having amnesia? You forgot that bitch had an affair and gave you a green hat!"

"Ehem!" Raku pretended to cough, "No, I don’t have amnesia. And Ryunosuke, don’t call Chitoge a bitch. The one who gave your young master the green hat was Eiji!"

"If it weren’t for him, Chitoge would be a loyal fake girlfriend and even fall in love with me!"

I don’t know where Raku got the confidence from when saying all that.

But one thing is for sure, tonight Eiji will not be bored.

"Let’s go, Ryunosuke."

"A-All right Bocchan, as you wish."

Ryunosuke refrained from saying anything because he knew, right now his young master would not be persuaded.

Still, when Raku was about to follow Ryunosuke out of the room. His heart suddenly ached so much that he couldn’t help but hold it.

"Ugh! This feeling again..."

It reminded him of the feeling he had whenever he saw Chitoge and Eiji making out.

No way, no how.

Raku’s face looked grim.

Is Eiji doing something to Chitoge behind his back?!

{Aahhhh!!! Eiji, you might be having fun with Chitoge right now. But it won’t be long! Just wait, I’ll get Chitoge back!}

{You obviously have such relationships with other girls. I know you’re a playboy, Chitoge must have been tricked by you.}

???

Hearing this, the heroines especially Chitoge had a question mark over their heads.

At this moment, Eiji who was suddenly kissed by Marika in front of his apartment door was trying to hold back his laughter.

[Does every protagonist have a sixth sense? They are very sensitive. Raku’s guess was almost right, but instead of having fun with Chitoge, now I’m being kissed by Marika.]

The heroines are numb.

Wasn’t it not long ago that you were having fun with a woman named Scáthach, Eiji?

Now you’ve changed your target again and it’s Marika?

Marika’s face turned red, hearing Raku’s inner voice, she almost showed a disgusted expression while kissing Eiji.

Damn it, does anyone know how to disable the protagonist’s voice?!

"Hah... Hah... Eiji-sama, that was my first kiss. Be careful on the road, okay?" Marika panted after separating her mouth from Eiji’s.

A moment ago when Eiji was planning to go home after he talked to her father and spent a short time with her.

Marika suddenly had an idea. In order to seduce Eiji and make him crazy about her, she should be more aggressive and give him her first kiss.

"I’m happy to receive a goodbye kiss from Marika before going home, it will definitely make me less sleepy on the way and more careful."

Eiji casually said sweet words before licking the saliva off her lips.

Marika felt sweet in her heart and was aroused to see the boy she liked was not disgusted by her saliva.

If not for the presence of her personal bodyguard, Honda. She wanted to take Eiji to her bedroom before doing perverted things with him.

On the other side, Honda who saw her young lady taking the initiative to kiss Eiji passionately before she went home was dumbfounded.

"Marika-sama, you... Next time, please don’t go overboard. What if you get pregnant before marriage?!"

After the car Eiji was driving disappeared from sight, Marika turned around and looked at her bodyguard with an amused look.

"It was just a kiss, Honda. A mature woman like you doesn’t think I’ll get Eiji-sama’s child pregnant just because of that, right?"

Although if that really happened, Marika felt that she didn’t mind. That way, Eiji would have to take responsibility and marry her.

Honda massaged her forehead and said, "Of course not, I just want Marika-sama to value herself more. After all, Seiya-san also seems to have ambiguous relationships with Kirisaki-san, Kanakura-san and I heard he has even gotten engaged to a young lady from the Shinomiya family!"

In fact, after investigating Eiji’s information all this time, she knew he had romantic relationships with more women than she had mentioned.

Marika’s father, Gen-sama also knew about it but he still let his daughter pursue Eiji.

Honda was confused but what could she do? She was only a bodyguard and could only advise Marika not to become a cheap woman.

However, she knew it was useless.

"Hmph! Honda, you think I don’t know about those women? Eiji-sama has a harem but I don’t care."

"As long as I make him crazy about me, I’m sure he’ll just be mine in the end, hehehe."

With heart-shaped pupils and an infatuated expression on her pretty face, Marika laughed like a yandere.

Honda shook her head.

Who’s crazy about whom?

Isn’t that you, Marika-sama?

...

After leaving Marika’s house, Eiji decided to go to school despite being very late.

At that time, the last period had even started but he shamelessly came to his class and studied with Lala and other classmates.

However, the teacher was helpless and did not scold Eiji for that. After all, all the teachers at Kuoh Academy knew he was the fiancée of Rias and Sona who were the real rulers of the school.

They including the principal had a lower status. Except for teachers like Shizuka of course, only she dared to scold Eiji because she was one of his women.

After school, that night Eiji prepared to go to Chitoge’s birthday party. He had received his invitation card from Tsubaki who had saved it for him.

"How do I look?" Eiji asked the women in the living room including Scáthach.

The latter easily integrated with the women in his harem. It was somewhat surprising because he thought Scáthach was a loner.

But, he was still rather naive.

The woman’s social skills made her have a good relationship with Artoria, Venelana, Shuri, Chisato, Raphaline, Sapphire and other mature women.

"You’re so handsome, Eiji~!"

"I was thinking the same thing as Lala-san."

"Is this a question? Y-You’re obviously very handsome, hmph!"

"Ara. Nana, do you still need to be tsundere when complimenting your fiance’s looks?"

"Momo, shut up!"

"My boyfriend is so handsome!"

Lala, Asia, Nana, Momo, Run and the other girls basically agreed that he was very handsome.

Currently, Eiji was wearing his usual black and white suit. But because of his appearance, especially his face. Many of them looked at him in a daze and some took pictures of him with their cell phones.

"Worthy of being my king, you are very handsome, Eiji."

Even Scáthach also praised with an amused smile. Just like the other women, she was wearing a sexy evening dress that showed off her voluptuous curves.

If not for the plot, Eiji would want to stay in his house and have fun with her until morning.

After all, unlike Artoria, Scáthach did not seem to mind serving a man who had defeated her.

"Eiji, if you keep looking at Scáthach-san’s figure, you’ll be late for Chitoge’s birthday party." Utaha poked his shoulder with her slender finger.

There was a hint of jealousy in her red eyes.

After all, Scáthach was also a red-eyed woman and her curves were very sexy.

Eiji feigned surprise, he wrapped his arms around Utaha’s slender waist and kissed her lips in front of everyone.

Utaha widened her eyes.

"Luckily there’s a jealous Utaha. Otherwise, I would have been late."

[Actually, you don’t need to be jealous because you are carrying my child, Utaha.]

[The same goes for Lala and other pregnant women.]

[So no matter how much I woo women like Scáthach and the others. You all are my irreplaceable wings.]

Bah! Bah! Are you basically saying it’s okay if you keep increasing the number of members in your harem?

Eiji, you are shameless!

Not only Utaha, but Rias and the other girls complained.

Venelana and the other adult women giggled and some shook their heads.

Only Scáthach looked at the scene with a hint of admiration on her pretty face. It was because even though Eiji had many women whose looks and power were no worse than hers— he was able to make them all get along despite knowing he would be off wooing other women by then.

The kings and gods with harems she had seen in the past were not even as good as Eiji in this regard.