"..."
Helpless, Ihei Byakuya did not intend to dwell on whether he should look or not.
He took off his coat and draped it over Eto, then prepared to carry her away from here.
Along the way, there were naturally some ghouls who did not know their place and blocked the road. They were all treated by Ihei Byakuya like roadside trash and kicked to death with a single blow.
"What exactly are you planning? You should understand better than I do what consequences this will bring if you act like this..."
At this moment, Eto in Ihei Byakuya's arms suddenly spoke. "Or are you planning to give me a sliver of hope first and then make me completely despair?"
"You still do not trust me even now?"
Ihei Byakuya smiled slightly in helplessness.
"Who would dare trust you, you dead pervert."
Eto snorted lightly.
"Alright, no more joking. I can only tell you that I'm not on the same side as the Washuu Clan. Whether I obey their orders depends entirely on my own mood."
Ihei Byakuya said in a serious tone.
"Then... are you willing to oppose the Washuu for my sake?"
At this moment, Yoshimura Eto asked directly.
Her eyes stared straight into Byakuya's.
He immediately understood that his next answer was extremely crucial.
However, this matter did not require any hesitation from him.
Without the slightest delay, Ihei Byakuya decisively said, "Of course I am willing."
He did not explain the reason, nor was there any need to.
From the very beginning, he had regarded the Washuu Clan as the final antagonist.
At this moment, Eto saw not the slightest hesitation in Byakuya's eyes, and his gaze was especially sincere.
"Alright. I believe you."
Yoshimura Eto said frankly, "If you dare to deceive me, then even if I die I won't let you go!"
"...Why did things suddenly become so heavy."
Ihei Byakuya felt a slight chill.
As soon as Byakuya finished speaking, Eto suddenly went all in at close range.
She wrapped both arms around Byakuya's neck and, without another word, directly kissed him.
Their lips met.
At this moment, a trace of amusement flickered in Eto's eyes, because she clearly saw the change in Byakuya's expression.
From calm and composed, it instantly shifted to shocked and flustered. His pupils visibly grew larger and larger.
So this bastard could show such an expression too...
After quite a while, Yoshimura Eto finally released Byakuya.
"This is just my style of doing things."
This sentence from Eto was also a response to what Byakuya had just done.
Then she licked her lips. There was not the slightest trace of shyness on her face, only a bit of teasing. "At this point, no matter what you say, you have to take responsibility for me."
Only then did Ihei Byakuya slowly regain his senses.
"You..."
Even now, Byakuya still found it somewhat hard to believe.
One of the main reasons was Eto's age.
Especially since Eto was a half-ghoul, not a ghoul as commonly understood. Legally, she could be defined entirely as human.
In other words, this was extremely criminal.
"What? Do you not want to take responsibility?"
Eto's right eye immediately turned into a crimson kakugan.
As if in the next second she would turn yandere and hack Byakuya down on the spot.
"No, mainly it is..."
Ihei Byakuya explained, "This is almost a crime."
"Oh?"
Yoshimura Eto was somewhat surprised. "I did not expect a bastard like you to worry about something like that."
"You don't really think I am that kind of pervert, do you?"
Ihei Byakuya said helplessly.
"Is that not the case?"
Eto asked in return.
"..."
Byakuya was speechless for a moment. "That's pure slander against me."
"I do not care about that, and I do not want to hear your nonsense. I only want to hear your answer right now."
Yoshimura Eto said firmly.
"I will of course take responsibility. You don't even have to ask such a thing."
Ihei Byakuya nodded.
"That's more like it."
Eto nodded slightly. "Also, you are not allowed to treat me like a daughter anymore."
"Alright..."
Byakuya gave an awkward smile.
...
After that, Ihei Byakuya carried Eto back home.
Although Eto had been injured by him earlier, her regenerative ability was still there, and she had already recovered safely.
Yoshimura Kuzen and Minami Uruka, who were still waiting at home, did not know what had happened. They only saw Eto in Byakuya's arms, wearing nothing but a coat.
And that coat was clearly Byakuya's.
"Is everything alright now...?"
Although Yoshimura Kuzen was most concerned about Eto's condition at this moment, he could not ignore the fact that Eto was in Byakuya's arms in such a posture.
So his expression became somewhat strange.
"Eto-chan... you two...?"
Not only Yoshimura Kuzen, but Minami Uruka beside him was also stunned.
Because in her current understanding, Byakuya and Eto were still siblings.
She still did not know that Kuzen was Eto's father, and thought that the shop manager had only come at Byakuya's invitation.
So in Minami Uruka's eyes, this had turned into a "sibling romance" scene...
"It's fine now."
Ihei Byakuya replied in a firm tone.
"Then..."
Immediately after, Yoshimura Kuzen could not help but ask, "What exactly is going on here?"
........
ps: Now I directly skip the system. Those "ding ding ding" notifications were just padding the word count, so there is no need for them.