Thanks to Shinomiya Kaguya, the Shinomiya Zaibatsu's investment plan in Asahigaoka Media was finalized without much effort.
However, a contract naturally couldn't be signed in a day. The Shinomiya Zaibatsu wasn't here for charity, and they would send more professional people to conduct specific calculations later.
It was just that Shinomiya Kaguya chose to stay in Asahigaoka temporarily to build a good relationship with Miyauchi Hikage and, by the way, let him guide her in the breathing method.
According to her own words, she planned to stay here until the end of the holiday and then return to Tokyo with Miyauchi Hikage.
"After all, I'm a student at Tokyo Jujutsu High. Even if you don't plan to join other factions for the time being, Hikage-kun, I should at least take you to Jujutsu High to familiarize yourself with the place."
And regarding this Shinomiya Kaguya, who in just one day had logically switched from calling him by his surname to his given name, and clearly showed affection for Miyauchi Hikage, the girls in the village couldn't help but feel an overwhelmingly powerful hostility.
Beautiful, scheming, the daughter of the Shinomiya Zaibatsu, and having a crush on Miyauchi Hikage.
With these four tags together, Kagayama Kaede already felt immense pressure, let alone the fact that this woman had monopolized Miyauchi Hikage from this afternoon until the evening.
Although they didn't know what exactly they were talking about, looking from afar, they could tell that they were chatting quite happily.
On Fujimiya Konomi's side, although she had added the evaluation of "might become Miyauchi Hikage's classmate at Jujutsu High in the future" to Shinomiya Kaguya in her heart, which sounded even closer, she didn't have any hostility towards Shinomiya Kaguya herself.
After all, almost immediately after chatting with Shinomiya Kaguya and having dinner, Miyauchi Hikage told her almost everything he had discussed with Shinomiya Kaguya.
She knew very well that unless it was a childhood friend like her who grew up with Miyauchi Hikage and understood each other perfectly, Miyauchi Hikage probably wouldn't like dealing with people who had too many thoughts.
For someone like Shinomiya Kaguya, to completely enter Miyauchi Hikage's heart, she would have to reveal her most vulnerable side in front of him to have a chance.
Anyway, Fujimiya Konomi felt that a young lady like Shinomiya Kaguya, who built walls around her heart one after another, wouldn't go to such lengths for Miyauchi Hikage.
In comparison, Fujimiya Konomi felt that Kagayama Kaede was still too tsundere and too insecure.
She was already 20 years old, why was she still the same as in middle school?
Because of Miyauchi Renge, Miyauchi Hikage and Kagayama Kaede were considered by many in the village to be an old married couple experiencing the taste of raising a daughter before reaching the age of marriage.
Even she felt a little jealous during that time.
Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Fujimiya Konomi's face.
Although Kagayama Kaede had indeed been ahead in the past few years, looking at it now, although the other party had taken a shortcut relying on Renge, she had ultimately overtaken her.
After all, Kagayama Kaede would still worry about Miyauchi Hikage being snatched away, unlike her, who never considered that Miyauchi Hikage would not want her, and had long set her sights on who would take the position of the main wife.
The only ones who could truly be called formidable rivals now were probably the Shiina sisters in Tokyo.
Honma Meiko in Chichibu was still a bit lacking.
Because although Miyauchi Hikage hadn't said it directly, his preference was indeed more towards older girls.
With Honma Meiko's petite figure, although she had a life-and-death journey to another world with Miyauchi Hikage, she could easily be treated as a younger sister by him.
Tokyo was different. Miyauchi Hikari had bragged more than once about the friends she met in Tokyo during the holidays.
The Shiina sisters: the older sister was a genius painter, beautiful, with a good figure, and it was said that she fell in love with Miyauchi Hikage at first sight; the younger sister was also an intellectual and gentle beautiful girl who was good at studying and housework.
And according to Miyauchi Hikage's explanation, that older sister could also be considered someone who had come into contact with the inner world.
Instead of considering Shinomiya Kaguya's threat, it would be better to consider if Miyauchi Hikage would be pushed down by that Shiina Mashiro one night.
"So, do I really have to find a way to snatch Hikage's body first, so as not to let the women outside seize the opportunity?" Compared to the possibility of Miyauchi Hikage's heart being stolen, the more mature-minded Fujimiya Konomi was already considering the physical issue.
It would be best to hit the target with one shot, which would completely capture Miyauchi Hikage.
But 16 years old was still too young.
When she was researching physiology classes, she had heard that doing that too early might affect subsequent development.
It was said that in current R18 games, regardless of the theme, the characters were required to be 18 years old by default to have sexual relations?
So should she wait until Miyauchi Hikage was a little older?
This was what Fujimiya Konomi was struggling with now.
"So, you really are the 'scumbag' mentioned in those videos?" This was the evaluation made by Tohru, who had just arrived in this world for a day, after carefully researching the internet of this world and observing for a day.
They were now in the lounge of the studio. Miyauchi Hikage was asking Tohru about her gains and impressions of the day when he heard Tohru say such words.
"Actually, I've always felt that I'm quite pure in love, it's just that there were some accidents in the middle," Miyauchi Hikage could only spread his hands helplessly in the face of Tohru's disgusted look.
"What accidents? You don't mean to say that you don't have romantic feelings for any of them?" Tohru looked at Miyauchi Hikage with fire in her eyes.
"There should be some, but the proportion might not be as large as you think." Miyauchi Hikage answered.
He was in his twenties when he transmigrated in his previous life, and 16 in this life. Even if his young body made his mentality much younger, the self-discipline he had maintained since childhood in this life and the beautiful girls around him gave him a high resistance to the opposite sex.
Plus, he had a lot of things on his mind. For those familiar beautiful girls around him, his initial good impression came naturally from his understanding in his previous life, followed by the emotions gradually generated after getting along with them.
It was just that the girls around him were either so familiar that the feelings had begun to evolve into something deeper than romance, or they had just met for a month, and the innate favorability was far ahead, while "Miyauchi Hikage's" own favorability and understanding of them had not yet reached the level of those innate favorabilities.
These things were naturally not easy to say out loud, but facing this dragon girl from another world who was incompatible with him and whom he knew from the beginning was not a target for conquest, Miyauchi Hikage could reveal more of his own thoughts.
After all, apart from being prone to becoming love-brained, Tohru was indeed quite reliable in other aspects.
Since the other party would never be love-brained over him, he might as well use her as a partner and a backer.
It was necessary to be honest with his partner and backer.
This could also be considered Miyauchi Hikage's innate favorability towards the character Tohru.
Even if she disliked him, it hadn't affected his evaluation of her yet.
It was already midnight, but neither of them felt sleepy. After dealing with Shinomiya Kaguya's ten thousand whys, Miyauchi Hikage got Tohru a few bottles of sake and some snacks. This alcohol couldn't affect their physiques, and Miyauchi Hikage never cared about the Japanese law prohibiting drinking under the age of twenty.
Starting with Honma Meiko, whom Tohru cared about the most.
The chance encounter at the age of ten, the reunion now. To be honest, he and Honma Meiko had only met three or four times in so many years. The longest time they spent together was yesterday's playdate and the night's journey to the other world.
"Just a few meetings, and you trust Menma so much?" Tohru looked at Miyauchi Hikage suspiciously.
In her eyes, she couldn't tell at all that Miyauchi Hikage and Honma Meiko hadn't been in contact for long.
"Because Menma has that kind of personality. After all, it was Menma who sensed something from the beginning and suggested that we go to the center of that area. Since I chose to believe her at the beginning, I naturally have to believe her to the end," Miyauchi Hikage looked at Tohru. "Menma tried so hard to save you, Miss Tohru. Could I, a man, choose to back down there?"
"But to be honest, I just planned to go over and try. If it didn't work, I planned to withdraw. I just didn't expect my faith in gods to be so weak, which allowed me to save you, Miss Tohru."
Tohru took a sip of sake. Relying on her comprehension, she could already skillfully use chopsticks to pick up peanuts.
"That's true. Although I don't like you, you did show some responsibility at that time. Without you, I should indeed be dead by now."
"Then what kind of like do you have for Menma?"
Miyauchi Hikage thought for a while.
The truth was that seventy percent was due to the lingering regrets from his previous life, and the remaining part was probably the pity he felt for her after getting to know Honma Meiko in this life.
"About half is an emotion similar to pity, and the rest is mostly my own obsession."
As for romantic feelings, maybe there were some.
Even Miyauchi Hikage, who liked black silk stockings, had to admit that he had some possessiveness towards these 2D characters from his previous life because he "considered himself the protagonist."
Miyauchi Hikage gently clinked glasses with Tohru.
"After all, I saved her back then. Looking at her grateful appearance, how could I bear to watch her die in front of me?"
"But now that she has solved her physical problems and might become the guardian deity of the entire Chichibu region in the future, I think she shouldn't need my help anymore. So if nothing unexpected happens, the relationship between Menma and me should remain at this level."
"Human emotions are really complicated. But it must be because of your complicated emotions that you can change the world into what it is now," Tohru drank a toast for Honma Meiko.
She could see that Honma Meiko's feelings for Miyauchi Hikage should also be quite complicated: longing, admiration, dependence, inferiority...
With Miyauchi Hikage's attitude towards Honma Meiko, even if she wanted to support their relationship, she didn't know where to start.
However, after Honma Meiko officially became the successor of that shrine, those feelings of inferiority and longing in her heart should gradually fade away. She would just go and meet her then.
Now let's continue listening to Miyauchi Hikage talk about those girls while drinking.
Although he still hid some things in his words, compared to the various schemes he had when contacting that girl during the day, this was already the most sincere Miyauchi Hikage had been in front of her.
And Tohru, a dragon girl who had lived for tens of thousands of years without ever falling in love, was indeed quite interested in these topics.
Miyauchi Hikage did talk about all the girls around him.
Fujimiya Konomi, with whom he shared a mutual understanding; Kagayama Kaede, whom he was connected to because of his sister; the Koshigaya sisters, whom he completely regarded as younger sisters; Shiina Mashiro, whom he met for the first time and who saw through his disguise at a glance; the considerate Angel Next Door, Shiina Mahiru; Kasumigaoka Utaha, who asked him for help all day; and Kato Megumi, who had little presence in the eyes of others but was his sister's best friend at school.
Hearing this, at least from Miyauchi Hikage's side, he didn't seem to have any major problems.
They were either childhood friends he had known for more than ten years and grew up with, or girls he met because of his sister after going to the big city.
It seemed that Miyauchi Hikage really hadn't taken the initiative to flirt with anyone.
It seemed that this guy really wasn't that keen on romance, but instead focused on his career.
For a male of this age, this guy was indeed a bit too mature.
Even if Miyauchi Hikage was hiding something, she was sure that the unmasked light in his eyes when he talked about the empire he had built over the past few years was absolutely real.
After all, this was indeed the proudest achievement in this life for Miyauchi Hikage, who had accomplished nothing in his previous life.
So, did those messy thoughts of his appear for the sake of making his hometown better?
Tohru opened another bottle of sake, listening to Miyauchi Hikage switch from talking about girls to his career, thinking so in her heart.
Looking at it this way, it seemed that she had been a little harsh on this boy.
It was just that she would still subconsciously feel some revulsion towards Miyauchi Hikage from her soul, and the phenomenon of the holy sword still stuck in her body attacking Miyauchi Hikage back then all meant that there were still many unspeakable secrets behind this boy.
Thinking that Miyauchi Hikage said he believed in gods but could easily destroy and subdue the holy sword made by a god, Tohru felt that she still didn't know him well enough.
Perhaps, she could try agreeing to his invitation first, go shoot some online videos, and see what he actually wanted her to do.