Ch 2. Master
After a long time, the roof door opened, and Yukinoshita, who had changed into a cat-eared maid outfit, walked towards Hoshimi Kiyokawa with a cat's tail in her hand, her face sinking in water.
She stopped one meter in front of Hoshimi Kiyokawa, picked up the cat's tail, and asked coldly, "This, how should I put it on?"
"Huh?" Hoshimi Kiyokawa tilted his head slightly and said with a smile, "Yukinoshita-san, who is smart and extremely cute, doesn't even know how to wear clothes?"
"..." Yukinoshita clenched the cat's tail tightly in her hand, uncontrollable anger burning quietly in her ice blue pupils.
She is not a fool who doesn't know anything. After carefully studying the structure of the cat's tail, she figured out how to wear it.
But understanding it is one thing, accepting it is another!
Her self-esteem and self-respect would never allow her to wear such a cat tail!
"Hoshimi, are you joking?" Yukinoshita restrained the urge to slap the cat's tail on Hoshimi's face and said in a cold voice, "I will never wear this kind of thing!"
"Oh? Really?" Hoshimi walked up to Yukinoshita, lowering his head slightly to stare into her cold, beautiful eyes burning with anger.
"Hey, Yukinoshita, do you want to break the contract?"
Hoshimi was still smiling, but the pristine blue sky suddenly darkened, and layers of dark clouds quickly gathered over the building at an unreasonable speed.
In an instant, the gloomy atmosphere of the approaching rainstorm enveloped the entire city.
"..." Yukinoshita's pupils shrank. She suppressed the throbbing in her heart and said in a low voice, unwillingly, "I don't know how to wear it. You can ask for other conditions. What do I need to do?"
"Is that so..." Hoshimi Kiyokawa took a step back, resting his right hand on his chin, thinking about the conditions.
At the same time, with the receding of Hoshimi, the dark clouds that had just gathered quickly receded like an ebb tide, and the sky once again returned to a cloudless and bright appearance.
Seeing this situation, Yukinoshita secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
This is Hoshimi's dreamland, and everything follows his will. It is obviously an irrational choice to violate Hoshimi's game rules here.
So far, she has violated the rules of Hoshimi's game once, and that time she learned of Hoshimi's infinite power in the dream...
As punishment for breaking the rules of the game, she was deprived of light for an hour that time.
When she lost her eyesight and her eyes were dark, she realized that she was not as strong as she imagined...
In that short hour, she held Hoshimi's hand tightly like a drowning person grabbing the last straw.
When the colors of the world reappeared in her eyes, she belatedly realized that she was in a cold sweat, especially when she was holding Hoshimi's right hand.
Warm, humid, and the feeling of her hands sticking together with sweat—she still remembers it vividly...
"Yukinoshita, what are you thinking?"
Hoshimi's voice brought Yukinoshita back from the memory of the past to the present.
She raised her eyes to look at Hoshimi, her slightly hot right hand trembling undetectably.
"It's nothing. Have you thought about the conditions yet?" Yukinoshita calmly hid her right hand behind her back, avoiding Hoshimi's gaze.
"Conditions? I've already thought about them."
"..." Yukinoshita's heart tightened, and her index finger moved slightly.
She began to worry that Hoshimi would take this opportunity to put forward some excessive conditions.
"Yukinoshita, you don't have to wear a cat's tail, but in exchange, you will call me master. But if you call me wrong, you will suffer a blow on the buttocks. How about it? How do you choose?"
"..." Yukinoshita glanced at Hoshimi from the corner of her eye.
The fear in her heart was quietly put to rest.
It seems that, as before, Hoshimi is still stepping on a delicate line when proposing conditions.
Although there are some unacceptable things, if you think about it carefully, unacceptable things will not happen 100% of the time, and you can still rely on your own efforts to avoid them.
In this way, there is room for retreat in her heart, and she can naturally accept it reluctantly.
"..." Yukinoshita took a deep look at Hoshimi and reluctantly agreed.
"Okay, I see."
Hoshimi Kiyokawa, as always, calculating people's hearts...
What is this guy doing in real life? Could the clue she found really be Hoshimi Kiyokawa?
Thinking of this, Yukinoshita stared carefully at Hoshimi's face.
With a handsome and youthful face, he looked like he was the same age as her, but the lingering lazy and undisciplined demeanor around him made him lack any youthful vigor.
In addition, Hoshimi's white hair and red pupils are extremely rare appearance characteristics—if you meet him in reality, you can recognize him at a glance.
"Yukinoshita, why are you looking at me like that?"
Hoshimi raised his eyebrows and stared at Yukinoshita with deep red pupils.
"...It's nothing." Yukinoshita looked away, and a strange color flashed in her eyes.
"Really?" Hoshimi didn't press further but changed the subject and asked, "Yukinoshita, do you want to go for a walk on the street?"
"No need." Yukinoshita resolutely refused.
She remembered clearly the conditions proposed by Hoshimi.
If you go to the street with Hoshimi, you will be easily distracted by the surrounding scenery, and coupled with Hoshimi's inducement, you will be in trouble if you accidentally make a slip of the tongue.
Staying here, at least her attention will always be online, and she will not be easily distracted.
"No, then come here and sit down and watch the scenery with me."
Hoshimi turned around and sat down on the edge of the roof, his legs hanging dangerously in the air, the abyss beneath his feet.
"..." Looking at Hoshimi's back, Yukinoshita frowned slightly and hesitated for a while.
After a while, she frowned and walked heavily to sit beside Hoshimi.
Although it was not the first time that she sat with Hoshimi on the edge of the roof, the fear of heights was almost the same as the first time.
As soon as she sat down, Yukinoshita involuntarily moved closer to Hoshimi.
At the same time, her right hand unconsciously pinched Hoshimi's sleeve.
"Yukinoshita, you are still so afraid of heights, how cute~"
"..."
Yukinoshita pretended not to hear Hoshimi's ridicule.
"Yukinoshita, come and call me 'master' to listen?"
Hoshimi squinted at Yukinoshita and teased her.
"..."
Yukinoshita didn't respond, and there was no wavering in her eyes.
To avoid being influenced by Hoshimi, the best choice was not to speak.
And in this way, the humiliation of calling Hoshimi "master" could also be avoided.
"Yukinoshita, why don't you speak? Yukinoshita?"
Facing Yukinoshita's silence, Hoshimi understood her plan.
He smiled and hummed nonchalantly the songs he had heard when he was young in his previous life.
"Am I the person you love the most? Why don't you speak~"
"You are majestic and mighty, the man who rides the horse... The endless wilderness is with you, and your heart is as wide as the earth..."
"Huh~"
Singing and laughing, Hoshimi looked sideways at Yukinoshita and said with a smile, "Yukinoshita, actually, you and the grassland have one similarity. Do you know what it is?"
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Hoshimi's smile became brighter and brighter, "That's the same poverty that stretches as far as the eye can see."
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"Master! Are you mentally ill?!"
Although anger surged in her heart, Yukinoshita still did not forget her promise.
She gritted her teeth and expressed the anger in her heart with simple words.