Then came Sunday.
Hoshoujo: [Stop trembling. You look pathetic.]
Mendou: [You say that but you invited me to a lion's den! We barely even know each other!]
Hoshoujo: [That's not necessary. I already did a background check on you and had a private investigator check your personality and nature for a year since you are Najimi's so-called best friend. So, rather, I know you, and you don't know me.]
Mendou: [Y-You went all that way. S-Scary.]
Hoshoujo: [Says the one who fought off most of my men.]
Mendou: [Y-You try being in my situation! I thought that I was going to be kidnapped!]
Standing at a large front door, I was dragged along into a private villa somewhere.
It was a few hours ago when I was still at home and an unknown number called.
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Ring, Ring.
The telephone rang in early at 6 AM.
I fell asleep on the sofa after that tiring Saturday and the last thing I remember was that Hoshoujo went and left after kicking me in the stomach.
Ring, Ring.
I thought she was just teasing me about calling me a pervert, but it seems like we weren't on the same page.
Ring, Ring.
Mendou: [GODDAMIT IT'S EARLY IN THE MORNING WHO'S THIS?!]
???: [What a brazen attitude. What if it was your teacher that is called and you have been absent for three days?]
Mendou: [——Wha?! Three days?! I don't even feel...]
I looked at my phone and saw the date. It was just Sunday.
Hoshoujo: [It's a joke. It's me Hoshoujo. Don't ask why I got your residence number, it's easy to dig up. Come out of your house, and let's have a chat to plan how your role will work.]
I almost fell for that, honestly. This girl might get a punch or two if there's no one watching.
Yet, even if she invited me out just to talk, for her to just call was suspicious. Maybe it's just me, but my guts were screaming no.
But, maybe checking the door would suffice.
Mendou: [...Hoshoujo?]
I poked my head out, but...
Mendou: [Wha——]
I was quickly grabbed by the collar and had my head sacked in by a bunch of dudes in black suits.
I couldn't see anything but my guts began to scream like a pug saying "Hoh, yeah."
I had to defend myself.
In one fell swoop, all five men who I felt around me had their feet swept away, I couldn't see anything, but I could hear pots breaking left and right as they all fell.
Mendou: [OH NO! Those are expensive pots! My mom will kill me if she sees them broken!]
I began to hear more come at me, they were all over ten people on the lawn.
I can't win against them without sacrificing anything, but I can't risk breaking any other thing on the lawn, so, I had to use my secret weapon.
Mendou: [SOMEBODY HE——]
I tried to scream, but my mouth was immediately shut off. It was a handkerchief as I could smell the sweet aroma of a female's perfume, and at the same time... chloroform.
Mendou: [I... don't take me... liver... lover.]
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That was the last thing I remembered before waking up in the car where Hoshoujo explained to me that I cannot be conscious while we traveled here, to their house.
Hoshoujo: [My parents are here. I'm going to introduce you as my friend so they wouldn't go after you from time to time that you will help me and Najimi get together.]
Her servants opened up the doors that led to a staircase which she went up to. I followed suit as her bodyguards from behind moved as well like a wall, not even allowing me to try and look back.
This feels like a genuine kidnapping with me not having the right to even refuse anything.
I'm starting to think that the rumors about her are true!
Hoshoujo: [Don't lag behind. It's annoying.]
Uwaa. She does have that nasty attitude.
Hoshoujo: [Before you do judge me, I let you know that you are a violent, impulsive, loud, and vulgar talker who always plays happy-go-lucky on certain things but will choose to procrastinate. You are also a pervert.]
Mendou: [Let me guess, the last part isn't included in what your hired private investigator said about me.]
Hoshoujo: [I don't need him to know that. You are one yourself and you show it.]
If every little look I took at her body is a perversion, then Najimi and the others should be way more than perverts than me!
I'm not looking because I want to!
Mendou: [That's an unfair judgment!]
On the upper floor, we arrived to be what seemed to be a wide living room. It was all white with the walls being large window panes, showing nothing but vegetation for miles and miles away.
Mendou: [J-Just where is this even?]
This was definitely not close to town.
Hoshoujo: [Takeru. Please explain everything to Mendou. I'll go and change my clothes for now.]
T-Takeru? Sounds like a scary name for a bodyguard.
I expected them to be much larger than those bald and skinny bodyguards outside!
Mendou: [W-Wait, where are you going——?]
She left and entered a corridor without looking back. She didn't even say "be at home" nor anything at all.
I'm going to bet that this girl might hate me, but before I could spite her, the one named Takeru arrived and stood right in front of me.
Mendou: [H-Hello?]
It was a tall woman with a bob-cut. She was wearing a suit, but her body looks like it was well-toned just from looking at her.
She doesn't look like a Takeru to me.
Takeru: [...]
Uwaa. She has that expressionless face as well. She looks intimidating.
Takeru: [Mendou Kotaro. Sit.]
Mendou: [Y-Yes, Ma'am!]
I don't know why I followed her so quickly, but she's kinda hot——wait, I need to get my head in the game. I'm not here to fool around!
Takeru: [Listen up. Yuna-sama called you here so you can act like an intermediary between her and Najimi Kai.]
Mendou: [...]
Huh? I thought they said that Hoshoujo wasn't allowed to be involved with Najimi again, but why does her servant——?
Takeru: [I serve Hoshoujo Yuna, and so I will follow her orders. I am the only one that knows what her plans are.]
That makes much more sense, except that I am still in the dark about this, "grand" plan they have except for the part that I am an intermediary between them.
Wait a second, did she just read my mind?
Mendou: [Intermediary, means, I'm going to be with them, always?]
Takeru: [That's the gist of it, yes. You will not only be with them, but you will make sure that their relationship will have to stay hidden until Yuna-sama makes Najimi falls in love with her.]
I understand now. She's doing all this to break the condition and free Najimi from his parent's grasp and become lovers for real, however, the hurdle was that Najimi does love Hoshoujo, yet without the ability to show it, he's as good as a bad actor only.
Mendou: [I see. To think that you're actually going to go that far for your mistress and the sake of another person. You might be actually a kind person than I originally thought, except that YOU'RE BLUSHING AND SMIRKING!]
Takeru was smiling and blushing over while their face was sideways. It's a complete 180 from her expression earlier!
Takeru: [B-But it's Yuna-sama that we are talking about! She finally had the will to go get the man of her dreams!]
Mendou: [M-Man of her dreams? Just when was she——]
Takeru: [You don't understand, but Yuna-sama has been planning carefully for the future! She's going to use her womanly charm to execute everything!]
She's leaning too close to me even though we're strangers! Plus, she's interlocking fingers with my hands! Why hasn't anyone stopped her yet!?
I-I can't handle people like her! Someone, HELP!
It was just in time as I would want to scream out, Hoshoujo finally came back.
Hoshoujo: [Takeru. Step back. You're giving him gratification as a pervert.]
Hoshoujo was now dressed in a frilly dress. It's quite... thin considering that it looks like something that you would wear inside your own house.
Takeru: [Yes, Yuna-sama. Forgive me. I was only carried away.]
Mendou: [H-Hey! That was an uncomfortable experience for me! What is this unjust law!?
Hoshoujo: [It's my house, my rules. So, let us meet my parents. I'd still have to convince you that you are already a failure of a man and are begging to be my servant so they'll spare your normal life.]
I am almost certain that the rumors about her are true.
Mendou: [That is very undermining but I like the idea of sparing my life. Please let's do just that.]
I could only agree to that one hell of a condition. If that would make things go smooth, I'd gladly sacrifice my dignity in front of someone I will never see again.
And so, I wondered...
What kind of person is Hoshoujo's mother?