Text: Yoko Natsui
Chapter 4: The Round Dance of Sorrow
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From that day on, as soon as class time arrived, Mari would come to Miki’s room with her own note book, exuding a look of anticipation as she listened to Eero teach.
At first, Eero’s lessons were, of course, dominated by Miki, but then they slowly shifted to Mari.
Because there was no problem with the intellectual aspect of Mari, she was able to fully understand what Eero was teaching, and she was like a sponge, continuously absorbing all the knowledge.
When she didn’t understand something, she would immediately ask questions, and whenever she solved the correct answer, she would laugh with excitement.
“Teacher is like a magician! This will solve the answer.” Mari clapped her hands innocently as she looked at Eero, who was working out a math formula.
History and Physics classes were like myths to her, and she would keep her eyes wide open, listening intently to Eero’s explanations and trying to memorize them.
One day, Charu smiled bitterly and said to Eero, “Eero-chan, do you also teach Mari-san her homework?”
“Yeah, why?”
“Because Mari-san, surprisingly, became Komo’s teacher.”
“Ah!”
Mari’s good learning also motivated Miki to work harder. Whenever Miki was not around, Mari would look restless, so even though Miki did not like to study, she had to accompany Mari to her classes silently.
“Mickey, I’m so sorry, I’ve been teaching Mary and neglected you.”
“It’s okay, seeing that Mari-san is working so hard, I can’t take the next exam lightly, and I’ve taken what you said last time to heart.”
Even so studious, there were times when the two couldn’t read, when Mary’s reflexes would become sluggish and Midge couldn’t concentrate.
At this point, the two would run off together to the flower fields on the hill for a break. Sometimes when she was tired of reading, Mary would always lie down on the floor and beg Ella to tell them stories, while Miki would sit on the edge of the bed and smile in agreement.
“It’s a nice day, want to take a walk around town?” One sunny afternoon, Erika suggested to the girls. This day was a bit distracting for some reason, not in the mood for lectures.
“To the city? Will mom say yes?”
“Miss Mary seldom goes to town does she?”
“Eh, but that’s okay, I’ll just drive, we’ll be out the door in a little bit of preparation, can you please wait for us in the foyer, Eero-san?”
Mickey seems to be getting more assertive, no longer stutters in his speech, and seems much more confident than before.
They still ride in the red Regal.
“Going outside?”
Mari’s expression seemed a little disturbed, and when she realized that Miki and Eero were coming along, she got into the car with a sense of relief.
When the car first drove out, she was too trembling to move, and by the time she got into town, she was so happy she was screaming out the window.
“Sensei! What’s that? Behold, there’s meow meow and doggy yo!
“Mary used child-like language.
The dog’s name is “Dog”, the bus is “Big Bus”, and his voice is raised like a song.
“I’ve never been able to figure it out yeah!” Eero asked Miki, who had her hands on the steering wheel.
“Why would the Gloria’s, not even have a driver?”
“I used to, and then I seemed to get into some kind of trouble, and I haven’t hired anyone since.”
“Trouble?”
“Well, living in a home full of women, some of them just suddenly disappeared, and now the company employees don’t come here unless it’s important.”
Ella frowned in surprise.
“How did it go missing?”
“Not quite sure, seems like the police were called to deal with it!”
Talking, they had driven to the center of Cambridge City.
Elohim took the driver’s seat and gave the two a tour of the university. The car went through the main entrance and drove straight to the library.
“Where is this?” Mary looked at the east side of the schoolhouse like an ancient Arabian palace.
“This is a teacher’s school!”
“Eh.”
“Do teachers go to school too?”
“I’m still a student, hasn’t Miss Mary ever seen a school before?”
“Yeah, the school is so big and there are so many other people!”
To Mari’s further amazement, the library actually had huge shelves that towered to the ceiling and were filled with books.
“Wow, that’s a lot of books!”
“Um, would Miss Mary like to see it?”
“I want to read books that all draw fish.”
“That’s called a fish icon, let’s look for the animal category first.”
“Illustrations?”
“Would you like to see something, Ms. Mickey?”
“Well, it’s just as well that Mary and I look the same.”
“Okay, let’s go find the illustrated bookshelf then.”
The two followed Eloe inside, Mari looking around and touching the desk and the table legs. Suddenly, Ella stopped.
It was Rook and Aina, who were sitting in the chairs by the window. Ena saw Mari and smiled at her in surprise, her expression immediately tensing as her gaze fell on Miki.
Rook, who was next to them, greeted them, “Hey, Eero, you guys came to visit the library!”
“We need to step up our game, too!”
Mickey’s expression was a little uncomfortable.
It was nearly dusk when I walked out of the library.
“Wow, ice cream! Ice cream!” Marie shouted out.
“What?”
Miki whispered, “She just read the book about food, and there were pictures of ice cream in it.
“So, she memorized it?”
Elohim turned the wheel and drove toward Harvard.
The city of Cambridge is home to two of America’s most prestigious academic institutions, MIT and Harvard, and it’s very lively with students as they pass by the campuses.
“The ice cream here is famous, let’s get off the bus to buy it, and then eat ice cream while shopping, it’s called typical American leisure.”
Elohim pulled into the parking lot and the three of them walked together in the direction of the ice store.
I don’t know if it’s because of the different milk ingredients or the climate, but American ice cream is much tastier than Japanese ice cream.
Mari chooses a combination of red and chocolate, Miki orders mint, and Ella asks for a cup of coffee, and the three of them eat as they walk. Pedestrians passed by Mari on the street and smiled at her.
Sightseers like the family travelers also frequently watched Qi Luo’s group of handsome and beautiful men and women, some simply picked up their cameras and pressed the shutter hard at them. Mari also smiled and leaned beside Qi Luo, posing.
After about a half hour of shopping, back in the parking lot-
Suddenly, three mean-looking punks stared straight at Mary. Chewing gum in their mouths, they said, “Hello, little sister! Why are you walking with a Japanese kid?”
“Come with us, we’ll make you feel good.”
The more they talked, the less they talked, and Ella stepped forward, blocking Mari’s path.
“Fuck off, Jap dog!”
“You Japanese dog, mind your own business!”
The three posed for an attack, and one even flashed a pocket knife.
Things are tricky! Ella’s heart screamed. What do we do? It was thirty meters to the car.
At that moment, Mary exclaimed in surprise, “Hey, your hair looks like a cocktail napkin!”
Miki whispered to stop Marie: “Marie, don’t talk nonsense!”
The punk said provocatively, “Hey, we’re not bad guys, don’t be afraid!”
“Chick, are you badmouthing us?” One of them, reached over to grab Mari.
At that moment – boom boom! Violent gunshots rang out.
“Bastard, get lost!”
The little yakuza were so scared that they rolled and fled.
It was Miki who fired the gun. Miki held her gun straight up, the muzzle still coldly aimed at the direction the punks were fleeing.
Elohim gently pressed Miki’s wrist. “Miki, they’ve escaped.”
It took Mickie a moment to come back to her senses, and she dropped her arm. Mary, next to her, gazed in horror at the gun in Mickie’s hand.
“I had to shoot!” Mickey said coldly.
“Against a guy like that, if you don’t have your gun out, you’re bound to lose out.”
Miki’s bleak eyes looked in the direction where the punk had fled. Her lips trembled and her whole body stared into the distance as if filled with hatred. Eero froze as he saw her show this expression for the first time.
“It’s okay!” Ella said quietly, “Go home, they won’t dare to follow.”
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Miki is really an enigmatic girl. Soft and shy on the outside, she dares to shoot at the bad guys; she always finishes last in her exams, but she is actually a smart girl.
On the way home, no one mentioned what happened in the parking lot. Marie was so tired from playing all day that she fell asleep in the car, and Micky was silent the whole way.
Micky was supposed to report this to her ladyship, but she seemed to be hiding it.
Late at night─Ella lay in bed, unable to sleep.
The adopted daughters of the Gloria family, each of whom seems to have a bitter past. Naomi, who left her background to pay off her parents’ debts. Mari, who seems to be innocent and childish, seems to be hiding painful memories underneath her simple smile. Charu is plagued by illness. And Miki, what kind of past does she have?
Each one is the one that Ella truly wants to protect. But could he or she have the love of four girls? Feeling distraught, Eero got out of bed and poured a glass of wine. Taking a sip of brandy, he walked faithfully to the window.
The bright moon was covered by clouds, revealing only a faint glow. Looking at the atrium from the window, all the scenery was silent. Suddenly, Ella’s eyes stopped-
There seemed to be a white shadow by the pond in the Spanish-style landscaped atrium. Chloe stared at it.
It’s a human figure. – Mitch?
Looking down from the direction of the third floor, it was impossible to see very clearly, but the figure seemed to be Miki. Without a second thought, Ella put down her glass of wine, put on a robe and walked out of the room.
Instead of candles, there were light bulbs in the candlesticks in the hallway, and Ella groped her way down the stairs by the faint light.
“Aren’t you cold?” Erika asked quietly as she walked up beside her.
Mitch crouched motionless at the edge of the pool, staring into the darkness at the bobbing water.
“It’s not good for your health to blow in the night wind, yo! And there are no stars to see tonight!”
“Why?”
Mickey gazed at the water and asked without looking back, “Why did you come here?”
“I… I thought I heard you calling…”
Miki was silent. She looked at Eero and stood up coldly.
“Ella, hold me!”
The long night is unfolding.
The two of them, Eero and Miki, lay side by side on the bed, kissing each other. Miki’s lips burned, thirsting for Eero’s kiss. There seemed to be an emptiness in Miki’s gaze, and she sighed sadly.
“Would you belittle me?” Mickey asked.
“I would not have deserved to live in this mansion; to me, Gloria’s house is like paradise, where not having to worry about everything outside, and cleaning and doing chores every day, is my greatest joy.”
“You hate the outside world?”
“Eh, because of all the ugly things; Ella, do you know how my parents died?”
“I don’t know!”
“Murdered by some ruffians. My parents, who were extremely devout missionaries, were very concerned about my education and disciplined me very strictly. We lived a puritanical life, and since I couldn’t stand the boredom and dullness of it. So I ran away from home the year I graduated from junior high school and lived a wandering life…”
“And then what?”
“Isn’t it ironic that one day my live-in boyfriend forced me to pick up clients because he couldn’t pay his gambling debts, but when the johns came, I was so scared that I fled? A little girl like me, who couldn’t stand parental discipline and ran away from home to play with drugs and guns, escaped and came back home; but those guys wouldn’t leave me alone, they were all in the gangs and kept riding their motorcycles, circling around my house telling me to get out, and my dad asked me what was going on. I cried and said ‘What should I do? They’re taking me away!'”
“So Dad called the police, and the police chased them away, only to have Mom and Dad killed by those punks the next day when they were out shopping.”
Eero gently hugged Miki. Her slender body leaned into the crook of Eero’s arm, her hands resting on Eero’s chest.
“Mom and Dad hated violence and never thought of carrying a gun for protection, but in America, only you can protect yourself…”
“So you carry a gun with you?”
Mickey nodded.
“Only when I go out on the street, I’ll hide my gun under my skirt, Ella…”
Mickey asked the same question again. “Will you look down on me?”
Erika shook her head.
It seems that we cannot apply Japanese standards to things such as gunplay and drug use. Although there are proposals in the US to ban legal gun trafficking, it’s only an ideal and hardly a fact. That’s why Miki acted that way in the parking lot.
“Elaine, I didn’t mean for you to see this side of me!”
Ella swung her finger gently over Miki’s mouth, telling her to stop talking. Then, softly stroking her cheek, scrutinizing her beautiful face. Sweet breath touched Eero’s lips. Miki’s soft body flexed.
Eero kissed her lips as one hand climbed up to her breast. He gently caressed the nipple and slowly moved his hand to her lower abdomen. As his fingers reached into the flower path, Miki’s hand took hold of Eero’s baby. The slender fingers, slowly rubbed the jade stem and held it as they slid up and down. The dick was stimulated like this and started to slowly harden.
Ella’s fingers went deeper into the dense forest and stroked the inner part. Miki’s garden, was not yet sufficiently wet. The dry petals were stiff and blocked Eero’s movement. Eero moved her body and spread Miki’s legs, who was hiding her face out of shyness. The slender legs were spread in a V-font, and the maroon colored lush forest slightly covered the secret path.
Ella moved closer and spread the dense forest with her fingers. He buried his face into the stamen and flicked his nimble tongue over the petals, and it didn’t take long for nectar to flow from her center.
“Ah, Erika!” Miki let out a soft cry.
As Erika’s tongue moved, she twisted slightly and gently grabbed Erika’s hair.
“I’ll serve you too, Ella!”
Miki sat up, bent over, got down between Eero’s legs and took the rigid rod in her mouth. Her blowjob skills were not pure and Eero felt pain several times.
She cupped the jade balls as she sucked the jade rod deeper into her throat, tightening her lips a little more as they left the rod, making Erika a little uncomfortable.
He patted Miki on the back and moved her under his body. Miki looked up at Eero and gently closed her eyes. Eero kissed Miki as his body slowly pressed into her. He aimed the muzzle at the entrance of the flower path and slowly thrust in.
“Ah, uh…” Miki’s body resisted slightly. The hand that had been placed on Era’s side abdomen was now tightly wrapped around his back.
“Ella, I…”
“Don’t be nervous, just relax, it’s not something to be ashamed of!”
“But…”
“Stop suppressing your feelings and forget about the past! You’re not a bad girl anymore. You’re a new Micky Gloria, aren’t you? Gloria, isn’t it?”
Eero comforted Miki gently, trying to soothe her broken heart. After listening to Eero’s words, Miki leaned into his arms as if she had collapsed.
“Nn, oooo…” Miki hugged Era tightly, burying her face into his chest and crying softly.
Her face was streaked with tears as her body pressed more closely to Elohim’s, her blossom opening and welcoming the wet, hard male root into it.
Ella began to slowly pump back and forth. Miki’s body, in tandem, slowly swung up.
“Micky, it’s going yo!”
“Elaine!”
He held his breath. The burning swell of his lower body erupted all at once.
Miki collapsed onto the bed in a crumpled heap, her skin slightly rosy red all over, and let out a long, happy, peaceful breath.
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The following morning. Elohim was awakened by a knock on the door. After a lingering night of extraordinarily sweet sleep, he looked up at the alarm clock and couldn’t help but doubt his eyes. The hour hand was already pointing at nine o’clock, and the knocking on the door kept ringing. Eero hurriedly jumped out of bed to open the door.
An impatient Lisa, standing next to the cart.
“Thought you were dead! I’ve been busy as hell, and I had to bring you breakfast.”
Elohim apologized bitterly.
“I’m sorry! I slept too deeply, did you call me at breakfast too?”
“There is! Madame is quite worried about you!”
Ella shrugged. Indeed, Madame had said on the first day of breakfast─Gloria B. One of the family rules was to eat breakfast in the dining room as a group.
“Looks like I broke this important family rule!”
“It doesn’t matter, you’re not really part of the family yet anyway, you’re just passing through, and you know I’ve got a lot of work to do, and if there’s a slight delay, things won’t get done…”
“Ah, indeed!”
Elohim could imagine how heavy Lisa’s workload was. There was only one maid in the sprawling mansion, and even with Miki’s help, household chores still piled up.
Lisa set orange juice, coffee, toast, butter, and egg soup, one by one, on the table.
“Hey! That was a weird thing you just said!” Erika sat in her chair at the table and looked at Lisa.
“What do you mean, I’m not really part of this family yet? I wasn’t in the first place!”
Lisa set up her knife and fork and replied, “But you’re bound to marry one of the Gloria ladies and become Mr. Gloria, aren’t you? Like that guy, he’s already in love with Ms. Aina!”
“Rook?”
“Yeah! Isn’t it?”
Elohim couldn’t figure out if she was referring to herself or Rook with that statement.
“That guy, Rook, really said something like that?”
“I don’t know, it has nothing to do with me anyway!”
The look on her face was clearly not true to her words.
“It’s ready to eat.”
The toast was cold, but the coffee was still warm.
Lisa idly began to look around the room. Most likely waiting for Elohim to finish eating and getting ready to collect the plates.
“Have some coffee, Ms. Lisa!” Elaine said to Lisa who was walking around.
“I’m sorry to trouble you with a couple trips, have a seat!”
She was reluctant to come closer, still looking at Erika with suspicion.
“Dining with guests will get you scolded by the lady.”
“No need to tell her; don’t like coffee?”
“No!”
“Then have a seat, you make good coffee!”
After more persuasion, she finally sat down. Ella poured a cup of coffee and put it in front of her, but she didn’t touch it. After a while, she picked up the coffee and took a sip.
“You’re such a weirdo.”
“Yes?”
“Of course! And you’re pretending to be gracious to the maid, unlike that guy Rook, who attacked my lower part when I brought him coffee, with no respect at all.”
“Yeah? Maybe that’s his way of saying hello!”
“Don’t be ridiculous, okay? Is that how you greet people?”
“If you wish…”
“So Ro.”
She touched the rim of the cup and said, “I’m the one who’s troubled, you men, you only treat maids as playthings, whether it’s the driver or the former governess, it’s all the same face, you asked me to drink coffee, are you trying to coax me into bed too?”
“I didn’t mean that!”
“So want to do it with me? If I ask, will you do it?”
“This…” said Era, looking at her in confusion.
Lisa tapped the rim of her glass impatiently and waited for Ella to answer.
“Ms. Lisa, that’s too pointed a question!”
“Indeed!” Lisa glared at Erika and stood up arrogantly.
“I know all about putting on a friendly face when you’re really trying to fool people; Naomi-san and Miki-san are both smug because they’re having an affair with you, so it’s not that you hate women, but you just don’t want to touch lowly maids, isn’t it?”
“Ms. Lisa…”
“There is no need to explain! Although Miss Miki was tricked by you, I have seen your true colors, you are a hypocritical villain; but don’t be complacent, the Gloria’s are not an ordinary family, they devour men, if you don’t believe me, go to the backyard and look around, your future is there!”
She slammed the door hard and ran out.
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Lisa’s words made Eero so shocked and skeptical that she had to sip her cold coffee sullenly.
Lisa’s unfinished coffee rattled at the bottom of her cup.
“Yo, gettin’ yelled at, are ya? Dude!” Rook said sarcastically as he walked in.
“Why didn’t you accept the girl’s advances? Tell me instead!”
“Don’t be annoying, okay?” Erika put down her cup with a displeased look on her face.
“You heard it all?”
“A little; Lisa saw me when she came out and ran away like she saw a ghost.”
Elohim glared at Rook.
“It’s your fault after all, because you’ve been flirting with her and that’s what’s gotten under her skin.”
“Spoken like the truth.” Rook mocked with a cheeky grin.
“You’re right, aren’t you? I can’t really say she’s being unreasonable!”
“Why?”
“Idiot! Lisa’s in love with you, and when she said, ‘If you sleep with me, you’re playing with me,’ she was testing you.”
“Testing me?”
“Well, that woman has a twisted personality, and will never take the initiative to say ‘sleep with me’ to a man she likes, especially with her last words, which are a reminder for you to be careful!”
“Words about the backyard?”
“What does it mean that this family will eat the men?”
“I don’t know yeah.” Erika replied.
“Don’t you know a lot about women’s psychology? How could you not know?”
“No, no, you’re better at reasoning, I just thought it seemed unusual that there weren’t many men in this giant house.”
“You mean a driver or something?”
“That’s right!”
“Going to investigate?” Rook inquired with a glance.
“Of course!” Erika nodded.
The backyard is located on the way to the forest, just the opposite direction from the flower fields.
Along the way, the houses seemed to stretch endlessly forward, and when the two had walked until they could hardly walk, they finally arrived.
“This is it?” Rook frowned.
For her part, Elohim stared speechlessly at this backyard.
The trees had been cut down a few times, and there was only a reddish-brown dirt in front of them, rumbling in messy piles.
I didn’t realize that this gorgeous mansion would be so desolate. The mounds of earth high up in the shape of a mound attracted the two men’s attention. The eerie sight, the sluggish atmosphere, was chilling.
“Hey, Eero, this thing looks like a grave!”
“It’s very similar.” Erika echoed.
“Those mounds of dirt are pretty high too, so it looks like that’s what Lisa was referring to!”
“This means…”
Rook speculated, “Could it be that the drivers and governesses who used to be here are buried underneath, I don’t believe in that crap!”
Elohim thought for a moment. “She’s lying, isn’t she!”
“It must be!” Rook cursed hatefully.
“Damn it, I fell for her trick!”
“But what are these things again?”
“Maybe it’s the carcass of an animal that that lizard that Ms. Charu keeps ate; hey, want to dig?”
“Don’t be stupid!”
Erika shook her head in disbelief : “I don’t have a penchant for digging up animal graves! Pervert, why don’t you go to that hut and take a look, you might be able to find out some clues.”
Elohim walked toward a small cabin in the corner of the backyard. Rook followed with a bewildered look on his face.
The hut, it was a lackluster place. It was a small space that could only hold about two cows, and it housed the workhorses, shovels, weed whackers, and other machinery, while hay was piled up on the sides.
Ella looked around the chamber. “There’s nothing special about it!”
Rook has an even more obvious “bored” look on his face.
“What the hell! It’s just a warehouse.”
“Ella, let’s go, ignore that woman’s bullshit, I’m going back to help Aina with her lessons!”
“Well, goodbye!”
“Hey, wait!” Rook stopped in his tracks.
“Lisa and that gardener are coming this way, what do we do?”
“What are you nervous about? It’s not like we did anything bad!”
“That’s true, but I think it’s better to go up to the second floor to hide first, so we can listen to what they’re saying on the way!”
Lisa and the gardener went into the hut. It appeared that they were going to the orchard later, for Lisa fetched the bamboo basket and the gardener carried the short ladder.
Lisa was about to walk out when the gardener suddenly grabbed her hand.
“Let’s do it once in a while!” The gardener forced Lisa over to him and whispered in her ear.
“Let go of me, this girl is not in the mood today.” Lisa shook him off impatiently.
Instead, the gardener held Lisa in a hug from behind. He slowly caressed her breasts, his thick hands reaching into Lisa’s long skirt.
“Don’t be proud! Have you left me behind after being loved by that tutor brother?”
Lisa shook her head full of concern.
“It’s none of your business!”
“Of course it’s none of my business, but what are you thinking? Think about who you are, even if you catch one of those young masters, you’ll be dumped in no time.”
“That’s something I’m still self-aware of.”
“I don’t think so, the way you look at that handsome man, he’s like a female cat in heat.”
“And what does that make you?” Lisa gazed coldly at the gardener.
“You look at Ms. Miki and Ms. Ena as if you can’t wait to devour them in one gulp, and you must be imagining them naked, and making love to them, every night, right?”
“That I don’t deny, but I’m well aware of who I am, and even if I were to imagine doing anything with Madame or Miss Mickey, it couldn’t really happen, but you’re different.”
The gardener unbuttoned Lisa’s chest as she spoke, and soon her breasts were completely bare.
“Look, the nipples got hard immediately, you are such a bitch, even though you already have a favorite man, you still can’t withstand my teasing, with your status, are you worthy to pursue those noble young masters?”
The gardener picked Lisa up from behind and gently placed her on the work machine.
“I thought I said stop!” Lisa frowned.
The gardener, oblivious to the fact that he was still holding Lisa’s body down, removed her panties and began to fondle the secret spot.
“Yo, it’s already wet! My finger is being sucked in, wow, it’s sucking so tight!”
“AH, UH…” Lisa couldn’t help but moan. However, she seemed to feel that it was a very shameful thing for her body to react, so Lisa put her head aside and gritted her teeth to endure it.
“The body doesn’t lie, and being from the slums, you’re perfect with me, the underling; hey, can’t wait? Going in soon!”
“Ah, don’t! Gu… ah!”
The gardener’s huge gun gun zipped deeper into Lisa’s body. He kept pushing back and forth, causing Lisa’s curved back to sway like a wave.
“ah… ah…”
Ella and Rook were on the second floor, watching the gardener’s obscene behavior from beginning to end. Rook sighed with a “can’t stand it” look. Ella averted her gaze and silently played with the haystack.
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The night was a stormy one. Dark clouds began to cover the area in the evening, and soon afterward a torrential downpour fell.
“The storm is getting worse.”
Eero put down her half-read book and said to Miki, “There are no buildings around this mansion, so the sound of thunder will sound especially loud!”
“There will be a typhoon?”
Marie is sitting on the floor drawing a picture.
“Mary hates typhoons because they blow all the flowers off!”
“But, Mari-san, if it doesn’t blow and rain, the flowers won’t bloom next year, yo!” Naomi said as a reminder as she plopped down next to Mari to watch her draw.
After dinner-the sisters came to Mary’s room.
Usually when there was nothing else to do in the evenings, the girls would run up to Mari’s room to talk, eat, and spend a relaxing evening. Sometimes it was Naomi and Charu together, sometimes it was both Mrs. Shirley and Miki. Occasionally all of them would be there, and they always liked to surround Mari in the middle and laugh and play together.
This night, Naomi took another drink to Mari’s room, while Miki sat quietly in the corner, and even Eero was invited.
Everyone became gentle around innocent Mari, and Naomi stopped pretending to be crazy by drinking and sat obediently at Miki’s feet.
“It’s going to thunder later, isn’t it!” Mickey poured coffee for everyone and then gazed out the window.
“Mr. Era probably doesn’t know! Thunder is very scary here…”
“How so?”
“Because there were no taller buildings around, the lightning would hit the trees directly and you could see it clearly, it was scary!”
“Thunder is my favorite.” Naomi added a few strokes to Mari’s drawing.
“That greenish-white lightning is the best, and I’ll still lie by the window and feel the vibrations of the thunder! In fact, after coming to the U.S., the thing that really scared me was the tornado, which my oldest brother must not have seen yet, its power is really very amazing.”
Mary suddenly continued, “Uncle Cow was taken away! It went round and round and up into the sky!”
“Sister Mary even cried when she saw that situation!”
“Uncle Cow is so pathetic!” Naomi pressed her face against Mari’s cheek to comfort her.
The rain is getting stronger and stronger – the strong wind and rain hit the windows with a loud thud.
“Time for everyone to go to bed.” Micky gathered up the books and colored pencils that were scattered all over the floor.
“Mari can’t sleep when the storm comes; Naomi looks like she’s fast asleep ooh!
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“Yeah, I don’t get enough sleep at all!”
“Doing what. Reading?”
At Erika’s question, Naomi stretched.
“Are you kidding me? I’m busy sharpening my million-dollar knife!”
“Millions? It’s Japanese currency, right? By the way, what exactly is buried under the mound of dirt in the backyard?” Erika asked with deliberate indifference.
He saw Miki glance quickly at Naomi. Naomi looked sleepily at Eero.
“Is there such a thing?” It looked like she had gone into a coma.
“Yes, it’s very similar…”
“Grave?”
“Really? Mitchie-san, did you know?”
“Uh, I… I don’t know!”
Seems a little suspicious, but can’t ask a question.
Seeing everyone stand up one by one, Mari hurriedly said, “Are you all going back? Only Mari is left!” She reluctantly tugged on Eero’s sleeve.
Ella squatted down and said softly, “It’s already late! We all need to go back to bed, if we don’t sleep, we won’t be able to come play with Mari tomorrow.”
“Wow, good night then everyone!”
“Good night!”
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, rattling the windows. Mary cowered in fear and looked at everyone uneasily.
“Don’t be afraid, Sister Mary, I’ll sleep here with you.”
Normally brash and unpretentious, Naomi was only this gentle when dealing with Mari. Mari settled down and let go of Eero’s sleeve.
“I’ll go clean up and you guys can sleep later.”
Miki walked into the bedroom while Eero waved goodbye to Mari and left the room.
After returning to her room, she was unable to sleep for a long time, so Ella took a copy of the original book and lay down on her bed to read it.
Some time later, Ella seemed to hear a knock on the door. Outside the window, there was indeed thunder and lightning, as Miki had said, and it was unusually terrifying.
When Ella heard the sound, she initially thought it was the wind, but when the storm cleared up a bit, the “knocking” sound continued.
“Who is it?”
“Woo. Woo…”
“Miss Mary!”
Marie stood outside the door clutching a pillow and crying. Elohim ushered her into the room.
“What’s wrong? Can’t sleep?” Erika asked gently.
“It’s horrible! Uncle Thunderbolt…” cried Mari.
“Boom! Rumble! I keep shaking Naomi, but she won’t get up.”
“So…”
Marie must have been awakened by the thunder. But Naomi, who was aside, slept like a dead pig because she had been drinking. She was so scared by the thunder that she ran out of the room before coming to Eero.
Ella told Mari to lie down on her bed.
“Mary will sleep here today, I’m going to take the couch, don’t be afraid, sleep well oh!
”
Mari looked at Eero with an expectant look.
“Teacher, sleep and sleep together, okay?”
“Sleeping together?”
“Mary will be scared to sleep alone.”
“I know.”
Elohim burrowed under the covers, propped up on his elbows, and lay beside her. Mari clung to Eero like a kitten.
“Teacher, how about a story?”
“What story to tell? There, once upon a time, there was an old man…”
Slowly, Marie closed her eyes. Ella quietly got up and lay down on the couch.
Chapter 5 The Call to Come Over
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The next morning, the storm had stopped. When I opened the window, a gust of fresh air from the rain, with the fragrance of the trees, blew into the room.
Elohim entered the bedroom and gazed down at Mari’s sleeping face. Her soft, rosy lips were slightly parted, and she was sleeping very soundly. Her beautiful blonde hair cascaded over the pillow like golden waves. The sunlight sprinkled lightly on her cheeks, emitting a faint glow.
A small face with long, curved and arched eyelashes.
Ella gently stroked her cheek and gazed at her in awe. Mari, who ran and played in the flower fields, chasing the white clouds. Mari, who was the “favorite” of Gloria’s family. She was like a carefully cultivated garden that was not only forbidden to enter, but also forbidden to be picked or harmed by anyone.
The clock hand was pointing at six-thirty, and in order to make it in time for breakfast, Elohim had to wake her up.
“Miss Mary, wake up!”
It took two or three screams for her to gradually turn around.
“Uh… uh…”
“Miss Mary!”
“Hoo, ah… Huh, teacher?”
“Good morning! It’s a beautiful day!”
“Ha… ah, good morning!”
Eero saw that Mari had woken up, so he went back to the sitting room and waited. After a while, Mari still hadn’t shown up. Ten minutes later, Eero called again.
“Miss Mary, are you ready?”
“Teacher…” said Mari, seemingly with a sob.
“What’s wrong?” Elohim rushed into the dormitory, startled.
“Teacher, yes, I’m sorry!” Mari hugged her pillow as tears fell in large drops.
Ella immediately understood the reason for Marie’s crying. She had been refusing to get out of bed, just crying – like a child who wet the bed.
Elohim smiled and patted Mari’s back. The moment her palm touched her, she cowered in fear.
“Mari-sama, it’s not something to be ashamed of, all of us were born from the ‘Land of Water’, so hurry up and go to your room and change out of your clothes! It’ll be bad if you catch a cold!
”
“You’re not mad?”
“How?”
“But… Mari, Mari wet the teacher’s bed…”
Sure enough, Erika thought to herself. But instead of being angry, a wave of love and compassion washed over her. I have to protect her.
However, Mari’s next action stunned Eero. No sooner had Eero stretched out her arm than Mari was so scared that she shrunk her body into a ball and closed her eyes tightly.
“I’m sorry! Don’t hit me, don’t hit me!” With a look of fear on her face, she screamed and begged Erika for mercy.
Ella looked at Mari in disbelief. She looked like a child who had been abused for a long time and had developed a strange fear of swinging arms. Who had abused her? Was it Mrs. Gloria?
Elohim tenderly patted the trembling and crying Mari on the shoulder.
“Don’t cry! No one’s going to hit Mary, don’t worry!”
Ella kept calming Mari, who looked like a frightened animal. When Mari had calmed down, Eero put a robe on her and took her back to her room to rest, then went straight to Madam’s room.
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When Eero arrived at Shirley’s room, she was instructing Lisa on the menu for breakfast. The lady smiled at Eero’s early morning visit and asked him to sit down, although she wore a look of surprise.
Madame quickly finished her confidences to Lisa, who rubbed her shoulders with Ella with an ironic grimace.
“Lisa is so over the top, not even saying hello! Hey, is there something wrong with Mr. Eero?”
Ella got right to the point, “I’m here about Mari, she just wet the bed.”
“Wet the bed?”
“Yes.”
Erika watched the lady’s expression carefully.
“Last night, Miss Mary ran to my room because she was afraid of the thunder, and I kept her overnight, but it was a little cold last night and it rained all night, so she must have heard the water and wet her bed.”
“Piss on your bed?”
“It doesn’t matter! What’s strange is that she was scared in a way that was a little unusual.”
The lady gazed at Erika with a sharp look.
“You mean like abused children?”
“Yes, please ma’am, do you beat Miss Mary when she wets the bed?”
“No.”
“But why did she act that way? It’s so different from her usual self!
”
The lady put her hand to her lips and thought for a moment.
“To tell you the truth, the child arrived here at the age of twelve, and I did not like her originally, for she trembled with fear at the sight of a human being, like a timid white mouse.
But when I learned about her upbringing, I realized why. When she was two years old, her parents passed away and she was given up for adoption by a relative, but the family treated her very badly, like a thorn in their side.
For the development of the family, the Gloria family has always been on all the blood relations of distant relatives, will do very secret tracking investigation, but I do not know why, Mary was missed; wait until the discovery of the time, I realized that the family not only let her wear rags, live in dilapidated rooms, but also do not give her an education, like raising a dog-like treatment of her, and even more outrageous is that often she will be beaten to the point that she was bruised all over the body, it is really very miserable, when I read her investigation report, I was so angry that I wanted to kill the family all shot. When I read her investigation report, I was so angry that I wanted to shoot all the members of that family to death.
It’s only since she’s been here that she’s slowly regained her cheerfulness, and her former gloom has completely disappeared, but sometimes she still shows a timid expression due to special circumstances, because of her traumatized state of mind…”
“So…”
Erika didn’t know how to answer. I didn’t realize that Mari’s childhood had been so tragic, perhaps that was why her mind had been stuck in the toddler stage.
“Everyone else knows about Mary?”
“I know, and that’s why everyone in this family loves Mary so much; and now you know all about it, Mr. Elloe?”
“All understood.” Elohim thought to himself that the Lady truly loved Mari with all her heart.
“Huh, where’s Mary now?”
“I’m taking her will back to her room, she can’t change in my room!”
“Oooh, let’s go see her together, poor child, she must still be scared, she needs to be comforted!”
The lady turned back and plucked a flower from a vase and smiled at Erika.
“By the way, you were with Mary all last night, you didn’t do anything to her, did you?”
“Don’t worry, I’m a good father!”
The lady nodded: “I knew you wouldn’t mess around.”
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The Gloria house is back to its usual calm.
Mari is still in class with Mitchie, and Rook seems to have forgotten all about the backyard, practicing Spartan education every day with Ina without avoiding suspicion.
The embarrassing incident occurred in the late afternoon of a certain day.
That day, Mrs. and Mickey had to go out for something, leaving Mary alone in class.
It was almost summer and the climate was warm. Eero went to Mari’s room as usual, and Mari was waiting for him at her desk, greeting him with great vigor. However, there was something different about Mari today…
She quietly approached Ella and said, “Teacher! Mari has a present for you!
“She looked like she couldn’t wait.
“Oh, what kind of gift?”
“Great stuff, teacher. Close your eyes, will you?”
“Yes!” Erika closed her eyes and speculated in her mind.
“Hey, I’m closed.”
“You can’t open your eyes until I say ‘yes’!”
“Got it!”
Elohim heard the rustle of clothes swinging and felt her approach her. Mari seemed to be checking to see if she had closed her eyes. It felt as if Mari was unbuckling her belt.
Wasn’t it a wreath belt. Ella remembered that Mari’s favorite thing to do was to make wreaths.
After unbuckling Erika’s belt, she proceeded to pull down her pants zipper.
“Huh?” Erika raised her eyebrows in surprise.
As soon as she pulled down her pants, Marie was about to reach into her panties, pull out Ella’s baby and start sucking on it. The warmth of the touch immediately extended to the entire lower half of her body, and Ella was at a loss for words as her breathing began to catch.
“Ma, Miss Mary, what are you doing?”
“Uh… I… Gu…”
“Quick, stop!” Erika hurriedly stepped backward.
The moment Mari’s warm, wet tongue left the jade shaft, pleasure traveled throughout her body. The lifeblood, withdrawn from Mari’s mouth, was already hard and throbbing.
“Hoo… Hoo…”
After Eero adjusted his breathing and calmed down, he asked Mari, “What’s going on? Who taught you to do this?”
“I…” said Mari, looking at Ella in confusion.
“That night, because I wet Teacher’s bed, I told Naomi that I wanted to apologize to Teacher…”
“Naomi-san?” Erika rubbed her temples and smiled bitterly, “What did Naomi say?”
“She said that my teacher would be happy if I licked her cock like that.”
Eero tried desperately to calm himself down as he told Mari to wait in her room, walked out and rushed all the way to Naomi’s room.
“Ms. Naomi!”
Naomi was sharpening her million-dollar sword without knocking.
“Whew! Who did I think it was? So it’s the big brother who likes to cuddle Muppets!”
“What the hell do you want?” Erika looked at Naomi coldly.
“Why did you teach Miss Mary to do that? She’s so pure and innocent.”
“Huh, you weren’t even tempted by Mari? That’s so great, worthy of being Erika’s brother!
”
“You still haven’t answered my question, why exactly?”
“I just wanted to see how you would react!”
“What if I can’t hold it?”
“Huh, you’re still feeling it! How does it taste? A hard, slippery lick from Sister Mary, ouch! Ouch! Is that what it feels like?”
“Don’t talk too much!”
Naomi cowered like a turtle.
“It’s not like anything happened anyway, and I think that Mary is probably embarrassed right now.
”
“It’s not because of you!”
Exasperated, Erika walked out of the room. Glancing back at Naomi, she realized that she was playfully eyeing her. Eero sighed and closed the door to her room.
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After several days… it was finally the day of the second examination. Everyone looked as usual, except for Miki, who looked as if she was on the verge of a disaster.
“Do you get nervous?” Erika asked with concern.
“A little bit…” miki’s expression stiffened a little.
Mary exclaimed, “Exams are so much fun!” She shouted.
The following day, the results were published.
Eero and Miki entered the Lady’s room together. Miki clenched her fists, more nervous than Eero.
“Miki and Eero-san are here! Please have a seat.”
The two men sat down on the couch in front of Mrs.
“Miki, you paid a lot of attention to this test!”
“Mom…”
“I’m very satisfied with your performance, even though Aina was already in second place, you and Charu both came in first with the highest scores.”
Miki looked at Eero happily.
“Mr. Era, you did teach me well, but…”
Elohim looked at the lady with a bit of confusion. Miki looked up in panic as well.
“What’s the problem?”
“Mr. Eero, you teach Mari her homework too, don’t you?”
“Yes.”
“In fact, Mary finished just one point shy of Ina for third place this time.
”
“Really?”
“Mary has been fourth before and has almost always turned in a blank.”
Erika couldn’t help but feel smug when she heard this.
“That means she’s making amazing progress!”
“Eh, it’s just so surprising and certainly delightful.”
“Yeah!”
“Just…”
Elohim felt as if the lady was not all joyful about the progress of Mary’s grades.
She seems to be haunted by something.
“Is there a problem?”
“If Mari keeps improving, it’ll cause trouble for the Gloria family!”
“？”
The lady sighed.
“Mr. Eero, are you going to continue teaching Mary?”
“I would like to keep on teaching, if possible; Mary is like a piece of plain jade, the more it is worn the more beautifully it shines, and as she will absorb like a sponge, there is no telling how far she will progress if she is given a good education!”
“Yes?”
“What seems to be the difficulty, ma’am?” Erika asked rhetorically.
“What is the trouble with Mary’s yearning to learn?”
“No, it’s nothing, it’s just that this way, the Gloria family will…”
“Maaaaaan!” Mickey interrupted the lady loudly.
“What will happen to the Gloria’s?”
“┅”
The lady seemed to be trying to change the subject, she smiled and said, “Mr. Era, what we were discussing just now…”
“Is there something to hide?” Erika looked like she was pursuing the matter.
“Actually, I’ve been wondering since I came in why there’s this family test. Can you tell me?”
Madame looked to Miki for help. Miki had a hopeless look on her face.
The lady sighed and looked at Erika as if she had made up her mind.
“Well, there’s no point in hiding it from you now; in fact, this quiz, which is held once a month, has a major impact on determining the president of House Gloria.”
“In other words, the current president of the Gloria family is not me, but Charu.”
“Ms. Charu?”
“Well, let’s start at the beginning!” Madame began to narrate.
“Until last year, the president of the Gloria family was Charu’s mother, but because of her sudden death, we had to urgently elect a successor. However, the president of the Gloria family is not passed on directly to the next generation, but rather, the president has to undergo a test prepared by the family and choose the one who scores the highest marks amongst them to take the position…”
“Those who are eligible to take the test are those who have been secretly investigated by the Gloria family and found to be capable of taking the test; we will select girls with good grades or those whose abilities cannot be utilized due to family problems to be adopted as foster daughters, but Mari…”
“Her being an adopted daughter has nothing to do with ability does it?”
“That’s right!” Madame’s eyes sparkled.
“Just because, can’t let her live that miserable life anymore.”
She cleared her throat and eased her nerves.
“The reason for having Mary take the test is that I don’t want her to have the feeling that she’s being excluded from everyone’s activities.”
“But I still can’t figure it out…” said Ella.
“Isn’t the current president Xia Lu? She won first place in the test for the next president again, so there shouldn’t be a need to hold the test, right?”
“That’s the problem…”
“You’ve seen Charu’s illness; when she was elected president, she was very happy to take over her mother’s position, but a president’s job is extremely hectic, and at the time, when our factory closed down due to the poor management of the company, the workers were very angry at the sudden closure and staged a sit-in, so Charu went to find out what was going on… “
Eero could imagine the chaos. The angry workers must have yelled at Xia Lu, “What does a little girl know?” “What does a little girl know?” and “Calling a young lady to come here, do you want to give us a hard time?” And so on.
The lady spoke again.
“Xia Lu couldn’t cope with the workers’ commotion, and as a result of excessive stress, she suffered a stomach ulcer and vomited blood in the hospital; after that, Xia Lu petitioned her lawyer to dismiss the president, but according to the family rules, a change of president can only be carried out upon the death of the incumbent president, with the only exception being that the test is to be held once again, and whoever can outperform her can succeed her as the president. The only exception is to hold another test, and whoever can outperform her can succeed her as president.”
“So it is!”
“Yes, so if Mari gets first place…”
“She will be president?”
“En, we can’t take that risk, it’s hard for Mari to live a quiet life, and the President’s busy schedule has already knocked down Charu; it’s not a position that has only superficial glamor…”
“I understand.”
“I can’t tell Mari to stop studying now, but it doesn’t look like Charu is giving up on her exams either!”
Ella looked at the lady and said, “According to the lady’s position, what is best?”
Madame smiled bitterly. “Stop calling me ma’am, just Shirley.”
“Why did Ms. Shirley become acting president?”
“Actually, I was originally the personal secretary of Ms. Charu’s mother, but became romantically involved with Charu’s father, so Aina and Charu are half-sisters.”
“That’s right!” Erika smiled.
“Ms. Shirley, you are such a good person.”
“How?”
“As far as the general public is concerned, they must want Aina-san to become president! There are a lot of ways you can use it, such as tampering with the exams, or being a bit more drastic and removing those who are in the way, aren’t there a lot of things like that? But you didn’t even do that.”
“Actually, I’ve thought about…”
“But without actually practicing it yah, I really admire you!”
The lady gave a slack-jawed smile.
５
That night. Ella came to Charu’s room.
Charu seems to be talking about how to be president. Naomi is in the room and surprisingly, Rook is there.
“Yo, the big lover is here!” Rook said, not having a soft spot for reptiles, so he made a point of sitting furthest away from Komo and playing with the Coke cans; Naomi, on the other hand, was lying on the couch, attentively calling for drinks.
Elaine sat on the floor.
“Is Aina’s lecture going okay?” Ella asked Rook.
“Not bad at all!” Rook replied.
“The test scores have been improving, but now a strong opponent has appeared ah!
”
“Mary?”
“You, why are you meddling? Now when Miki gets serious, we’re in a bitter fight.”
“I’m just doing what I think I have to do; by the way, Charu!” Eero turned to Charu.
“Ms. Shirley tells me that you’re the current president!”
Xia Lu said with embarrassment, “I’m sorry, Brother Qi Luo! We’re supposed to keep it a secret from the public.”
“Never mind! And when did Rook know?”
“I asked Ena a long time ago! You retard!” Rook sneered, and Ena stuck her tongue out at him and turned to Charu.
“Ms. Xia Lu, are you really going to give up your position as president?”
“That’s right!” She wrapped her arms around Mo and said quietly, “I just want to be an ordinary girl again, living an ordinary life as a student, the president is simply not something that a kid like me can be.”
“You’re too young.”
“It’s also partly because I’m just so tired.”
“Hmmm…” thought Era for a moment.
“In that case, the heavy responsibility will fall on someone!”
“Lao, Charu understands that one hundred percent!” Naomi still had wine in her mouth.
“And there are plenty of people who want to take their place.”
“Ms. Aina?”
“Eh, but she’s so cold to people, but that drive of hers is really amazing.
”
“Ugh, she just has a brute strength too!”
Rook opened a bottle of coke, shook his head and said, “She ah, no matter how much effort she puts into it, there’s no way she’ll be able to win against Ms. Charu and Ms. Miki; Hey, Eero, how strong is Mari?”
Erika took the drink Naomi handed her.
“Unpredictable, I don’t know exactly how far she can progress, maybe she’s a wunderkind, yo!”
“Eh, Yoyogi Daijo ah!” Rook fell into deep thought.
“There’s only one way… Can we ask Ms. Charu and Miki to deliberately let the water out of the water before Mari can overtake Aina?”
“No way!” Xia Lu simply refused.
“Regardless, I would never intentionally release water; I can’t do such a despicable thing.
”
Erika looked at her with a smile. She beamed and looked down with a displeased expression as she stroked Komo.
“It seems that Aina should be drugged hard…” mused Rook.
“We’ll discuss that later; Ella, there’s another secret of the Gloria family that you probably don’t know about, right?”
“Secret?”
“Do you know why every girl in Gloria’s family is so good?”
“Eh, it is indeed incredible.”
“Eero should really review this person, even if there is a doubt, as long as it has nothing to do with him, it is always ignored.”
Naomi retorted.
“And what is it to pry into our family’s affairs as you so love to do?”
“I want to spar with Erika!”
“Ha, you lose, Erika is good at drinking yo!”
“Quiet; Eero, you know, the first time I met this guy, she asked me if I could drink, and when I said I couldn’t, she went so far as to call me a ‘useless man’, what a nasty woman.”
“What did you say?”
Elaine’s headache went up.
“Hey, weren’t you going to tell me a big secret?”
“Wow, that!” Rook grinned.
“That’s what Aina told me; the Gloria family is a far-sighted family, and the husband they chose for the president had to be of Gloria blood, so even though the numbers were extremely large, they still did a tracking survey of all the relatives, so the Gloria family has always been in same-race marriages, and do you know why?”
“Must be trying to produce offspring with excellent minds!”
“Indeed, the marriage of kinsmen sometimes produces geniuses!”
“It just so happens that we’re both related to the Gloria’s, wouldn’t have guessed, would you?”
Ella didn’t care and said, “Of course it’s possible; doesn’t the Bible say that the ancestors of mankind were Adam and Eve?”
“It’s not funny!”
It was only then that Ella realized why she had been hired as a tutor! Moreover, when she first stepped into this room, there was an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if she had been here before, so it was the blood of the family that was calling for change.
Rook completely ignored Eero’s reaction.
“We were asked to come for more than just serving as tutors.”
“Is it to pick a marriage partner for the president?”
“It’s not just the president’s counterpart, is it; Lao?”
Naomi threw a wink at Eero, and Xialu suddenly felt a little chipper.
It was as if Erika hadn’t heard Naomi.
“I understand now why you were so eager to teach Aina, but why did you do it?”
“Predictable!” Rook stated.
“You grew up in peaceful Japan, but my country, Germany, is in a time of strife as East meets West, and even graduating from MIT won’t help my future much, but I’m never going to let go of any chance I can have to succeed, and the Gloria’s will never be disappointed if they choose me.”
“Even as a stud?”
“Do you owe a beating?”
“How dare you, how dare you!”
Eero dodged Rook’s attack and asked Charu : By the way, where is your father now?”
She replied helplessly, “Dad is now studying cosmic engineering at NASA; Ero-brother is right, the man of the house is nothing more than a stallion, he seems to have a bad relationship with mom and that’s why he would fall in love with Auntie Shirley, even though they love each other, they couldn’t bond because of all the obstacles.”
“So it is!”
“I hate this kind of thing too; as soon as I became president, I had to accept even a policy marriage…” Charu lowered her head sadly, and Naomi rushed to comfort her.
Rook suddenly said: “Wait, in fact, I don’t have to stick to Aina all the time, if Ms. Xia Lu wants to give up the position of president, the most qualified person to succeed is Miki, right? As a matter of fact, that woman Aina is so stupid, I might as well teach Miki or Mari instead.
”
“You missed one, didn’t you?” Erika looked at Naomi and Rook made a dismissive face.
Naomi couldn’t help but be furious, but Rook was still talking to himself: “I’m the perfect stud for Mari, and if that nerd Mari becomes the president, I’m sure I’ll be in a position of power; hey, Ella, let me have her! No, if I can have sex with her before that…”
Charu angrily rebuked, “Damn it! Don’t hit Mari-san!”
At this time─
The door ” ” opened with a thud and Ena stood outside with a pale face.
“Rook, you…” said Ena, rushing out into the hallway without finishing her sentence.
“Hmph, Rook, let’s see you clean up!” Naomi glared coldly at Rook.
A moment later, Aina rushed in again excitedly. Naomi’s body when frozen. Aina’s eyes were filled with hatred and her hands were gripping a rifle.
Chapter 6 Reversal
１
Aina pointed her gun at Rook with a frantic look on her face. Then the gun swung back to point at Charu.
“Hey, Ina!” Rook shouted with a pale face, “Ena, what are you doing with the gun?”
Ena screamed in despair, “I, I’m working so hard, and you’re leaving me behind and choosing another woman!”
“I… I didn’t…”
“Don’t try to deny it, I can’t compare to Miki and Xia Lu anyway; didn’t you say that you would marry me as long as I get first place? I’m already yours, how dare you want to marry another woman just to be the president’s husband.”
“That was just a joke! Ena, calm down, if you can become the president…”
“Not as long as Charu is around; no, it’s best if both Charu and Miki are dead!”
Naomi slowly walked up to Charu and protected her.
“It’s not that easy!” Naomi yelled at Aina, “We all want you to be president soon, but you’re the one who’s not doing anything stupid… Honestly, we’ve never wanted to be president from the beginning.”
Aina looked at Naomi and Charu incredulously, and slowly, the muzzle of her gun dropped helplessly.
“You, you all really think so?”
“That’s right!” Erika nodded.
“Everyone is looking forward to the day when Aina-sama will utilize her strength; it’s surprising to see you so excited for the first time, Naomi, now you can rest easy!”
Naomi changed her sharp tone from earlier, she said mockingly, “Yes, I can’t love someone wholeheartedly like this, fortunately, Aina-san isn’t a cold woman; Hey, Uncle Rook, Aina-san is all yours!”
Rook made a face at her and helped a frozen Ena out.
Naomi said fortunately, “That man, he doesn’t seem to be trustworthy…”
“You’re afraid he’ll go after Sister Mary?” Charu asked with a frown.
“I’m a bit sorry, Aina-chan, but…”
Naomi looked back at Eero in surprise.
“Hey, old man, you haven’t left yet?”
“Hey, discussing something behind my back?”
“Nothing, nothing, please go back to sleep!”
─This night, Ella had an absurd and incomparable dream. Rook’s words seemed to have worked in a subliminal way. The three of them, Eero, Miki and Mari, frolicked and enjoyed fish and water in the dream world.
２
In the dream, Miki and Mari’s bodies were like two intertwined white snakes. Miki’s hands were caressing Eero’s baby, holding the jade rod tightly in her mouth and licking it with her tongue. Mari straddled Ella’s face and asked Ella to caress her pussy.
“Teacher, I want to…”
As soon as Ella’s tongue made contact with the flower path, Mari twisted her hips and let out a gasp of pleasure.
Then the two bent over and together they blew Eloe’s jade cock. Marie’s tongue played with the mouth of Eloe’s cock, while Miki concentrated on licking the shaft.
“Ella, let’s make it a little more pleasurable for you!”
After lifting Eero’s legs up and his ass up, Mitch gently cupped his rod and moved his tongue to Eero’s back door, the tip of his tongue caressing the entrance first, then sliding inside.
An indescribable thrill traveled through Ella’s lower parts, and that’s when Mari’s tongue came close to the tip of the steel rod.
“Elaine, how does it taste?”
“Teacher, my kung fu is no worse than Sister Miki’s!”
The hot, soft tongue wrapped Eero’s gun barrel tightly from top to bottom. The two men competed in teasing Eero, their moist tongues serving him to the fullest.
“Teacher, come in!”
“I want to…”
Ella, lost in endless pleasure, pushed herself up and lined up their white, rounded asses side by side. The rigid rod, slick with Miki and Mari’s saliva, twitched and attacked Miki’s jade pussy first.
“Ah, ah, Erika!”
Eero pushed right into Miki’s jade door and caressed Mari’s secret pussy with his fingers. The nectar-flowing pussy sucked Elohim’s finger in tightly.
“Don’t, feel it!”
Mari’s body bobbed as Ella pulled her cock out of Miki and pressed it against the entrance to Mari’s flower. The gun slid into Mari’s secret place.
“Teacher, go deeper.”
Elaine’s loins lashed out. The rod of flesh that had entered the depths of Mari’s center of the flower pulled out violently as Mari squirmed with passion and entered Miki again.
“Ah, Erika!”
“Teacher is so strong!”
Side by side, the two enjoyed the delight that Elohim brought, their secret pussies filled with love juices, interacting and thirsting for Elohim’s entry.
Eero rolled Miki’s body over and attacked in the normal position. Mari straddles Miki’s face and Eero sucks on the tips of Mari’s nipples while the petals take the caress of Miki’s tongue.
Ella attacked Miki while nibbling on Mari’s nipples. Mari matched Miki’s tongue work with hard, lustful cries.
Miki begged, “Eero, cum, I’m dying!”
“Teacher, give it to me!”
Desire like a volcano about to erupt, not knowing in whose body it will ignite.
Is the dream of Elaine a reflection of some unspoken desire in her daily life?
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Ever since that incident, Rook has been missing as if he had disappeared. He wasn’t at the breakfast table the next day.
Still skinny-faced, Aina finished her breakfast in silence and left the restaurant without staying a minute longer.
No one inquired about Rook’s whereabouts. Mrs. Shirley acted as if Rook never existed and didn’t even ask. Ella finally couldn’t help but run to Miki and ask her. But no concrete answer was forthcoming.
I don’t know if Miki really doesn’t know, or she’s just pretending to be stupid, but she tilted her head and said, “Yeah, she probably went back to school!” She looked like she didn’t care.
After a few days, Rook still hadn’t appeared, and Ella could only feel that Aina’s demeanor was getting tighter and tighter. Eero couldn’t help but feel puzzled, Rook’s disappearance was too sudden. He couldn’t restrain his rambling thoughts.
Eero ran to Rook’s room to check it out and confirmed that thought even more. Nothing in the house had moved at all, as if Rook had never left.
Ella paced the backyard in a hundred different directions. Lisa’s warning echoed like a shadow. This house eats men!
The night before Rook disappeared, he said, “If I had a go with Marie.
Naomi and Charu, at that time, seemed to be discussing something, what was it? Everyone was determined to protect Mari with all their might.
At this moment, Qi Luo suddenly realized that in the backyard, it seemed like a new mound of earth had been added, rising as high as a grave. What was even more frightening was the stone slabs placed on the mound of earth. A horrifying thought struck Qi Luo’s mind.
Rook had been killed and buried under the mounds, but who had done it? Were the bodies of men who had been killed with the intent of telling on Mary buried under those hills of dirt?
The next day, Ella meets Naomi, who is about to go out.
“Are you going out? Naomi!”
“Eh, I accidentally rubbed a small nick in my knife and I’m taking it in for repair.”
Naomi got into the car, holding the long white cloth bag in her hands. It must be the katana, her favorite.
Lisa and the gardener were off to the side, gabbing, “Hmph, that lizard won’t eat any feed these days.”
“Miss Charu must have given it meat; don’t you see, it seems to be growing bigger and bigger.
”
One day, Ella ran straight to the lady’s room.
“What’s wrong with that Rook guy, anyway?”
Mrs. Shirley shook her head and said, “Mr. Eero, please don’t ask now, okay? Everything will come out after the exams.”
During this period, Miki and Mari still continued their lessons. Almost all of what Chloe knew had been taught to Miki, except for Mari, who still had fun with Chloe’s lessons.
She was as happy as usual, reading and playing, without any abnormalities. However, Eero felt that Mari’s attitude towards herself seemed to be slowly changing. When she chatted with Eero, she often glared at him out of her mind.
“What’s wrong with you?”
In response to Ella’s inquiry, she only said, “It’s nothing!” and ran off in a huff.
It seemed to Eero that Mari had an unusual affection for him. In fact, he could only forget about Rook for a while when he was with Mari. Mari, on the other hand, seemed as if she had already put that tragic past behind her.
One day in class, Miki asks a question about a mathematical formula, and Eero intently explains it to her; in fact, the question she asks reaches the specialized field of study for university students.
“I think it would be more appropriate to take that question to a college professor.” Erika suggested.
“There’s nothing more I can teach you, and if you want to continue your studies, Micky, you can enroll in college!”
Just as she finished speaking, Mari cried out and asked anxiously, “Teacher, where are you taking Miki-san?”
“Huh!”
Mary’s lips trembled and she looked extremely disturbed.
Micky said, “Micky’s not going anywhere, she’s staying with Mary, okay?”
Mari, however, looked at Eero.
“Where’s the teacher?”
“I…”
When Eero realized that Mari’s jealousy was not directed at herself, but at Miki, he suddenly couldn’t bring himself to say, “Mari, what do you want?”
She bowed her head sadly.
“Mari… Mari is not going anywhere…”
Finally, the day of the exam came.
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On the day of the exam, Aina looked as scary as a ghost. She seemed to have bet everything on this exam. The fighting spirit to win emanated from her entire body. The others seemed to be able to feel it as well.
“This could be the last exam Ro!” Miki whispered to Eero, and Naomi echoed the sentiment.
“I think I’ll be relieved this time!” She winked at Erika and entered the exam room.
The next day, the results were published. When Ella arrives at the lady’s room, she finds Rook already inside.
“Hi!” Rook greeted Erika.
Ella froze and said with a bitter smile, “You’re still alive?”
One by one, the others entered the lady’s room.
“Is everyone here? You may publish the results; Aina, congratulations on your first place.”
The room erupted in cheers, and Aina seemed to stand up a bit unsupported. Rook gently held her up.
“Good job, Aina! Next, it’s time to prepare for our wedding.”
“Rukh…” said Ena excitedly, leaning into Rukh’s arms.
Naomi cooed, “Wow, the power of love is so great, Rook’s plan worked!” Aina-san was able to utilize her full strength in order to be with Rook.”
“?” Ena looked at Rook in surprise. Rook looked at Ena lovingly.
“I used a little trickery; I told her, ‘I won’t step foot in this house again unless you get first place.’ Anyway, nowadays it’s easy to communicate on the Internet, so even if I’m outside, I can still teach her through the Internet.”
“I see!” Erika realized.
“Hey, where the hell have you been hiding during all this time?”
“In the school dormitory.”
“Yes?” Erika turned her head to look at the others. “Do you all know about this, from start to finish?”
The crowd shrugged.
“Because…” explained Shirley sharply, while Naomi and Charu naughtily spat out their tongues.
“It was Rook who told us to keep it a secret, and he also said: ‘If I disappear, Ella will surely imagine that I was killed.'”
Eero was a bit unable to accept this form of teasing.
“Hey, is it funny to make jokes like that? I’m getting worried sick!”
“Because you’re always so calm, that’s why I wanted to see you in a hurry!
”
Miki couldn’t help but laugh at Naomi’s words.
Eero glared at Miki and said to Naomi, “Taking that katana to be repaired was a lie to me too?”
“Heh heh heh heh, you must think I cut Rook!”
“That’s right, it’s you; hey, what about that dirt hill in the backyard?”
“That’s compost!” Miki said with a slight apology, “That’s where some of the rotting fruit from the orchard is buried in the soil to make great fertilizer the next year, and there’s a slate on top of it to indicate that it’s new compost.”
“And what Lisa said…”
Rook laughed out loud.
“That’s a lie! Because some of the men who used to work here tried to do something bad to Ms. Mari, so Naomi threatened them: ‘Do you want to be buried under there?’
and threw them out before Lisa threatened you like that, didn’t she? Ms. Alcoholic!”
“Probably.” Naomi said. “People who try to bully Mari-san just to give vent to their beastly desires are absolutely unforgivable; but, Rook, you won’t be killed!”
“Hey, count me as scared of you, okay?” Rook shrugged.
“Ella, I’m sorry for making you nervous for nothing, but I’m not here, so at least you won’t have to watch me make out with Aina.”
Aina sniffed, blushing and pinched Rook, who screamed, “It hurts!
“As he wrapped his arm around Aina, the two of them made love and walked out of the room.
Elohim turned to Mrs. Shirley and asked.
“The problem of succeeding the president is finally solved, isn’t it!”
Shirley grinned.
“It turned out to be kind of a happy ending, and Rook joining the Gloria family will definitely energize the family.”
“Miss Shirley, what are your plans?”
Sherry looked at Charu.
“I have decided to go to NASA; Charu, I’m sorry, I love your father with all my heart.”
Charu shook her head.
“It’s okay, if it were me, I’d choose someone I truly liked too… Shirley, congratulations!”
“Erika, so what are your plans?”
Elohim looked at Mari, who had been gazing at him silently.
“Eh, I’ve made up my mind!”
That night.
Qiluo was in the process of packing her bags when there was a sudden knock on the door of her room. The person who came in was Xia Lu.
“Erago, are you leaving?”
“Well, there’s no need for a tutor here anymore!”
“You can stay even if you don’t become a home teacher!”
“Stay?”
“Eh, stay and be Xia Lu’s groom.” Xia Lu lowered her head.
“I’m sorry, as much as I like you, but…”
Xia Lu raised her head in disappointment and asked Qi Luo, “Does Brother Qi Luo already have a favorite?”
Elohim nodded.
“Eh, but I’m waiting for her to make a choice, and for me, choosing is a simple thing, but sometimes, one must have the courage to start a destiny.”
“She is…”
At that moment, there was the sound of the hem of a garment rubbing in the rear, and Mary came with a crown of flowers in her hand.
“Teacher, don’t go!”
Eero winked at Charu and looked at Mari.
“Mary, I’m going back to school.”
“Not with Mary anymore?”
“Of course I want to!”
“But the teacher is leaving…”
“So yeah! I want to hear what Marie really wants.”
“I…” a blush spread across Mari’s cheeks.
Elohim stretched his arms out to her.
“Say it! Don’t be afraid you’ll get hurt, say it out loud!”
Mari’s eyes looked firmly at Eero. Eero nodded at her, her gaze full of encouragement.
“Teacher, please take Mari with you!”
Mari gripped the flower crown and pounced on Ella, and the two embraced tightly.
Xia Lu smiled bitterly: “I understand it all, Eero, Mari-san has always lived her life according to other people’s wishes, but this time, she even made her own decision, so the person you’re waiting for is her.”
“I’m sorry, Charu, if I could have two people at the same time…”
At that moment, Naomi’s voice came from behind her.
“You want two more if you can!”
Naomi and Miki both stood behind the door.
“Older brother, if you dare to bully Sister Mary, I’ll have you buried under a mound of dirt in the backyard oh!”
“Elaine, Mari is in your hands, please treat her well.”
Late Night─
Ella and Mari faced each other, hands clasped in each other’s hands for their first night together.
“Teacher, I’m scared!”
“Don’t be afraid, if you don’t want to, let’s not do it.”
Mary shook her head and said firmly, “I’m going to be Sensei’s bride.”
“So, Mary, close your eyes!”
Eero hugged Mari and gently touched her lips. Mari’s lips trembled and Eero pushed his tongue in, greedily craving Mari’s kiss.
Eero swung Mari’s body across the floor and slowly unbuttoned her robe. Tiny, light pink breasts trembled as they awaited Eero’s caress. Eero took the jeweled nipple and flicked it with his tongue. He moved his fingers to his lower abdomen and carefully removed her lace panties.
“Teacher…” said Mari, letting out a small gasp. Her nipples gradually hardened, and her hands roamed over Era’s back.
Ella spread Mari’s legs, and the secret, unvisited realm was fully revealed. Mari’s garden was glowing pink. Ella touched the petals with her tongue and got some nectar.
“AH, YO…” Mari’s body bounced slightly, shyly resisting.
“Take it easy, relax your body and I’ll be gentle.” Erika whispered reassuringly before slipping the tip of her tongue into the petals. The nectar-soaked tip of his tongue ran along the edge of the tiny pearl at the front, savoring the sweet nectar.
“Ah, teacher, Mari suddenly wants to cry!”
“It’s okay, cry it out all you want!”
“I…”
Seeing that Mari’s flower path was already full of nectar, Elohim changed his position. He spread Mari’s knees apart and slid his body between her legs in one smooth motion.
“Teacher…”
“It doesn’t matter, let me know if it hurts too much.”
“Eh.”
Eloe pressed the steel rod against Mari’s flowery opening and eased it in. Mari’s inner diameter tightened slightly, resisting Eero’s onslaught.
“Ah, don’t! It hurts, it hurts!” Marie let out a pleading moan.
“Want to stop?” Erika stopped continuing to go deeper.
“No!” Marie shook her head. “There’s no need to stop!”
Elohim nodded and wrapped his arms deeply around her slender body, turning his rod slowly into her.
“It hurts, it hurts, teacher, Mari hurts!”
“Just bear with me a little longer…” said Ella as she made the final stroke.
Mari’s body was tightly joined to Eero’s, her legs wrapped around Eero’s waist. Eero straddled her and pushed up, penetrating from top to bottom in one breath.
“Ah…”
Amidst Mari’s fierce cries, Ella entered the deepest part of Mari’s body.
“ah… ah…”
“Mary, we have become one!”
Elohim hugged Mari, who was shedding tears of joy, tightly and fell into a deep sleep.
coda
Six months later
Erika is reading a letter in her dormitory room. The sender was Naomi. The letter wrote about the future movements of Gloria’s family.
Mrs. Shirley, as she said, has embarked on a journey to NASA. Charu has resumed her status as an ordinary girl and is currently studying at a high school, while Mo, who has stayed at home, is a bit lonely.
Eero had wanted to apply for Miki’s admission to the university, but was firmly rebuffed, preferring to stay at the mansion and do her favorite chores.
Rook and Ina, together, work diligently for the family business. The only regret is the departure of Lisa, the maid.
Read on, came the pleasant voice of Mary.
“Look, teacher, so many flowers!” Marie was wearing an apron and holding a bouquet of flowers.
“A letter?” Mari looked curiously at the letter in Ella’s hand.
“Naomi wrote in, it looks like she’s traveling to India?”
“India?”
“She says she’s going to wander abroad for a year, to see the world and taste all the wines in it; and when she comes back in a year, she’ll already be an aunt!”
Mari pressed her cheek close to Eero, beaming with happiness.
“Gonna ask Naomi to help name the little baby, yo!”
[End of text]