It was one of those listless days for Akabe when he did not know what to do with his lie. There was a ti in his life when everything had looked dark and gloomy to him.
That was when he had been left behind by his wife to start a new life. And that had been one of the darkest tis of Akabe Tsurugi's life. His sorrow this ti felt the sa as the one he had felt before.
But this ti, his pain was more permanent since his wife would never return to his life again. She was dead with no way to even retrieve her soul.
And everyone knew that there was no way to bring back people once they died. The last person to do so did not have a good fate in the end.
Akabe Tsurugi was busy wallowing in his self-pity when the door of his room was knocked by his servant. Akabe threw his vase on the door in agitation and he refused to turn around and pay it any attention.
"Master, I am sorry to disturb you but there is sothing important I need to tell you. Can you spare a second of your ti?"
The butler asked but Akabe acted as if he did not hear the butler. He was in no mood to tolerate anyone today.
"Master, please! You need to listen to since it is important. Please, co out."
The butler received a vase thrown on his face for his efforts. The butler flinched away from the attack and he looked sick.
But Akabe Tsurugi could sense that the butler had not given up. So, he opened the door, ready to tear the butler a new one. But as soon as his eyes fell on the couple in front of him, his jaw dropped and he had to rub his eyes.
"My dear younger brother, are you not going to ask to co in? Your elder brother has arrived ho after years of being away."
Akabe Tsurugi felt his heart skip a beat as he watched his dead elder brother along with his wife smiling at the younger with sparkling eyes.
"Y-Y-You! How are you alive? No, more importantly, how did you get back ho? You did not even contact all this ti."
Akabe gasped and his mind went blank. He could not compute seeing his brother alive and back in front of him.
"Don't look so shocked. It is, indeed a miracle that I and my wife survived that crash. We were in a coma for a few years after that and then I lost my mory and then my wife lost her mory and then we both fell into another coma. It was a whole journey up until now and it was crazy, but we are finally back ho."
Akabe's mouth was open with a gap as he heard his brother say these cringy things.
Now, if most people had said these things to Akabe and claid to be soone he knew, he would have slamd the door on their faces and called it a day.
But Akabe's brother had been a crazy person ever since Akabe could rember. And the one worse than him had been his more than oblivious wife. That woman had been a nace and a different kind than his brother.
"Big sister…what about you? How are you feeling?"
Akabe asked, hoping with all his might that he would get a sane answer from the female in front of him.
"? My spirit has been possessed by an inter-dinsional beast. I am afraid that I am no longer a human and I am here to gather all your energy for myself. Now co and give your soul."
Akabe did not even get to react before the female grabbed his head and threatened to twist it. His neck felt the strain of that attack and Akabe slamd his fists against the arm holding his head.
The older female instantly let him go but her grip had been tight enough for it to be still hurting Akabe's head.
"Oh, my dear, if you want to scold Akabe then you need to use your words. There is no need for you to be so violent with him. Otherwise, I will get jealous, ouch, why did you hit ?"
Akabe watched as his big brother rubbed his stomach after he was smacked into it.
"You said you were jealous of Akabe's physical abuse, Albus. You had this smack a long ti coming."
"Sherina, rcy. Have rcy on . I ant that I wanted you to hit on in our bed."
"So, you want to hit you during the night? I got it. Get ready to not be able to wake up tomorrow because you are too hurt."
This was not a lovely banter or sex talk. Sheridan would impale Albus on a sword if she had to keep her promise. It was all ssed up but that was just how this couple was.
"Anyway Akabe, we can discuss this all later. For now, I want you to arrange a eting between and my daughter. It has been years since I last t her and I want to talk to her. I rember her as a sweet and cute child. I wonder how she has grown up to be."
Albus wondered and Akabe wanted to know the sa thing as well. How would Yoko react once he saw her birth parents once more?
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And that was how they found themselves in the current situation. Yoko did not look surprised or happy to have her parents back. Her face looked bored and listless.
Even Sakura chose to follow Yoko's example and keep her distance away from the pair in front of her.
*cough*
"Anyway Yoko, since your father is back, will you be giving up the position of the family head back to him? There is no longer a need for you to head this position, right?"
Akabe asked and he felt glad for this. This was the only reason he felt glad that his brother had returned.
"Oh, now Akabe, you misunderstood and my wife. We do not want the position of the family head from my daughter. She can keep it if she wants to. There is no need for her to bow down to us, Yoko."
Albus tried to calm the situation down and Yoko finally let out a smile.
"Don't worry, father. I have no intention of handing his post over to anyone. I don't think I can even hand this post over to anyone else even if I want to since I already handed this post over to Sakura here."
Everyone looked surprised to hear Yoko say this. This should have been the happiest mont of Akabe's life but he was feeling lancholic right now.
He looked toward his daughter who had an awkward expression on her face. Disbelief colored her eyes and Sakura opened her mouth, only to close it again.
In the end, Sakura finally caught her breath and voiced her opinion out.
"Yoko, are you saying that you are not going to take this post back from ? But you are the family head and I do not wish to be the family head in your place. Please do not do this to ."
Sakura begged Yoko but the elder was not listening to her.
It would be better to say that Sakura's pleas were going through one ear and out of the other. The youngest had no choice but to give up in the end.
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"Yoko, are you sure this is sothing that you want to do? If so, then I respect your choice. But you can always take your position back if you want to later."
Albus assured Yoko almost as if he had control over this in the future. But no one broke his illusion and they all left Albus to feel satisfied.
The one who looked the most dissatisfied with the situation was Sherian. She looked at Yoko as if she could not believe that she was her daughter.
"You are my daughter? I have never been so disappointed in soone this much before. I refuse to acknowledge you as my daughter."
Sherian spoke with an angry expression on her face. She looked at Yoko with a terrified expression, almost as if she was ready to fight Yoko.
But once more, Yoko looked as if she did not care for her mother's opinion at all.
"Alright, if you do not want to acknowledge you as your daughter, then you do not have to do so. I do not care either way and I also do not have enough patience to care about these small matters."
Yoko stood up and Sherina's temper finally hit the roof.
"Small matter? Do you want to say that your mother's acknowledgent doesn't an anything to you? How dare you be this arrogant in front of …"
Sherina stood up to take a step toward Yoko but she froze in her footsteps. The way Yoko looked at her made the eldest female shiver in fright. Every instinct in her body was warning her to stay in her lane.
"My *birth* mother or not, I did not see a need to respect you when you were away from my life without any reason. Now, if you have a reason to tell , then co and find . Otherwise, please stay away from for your good."
Yoko walked out of the room without looking back. Sakura also followed her out with an awkward expression.
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