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"Minato." - Regular Speech
'Musubi' - Thoughts
"Kaminari!" - Sekirei Incantation
Chapter 7: Cut the Wind
Sahashi Minato's Residence
Once he had kissed each of his wives, Minato sat down with the twins on either side of him and the rest of the Sekirei sitting in the other chairs and sofa, throwing jealous looks at the smug Raiden Futago cuddling up to their Ashikabi.
"She's out like a light, Mina-tan." Matsu reported as she sashayed back into the room, "The poor girl'll be in a sleep-coma for a day or so. Even Sekirei need their sleep."
"At least we stopped her from being forcibly Winged, Minato-sama." Musubi pointed out.
"The fact that this Mikogami person is treating sentient beings like collectable dolls doesn't sit well with me." Minato said with a frown, "Knowing Kaa-san, she'll have the person or persons responsible for selling him Kurusu-chan's information in jail as soon as she can. Matsu, you're a technopath, correct?"
"Hai, Mina-tan." Matsu replied as she sat next to Musubi and Uzume, "I can manipulate machines of any kind, but I am particularly strong with computers and databases."
"Can you hack into Mikogami's server and delete any information about Sekirei he hasn't Winged?" the raven-haired boy asked her.
"Once I have my computer's fully set up, yes." the orangette said confidently, "Unless it's a stand-alone server or on autistic-mode, there isn't a server on the planet I can't crack. Not even the USA has a security system I can't crack."
"Good. The last thing we need is for him to chase other Sekirei around like he did with Kurusu." the Ashikabi said with a frown, "I'm amazed that those four that you told me about weren't falling down in exhaustion themselves."
"Mikogami has twenty Sekirei, so he probably switched out the pursuers with other Sekirei, once Kurusu-chan was convinced that fighting was pointless, to let the first set get some sleep." Matsu theorised, "Then he swapped the original members back in sometime today for the final push."
"Sounds like him." Uzume said sourly, "He tried to persuade me to be Winged by him the first day after I left MBI. When I said no, his First Sekirei was sent after me. Number Five, Mutsu, also known as the Earthquake Sekirei. The guy didn't even try and he almost deactivated me with a single hit."
This just made Minato's frown deepen. "Uzume, I'd like you and Musubi to take over Hibiki and Hikari's patrolling duties tomorrow. If today's incidents are any indication, then prospective Ashikabi looking to forcibly Wing un-emerged Sekirei are likely going to increase rather than decrease."
"Got it." Uzume nodded grimly, "Ready to kick ass tomorrow, Musubi?"
"Hai!" the Miko look-alike said as she clenched her gloved fists.
The raven-haired boy chuckled at his third Sekirei's enthusiasm before becoming serious again. "I have to ask, Matsu…how powerful an Ashikabi am I?"
The bespectacled Sekirei of Wisdom looked at her Ashikabi for a moment before answering. "Very powerful. Your Aura is intoxicating and attractive, Mina-tan, and that was before you Winged Uzume and me. Now it's even more powerful."
"Aura?" Minato asked in confusion.
"All Sekirei are, to a greater or lesser degree, psychic." Matsu explained, "I'm a technopath, the twins use electrokinesis, Uzume manipulates her veil using a selective form of telekinesis, Kuruse uses teleportation…you get the picture. Even Yashima and Musubi use psychic powers of some sort in their abilities, Yashima to manipulate the gravimetric weight of her hammer and Musubi to improve her healing factor, a limited form of biomancy. With me so far?"
Minato nodded.
"Well, all Sekirei have a couple of abilities other than their main power set. One is aura reading, the ability to 'taste' the auras of the people around us. This is one way that helps us determine our Ashikabi, the other being physical attraction and preference. The other two abilities are something different entirely. They are both related to telepathy, but subtly different. One links us to our Ashikabi and sister-wives, allowing us to sense new additions to the 'Flock', so to speak, as well as monitor our Ashikabi's physical condition. The other one…"
At this, Matsu seemed to hesitate before ploughing on determinedly, "The last ability is the Ashikabi Kill Switch. It links our lives to yours, meaning when you die, we follow suit and deactivate permanently. All of us. At the same time."
"I knew about the last one." Minato said gently, "Hikari and Hibiki told me about it. It's a lot of responsibility for me, I have to say, but Kaa-san told me why it's necessary. I personally don't agree with it, but I can see why some people think it would be a necessity."
"I hope you can understand then why we want you to take a couple of us with you when you go out into the main areas of the Capital, Minato-sama." the orangette told him primly, adjusting her glasses aggressively.
"I do." Minato sighed, "That's one reason why I took the twins off patrol duty, so they can come with me when I go and register for the exams tomorrow. Yashima-chan, that means you are on guard duty as I doubt Kuruse will be up to much until she's fully recovered and Matsu-chan admits herself that she isn't as physically capable as the rest of her sisters."
"Hai, Minato-sama!" Yashima felt like bursting with pride at the trust he was putting in her. Protecting his home and those within it was a high honour indeed! She swore not to let him down!
"Now, I understand that there is another Ashikabi that is similar to Mikogami?" Minato continued once Yashima calmed down.
"Higa Izumi. The Ashikabi of the East." Uzume spat, her voice dripping contempt, "He despises Sekirei, and treats us like we're tools. Every Sekirei he Wings is unwilling and the Winging itself is a business contract to him. He's the Heir to the largest rival conglomerate to MBI and doesn't hesitate to use underhanded or dirty tactics to get what he wants."
"Let me guess, he tried to force you after Mikogami did?" Minato asked rhetorically.
The furious look that Uzume had on her face said it all.
"In which case, please make certain to pay close attention to the eastern section of the city." the raven-haired boy said firmly, "If we know he's done distasteful things in the past, it would be silly to not keep a close eye on the part of the city he controls."
"Mina-tan, you should know that Higa also has a few subordinate Ashikabi under his control." Matsu warned him, "Among the Sekirei that those Ashikabi possess is another technopath called Kochō, Sekirei Number 22. She is a pale imitation of me, only being able to access electronic machinery. Still, she is well versed in using them and will not hesitate to use a satellite laser to attack anyone going close to her Ashikabi."
"Noted. I take it you and she don't get along?" her Ashikabi asked.
"She's a cheap hack!" Matsu ranted, "She has no subtly, just powering through firewalls with brute force! She is a disgrace to every technopath that I will ever give birth to!"
When Matsu's brain caught up with her words, she flushed red and let out a quiet 'eep!' of embarrassment, much to the amusement of her sister-wives. Minato had actually flushed red at that as well, making the Sekirei giggle at him too.
"Ahem…s-so…does Matsu's comment mean that any child a Sekirei has will inherit their mother's ability?" Minato enquired once the giggling faded out.
"It's more of a theory than anything else, as no Sekirei has ever given birth before that we know of." Hibiki said with a flush of her own, "Unless a male Sekirei and a female Sekirei have a child together, it is generally accepted that any children a female Sekirei has will either possess their mother's power, or a subset derived from that power. Taking my sister and myself as examples, any children we have are likely to inherit our powers or, failing that, a power derived from it, such as electromagnetism."
Minato considered this and found it to be a logical hypothesis. "What about an all-Sekirei pairing?"
"The scientists at MBI refer to that hypothetical child as a 'purebred' Sekirei." Matsu corrected him, "A demeaning name, but essentially accurate. The theory is that the child would either inherit one or other of the parent's powers or, if the powers are compatible enough, meld them into a totally new ability."
"The thing is, there are so few male Sekirei that it is…improbable at best and impossible at worst that many Sekirei-Sekirei pairings will be formed." Hikari added, "For another, any Sekirei will be inclined to be with their Ashikabi rather than another Sekirei unless ordered to do otherwise by their Ashikabi."
Minato frowned at the thought of an Ashikabi being heartless enough to order two of their Sekirei to do…that and ignore their feelings. He shook his head as he dismissed the notion.
"Right then. I think that now would be a good time for dinner." he said with a clap of his hands, "Any requests?"
"Curry rice!" Musubi chirped.
"Anyone want something different?" Minato asked. Seeing no one demurred with Musubi's request, he stood up and asked Musubi, "Want to help cook?"
"Hai!" the bubbly girl replied enthusiastically.
"OK then. Uzume, could you set the table?"
"Gotcha." the brunette nodded.
Later
Office, The Home of a MBI Handler
Yahan stepped out of the shadow cast by the closed curtains of the room and looked around. The room was neat to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. Every book on the bookcases was organised in strict order of colour, every pen on the desk was lined up with regimental precision and if there was a mote of dust larger than a mustard seed in the room, the Sekirei of Shadows would be very much surprised.
"Overly neat places like this are a sign of a diseased mind." she muttered, "Now…where would I hide proof that I betrayed MBI if I was a greedy OCD egomaniac sonofabitch?"
After checking through the folders in the filing cabinet (under B: Bribes, F: Financial and M: MBI), she booted up the PC and swiftly hacked into it. Really, using his first name as a password? Please.
"Ah-ha! There you are." Yahan muttered after a moment of searching, "Arrogant prick keeps a diary…X-Day, X-Month, X-Year, 'Was approached by Mikogami Hayato for information on various Sekirei. He was very specific on the types of Sekirei he wished to acquire information on. They had to be unique, in both appearance and ability. I think the little brat is treating the Sekirei Plan as if it were an excuse to collect rare Sekirei like they were figurines. Whatever. MBI doesn't pay me enough to warrant my total loyalty, so what the hell? I do need a new car, after all,…the first to go should be that smug trident Sekirei. Never liked her…' Sick bastard."
She quickly copied the entirety of the man's diary, as well as the meticulously kept financial records he had on his computer (why he had both paper copies and electronic copies in the same room was a mystery to her) onto a flash drive before shutting the computer down and leaping into a shadow, vanishing from the room with nary a trace she had been there.
The realm of shadows was pitch black and only Yahan could navigate through it. One time, she had brought an MBI scientist with her into the realm and he had been unable to see anything, even with an industrial-grade torch.
Time had no meaning here, so she didn't bother running. As she strode along, she mentally catalogued the Handlers she had investigated that evening. MBI employed forty Handlers of various ages and both genders. Of them, Yahan had investigated the male ones first and, surprise, surprise, they were all involved in various nasty schemes. A couple embezzled their budget, a handful had sold information to various governments and a few had sold information on various Sekirei to either Higa Izumo or Mikogami Hayato.
Not that a few of the female Handlers were going to get off without being investigated. Yahan knew for a fact that the Handler and Adjuster of Number Nine had mentally scarred her with ludicrous and salacious tales of what she would be expected to do for her Ashikabi. Perverted old woman.
Each shadow was manifested in the realm of shadows as a large black arc. Yahan knew how to navigate from shadow to shadow with pure instinct, but recently, she had been drawn to various shadows that she knew were near one Sahashi Minato. It was, as she had told his mother earlier today, very difficult for her to not go to him and Wing herself on him, but she endured through sheer willpower.
"Soon, Minato-sama…soon…" she whispered to the portal that would let her emerge from her future Ashikabi's shadow, before moving along and stepping through the portal that emerged in Takami's office. The grey-haired woman was back behind her desk and giving a lecture to a small pinkette Sekirei with red fingerless combat gloves and a grey-haired Sekirei with tiger claw gauntlets, both wearing the uniform of the Discipline Squad.
"Ah, Yahan. Finished already?" Takami asked.
"I have investigated all of the male Handlers and discovered that almost all of them have done things to earn them a dismissal, Takami-sama." she replied, "Here are my findings."
She held out the flash drive that she had stored all of the data she had gathered. Takami took it with a nod.
"I did discover the identity of the person who sold Kurusu's information to Mikogami Hayato. His name is Hyōbu Akagi." Yahan added.
"Hmm. Well done." Takami nodded before turning to the two Sekirei in front of her desk, "Haihane, Benitsubasa, your first job as members of the Discipline Squad is to locate Hyōbu Akagi and put him in one of the cells on the 25th floor for interrogation tomorrow…by Karasuba."
The three Sekirei had to wince at that. The Black Sekirei was a sadist of the worst kind, especially when it came to humans. Akagi would spill his guts as soon as he knew who would interrogate him.
"On it, Takami." Benitsubasa nodded, "Haihane, let's go!"
"Yeah, yeah…" Haihane yawned, "That last adjustment took it outta me. Wanna sleep."
"Tough shit!" the pinkette barked back and, snagging her partner by the arm, started to drag her out of the room, "C'mon!"
"Aren't they the entertaining pair?" Yahan observed as the door slammed after the duo left the room.
"They aren't my first choice for the Discipline Squad, I'll admit." Takami sighed, "Karasuba wanted Number 88 on the Squad, but Musubi-chan didn't want to be on the Discipline Squad, so Karasuba got Benitsubasa and Haihane instead."
"Minaka?"
"Minaka."
Yahan shook her head at the antics of the man who was in charge of MBI.
"Anyway, when do you think you'll be finished with your investigation on the Handlers?" Takami asked.
"This time tomorrow at the latest." Yahan replied confidently.
"Good to hear. We'll be going over to Min-chan's for dinner and I'll introduce you." Takami smiled at the gleam that appeared in the eyes of the Sekirei of Shadows at this, "I will as that you make yourself available for the occasional job for MBI if needed. It will never be something that will be directed against Min-chan, so rest easy there."
"If Minato-sama agrees to it, I will do so." Yahan replied.
"Already so loyal to him when you aren't Winged? My, my, Minato will be a lucky boy when he has you as a wife." Takami teased her.
The ravenette flushed at that. "Just as I will be lucky to have a husband as kind as Minato-sama." she shot back.
"Touché." Takami grinned, "Now, off to bed with you. You don't want to greet Min-chan with begs under your eyes, do you?"
"No!" Yahan yelped in fright, "I'm going, I'm going!"
With a single step, the Shadow Sekirei vanished from the room, leaving Takami cackling to herself at how her family was growing.
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The Next Day, Morning
Minato's House
Minato woke up to find that, once again, he was surrounded by all of his Sekirei, with the addition of Uzume and Matsu. He could say that it was uncomfortable, but that would just be a lie. The only problem was trying to get up without disturbing the bevy of beauties that were his wives.
Extricating himself took a bit of time and not a little effort, not to mention self-control, but he managed it eventually. Padding down to the kitchen after his morning ablutions and getting dressed, he walked in on Kuruse having a drink of milk.
"Morning Kuruse-chan." he said casually.
"Eep!" Kurusu almost spilled her drink in her shock. She managed to recover just in time, her superhuman reflexes helping her out, no doubt.
"Glad to see you're up." Minato said with a smile, "Did you get enough sleep?"
"Y-Yes…thank you." Kuruse stammered, "A-Are your Sekirei alright?"
"They're all fine." he reassured her, "Hikari and Hibiki are strong, the same goes for the others. Do you want some breakfast? I can't imagine that you'll have eaten much on the run."
"Now that y-you mention it…I am pretty hungry." the blond admitted.
"Figured as much." Minato grinned, "One Sekirei-sized portion of breakfast, coming up."
By the time Minato had served up a large breakfast to the almost salivating Kurusu, the rest of Minato's Sekirei were up and about, except Uzume, who seemed determined to stay in bed as long as was possible.
"I've been meaning to ask, Minato-sama, but where did you learn how to cook?" Hibiki asked as she ate.
"Hmm? Oh, my grandmother tried to teach my sister and me how to cook when we were little." Minato replied, "Yukari could burn anything she chose to. I was a bit better, so Obaa-chan continued to teach me. I took it up as a hobby once I was old enough. It's…relaxing, strangely enough, although my sister keeps teasing me about it."
"Brat." grumbled the twins. They were not looking forward to having the younger Sahashi living in their home and disrupting their new life with their Ashikabi.
"She can be." Minato agreed as he sat down and served himself a human-sized helping, "She's a tomboy, but gets very…irked…when you suggest that she isn't feminine, which she can be…when she isn't beating up people with karate."
Yashima frowned. "Are you sure we should let your sister live here? She sounds like a pain."
"You try saying that to Kaa-san, see how far you'll get with her." Minato replied sourly, "Standing up to her is not easy between her own martial arts skills and her very forceful personality. It gets worse with Yukari there and even more impossible if my grandmother is there too. It took six months for me to get up the courage to tell them I was coming to the New Capital for University and boy, were they angry."
"Why?" Uzume asked.
"Well…they weren't so much angry as much as they were in denial that I was actually standing up to them." Minato replied with a shrug, "I'm not the kind of person to make waves unless it's really important, so most of the time, I just went along with what my family wanted without complaint. Of course, now I have a family of my own, no more meek Minato."
This last part prompted smiles to emerge from all of his Sekirei. Kuruse was especially flushed and had started to pant in an all too familiar way.
"Minato-sama, Wing the girl already." Hikari said with a wave, "She wants it and I know you aren't one to say no if a Sekirei reacts to you."
"Kindly don't make me sound like a person with loose morals." Minato objected dully, "Is that what you want, Kuruse-chan? To be Winged by me?"
"H-Hai…" the blond said, her eyes glazed over even as she turned to face him unerringly.
"Then who am I to say no?" Minato smiled.
With a squeak of excitement, Kuruse stood up and threw herself into Minato's welcoming arms before eagerly placing her lips over his. Pale yellow wings emerged from her back and spread out across the room. All of Minato's other Sekirei felt the feeling of a new bond snap into place between their Ashikabi and the Trident Sekirei, swiftly followed by the feeling of contentment from Kuruse that was the common after-effect of being kissed by Minato.
"My Ashikabi, now and forever." the blond Sekirei almost purred as she luxuriated in his arms once the kiss was over.
"Welcome to the family, Kuruse-chan." Minato chuckled, "Now go and have another lie down. I doubt you've fully recovered from your chase yesterday. Kaa-san's coming over for dinner tonight, so she'll check you over after that."
"As you wish, Minato-sama." Kuruse said with a smile, "I'll look forward to seeing you at dinner then."
With a spring in her step, the Trident Sekirei headed out the door and back up to her room.
"Well she's a happy camper." Hibiki said with a chuckle.
"Tch, and you weren't when you were Winged?" Matsu scoffed at her.
"…shut up!" the ravenette Sekirei muttered.
An hour and a half later…
Shintō Teitō University Building Admissions Department
"Name?" the bored receptionist asked in a monotone. She was obviously just coming up on the end of her shift and wanted to be done with him as soon as possible.
"Sahashi Minato."
"You wish to confirm your participation in the exams?" the question was asked with such mechanical formality that Minato was tempted to see if she was actually flesh and blood or a clockwork construct.
"Yes." he replied to her instead of what he had imagined, "Here's my ID."
"Hmm…" a frown crossed her face after she entered his information, "One Year Ronin?"
"I broke my writing hand the day before the exam last year." Minato explained.
"Humph. Partying no doubt." the woman snorted.
"No, a disagreement with my former landlord that got out of hand." Minato said testily. He hated it when people assumed that just because he was a college-age boy, he went out and got drunk all the time. He actually disliked alcohol, both the taste and the fact he was a maudlin drunk.
"Fine. You have been registered for the exam. Please show up at the exam location at this time in four days time." the woman, obviously not believing him a jot, said as she handed him a slip of paper, along with his ID.
"Thanks." Minato said shortly. He turned and left the room, being immediately joined by the Raiden Futago, who had waited outside the room.
"All sorted, Minato-sama?" Hibiki asked.
"Yeah. The lady behind the counter was a pain in the ass though." the boy grumbled before he brightened up, "Well, let's go get some lunch. It'll be a date."
Blushing, the twins followed him to a nearby restaurant that catered to the students of the University who didn't like the food served in the cafeteria (a not-uncommon occurrence). It was reasonably priced without being tacky and it wasn't a beef bowl stand, so it was good enough for the three of them.
They spent the time chatting and getting to know each other properly. The bond between Sekirei and Ashikabi was all very fine and dandy, but they still had to get to know each other as individual people.
As they were finishing up and leaving, a blast of wind sent them staggering as it struck them.
"What was that?!" Hikari asked in irritation as her hair was mussed up.
"A Sekirei, although I'm not certain which one." her sister replied with a frown, "Number Three is the Sekirei of the Wind, but several physical-type Sekirei are strong enough to cause that kind of displacement of atmosphere from their strikes as well, like Musubi…"
"WATCH IT, ya cow-breasted stripper-priestess!" a loud female voice bellowed from up the street.
The three looked at each other and facepalmed before running that way.
"Dammit, what's she done now?" Hikari grumbled.
"I don't think Musubi would deliberately start trouble, Hikari." Minato countered, "Especially not with Uzume as her teammate."
The ravenette Sekirei grumbled at that, but fell silent as they approached the area that the unknown female voice had come from, an intersection.
Standing in the middle of the street was a girl dressed in a black dress with matching black gloves and carrying an ornate scythe in one hand. Next to her were an irked Uzume and a sheepish Musubi.
"Oh great. Number 43, Yomi, the Death Scythe Sekirei." Hibiki groaned, "Just what I didn't need."
"Who're they?" Minato asked as he gestured at the three Sekirei standing opposite his two Sekirei and Yomi. One had short black messy hair and was dressed in black shorts, a white vest and black leggings and gloves, one had pigtails and wore a long-sleeved Miko dress and the last had blond hair and wore trousers that only had one leg, a bikini-like top and a red collar around her neck. Clasped in both of her hands were numerous whips.
"The one with short black hair is Number 85, Oshino, the Boxing Sekirei." Hibiki replied, "The other two are Number 40, Shi, the Hidden Blade Sekirei and Number 62, Kaie, the Whip Sekirei. Matsu told me last night that they're all Sekirei Winged by Higa Izumi, the Ashikabi of the East."
"Minato-sama!" Musubi called excitedly as she spotted them, ignoring the scolding she was getting from Yomi.
"'Minato-sama'?" Yomi parroted before looking over her shoulder at Minato, "So he's your Ashikabi? Huh…"
The dismissive snort of the other Sekirei made the twins glare at her, only to be interrupted by Kaie.
"Oi! Stop ignoring us, dammit!" the blond Sekirei yelled, "And who's the spindly kid?"
"Last time I checked, it was considered common courtesy to give your own name before asking the name of others." Minato stated as he walked over to Uzume and gave her a peck on the cheek before returning his attention to the three Eastern Sekirei, "But, as I already know who you three are, I suppose we can ignore it. I am Sahashi Minato, the Ashikabi of the North…with four of my Sekirei."
"Th-there is no northern Ashikabi!" Shi protested nervously.
"As of yesterday, that is incorrect." Minato countered, "And I disapprove of both poaching and forcing other Sekirei to be Winged against their wills. Leave and you will not be deactivated."
Behind him and to his sides, his Sekirei glared menacingly at the three aggressors until they flinched. Outnumbered and with the opposing Ashikabi present to empower his Sekirei with their Norito, there was only one course of action they could take.
"…fall back!" Kaie ground out.
"B-b-b-b-but if we do that, Higa-sama will-!" Oshino whimpered.
"I know!" Kaie shot back, "but we don't have a lot of choice here!"
With glares that promised dire retribution, the three leapt away and vanished among the buildings surrounding the area.
"Well, that was a thing." Yomi remarked as she turned to scrutinise Minato carefully, the scythe in her hands twitching slightly as she spoke, "So what now?"
"Are you injured?" Minato asked.
"No~." the girl replied slowly.
"In which case we don't have to take you to an MBI hospital." Minato said with a friendly nod, "Good luck finding your true Ashikabi. Uzume, Musubi. Good job."
"No problem." Uzume grinned, "This is only the second time we've interfered. The town's really quiet. You two must have really stomped the scum down yesterday."
Hikari made a dismissive gesture. "Tch. More than a few were cowards who ran at a little spark directed at their groin. The only serious problems were the Sekirei from the Ashikabi of the South."
"So he's likely to try and force me as well?" Yomi asked with a frown.
"Yep. Out of The Four Ashikabi, East and South are trash." Hibiki stated with disgust, "Sanada of the West is laid back and is seemingly a nice guy, but he isn't interested in Winging any more Sekirei. We've made it clear to Mikogami not to come to the North, so if you head up there you'll be safe from him at least."
"But not from Higa." Yomi grumbled. She then looked at Minato thoughtfully.
"No." Minato said firmly, seeing where her thoughts were going, "I only Wing Sekirei who react to me. I don't force Sekirei and I don't let Sekirei force me."
The Death Scythe Sekirei pouted prettily at that before a devious smile emerged on her face. She bowed slightly to Minato before saying, "Minato-sama, I hereby request refuge in the North under your aegis until such time that I find my true Ashikabi."
Judging by the glares that she was receiving from the girls around him, minus Musubi, Minato could tell that Yomi wasn't very popular with her fellow Sekirei and that they dearly wanted him to say no to her request.
Unfortunately for them, Minato's innate sense of honour was bashing him over the head and would not take no for an answer. She had been attacked before and would no doubt be sought after by Higa, even if she hid in the North. If she didn't, no doubt Mikogami, Higa or another forceful Ashikabi would try something with her.
There really was no choice.
"I grant you refuge, Yomi." he sighed, "Do no harm to me and mine and you may stay until you discover your true Ashikabi."
"Great. Two perverted Sekirei under the same roof." Hibiki muttered, "Matsu and Yomi. Terrific."
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