Chapter 19:
At the Saizeriya...
The A.S.S Lvl 10 club gang and Yukipapa is seating on a table beside the window.
Yukipapa is tapping the table with his fingers impatiently, while Hiratsuka and Zaimokuza having a duel using the eating utensils provided by the restaurant and Yukinoshita watching the sun to slowly set from the window.
As Yukinoshita's eyes follows the setting sun, her eyes landed on a man in tuxedo carrying a whining Hikigaya!?
"Hikigaya-kun is here! But why is he being carried by a man? And why does he look so comfortable in his arms?" Yukinoshita asked.
This made a smile in the irritated face of Yukipapa, out of joy he jumped out of his seat and ran outside.
The A.S.S Lvl 10 club gang can only watch from the window as Yukipapa jumped on both the man carrying Hikigaya and Hikigaya.
After seeing this, Hiratsuka and Zaimokuza copies Yukipapa and ran towards Hikigaya too.
The two jumped on the man in tuxedo, Hikigaya and Yukipapa making the human stack taller.
All Yukinoshita can do is let out a relived sigh and watch closely on the shenanigans of her troublesome clubmates.
Somewhere in Chiba...
"Are you sure you can track him down? We have been flying for a long time now" Sylphia asked the Bad luck Queen.
"My contractor seems to be adept at hiding his presence but I can smell his bad luck just faintly" the Bad luck Queen responded.
Back at Hikigaya...
While everyone is eating eagerly, Hikigaya who just lost a lot of Saint Quartz also known as 3 months of hard work is eating slowly and releasing a sigh of regret occasionally.
Yukipapa who always have Hikigaya on his radar both figuratively and literally noticed this.
"Hey Hachi, why the long face?" Yukipapa asked.
"Gatcha" Hikigaya let out a single word.
"Gotcha" Yukipapa understood.
"Ahh gatcha" Zaimokuza also understood.
"Hmmnn gotcha? Did your parents found your cultured manga collection?" Hiratsuka didn't understood.
"What's happening?" Yukinoshita can't enter a low IQ conversion.
"If you were to marry Yukino you'll be loaded for life you know... Well you gotta ask her first" Yukipapa suggested.
Hikigaya started to think about it.
"Oi Yukinoshita, are you gonna let me buy lewd png.s from a game whose gender is bended or not even bended at all they just draw a female character and call it a male, you wouldn't let me right? Of course not right?" Hikigaya started rambling.
"Of course not" Yukinoshita answered fast and cold.
"Ehh? Isn't your obsession with Pan-san the same with Hachi's love for lewd fictional pictures?" Yukipapa asked.
"What? No! My love for Pan-san is different! It's healthy and not lewd at all!" Yukinoshita said as her cold attitude melted down with shame.
"Say that to the 3 Pan-san body pillows you just asked me to buy you during your middle school days" Yukipapa fired his shot.
And it's a hit! Yukinoshita formed a slight tint of red in her cheeks.
"I'm going to the toilet" The Ice Queen retreats!
"Well, that's the first time I see her to be on the receiving end of a banter" Hikigaya is amazed by Yukipapa's power.
Zaimokuza and Hiratsuka both stood up to order more food.
Only Hikigaya and Yukipapa were left in the table.
Cold.
It suddenly became cold.
Yukipapa's carefree demeanor became cold.
Yukipapa moved and seated beside Hikigaya on his left.
He tapped his left shoulder.
For some reason Hikigaya can't move.
Its fear.
Yukipapa moved his face closer to Hikigaya's.
Their face is just now an inch apart.
A faint blue light started emitting from Yukipapa's eyes.
"You do got magic, thats quite rare you know, also I think you shouldn't just use magic for trivial things like giving bad luck to your opponents" Yukipapa whispered.
Ice shards started to form in Hikigaya's left shoulder.
"Not only that you might be able to break the curse in our family, you also carry some fearsome magic in you, if the Yukinoshita family were to get you, our family's tie to magic will be tightened" Yukipapa said as he spread the ice through Hikigaya's body. (Refer to chapter 16 if you forgotten the back story I have created to be the reason why the Yukinoshita family is powerful.)
"T-the Yukinoshita family has ties to magic?" Hikigaya got curious.
"You see, the founding father of this cursed family made a deal with a yokai, now try to guess what the Yukinoshita family got from that deal" Yukipapa asked Hikigaya.
"M-money?" Hikigaya answered.
"Wrong, its magic... Ice magic to be precise" Yukipapa answered.
Yukipapa smiled and said "Don't get me wrong Hachi, I really liked you to get Yukino not because of magic, but now that I have confirmed that you got magic, it just made me want you more to be Yukino's husband".
"And as you can see, I'll take no for an answer" Yukipapa said as he completely frozen Hikigaya's left arm.
"Y-you really are reminding me of those awful people from the other world" Hikigaya is starting to collect himself and calm down.
Hikigaya started melting his frozen arm by emitting heat with fire magic all over his body.
This made Yukipapa stand back.
"You see, I don't want to become just a tool for others to use" Hikigaya gathered his courage and stood up.
A fight between this two might happen...
Click!
A sound of a gun being loaded.
It seems like every customer, even the employees have guns and are now pointing it to Hikigaya.
"You never fought someone with a gun before right?" Yukipapa taunted.
"There's always a first time for everything" Hikigaya answered back.
"Ohh, scary! But don't worry, I need you alive so they are using tranquilizer shots" Yukipapa reassured Hikigaya.
But it seems like Hikigaya doesn't need this reassurance a he made their table float with magic and threw it at ten gunners.
The gunners evaded the table and started opening fire.
Hikigaya created a vortex of wind around him redirecting the bullets shot at him.
Then suddenly, ice shards bursted out where Hikigaya is standing, rendering his mobility.
Hikigaya quickly melted the ice with fire magic coming from his hands but being too focused on his lower body he didn't notice Yukipapa who had gotten close enough for a close combat.
Sharp ice shard started to grow from Yukipapa's hands.
"Take this! Blizzard Claws!" Yukipapa shouted before releasing a barrage of scratch attacks at Hikigaya.
Hikigaya jumped back at each attack to evade it but the attacks are relentless and is being closer and closer, Hikigaya could also not move too far away from Yukipapa as he is using him as a shield so the the gunners won't be able to fire at him.
The restaurant they have been using as a battle field is too small for Hikigaya's fighting style.
So he used a magical blast to shatter a window and flew out of the restaurant with Yukipapa at his tail.
"What are you going to to to me!?" Hikigaya asked a he flew upwards and threw down 3 fire balls at Yukipapa which he blocked with a shield made out of ice.
Yukipapa grabbed a bottle out of his coat pocket and showed it to Hikigaya.
"I was gonna make you drink this, I even spiked your drink with sleeping agents sot that I can make you drink a whole dose of it" Yukipapa explained.
"Are you an idiot? You wanted me past a sleep so that you can make me drink something? Wouldn't it be if you just spiked my food with that thing you want me to ingest instead of some sleeping agents?" Hikigaya taunted.
"Well, this thing won't work if it's is mixed with anything, and would become ineffective if consumed in small proportion... You wouldn't be dumb enough to drink a glass of something weird right?" Yukipapa stated.
"Well, your plan failed!" Hikigaya boasted.
"Yeah, I had my men to spike all of the food served to you and your friends, but it seems like you were immune to body tempering agents, but I'm sure your friends aren't, I'm sure Yukino and the other two are sound asleep inside the restaurant with my men" Yukipapa let out a smile, showing his advantage against Hikigaya.
"What are you going to do to them?" Hikigaya asked, hostility can be sensed coming from him.
"Nothing if you drink this" Yukipapa said as he threw the bottle at Hikigaya who flawlessly catches it.
"What is this anyway?" Hikigaya asked.
"A love potion" Yukipapa answered.
"Why do you have something like this?" Hikigaya asked.
"You see, my wife is a really cold woman! How do you think I managed to my our cold nights into warm ones? OHH YES! THIS BOTTLE IS THE REASON MY TWO CUTE AND BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS ARE HERE! HAHAHAHAHA! THIS BOTTLE IS A BOTTLE FILLED WITH MIRACLE!" Yukipapa started shouting.
"SO THAT BOTTLE IS THE REASON WHY YUKINOSHITA, A WOMAN SO BEAUTIFUL AND CHARMING BUT OPPOSES EVERYTHING I STAND FOR IS BORNED?" Hikigaya has mixed feelings about it and then threw the bottle into the ground,shattering it.
"Hmmnnn... From my perspective, Yukino seems to have this strange connection to you, you're the only guy I'm seeing to actually have a chance on her!" Yukipapa tried to talk.
"Eh? The only connection she is making with me is when she connects my name to something disgusting or disturbing" Hikigaya spoke back.
"Why not give it a try? Drink this and all of her insults will turn into praises!" Yukipapa grabbed another bottle and offered the love potion again.
"That's just masochism" Hikigaya denied the offer.
"Adults call it dealing with it" Yukipapa answered the adult way.
"Well, love shouldn't be forced... DID YOU HEAR WHAT YOU MADE ME SAY!? YOU MADE ME SAY SOMETHING A RAIJU WOULD SAY!" Hikigaya answered the loner way.
"Come on Hachi, give it a try!" Yukipapa pleaded.
"No,no,no, last time I gave relationship a try I got married to some sadistic woman who likes poking me with things!" Hikigaya shouted.
"That's weird but I assure you! My Yukino would only poke your pride not body!" Yukipapa tried negotiating again.
"Ahh... Why? Why do want me to marry your daughter? How is that gonna fix this family curse? Can't we find other ways to break it? " Hikigaya is getting tired of their banter.
"No, this is the only way! The curse made the Yukinoshita bloodline to only give birth to females, and this females would be so cold hearted like a Yuki-Onna! The bloodline is struggling and the family had to get males from other prominent families to have a proper heir! The curse would only be broken if a man manages to melt the ice in a Yukinoshita woman!" Yukipapa tried to explain.
"Thats your problem? A heir? Why not make a woman do it? The Yukinoshita women seems to be more than capable of it!" Hikigaya suggested.
"You think the family didn't try that? Of course they tried but as I said, the curse made that the Yukinoshita women were so cold and heartless that they are breaking the family from the inside! They try to pick a fight at anyone who disagree or have other ways than them!" Yukipapa explained.
"Not my problem" Hikigaya crossed his arms.
"Our company is the source of income of maybe 76% of the working force of Chiba you know, if our company fails, so is the families of that 76%" Yukipapa explained.
I just remembered that my parents work in a Yukinoshita owned company! Hikigaya thought.
"You see? Just one date!" Yukipapa pleaded again.
"Hah! My husband aren't going anywhere I didn't allowed him to" a feminine voice said.
Yukipapa tried to find the source of the voice.
Hikigaya doesn't want to find the source of the voice.
Suddenly, Sylphia appeared behind Yukipapa and kicked him with her bladed high heel.
But before the blade could make contact to Yukipapa's body, a solid ice meterialized to where the blade is landing and blocked it.
Yukipapa tried to counter with his Blizzard Claws but Sylphia immediately jumped back after her assassination attempt failed.
"YOU! WHY ARE YOU HERE!" Hikigaya shouted as he points at Sylphia.
"That should be my question, why are you here? Why are you not in your cage I mean our home?" Sylpia asked.
"I'm not going back there! Even the gods of that world thought so and granted my wish!" Hikigaya shouted.
While being distracted by Sylphia, the Bad luck Queen dashed to Hikigaya.
Hikigaya created a barrier to block the Bad luck Queen's attack but the Bad luck Queen phased through the barrier and tried to scratch Hikigaya with her burning hands.
Hikigaya used water magic and threw a ball of water with a concrete ice inside at the Bad luck Queen.
The water doused out the fire the Bad luck Queen is using and the ice threw the Bad luck Queen away from Hikigaya.
"Uhh, Yoichiro-san, I'll give you that date a try, but in return you gotta help me against this two" Hikigaya struck a deal at Yukipapa.
"Ok! I'll make sure you'll fall in love with Yukino!" Yukipapa said a he evaded a gust of wind from Sylphia.
The bad luck Queen reignited the purple flames in her hands.
Sylphia created a sphere of winds around her.
Hikigaya materialized a blade out of magic.
Yukipapa made a long spear out of ice.
A magical tag team battle!
CHAPTER END-