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Chapter 84 Part 1

Special Examination (1) ~Entrust your body to the flow of time~

Going back in time, it was Thursday, the day before the inter-class ball game competition.

It was about 6:00 p.m. when Yuu got home that day, and unusually, they had visitors at such an hour.

It seemed that it hadn’t been long since they arrived, and the two visitors had just taken their seats.

Elena, who happened to be at home, and Sera, who normally would only come on the weekend, were also present.

It was apparently a talk that was heavily related to Yuu as well, so as soon as he got home, he sat down on the sofa facing them.

One of the visitors was Inui Rumiko, an official of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

He met her at the general hospital when he went to do his first sperm donation, so it had been about two weeks since.

She was dressed in a business style with a white open-necked shirt and a tight navy-blue skirt, but her curvy body as male-instincts-stirring as usual.

The other visitor was an old lady… not sure if she could be referred to as such, but she was a woman that looked like she had reached her 60th birthday.

Her hair, which was more gray than black, was neatly bundled in an updo, and she wore rimless glasses.

She was dressed in a rather plain but flower-patterned shirt and a long pale purple skirt, and although she had a small build, looking at her good posture with her back straight, one could see her elegance.

When her eyes met Yuu’s, she looked at him with a gaze overflowing with affection from behind her droopy glasses, which strangely made him feel a little warm.

「Yuu-sama has returned home at just the right time, so I will go ahead and introduce her to you. She is the chairperson of the Toyota Sakuya Memorial Foundation, Ichinose Hatsumi-san.」

The woman called Ichinose bowed and opened her mouth.

「As introduced by her, I am Ichinose.」

「B, by Ichinose, don’t tell me….」

Perhaps she knew her name, Martina had a look of surprise on her face.

「Yes, as you might guess, I was given the pleasure to serve as Sakuya-san’s first partner.」

It was a well-known story that when Yuu’s father, Toyota Sakuya, was 10 years old – said to be shortly after entering the fifth grade – he shed his virginity with his homeroom teacher at the time.

Even if the other party was a beautiful child, as expected, as a teacher, she couldn’t actively lay her hands on him, so when Ichinose, who was 25 years old at the time, was subjected to a fierce attack by Sakuya, who harbored a desire toward her unlike that of an elementary student, they began to gradually form a physical relationship.

Otherwise, there was no way she would have been able to continue working as a teacher even after it was discovered that she had had sexual intercourse with an elementary school boy.

This was because when she became pregnant, Sakuya boldly declared in front of the principal that he had impregnated her.

The relationship continued while Sakuya was still in elementary school, and it was said that she gave birth to a boy and a girl.

Although they were not bound in marriage, for Yuu, she was the mother of his oldest half-brother and sister.

He learned all of the above from a TV special on the anniversary of his father’s death.

「Nice to meet you. I am Martina, Sakuya-san’s 18th wife. This is my daughter Elena and my son Yuu. And then Sera, daughter of Suzanna, his 17th wife. She lives in Hokkaido, but she happens to have come here for a company training program.」

Introduced by Martina, Yuu and the others greeted her in turn.

Hatsumi looked at Yuu and the others with an amiable smile on her face, but when it came to Yuu in particular, she directed a gaze at him with a nostalgic and affectionate look on her face.

「How curious. Even though they are different in appearance, in some ways, he looks like Sakuya-san in his younger days. I wonder why.」

Hearing those words that she had muttered while placing her hand on her cheek as if she was talking to herself, Martina had a complicated look on her face, while Rumiko nodded her head as if in agreement.

「Err, Ichinose-san?」

The one who broached the subject was Martina. She looked a little nervous.

「Hatsumi is fine. Martina-san. What might it be?」

「Huh… Then, Hatsumi-san. I heard that you had a tough time after Sakuya-san passed away?」

It seemed that the same was true for Martina and the others in that not only were they in sorrow over the loss of their beloved husband, they were also faced with a tough situation, but they didn’t show even a fragment of it.

Getting asked, Hatsumi humbly replied, 「Not as much as you who were his wives, but…」, as she showed a nostalgic look on her face.

「I believe it was about a month after Sakuya-san passed away. A lot of strange people came to our house, did they not~?」

「Huh, but why?」

Yuu wondered.

He had heard that the relationship between his father and Hatsumi had been severed after he graduated from elementary school.

Considering that she had given birth to his children, maybe he had met her after that too, but it could be said that his father’s sexual conquest began in earnest when he entered middle school.

According to them, that was because even his father didn’t have it in him to impregnate elementary school girls, as expected.

There, the one who interrupted was Rumiko.

「When he was alive, Sakuya-shi was called many different names by the media and his fans. For example… From the fact that he had relationships and children with an unbelievably large number of women, the famous one is Sir Stud. From the fact that he actively formed relationships not only with Japanese but also foreigners, using sea as the metaphor for women, Supreme King of the Sea. And from the fact that he was the ray of hope for all women on the earth, there was even a one like the Lord of Salvation.」

「Ha, hahaha… that’s amazing.」

「Not only would he embrace you if there was an opportunity to, the chance of having a child was high. Even if you didn’t get embraced by him, his popularity appeared to be very great, so there might those who pretty much deified him.」

「So, who were those strange people who came uninvited to Hatsumi-san’s house?」

In response to Yuu’s question, Hatsumi and Rumiko looked at each other.

It seemed that Rumiko would be the one to explain.

「After Sakuya-shi passed away, several religious groups were established. The one who was deified and worshiped was, of course, Sakuya-shi. The names of the groups were taken from the titles of honor I mentioned earlier, such as 『Servants of the Supreme King of the Sea』 and 『Lord of Salvation Religion』. Among them, it seems that there were also cases where private fan clubs that had existed even before his death were taken over by fanatics. And then, it seems that there was a need to put a living person as a representative, or rather a position that served as their symbol, so….」

「Suzanna and Emanuela told me about it. They said that in addition to people from the media, strange people also started to come to their houses, which was very troublesome, so they decided to move.」

Martina, who was pregnant with Yuu, had gone into hiding early on, but it seemed that the wives who had remained at their original residence had also been visited by such religious groups.

Though, partly because there was actually no hierarchical order among the wives, even if there were orders for their turns, it seemed that the groups were not obsessed with them enough to seek out the place they were moving to.

Instead, it was Hatsumi who caught their attention.

After all, she was Sakuya’s first woman, so she was perfect to serve as a symbol.

「Dear me… It was just strange, you know? For them to capture a mere old teacher like me, calling me Queen or the Lord’s consort.」

She might have been able to laugh about it now, but one could imagine how tough it must have been for her at the time.

Among the new religious groups, the groups that called themselves the so-called Cult were not people with whom words would work.

For the sake of their doctrine, they couldn’t care less about the convenience or inconvenience of others.

If anything, they even had no qualm in committing criminal acts because they truly believed it was a good deed.

According to the current time line, it was something that occurred several years later, but Yuu recalled that in his former world, a certain cult group had caused a terrorist incident that resulted in the death of numerous people.

「Well, it ended up causing inconvenience to my work too, you see. So I asked for help from the government. I quit my job at the school and went abroad, mainly working to help set up schools in Southeast Asian countries. Then, exactly 10 years ago, I believe, I was invited to join the board of directors of the foundation I am currently working for, and decided to devote what little ability I could.」

Then, the talk finally got down to the main business.

「In the foundation, we not only collect and store all of Sakuya-san’s inheritances and documents, but also secure people related to him, such as his wife, lovers, and children. In addition to social gatherings and consultations that we hold on an irregular basis, we also send out a seasonal newsletter, so I believe it has been delivered to your place too, Martian-san.」

「Aah… Yes, indeed. But…」

It was the first time Yuu had heard about it.

That was because except for the two she had shown in the photo, Suzanna and Emanuela, Martina had never mentioned any of her fellow wives or other children, and she had always kept quiet about the fact that there were such connections.

With the same gentle smile, Hatsumi said to Martina.

「I understand your concern, Martina-san. The foundation is a special organization, and we don’t allow any media coverage. As a rule, we keep our information non-public. Well, there are times when receive requests for cooperation from the government in matters relation to Sakuya-san, though.」

Hatsumi looked at Rumiko.

「We are conducting a special examination on all of Sakuya-shi’s children after they turn fifteen years old. Due to various circumstances, there are also those who do not undergo this examination, but Yuu-sama, the youngest child, happens to have become eligible for it, so we are thinking about asking Elena-sama and Sera-sama, who have not undergone it before, to undergo it together with him, too.」