Now that they had decided to take advantage of the holiday to travel and vacation, Yukito also decided to temporarily set aside the idea of hunting demons to gain experience and level up.
After Yukikaze and Akiyama Rinko changed their clothes and finished washing up, they simply said goodbye to Asagi and Yatsu Murasaki, then departed from the Anti-Demon Ninja Organization's Tokyo Headquarters Base.
Although they were members of the Anti-Demon Ninja Organization, they didn't actually need to stay in this base every day. The daily tasks that Anti-Demon Ninja needed to complete were not very numerous.
Only the logistics personnel responsible for collecting and organizing intelligence, as well as Asagi, the General Commander, were relatively busy. The other Anti-Demon Ninja did not encounter dangerous missions to subjugate demons or Demon races every day.
In this world, humans are still the dominant species. It is very difficult for powerful demons from the Demon World to enter the Human World, and even if powerful Demon races enter the Human World, their strength will be weakened to a certain extent.
So, normally, truly powerful Demon races either stay in the Demon World or remain in the special spaces formed when the Human World and the Demon World overlap and merge.
"Aunt Shiranui, have you decided where you want to travel and play after we go back, while there's still some holiday time?"
Leaving the Anti-Demon Ninja Organization's Tokyo Headquarters Base and taking the train towards the Mizuki Estate in Chiyoda Ward, Yukito couldn't help but ask curiously.
"I already decided a few days ago, and I even booked a hot spring inn in Hakone in advance. They say that inn has a natural open-air hot spring, and it's mixed-gender bathing!"
Hearing Yukito ask about the travel vacation, Shiranui, sitting next to Yukito, smiled with a hint of joy, took out her phone from her pocket, and opened an app that seemed to specialize in hotel and inn booking services. Her fair fingers quickly scrolled the screen to find the hot spring inn she had previously booked in the app, then handed the phone to Yukito beside her.
"The hot spring inn I booked earlier is this one, and I even booked out the entire place, so besides the inn owner, no one else will disturb us. We can stay at the hot spring inn for three full days."
At this point, Shiranui Mizuki subtly glanced at her seemingly oblivious foolish daughter, then looked at Akiyama Rinko, who was sitting next to Yukikaze, and said with a hint of meaning.
The hot spring inn in Hakone was booked by Shiranui Mizuki before she took Yukito to the Anti-Demon Ninja Organization's Tokyo Headquarters Base. The reason she chose to book an entire hot spring inn deep in the mountains of Hakone was because she had noticed Yukikaze's hidden feelings for Yukito.
Shiranui Mizuki originally wanted to create an opportunity for her unforthcoming and somewhat tsundere daughter, hoping she could seize the chance to be a little bolder and more proactive in the deep mountains without others disturbing them.
After all, Yukito-chan also grew up under her watch. If the relationship between him and Yukikaze could undergo a qualitative change and they became more intimate, Shiranui would be very happy to see it.
However, if her foolish daughter Yukikaze still didn't get it, then it might just benefit Rinko instead.
Or perhaps her hints were already so obvious that Yukito, if he understood, would also become more proactive. It's just unclear who Yukito's proactiveness would be directed towards: Yukikaze… Rinko, or her?
"A hot spring inn in Hakone, with an open-air mixed-gender hot spring, and the entire place booked out so no one else will disturb us?"
Yukito quickly noticed several key points from the few sentences Aunt Shiranui had just spoken.
Although Aunt Shiranui seemed to have simply described and explained her arrangements for where to travel and play during the holiday, Yukito, somehow, felt that Aunt Shiranui's words seemed to have another, deeper meaning?
"Even if there's an open-air hot spring, I'm not going to choose to bathe with Onii-chan."
"I'm not a child anymore. Even if Onii-chan looks at me with that longing gaze, I won't agree!"
Hearing her mother's arrangements for the upcoming few days of winter break, Yukikaze Mizuki's mind inexplicably conjured images of herself and Onii-chan naked together in an open-air hot spring, especially since the entire hot spring inn had been temporarily reserved, meaning no one else would disturb them besides the innkeeper.
There were also scenes she had encountered in her dreams, identical to those in adult comics and strange videos, where she and Yukito were entangled in the hot spring, having sex.
These were things that had occurred in Yukikaze's dreams, and deep down, Yukikaze actually harbored a faint expectation for them.
However, even if Yukikaze had expectations and desires for a more intimate relationship with her Onii-chan, with her personality, she simply couldn't bring herself to say words like 'I want to cuddle with Onii-chan!'
In the end, Yukikaze's tsundere personality led her to blurt out, 'I don't want to soak in the hot spring with Onii-chan at all!'
Conversely, Akiyama Rinko, who had accompanied them from the Anti-Demon Ninja Organization's Tokyo headquarters, showed a thoughtful expression after hearing Shiranui-auntie's somewhat meaningful words.
"Yukikaze, that girl, is truly disappointing! I was hoping to create an opportunity for you to successfully 'capture' Yukito-chan and make him yours, but now it seems this idiot is completely useless!"
Shiranui, sitting beside Yukito, had been secretly observing her daughter Yukikaze's and Akiyama Rinko's reactions and expressions from the start.
Seeing Yukikaze's textbook tsundere demeanor, Shiranui Mizuki couldn't help but sigh with emotion, feeling that her foolish daughter seemed to have already secured the position of a 'loser' in love.
If this world were a romantic comedy, Yukikaze would undoubtedly be the confirmed 'loser' character.
However, if it were an adult anime world, the tsundere Yukikaze would be a perfect tsundere heroine and would be very popular!
The train from Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, to Chiyoda Ward was fast, and it only took a few minutes to reach the station near the Mizuki Estate.
Getting off the train and continuing down the street, passing through an intersection, the group finally arrived back at the residential area where the Mizuki Estate was located.
It was then that Yukito noticed that in the six or seven days he had been away, a new family seemed to have moved in about ten meters from his own residence.
It was a tall woman with her hair styled up, rare silver-white hair, and skin like snow; he could only vaguely see her profile as she was directing movers, continuously bringing cardboard boxes filled with unknown contents into the house about ten meters away, next to the Mizuki Estate.
Yukito merely looked at this new neighbor with a bit of curiosity, thinking she seemed a little different, but he didn't dwell on it.
Instead, Shiranui-auntie, who was beside Yukito, frowned deeply, and a wary look appeared in her eyes as she gazed at the new neighbor.
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