Chapter 269: B - VIP at the water park
"Ugh! I wanna go to the water park too! It’s not fair!" Irina whines, stomping around the house like a spoiled child throwing a tantrum.
But Kagura refuses to budge.
"Stop whining, Irina! I thought I made myself clear: no allowance for a whole month, and no leaving the house for two months except for school! And don’t think that’s the end of it! I’ll keep adding more punishments as they come to me! Maybe this time you’ll finally learn how to behave!" her mother snaps, more furious than ever.
Kagura definitely did not appreciate seeing her fourteen-year-old daughter brought home passed out drunk.
She’s so furious that even Shin has decided to take a nice, peaceful stroll around the villa’s sprawling grounds.
He may have been the strongest Monster Reaper of his time, but he knows full well that an angry woman is scarier than any bloodthirsty creature.
Much to Chantal and Claire’s delight, they and Hakuto get to enjoy a relaxing Sunday without the ever-turbulent Irina around.
"Ah... now this is the life..." Hakuto sighs, stretched out on a lounge chair by the pool.
Claire, meanwhile, is enjoying a relaxing soak in the nearby jacuzzi, and Hakuto doesn’t take his eyes off her for even a second.
An enemy attack could come at any moment.
Even in a place this crowded, the yakuza could make their move and try to abduct her, and he has no intention of being caught off guard.
But that’s not the only reason Hakuto can’t take his eyes off her.
He knows exactly what would happen if Claire’s powers went out of control.
He already saw it at the costume shop, and the sick, perverted look on that old man’s face still haunts him.
And as if that weren’t enough, she’s wearing the sexy red swimsuit Irina picked out for her that very afternoon.
Even without her demonic powers, she’s still an absolute magnet for guys and grown men alike, and the last thing Hakuto wants is some horny creep ruining her afternoon.
Hakuto has lost count of how many have approached her to flirt with her so far, but none of them have been too pushy, and they’ve all walked away without making a fuss when she turned them down.
As long as things stay that way, he sees no reason to worry — though he can’t help feeling a twinge of jealousy whenever Claire spends a few seconds longer than usual chatting with someone.
As for Chantal, she’s having a much harder time going unnoticed.
In less than an hour, she’s already managed to monopolize the attention of everyone at the pool — and not just because of the figure accentuated by her thin white swimsuit.
In that first hour alone, she’s managed to pick a fight with half the people there.
And that’s only because she hasn’t met the other half yet.
She smashed the boombox belonging to a group of guys who were blasting their music way too loud...
"I told you to turn that fucking thing down! Are you deaf or what?! Fine, I’ll do it myself!"
CRACK!
...she got into an argument with a guy who splashed her while she was sunbathing...
"Idiot! Can’t you see diving is forbidden here?! Do that again, and your next dive will be out the window of a skyscraper!"
...she even yelled at a six-year-old kid who cut in front of her in line for a waterslide, making him burst into tears.
"How dare you cut in front of me, you little shit! Didn’t your parents teach you any manners?!"
Needless to say, Hakuto and Claire have been pretending they don’t know her since the moment they set foot in the water park.
Suddenly, a burst of commotion snaps Hakuto out of his moment of relaxation.
What the hell is going on over there...?
His mind immediately jumps to the worst-case scenario when he sees a massive crowd gathering near the park exit.
He shoots to his feet, fearing it might be an emergency evacuation.
But when he takes a closer look, he realizes they aren’t trying to get out — they’re all crowding around someone.
He can clearly make out the bodyguards holding the crowd back, along with the flashes of cameras going off.
But with the wall of bodyguards blocking his view, he can’t see who’s drawing such a huge crowd.
Probably some VIP. This is the most famous water park in Japan, after all.
With that, he lies back down on the lounge chair.
But it’s hard to properly relax with all the fans screaming hysterically and the reporters shouting over one another.
What a pain... Can’t I get a moment of peace even here?
The noise grows louder and louder as the crowd moves away from the water park entrance and toward an area fairly close to where Hakuto is.
"Is that really Aoi Kuze?! Wow, she’s even prettier in person!"
"Miss Kuze, are you here for a photo shoot or a movie?"
Those are the only two things Hakuto can make out clearly through all the commotion.
"Aoi Kuze...?" Hakuto repeats, confused. "Who’s that? Never heard of her."
"Are you serious?! You’re a guy and you don’t know who she is?" Claire shoots back. By now, she’s gotten out of the jacuzzi and stretched out on the lounge chair beside his. "Aoi Kuze is a rising star in both modeling and acting! Even I’ve heard of her, and I don’t even follow that stuff. Seriously, where have you been living all this time?"
"Somewhere no one had heard of this girl, apparently..."
After a few minutes, the crowd begins to part as the bodyguards step in and push back the onlookers and the media, clearing some space around Aoi.
Only now does Hakuto finally get a good look at her in all her famous beauty.
She’s fairly tall for a girl, with tanned skin, long, wavy black hair, and hazel eyes.
If it weren’t for her name, Hakuto would’ve guessed she was South American rather than Japanese.
But it’s when Aoi takes off her robe and settles onto a reserved lounge chair that her beauty hits Hakuto in full force, like a bolt from the blue.
A tiny leopard-print bikini barely contains her enormous breasts, far bigger than Irina’s.
Her hourglass figure and firm ass make Claire’s look flat by comparison.
It’s obvious at a glance that she spends a ton of time working on her body.
As much as Hakuto tries not to show it, he can’t take his eyes off her.
"Now I get why she’s so famous..."
Claire shoots him a cold, annoyed look.
"You’re such a pervert..."