Chapter 697 - 697: Itsuki Shima's Special CG, An Unexpected Guest at Home

Hikari ultimately also appeared unable to control his emotions, moved to the point of losing control as he pressed Itsuki Shima's head down.

And faced with Hikari forcefully making her swear brotherhood with him, Itsuki Shima was likewise moved to tears.

Under Hikari's deliberate performance, the slight sense of something being off that Itsuki Shima had originally felt finally disappeared, and she was completely reassured.

Raising a hand to lightly wipe the corner of her mouth, Itsuki Shima looked at the young man in front of her, who appeared to be panting heavily, and smiled smugly.

Then, she somehow produced a handkerchief.

With an elegant posture, she gently wiped away the white stains on her cheeks, neck, and elsewhere.

"Thank you for the hospitality."

After standing up again, Itsuki Shima fastened her collar. Her expression once again returned to its dignified and noble appearance as she smiled at Hikari and said, "Hikari's performance really surprised Onee-san, but Onee-san likes it very much. Please continue to take good care of me in the future, Hikari."

Hearing this, Hikari, who had deliberately pretended to be out of breath despite having remained completely at ease the whole time, also smiled and said politely, "Please take good care of me too, Itsuki-nee."

Itsuki Shima said with a smile, "Of course. Just now, Hikari successfully completed the initiation ceremony of our Queen's Society. In other words, you've become brave enough to face your true thoughts, you know."

Hikari pretended to be embarrassed as he scratched his head, his expression seeming somewhat puzzled, "I... I don't know why, but suddenly I just became a lot bolder."

"Hehe! Perhaps Onee-san really is too charming," Itsuki Shima covered her mouth and laughed, "Just kidding. It's actually because Hikari, you really have a lot of potential. In the future, you'll definitely be able to succeed me as the cult founder, so getting a little closer to me, the Secretary-General, ahead of time naturally isn't a big deal."

As Itsuki Shima spoke, she glanced at the incense burner still burning faintly in the corner of the room. However, she did not tell Hikari about the existence of the Awakening Incense, merely smiled and praised him a few more times.

Hearing Itsuki Shima's praise, Hikari looked quite pleased. Then, somewhat excitedly, he asked, "Then, Itsuki-nee, after I become the cult founder in the future, can I become even closer to you?"

Itsuki Shima smiled mysteriously, "Of course. As long as you perform better and better in the Queen's Society, Onee-san will agree to whatever you want."

Hearing this, Hikari put on an expectant look.

Itsuki Shima then made several more tempting promises, dangling the carrot in front of the donkey.

After that, she told Hikari to rest for a while and turned around to leave the room.

After taking human form and walking among mankind, Itsuki Shima found the Queen's Society. In addition to absorbing believers and strengthening her own power, she had another reason: after years of loneliness before taking human form, she also wanted to find a male to satisfy herself.

Hikari's extraordinary talent and abundant stamina were very much to her liking, so some of the praise she had just given him had actually come from the heart.

Moreover, Hikari's appearance and bearing were quite good. If he became the cult founder, he would definitely be able to attract a large number of female believers to the Queen's Society.

But even though Hikari's performance had already exceeded her expectations, in the eyes of Itsuki Shima, the Queen, he was still nothing more than a frail human. In essence, he was no different from Mitsuishi.

Both were only fit to be little toys for her, the Queen. But Hikari was exceptionally talented, so she could make more use of him since he was useful.

Before closing the door, Itsuki Shima muttered something in an extremely soft voice.

Her voice was so quiet that an ordinary person definitely would not have heard it.

But Hikari's hearing was incredibly sharp, and he clearly heard what she secretly said.

"This is only the second time this true body has personally taken the field. Tsk! It feels really strange. This feeling of taking control of everything myself really is much more comfortable than being forced..."

After sighing with satisfaction a few times, Itsuki Shima seemed to remember the unpleasant experience of being forced to descend into the world the first time. Her expression suddenly became dark.

Then she said nothing more and left the room.

Hikari stared at Itsuki Shima's graceful back as she left. As he sensed the strange, captivating fragrance of her that still lingered in the room, a strange sense of familiarity suddenly rose in his heart.

Suddenly, a flash of insight crossed Hikari's mind.

He directly asked the Pure Love Radar in his heart, "Help me activate Mist Investigation. The target is the Queen, Itsuki Shima. Investigate whether she was the evil god who descended at the Munakata residence before."

[100 Pure Love Points consumed. Comparative detection in progress...]

[Based on residual divine power detection, the similarity between the divine power remaining at the Munakata residence and the divine power of the Queen Itsuki Shima is 97.73%. The frequencies of the two divine powers are highly consistent. The evil god that descended at the Munakata residence at the time is confirmed to be the Queen Itsuki Shima.]

"It really was her!", Hikari narrowed his eyes slightly.

Last week, after dealing with Miyuki and Sayoko, he had returned to Tokyo from Ino Village.

At the time, on the way, he had rested for two nights at a luxurious mansion called the Munakata residence.

During those two days, he had not only settled the internal conflict between the mother and daughter, Munakata Rurie and Munakata Nakoto, making the two of them reconcile in tears, but had also suppressed an evil god that had attempted to possess Munakata Rurie.

At the time, while the evil god was possessing Munakata Rurie and was still in a weakened state, he had fought it for three hundred rounds before successfully suppressing it.

But before that evil god's clone dissipated, it had also left behind several vicious threats, which Hikari still remembered clearly.

Just now, under the Queen Itsuki Shima's slick provocations, Hikari had vaguely felt a strange sense of familiarity. Sure enough, his intuition had been right.

No wonder, from the moment he met Itsuki Shima today, he had felt a faint sense of familiarity toward this Secretary-General.

It turned out they had already had close contact before.

Looking at this still fairly new religious building and putting together all the information from before, Hikari had already more or less figured out what exactly was going on with the Queen Itsuki Shima.

As the Queen, Itsuki Shima's sources of power included not only the faith and offerings of believers, which were the most common source for gods, but also the gender and thoughts of believers.

That was why she had caused trouble at the Munakata residence back then, leading Munakata Rurie and Munakata Nakoto to turn against and frame each other.

However, although Itsuki Shima, as the Queen, had continued on from the feudal era, the time when she manifested in the human world and became Itsuki Shima instead of merely being the Queen was probably not very long ago.

It was very likely that she had only begun walking among mankind when the Queen's Society, this lewd cult, officially began expanding.

From a high and mighty god to a human incarnation.

Perhaps this was precisely because, back then at the Munakata residence, Itsuki Shima had been fiercely whipped by him with the Vajra Demon-Subduing Pestle and tortured until she was barely hanging on.

As a result, the humiliated Queen had wanted to descend into the world immediately, expand her influence, increase her power, and wait for an opportunity to take revenge.

Hikari suddenly thought of this possibility.

This had nothing to do with narcissism or wishful thinking. After connecting all the clues, Hikari found that this possibility was actually quite high.

If that really was the case... no, even if there was only a possibility that it was the case, he had to completely overthrow and suppress Itsuki Shima, this evil god.

After all, merely possessing a weak woman like Munakata Rurie had allowed Itsuki Shima to fight him for three hundred rounds.

Now that she had formally taken her true form, Itsuki Shima, and was walking among mankind, who knew how many times her combat power had increased? No wonder the threat she posed to him was so high.

That slick tongue of hers just now had even made the battle-hardened Hikari marvel.

"But even though this is her second encounter with me, Itsuki Shima actually didn't recognize me," Hikari suddenly felt somewhat lucky.

Itsuki Shima's slick talk just now and the strange fragrance on her had given him a strange sense of familiarity.

But in the end, it was only by relying on the upgraded abilities of the Pure Love Radar that he had identified Itsuki Shima as the evil god that had once descended at the Munakata residence.

At the time, Itsuki Shima had not yet formally descended into the human world. Only a trace of her power had descended and possessed someone, and it had soon been scattered to the point of its soul being destroyed by Hikari.

So Itsuki Shima had obviously failed to notice just now that the Hikari standing before her was the same man who had suppressed her the first time.

Otherwise, when Hikari had appreciated Itsuki Shima's slick talk for the second time just now, the two of them probably would already have fought.

"Now the enemy is in the open while I'm in the dark. This is the perfect opportunity to completely suppress this evil god..."

After learning that Itsuki Shima had once shared a deep grudge with him, Hikari became even more determined to destroy the Queen's Society, this lewd cult, and suppress Itsuki Shima, this evil god.

After fastening his belt, Hikari walked out of the small room.

When he returned to the assembly hall, Yoshino Ayaka was indeed waiting for him there.

"Miss Ayaka," Hikari called out to Yoshino Ayaka, who was kneeling on a cushion.

Yoshino Ayaka, who had been meditating with her eyes closed while listening to the Queen teachings, slowly opened her eyes when she heard his voice. Upon seeing that it was Hikari, she smiled happily, "Hikari, you've finished the initiation ceremony, right?"

Hikari nodded, "Mm. Secretary-General Itsuki completed my baptism."

"That's great! From now on, we're fellow believers who share the same beliefs," Yoshino Ayaka was extremely delighted.

Looking at the pure smile on the beautiful married woman's face, Hikari knew that she probably had never undergone the ceremony or baptism.

Or rather, the Queen's Society did not perform the same kind of ceremony that Itsuki Shima had just performed on him for everyone.

After all, Japan was still cracking down on evil cults, so Yoshino Ayaka probably had not yet come into much contact with the dark side of the Queen's Society.

Hikari did not tell her much either.

After all, given Ayaka's fanatic faith in the Queen's Society, if he said even one bad thing about the Queen's Society, she would probably immediately turn against him.

So Hikari merely said that it was getting late and they should head home.

Yoshino Ayaka glanced at the darkening sky and nodded, "Mm, we should head back."

Yoshino Ayaka seemed extremely happy about becoming fellow believers with Hikari, the person who had helped her.

On the way back in the car, the mature married woman continued discussing the teachings of the Queen's Society with Hikari.

"Hikari, when you were in the church, did you feel like you'd forgotten all the troubles of the human world, and that your whole mind had become peaceful and comfortable?"

Looking at the expectant look in Yoshino Ayaka's eyes, Hikari thought of Itsuki Shima's alluring appearance and answered honestly, "I'm not sure about peaceful, but it was pretty comfortable."

Yoshino Ayaka covered her mouth and laughed softly, "The Secretary-General just told me to bring you along to the next gathering. I'll let you know when I find out the time, okay?"

"Sure. Thank you, Miss Ayaka," Hikari said.

"Then let's exchange contact information," Yoshino Ayaka smiled as she took out her phone.

Hikari also took out his phone and exchanged contact information with the dignified married woman.

After saving her phone number and email address, Hikari asked, "How often does the Queen's Society usually hold gatherings? When will the next one probably be?"

Yoshino Ayaka thought for a moment and said, "The gathering schedule isn't actually very fixed, but it's probably about once a week. Then the next one should probably be in a day or two."

"So it could even be tomorrow?", Hikari asked.

"Mm, yes," Yoshino Ayaka nodded.

She was about to say something else to Hikari when the phone in her hand suddenly vibrated.

Yoshino Ayaka looked down and quickly said, "Ah! It's my husband's call. Sorry, I'll answer it first."

Yoshino Ayaka hurriedly pressed the answer button. Before she could say anything, several curses came from the other end.

["Where did you go messing around again? Why aren't you home yet? Where are you?"]

Hearing her husband's stern questioning, Yoshino Ayaka quickly explained several times.

Only after quite a while did she hang up with a troubled look on her face.

After putting down her phone, Yoshino Ayaka looked sullen. Clearly, her family relationship was not very harmonious.

Hikari was not surprised by this.

Although Yoshino Ayaka had both a beautiful face and a great figure, and it was clear from her speech and bearing that she came from a wealthy family, before getting married she was probably the daughter of some prominent family.

But Yoshino Ayaka was simply too superstitious about the Queen religion. She could be called a fanatic believer.

With a wife like that, it was probably difficult for a family not to have conflicts.

Perhaps because she was in a bad mood, Yoshino Ayaka did not say anything else after that.

Hikari did not say much either.

Half an hour later, Yoshino Ayaka got out first at an upscale residential area.

Although she was clearly in a bad mood, Yoshino Ayaka still smiled and said goodbye to Hikari before leaving, and she even stuffed the fare into his hand beforehand.

It could be seen that this dignified married woman was also quite gentle and considerate by nature.

Hikari accepted the money and politely waved goodbye to Yoshino Ayaka before taking the car home alone.

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The hallway of the Asou Apartments was very quiet, with only the occasional hum of the old fluorescent lights.

But after returning to his door, Hikari stopped in his tracks and put the key he had taken out downstairs back into his pocket.

Because warm yellow light was already leaking through the crack in the front door, cutting a diagonal line across the dim hallway floor. The door was actually open.

Hikari narrowed his eyes slightly. He remembered that when he left that morning, he had not been careless enough to forget to close the door.

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