Tentacle Monster Conquest Manual

Is this an attempt to completely control the Japanese cabinet?

"Izuki, do you know that Ayanokouji Atsuomi very well?" Rena asked.

“Everyone in this circle knows Ayanokoji Atsuomi’s methods and abilities,” Itsuki Shima shook his head. “His White House has provided the cabinet with a lot of talent, and now it seems that his reputation is well-deserved. He can even control Tomie’s influence and instead make use of her.”

“The White House? I’ve heard of this place before, but I thought it was just a legend. I didn’t expect it to be true,” Nakiri Managi murmured to herself.

“What I’m worried about isn’t that he’s using Tomie to seduce or control others; what I’m worried about is something else,” Rena said, glancing at the dark sky outside through the floor-to-ceiling window. There were no stars or moon in sight; it was pitch black.

"Since Ayanokouji Atsuomi knew about Tomie's special characteristics and even used them to achieve his own goals, do you think he might already be researching Tomie's abilities?"

Upon hearing this, even Rurikawa Tsubaki couldn't help but be startled. "Rena-nee, do you mean... Ayanokouji Atsuomi is researching Tomie's cells?"

“I don’t believe he can resist. For someone like him, getting a little bit of Tomie’s cells would be incredibly easy. Maybe he already has a clone of Tomie in his lab,” Rena said, touching her forehead. “The incident where we fought with Lycoris for Tomie exposed her existence.”

"Tomie's existence is no secret to those nobles and members of parliament."

Kawakami Tomie, who had been listening silently nearby, screamed, "Impossible! You're saying that man created my split body?! That's impossible! He never said that! And he didn't take any of my cells! He even kept his distance from me when he was around!!"

"He would tell you? I didn't realize you were so naive, Tomie. As for keeping your distance, it's obviously because he's worried about being influenced by you. Can't you see that?"

Izuki Shima despised it.

"But...but..."

After stammering for a moment, the black-haired beauty with a beauty mark under her eye roared, her face contorted in a grimace, "That bastard! How dare he split my inferior product!! I'll kill him!!!"

Well, Rena and the others ignored Tomie's impotent rage and continued discussing, "Should we ask Xiaoxiao for help?"

“Just tell Xiaoxiao, we don’t need him to do anything,” Itsuki Shima regained his composure. “Even if it’s Ayanokoji Atsuomi, we can handle him. After all, he’s just an ordinary person, isn’t he?”

Little Xiao is probably sleeping soundly with Ruifei in her arms right now, let's talk about it tomorrow.

“I’m going back to school tomorrow too, um, I’ll tell him then~” Rena also regained her gentle smile.

Chapter 310 The Rift Between Childhood Sweethearts

"Ring ring ring ring ring————"

The ringing of the cell phone by the bedside startled Mu Xiaoxiao from his deep sleep. He curled up in the warm quilt, hugging his pillow. The beauty who shared the bed with him had already left, but the lingering fragrance of the quilt still lingered in his nose, strong and undissolved.

"Hmm... Hello? Who is it?"

Mu Xiaoxiao wasn't grumpy when she woke up, but being woken up from a sweet dream still made her a little annoyed, and her tone wasn't very pleasant. However, Ling Nai on the other end of the phone didn't mind at all; instead, her voice was cheerful as she said, "Xiaoxiao~"

With a dramatic intonation, he asked, "Have you forgotten that today is the first day of school?"

"Ugh, Rena?"

“You should call me Teacher Reina at times like this,” Reina said jokingly. “Well, if you’re sleepy, you can continue sleeping for a while. I’m on my way to pick you up. Let me see… you have at most ten more minutes of sleep.”

"...Ten minutes is enough."

The sound of a car engine could indeed be heard on the other end of the phone. Lingna held the steering wheel with one hand and the phone with the other. Hearing her lover quiet down on the other end, the red-haired woman shrugged, rolled down the car window, and the wind ruffled her beautiful red hair.

Half an hour later, Mu Xiaoxiao, having finished washing up, got into Ling Nai's car with a piece of bread in her mouth. The latter handed her eggs and milk, saying, "It must have been left for you by Rui Fei. She actually left you alone in her house. Is she really that careless? She completely treats you like the male head of the Nishikino family."

Mu Xiaoxiao took a bite and ate half of the egg, then stuffed the other half into Ling Nai's mouth. "Eat yours... By the way, why did you come here to pick me up?"

“I originally had something to tell you about Kawakami Tomie, so I just came along. But going to school with you like this is surprisingly nice,” Reina said, feeding herself a small egg. “Last night…”

Hearing what Ling Nai said, Mu Xiaoxiao listened attentively. After finishing her breakfast, she drank her milk and expressed her opinion, "Ling Nai, you guys did a pretty good job. I also know a bit about that White House. The former prime minister does have some influence, but he's not a big threat to us."

"As for Tomie, I believe you can handle it. You should already have a plan for Reina, right?" Mu Xiaoxiao smiled. "With you all here, even I feel much safer."

"You've got it backwards. It's you, Xiaoxiao, who gives us a sense of security. As for the plan, I don't really have any plan. I just want to find that former prime minister's research institute, if he really is researching Kawakami Tomie."

"Oh? You think Ayanokouji Atsuomi's research institute isn't in the White House? That's his most valuable research facility."

Mu Xiaoxiao rolled up the car window and asked.

"No, as long as he knows how dangerous Tomie is, he won't put this kind of research in his white house. If something happens, it will be easier to cut ties. So the research institute must be somewhere else. With Tomie as an inside man, we should be able to find it quickly."

Ayanokouji...

Mu Xiaoxiao pondered for a moment, then smiled again, "Ling Nai, find an opportunity to investigate the White House. Ayanokouji Atsuomi's attention should be focused on Tomie's research recently, this might be an opportunity."

"Chance?"

"Yes, there's a guy named Ayanokouji Kiyotaka in the White House. Find an opportunity to release him; he'll become a weapon against Ayanokouji Atsuomi."

Lingna raised a few question marks above her head and turned to look at him, "I always feel... Xiaoxiao, you know a lot of secrets."

Mu Xiaoxiao didn't explain, she just smiled mysteriously.

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"Yuji, what are you dawdling for? It's time to go to school."

At the Tsubakihara family home, Tsubakihara Yuna and her younger sister had changed into their school uniforms and were carrying backpacks. They kept urging Tsubakihara Yuuji behind them, but the latter looked preoccupied. He had just searched the room but couldn't find Tsubakihara Mira.

"Where's Aunt Mira? I haven't seen her."

“Mom left very early,” Nina explained, then noticed that Yuji’s face darkened. He seemed to want to say something but didn’t, and followed the Tsubakihara sisters to school.

They were childhood sweethearts and usually went to school together, their laughter ringing out like silver bells amidst the rustling of leaves on the roadside, chatting and playing. But today, Tsubakihara Yuuji was clearly distracted, giving Tsubakihara Yuna only half-hearted replies to her words.

"Yuuji..."

Yuna Tsubaki bit her lip, her expression complicated. As for her younger sister Nina, she could only sigh as she watched all this. Gradually, Yuna also fell silent, closing her mouth and walking silently on the stone slope with her head down.

A silence hung between them.

Yuuji Tsubakihara was still oblivious to the atmosphere. He was still struggling with the fact that Aunt Mira would never leave this early in the morning. She would at least have breakfast with them before leaving. But today... he hadn't seen her since early this morning.

Could it be that she went to find Mu Xiaoxiao from that day? To be honest, Aunt Mira has been smiling more these past few days. Tsubakihara Yuuji has noticed her happy mood, and it's the first time he's ever seen Aunt Mira so happy.

It's not that Aunt Mila was unhappy before, it's just that Aunt Mila before was completely different from now. How to put it, it's hard to describe the feeling. If I had to say, this is probably the kind of behavior that only occurs after falling in love.

Yuji Tsubakihara had never been in a relationship and didn't really understand, but she could tell that Aunt Mira seemed very happy.

The more this happened, the more distressed he felt.

They entered the school gate in silence. They were not in the same school as Mu Xiaoxiao. When they changed into indoor shoes and entered the classroom, Tsubakihara Yuna glanced at her childhood friend's departing figure without saying goodbye and sighed softly.

"Yuuji, you really do like Mom," it was already obvious, but there was nothing she could do. Mom was clearly more interested in that boy named Mu Xiaoxiao. Tsubakihara Yuna thought to herself. Just as she sat down in her seat, she heard a few girls nearby huddled together, chattering about holiday gossip.

Yuna didn't care at first, but she vaguely heard a familiar name.

How was your holiday? Where did you and your boyfriend go?

"Stop talking, we didn't go anywhere. What about you guys?"

"We don't have boyfriends, hehe. We did go to some blind dates these past few days, but we didn't find anyone we liked."

"Seriously? You have such high standards?"

At this moment, the girl from the social event approached mysteriously, took out her phone, and showed a photo on her phone. "I just happened to see this during the holidays... Let me show you, here, this."

The photo clearly showed Mu Xiaoxiao's figure, and the sight of this handsome young man made several girls nearby gasp.

"Who is this? A student from our school?"

"Of course not. If it were someone from our school, it would have been all over the place by now. It's a student from another school named Mu Xiaoxiao. I happen to have a good friend who goes to that school, and she told me that this boy named Mu Xiaoxiao is a very famous person at that school."

Mu Xiaoxiao?

Yuna's ears twitched, and she lifted her eyelids to look. She saw the photo on the phone, and sure enough, it was Mu Xiaoxiao, whom her mother had invited last time. He was indeed a high school student, but she hadn't expected him to be so famous that his name had spread all the way here.

"This is the first time I've ever seen such a handsome guy. No wonder you don't like anyone else. But wasn't this photo taken secretly? That's a crime!"

“I didn’t take the picture, my friend took it secretly, it has nothing to do with me,” the girl said, then lowered her head mysteriously. “Besides, there are many other photos of him taken secretly, and they’re circulating among girls in many schools.”

"So exaggerated?"

It's quite exaggerated. Yuna Tsubakihara pricked up her ears and eavesdropped in her seat, secretly marveling. This Mu Xiaoxiao, is she really that famous? It must have been spread among the girls, and then it slowly got to other schools.

However, these girls probably don't realize that Mu Xiaoxiao, whom they're talking about, actually already has a boyfriend, and it's her mother... wait, I wonder if her mother is dating him.

Unlike Yuuji, Tsubakihara Yuna didn't have much hostility towards Mu Xiaoxiao. On one hand, her mother had been single for so long and it was too hard for her to be alone. On the other hand, he had cured her mother's illness. Whether he was handsome or not was not important; what mattered was that he was very reliable.

Since that's the case, there's no problem.

Sigh, who would have thought that Yuuji would also have feelings for his mother...

"Huh? What's this?" Yuna Tsubakihara suddenly noticed a letter in the drawer, paused for a moment, took it out and looked at it, her expression conflicted, "A love letter..."

Yuna Tsubakihara is very pretty, so it's normal for her to receive love letters. However, she is usually quite introverted at school and doesn't have many friends, so she doesn't receive many love letters or confessions. For Yuna, rejecting others is also a difficult thing.

Being introverted, she found it difficult to say no, so she considered asking Yuji for help, but seeing Yuji's absent-mindedness, she gave up.

After school, Yuna Tsubakihara arrived at the back of the school building's stairs as promised and met the boy who had handed her the love letter. She watched as the boy blushed and confessed his love, but her heart remained unmoved.

"...Tsubakihara-san, please go out with me!"

At the same time, on the other side of the wall, Yuuji Tsubakihara, whether by chance or luck, accidentally stumbled upon this scene and heard a boy confessing his love to his childhood friend, which stirred something within him.

"I'm sorry, Aida-san..."

Upon hearing his childhood friend's rejection, Tsubakihara Yuuji's pupils, which had shrunk, immediately returned to normal. What? Yuna really rejected him. How could that guy from who-knows-where possibly succeed in confessing to my childhood friend?

Compared to him, Mu Xiaoxiao is a greater threat.

"Yuuji?"

When Tsubakihara Yuna saw him, she almost didn't react. "What are you doing here? You, you saw everything?"

"Yeah, I saw it. I didn't expect you to be so popular, Yuna. You got a confession."

"...That's your impression?" Yuna Tsubakihara's eyes widened. "I don't want to be popular at all. You know I... don't like attracting attention. Since you were here, why didn't you help me just now?"

"Well, Yuna, you rejected him yourself, didn't you?"

The orange-haired girl's expression was complicated. She lowered her head. She had indeed rejected the boy, but if she could, she would prefer that Yuuji would come out and take her away forcefully, not only because she was introverted, but also because... Yuna liked him.

However, she ultimately didn't say those words and remained silent.

Chapter 311 Transfer Students

"Yuna, what happened between you and Yuuji?"

Compared to her older sister Yuna's introverted nature, Tsubakihara Nina is more perceptive and notices that there seems to be something off between Yuuji and her sister. The two didn't talk to each other on the way back, and even stood a little distance apart, which made Tsubakihara Nina very concerned.

"nothing."

Yuna naturally wouldn't bring it up, and Tsubakihara Yuuji didn't say much either. He just didn't quite understand why Yuna was unhappy about such a small thing. Hadn't she already rejected that person? Besides, that person hadn't done anything out of line to Yuna, so why should he get involved?

I always felt that Yuna wasn't as understanding as Aunt Mira.