The Gemini Princess wants me to confess my feelings!

Chapter 109 In-depth discussion

Marry, marry one?

Kirihara Akira wondered if the person in front of her had been replaced.

Is this really Hayato Mori? Or is it some kind of yokai in disguise?

Seeing his expression, Mori Hayato seemed amused again: "What, do you think I'm joking?"

"You don't usually joke around, and you wouldn't joke about something like this," Kirihara Akira said with a wry smile. "I just don't quite understand."

"There's nothing hard to understand. You should know my status when I entered this house," Mori said.

Kirihara Akira knew, but remained silent, because the answer might need to be avoided.

"There's nothing wrong with saying it. I'm a son-in-law who lives with his wife's family." Mori Hayato puffed on his cigarette, leaned back on the sofa, and said, "Actually, my family background isn't bad either, but compared to the Mori family, it pales in comparison."

Being a son-in-law is shameful, but for aristocratic families, it's simply a way to maintain the family's lineage and ensure its continuation.

Kirihara Akira laughed and said tentatively, "So many people want to marry into the family but never get the chance."

The remark had a hint of sarcasm, but Mori Hayato, being a man of principle, replied, "You're insightful. I wasn't wrong about you."

11

"So what you meant when you told me to marry someone was to choose one I like and then have her move in with me?" Kirihara Akira said.

"Smart." Hayato Mori praised.

"But actually, I had no choice." Seeing through Mori Hayato's approach, Kirihara Akira was less reserved than before, shrugging and saying, "Miss Shizue is the successor chosen by the Madam. If I had any thoughts about her, the Madam would surely think I was plotting something and trying to poison her daughter."

"Oh, I see." Mori Hayato pointed at him with his cigarette and said with a smile, "You like Shizue."

"Pfft." Kirihara Akira almost drank water through his nose again. He said, "Don't make such assumptions."

"You can't like both of them, can you?" Mori Hayato feigned anger, saying, "Then I can't support you."

"I wouldn't dare!"

"It's alright." Mori Hayato regained his smiling demeanor and said, "My wife, Mori Akari, was also the first heir with high hopes back then. It's more straightforward for you to marry Shizue; you can assist in managing the vast family business in the future. If you choose Kiyoha, then you'll have to take a detour and go through more detours."

If you don't handle this well, Shizue's husband will make things difficult for you later.

Kirihara Akatsuki remarked, "This is really complicated."

"That's how it is in wealthy families," Mori Hayato said. "There's so much going on, and so much backstabbing. I thought you'd stay out of it, but I didn't expect you to get involved and even gain Juri's approval."

"I wouldn't say I approve of it?"

Hayato Mori stared at him for a long while before saying, "You have a secret, and we all know it."

Kirihara Akatsuki's expression remained unchanged.

Hayato Mori said, "Normally, there are no people with secrets in this house, but Juri has allowed you to stay here, which is a form of approval."

"It's also because of her tacit approval that I won't ask you questions that are difficult for you to answer."

Anyway, I won't tell the truth even if you ask me—Kihara Akira thought to herself.

Hayato Mori said, "Maintaining a family like the Mori is very difficult for a woman. No matter how strong they are, they can't escape prejudice in this world. So, Juri needs to cultivate a successor and find someone who can assist the successor, someone that everyone can trust and who is capable."

"You really think too highly of me," Kirihara Akatsuki said modestly. "I'm just a person with no great abilities or ambitions."

"You're still young, your abilities can be developed," Mori Hayato said. "Assisting a ruler who maintains the status quo doesn't require any great ambitions; living a peaceful life is a perfectly acceptable choice."

"Then why did you choose me?" Kirihara Akira asked, puzzled. "You can train people who lack ability, so it seems like everyone is the same?"

"Abilities can be cultivated, but finding someone who can get close to them and is willing to give them the opportunity to develop a relationship is extremely difficult," Mori Hayato sighed. "My two daughters are not your average rebellious ones."

"I understand what you mean," Kirihara Akatsuki said. "You want me to get closer to them, but you seem to have overlooked one issue: even if they like me, that liking isn't necessarily romantic love between a man and a woman."

"You don't need to worry about that," Sen Jiren said with a faint smile. "They have no choice but to choose someone they are completely indifferent to or even hate, or to choose you. At least they will never hate you, which is obvious to anyone with eyes to see."

"As long as they don't dislike you, we'll let them choose you."

"As your father, I hope you will choose carefully, because the other person you choose will likely lead to a life where you have to face people you are indifferent to or dislike, which is unfair."

Upon hearing this, Kirihara Akatsuki felt a surge of disgust.

You can't sleep in the same bed with two different kinds of people; he should have known that long ago.

Actually, Kirihara Akira never wanted to comment on other people's family affairs. However, he had been with the two sisters for so long that they were no longer strangers.

Kirihara Akira took a deep breath and said, "I like them, so I want to say that what you just said is actually very unfair."

"Oh? You don't actually want both of them, do you?" Mori Hayato said.

"Of course not." Kirihara Akatsuki shook her head and said, "I just feel that what you just said about fairness may actually be a huge injustice to them."

You think the only choice you're giving them is to choose the one that's slightly better for them than two tragedies.

Kirihara Akira said in a soft but firm voice, "This is not a choice."

Hayato Mori looked at him and suddenly let out a sigh that was hard to decipher.

He said, "He's just a child after all."

Kirihara Akira said, "This idea may be a bit naive, but I insist on it because they have never been free."

"What is the concept of freedom? It's the boundary of the human heart, something you can freely define," Mori Hayato said with a smile. "When dissatisfied people talk about freedom, they usually define it as infinitely broad."

Kirihara Akira said, "I am trapped in a nutshell, yet I still call myself the king of infinite space—Shakespeare."

Kirihara Akira checked, and there is still Shakespeare in this world. If even Shakespeare is gone, who knows what kind of mess the mountain of English will become.

"I don't understand literature; it was all Juri who told me," Mori Hayato said. "They think they are not free because they don't realize that the world is relative."

If a happy person is unaware of the gifts they are born with, they will magnify their perceived limitations.

Kirihara Akatsuki shook her head and said, "Then who gets to define what constitutes a 'happy person'?"

"You're all too young," Mori Hayato said. "I really don't want to discuss this with a child. If you want to define this as a tragedy, then it is a tragedy. We all have our own tragedies."

"Unfortunately, I don't want my life to be a tragedy," Kirihara Akira said. "Especially, the tragedy of losing my freedom."

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