Shota is surrounded by monsters!

You seem to be very busy lately.

Shinobu poked Shota's waist with her toe and asked, "What on earth are you busy with?"

"Mom, you know best what I did."

After muttering something, Shota added, "Studying, huh? The entrance exam is coming up soon, and if you don't get into university, you'll have to repeat a year."

"The human world is really boring; we even have to study..."

"That's not how it works. Although studying may seem boring, you only realize how fun it is when you're actually doing other things. Graduation is just around the corner... Even though we're not particularly close friends, I'm already a little reluctant to leave."

Shota said with a sigh, "Whether you're a monster or a human, the most important thing in life is maintaining relationships with others. Even if you live in seclusion in the wild, you're still just maintaining your relationship with this natural world."

"I think I understand something now."

Shinobu said as if she had just realized something, "So, the reason I felt so bored and wanted to die back then was because I didn't have any 'connections'?"

"Maybe."

Shota smiled and said, "Mom, if you have time, you can experience human life more often."

"Um……"

Shinobu suddenly hooked her foot around Shota's waist and pulled him towards her...

"Don't move around."

Shinobu reached out and hugged Shota, looking at the bewildered Shota, and said, "You are my only 'relationship'."

"..."

Shota closed his eyes and leaned against Shinobu's chest, a happy smile on his face.

Indeed, this kind of family affection is the most comforting.

"By then, after you graduate, I'll consider whether I should go back to school too."

"Huh?"

"Since we've finally decided to live, we have to live it to the fullest, right?"

"Too."

Shota asked in a low voice, "But Mom, where are you planning to start reading?"

"Elementary school, right?"

Shinobu felt that it was okay to experience everything from the beginning.

"Pfft, elementary school."

Shota couldn't help but laugh. In his mind, he could already picture his mother speaking in an old-fashioned dialect, becoming the king of the elementary school brats—or, in short, the Little Second King.

"However, it's still a bit inconvenient." Shota thought for a moment and then asked, "Mom, you can't be too far away from me, can you?"

"Simple, you can just become a teacher at a school."

"Huh? But my dream is to start a food company."

"What impact will it have on you if that ideal is delayed by more than ten years?"

"Although it doesn't really have any impact, it still feels a bit strange, after all, my mother is one of my students..."

"Why don't you just say you're my father?"

"This is a bit hard to accept..."

Shota shook his head at Shinobu's absurd suggestion.

"What's there to be afraid of?"

Shinobu stroked Shota's cheek and said, "I don't care, but you do. However, I am a demon mother, so you'll have to be a good demon father."

"what……"

Chapter 176. Happiness - Sanka Rei

"We're liberated!"

After leaving the exam hall, Shota stretched comfortably. Even a monster like him struggled a bit with a monstrous entrance exam. But at least he'd successfully finished the exam and could now happily plan his graduation trip and such.

"Shouta-kun, here~"

Rea and Mashiro, who had left the exam hall before Shota, were already waiting for him in the Sanka family's car. When Shota saw Rea waving to him, he waved back and walked over.

"Ah, the exams are finally over."

After getting into the car, Shota looked at Rea, who had a smile on her face, and Mashiro, who seemed like she hadn't taken the exam at all, and asked, "How are you two doing?"

"So-so."

What defines a top student? Rea is a top student. With her superhuman memory and sleep-free mental abilities, Rea's grades are almost at the pinnacle of human achievement. Moreover, even her answers exude the air of a top student.

"Rei's statement that it's just so-so must mean he's confident of victory."

Shota smiled and replied to Rea, then turned to Mashiro, who was staring blankly at the car's television, and asked, "How is it?"

"So-so."

Mimicking Rea's tone, Mashiro replied calmly.

"Tsk."

How could Mashiro possibly be careless? At her normal level, getting into a bottom-tier school would be considered an extraordinary achievement. Shota pressed Mashiro, "Did you cheat?"

"Ah."

Mashiro nodded frankly, not considering cheating as anything shameful, but rather speaking as if seeking Shota's praise:

"I poured my little clone into several people's water bottles!"

"Huh? That's a really convenient method."

Since Mashiro dared to do this, it means that the people she found must have been carefully selected. I just hope that Mashiro doesn't copy all the wrong parts of their answers.

"But they drank the water very quickly."

At this point, Mashiro sighed.

"Isn't it?"

Shota said with some surprise, "So your carelessness means you didn't even do the last question?"

"whee……"

Rei couldn't help but laugh out loud, saying, "Shota-kun, you've worried for nothing again. Don't forget we have other helpers."

"With me in charge, how could we possibly fail?"

Huang Quan appeared beside Rei Mi and said, "Being a ghost is really convenient. I can freely look at other people's papers in the examination room without anyone bothering me."

"I knew it."

Shota chuckled and then said, "I completed the test paper on my own merits."

"I hope I won't fail the exam."

"Hey, Huang Quan, are you looking down on me with those words?!"

"Alright, alright, everyone, stop talking."

Rei clapped his hands and said, "Father has prepared a banquet. Everyone should have a good time tonight."

"If you invite Shota, even Rea's family will be eaten out of house and home."

Upon arriving at the Sanka residence, everyone was led to the dining room—in reality, only Mashiro was being led there. Shota and Rea, on the other hand, were invited to stand before Sanka Danichiro.

"You're back."

Sitting on the sofa, Sanka Danichiro looked at Rea as she walked in with a doting smile on his face and asked, "How did the exam go?"

"I will definitely live up to my father's expectations."

After saying something to her father, Rea tugged at Shota's sleeve, signaling him to answer his father's question as well.

"Hmm, it's alright."

Shota answered somewhat absentmindedly. To be honest, he wasn't too surprised to regard the person in front of him as an elder. The only thing they could talk about was some gentlemanly matters?

"sit down."

After Ichiro Sankadan had Shota and Rea sit down together, he touched his cane and said, "You two are adults now."

By the time you graduate from high school, you're almost an adult.

"Although I don't fully agree with you yet."

Sanka Danichiro tapped his cane and looked at Shota, saying, "But shouldn't you also promise my daughter something?"

"Father……"

Rei lowered her head slightly, signaling her father to stop talking. After all, some things...

"Let me speak first, Rea."

Sanka Danichiro gestured for his daughter to keep quiet for the moment, and said to the somewhat bewildered Shota, "My daughter can spend half the week at your house overnight."

"Huh? Huh?"

Shota still didn't understand what Sanka Dan Ichiro meant. Had he done something to offend him recently? No, it seemed like he had been doing things to offend him all along...

But what's with this interrogation-like manner?

"After the results came out..."

Sanka Danichiro looked at Shota with displeasure and said, "Let's get engaged."

"Engaged?! Engaged?!"

Shota looked at Danichiro Sanka in surprise, then glanced at Rea, who was practically burying her head in his chest, pointed at himself, and asked Danichiro Sanka, "Me? Married?"

"Otherwise what!"

Sanka Danichiro was furious. He absolutely hated the man in front of him who was living with his daughter and might have even done something unforgivable. However, he had now learned to put his daughter's expectations first. If his daughter was happy...

There was nothing I could do to stop it.

She has grown up and developed independent thoughts; the Sanhua family can no longer restrain her.