I'm having fun in Tokyo

So, escaping is shameful but useful, yet ultimately useless.

She didn't want that day to come.

Emi is complacent with her current situation, escaping reality and fantasizing about her romantic comedy. If that day really comes, she will only collapse under the cruel and terrible reality; there will be no other possibility.

"Emi, I am your kendo teacher and your friend."

"Although reality is harsh, I still hope you can face it squarely, because you will have to face it sooner or later. Do you understand this straightforward statement?"

“Of course, it’s not impossible to keep running away.” Ms. Maki paused for a moment, then changed her tone: “If you just want to have a high school romance with Morikawa and break up after graduation, then it really doesn’t matter.”

Huijian moved her head slightly, which was lowered.

"Do you want to say something like, 'This is what I really think. I'll break up as soon as high school is over. I don't want to continue at all. Teacher, please don't interfere with me anymore'?"

Ms. Maki's voice rang out, accompanied by a cold laugh.

Hui Jian immediately stopped what she was doing.

"Don't be silly, Emi."

“You’re not a child anymore. You should understand that saying ‘I only care about having had it and have nothing to ask for afterward’ is just self-deception.”

“If we really let you go and let you continue dating Morikawa, you will only get more and more involved, and you will regret it more and more as graduation approaches.”

"Maybe on the day of the breakup, you'll cry your eyes out and not want to let go, then beg Miss Feiyue for more time, or even do something foolish."

"If that's the case, how is it any different from you running away from Miss Feiyue now?"

"Don't talk like you've experienced it all firsthand..." Emi finally spoke, glaring at Maki-sensei: "Teacher, you've never been in a relationship either, so what right do you have to lecture me? I..."

As Huijian spoke, her voice suddenly weakened.

Ms. Maki kept looking at her with a complicated expression.

The emotions involved are definitely not something that can be faked; it must be something that someone has truly experienced firsthand. Now, the person who experienced these things is advising her not to repeat the same mistake.

"Teacher...have you experienced this?"

Emi considered this possibility.

She stared blankly at Ms. Maki and fell silent.

Morikawa Yu, who was hugging a pillow in the corner and had been listening to the two's conversation, opened her eyes wide.

Teacher, have you ever been in a relationship before? Have you had an ex-boyfriend?

In an instant, countless possibilities flashed through his mind, and his feelings became complicated, even a little bittersweet.

It can not be.

He couldn't help but speak up: "Maki-sensei..."

Ms. Maki glared at him.

Her gaze held a hint of reproach, as if she were angry because she had been misunderstood, or as if she were blaming him for not believing her, and there was also a sense of dissatisfaction, as if she were giving a flirtatious look to a blind man.

Morikawa Yu was a little confused, then suddenly realized a possibility.

"Teacher, you're not talking about me, are you?"

He immediately used his powers to enter the path of history, searching for information about Maki-sensei's past, and then suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

The teacher was really talking about him.

While feeling embarrassed, he breathed a sigh of relief.

I really can't accept that a teacher has had an ex-boyfriend.

Ms. Maki rolled her eyes at Morikawa Yu.

She looked at Emi again: "Of course I've been through it."

"Emi, you're worried about Morikawa, but don't you think I'm worried too?"

"You yearn for a simple and beautiful romance, but I don't?"

"I am the eldest daughter of the Hojo family. My grandfather, father, and elders in the family have taught me manners, self-respect, and self-love since I was a child, wanting me to be an obedient young lady."

"Then when I grow up, they will arrange a marriage for me with some ugly and wicked man from some unknown family to maintain the family's power."

"Honestly, this is incredibly stupid."

"But I really can't say anything, after all, I am the daughter of the Hojo family, I grew up in the Hojo family and enjoy the power and status of the Hojo family."

"This is the price I have to pay."

Ms. Maki spoke frankly, but her expression was not very pleasant.

She has a very open-minded view of her family background and has always been willing to sacrifice and dedicate herself to it.

But before she passed away, her mother had one last wish: that she could be happy.

So her father, who loved his mother deeply, asked an aunt who was a board member at Sakuragawa Academy to help her leave the family and get her a job as a kendo teacher at the academy.

Even so, she maintained contact with her family.

Her sword was the family's antique sword, Tsurumaru Kuninaga.

Her swordsmanship was learned from a master of the Jigen-ryu school, her grandfather, who had served as the Commissioner of the National Police Agency.

When she has any troubles, all sorts of elders will help her.

She can request information from the Metropolitan Police Department at any time if she wants to investigate something.

The Hojo family has a history spanning a thousand years. In addition to their connections within the government, they also possess a vast family business, of which she also has a share.

It could be said that she understood everything and knew everything.

The eldest daughter of the Hojo family is definitely not some pretty face with big breasts but no brains.

She sighed and looked at Emi again: "Emi, you must be wondering why I had those feelings, right?"

"I had this feeling when I first learned that Morikawa and Ms. Hisukatsuki had registered their marriage."

“But I wasn’t that upset at the time. I even had a feeling of ‘Oh, he’s just a stupid student, and a guy who’s after the teacher. He’s a scumbag, a womanizer, and not worth my attention at all.’”

"But I regretted it later."

"Because when I think about how the place that should have been mine was taken by Miss Hime, and how Morikawa was being held in her arms and kissed, and did whatever he wanted, while I couldn't stop him, I feel resentful and angry."

Hey, that's really weird.

Why do I sound like a pampered young lady, while you guys are the samurai trying to win the heart of a beauty?

Morikawa Yu's expression was subtle, but Maki-sensei completely ignored him.

"Morikawa is my student. I arrived first, so why should I give way? I even gave him my sword, so why should I hand it over!"

Ms. Maki's eyes turned cold.

But she immediately sighed.

"But I really have no way to deal with Miss Himezuki."

Is it because you're afraid I'll be unhappy?

Morikawa Yu looked at Maki-sensei, and a thought struck her.

However, he soon realized he was overthinking it.

Ms. Maki's gaze was not at all like "Morikawa cares about her, I have to give Morikawa face," but rather like "Damn it, if I could beat her, how could I let her be so arrogant?"

Yes, that's the real reason.

What I was thinking just now was completely misled by the harem anime I watched in my previous life. How could it possibly exist?

He sighed, his feelings complicated.

Chapter 355 Men are all big pig hooves

Ms. Maki ignored him and continued, "I've heard from Lord Ryoko about Miss Hishitsuki's identity. She is a great yokai among great yokai, a yokai of the Age of Gods."

“Although our Hojo family has a long history, we are simply no match for it.”

She sighed as she thought about this.

The yokai of the Age of Gods, the most powerful and ancient of all yokai.

In comparison...

What? You're saying you're a family with a thousand-year history? I'm almost two thousand years old myself, and you're telling me this?

That's probably the kind of feeling that evokes mixed emotions.

"I couldn't win the fight, and I didn't want to give up. Back then, I was just like you, Emi, thinking that I should pretend I didn't know about Ms. Hisui, date Morikawa for a while, and then break up with her."

"But after thinking about it for a long time, I realized that it wouldn't work."

"The reason is simple: I'm not willing to give up on a relationship even though I've experienced love before. If we were really dating, would I possibly give up?"

"So I decided to face reality..."

"Maki-sensei!" Emi interrupted Maki-sensei, her eyes wary, looking extremely shaken, as if she was afraid that Maki-sensei might actually convince her.

"I only have one question."

"Maki-sensei, can you really accept that the club president is... greedy?"

Ms. Maki frowned.

Instead of giving a direct answer, she raised an eyebrow and asked, "Why not, Huijian?"

"Aren't these kinds of things common enough?"

"You don't really believe that any man can remain faithful, loyal, and unmoved by temptation, do you?"

She smiled, but there was a hint of sarcasm in her smile.

As the eldest daughter of an upper-class family, what hasn't she heard of?

There are plenty of guys who appear to have only one wife on the surface, but secretly have dozens of lovers.

Even her father, who loved her mother deeply, had an ambiguous relationship with her senior, Aunt Kyoko, after her mother's death.

Although Morikawa is greedy, he's not that outrageous. He only has Miss Hisukatsu, the head priestess of Mitsuko Shrine in Kyoto, and at most, a shrine maiden from the Fujiwara family.

Although there seems to be a little maid, that mascot-like little thing is no threat at all.

She was already very satisfied.

“Maki-sensei…” Emi bit her lip, hesitating to speak.

"Yes." Ms. Maki nodded.

"Say whatever you want."

But Emi didn't know what to say.

She wanted to deny Maki-sensei's claims, but couldn't find a reason to refute them.

Ms. Maki is right.

She had heard too many similar stories, but she didn't want to accept reality, she was unwilling to let such a thing happen to her, and she didn't want to share the minister's fate with others.

Ms. Maki shook her head: "So, Emi."

"What's unacceptable about it?"

Men are all big pigs, naive, foolish, and greedy.

If you absolutely have to choose, why not choose the one you like? At least you'll feel better about it, right?

She looked at Morikawa Yu and smiled.

Emi gritted her teeth again: "Then... Maki-sensei, you said I can't face reality and will cry my eyes out... Have you ever cried, sir?"

Upon hearing this, Ms. Maki hesitated for a moment.

She nodded, blushing slightly.

Yes, she did cry when she made up her mind to give up, but she didn't let anyone know.

It was precisely because she had cried herself that she didn't want Emi to cry again.

Morikawa Yuya looked at Maki-sensei.