"..."
After hearing Oreki out, Yukino Haruno studied him with a strange look in her eyes.
His suggestion was incredibly perverted. It was even absurdly over the top—he was an outsider, so how was he supposed to meddle in someone else's family affairs?
He was even trying to meddle in whether someone else had children or not.
But.
Because she realized Oreki had seen through every last one of her masks in an instant, Haruno did not dare dismiss his suggestion lightly.
She had spent twenty years living as "Yukino Haruno," the face of the Yukinoshita family. If she simply gave up on things like inheritance now, it would be a denial of everything she had ever possessed.
Of course she did not want that. But even more than that, she did not want the rest of her life to keep going on like this.
But what if she had a new little brother?
No matter which world it was, inheritance was basically handled by men.
So if she had a younger brother...
If it was a younger brother, then he might become a genuine heir.
And then.
As for Yukino wanting to inherit the Yukinoshita family just like her? Forget it. First of all, Yukino lacked the ability, and that absolutely was not Yukino's true wish. Yukino was merely awkwardly imitating her.
Besides.
Haruno still had one more thing to consider.
And that was that her parents' relationship was terrible.
Her father was very busy with his work as an assemblyman and often did not come home. Even when he did come home on important days, he slept in a separate room from her mother.
So for a time, she had wondered whether those two were going to get divorced.
But that doubtful state had continued for many years,