"Y-Yeah... that's how it is. W-What else could it be?"
"Mom, do you have to meddle in even this? Isn't that a bit too controlling?"
Chisato shook her head. "It's not that Mom is controlling you. It's that you've grown up now, and you don't tell Mom anything anymore. It makes me, as your mother, feel a little heartbroken."
As she spoke, she put on a frail, helpless act, leaving Hogen utterly speechless.
"Mom, has no one ever told you that you're completely unsuited to playing delicate and helpless?"
Chisato felt rather awkward too. She had talked all day, yet this brat still would not give her a straight answer, and she no longer had the patience to keep nagging him.
"Enough. Come clean. How far have things progressed between you and Chinami next door?!"
That single sentence instantly stunned Hogen.
After his brain spun at high speed for a moment, he said, "Huh? What are you talking about, Mom?"
Chisato waved a hand. "Quit playing dumb. Tell us the truth!"
Everyone from the Windcloud Clan who was still around came out to watch the show.
What made Hogen despair even more was that everyone already knew about it—and had known for a long time—so there was no way he could even make up a lie.
In the end, he could only let out a helpless sigh.
"Fine, fine, I admit it. Chinami and I... really are dating!"
"If you have anything to ask, ask me! Don't make things difficult for her!"
Chisato and Torikaze both smirked. "Oh, look at that. The kid even knows to protect his girlfriend. Looks like he's a decent guy."
"Of course. He's our son, after all. There's no way he could have inherited any inferior genes."
Listening to his parents go back and forth,