part.77 The Girl Forced to Read Minds and Youzi, Who Forces Others to Read Minds~

She knelt somewhat stiffly before Su Youzi.

The well-proportioned girl anxiously tugged at the shrine maiden uniform she was wearing.

Soga Meinaihui lowered her eyes, looking at Elder Sister Yuzu's beautiful hands before her, then... dodged Young Lady Toyura's gaze.

Soga Toyura's cheeks were puffed up as she eyed the girl before her suspiciously.

Although it was because of Youzi that she had taken the initiative to learn about the Mito clan's information.

She had also learned that the other girl was actually the orthodox shrine maiden of the Soga clan.

If her own main branch was the wielder of the Soga clan's "political power," then the other girl... should be the one who held the Soga clan's "divine authority."

Although... that kind of "superstitious" thinking had been in decline for a very long time.

Ever since the other girl's mother's generation.

The Mito clan--

had not come to the main family to collect the Divine Child allowance for a very long time.

That's right.

The reason Soga Meinaihui had pitifully and aggrievedly told Su Youzi that the main family had stopped issuing the allowance long ago.

Was not because the main family had abandoned the Soga clan's shrine maidens.

It was because... they really had never come to collect it.

It was a very generous allowance, enough to let Huihui, who had been forced to wear a revealing shrine maiden outfit and work as the Mascot Girl, finish school without worry.

But--

no one had ever come to claim it.

However, Miss Iori, who was responsible for distributing the allowance, obviously would not bring up such a matter on her own.

And Soga Meinaihui, who believed she was not yet qualified to become the Divine Child, probably would not go to collect it before becoming the true Divine Child.