Kaguya-sama Wants Me to Surrender

Amamiya Natsuki opened the door and entered the room with Miko.

"Let's begin."

Amamiya Natsuki dropped his school bag and lay flat on the floor.

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Miko's mother worked outside to support the family and often had to work overtime, returning home very late. Cleaning, housework, preparing meals, and taking care of her elementary school-aged younger brother were all Miko's responsibilities.

The sky was already getting dark, and Miko still had many things to do. She couldn't waste too much of her time.

"Um..."

Yotsuya Miko turned her head and looked at Mrs. Kaguya beside her.

Standing on a boy's body to generate electricity was super embarrassing even for her brother to see, let alone a classmate's mother.

"Miss Shimizu, please go outside," Amamiya Natsuki said to the Guardian Spirit's wife. "Miko and I need to do something… unspeakable."

On the way home, after some conversation, Amamiya Natsuki learned Mrs. Kaguya's real name.

Shimizu Nayotake.

The other party didn't even want to be called Mrs. Shinomiya.

Amamiya Natsuki didn't ask for the reason, assuming it was the usual infighting within a prominent family.

"Don't say weird things," Yotsuya Miko's pretty face blushed, and she couldn't help but glare at him. "People will misunderstand!"

It was just stepping on his back, not some unspeakable secret. In those massage parlors, it was a legitimate service!

"I understand," Mrs. Kaguya blinked, a knowing expression on her pretty face, and walked towards the door. "Don't worry, Natsuki-kun, I'll help keep your secret and won't tell Little Kaguya."

What if she told the Ice Sculpture Girl?

She wasn't cheating or having an affair. She was just letting her childhood sweetheart use her feet to generate electricity. It wasn't shameful at all.

"It's not what you think," Yotsuya Miko's pretty face flushed again, and she quickly explained, "I'm just helping to step on his back."

"I see," Mrs. Kaguya said as if she suddenly understood, and phased through the door. "You two have fun. I'll guard the door and won't let anyone step in."

Besides Miko, there wasn't a third person in the house!

"..."

The room fell silent.

Miko sighed, feeling exhausted. She lifted her right foot and gently stepped on Amamiya Natsuki's back.

Perhaps it was because Miko was wearing black over-the-knee socks today, but Amamiya Natsuki felt the touch on his back was even more delicate and smooth.

A moment later.

"That's enough for today, I'm going home," Miko said, her nose slightly sweaty. It was quite tiring to step on his back while maintaining balance. "See you tomorrow."

Amamiya Natsuki sat up, clenching his right fist. "Excellent, I've become stronger again."

Yotsuya Miko covered her skirt with her right hand, looking down at him with disdain and saying, "Getting stronger just from being stepped on feels kind of awful."

"There are no bad skills, only bad people," Amamiya Natsuki said with a righteous expression. "I only exchanged for this skill because it was you, Miko."

Yotsuya Miko turned her face away. "...Goodbye."

Mrs. Kaguya had been in a daze before, but today she felt reborn. She was extremely curious about the world decades later and had an insatiable thirst for knowledge.

Amamiya Natsuki still needed to rest, so he ended up giving her a spare mobile phone, letting Mrs. Kaguya surf the internet herself.

The night passed without incident.

The next morning, after waking up, Amamiya Natsuki walked out of his room and was shocked to find that Mrs. Kaguya had become completely blurry.

Chapter 64: What Did You Do to My Mom?

"Good morning, Natsuki-kun,"

Mrs. Kaguya, with her black hair reaching her waist, sat on the sofa engrossed in her phone. Seeing Amamiya Natsuki come downstairs, she looked up and greeted him.

"I remember when I died, phones were still Nokias. Besides making calls and sending messages, they couldn't do anything. Now you can even video call... Science and technology are indeed the primary productive forces!"

You're a spiritual existence, a ghost, don't convert to the cult of science!

"Stop playing with your phone," Amamiya Natsuki raised an eyebrow and asked, "Are you feeling unwell?"

"Huh?" Mrs. Kaguya tilted her head, her voice muffled. "What's wrong?"

Your body is already indistinct and blurry, and you're asking what's wrong!

After one night.

Mrs. Kaguya's condition was clearly not right.

If yesterday was high-definition mode, today it had clearly downgraded to 720p quality.

"Strange, how could this happen?"

Mrs. Kaguya looked down at her body and her eyes widened.

Amamiya Natsuki said speechlessly:

"Don't you know what's happening to you?"

"Even if Natsuki-kun says so, this is my first time being a Guardian Spirit, I have no experience at all." Mrs. Kaguya said pitifully, hugging her chest with both hands, "Am I sick?"

You're just a Guardian Spirit, you don't even have a body, how can you get sick!

Amamiya Natsuki said in a deep voice:

"What did you do last night?"

"Let me think..." Mrs. Kaguya put a finger to her lips, "After Natsuki-kun fell asleep, I was playing on my phone in the living room the whole time. My phone ran out of battery in the middle, so I played while charging it... and then it was morning."

So you stayed up all night playing on your phone! You're already trying to cultivate immortality by staying up late, be careful of sudden death!

Forgot.

Already a ghost.

As a ghost, staying up all night to cultivate immortality seems to be completely fine.

"I feel a bit weak." Mrs. Kaguya said hesitantly, "I might be... hungry?"

The essence of a Guardian Spirit is still a ghost, not a human.

Yesterday night, I tried it. Mrs. Kaguya could drink beverages and eat food, but she couldn't taste anything, nor did she feel any sense of fullness.

As for where the consumed food went, only heaven knows.

Amamiya Natsuki pondered for a moment and said in a deep voice:

"You said yesterday that you need to consume some kind of power to interact with physical objects?"

As a ghost, in their normal form, they cannot interact with matter. Otherwise, the whole world would have been in chaos long ago.

Mrs. Kaguya blinked: "...That seems right."

Case closed.

There is only one truth.

You've been consuming unknown power to play on your phone, and you've completely drained yourself!

As a ghost, you can actually drain yourself by staying up all night to cultivate immortality, you're too weak!

"Natsuki-kun, what do we do now?" Mrs. Kaguya asked pitifully.

"I don't know either." Amamiya Natsuki shook his head, "Let's go to school first."

After a simple breakfast of bread and a glass of milk, Amamiya Natsuki grabbed his school bag and left for school alone.

Unlike usual, today he had a Guardian Spirit wife by his side.

"I really want to stay home and keep playing on my phone..."

Mrs. Kaguya said regretfully.

Still thinking about playing on her phone, if she overdoes it, she might just vanish into thin air!

As they walked out the door, they saw Yotsuya Miko coming out from next door.

"Miko, good morning."

Amamiya Natsuki raised his hand in greeting.

"Morning." Miko nodded slightly, her gaze fell on Mrs. Kaguya, and she said softly, "Miss Shimizu, good morning."

Mrs. Kaguya smiled and nodded, her posture elegant: "Little Miko, good morning."

"Um..." Yotsuya Miko pursed her lips and hesitated, "Why is Miss Shimizu different from yesterday?"

Mrs. Kaguya covered her face with both hands: "Because Natsuki-kun tossed me around in all sorts of ways last night..."

Don't talk nonsense! If the Ice Sculpture Young Lady hears this, she'll definitely kill someone!

This was the first time he had a "tag-along" like a Guardian Spirit, so Amamiya Natsuki naturally wanted to test her abilities properly. He couldn't just treat her like a mother-in-law and provide for her, right?

Yotsuya Miko's expression remained unchanged, and she turned to look at Amamiya Natsuki: "What happened?"

Amamiya Natsuki sighed, explained the situation, and then said earnestly:

"...The lesson is right in front of you, Miko. Don't stay up late playing on your phone anymore."

Yotsuya Miko gave him an exasperated look: "You have the nerve to say that to me, when you're no different."

Chatting as they walked, the two quickly arrived at school.

Ever since Yotsuya Miko learned that Amamiya Natsuki had the ability to expel evil spirits, she had decided to go to school together from now on.

Being misunderstood was nothing compared to the exhaustion and despair of being alone.

They were childhood sweethearts anyway, so it didn't matter if they were misunderstood.

Amamiya Natsuki and Miko said goodbye at the shoe lockers, changed into their indoor shoes, and entered their respective classrooms.

It was still early for class, so the classroom was empty, with only a few people.

The black-haired, red-eyed Ice Sculpture Young Lady sat in a corner, quietly looking out at the sports field. The sunlight fell on the girl's flawless profile, her astonishing beauty without a single blemish. Boys had already walked past the corridor multiple times.

Her beauty was matched only by her cold, unapproachable aura, causing everyone to keep their distance, too afraid to get close.

That is, until Amamiya Natsuki appeared.

"Little Kaguya, Mommy's here!"

Mrs. Kaguya's eyes lit up, and she called out happily.

Shinomiya Kaguya pursed her pink lips slightly, remaining silent.

"That's so mean," Mrs. Kaguya said, covering her cheeks. "Not saying a word... Little Kaguya doesn't want to see her mommy, does she?"

"..."

Shinomiya Kaguya bit her lower lip, her head aching.

The others in the classroom can't see you, so how can I talk to you?!

She remembered her mother being quiet and reserved as a child. Why was she like this now?

Turning to look at Mrs. Kaguya, Shinomiya Kaguya's pretty face tensed as she noticed Mrs. Kaguya's strangeness.

"...What happened?"

Shinomiya Kaguya asked in a low voice.

Amamiya Natsuki sighed. "This is a long story."

Before he could finish speaking, Amamiya Natsuki felt a movement in his finger. He turned his head and saw Fujiwara Chika walking in with a bright smile from outside the door.

"Natsuki-classmate, good morning... Huh? Huh?!"

Fujiwara Chika's eyes widened in disbelief. "Is that Kaguya-chan's mother?"

Mrs. Kaguya, who had been covering her face and pretending to be wronged just moments before, now struck a peace sign with her fingers.

"That's right, it's me."