"Mom, what are you talking about!" Shinomiya Kaguya's pretty face flushed as she couldn't help shouting, "I can support myself!"
Mrs. Kaguya tilted her head toward Amamiya Natsuki and asked with a smile:
"What do you think, Little Natsuki?"
Amamiya Natsuki said solemnly:
"If I had a strawberry, I'd give the whole thing to Kaguya and eat the stem end myself."
Shinomiya Kaguya glared at him in embarrassment. "President, you're exaggerating!"
A little while later.
The phone rang again.
Shinomiya Kaguya's delicate brows furrowed slightly. She answered the call, spoke quietly for a moment, then let out a soft breath.
"It was my second brother... He also called to ask me to come home for dinner."
A little later, the phone rang for the third time. Shinomiya Kaguya furrowed her brows and answered again.
Amamiya Natsuki turned to look at her and quipped, "I'm guessing that was your eldest brother?"
"Mm." Shinomiya Kaguya nodded lightly and sat back down on the sofa. "They... found out I'm a player."
"I see."
Amamiya Natsuki understood at once.
The Shinomiya family was a well-known financial conglomerate in Japan. When it came to supernatural beings, countries around the world all followed the same policy: keep the news under wraps to maintain stability and prevent ordinary people from finding out. But as wealthy tycoons, the Shinomiya family's three sons naturally had ways of learning about it.
The supernatural being at Ichiban Street in Kabuki, along with the Nightmare Supernatural at the hotel—both incidents had taken place in Tokyo. It was perfectly normal for those people to find out that Kaguya was a player.
Although several thousand players had registered by now, Japan had a population of over a hundred million, making players one in ten thousand. If someone in the family was a player—and a