"You really have a lot of relatives, huh?"
"Ah ha... haha... yeah." Jiu Ming scratched his head, his face full of awkwardness and conflict. He couldn't refute it, either. How should he put it? Those monster girls were indeed all older than him, but sisters? That was a label dripping with malice!
But he couldn't say that out loud. If he did, even Yakumo Yukari would probably come looking for him afterward for some "training."
Honestly, Jiu Ming would rather face a battle-crazed girl like Kazami Yuuka, who relied on brute force and charged straight ahead, than someone like Yakumo Yukari, whose powers and methods were both bizarre. If he lost to the former, he could at least sum up his experience from the defeat. As for the latter, forget summing anything up—he probably wouldn't even understand how he had lost so inexplicably.
"That answer was awfully reluctant. Don't tell me they're sworn sisters or sworn little sisters?"
Goddammit, would it kill the maid to shut up!?
Jiu Ming's forced smile immediately froze on his face. He had nearly thrown the teacup in his hand at Zhu Hao, the maid who had torn down his platform. How did perfectly good words turn strange the moment they came out of her mouth!?
It definitely wasn't that there was something wrong with his own thoughts. It had to be her fault!!
"Well~ you shouldn't say things carelessly." Yakumo Yukari smiled lightly, her fingers gently tracing through the air. A gap appeared out of nowhere. "See? That's heredity, isn't it?"
"..." Heredity my ass! Whose side were you even on!?
The corners of Jiu Ming's mouth twitched soundlessly twice. At this point, he could only accept it. Say something else... leaving aside whether Long Xiao Qi and the others would believe him, wouldn't