"I'm back." Yawning, Jiu Ming returned to the residence and spoke listlessly. Yet not a single person in the house paid him any attention... Damn it, they had been together for quite a while now, so why had his standing never risen at all?
"I'll make some tea." Mai Kashiwagi said flatly, turning toward the kitchen.
"Don't disturb me while I'm playing." Kaguya waved Jiu Ming off with some annoyance, her eyes fixed tightly on the screen before her. "Oh, right. She came out again."
The "she" Kaguya referred to was Yin, yet not Yin. Jiu Ming looked at the silver-haired girl sitting quietly in the living room. When he had first taken her around everywhere with him, people from certain organizations had occasionally come to harass him. But after that, such incidents became increasingly rare.
Jiu Ming's strength had thoroughly proven something to them: relying on Contractors alone to do anything to him was simply impossible. Unless they deployed the military... No, even deploying the military would bring them no benefit. Should they just use weapons of mass destruction instead?
Perhaps some people had indeed entertained such insane thoughts. In fact, Jiu Ming had encountered such a situation before... Well, not nuclear missiles—the kind of thing where one wrong move would cause an enormous mess—but ordinary missiles.
They formed an enormous blanket of coverage, leaving Jiu Ming somewhat stunned when he saw it. Just who had persuaded those countries to dispatch such a large military force to make trouble for him? Keeping a low profile in mind, Jiu Ming had silently taken everyone away back then. If he had gone and wiped out that massive army—
He was certain that the moment he did, all sorts of ridiculous rumors would spring up. The news would surely be lively beyond