Thinking back to the innocent young girl he had once manipulated so easily, then looking at the resentful, vicious woman before him now, Shiraishi Yoshijo's feelings were indescribably complicated.
Seeing how awful his expression was, Reika sneered. "A debt must be repaid. I served you for decades, only for you to betray those feelings. So I'm going to make you pay it back double!"
Was this what they called being forced back into business?
Shiraishi Yoshijo's face darkened to the extreme. "You used Uchiha Itachi to stab me, then slashed me again just now, and now you're talking about happiness? Do you really think that's possible?"
"Nothing is impossible. In any case, I won't let you off the hook. Aren't you best at persuading women? Now it's time for you to put on a performance."
The enormous Susanoo dissolved into motes of light. Reika flashed to Shiraishi Yoshijo's side and reached out to embrace him, only to grab empty air.
She froze for a moment, and her gaze instantly turned crazed. "You think I'm joking with you? I'll go to Peach Country right now and kill that bitch and your favorite son!"
You really were trying to turn the heavens upside down. If I didn't teach you a lesson, all my skills as a womanizer would've gone to waste!
At the critical moment, Shiraishi Yoshijo grabbed Reika and vanished.
Inside the resplendent palace, the shameless pair rolled from the bed to the floor, then from the floor into the flowerbeds outside. Only when the sun was high in the sky did the exhausted two return to the room in each other's arms to rest.
"You should know my situation. Thanks to you and Anna, not just Peach Country—even the entire world no longer has a place for me."
Reika, comfortably