"Mr. Katsura..." But before Katsura Kotaro could finish, the maid called Caiying smiled and said, "I'm not Caiying. I'm Kyoko. Thanks to you, Caiying took the day off today to attend her mother's wedding." Her voice was gentle, and she wore a smile on her face, but for some reason, Utaha Kasumigaoka and Sogo Doma both felt an icy chill in the young maid's tone...
"Eh!?" Kotaro Katsura was stunned as well. "Caiying's mother got married?"
"Thanks to Katsura?" As he spoke, Sogo Doma, ignoring the chill in the maid's words, caught the important part. "Katsura, I never thought you had a talent for playing Cupid."
"What's Cupid?" Kotaro Katsura looked utterly baffled.
"This distinguished guest is right..." Maid Kyoko nodded as he puzzled over it. "If not for Mr. Katsura's help, Caiying probably wouldn't have so easily accepted her new father..." Sogo Doma felt that there was something wrong with that statement.
"Haha..." Before he could say anything, Kotaro Katsura laughed. "So it was my doing? Actually, I didn't do much. Caiying's mother was already a gentle woman..."
"No, no, no..." Maid Kyoko shook her head. "Mr. Katsura has already done more than enough. After all, in Caiying's eyes, no matter who became her new father, he would be far better than Mr. Katsura..." Utaha Kasumigaoka: "..." So that was it. Sogo was right after all!
Sogo Doma: "..." He had still underestimated Katsura. He had thought the guy merely wanted to be some wife-stealing scoundrel, but who would have thought Katsura wanted to be more than an ordinary wife-stealing scoundrel—he was...
"Wait a minute!" While Utaha and Sogo were silently roasting him, Elisaki could no longer hold back. "Mr. Katsura never wanted to become Caiying's new father or anything..."
"True..." Maid Kyoko did not refute that. "After all,