[Everything moved forward in an orderly fashion under your meticulous plan.]
[With the genius lawyer Hiromi Higuruma personally overseeing the secular legal proceedings, you felt more reassured than ever.]
[Over your few brief encounters, you could clearly sense the stubbornness in his bones, and see how his eyes still shone with absolute faith in legal justice, even amid society's murky mire.]
[Leaving those scumbags for him to "deal with" was absolutely the right choice.]
[On the domestic front, the newly rented apartment gradually came to life as well.]
[Nanako, Mimiko, and Tsumiki got along unexpectedly well. After all, they were children of similar ages who had all endured difficult childhoods, and Tsumiki's gentle, ordinary "big sister" aura, which seemed capable of embracing everything, was slowly melting the ice in the twins' hearts.]
[For Megumi Fushiguro, however, things were not quite so wonderful.]
[Faced with two more "older sisters" who had suddenly appeared in the apartment, both a year older than him and filling each day with all sorts of girlish chatter, the quiet-loving Megumi Fushiguro struggled immensely to adjust.]
[Through his perpetually frosty little face, the corners of his mouth that always turned slightly downward, and the arms he unconsciously folded across his chest, you could almost read the unspoken words in his microexpressions: Seriously, what a pain.]
[You did not sit idle during this peaceful transitional period, either.]
[One night, when all was quiet, you used your own cursed technique, "Phantom Parade," to silently analyze the faint cursed energy residue extracted from Nanako and Mimiko, successfully discerning their not-yet-fully-awakened innate cursed techniques: "Image-Projection Cursed Technique" and "Strangulation Cursed Technique."]
[As you examined the cursed technique information that surfaced in your mind, your gaze grew a little deeper.]
[Nanako's "Image-Projection Cursed Technique" was a modern cursed technique strongly characterized by