(Chastity Reversed) The Legitimate Wife War: How I, a Harem-Hater, Ended Up Creating an Ultra-Eccentric Harem with a Villainess, a Sadistic Beauty Teacher, a Scheming Classmate... etc.

“The Harem System… you hate it, don’t you?”

Ayaka’s words were fired point-blank.

This is why talking to Ayaka is trouble.

Because she guesses my true feelings—feelings I don’t want guessed—from just a little conversation.

“That face… looks like I’m not entirely wrong, huh?”

See, she’s reading my emotions again like this.

“…Why do you think that?”

“Hmm, various reasons~.”

Various reasons?

Am I that easy to read?

“It’s not particularly that Kyoya is easy to read, you know?”

Even if you follow up after reading my mind…

“I think normally one wouldn’t notice. I’m just watching Kyoya veeerwy closely, so I merely deduced it from there.”

Wow.

“Scary.”

Ah, my inner voice leaked out.

“Don’t say scary. As a school nurse, I’m just thinking about and wishing for Kyoya’s safety, okay? It’s not ‘good wife, wise mother,’ but maybe ‘good lover, wise mother’~?”

Since you’re a mistress, it’s “good lover, wise mother,” huh.

What is that pointlessly high-concept mistress role?

“Putting aside what I think for a moment. Why did you think I hated the fiancée system?”

At my response, Ayaka also smiled wryly.

“Well, you can’t exactly say you hate it to us fiancées, can you~? That’s fine… As for the reason, like I said earlier, it’s a combination of things. To begin with, you’ve said that you don’t dislike girls and see them as sexual objects, haven’t you?”

I certainly declared that during the Kuzuryu incident and such. To avoid falling under false suspicion.

Thinking about it now, it’s an embarrassing memory.

“Besides, Maid-chan also said the other day that Kyoya does have sexual desire—more than the average person, even.”

Oh no, embarrassing memories are being dug up one after another?

“I-I’m normal, you know?”

“But you can do it every day, right?”

“Well, yeah…”

“And you can take on three partners, right?”

“I’ve never done it, but…”

“You don’t say you can’t, do you… As a mistress, I’m curious~.”

Ayaka looked down at my lower half with eyes shining full of curiosity.

“Where exactly are you looking?”

“Well, obviously nothing other than Kyoya’s penis, right?”

“Too direct!!”

“This is adult composure, you know~?”

I definitely think that’s wrong.

“Jokes aside, if you consider what I said earlier, it’s a little strange.”

“Strange… what is?”

I think it’s perfectly normal, though.

“Kyoya has sexual desire, likes girls, and moreover, there are so many attractive women around you, and you have affection for them. You even get aroused. Despite that, Kyoya hasn’t made a move even when seduced. Isn’t it a little strange for a time when sexual desire is at its peak?”

“…I just thought that since I want to cherish each person, I want to take steps and weave a relationship.”

“I understand what Kyoya wants to say. But you vaguely sense that the partners are ready to accept it, don’t you? There’s no way they’d get hurt. In the first place, everyone has confessed. You know there’s affection; in other words, you’ve passed the steps of ‘weaving a relationship’ in the general sense, and I think you’re at the stage of building something together from now on.”

Ayaka’s words laid bare my thoughts just like a great detective.

In contrast, I had cold sweat on my forehead like the culprit’s state of mind.

“Having deduced this far, I thought there must be some other reason why you don’t make a move. I know at least it’s not a matter of male function. I was wondering why, but while listening to your usual behavior and conversations, I remembered something you talked about before.”

“…Did I say something?”

I don’t recall saying anything strange.

“You talked about it before, right? That Kyoya respects his grandfather. Something like, ‘Women are to be protected.’ Indeed, just as the words say, up until now, Kyoya’s actions have often involved standing in front of women and putting your body on the line—with Sayaka-chan, with Rio, and with Mizuri-chan, all of them.”

I get scolded terribly every time after doing that, though.

Well, this isn’t just Grandpa’s influence but also action from my previous life, so it’s already on the level of instinct. It can’t be helped.

“It’s not just this, but watching Kyoya’s actions makes me think. It might be your grandfather’s influence, but Kyoya’s way of thinking isn’t very ‘modern person-like,’ in a good way. It’s truly like the way of thinking of Japanese people from the past. Like Bushido?”

Grandpa’s influence isn’t nonexistent.