The whole afternoon there were no classes, and the four classes in the morning had also been reduced to only two.
"Going to school at this time is a bit too early."
Hikari thought for a while, then decided to stop by another place on the way, to deal with a certain urban legend that had not been very obedient before.
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Ten minutes later, Hikari arrived in front of the main entrance of the Richter Hotel.
Under the surprised gazes of the reception ladies at the front desk, Hikari followed the attentive hotel manager into the elevator.
"Good morning, Miss Manager," Hikari casually greeted.
"Ah, Mr. Hikari, good morning to you too," The refined, elegant, mature-looking female manager, a little flattered, quickly responded, then, seeing Hikari's gaze still fixed on her, she immediately explained, "According to your previous instructions, we have never gone up to the top floor of the hotel, whether it's for cleaning or meal delivery, I've already informed them all."
Hearing the female manager's explanation, Hikari nodded without saying much.
But the female manager suddenly showed a troubled expression and said, "Um, sir, I really shouldn't speak out of turn. But… I must tell you something."
"It's just that the guests on the floors just below the top floor all reported to us yesterday that from time to time there are some 'thump! thump! thump!' noises coming from the top floor."
"Of course, I always remember your instructions and never let anyone go up."
"It's just… could you maybe handle it a little? After all, those guests below the top floor have complained several times already…"
Seeing the female manager's slightly troubled yet cautious manner, Hikari nodded, "Alright, I'll take care of it."
"That's really wonderful, thank you so much!", The female manager was overjoyed and kept bowing.
In her mind, maybe Hikari was keeping some kind of pet on the top floor, or perhaps imprisoning someone.
Anyway, these rich young masters, with no financial concerns, could do any kind of bizarre thing without it being surprising.
Since he had a very close relationship with Miss Louisa, the female manager didn't dare to say much, but those complaining guests were not easy to deal with either.
So she could only humble herself to request Hikari's help, hoping he would lend a hand.
But what the female manager didn't expect was that Hikari really had imprisoned something on the top floor, but it was neither an animal nor a person, rather an urban legend.
———
With the female manager accompanying him, Hikari took the elevator to the top floor of the Richter Hotel.
Sure enough, just as the female manager had said in the elevator a moment ago.
As soon as he stepped out of the elevator, Hikari heard a strange thumping sound.
It was as if some heavy object was colliding, somewhat muffled.
One had to know, a large hotel like the Richter had quite good soundproofing.
Yet even so, the sound still came through, definitely enough to be annoying.
'As expected of an urban legend, this Miss Mary really can make trouble…', Hikari slightly shook his head.
Then he turned to the mature-looking female manager and said, "Miss Manager, I'll open the door myself, you go ahead with your work."
"Ah! Yes, yes!", The female manager quickly nodded.
Without waiting for her to say more, Hikari quickly walked toward the room.
"Um, sir, do you want us to send up some food later…", The female manager still wanted to ask something, but the door was already closed, so she could only return to the elevator.
On the other side, after walking quickly into the room, Hikari first inspected the barrier he had set up using the Vajra Demon-Subduing Force.
Basically there were no problems at all, no signs it had been triggered, and no loosening anywhere.
Just as the female manager had said, it seemed no one had come by.
And the Miss Mary he had sealed away hadn't escaped either.
Hikari put down his schoolbag, picked up the breakfast he had bought on the way, and walked into the largest master bedroom of the luxurious, spacious presidential suite.
As soon as he entered, he saw on the bed a cute shorty dressed in an exquisite gothic outfit, her skin beneath the skirt as white as snow.
At this moment, this delicate-featured, petite, snow-skinned shorty was bound hand and foot by several strips of cloth, lying on the bed in a spread-eagle "大" shape.
This unbelievably delicate and cute shorty was precisely the famous urban legend, Doll Mary.
Who knew when she had woken up, after being tormented by him for a long time the night before last and yesterday morning, until she fainted.
In any case, Miss Mary was now indeed awake, and upon Hikari's appearance, she fixed her large, beautiful eyes on him with an unyielding stare.
"HI! KA! RI!"
Seeing Hikari, Miss Mary ground her teeth.
Hikari remained calm, first putting the soy milk, buns, and fried dough sticks he had bought on the table, wiping his hands, then unhurriedly sitting by the bed, greeting this urban legend in a calm tone, "Good morning, Miss Mary."
Doll Mary's cute face instantly twisted, and she said through gritted teeth, "Good morning, my foot! You damned human, where did you disappear to for the entire day yesterday?"
Yesterday morning, after Hikari knocked her out, Miss Mary slept until afternoon before waking, and upon waking still felt soreness and numbness all over.
Especially her lower body, almost without sensation.
As an urban legend, she had never been so helpless before.
At that time, she wanted to curse Hikari out, but to her frustration, several hours passed after she woke and Hikari never appeared.
From dawn until dusk, and then into the night, Hikari never came.
Since he had left after punishing her yesterday morning, naturally the room lights were never turned on. When it became dark and she was still wide awake in pitch blackness, her heart started to pound.
What made Miss Mary even more desperate was that the entire night passed without Hikari returning, so she could only spend most of the night alone, anxious and fearful, before finally dozing off.
Before sleeping, bored and scared in the dark, Mary even started to miss the night before.
Although that night had her most hated Hikari, and she had been repeatedly punished by him in various ways and positions.
At least there had been someone with her, and her body and mind had been occupied.
Compared to the empty darkness, that boredom and fear could drive even an urban legend insane, last night, as an urban legend, Mary even cried for the second time.
As for the first, it had been the night before, when Hikari had helped her complete her growth.
Facing Mary's angry, glaring look, Hikari also noticed the tear marks at the corners of her eyes.
He slightly widened his eyes in surprise, "Miss Mary, you didn't cry yesterday alone, did you?"
Hearing that, Miss Mary's little face flushed slightly, her cheeks puffed, and she said unhappily, "Cry? We urban legends never cry! Damn human, I was just curious where the hell you disappeared to all day yesterday, that's all!"
Hikari didn't expose her, and casually replied, "Where I went is none of your business. Miss Mary, you missed me that much? Just one day apart and you couldn't stand it?"
"Alright then, I'll satisfy you now."
Seeing Hikari start to undo his belt, Miss Mary quickly struggled her bound limbs, "No! No! I didn't mean that! Don't come over here!"
Seeing her like this, Hikari chuckled and instantly stopped his movements.
Realizing from his half-smiling gaze that he had just been teasing her, his hands hadn't even undone a single button, Miss Mary's little face turned red and pale by turns, both ashamed and angry.
"Miss Mary, be honest, seeing me gets you this excited, you really didn't miss me?", Hikari asked.
Mary roared, "Who missed you? Damn human, you locked me up here alone, I can't go anywhere, I'm bored to death, you know? Let me go!"
Hikari ignored her demand and instead asked, "By the way, Miss Mary, the strange noise in the room, those thumping sounds, did you make them?"
Mary sneered, lifted her tender white little feet from under her gothic skirt, and stomped hard on the bedboard.
Thump!
As she lifted and dropped her little feet repeatedly, the same rhythmic strange sound Hikari had heard outside the door earlier rang out again.
"I made it, so what? Now let me go!", Mary shouted.
Covering his ears, Hikari said, "Can you keep it down? Be quiet. You can't behave when I'm not here, is that it? You've disturbed others already. No more noise like this in the future."
Mary was furious, "Who wants you to keep me company? Damn human, I want you to let me go!"
"And what do you mean 'no more noise'? Do you think I'm a chilld? I won't listen to you!"
Perhaps thinking his protest meant he feared her noise, Mary kept stomping and even threatened, "Human, if you don't let me go, I'll keep making noise, louder and louder! I'll even scream!"
"Help! Help! There's a p*rvert here!"
Looking at her, Hikari was speechless.
This urban legend was just as naive and innocent as her shoujo appearance, she'd probably believe someone who took off their pants while offering her a lollipop.
Seeing her smug at her threat, Hikari couldn't help but laugh, "This whole place is already booked by me, so go ahead and scream, even if you shout yourself hoarse, no one will come to save you."
"Besides, I'll tie your hands and feet even tighter so you can't move. If you keep shouting, I'll pull off your stockings and stuff them in your mouth."
After saying that, Hikari suddenly felt like a bad guy. Like some creepy uncle who had kidnapped a shoujo.
But thoughts aside, he unceremoniously lifted Mary's gothic skirt and reached toward her silk-covered tender feet.
"You… what are you going to do?", At that moment, bound on the bed, Mary was indeed startled by his words.
Her cute face showed an aggrieved expression, her eyes filled with tears, her mouth pouting, a bullied-shoujo look, completely lacking the eerie horror of an urban legend.
"Bad guy! Villain! You humans are just too bad, so full of evil tricks!"
Perhaps scared by Hikari, with her little feet tied tighter so she couldn't stomp, Mary didn't dare to shout anymore, and instead kept cursing him in a cute shoujo voice.
After tying her hands and feet tighter and taking off one of her white stockings to place by her head as a warning, Hikari ignored her impotent fury.
Listening to her calling him "big stupid pig," "big idiot," "baka baka," and other chilldish insults even an eight-year-old would think immature, he calmly ate breakfast alone.
In fact, hearing her chilldish cute shoujo voice scold him made breakfast taste even better.
He could now understand why some weirdos liked hearing Kugimiya Rie-style tsundere scolding while eating.
Like that, halfway through breakfast, Hikari suddenly turned to the still-cursing Mary and said, "Alright, alright, stop scolding, take a break, Miss Mary. I bought too much breakfast to finish, want some?"
Seeing the beef bun in his hand, Mary froze for a moment.
Then she pouted and mocked, "I'm not some lowly human like you. We urban legends don't need to eat to maintain our energy, you ignorant human."
Seeing her mocking face and sarcastic tone, Hikari didn't bother replying and continued eating alone.
It had just been an idle question, he hadn't truly meant to share his breakfast with this disobedient urban legend.
Yet, perhaps unintentionally, since he had asked her if she wanted some, Mary had started paying attention to him eating.
Staring at his chiseled handsome face, she was a bit dazed, even forgetting to curse.
Not because she was attracted to his looks, but because of the enjoyment on his face as he ate, as if the food was delicious, made her curious.
'Are those round things and the long stick-like ones called buns and fried dough sticks really that tasty?'
As a doll-formed urban legend, Mary had never tried human food, since she didn't need it for energy. She survived by feeding on human discussion and spreading of her legend.
Aside from pretend feeding during her doll days before she became an urban legend, she had never eaten any human food at all.
Before, she had never been interested, and logically she shouldn't be interested now either.
But perhaps because the impossible, deep familiarity between a human and Doll Mary, had already happened, and he had even brought her unprecedented pleasure.
For some reason, after Hikari asked if she wanted breakfast, Mary became curious about how it tasted.
Watching him eat so enjoyably, she even found herself swallowing her saliva.
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