Hearing Tohru's words, Yusei rolled his eyes.
"Isn't that still being homeless? Don't worry, as long as you work hard to be a qualified maid, I'll still take you in."
As he spoke, Yusei had already taken out his phone to order takeout. That tail meat was clearly inedible. Well... although it did seem to increase his strength a bit.
Seeing this, Tohru quickly grabbed his arm, "Hey, weren't we going to fight?"
Yusei looked at her speechlessly, "My stomach is completely empty. What fight? This world is extremely peaceful, I'm a pacifist."
Yusei waved his hand dismissively, walked to the dining table, and pointed at the tail meat, "What should we do with all this meat?"
"If you won't eat it, Kanna and I will."
Tohru led Kanna quickly to the table and, in a few quick bites, finished all the tail meat.
Yusei ignored her and, holding his phone, looked towards his parents.
"Have you two eaten?"
"Ah, we've already eaten. But, Yusei, aren't you going to introduce your new friend?" Kanako looked at Yusei with a smile.
"Mhmm, her name is Tohru. She's a relative of Kanna's."
Then Yusei turned to Tohru and said to her, "These are my parents. You should-"
Tohru snorted coldly, "Why should I call puny humans 'Uncle' and 'Auntie'? But, for Kanna's sake, I suppose I can spare their lives when I destroy this world."
The Kazami Couple: "..."
Kanako laughed awkwardly, whispering to her husband beside her, "This must be that, right? What they call online... Chuunibyou?"
"Mhmm, probably."
Yusei also helplessly held his forehead, 'Whatever. I was probably already on Tohru's destruction list. The fact that Tohru was now resolved to spare my parents' lives was probably the greatest act of kindness from this world-ending evil dragon, right?'
He ordered takeout. He and Shiro finally got to eat a normal lunch.
After the meal, Yusei was called over by his parents, while Tohru played cards with Kanna and Shiro in the room.
Tohru, experiencing this kind of game for the first time, seemed very interested and stopped clamoring about going out to destroy the world.
Entering his parents' room, he saw them both sitting there as if they had decided something. Yusei asked curiously, "What's up? Calling me over so suddenly."
Seeing Yusei, Kanako smiled and beckoned him over.
"Yusei, we have some good news for you."
"Good news?"
Yusei's father, Akira, also nodded with a smile, "Our old family home in the countryside is suddenly being demolished for redevelopment. Our family received a large compensation payment. It's enough to buy another house here in Tokyo. So, we plan to buy one for you and Shiro. The house is getting more crowded now anyway, so this way you'll have more space."
Yusei was taken aback, "What about this house here?"
The Kazami Couple glanced at each other, "Of course, we'll live here."
"But Shiro and I..." Yusei hesitated slightly.
Before Yusei could finish, Akira impatiently interrupted, "You brat, why so polite with us? It's settled. You can move in a few days. It's a pre-furnished house, and very nice. Your mom and I went to see it this morning."
Looking at his stern but well-meaning father, Yusei felt touched and nodded, "Alright. I have plans with Shinomiya Kaguya tomorrow, so the day after, I'll move over with Shiro, Kanna, and the others."
"Mhmm, it's settled then. The sooner the better. The environment there is much nicer than here."
Deeply moved, Yusei left the room. Just as he closed the door and was about to return to his own room, he keenly heard low, excited voices from inside the room.
Curious, Yusei couldn't help but listen in.
"Haha, those little rascals are finally moving out. Now we can finally have our 'couple time' again!"
"You're so impatient. But they're still so young, will they be okay living on their own?"
"Young? That brat saved thousands of SAO's survivors. He can definitely take care of himself and his sister. Don't worry about them. Once they move out the day after tomorrow, we can... hehehe."
Yusei left expressionlessly.
'As expected, people always have ulterior motives for their actions.'
As for that touched feeling from just now, he had already throw it away.
…
The next day, a dragon maid was hugging Kanna, fast asleep on Shiro's bed. Yusei sat up with a yawn, carefully extracted his arm from Shiro's grasp, and immediately became alert when he saw the time on his phone.
It was already 8 a.m. He remembered Kaguya's repeated instructions last night, he absolutely had to arrive before 9 a.m.
Looking at Tohru, who was sleeping like a log over there, Yusei shook his head, 'This maid was a bit lazy.'
But Yusei hadn't planned on having her make breakfast anyway. He quickly washed up, then left home with a piece of bread in his mouth and a carton of milk.
Riding the train, Yusei faced the sunlight of the new day.
There was quite a lot to do today. The Imperial Family was visiting the Shinomiya Residence. The purpose: a marriage proposal.
Kaguya was very unwilling and planned to refuse today. She had even thought of a reason.
That was: 'I already have a boyfriend.'
So, who was this boyfriend? Naturally, it was Yusei.
Therefore, Yusei understood that Kaguya asked him to come early today to properly dress him up first.
Secondly, and most difficultly, was facing the Imperial Family's Prince.
According to the intelligence, that prince had already graduated from university, an example of an old cow trying to eat young grass. But this wasn't rare among powerful families.
In some families, for the sake of marriage alliances, the age difference between the man and woman could be over ten years.
As for that prince, apart from being somewhat older, other aspects seemed almost flawless according to the intelligence.
Highly educated, handsome, wealthy, powerful... and what made women's hearts flutter even more was his incredible devotion.
This point could be seen from the fact that in his over twenty years of life, he had never been in a relationship.
In fact, many young ladies from Japan's powerful families had their eyes on this 'prime catch'.
However, Kaguya was not among these young ladies.
When she heard that guy from the Imperial Family intended to propose to her, her first reaction was to find someone to eliminate him.