Chapter 317: Kaguya's Father, Gan'an Shinomiya?! The Sudden Marriage Strategy!
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Umaru's question instantly drew everyone's attention. They were all incredibly curious to know if choosing Disboard as their divine faction anchor right now carried any hidden risks or downsides.
After all, Earth hadn't completely merged with the God Domain yet, so even if players chose Earth as their home base, they didn't have a reliable teleportation network to get around. Because of this, the newly conquered "Game Star" that Seito and his crew had completely taken over just yesterday had instantly become the prime target for every player looking to settle down.
Plus, anyone who had watched the global livestream could clearly see that the Fatui guild had already begun setting up massive base camps across the planet.
"It's allowed," Seito replied with a calm smile.
Choosing the Game Star faction was something practically every active player in the God Domain was weighing right now. However, Seito had absolutely no intention of messing with the planet's baseline management. After all, Sora held massive authority over Disboard now, and Seito had zero reason to step on his own teammate's toes.
"That's awesome!" Umaru beamed, her eyes lighting up.
She was already planning to rally her core guild members and head over to Disboard tonight to kickstart their development.
The group continued their lively stroll toward Sobu High, and about twenty minutes later, they finally reached the school gates. After watching Haruno Yukinoshita playfully follow her younger sister, Yukino, into the Class D terminal, Seito turned on his heel and headed straight toward the faculty offices.
Arriving at the door of the first-year teachers' office, Seito gripped the handle, twisted it open, and stepped inside.
But the moment he crossed the threshold, he froze right in his tracks.
Standing right next to his personal desk were two middle-aged men—one was Asuna Yuuki's father, and the other was a complete stranger.
The stranger exuded an intense, heavy pressure—the unmistakable aura of someone who had spent his entire life occupying an absolute high-ranking position. As Seito scanned him, he noticed deep wrinkles etched into his face, hair turned a brittle, weathered white, and sharp, crimson eyes. This wasn't the natural, pristine white of Seito's own hair; it was the faded, weary white of a man in his final years.
"Uncle, you're here," Seito greeted Asuna's father first, breaking the silence with a polite nod.
"Haha, Seito! Look, I've brought an old friend along to meet you," Asuna's father laughed heartily. Despite his cheerful exterior, he was inwardly sweating with embarrassment. Bringing a guest to see Seito just a single day after their first formal introduction was definitely pushing the boundaries of etiquette.
"Teacher Seito, we'll leave you three to talk. We have some urgent business regarding the sports festival layouts to finalize anyway," Mafuyu Kirisu said, standing beside Shizuka Hiratsuka and the rest of the staff.
"Of course, sorry for the trouble," Seito nodded.
With that, Kirisu and the other teachers turned and cleanly left the office, leaving the three of them completely alone.
"Uncle, please, have a seat," Seito gestured toward the lounge area before taking a seat himself.
Asuna's father sat down without any hesitation, and his guest smoothly followed suit.
Zip—!
With a subtle flick of divine energy, three glasses of temperature-regulated water materialized out of thin air right onto the desk. The two older men were momentarily stunned by the casual display of magic, but their instincts quickly kicked in, and they reached out to take the glasses.
"Let me introduce myself," the stranger said, holding his glass with elegant, practiced aristocratic movements. "I am Gan'an Shinomiya, patriarch of the Shinomiya family in the Japan, and the biological father of Kaguya Shinomiya."
"???"
Seito was momentarily taken aback, though his face quickly smoothed back into a neutral expression. He knew the name "Gan'an Shinomiya" very well from the light novels and anime of his past life. What really surprised him, though, was the man's current physical state. Based on all the information he had gathered, Gan'an should have been completely bedridden, drawing his final breaths.
He wasn't surprised that the man knew Asuna's father—even though the Yuuki family's financial leverage couldn't quite match the titan-tier scale of the Shinomiya conglomerate, they were still a top-tier, highly influential in the Sakura Province(Japan). It was only natural for the elite of the upper crust to move in the same circles.
But why on earth is he looking for me?
Seito rested his chin on his palm, eyeing the old patriarch curiously. "Mr. Shinomiya, what can I do for you?"
"I do, in fact, have a highly specific request," Gan'an smiled thinly, a calculated gleam flashing in his crimson eyes. "I've come today primarily to propose an absolute marriage alliance between you and my youngest daughter, Kaguya."
Seito: "???"
Asuna's Father: "!!!"
Seito was utterly stunned. But when he glanced over at Asuna's father's face, he realized the man looked like he had just swallowed a brick. Wait... does Asuna's father seriously have no idea why this guy is saying this?
Seito felt his face twitch slightly.
The truth was, Asuna's father did know why he'd brought Gan'an along—but it was absolutely, one hundred percent not for this!
Here was what had actually gone down behind the scenes:
That very morning, Gan'an Shinomiya, who had been balancing on the brink of total biological failure, had capitalized on the extraordinary power of the God Domain to completely restore his vitality. The absolute first thing he did upon waking up with a fully functional body was unleash a merciless purge against his own greedy sons who had been plotting to seize power, wresting total control of the family empire right back into his own iron grip.
Once he locked down the family reins, Gan'an suddenly remembered the marriage engagement he'd previously arranged between his house and the Yuuki family. The Yuukis were powerful, sure, but they weren't anywhere near the top-tier Shinomiya level, and his son was a complete disgrace anyway. So, Gan'an had personally traveled to the Yuuki residence to formally call off the wedding.
But the second he arrived, the Yuuki parents had completely beaten him to the punch, eagerly announcing that Asuna was already betrothed to someone else and requesting a dissolution themselves!
Gan'an had been completely shocked. The Yuuki family was willingly giving up a direct alliance with the absolute strongest financial conglomerate in the Sakura Province? Their chosen son-in-law had to possess an ungodly amount of power and influence to justify that! Intrigued and highly skeptical, he insisted on meeting the fiancé face-to-face. Asuna's father had reluctantly agreed, which was how they ended up in the first-year faculty office.
Initially, when Gan'an heard the fiancé was just a low-level high school teacher named "Seito," he assumed Asuna's father had completely lost his mind. But the exact microsecond his eyes locked onto Seito's physical aura, a high-priority document on his desk from that morning flashed through his mind—a global brief detailing the race to locate the God Domain's undisputed number-one player: the legendary "God of Space, Seito."
Matching Seito's surreal, powerful presence with Asuna's father's deeply respectful reactions, Gan'an instantly put two and two together. The teenager standing right in front of him was, without a doubt, the mythical Spatial Sovereign himself!
Without a single of hesitation, he threw his original playbook out the window and decided to pivot on the spot—if the Yuuki family was getting a powerhouse, he was going to marry off his own daughter, Kaguya, to lock down an even bigger anchor!
Turning his head to look at the visibly furious, jaw-dropped Asuna's father, Gan'an casually clasped his hands together and laughed heartily, "My dear friend Yuuki, my absolute apologies. But as a fellow father, I've decided I also want to secure a truly reliable, rock-solid marriage for my little Kaguya."
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