After breaking up, my ex asked me to win her back-Chapter 260 - 259: That Should Be the Boss Room, Right?

"There’s a crow in front of my house, always calling~ always calling~ It wants happiness~~~"

On the bus during the journey, Ms. Kurosaki stood at the front, like a tour guide, keeping the beat as the passengers sang along with her.

"Happiness is the pursuit of both me and the crow, we’ve become confidants~ Happiness is the best~ Happiness is the best!!"

The song they sang was an original song circulated within the Happiness Sanatorium.

The genre was enka.

That is, the so-called ancient art style listened to by the elderly.

If explained from the perspective of Chinese people, it probably felt similar to listening to a Peking opera.

Yet on the bus, whether old, middle-aged, or young, everyone was enthusiastically singing along with Ms. Kurosaki, smiles on their faces, hands keeping the beat.

The entire bus was immersed in a sea of joy.

"...What’s with these people?"

On the bus, neither at the front nor at the back, in a double seat, Ayakoji Chiyoko and Kagura Hikaru were sitting there.

Among the thirty-some people, they were the only ones without smiles on their faces, sticking out like sore thumbs.

Kagura Hikaru kept the beat with his hands, trying to appear part of the group, while softly speaking to Ayakoji Chiyoko, "Everyone here is a follower."

"Follower?"

"Didn’t you hear what Suse said?"

"She only told me you entered a dangerous place… so this is a cult?" Ayakoji Chiyoko keenly realized something, her voice growing softer and softer.

Kagura Hikaru nodded slightly.

"You shouldn’t be interested in these, why still…"

"Shh."

"..."

Realizing her slip, Ayakoji Chiyoko immediately stopped talking, subtly scanning the surroundings.

"Let’s change the subject," Kagura Hikaru said. "You mentioned Kohinata Suse told you I was here, why didn’t she come herself?"

"I asked her the same question. She said her identity was special, and she couldn’t just appear in this kind of situation, it would be exploited by some," Ayakoji Chiyoko replied.

This reason was probably only half true.

Kagura Hikaru could probably guess what Suse was thinking.

If she could have persuaded him to give up, she would have succeeded last time at the café.

But Ayakoji Chiyoko’s influence on him was different; Suse was likely leveraging his guilt towards the former to make him see the error of his ways.

That idea, maybe Ayakoji Chiyoko herself could guess it, so they just tacitly skipped over it.

"So you’re not concerned?" Kagura Hikaru asked in return.

Although the Ayakoji family was just ’Former Chinese Clan,’ from Kagura Hikaru’s observations, their family was mostly also in the upper circles.

If Kohinata Suse was afraid her own actions might lead to misunderstandings about her family, then wouldn’t Ayakoji Chiyoko likely be in a similar situation?

"Maybe there is an issue, but I didn’t think much about it," Ayakoji Chiyoko hesitated, offering an unexpectedly irrational answer, "Hearing it involved you, I just agreed."

"..."

Kagura Hikaru resisted the urge to facepalm.

When had Ayakoji Chiyoko also become such a reckless person?

She had been acting very strange since their breakup, inexplicably giving him a sense of disarray.

Normal yet not normal.

Previously, even during their relationship, if she knew there was danger, she would typically choose to trust in herself and rationally withdraw to find a more suitable way to intervene from the outside.

But now, Ayakoji Chiyoko’s behavior was like that of someone infatuated with love.

Apart from no longer having intimate interactions, it even seemed subtly more proactive than during their relationship.

Could it be that she had potential masochistic tendencies, becoming more addicted the more emotionally tormented she was?

Or was she imprisoned by the sunk cost of romance, unwilling to let go?

Kagura Hikaru couldn’t understand.

Both her thoughts and actions had far exceeded his expectations.

To whisper, it was only natural for their physical distance to close, with Ayakoji Chiyoko’s body gently leaning on Kagura Hikaru’s shoulder.

In that moment, Kagura Hikaru saw a strange expression flicker across her face, but before he could discern it clearly, it had returned to seriousness.

Perhaps he had seen it wrong.

But since that time, Kagura Hikaru had felt an inexplicable unease.

About three hours later.

As evening fell, after a long journey and finally ascending a slope up a mountain, twisting and turning, the bus finally stopped in front of the destination’s gate.

Ayakoji Chiyoko and Kagura Hikaru got off the bus along with the others.

As soon as they disembarked, they saw the front gate of an ancient-style mansion.

It resembled the Ayakoji family’s home, with its long walls and the roof and gate structures of the Kyoto era.

However, the mansion before them, both in terms of its walls and its gate, was a size larger than that of the Ayakoji family’s, exuding an air of opulence.

Such a house, surprisingly situated deep in the countryside.

Without a doubt, this was the base of the Happiness Cult, and in other words, the territory of the x cult.

Kagura Hikaru took out his cell phone for a glance, and unsurprisingly, it was out of service.

In the Island Nation, there are many private estates, and it’s problematic for the government to negotiate the installation of signal towers within them; therefore, it is common to experience a sudden reduction to one signal bar while walking, and in rural areas, complete signal loss isn’t rare.

In case of an emergency here, it would be impossible to make a call for help.

At that moment, the front gate suddenly opened from the inside, and a bucktoothed man with a pointy chin came out, followed by a man and a woman.

Kagura Hikaru recognized his face; on the list provided by Inspector Yamazaki, he was second in rank only to Komori Ai and the Sect Hierarch of the Happiness Cult, the Hierarch’s deputy and confidant.

The name... he remembered was surnamed Sakamoto.

"Miss Kurosaki, are these the ones chosen for this batch?" the bucktoothed man came up cheerily.

Taken aback by the honor, Ms. Kurosaki hurriedly bowed, "Yes, Lord Sakamoto."

"Very good, very good."

The bucktoothed man turned around to survey the surroundings, and his condescending gaze made Kagura Hikaru feel quite uncomfortable.

However, at the same time, he, like Ms. Kurosaki, exuded an inexplicably welcoming aura.

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Ayakoji Chiyoko seemed unaffected, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, restrained but her eyes clearly showing disdain for the man.

"Then take them for a tour, Miss Kurosaki," the bucktoothed man said haughtily, turning his back.

"Yes."

The bucktoothed man left with his followers.

As Ms. Kurosaki watched him walk away, she then turned to everyone, clapped her hands with a smile, and said, "Thank you for waiting, let’s go inside and have a look."

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After speaking, she led everyone into the mansion.

The view inside was exactly as Kagura Hikaru had anticipated, a courtyard designed in an ancient style, very similar to the Ayakoji family’s, but much larger; it was hard to imagine how much money had been spent on its construction.

Even for a wealthy individual, it would necessitate careful consideration.

A religious organization not involved in normal business activities possessing so much capital; its sources of funding couldn’t possibly be legitimate.

Yet, despite this, the police still couldn’t catch them in any misconduct, even resorting to using minors for investigations.

Fortunately, it was a mutually beneficial arrangement.

Kagura Hikaru thought this as he looked towards the largest building in the distance.

No matter how one looked at it, that surely must be the boss’s room.