“If you calculate the time, by the time I pick up the people and go over, you guys should have just arrived, so we can go in together by then.”

“Pick someone up?”

Vermouth raised her eyebrows slightly.

Seeing her reaction, Serabelle was a little confused for a moment, and couldn’t help but raise her voice and said softly “Hmm?”

“Didn’t I tell you, Sharon, Hongye, about the Ooka family in Kyoto? I should have told you, right?”

“You…”

Vermouth curled her lips, picked up another piece of fish and chips and tapped the boy on the forehead like an old monk tapping a wooden fish.

“Pay attention to yourself. You can’t even remember which women you had relationships with or which women you told about these things. If you continue like this, I will be angry even as your sister.”

“But speaking of the Ooka family in Kyoto~”

The Thousand-Faced Witch suddenly changed the subject here, and a smile appeared on the corner of her lips, which was unclear whether it could be described as playful or meaningful.

“I didn’t expect you to bring her over as well. This is really unexpected.”

……

Since she said she was going to pick someone up, Serabelle left the hotel directly after breakfast.

The view shifts to Tokyo High-Speed ​​Railway Station.

[Dear passengers, please note that the Shinkansen from Kyoto to Tokyo is about to arrive at the station, the train number is…]

The sweet female voice on the radio had already sounded. In the central hall, Serabelle was sitting on a row of public benches, surrounded by many passengers who were waiting for the bus, and some who were there to pick someone up like him.

Finally, as a wave of people came up from the elevator beside the lobby, the figure of a Kyoto girl in kimono in the crowd appropriately caught Serabel’s eyes.

It was undoubtedly Ooka Momiji. She seemed to have come alone this time, dragging a large suitcase behind her.

“Bell~!”

As if she had sensed Serabelle’s gaze, the Kyoto girl looked up as if she had telepathy, then waved her arms happily.

This is quite an eye-catching scene.

Even though kimono is a traditional Japanese costume, with the advent of modern society, Japanese people now choose to wear sportswear that is more convenient for movement, or slightly more formal suits when going out.

To be honest, you would never see a girl wearing a kimono like this unless it’s at a comic convention or festival.

In addition, the autumn leaves in Ooka are very beautiful in themselves, which attracted the attention of everyone in the station.

But the Kyoto girl seemed to think that she was not attracting enough attention. As the elevator went down, she nimbly squeezed out of the crowd as soon as she stepped on the ground, dragging her suitcase and trotting gracefully and quickly to Serabel.

I came up and gave her a big hug.

This is…dribbling into someone’s body!

“long time no see!”

In public, Ooka Momiji affectionately took the boy’s arm, raised her face and smiled sweetly.

“Well, I really want to say this, but it seems like we’ve only been apart for less than three days, but it feels like three months have passed.”

“Is it so exaggerated……”

Serabelle narrowed her eyes.

The Kyoto girl nodded vigorously.

“Of course, Bell, you called me so early. Although this gave me enough time to prepare my luggage, it was also because I had too much time to prepare. After I finished packing, I could only sit in the room and look at the packed luggage, imagining how I would travel around with Bell after arriving in Tokyo… Oh, by the way, I also made a travel guide!”

As if by magic, Ooka Momiji pulled out a notebook from the wide sleeves of her kimono.

“These are all the information I searched online and sorted out when I was at home~”

“This is really…”

Serabelle took a deep breath.

The Kyoto girl smiled triumphantly, put away her notebook and put her arm around the boy again.

“Okay, anyway, let’s go to the hotel first. The room has been booked, so at least we can put our luggage there first.”

“It’s probably because of the agreement I reached with Mrs. Suzuki before. Grandpa is surprisingly willing to give in this time. If nothing unexpected happens, we can stay in Tokyo until the end of summer vacation.”

“Yeah, that’s good.”

Chapter 860 Xiaolan: I am a good girl~

Although Serabelle went to the high-speed rail station to pick up people in the morning, the actual agreed meeting time was not until the evening.

So Serabelle spent the entire afternoon accompanying Ooka Momiji around Tokyo, visiting all the destinations on the first page of the girl’s notebook, which contained all the Tokyo travel guides on the Internet.

By the way, he also picked up Xiaolan and Sera Masumi who were bored at home.

Good sisters, of course we should have fun in a three-person row, and the same goes for shopping.

Just like that, time passed quickly and it was evening again.

As the sun sets, bright red clouds dye half the sky.

Since they had been walking around in the afternoon, their energy consumption was much greater than usual, so they had already had dinner before dinner time. At this time, they walked out of the restaurant on the streets of Tokyo facing the sunset.

After replenishing her energy, the Kyoto girl, who was still in high spirits, obviously had no intention of returning to the hotel.

She was flipping through the notebook in the sunlight from the moment she came out of the hotel until she reached the parking lot and got into her car.

“Well, which tourist attraction should we visit next~”

Muttering to herself, Ooka Hongye, who was sitting in the back seat with Xiaolan, suddenly heard Serabelle’s voice coming from the front along with the sound of the seat belt buckle.

“Unfortunately, today’s play session will most likely end here.”

“…Eh? Why?”

Ooka Hongye was slightly stunned, raised her head and asked subconsciously.

She wasn’t trying to be in a bad mood. Although the afternoon’s travel did make the Kyoto girl feel a little overwhelmed, she was, after all, the daughter of the Ooka family in Kyoto, and her cultivation was several levels higher than that of ordinary girls.

So even with this kind of rhetorical question, there is more doubt and a little bit of uneasiness in it.

There was still plenty of time and the sun hadn’t even set yet, but we had to end today’s trip.

Is there anything else going on tonight?

Ooka Momiji looked at Xiaolan beside her, then looked through the rearview mirror at Sera Masumi who was sitting in the passenger seat.

However, both girls looked quite calm, as if they had already known all the arrangements.

“We have to go somewhere first.”

Serabelle said as she turned the key, and the car started quietly with a slight vibration.

“I can’t explain the specific situation right now. You’ll know when you get there, Hongye. Mrs. Suzuki and the others should have gone there by now.”

Mrs. Suzuki…?

Ooka Hongye still didn’t understand.

After all, Serabelle’s description was too vague. What did she mean by “we are not going to play today because we have to go somewhere?” And Mrs. Suzuki and others are also here?

How important must this be? Could it be… uh!

As if she suddenly thought of something bad, the Kyoto girl pursed her lips subconsciously, and a blush quickly appeared on her fair cheeks.

“It’s not what you think now, Hongye.”

When Serabelle glanced at the rearview mirror inside the car and saw the face of the Kyoto girl in the back seat, she knew that the girl must have had some bad thoughts, and she couldn’t help but sigh helplessly.

“If you must explain… um by the way, did your family explain anything to you last time, Momiji, after you went back to Nagoya?”

“explain?”

Ooka Hongye recalled for a moment and then nodded.

“Grandpa talked to me once and said that this was a decision he had to make. He told me that the reason why our Ooka family became what it is now is because we lost the last party election.”

“Did you tell me the reason for the defeat?”

Serabelle continued to ask.

“As for the reason…” The Kyoto girl hesitated for a moment.

“I didn’t listen too carefully, but it seems that something happened to the Karasuma Group, the leader of the consortium that supported Grandpa. In short, it means that he lost the support of the Karasuma Group. Grandpa is still very upset about this matter.”

It is indeed something to be concerned about.

It’s like when the big brother of a team in a professional e-sports competition suddenly starts to show off for no apparent reason before the world finals begin, abandoning all his teammates, not even playing the game, and running off to a nightclub to rock out.

Well… although it is true that you are the big brother, and whether we can win the game depends on you to a large extent, you can’t do this, you just start the fight as you say, what… are you making fun of your brothers?

Besides, if I really don’t want to beat you up, what’s the point of doing this?

This is a shameful betrayal!

“Although not all of them, it’s pretty close.”

Serabelle skillfully controlled the steering wheel and drove out of the parking lot without looking back.

“But there is one thing your grandfather probably doesn’t know, which is the real reason why the Karasuma Group withdrew from the Ooka family faction.”

“What is it?”

Ooka Momiji asked instinctively.

Serabelle shrugged, “I don’t know either, but I know that the Karasuma Group has become a huge criminal organization over the years, and has even conducted a large number of human experiments. A large part of the reason for leaving the Ooka family faction may be to reduce social attention, so as to avoid being easily noticed by the public.”

“Human experiment?!”

The Kyoto girl was completely shocked.

Although she is the eldest daughter in the family, to put it bluntly, her economic conditions and social connections are better than those of ordinary people, but she has never heard that her family’s former partners have such a dark background.

Is it really possible for such a thing to happen in modern times?!

“Well, as I said before, you’ll know when you get there.”

Having said that, Serabelle stepped on the accelerator.

On the road outside the parking lot, a black Audi sped towards the fiery red sunset.

Half an hour later, at the entrance of the Suzuki Museum of Art—

Several cars were already parked in the parking spaces outside the museum, including the red Mazda sports car that Serabelle had won at the opening ceremony of the Tokiwa Group’s twin skyscrapers in Nishitama City.

In the lobby on the first floor of the art museum, everyone except the one in Serabelle’s car had arrived.

Among them, Yukiko and Kisaki Eri were chatting together, Vermouth was looking at the Kuroba mother and daughter not far away with a meaningful look on her face, Akai Mary was calmly discussing the details of tonight’s operation with her sister Miyano Elena, and Miss Curacao, who looked like a bodyguard, was following beside them.

Hattori Shizuka was with Mrs. Suzuki.

And there was also Akiba Reiko, who was alone and looked a little anxious…

“what!”

Suddenly, as two beams of car lights outside the art gallery shone through the twilight, Miss Reiko, who had been silent the previous second, suddenly spoke softly.

Everyone’s eyes were focused on one place at the same time.

The black Audi stopped outside the art gallery, the door opened, and Serabel and others got out of the car.

Kisaki Eri was no exception, but when she saw Xiaolan getting out of the back seat, she couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise.

“Lan?! Why are you here too?”

“Mom, it was Masumi-san who told me about what Sera-kun was going to do tonight, and…about that organization.”

Xiaolan shrank her head cautiously, just like a good girl who acted on her own but was afraid of being scolded by her mother.

“Eh? Ah…I see, so you already know everything. If that’s the case then there’s nothing I can do…”

When she heard the words “About Sera-kun”, Kisaki Eri tensed up visibly, but after hearing the subsequent content, she relaxed again.

Fortunately, it was not what she thought.

At the same time, Sera Masumi also whispered in the girl’s ear.

“Lan, why don’t you just take this opportunity to tell your aunt?”

“Well, forget it this time.”