Chapter 149 - Enchanted

Earlier around midmorning that day…

"Where are you going?"

Okada Koharu paused by the doorway and turned her head towards the direction of the voice. Her adoptive mother stood by the staircase, a wary expression on her face.

Well, who would blame her? She had seen her usually gentle and good-natured daughter wild and frightening for the first time. She was brought home screaming and kicking like a crazed person, cursing everyone who tried to restrain her.

Also, upon hearing about what Koharu did from the teachers and principal, the mother finally realized that even after raising the girl herself like her own flesh and blood, she didn't really know her. She was a stranger – a frightening stranger. Since yesterday, the older lady couldn't help but regret taking her in – not because she didn't want her but because she was thinking that maybe Koharu's life would have been better with someone else. Koharu had been always a very, very good daughter – too good to be true. They should have known that there was something wrong.

Also…

The Okada couple was shocked upon learning from their own daughter's lips that she knew that they were not her real parents. When they tried to reason with her – tried to calm her down, Koharu had spat at them, telling them to mind their own business as they were not her real parents anyway.

How she knew, they had no idea, just like they had no idea about who Koharu was anymore. The only sure thing they knew was that their daughter was sick and that she needed help badly. She and her husband already agreed to send Koharu to an institution after she graduated from high school in a few weeks' time. There was nothing that could change their minds about it.

"Out," Koharu answered lightly, making her mother frown.

"I know, but where?"

Koharu had run away the night she was delivered to the house by the people from school. Although she had returned calmly the next day, they were still worried about her. The teacher, after all, told them that their daughter was crazy about the Homura House's Koutaishidenka.

Who knew what Koharu would do again? The people from the Cedar Palace had been lenient with Koharu the first time. If she did something again, even if they called for help, there was no saving their daughter anymore if the Homura House decided to punish her.

"I'm just going to take a walk. I just finished studying so I want to relax my brain," Koharu answered good-naturedly, her tone her normal cheerful one.

The older lady wanted to stop her from going out but reckoned it would create an unnecessary argument between them. Besides, after returning the day before, she truly returned to her usual self. She wanted to at least not add more to the young girl's mental stress, and so she acquiesced.

"Don't stay out too long. It's exam week," the old lady advised, and Koharu smiled at her before leaving.

As soon as she's out the door, however, Okada Koharu's serene expression vanished. It was replaced by a cold, indifferent look as she walked out of the gate.

"Meddling bitch. Why don't you just busy yourself with the sick kid of yours?" she muttered under her breath as walked the streets.

Since coming back from the devil's place the other day, that old woman's been staying at home to guard her. How stupid. It was too late to act like a good mother now. She should just take care of Yuichi and not bother her like she'd been doing for years.

A black VIP sedan stopped in front of her, and she turned to it as the window to the passenger's seat rolled down. It was the devil.

"Where are you going?"

Before having a deal with this man, she only thought badly of him – even disgusted by him. Even if he was a handsome man, he's still an old man – someone who used to be with her mother. But since they formed an alliance, she found it easier and easier to deal with him. In fact, she preferred to be in his company these days than with those idiots who called themselves her parents.

Aside from that…

Lately, she had discovered something amazing as well. She had been using the devil as a substitute for the prince. It might be him, who was coupling with her, but in her eyes, it was Homura Ryuu's face she could see, and in her ears, it was the Koutaishidenka's baritone she could hear calling her name as he released himself within her. With that discovery, the devil was totally useful to whet her awakened appetite.

Like right now. She was feeling hot all over the place again upon thinking about her prince. It was as if she was put under a strong enchantment that would make her feel horny and crazy whenever she thought of him. A delightful curse. 

Seeing her lustful look, the devil smirked and opened the car door. "Get in," he ordered, and Koharu didn't waste time climbing in the sedan.

It was a good thing that the car had heavily tinted windows. As soon as she got in, Koharu attacked the devil, pulling at his clothes without a care if the driver could see them.

The poor man closed the partition as soon as the devil gave the order to drive around so he couldn't see the two at the back as they spent their lust with each other. Of course, what his eyes couldn't see, his ears could hear very well, and it took a lot of effort for him to concentrate on the road as pants and groans echoed in the confines of the vehicle.

Okada Koharu lost track of time. She couldn't count how many times they did it, as it took a while before her body was satiated.

"That was awesome," the devil whispered into her ear as she felt his tongue lick the side of her bare shoulder up to her neck before planting a kiss there.

She glanced at him and was disappointed to see the devil's own face and not the Koutaishidenka's. She quickly pushed him away as she bent to retrieve her clothes from the floor.

"Urgh, my clothes are crumpled," she complained as she unhappily put her panties back on and tried to straighten the folds on her dress before wearing it.

"I'll buy you new ones," the devil suggested and she turned to him.

"You will?"

"Of course," he assured her as he ran a hand on her white thigh, and she smirked.

"I want one from Ginza then," she declared, but of course the devil was not fazed.

He might be a hooligan, but he was a rich hooligan. The man kicked on the partition to alert the driver. "Ginza," he barked, and soon they arrived there.

The devil pulled her into one of the high-class restaurants first for a meal. They had spent the morning driving around while having car sex that they had forgotten to eat lunch and it's already two and a half in the afternoon.

Okada Koharu felt so happy eating at a fancy restaurant with her favorite food. She'd never been in one, and so she savored the moment of feeling like a rich princess. The place was so fancy that she was even a bit sad to leave almost an hour later.

However, in the stroke of coincidence, a black Lincoln MKT stopped on the other side of the street where Koharu was, and she automatically stared at it, her heart racing as she did.

"Koharu what's wrong?" the devil asked, but she was beyond listening as she continued to stare in surprise as familiar figures got out of the car one by one.

The devil followed the direction of his gaze, and he too was surprised, and then his eyes narrowed. "Aren't those your friends and the boy you liked that judo athlete? What are they doing here?"

Koharu's hands balled into fists on her sides as her eyes narrowed at the laughing group of Rin, Miharu, Midori, Sonoda, Ara, and her prince! There was no mistake that the man next to Ara was Homura Ryuu. But what was he doing with them?

"I want to know too."