<Nocturnal Harmonia>

Miko did find herself bent over quite a few things. When they were building their base in what could be called their 'tutorial world', Yugi saw her do so multiple times for no particular reason. Of course, the end result was what it always would be: insertion. Such would continue to be the case for the foreseeable future, especially if she did those things with intent. "I'll find my way in alright," Yugi vowed. He'd go on to hear more about Kaguya for the approach he had no choice in making. An appreciator of honesty, and apparently an enjoyer of men with angry faces ─ that was what he could know going into the route. Things would probably be easy whenever he got past the fiancé she was obviously thinking about. Perhaps this one was mandatory because of the associated challenge? That was worth considering. "Hm. I wonder if the System stripped choice away because she's another tutorial? Like I have to score past the defense of... whoever the hell she's engaged to," he mused.

Whatever the case, Yugi would soon be sent away... but not before Miko established her place in the apparent hierarchy. She donned her boots as a normal person would after equipping the rest directly from inventory. That manual donning was all an excuse, clearly ─ one meant to let her grind against his lap. Naturally, he fell right into the movement, winding his own hips to rub his clothed and stiffening groin against her rear. "I'm the one teasing? No way. Three seconds is a bullshit cooldown. Make it a channeled ability and do that shit at will. Cooldowns are for lap dances and... well, other shit," he declared. Miko gave the go-ahead for Yugi to pursue her friend, that grind continuing for only a few more moments throughout. By the time she offered an agreement for the time of her return, she was rising and turning ─ though not without Yugi's hand squeezing and rubbing her fleeting buttocks. "A deal's a deal. I'll save all the good flavor for you, but your other favorite thing out there might be in need of repairs. Now get the fuck out before I slam you on that piano or something."

Miko had several fresh memories of the types of things that happened when her bottom was randomly up in the air. No matter what, such things would only continue given she enjoyed the results. "Good, you're always welcome inside♪~" Miko chirped right along. It would seem that Yugi had quite a few thoughts concerning his forced route. His idea was reasonable enough from an Otome related stand point, "It could be, the good ones always set up a few challenging conquest routes in the early game. Ones that seem unwinnable at first. Or those that have some extra mechanical complexity... Breaking up an engagement is one of the odder approaches for a Hero or Heroine. Normies wouldn't take those at first because no one signs up to be a homewrecker on purpose, but I've found that in those cases, the fiancé in question is on their way to or already is a villain. You know, abusive princes, the ones getting married to cover their weird taboos, fake personalities, or the overly bitchy we've been in an arranged marriage since we were children tropes. Unshackling people from their idealizations and helping them find true freedom is usually the point of those..." Miko seemed just as capable of rambling as Yugi did in other situations. Given her understanding of such situations she also didn't seem to care her friend was engaged. In Miko opinion, if Kaguya was truly and completely happy with that engagement, she wouldn't have had to remind herself of it to avoid acting on her impulses.

Moving on from those points, Miko was now grinding against Yugi, her hips moving against his ever stiffening erection as she donned her shoes and got ready to go out. It took no perception at all to know he was moving against her hips and following her rhythm as well. Both of them were always so ready to start something up again. "Of course you're the one teasing... I'm sure nothing I do even counts as teasing♪~" Miko chirped sarcastically. "Still, I'll work on developing all my skills and as always take permission where it's given so freely~" Miko added. And by the time she stood in front of him rotated to face him, she could feel those hands upon her ass cheeks rubbing and squeezing and making her loins twitch. "Hai hai, I'm always ready to look after you both~" Miko uttered. "Still, I can't say getting tossed against my piano doesn't sound delightful. Promise to show me what it's like later, Daddy!~" Miko chirped as she skipped out in a completely new outfit.

Outside of the music room, Kaguya's pacing hadn't stopped, but she'd managed a few other tasks in the meantime. Texting Ai so she'd expect a call from an old friend and the like but at the end of everything... she was still feeling oddly. She was still rubbing that ring against her finger, like it was anchoring her to the world. No one wanted to be a homewrecker, especially not of their own home. But could she really resist a certified good time? Was that one good time going to be worth potentially losing everything else? Her whole life was in shambles even before Miko disappeared, with the loss of that girl... her fiancé had filled the void left behind, but was the fact he filled the space of a year, and the fact that she could settle down with him, worth doing at her age? There were so many questions and she'd never even thought she'd get this far. She'd been walking a fine line for so long, her life on the precipice of ending for so long was it worth potentially falling all the way back too that? 'Fuck me! A lot of people would kill to be in this position but now... I'm just starting to feel... constricted.' A pause occurred in that young woman's movements. When had she started thinking of her life with her fiancé as something limiting? Maybe it's just because she'd been talking about the Hunters and the E-S System that she was conflating the two... yes that was reasonable.

Yugi would carry on giving a lot of consideration to Miko's otome game-related advisory. His game library may have been one of the largest in the world, but he doubted his repertoire of that particular genre could trump Miko's. Rare was a moment of Yugi deferring to anyone, for anything. Well... this was a partnership, so he'd do his best to treat it as such. Beyond that, Miko insisted that he was the one teasing. How she continued such a claim while being the one to grind against him, he didn't know. Oh well. From the claim that she'd continue developing her deviant skills and taking advantage of offered freedoms, he had something to add. "Well if that's the case, and if this isn't teasing... show me the real tease next time," he requested. As for the idea of tossing Miko against her piano, they both thought it was a grand idea. Yugi would absolutely be testing that idea at his earliest convenience. "It's a promise. Get going so I can figure out what I'm bending Kozuki over... hopefully by sundown," he mused. While Miko skipped off, he reached out to smack her bottom in a more playful way than what he normally did. Of course, he'd be walking out right behind her with eyes on... well, the direction of his eyes should have been obvious.

In due course, Yugi made his way into the living room where Kaguya paced. He entered, sitting upon the couch like he owned the place, even laying his right shin over his left knee and leaning back into the seat. His arms were spread across the couch's back, and his eyes were following the pacing lass. "Don't normal people consider it rude to pace around company? You'll give me anxiety. There's something we need to talk about," he stated without hesitation. Some things were best suited to certain moments... and there were a lot of details not yet confirmed, best addressed out of Miko's listening range.

Miko did occasionally play some other types of games, but Otome games were her bread and butter. The library of her tablet had been full of various titles and their souvenir pictures. She'd played all sorts of storylines and been all types of Heroine, as such she felt perfectly comfortable explaining a few of the lesser known tropes applied to them. She'd also become very comfortable, with her playful banter where Yugi was concerned. She'd call her actions not teasing and Yugi in turn wanted to see what a real tease was like later. "Yes Daddy♪~" Miko chirped as she enjoyed the idea of coming up with a real tease for later. Perhaps she'd think about that along with a few other things while she was out. Fully dressed with a promise of being tossed into her piano later, and Miko was heading out "Yep, tell me all about it when I get back~" Miko stated, showing she truly intended to help that pair along as well. A playful smack to her bottom made her blush as she began skipping out. "Careful Daddy, easily distracted♪~" she complained while pouting but she didn't actually seem upset at all. "Kaya-sen, I'm going to head out, I'll make dinner when I get back!~" she called out. "Hai, I let Ai-nee know you'd be calling~ Careful out there and come back!" Kaguya managed. "Haiii♫~" Miko chirped as she left.

With Miko heading out, Kaguya knew she'd be alone with the younger girl's boyfriend. She thought nothing of that, not really. She'd settled quite a bit but what she didn't expect was for the lad to seat himself in front of her as she paced and watched for quite a few seconds. After hearing the door shut behind Miko's exit she looked at the lad who had a lot to say about her activities. "Well sorry to spread anxiety but... keeping still while thinking is difficult and I normally don't pace but I also don't normally have company while I am thinking~" Kaguya pointed out. "You want to know what happened don't you?" she asked almost rhetorically. It would figure that the parts she'd left out of the happy reunion didn't truly go unnoticed. She knew Miko probably realized she wasn't specifically mentioning anything, but the lad in front of her also realizing it was a bit problematic. Oh well she could stop moving and take a seat, in an arm chair across from the table, if only to keep a socially appropriate amount of distance between them.

Miko was easily distracted. Surely she knew by now, though, that he was easily taken by sexual openings over most other things. "I know. That's my favorite part," he replied. With that, Yugi's path toward the living room was all he had left. Miko announced her exit just before, leaving behind a promise of dinner upon her return. She'd very possibly be cooking for four, based on what Yugi had seen during their entrance ─ male shoes of a slightly larger size than his own and such. Well... there was also a chance she'd be doing no such thing. All of that depended on his progress with the route he'd been assigned, and what truly came of it.

Speaking of the route, Yugi took a brief detour once Miko left the house properly. He wanted information. A small lead had him talking about Kaguya's expression of anxiety, which she eventually put to rest when sitting across from him. Being the natural pervert he was, Yugi's eyes were drawn downward, as though to get a cheeky glance up her sweater dress if he could manage it. First and foremost, he'd offer commentary about Kaguya's lack of company when processing her... thoughts. "I can tell. For a lived-in house, this place looks more like a display piece up for sale... or even waiting for the owners to come back from a long trip," he mused. Kaguya figured he wanted to know what happened. She was right, but not entirely. To skip right past the unnecessary bits, Yugi's answer came with his own observations and understanding. Now was the time for Yugi to don a more serious demeanor. "They're not dead. Dead would be stupid, and you'd be running from the topic a lot harder than you were. But... you're still running, so they're not fine. Missing or incarcerated would have been mentioned, I'd imagine. Alive, not free but also not jailed with some legal cover-up lie... last option: worse than dead. That's the only thing I could see someone still beating around the bush about: something that would bring the worst possible reaction out of a victim's loved ones. Where are they?"

Yugi's favorite part of Miko was the fact that she was easily distracted. She also realized that he was the type to choose sex over most things, which would have made him a best in slot partner if she ever tackled the more mature otome games. Oh well... she was out, walking about in the world, making phone calls and doing odd things. Inside the house, a pacing Kaguya was confronted by Yugi. By the time she sat down she saw the lad looking up her legs, and crossed them at the ankles. "Eyes up♥~" she commented absently. She knew he was a pervert that didn't mean she'd be feeding that logic right now.

No, she couldn't there were far more serious things to discuss. Like what happened with Miko's parents. According to Yugi there were quite a few things that had happened. "The place was bought so that someone would have somewhere to come back to... if she ever showed back up," Kaguya mentioned. Of course, she'd not been the one to pay for it, she was simply regurgitating information she'd been told by the man who'd bought the house. As for Yugi's observations, they were spot on. "Definitely brilliant. It must hurt having a brain that big♥~" Kaguya commented before her explanation began. "Ri-kaa, is in the hospital. She had acute onset Eternal Sleep after an advanced medical condition," Kaguya said, now in the mood to test the lad's brain a bit. "Sou-jii, lost a leg, due to a Gate-related accident. He got a robotic one. But he's working closely with the National Diet, specifically, under the purview of the Prime Minister. They both were, right after a certain man's son, and their daughter were kidnapped by spies. It was a huge scandal, used to leverage some National Security overhauls," she mentioned while staring at the lad. If he was watching her, she was now watching him, just as intently. Watchng the gears in his brain tick and seeing what he'd take from her information dump.

Eyes up, Kaguya said as her ankles crossed. He couldn't get a proper look up that sweater dress, but it wasn't like lifting his eyes would be such a bad thing. Kaguya had a nicely-shaped rack on her as well, so his gaze settled there for a moment. "Good idea. I prefer lower. More things to focus on," he said simply, even as the tone turned serious. Nevertheless, Yugi's interest in information remained. He needed a story, and Kaguya had it. What tale would she share?

Everything Kaguya said received full skepticism from Yugi ─ even things she may ot have intended. This house was purchased, seemingly by Kaguya's fiancé... for Miko's sake. Lip service, he decided. The decision to judge everything started before the information dump, even before a brief interjection about Yugi's brain. "Only when everybody else is showing how small theirs are. I'm less worried about that stuff lately. I found something bigger than my brain," he said with no further detail. Beyond Kaguya's claims about the house's purchase, Yugi's observations would be verbalized. Risa, Miko's mother... was hospitalized due to 'acute onset' Eternal Sleep Disorder, which was apparently connected to some unmentioned advanced 'condition'. "Acute onset when they can't even understand all the symptoms. Nonspecific medical complications... She was completely healthy when I saw her. How long?" he asked, wondering precisely how much time Risa spent with that 'advanced condition' Kaguya spoke of. As for Sosuke, his missing leg was a point of interest. The same could be said of a robotic leg, as those apparently existed as functional things now... but that was of little importance. What was important was his alleged position as a DIET member. Everything past that didn't even seem to bother Yugi. "Directly under the Prime Minister. He hasn't gotten any smarter. Which leg is he missing? Have either of them actually been seen by the public in the past year? Even the day after we disappeared?"

Kaguya's commentary about eyes up, seemed to give her a bit of insight into Yugi. He claimed to like looking lower for more things to focus on but claimed she'd given him a good idea. "Well, keeping one's eyes busy is an important thing to do I guess~" Kaguya mentioned. She knew the visual nature of men, better than most, so... she'd be leaving the lad to his devices for the most part. At the same time her commentary about his brain was given a little bit of insight. "Bigger than your brain? Doesn't seem possible~" Kaguya claimed with a casual eye roll. This lad was one of the most observant and calculating individuals she'd ever encountered. Even at his young age, he'd put most adults to shame with terrifying efficiency.

And to prove that point he moved around the words she'd spoken. It seemed he was able to easily navigate her words. She was only giving the information she had, she'd not been able to look into this sort of thing personally. There were too many potential risks to herself for her to feel comfortable with it. As such it could be said that they were both picking apart this news and always would. "Yeah, I also thought that was too non-specific. I mean politicians aren't known to be straight talkers or anything but that seemed a bit too convenient. Nine months... she was in the hospital. No visitors allowed, special ward. I had Ai-nee look into that part," Kaguya mentioned. She also found that part strange. As a girl she only knew of one reason a woman could be out for nine months. But she was a close-friend of the family, she was allowed free reign and all the questions she could muster. "Sou-jii is apparently missing his good leg. And neither of them have been seen directly by anyone who can or will talk about it for a long time. They made a few public appearances immediately after the 'kidnapping' but other than that... no one has seen them since..." Kaguya explained. "When all else failed, I contacted Sou-jii's little sister, it took some doing for me but when she approached me it was ghost-like. Sei-nee, said I shouldn't keep looking into it. That it'd put a target on my back. But she did confirm that they were actually alive," Kaguya finished that speech and sighed. If Miko thought to call her aunt, that girl knew how to contact her aunt, she might end up returning on a warpath or end up taken into protective custody by that Organization.

"You get a lot of information through the eyes. And improvising helps when someone's making your original plan difficult," Yugi said about the use of one's eyes. Kaguya seemed to be in a strange position, and a strange individual overall currently. She'd preserved her modesty where it mattered most, but did nothing to deter his gaze entirely. Her behavior implied a lack of full openness, but she wasn't fully closed either. This would have some applied difficulty, but it was definitely winnable. Perhaps he could make things easier for himself by keeping the idea circulating in Kaguya's head? Well, it was probably worth doing anyway, such as with his little hint about having something bigger than his brain ─ which Kaguya found improbable. "I thought so too, until it happened," he said initially. Kaguya's current curiosity, or lack thereof, had him thinking she may have had a pretty good at-home situation going. Was that another point of difficulty? Perhaps. . .

Ah, but what of the situation around Miko's parents? It seemed Kaguya shared a healthy amount of skepticism as well, knowing enough about politics to understand their brand of lip service. Risa's hospitalization lasted for nine months. That was precisely what Yugi expected, but also precisely what he didn't want to hear. Things were falling inline with an idea he toyed with earlier... and didn't like. Miko's parents had the most limited public appearances possible, and a Kaguya who went fishing for information was warned against continuing her search. Yugi sighed deeply. It was looking more and more like the root of this situation was wrapped around him, which he'd have to take responsibility for eventually. One question plagued his mind though. "I'm guessing you didn't get as far as identifying children born in the prefecture around the end of that hospitalization? Or maybe any mention of trauma being connected to Eternal Sleep?"

Taking in a lot of information through the eyes, was something Kaguya could agree with. She could easily say she did a lot of watching as a person, she could see a lot in people in just a few moments of conversation. "The ability to improvise is important, you can never account for things going completely to plan~" Kaguya mused. Perhaps that was simply playful advice and agreement. Or maybe it meant something, she wasn't really sure but she'd opened her mouth to say it just the same. Moving on from that bit of the conversation, apparently whatever the boy found larger than his brain was something he wasn't expecting. Interesting... the fact that he didn't just name it likely meant he was being a little pervert, Kaguya was sure of this, but while she wouldn't bite, she wouldn't hold it against him either. "Sou ka, enjoy the surprises then. Don't want life to get boring♥~" Kaguya said as if it was a perfectly reasonable thing to say.

Moving on all the information she gave Yugi, was exactly the sort of thing that Kaguya had expected. It seemed he also connected directly the idea of that hospitalization to a gestational period as well. "Eternal Slumber is connected to mana incompatibility. A body that can't handle an influx of mana begins to shut down. My guess is that it could come from exposure to a Gate or a Dungeon break, but even in the earliest times those didn't happen super frequently," Kaguya explained about the Eternal Slumber first because she was also suspicious. "And I did check the hospital... I had an in, a nurse who once treated my mom, recognized me and pulled me aside for a coffee. We had a nice chat..." Kaguya mentioned. "She told me of a rumor or rather a ghost story about a baby being born and going into a monitoring room and a man walking out. On the record a still birth took place, but having babies is still very dangerous to both mother and child so... that isn't exactly unusual, ya' know?" Kaguya said, but her words were bitter and confused. It didn't make sense to take a baby or kill it. And the nurse in question wouldn't have put herself in danger just to lie. Kaguya had been as comforting as possible, making sure they just talked about her own mother directly, in case they were being spied on. But still there was nothing to be done after coming across that information. A young detective started making the rounds soon after, with a visage she found a bit familiar but surely that was just a coincidence.