Chapter 163: Riding Another Horse

Faced with the dazzling grace of the female knight, Kato Mitokaze naturally followed the instinct of a male creature and chose to act as a quiet and handsome young man.

After admiring her for a good while, he looked at the silly female knight on the bed who still hadn't noticed his presence, and then enviously gazed at the quilt she was riding and ravaging beneath her.

Guessing that time was running out and that any later would wake up his little brother-in-law Nawaki, Kato Mitokaze finally couldn't help but speak up to interrupt his girlfriend's elegant leisure.

"Ahem, Princess, how about changing the quilt to me lying down there so you can beat me up for a while to vent your anger? If you just ride me like that, I wouldn't mind at all!"

As Tsunade's extremely familiar voice echoed inside the bedroom, Tsunade, who had just been riding the quilt as if galloping on a steed, gradually slowed her movements until she came to a complete halt.

"Well, my body is soft where it should be soft, and hard where it should be hard. If the Princess rides on it, it will definitely feel much more comfortable than riding a quilt."

Kato Mitokaze looked with amusement at the gradually sluggish silly girl, unable to resist continuing to tease her, and deliberately said something that could easily be misunderstood.

Hearing that familiar voice once more, Tsunade completely snapped back to reality. She slowly turned her neck and spotted her boyfriend leaning against the bedroom doorframe, looking at her with a mischievous smirk.

Then, looking down at her current image and posture, Tsunade realized what had happened. Her snow-white skin rapidly transformed into a deep pink, as if she had been dropped into a dye vat.

"Ah!"

A high-pitched female shriek rang in Kato Mitokaze's ears.

Kato Mitokaze reached out to clean his ear, and fearing it would disturb little brother-in-law Nawaki's sleep, he casually cast a soul-sealing technique to isolate the sound within the bedroom.

A rustling sound came from the bed.

Kato Mitokaze thought Tsunade had already started getting dressed, but when he looked up again, the previously valiant and spirited female knight had wrapped herself tightly in the quilt, looking like a plump, wriggling caterpillar, lying facedown on the bed without moving an inch.

Amused by the silly girl pretending to be asleep, Kato Mitokaze walked from the doorway to the bedside and gave the caterpillar's plump backside a smack.

He turned his head to listen intently to the movements in Nawaki's room, confirming that he hadn't been awakened by the high-pitched shriek and was still fast asleep.

Kato Mitokaze decided to transform the caterpillar on the bed back into a female knight and let her change to a different steed for another round of galloping.

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In Tsunade's dining room, Kato Mitokaze was happily preparing breakfast. Because the female knight's equestrian exercise earlier had taken quite a while, there was no longer time to cook a complex breakfast, so he was boiling instant noodles instead.

"Clatter!"

Nawaki pushed open the dining room door and walked out while yawning, "Brother-in-law, what's for breakfast today?"

Kato Mitokaze replied without looking back, "Instant noodles."

"Where's my sister? Is she still not up?"

"She's up. She was just washing up in the bathroom a moment ago, and right now, uh, right now she's putting on makeup in her bedroom."

Kato Mitokaze sensed his girlfriend's current state and answered.

"Tch, my sister is such a hassle. Every morning she messes with all those jars and bottles, dragging her feet. I honestly don't know what you see in her, brother-in-law."

Nawaki softly muttered his complaint about his sister, which was heard precisely by Tsunade as she pushed open the door.

"Thump!"

In the familiar sibling interaction, a large bump immediately appeared on Nawaki's head.

"Why are you hitting my head first thing in the morning?" Nawaki, who had just woken up and was still dazed, complained aggrievedly to his sister.

"What did you just call me? A hassle? Say that again."

Tsunade was still feeling awkward about what happened this morning. Such a clumsy side of her had been completely seen by her boyfriend—though he had seen her clumsy moments before, never one quite this embarrassing.

First times always feel a little different. After being caught in the act of clumsiness by Kato Mitokaze in the bedroom, playing dead as a caterpillar hadn't worked, and she had even let Kato Mitokaze take advantage of the situation, switching to a different kind of "big horse" and galloping once more.

When Tsunade recalled her actions in the bedroom that morning, she still felt utterly mortified. If she had been guided into those actions by that scoundrel Kato Mitokaze, it would have been one thing, as she would at least have someone to blame.

The problem was that after waking up, Tsunade herself had taken the initiative to ride the quilt like a big horse, and she had done so while wearing only a pair of light green panties. No matter how she thought about it, she felt mortified.

This was also the real reason Tsunade had been dragging her feet putting on makeup in the bedroom. She had actually finished her makeup long ago; with her naturally gorgeous beauty that needed no enhancement, she never wasted much time on makeup and usually just touched up casually.

Tsunade was afraid that if only she and Kato Mitokaze were left alone in the dining room, he would tease her, which was why she waited until her younger brother came out before entering the dining room.

Who would have thought that right after walking in, Tsunade would hear her younger brother behind her back calling her a huge hassle who dragged her feet.

Tsunade's mind was brimming with embarrassment with no outlet, and since her brother Nawaki had walked right into the line of fire, it gave Tsunade the perfect excuse to convert her embarrassment into her familiar fists.

"You were dragging your feet, weren't you? Where did I say anything wrong?"

Nawaki, who had already lost count of how many times he had been his sister's punching bag, continued to court death by whispering after taking a punch.

"Thump!"

In the familiar sibling interaction, right beside the previous bump, another large bump appeared on Nawaki's head.

This time, Nawaki thoroughly surrendered. Bearing two large bumps on his head, he became as quiet as a chicken and sat quietly by the dining table waiting for breakfast.

Kato Mitokaze kindly reminded his little brother-in-law, "Don't provoke your sister; she's in a rather bad mood today."

"Hmph!"

Tsunade let out a dainty huff and cast a pair of sidelong glances at Kato Mitokaze: "Are you done yet? Didn't you say you were going to take Nawaki to see the old man later?"

"Done, done, don't rush me, don't rush me, my Princess!"

Kato Mitokaze smoothly served the three bowls of freshly made instant noodles to the siblings.

Kato Mitokaze had no intention of provoking his girlfriend like Nawaki did. Anyway, he had already taken plenty of advantage this morning, and right now he was feeling extremely pleased and smug. At a time like this, it was best to honestly act as a quiet and handsome young man.

"I'm digging in!" Nawaki said by the dining table, and immediately started slurping down his instant noodles.

"Oh, that's right, brother-in-law, what were you and my sister doing just now? I thought I vaguely heard a shriek from my sister."

Nawaki asked Kato Mitokaze while slurping his noodles.

Bringing up the forbidden topic!

Without batting an eye and with a calm expression, Kato Mitokaze hoodwinked his little brother-in-law, "Was there? No way, you must have been dreaming. How come I didn't hear anything?"

As he spoke, Kato Mitokaze carefully observed Tsunade's expression out of the corner of his eye.

"Thump!"

Another large bump appeared on Nawaki's head.

With a blushing face, Tsunade scolded her younger brother: "Eat your food! Even eating can't shut your mouth!"

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