I Sealed Sukuna’s Finger#393+394: Harem Assembly! From Small to Big

Fortunately, Mrs. Aiba had developed good early-to-bed, early-to-rise habits over the years. She'd basically wake up for morning exercise every day, then spend the entire day drinking tea, chatting, and shopping with her girlfriends, not returning until seven or eight at night. At this hour—with lunch approaching in another hour—she'd never be home.

This saved Asagi from having to eat breakfast outside just to avoid her mother's gaze.

After all, if she came out of her room alone in the morning, that was fine—normal for high school girls.

If she came out with Bokue, that was also okay—Japan had no concept of "too young to date," and girls living with their boyfriends was normal.

Even if she came out with Liala, that would be no problem either—they were both girls, she could just say a female classmate had come over to hang out.

But if she not only woke up with Bokue but also emerged from the room with Liala alongside them—that would be a huge problem.

Two women, one man—such a combination would definitely make Mrs. Aiba wonder if her daughter had gotten into some questionable activities.

But since Mrs. Aiba wasn't home, no need to worry about that.

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Scene shift to the downstairs living room—

Having dressed and freshened up, Asagi now sat at the dining table, facing Liala across from her.

Bokue wasn't sitting with them at the table. He was currently in the living room's open kitchen, contemplating what to make for breakfast while looking at three empty plates.

No one spoke at the table. The atmosphere was slightly silent, though only Asagi felt awkward.

Liala across from her still wore that smiling expression, as if little flowers were dancing all around her, emanating waves of pleasant fragrance.

Is she really that happy...

The blonde girl couldn't help complaining internally.

And whether it was her imagination or not, that subtle sense of displacement from the bedroom earlier was becoming increasingly obvious.

Again—normal people learning about her, Bokue, and Rias's group from the Underworld should theoretically be surprised first, then turn to gossip.

But somehow, Liala gave her the feeling that aside from initial surprise, there was no other reaction.

If anything, it was... satisfaction?

No idea what she was so satisfied about...

Asagi shook her head internally, speechless.

Just then, Bokue's inquiring voice came from the kitchen.

"Is bacon and egg pasta okay for breakfast?"

"Oh..."

Asagi responded reflexively.

But Liala across from her stood up directly, heading toward the kitchen while speaking:

"I'm fine with anything, no dietary restrictions... Oh, need help?"

"No need, it's already done. Just help carry it over."

With a crisp finger snap, as Bokue stepped aside, three steaming plates of bacon and egg pasta appeared on the stove.

"Wow~ It looks delicious!"

Liala clapped her hands in appreciation, then picked up two plates, turning toward Asagi still sitting at the table.

"Alright, come have breakfast, Miss Aiba."

"Thanks..."

Asagi reflexively thanked her out of modern young person's polite habit when accepting the breakfast, only realizing after the words left her mouth.

Wait, why was she saying thanks? This was her own home!

And stop acting like an old married couple, you two!!

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Meanwhile, at the Gremory household in the Underworld—

"Alright, I'm full."

In the dining room, Rias put down her utensils after her last bite of breakfast, pushing her chair back from the table. After wiping her mouth with a napkin, she glanced at Akeno, Kuroka, Mio Naruse, and the others clearly ready to go on her right, then turned to her mother at the head of the table.

"We're leaving now, Mother."

"Mm, go ahead. Be safe on the road. You remember everything you need to do?"

Venelana put down her wine glass, her lips moist with deep red wine as she smiled.

"Of course!"

Kuroka forcefully punched the air, striking Jonouchi's classic pose.

"Today we must capture Bokue thoroughly, then squeeze him dry until the end of time!"

"That's not it at all..."

Rias held her forehead as if in pain.

Well... though she also wanted to do what Kuroka said, there were other serious matters to handle first.

"With half a month until school starts, we have three things to do during this time—first, Itogami Island's ownership; second, merging Kuoh Academy with Saikai Academy; and third, building the new house."

"Kuroka doesn't care about that stuff, nya~ That's your business, Rias, nya,"

The black-haired cat-eared girl turned her head away, pretending she hadn't heard anything.

Rias glanced sideways: "Oh? You say you don't care, so even after we all move into the new house with Bokue, you plan to ignore everything and stay in the now-empty apartment building as a stray cat?"

"That's impossible, nya~"

Kuroka completely ignored the red-haired girl's mockery, shaking her head and humming:

"I just need to follow Bokue anyway. Wherever he goes, I'll follow."

"Good. Since you say that, you can't ignore everything, because Bokue has things to do too."

Rias stepped back from the table, turning toward the dining room door.

"Let's go. Grayfia-neesan has prepared the train. We should depart—"

Before she finished, spatial magic fluctuations suddenly rippled through the dining room, then immediately dissipated without a trace.

?

Rias instinctively looked back, but where a certain kimono-clad cat girl had been standing was now empty.

"Really... she just teleported directly? Traveling between worlds without going through customs counts as smuggling..."

The red-haired girl held her forehead again.

Behind her, Akeno Himejima covered her mouth with a light laugh.

"Can't be helped. Kuroka-san never cared about such things anyway, and it really has been a while since seeing Bokue. Not just Kuroka-san—even I really want to teleport directly over."

"That won't do."

Rias pouted in warning.

"She's a stray devil anyway, so of course she doesn't care. But our Gremory family is one of the seventy-two pillar families. If we did that, it would be seen as provoking conflict and we'd be held accountable."

Right, at least not yet.

Akeno chuckled: "You're right, President. So let's hurry and depart, reaching Bokue through 'legal channels' as quickly as possible~"

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Scene shift to Asagi Aiba's home on Itogami Island—

The three were still eating breakfast around the table when spatial magic fluctuations suddenly rippled through the air above.

The next second, Kuroka—who'd vanished from the Gremory castle dining room—suddenly appeared, diving headfirst with arms spread in a cat-pounce toward the youth at the table.

"Bokue, I'm here~ Let's make lots of kittens together! Eh... who are they?"

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Actually, Bokue had sensed something was wrong the moment familiar magical fluctuations rippled overhead. He just hadn't expected Kuroka to arrive so suddenly, without warning, and from such a tricky angle.

The instant Kuroka appeared from the teleportation circle, Bokue vanished from his seat.

The fork he'd been holding floated in midair without his hand's support, while the youth's form had already appeared beside Kuroka above.

Bokue caught the suddenly-spawned cat-eared girl in his embrace before vanishing again. When he reappeared, he was back in his original seat, smoothly catching the fork before it could start falling.

The entire process took less than a tenth of a second. Setting Liala aside, from Asagi's perspective, the youth seemed to have suddenly adopted Dragon Ball animation style—blurring with Dragon Ball-style super-speed combat for an instant before a kimono-clad cat girl appeared in his arms.

"This... wait, who are you now?!"

Finally rescuing her brain from the sudden intrusion and sorting her thoughts, Asagi instantly bristled.

What was this, everyone bullying her for being too easygoing first thing in the morning?! Bad enough waking up with one of Bokue's friends suddenly in bed, now a cat-eared girl literally spawned in and was sitting in her boyfriend's lap?!

Like she didn't exist!

"Hmm~ Are you asking me? Big Sister here wants to know too—who's this blonde little girl, nya? And why is Lady Liala here too, nya?"

Realizing outsiders were present, Kuroka immediately dropped her usual free-spirited manner when alone with Bokue. Her exquisite face's smile faded slightly, her tail emerging from beneath the kimono curling into a question mark shape in the air.

"Aha, it's been a while, Miss Kuroka."

Liala waved first with a smile. After all, they were comrades who'd fought the Council of Cardinals together in the Northern Territory, and especially given her particularly intimate relationship with Bokue, she greeted her quite politely.

"I'm here purely by coincidence. With the Northern Territory's situation gradually stabilizing, I felt comfortable leaving everything to Leo-chan to manage. With nothing else to do, I came to the human world planning to travel a bit. I just told Bokue-kun about this earlier."

"Oh, I see..."

Kuroka nodded in understanding.

But before she could continue, the blonde girl beside her couldn't take it anymore and completely exploded.

"What do you mean 'I see'?! See nothing! Asking who I am—why don't you say who you are first? Suddenly appearing in my house and sitting on my boyfriend—who are you?!"

"Boy... friend?"

Kuroka tilted her head, touching her finger to her lip as she carefully chewed over those three words, the blonde girl's face reflected in her narrowed golden vertical pupils.

She wasn't deliberately releasing pressure, not even a ripple of magical power around her, but Asagi felt an enormous danger approaching.

Like being given an appraising glance by nature's apex predator.

After all, all of Kuroka's cuteness, playfulness, even silliness was reserved for Bokue alone.

In front of him, she was a lewd kitty whose entire mind was focused on "expanding the clan."

But before others, she was Kuroka—a [Transcendent] standing godlike above billions of living beings.

Just as the atmosphere at the table was becoming delicate, and Bokue was about to intervene, Kuroka sitting in his lap suddenly exclaimed, hammering her fist into her palm in realization.

"Big Sister gets it now, nya! No wonder you looked familiar—you're that Asagi Aiba, nya?"

"It's Asagi Aiba, not Asagi Aiba-nya!"

The terrifying feeling from before seemed like an illusion as the blonde girl's mouth twitched.

"And how do you know my name?"

"How do I know? Because Bokue told me ages ago, nya~"

Finally understanding the current situation, Kuroka relaxed in Bokue's lap and began licking her paws right in front of the other two girls at the table.

"Maybe six or seven years ago? Anyway, Big Sister was still traveling with Bokue then. We chatted a bit about 'childhood friends,' and that's when I learned one of Bokue's childhood friends was named Asagi Aiba."

So that's how it was...

Asagi's feelings suddenly became complicated.

She was happy that Bokue had never forgotten her all these years, even chatting about her with new acquaintances.

But she also felt regret—regret that she hadn't been able to "travel" with Bokue then, leading to their ten-year separation.

"Huhuhu~ But don't be too sad, because you never had any chance anyway, nya,"

"...What?"

Asagi was stunned by the cat-eared girl's zero-frame taunt.

Kuroka continued licking her paw, humming: "Ever heard the saying 'childhood friends can't beat heaven-sent'? Bokue's first time was taken by Big Sister when he was ten years old, nya~"

T-ten years old?!

The blonde girl was thoroughly shocked by this data.

Normally at that age, those functions shouldn't even work yet?!

"Hmm, thinking back, Bokue was so small then, only coming up to about here on Big Sister's chest."

Kuroka stopped licking her paw, her face showing reminiscence of those glorious past days.

"Back then, Bokue would never stop until Big Sister's belly was swollen, and afterward, he'd cling on reluctantly, not wanting to let go..."

"Those details aren't necessary!"

Asagi couldn't take it anymore.

Really now, why tell her such detailed things?!

"I find it quite interesting though."

Liala across the table propped her cheek on one hand with a smile, looking exactly like a melon-eating spectator enjoying the show.

Of course, provided you ignored her other hand under the table, currently pressing against her lower abdomen through her thin dress, moving slightly as if measuring something.

If it were her with little Bokue-kun making her belly all swollen...

As she thought about it, moisture began seeping beneath Liala's dress.

Seeing the three girls seemingly reaching some kind of consensus, Bokue cleared his throat as a reminder:

"So Kuroka, why did you suddenly come over? Did something happen in the Underworld?"

"Something happen? No?"

The lewd cat girl, who'd been completely focused on bragging about her glorious achievements and forgotten her actual business, blinked blankly twice before suddenly remembering she hadn't mentioned her reason for coming at all.

"Oh, now that you mention it, Bokue, I remember—right... let's conquer Itogami Island together before Rias and the others arrive!"