Don't forget, the offer of only three concubines still stands!", Now that I had agreed to her bet Shiina had suddenly stopped pouting and cheerfully ran out of the bathroom.

I followed right behind her, a little worried that she seemed to sure of her chances to win the bet. After all I had agreed in the believe that there was no way in hell Mei, the poor girl who had become my 'slave' to save her father, would ever fall for me, the evil mafia leader, who led to the whole situation.

Yet, Shiina seemed entirely positive that she could do the seemingly impossible.

Of course, I also felt a little bit flattered that Mei's thoughts about me weren't the absolutely negative ones I imagined before.

Well, I had to stop feeling flattered by the time I was patting Mei's shoulders while she threw up into the toilet. Really girl, you shouldn't drink if you react to alcohol poorly!

After helping Mei to get through the hangover, I placed her to sleep on her bed and went to sleep myself.

Shiina had already snuggled herself on one corner of the bed just as if nothing had happened before. Her faint breathing lifted her flattish chest and guided my eyes to her small breasts.

I sighed. How many perverts would envy my situation and yet I really just wanted to marry this cute girl on my bed and spend the rest of my life with her!

I changed my dirty clothes and went to sleep.

The next day, Mei woke up with terrible a headache, not really surprising considering how drunk she was yesterday. She basically just spend the whole day on the bed, resting while drinking water.

I on the other hand had left to visit the University. After all I hadn't been there for quite some time. If I did not return soon, I would without a doubt lose my qualifications for the trip to japan.

Since I had left the flat and Mei was in a non-approachable state, I did not have to worry about any strange attempts Shiina could make to win the bet. It wasn't really a great idea to bother someone who was recovering from a hangover...

Luckily for me, my professor wasn’t mad about my prolonged absence. Somehow, he seemed to have been informed about the kind of injury I had received and was even quite concerned about its severity. Most likely someone from the organization had come and informed him to avoid future complications. Well it worked well for me, especially as the plans for japan hadn’t been changed in my absence.

After checking in with my professor, I took part at the usual lectures, did a few tests to prove I hadn’t fallen behind on my studies (which I hadn’t since I was ahead of everyone else in the first place) and answered a bunch of questions from my fellow students.

By the time it had become evening I was finally done and returned back.

At home Mei was still sitting on the couch and barely moving at all, but by now her headache had gone away and she was watching some sorta reality show that was currently quite popular. I had to admit that the jokes weren’t bad, but truthfully the plot was shallow.

Well, what would you expect from a comedy series in the first place?

I went and made dinner in the kitchen. There I found Shiina drinking water from a bottle.

“Seriously? I told you a million times not to drink from the bottle!”, I reprimanded her without a second thought.

She looked at me out of the corners of her eyes and put down the bottle. A smile appeared on her face.

“You will be a wonderful father.”

My face became bright red and I averted my eyes, unable to stand the sudden change in atmosphere.

“Who would want a child with someone like you?”, I said in the spurt of the moment and immediately regretted it.

Shiina looked at me, her expression a mix of shock and deeply hurt feelings. The smile that had been on her lips only a moment ago had disappeared and was replaced by trembling. This time I had really, really hurt her feeling.

“I-I didn’t mean it like th-“, I tried to apologize immediately, but before I could say anything Shiina had already shaken her head.

“You are right, who would like a child with a mindless bitch like me? I’m only your horny pet after all.”, her voice was jeering and I couldn’t bear the hurt look in her eyes. For the first time since I met her I saw Shiina earnestly cry.

The tears appeared and began to flow down her little face, a few small taints soon turning into a salty river. Shiina was really, earnestly crying. And I did not know what I should do.

My first instinct was to go and embrace her. But I couldn’t.

I did not feel that I had the right to do this anymore.

My brain struggled, trying to find something I could say, something I could do, some way I could erase the last few seconds, the hurtful words I had spouted in the heat of the moment. In the end I just stood there and watched her cry.

Mei had noticed what was going and came running towards us, confusion and surprise in her eyes. She went on to embrace Shiina and try to calm her down while I was still blankly staring at this cute, little girl that was crying in front of me. My expression was absolutely dark, my face resembling the mask of a evil god.

Finally, I couldn’t endure it anymore.

“I’m so sorry.”, I muttered and turned around. Without a second look or any hesitation I left the flat and ran down the stairway, out of the front door and onto the street. My mind was completely blank, my feelings a whirling chaos that threatened to completely swallow me.

I did not know what I did, I did not know why I did it and I most certainly did not know where I ran to, but before I even noticed I was already sprinting across the street, turning into another one and continuing my run. I continued this, running further and further until I myself did not know where exactly I had ended up.

In the end I had run for over an hour when I finally stopped, entirely soaked in sweat and still very disturbed about my own emotional breakdown. Even now I couldn’t even think about dealing with the situation back at home so instead of going back, which would have been difficult since I had no idea where I was, I pulled out my phone and dialed a number I hadn’t dialed in a long time.

“hallo?”, the person on the other end of the connection seemed very surprised to hear my voice.

“Sorry, Mike, I know I’m an ass for not getting in touch with you for this long, but I really need your help.”, it was Mike, a friend of mine which I had honestly just forgotten due to the eventful last months. I felt guilty for only calling him now that I needed emotional support. It felt dirty and wrong.

But I had no other choice.

Mike seemed to have realized my current misery from my tone of voice and gentle as he was he did not blame me for neglecting him for over two months.

“Sure, just come to my place!”, he was really a great friend…