As we hopped inside the car, I sent a message to Keisuke warning him that he better be standing on his port like a soldier ready for combat once we arrive. Within minutes we pulled over to Keisuke's house that did actually listen to my advice. It was odd seeing him dressed in casual attire. I asked dad to honk at him twice, and as he did I swung the door open, stretched out my head outside, and yelled.

"Get in loser, we're going shopping!" I knew there be no other such magnific opportunity for this gag, I could see his eyebrow twitching in aggravation, most likely because I called him a loser, but he held it incredibly well and strode inside the car all confused.

"What's with the shopping segment?" I turned to him, a smile plastered onto my face.

"Don't take it to heart sweetie, it's just a reference to the movie." suddenly mother clasped her hands.

"Yes, the Mean Girls I watched it recently!" Wow, she was really up to times, maybe I should watch it with her to travel back in memory lane. But I decided to brief Keisuke on the matter.

"So I thought once we are done talking with Kazutora, we can leave you two alone so you can have buddy experience. Does that sound reasonable to you?" He just nodded, not even commenting on my weird choice of words, I guess he was nervous around my parents.

"Here is your getup." I handed him a pair of fake glasses.

"What's this for?" he asked all bewildered.

"Oh we all three gonna wear it, so we got one for you as well so you don't feel left out?" he just tilted his head in puzzlement, but he didn't question me.

It didn't take that long to reach our destination, we confidently went thru the front door, like we owned the place. I allowed dad to take care of this matter, and because he was somehow famous the procedure was easier than usual. At least that's what Keisuke told me. They guided us to a secluded room, where we could talk freely, thankfully this facility didn't function like a damn prison.

Suddenly they brought Kazutora to us, he looked so confused about having so many visitors at once. Thankfully we had a round table at our disposal so all of us sat down on the chairs provided.

"Please take a seat." Kazutora looked so conflicted he had to glance at Keisuke for any confirmation of what this visit was about, but Keisuke was just as baffled. We plopped on the fake eyeglasses all three of us at the same time, sending the poor two teenagers into a bigger limbo of bewilderment.

"Thank you that you could make it." I then plopped a perm down that had our documents that I handwrote during breakfast time today.

"My secret sources have told me, you're somehow jealous of my family life." Kazutora just stayed silent, probably not expecting me to tell it in the open. Dad struck a thinking pose, by plopping his arms on the table his chin resting on his palms.

"We calculated our finances and kidnapping a teenager from our distant family shouldn't be a problem." then mom struck the same pose while adding.

"But it's not kidnapping if you join us willingly... we would be glad to have you move in as our son." then I finished the invitation speech.

"So what do you say, want to live with us?" I struck the same pose as my parents and we stared at him in wonder. Keisuke started to laugh out loud, wiping tears away from his eyes.

"This is too funny, I never thought your whole family would be this weird Michi."

"Well, I have my ways of convincing people to join the fun." Mom just patted my head, she must have enjoyed confusing people as much as I did.

"Is this for real?" Kazutora asked, as I just nodded.

"Of course... Furthermore, you need to hear the benefits of this splendid deal, I'm sorry let me brief you about it." I glanced at the paper.

"Of course the most important point is, you going to receive a really cute sister, a very good bargain I tell you so myself." I could see Kazutoras lips turning up.

"So naturally, a lot of affection is included in our package deal, things like forehead kisses, pats on the head, hugs, obviously, all once you consent." I tried to sound really profound.

"We need to take a lot of photos and make a whole album of our son." I agreed with my mother on this one. Very good suggestion indeed, it was always nice to look back at those times once they passed.

"We will also try to go to all your school events." I continued.

"Beside me, sometimes I'm too busy, but if I can I will make time." father admitted.

"There is also a weekend package like going for movies, eating together, just spending time as a family." I didn't have many experiences like so in the past or was it the future? Naturally, I was thrilled that my mom and dad liked such outings in this life.

"We include holiday family celebration, of course, if you have friends that have nowhere to go you can bring them over." awe that was so sweet of mother to say so.

"Birthday celebrations, but that's a given," Father added, I nodded would Kazutora like parties for such festivities?

"We can even start saving for college, Michi already expressed she didn't want to go to one." All the more reason to have at least one of us going there right?

"Certainly there are some catches to all those amazing benefits." I finally was about to finish our quick briefing.

"We would want you to go to therapy if you accept our offer." Keisuke was laughing at us again, probably because of how in sync we were with each other.

"Are you for real?" Kazutora asked us as if he believed we were just fooling around with him.

"Of course, we are dead serious, would be writing so much down if we weren't?" I handed him over the paper where expressed everything we told him so far.

"Would you really allow someone like me into your household?" I guess he couldn't believe such a good fate struck him.

"What is 'someone like me' supposed to mean?" I questioned as my mother stated.

"All children are born to be loved." was he perhaps moved to tears? I glanced back in his direction and saw tears forming in his sand brown eyes.

"You're not going to throw me away once you get tired of me?"

"Of course not." I saw my mom standing up and putting Kazutora in a loving hug which he returned.

"If you want we can even convince your parents to let us adopt you." which I heard would be difficult in this country but if we somehow made his mother give up her parental rights it would be free real estate.

"Does it mean I can live with you once I'm out of here?" we all nodded, even Keisuke did.

"Don't worry we adults will take care of everything," I said pounding my chest, while Keisuke rolled his eyes at me. After that dad explained the things in more detail, and how we could make it work. In the end, we left Keisuke alone so he could talk with Kazutora for himself. At last, Kazutora agreed to our deal, the therapy part too. I really hoped this would work out.

"Well, that was easier than I thought," I said to my parents while stretching. I hoped him joining us would make him less violent, would he still try to go at Mikey after all this?

"I hope it works out," I mumbled to myself as mother put me into a hug. We waited for Keisuke in the hallway. The only thing I wished for was for Keisuke to stop fueling Kazutora's delusions, I wasn't so sure the therapy would cause him to change his mind so quickly, what was I supposed to do if he joined Valhalla? I guess my parents could see I was under stress.

"It worked out, is there something else bothering you Michi?" I shook my head, if all came to it maybe I would need to follow Kazutora around. But future problems to future me I guess, I still needed to focus on collecting stats points instead.

I glanced at my stats which said:

Intelligence: 6

Luck: 6

Endurance: 4

Agility: 5

Strength: 4

Then I glanced at my mom's and dad's stats and could tell they were going up to 100. Mother had like 81 points in luck while father 85 in Intelligence. Once Keisuke was done we bid Kazutora goodbye, I promised I would visit him at least once before his release, that would happen in mid-July.

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The picture is of Michi and her cat Cupid, drawn by awesome me xD