(3º person POV)

In her dream, she was having a pleasant sleep. Under the covers, she wasn’t wearing anything, which is uncommon for her. Even if she lives alone, she’s way too shy to do something like this. There was someone by her side, sleeping with her.

His arm was acting as a pillow for her. Her hand was resting on his bare chest. She deeply loves this guy who’s with her. Feeling her hand, the guys smiles, and hugs her tightly. With per purple eyes, she looks at his face.

A gentle smile, with his pale skin almost glowing by the sunlight entering through the window. His black hair gently spreading in the pillow. His ice-blue eyes looking down at her full of a gentle feeling.

She tough that he’s features are extremely beautiful. A half between European and Japanese, with mature features with sharp eyes. Smiling, he hugs her tighter, bringing her face close to he’s.

Their faces get closer, and their lips touch-

(3º Person POV, Fuyuki)

Fuyuki wakes and sit on her bed, stiffly, sweating and with her face so red that I go from her forehead to her neck and ears. Covering her face, she talks to herself:

(Fuyuki): “What the hell was that dream?! I don’t think about Hiyuuki-san in this way!”

(Iori’s POV)

Wow… just… wow…

I admit that I used some suggestion on Genbu-san by possessing her with an artificial spirit and induce her to have some dreams. I’m doing this because I wanted to get closer to her, but her feelings towards me were more of enmity rather than neutral.

So, I created an artificial spirit and made it possess her, and stir what she felt about me. I just didn’t expect that she would have that kind of dream with me…

Not that I’m complaining. It’s rather enjoyable, it seems that I’ve got myself a new toy to tease around. I watch her dream from the top of the first torii at the top of the stairs in my temple, where I usually meditate.

I’m seeing her through the eyes of the spirit in a floating mirror made of magic in front of me. I have sent the spirit to her three days ago, but I found something sleeping inside her. I had to take my time to seal it without waking it up.

After I was done, I finally could use the spirit. Since it’s an artificial spirit, it doesn’t have any type of will, and I can manipulate it freely and it causes no harm to the possessed person if I don’t want to. It doesn’t even have a form of itself.

Anyway, let’s keep the plan walking. I take the spirit out from her and let it disperse, destroying it. I take my phone and call my pet-, I mean, secretary, Lillian, the researcher who has been poking around with the authority that I gave her.

Well, I don’t really take the phone. My inventory has the feature to access the phone and make calls directly from the inventory with an interface that open the operational system of my phone in a window. After a few seconds, she picks up the phone.

(Lillian): “Yes, Iori-sama?”

(Iori): “Any new in the gang leaders?”

(Lillian): “Yes, the plan has been going as you have predicted.”

(Iori): “Excellent. Go to the next step, and wait further instructions.”

(Lillian): “As you wish.”

I turn off the call and go to town to prepare the next step. There’s a high school in the outer village, which I have taken control recently. I will need two students from there… although the students are in the summer vacation, there’s still the club activities.

(two days later, Fuyuki’s POV)

I was walking back to the inner village after buying a new case for my phone. In the way, I go through a street that takes to a school of the outer village. It’s late, time for the clubs to go home, so I see some students here and there.

(thug nº1): “Come on, let’s play a little bit!”

(thug nº2): “I promise that it will feel really good.”

Three thugs, wearing black leather jackets with red birds in their back were trying to forcefully pick up two girls. They clearly don’t want to, but the three have surrounded them. These shitty thugs are such a bother…

I guess that I understand why Hiyuuki-san kicked those gangs some time ago. It was quite a feat. Although he has been keeping them at bay with his influence like his family since his grandfather, he went on a strong wave, expulsing the gangs a few months ago. However, here they are, like cockroaches. It’s a shame that the Five Clans have to depend in the Hiyuuki family to this.

They are too busy with internal struggles, not even accepting visitors because the stupid competition for succession. Anyway, I’m no pushover, being trained in judo with black belt. I will get rid of those three, and I can use my powers if things get ugly. I have learned to create ice after all.

An ice baton will knock them out for sure. I approach, and call:

(Fuyuki): “Hey, scum trio, leave those girls alone.”

They turn to me with angry faces. The girls, taking the opportunity, run away. The thugs, noticing this, get even angrier:

(thug nº1): “This bitch! She ruined our time with those girls!”

(Thug nº3): “Let’s take it out on her instea-! Hey, she has a pretty good amount of mana…”

(Thug nº2): “Let’s capture her and sell her as a slave instead! Of course, after we have our time with her!”

I was confused about what they said, but when I get the sensation that I dived in a lake, and that the world around me changed, I get that these guys aren’t normal. A dark aura covers one of them, and I create an ice baton in a hurry.

However, it was useless. He moved way too fast, body-slamming me, throwing me against the wall. Some blood comes out from my mouth, and I fall to the ground. They laugh, approaching me. My vision gets blurry, and I can feel my consciousness seeping away slowly.

Dammit…

(Iori): “Genbu-san?”

I look to the source of the voice. Coming from the opposite direction, I see Hiyuuki Iori, with a plastic bag in his left hand. Before I could tell him to run away, the thug that attacked me attacked him in the same way. However, the unexpected happened.

Instead of being hit by the thug, he heavily punched downwards the face of the thug, making some blood splash a bit and the head of the thug heavily hit the ground. At that moment, I passed out.

(Iori’s POV)

Oh, she fainted. Both thugs that survived changed their expressions of astonishment to empty expressions. Genbu-san fainted, so they don’t need to act anymore. But man, I wasted a spy here.

This guy is dead, no doubt. Whatever. These grunts of the Red Birds are relatively weak, so my artificial spirits can possess them easily. I have a few of them possessed, making easier to keep tracks of their movements.

Since those three were easy to use and were close by, I used them. The other two come closer and drag the body away. As they do that, I give them some orders:

(Iori): “If your superior asks, say that he pissed off the shop owner. Dispose the boy.”

They both nod, silently. As they go away, I break the dream barrier that they opened. Taking Genbu-san in my arms, I fly back to the temple. She won’t wake up in some hours, even after I heal her.it will give me some time to let her rest.