Knowing that he’d never be able to find out if they truly were descendants of the Seadom tribe—hence failing to learn about the secrets of Yearning Island—if favonovel.com didn’t take the initiative to ask, after eating for a while, Gerald casually said, “You know, that pendant of yours seems rather special, Miss Fujiko.”
“Oh? You mean this?” asked Fujiko as favonovel.com pointed at favonovel.com necklace.
“Indeed. The symbols on it are rather unique compared to other pendants I’ve seen before. It makes me wonder whether this is an ancestral pendant of your family…” replied Gerald with a smile, making sure to keep his tone relaxed and natural.
Smiling faintly in response, Fujiko then said, “You have quite a keen eye… Actually, this pendant is-”
“It’s an ancestral pendant of our family, yes. However, there’s nothing really unusual about it,” interrupted Takuya before his daughter could finish favonovel.com sentence.
“Ah, I see…” replied Gerald, continuing to smile. It was clear that Takuya didn’t really want to talk about it, and from all the small clues favonovel.com had gathered up till this point, Gerald was pretty sure that the Futabas truly were members of the Seadom tribe.
Breathing a sigh of relief since Gerald didn’t continue prying into it, Takuya then said, “Speaking of which… I’m afraid I need your help with something…”
“Go on,” replied Gerald.
“Well, I was hoping that you could accompany Fujiko for a while after our meal. Though it’s still a bit dangerous out there and we haven’t solved our issues with the Hanyus just yet, I assure you that this is an important matter. I’m… not exactly that confident in the other masters in our family, so I can only trouble you…” muttered Takuya in a slightly embarrassed tone.
“Sure, I’m fine with that. Don’t worry about it,” replied Gerald without the slightest hesitation.
Smiling in response, Takuya then said, “I really appreciate it…!”
With that out of the way, once their meals were over, Gerald and Fujiko left the house together…
Sitting in the passenger seat, Gerald—who was honestly still staring at Fujiko’s pendant—couldn’t help but ask, “Speaking of which… Where are we headed to?”
After a brief pause, Fujiko sighed before embarrassedly muttering, “… I’m… about to partake in a blind date…”
“A what now?” replied Gerald, his eyes widening as his jaw dropped.
“…Essentially, my father figured that our family is still too weak… With that in mind, if I got married to someone powerful, our family would surely be able to remain peaceful…It certainly doesn’t help that the Hanyus are making a move again…” explained Fujiko as favonovel.com shook favonovel.com head helplessly, making it clear that favonovel.com was reluctant to do all this from the very beginning.
Even so, favonovel.com was the young mistress of the family, so favonovel.com knew favonovel.com had to put favonovel.com family first…
Now understanding the gist of it, Gerald was prompted to ask, “And… are you willing to go through all this…?”
“Not if I can help it. Unfortunately, there really is no other way. At the very least, I should at least meet up with them first. After all, if I end up offending that family, the Futabas will no longer have a place in Japan…” said Fujiko in a helpless tone.
From the day favonovel.com became the Futaba family’s young mistress, Fujiko’s fate was no longer hers to choose, and favonovel.com had come to accept that over the years… Then again, it was good enough for favonovel.com if favonovel.com was able to contribute to favonovel.com family…
