Chapter 266: No Escape
<span style="font-weight:400">Meanwhile, Soi Fon saw Kazuya distracted and used her greatest assets — quick reflexes and exceptional core strength. Gaining momentum with a quick swing, she catapulted her upper body and reached out, grabbing the window frame.
<span style="font-weight:400">Using her newfound bnce, she whipped her free leg over his head and kicked him right in the biceps. The sharp pain of her explosive heel made him wince, his grip loosening for a moment. She immediately wrestled her ankle free.
<span style="font-weight:400">Her lips curled into a victorious smirk as she let go of the window frame and let her body sumb to the gravity. She had outsmarted him and escaped his clutches. The satisfaction had her feeling like she was on cloud nine.
<i><span style="font-weight:400">‘So easy.’</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">Victory was in her grasp—until she felt something prevent her fall. Her happiness came crashing down as she registered the smirk on Kazuya’s face.
<span style="font-weight:400">He had seized her wrists with speed faster than she could follow. “Where do you think you’re going, Darling?”
<span style="font-weight:400">The thought of another defeat at his hands made her blood boil.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I won’t let you!”
<span style="font-weight:400">With a spirited roar, she kicked the window with both legs, using the momentum to propel herself. Her legs coiled around his neck, and she pulled him down with her entire weight.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Let go of me. Now!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Fine.”
<span style="font-weight:400">He released her wrists and took hold of her butt, using it to lift her. Thest time she wrapped his thighs around him, he had barely felt anything because of her loose clothes. The skin-tight suit made her muscr legs feel quite nice around his neck.
<span style="font-weight:400">{Death by snu-snu?}
<span style="font-weight:400">Soi Fon wriggled. “I’m sorry for everything. Can you stop groping me there?!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Only if you promise to stay and answer my questions.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I promise.”
<span style="font-weight:400">She had never been in a more awkward position, so she had to relent to him. Every breathing out of his mouth caressed her crotch, making her more conscious about theck of panties on her lower body.
<span style="font-weight:400">Kazuya got ast squeeze of her firm ass before letting go. “There you go, Soi—”
<span style="font-weight:400">She cupped his face. “Don’t say my name.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Whatever.”
<span style="font-weight:400">She suddenly grabbed his hair and made him look up at her. “How will I enter the room like this?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Why do you want to enter my bedroom?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I can’t answer your questions like this. Let mee in, or meet me outside.”
<span style="font-weight:400">He freed himself from the grasp of her thighs and gently shoved her. The hot-headed assassin fell down from the first floor in slow motion, her eyes wide from his betrayal.
<span style="font-weight:400">Although she was surprised, hernding was graceful andpletely silent, as though she weighed less than a feather. She looked up at him with a frown. “Why did you do that?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Somehow, she didn’tpletely lose her marbles over his small prank. Perhaps the constant defeats at his hands had humbled her.
<span style="font-weight:400">He pointed at the door. “Guests are only allowed through the front door.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...”
<span style="font-weight:400">She quietly walked up to the door. “It’s locked. Can I break it?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“No! Come through the window.”
<span style="font-weight:400">She clicked her tongue and leaped up. Using the window as the tform, she bounded into the room and yanked off her mask. The sight of almost naked Rukia and Momo on the bed nearly made her trip over.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You—”
<span style="font-weight:400">Kazuya ced a hand on her mouth and dragged her out of the room before she had the chance to disturb Momo and Rukia. He took her to another room and shut the door.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You can speak now.”
<span style="font-weight:400">She gritted her teeth, pointing a finger at him. “You! You are the worst for sleeping with them after Yoruichi-sama favored you. She deserves better than you.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Better than me? Does that person’s name start with Soi and end with Fon?”
<span style="font-weight:400">She froze, as if struck by lightning. “No… I have no romantic feelings for Yoruichi-sama.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Averting your eyes from reality won’t do anything. Everyone knows how much you adore Yoruichi.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I DO NOT!” Soi Fon snapped, her figure trembling with fury. “Why would I challenge her to a deathmatch if I had feelings for her?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Deathmatch? As in a fight to the death?”
<span style="font-weight:400">He had no inkling of this promised deathmatch between Yoruichi and Soi Fon. But he could tell that this happened the day he found them rxing in the hot spring.
<i><span style="font-weight:400">‘Yoruichi wants to keep me out of this.’</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">Soi Fon slowly nodded her head. “It’s a fight with some chances of death. I have to prove to Yoruichi-sama that she is nowhere as strong as she was before… And I’m strong enough for...”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Strong enough for? Were you trying to say something?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Soi Fon waved her hand dismissively. “Forget I said anything.”
<span style="font-weight:400">She walked toward the door, reaching for the knob. Kazuya took her hand and inserted himself between her and the door. He won’t let her go that easily.
<span style="font-weight:400">Soi Fon looked at him with a sharp glint in her eyes. “Don’t push my limits. You might have beaten me in a fight, however, I’m still your superior. You’re preventing me from performing my duties.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Knowing that fighting him would end up in her humiliation, she tried to use or rather abuse her position.
<span style="font-weight:400">Kazuya chuckled as he ced a hand on her head, ruffling her hair. “You silly little thing. Do you think I know nothing about you and Yoruichi? I know the reason for this deep resentment in your heart.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Soi Fon pped his hand away and clenched her jaw. She began to despise Yoruichi a little for willy-nilly sharing their past with an ‘outsider’. “It does not matter. I won’t go back on my decision.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I won’t interfere with your promised deathmatch. And since it’s the most important battle in your life, shouldn’t we raise the stakes a little?”
<span style="font-weight:400">His grin, when paired with the gleam in his eyes, gave her an ominous feeling.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What stakes?”
<span style="font-weight:400">But she didn’t back out, for she wasn’t a coward like Yoruichi.
<span style="font-weight:400">Kazuya crossed his arms. “If Yoruichi loses, you’ll get whatever Yoruichi promised you, plus I’ll distance myself from her for five hundred years.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Soi Fon narrowed her eyes. “Throwing away the rtionship on a bet… you once again prove that you aren’t suited for Yoruichi-sama.”
<span style="font-weight:400">He only revealed a faint smile at her disappointed look. “Then defeat Yoruichi and make me leave her side. If you lose, however, you’ll be my information agent for the next five years. You won’t find a better deal anywhere.”
<span style="font-weight:400">{Yo, Partner. Don’t scam the hundred-year-old kid.}
<span style="font-weight:400">“I agree,” Soi Fon said without taking a moment to consider. “I won’t lose to an out-of-shape Yoruichi-sama. Nah, I’d win and kick you out of her life.”
<span style="font-weight:400">The level of confidence she exuded would have been awe-inspiring, if only Kazuya hadn’t already known the oue of the match. In the main timeline, she lost to Yoruichi who hadn’t battled for 150 years. His Yoruichi had warmed up with a few battles. More importantly, she had her own inner Hollow to empower her.
<span style="font-weight:400">Yoruichi would wipe the floor with Soi Fon any day of the week.
<span style="font-weight:400">He nodded. “It’s a deal. When will this match happen?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“We haven’t decided yet.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Make it tomorrow.” He stepped away from the door. “Yoruichi is in the living room. Inform her about the date. Be quiet about our arrangement.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Soi Fon’s sour expression vanished, reced with gleaming joy. With his permission, she could talk to Yoruichi without any barriers.
<span style="font-weight:400">In high spirits, she left the room.
<span style="font-weight:400">{Partner, what if Yoruichi threw the match?}
<i><span style="font-weight:400">‘I have a few measures to guarantee her victory. If she still loses… I’ll have to kill Soi Fon.’</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">There was no world in which he’d let a wager force him to leave Yoruichi. He liked her too much for that to happen.
<span style="font-weight:400">{Partner’s yandere level is rising. It’s making me hot~.}
<i><span style="font-weight:400">“Father, can I p Izanami?”</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">{You’ll be pping yourself, Idiot. We share the same body.}
<i><span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll p you when I recreate my body.”</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">{When will you do that?}
<i><span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll try it when Father returns home. I don’t want to alert his enemies here with my Reiatsu.”</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">{Oh lord, this girl is so considerate. I sure hope she didn’t traumatize her father’s best partner by imprisoning in a cage.}
<i><span style="font-weight:400">“…”</i>