The Goddess Needs A Break!

"Ehhhh, what a good speech..." Akari looked at Takei in pure wonder. "You took my advice to heart, didn't you?"

"Of course, it was a revelation from the goddess herself. I had to abide," Takei nonchalantly shrugged.

"Hehe, thanks. You did a good job on such short notice." Akari patted Takei on the back instead of his hair because she didn't want to mess up his styled hair. "What reward would you like?"

"Let's save this for later. I feel like I'm going to be hurt soon if this continues," Takei shuddered from the numerous stares aimed at him due to his public display of affection with Akari.

"I'll be waiting~"

After Takei finished giving his wonderful speech, the crowd cheered and got out of their seats to participate in the events.

There was a lot of food that was set up in a buffet-style format that made it easy to grab whatever food was desired.

On the entertainment side, Takei had a hand in helping decide which events would be here to appeal to the guests.

"Would you like to check out the bouncy house with me?"

He outstretched his hand and offered it to Akari.

"With pleasure," Akari replied as she grasped his hand.

The two headed towards the conveniently-placed and colorful bouncy house that was situated in a corner of their backyard.

A few of their friends seemed to be enjoying themselves in there before Takei and Akari had arrived, which only further incited Takei's drive to have some fun.

He was about to ask Akari if she wanted to enter the bouncy house, but the sparkles in her eyes already held the answer.

The both of them took off their shoes at the entrance and entered the bouncy castle.

"Kyaaa!"

"Woah, watch your step," Takei caught Akari as she almost slipped and fell inside the bouncy house. "Haaah... These guys are jumping at full force inside this kiddie bouncy house. Looks like they need to be disciplined."

He spotted Eiji and Ryuto jumping as hard as they could inside the bouncy house, which was the reason why Akari slipped in the first place.

The uneven terrain and the strong rumblings made it easy to lose your balance within the bouncy house.

"Thank you," Akari recovered from falling down. "I have an idea on how to get revenge on them, care to help me?"

"Let's do it."

Akari quickly whispered the details of the plan into Takei's ear and he nodded as a show of affirmation.

The two of them silently walked up to either side of Eiji and Ryuto and gave each other a sign of affirmation.

"Oh Takei! What are you guys doing here?" Eiji curiously asked them.

"Why do you and Akari look like you're about to do something bad to us?" Ryuto nervously asked.

Once both sides were in agreement, Takei and Akari enacted their grand plan of revenge.

Both of them put an unimaginable amount of force into their legs and jumped as high as they possibly could, which resulted in...

"Woah!"

"Agh?!"

...A large amount of force being pushed into the floor of the bouncy house when they landed.

Due to Eiji and Ryuto being in the middle of this happening, they were haphazardly thrown into the air without a care for their well-being.

Since they had no balance and were not expecting the sudden feeling of being airborne, both of them fell back down to the floor face first.

"Ouch, what was that for?!" Eiji yelled at the two bringers of justice.

"You hurt Akari by making her slip when she first entered the bouncy house. Think of this as your punishment, even though it is a light one," Takei explained to him in a menacing voice.

In reality, Takei was not mad at all and knew that Eiji and Ryuto did that by accident.

However, he still wanted to punish them for hurting his beautiful girlfriend.

"I am so very sorry, my lord!" Ryuto prostrated himself in front of Takei. "Off with my head it is!"

"Like hell I will!"

I thought we were finally finished with that master-servant complex that he had, but now it's back in full force?! I thought you were cured already!

Takei noticed that there were a large amount of guests heading toward the bouncy house, so he decided it was time to go. "It's time to relinquish this place to the little kids. Let's leave."

Akari seemed a bit disappointed that they had to leave even though they just got here, but Takei promised her that they would go back and have fun later when there weren't any more little kids occupying the bouncy house.

"Pinky promise?"

"E-Erm..."

Takei wasn't expecting his girlfriend to ask him such a childish thing, but he obliged nonetheless due to how cute she was.

"Okay, sure."

"Yay~"

He wrapped his left pinky finger around her right pinky finger and finished the promise with her.

Once this was done, the four of them exited the bouncy house together as all the young children rushed in to play.

Amidst the crowd of children, there was one specific child that Takei knew very well.

"Big brother!"

"Gufuu!"

What a weird sense of deja vu... I feel like this has happened before...

Takei was tackled by a little girl that he was very familiar with, although he managed to stay on his feet this time.

"Hello, Shiori. You having fun?"

"Mhm! There's a lot of yummy food and fun stuff to do!"

Shiori Ayase was the little girl that Takei had helped on a few occasions who ended up growing attached to Takei due to his kind nature.

"Make sure you play in moderation, okay? Your mom wouldn't be happy if you got hurt somehow," Takei told her.

"Okay! Whatever big bro says is the law!"

Uhh, I don't think that's actually true, but I don't feel like correcting her right now...

"Have fun then!" Takei waved to her.

"See you later!" Shiori waved back as she headed inside the bouncy house.

I hope those other kids are going to be okay. I'm not scared about what'll happen to Shiori, rather I'm scared what will happen to those other kids. Shiori can get a bit intense when she's playing with others...

"Agh?!"

A loud scream from a little kid could be heard from the bouncy house, but Takei ignored it and kept his focus on walking away.

I don't even want to know what just happened, but good luck everyone. You're gonna need it.

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Supreme Idiot Couple Meter: 25 -> 29%

Shiori, The God of Destruction.

Sugar-chan: Open wide~

Serious-san: Aaahhn...