After Transmigrating to Become Lady Skylark - Chapter 26

Chapter 26

Cockpit.

Tetsuya Kusakabe heard the call from the cabin and instinctively answered, ” Kyoya Hibari?… Yes, I will contact ground control immediately… If we change the flight path, it will take another hour to land at the target airport…”

Because he was focused on the instrument panel and thinking about making a sudden landing request to the destination airport, Kusakabe didn’t ask too many questions. But after the communication was cut off, he couldn’t help but wonder: Is something happening in the cabin?

At the same time.

Cabin lavatory.

Jin Chaoyan changed out of her nightgown and held up the dark purple shirt in the mirror. For a moment, it was really difficult to decide whether it was more ambiguous to wear the shirt or not wear it.

A moment later, looking at her face which was now flushed without being drunk, Jin Chaoyan took a deep breath, rubbed her face, and warned herself not to overthink it. The man outside had a marriage agreement with the original owner and was living separately. He probably didn’t have a romantic bone in his body.

Besides, according to the anime setting, Kyoya Hibari probably wouldn’t be interested in giving her, a powerless little herbivore, a second glance.

Good.

If I’m not embarrassed, someone else will be.

After self-hypnotizing, Jin Chaoyan put on the shirt with a calm demeanor, casually buttoning it from the collar down. She looked down and saw that the hem of the shirt reached her knees. She still felt completely insecure, with a chilly feeling.

So she opened the door and poked her head out to ask, “Um… dear, can I borrow a jacket?”

When she needed a favor, Jin Chaoyan was always very tactful with her words.

The man, who had just put down the communication phone on the wall, turned his head slightly. He saw her head with her messy hair poking out from behind the door. A strand of fine hair was wrapped around her neck. His gaze swept over her slightly smile, her slightly crooked collar, her rolled-up sleeves, and the longest part of the hem that vaguely swept her knees.

He didn’t speak. Jin Chaoyan couldn’t tell if he agreed or not. Seeing him look at the clothes on her, she thought for a moment and tried to suggest, “If you don’t want to lend it, can I buy it?”

—Use his card to buy his clothes?

A hint of sarcasm flashed in Kyoya Hibari’s phoenix-like eyes. He walked to the cabinet that Hibird had opened earlier, pressed another button, and from the rising wardrobe, he casually took out a suit jacket and threw it towards Jin Chaoyan. He said in a faint voice:

“You buttoned it wrong.”

Before he could lecture her about the Disciplinary Committee, Jin Chaoyan quickly caught the jacket and replied in a flurry, “Yes, yes, I’ll fix it right away. Please be magnanimous, Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee, and forgive me this one time.”

Hearing the long-unheard title “Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee,” Kyoya raised an eyebrow. But Jin Chaoyan didn’t notice his expression. She caught the little bird that was happily calling “Jin Chaoyan” and flying towards her. She then went back into the lavatory and closed the intricately carved door again.

Forty minutes later.

Tetsuya Kusakabe’s voice rang out on the cabin’s intercom. “Pardon the interruption. Kyoya Hibari. We have successfully contacted J City ground control and have received landing approval. The plane is preparing to lower its altitude. Please be sure to pay attention to safety.”

Jin Chaoyan, who was sitting across the aisle from Kyoya in another single seat, heard this and unbuckled her seatbelt to get ready. Because Hibird was perched on her head, her head movements were minimal. Even so, a very faint scent entered her nose.

But from her recent encounters, Jin Chaoyan didn’t think Kyoya Hibari was the type to wear perfume.

Is it a long-lasting laundry detergent?

She quickly dismissed this guess. Based on the fact that the man’s suits were almost never the same, Kyoya didn’t seem like the type to wear clothes repeatedly for a long time. And this scent wasn’t entirely the floral type used in laundry detergent…

But if she had to describe it, Jin Chaoyan couldn’t put it into words.

She guessed wildly. When she came back to her senses, she realized that the plane had already landed at the airport. She looked out the cabin window and saw a line of red lights that were exceptionally bright in the night. The words “Welcome to XX Airport” were written on them in Chinese.

In that instant, she had a sense of déjà vu, as if the wall between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional worlds had been broken.

It wasn’t until the private jet came to a stop and the cabin door was connected to the airport’s boarding bridge that she looked out the window at the city she remembered visiting. She found that the overall design of the airport was completely different from what she remembered. Only then did she confirm again that she was indeed in a completely different timeline.

A hint of nostalgia and regret appeared in her violet eyes. Jin Chaoyan came back to her senses and belatedly asked the man across the aisle, “Is this your destination?”

“No.”

Kyoya Hibari tilted his head slightly, glancing at the shirt and jacket on her. Perhaps the light in the cabin was too bright, illuminating his gray-blue eyes. In any case, his face, which had a classic, cold beauty, softened at this moment, giving people the illusion of a slight smile.

Jin Chaoyan heard his extremely captivating and pleasant voice ask from a close distance:

“Do you really want to wear that outfit for another dozen hours and go to Italy with me?”

“…!”

The person who felt inexplicably mocked again responded with the crisp sound of unbuckling her seatbelt. She grabbed the still-groggy Hibird from her head, put it in the suit pocket, and quickly walked towards the cabin door, wishing she could reach the airport’s duty-free shops in the next second.

She walked to the door, and just as the door between the cockpit and the cabin opened, she ran right into Tetsuya Kusakabe. He was suddenly startled, and the leaf he had just put in his mouth fell out:

“Madam?!”

“Why are you here?”

Especially after seeing the purple shirt and the obviously oversized black suit jacket on her, and realizing that her long, pale legs were exposed, Tetsuya Kusakabe’s pupils dilated in shock. He stumbled back half a step. When he tried to speak again, he didn’t know where to look.

And this time, his mouth opened and closed for a long time without a single word coming out, as if he had lost his ability to speak.

Jin Chaoyan was about to get over her embarrassment, but now seeing his eyes darting around, she raised her hand to scratch her cheek. She managed to say, “Um… it’s a long story. Anyway, I’m going to the duty-free shop to buy some clothes now.”

Tetsuya Kusakabe nodded and replied in a flurry, “Okay, I understand. I got it. Don’t worry, I’ll contact them right away to have airport staff come and take you. Do you have a specific brand in mind?”

No, what do you understand?

Jin Chaoyan’s expression was strange, but she refused to guess what was going through Kusakabe’s mind. She stepped out of the boarding bridge and turned a corner, seeing the arrival hall at the end of the corridor was bustling with people. Other flights must have also arrived nearby.

Seeing the flow of people with features and silhouettes that had Huaxia characteristics, Jin Chaoyan looked down at the overly large suit and the slightly empty hem of the shirt on her. After trying several times, she couldn’t take another step. At this moment, Hibird poked its furry little head out of her suit pocket and called to her:

“Chaoyan~ Chaoyan~”

Jin Chaoyan looked down at it. She resolutely took it and went back into the cabin.

Hearing the footsteps returning, Kyoya Hibari, who had turned off the bright cabin lights and was about to rest again, suddenly opened his eyes. He looked at the woman who had walked up to him. Then she held Hibird and had it touch his cheek with its beak.

Although Hibird didn’t know why Jin Chaoyan suddenly wanted it to kiss its owner, after doing so, it flapped its wings and happily called out, “Kyoya~”

“Mmm?”

The man responded in a low voice. He only used the light from the airport outside the window to see. His dark eyes met the woman standing in front of him. He was asking her why she was being so friendly by using his pet again for no reason.

“Ahem, there are a lot of people outside,” Jin Chaoyan tactfully introduced the topic.

“So you want me to bite all those herding herbivores to death?” Kyoya slightly raised one of his eyebrows.

No! Don’t go on a killing spree in my beautiful hometown! Not even in another timeline!

After shaking her head like a rattle, Jin Chaoyan raised her hands and held onto the back of his seat, trying to share the excellent idea she had just thought of with him:

“It’s… it’s not good for me to go out wearing this. So… I remember you have the Mist attribute ring waves? You’re so amazing, you can definitely create some kind of illusion or mist so that others can’t see me, right?”

“Oh.”

Kyoya nodded slightly and looked at her with a half-smile. “You want me to use my most hated attribute, act as my least favorite illusionist, and help you deceive yourself?”

How can a mouth that says “I love you” say something so cold?

Knowing that this person was mostly indifferent to both soft and hard tactics, Jin Chaoyan gently placed Hibird on his shoulder. She put her hands together in a sincere prayer gesture to him. Her violet eyes were filled with a plea:

“Please, my omnipotent husband.”

“I refuse.”

So straightforward. As expected of you, dog-man.

Jin Chaoyan expressionlessly recalled the expiration date of the Marriage Agreement. Thinking that this kind of life would continue for another half a year, she decided that when she got back, she would find a way to consult a lawyer on how to unilaterally end this frustrating sham marriage.

Since begging was useless, she didn’t waste any more expressions or emotions. She turned around and left, not forgetting to take Hibird from his shoulder again.

“Wait.”

Kyoya Hibari suddenly called out to her.

Jin Chaoyan turned around, quite surprised. She didn’t know why he changed his mind so quickly today. She looked at the man, who was half-illuminated and half-hidden in the shadows, like a large beast resting in the dark. She heard him say slowly:

“Is that the only thing you wanted to say?”

The woman was stumped by his question.

Then she finally remembered that she hadn’t brought her phone, or her ID, or her bag. Even if she went to the duty-free shop, she wouldn’t be able to pay with a card.

But it didn’t matter. She could just borrow from Mr. Kusakabe for now!

“Not really,” the person standing there thought for a moment and resolutely made a waving gesture to him. “But isn’t it useless to ask you?”

Watching her back disappear down the corridor, Kyoya Hibari’s lips curled into a slight smile. He picked up his phone and dialed a number:

“Tetsu, have someone clear the area for her.”

“Also, charge her purchases to my account.”

Two hours later.

Italy, Vongola Headquarters.

In the old castle with a light blue spire, a figure walked quickly through the corridor filled with murals, heading towards the office at the end.

People along the way occasionally stopped to greet him:

“Good day, Lord Gokudera.”

“Good afternoon, Storm Guardian.”

He nodded coldly. He politely knocked on the heavy wooden door. After getting permission from the person inside, his emerald eyes under his medium-length silver hair immediately held a gentle smile. “Tenth, good day. The latest intelligence is that Hibari and his wife will be arriving in Italy together. My informant got a photo of his wife at the airport in advance.”

“Oh! That’s the ultimate good news!” A voice suddenly came from the window. The sunset outside shone in, illuminating the person’s orange shirt and black tie.

“Hahaha, I never thought we would reunite for this reason. Gokudera, hurry up and show us the picture. I’m very curious.” Not far away, someone in the rest area put down their hot tea and stood up with a smile.

“Gokudera-kun.” At this moment, the person behind the desk stood up. His sky-colored eyes, like the sunset, looked at the person who had just entered. After a slight smile, he looked at the other two guardians who had already arrived, then asked thoughtfully:

“Is Hibari-senpai really bringing his wife with him this time?”

He felt that something was not quite right.

“Did your Hyper Intuition sense something?” The floor tiles near the desk opened to the side. A little baby in a pure white isolation suit slowly rose on a small sofa. He looked at Tsunayoshi Sawada curiously with his pure black eyes.

“I can’t say for now.” After thinking for a moment, Tsunayoshi Sawada shook his head. He saw that Yamamoto and Ryohei had already put their hands on Gokudera’s shoulders, one on each side, instantly making the Storm Guardian, who had become more composed in recent years, instantly irritable. He smiled. Then he heard a knock on the door.

“…Boss, am I late?”

After being allowed to enter, the woman with long, deep-purple pineapple-shaped hair opened the door and asked cautiously.

“Of course not—” The indoor projector came down. Lambo appeared on the video call. After greeting his older brothers and sisters, he glanced at Chrome with some curiosity. “But does she know about our gossip? Lambo-sama remembers she wasn’t added to the group chat.”

Hearing his voice, the woman’s expression instantly changed. She looked at the boss with some sadness. “Boss, am I not worthy of your trust?”

Tsunayoshi Sawada was stunned for a moment.

Then he belatedly remembered why Chrome wasn’t in that ridiculous group chat. After Lambo’s dangerous conclusion that “Hibari can’t do it,” a bunch of grown men in the chat started speculating about what was wrong with Hibari-senpai. They even sent links to various male enhancement ads, discussing the effectiveness of the products. In the end, they all agreed to use the Millefiore attack as an excuse to issue a summons and conduct a comprehensive physical examination.

—Is this something a lady like Chrome should know?!

“Wait a minute…”

Tsunayoshi Sawada felt a familiar pang of a heart attack. While instinctively showing a soothing smile, he frantically tried to figure out how to smooth things over with a good excuse.

But a mist suddenly filled the space where the woman was standing. The ethereal mist overflowed from her sleeves. A trident with a carved pattern gradually formed in her palm, and a low laugh spread through the office:

“Kufufu… Tsunayoshi Sawada, are you bullying my Chrome?”

“Mukuro.”

The Vongola Tenth Generation boss, who was suddenly pointed at by a trident, felt a headache coming on. He raised his hand to push the tip of the trident away. Just as he was about to explain the situation to Mukuro, he heard Lambo in the video call ask very eagerly:

“Has the Cloud Guardian arrived yet? When are you guys getting your physicals? Lambo-sama wants to see his report now!”

“Physical? Kyoya Hibari?” Hearing these two words linked together, the mist dissipated. The man standing in the room was wearing a black military coat with an open collar. He turned the weapon in his black-gloved hand, tilted his head, and his crimson eyes with the number “six” looked at the screen.

Being a man himself, he instantly connected it to something interesting. “Is there a story coming up that I can use to mock him?”

Takeshi Yamamoto looked over here. He touched the scar on his chin and suddenly said, “Mukuro, your illusion has become a reality, hasn’t it? You’ve been in the Vindice Prison for so many years. I think you need a physical too!”

“That’s the ultimate truth! You should also join us mature men’s line-up!” The married older brother Ryohei also looked at him with a menacing gaze.

Rokudo Mukuro: “?”

He turned his trident and announced with a laugh that today would be the day of Vongola’s destruction.

“Everyone, be quiet.” Reborn stroked the green chameleon perched on his head. He turned Leon into a handgun and fired a shot in the noisy room, causing everyone to look at him. Only then did he curl his lips. “Hibari will arrive sooner or later. However, we can take a look at his wife beforehand. Didn’t you guys guess she was an assassin or a swordsman? Gokudera said he has a photo.”

All eyes immediately turned to the Storm Guardian.

Gokudera, under their curious gazes, opened his phone and connected it to the other projector in the room. Under their bated breath, he had his subordinate send the photo directly. In the chat history, a picture slowly loaded, taking a long time to refresh, and then the image gradually started to appear from the top—

After more than ten seconds of long waiting.

The image slowly revealed a jawline covered by a mask, and then a pale neck.

Lambo began to laugh without hesitation: “That’s it? As expected, Idiot Gokudera is unreliable. The person is completely covered by a mask. There’s not even a side profile. You weren’t just tricked and given some random photo, were you?”

“Idiot cow, my subordinate has proof that her relationship with Hibari is not shallow.”

He said that, but Gokudera hadn’t reviewed the photo beforehand. The moment he received the news, he went straight to Tsunayoshi Sawada’s office.

He was a little nervous. Then he saw the woman’s collar appear in the photo. The purple shirt layered under the black suit collar captured everyone’s attention, and there was a tender yellow little bird squatting on her shoulder.

“It’s Hibird!”

“I’m certain now. She really is Hibari’s wife.”

Unlike others who identified the owner by the pet, Rokudo Mukuro raised an eyebrow slightly. “Oh, her clothes don’t fit very well…” A moment later, his eyes were full of interest. He commented: “She’s wearing Kyoya Hibari’s suit.”

“Hmm…”

Ryohei Sasagawa, with his short silver-gray hair, stood in front of the photo, looking at the legs at the bottom of the picture. He pondered for a moment. “But from the photo, it doesn’t look like Hibari has any physical problems.”

“?”

Everyone looked at him, the only married man in the room, with a look of wanting to learn.

“Lawn head, did you see something?” Gokudera asked curiously.

Ryohei stepped back and pointed at a mark at the hem of the woman’s clothes on the screen. “She’s wearing clothes like this, and she has a mark like that on her skin. Hana would be like that too when she and I first got together.”

“!”

Lambo was practically lying on the camera. “Really? Tell me more, in detail.”

“Lambo, get out of the chat.” Tsunayoshi Sawada looked at the underage kid who wanted to know too much. He raised the remote control, wanting to end the video call with Lambo.

Just then—

Yamamoto touched the back of his head and said with a sincere plea, “Really? If they have a harmonious life, then how could he let his wife appear alone at the airport in that state?”

The room was silent for two seconds.

Rokudo Mukuro suddenly laughed, happy to stir the pot at this moment. He intentionally said, “I have heard that some guys who are not so good in that regard have some particularly unique tastes.”

The others: “…?”

Reborn watched their reactions and let out a soft laugh. “It seems the only way to get all the answers is to wait for Hibari’s physical report.”

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