After Transmigrating to Become Lady Skylark - Chapter 8

Chapter 8

“Ma’am, the jewelers have finished modifying the ring setting you commissioned. Would you like to check if any further changes are needed?”

Night, with no wind and no moon.

Jin Chaoyan had finished washing up and was lying in bed in a pale purple silk pajama set, wearing a face mask. She was looking at the design models the yacht club had sent her when she saw Chiyana’s message.

What jewel?

She blinked and opened the image in the chat box. She remembered.

Back when she didn’t know the true face of her corporate husband, she had listened to Chiyana’s suggestion and prepared a token gift for their long-awaited reunion—

But.

Now she knew her husband was Hibari Kyoya, and more importantly, judging from their arrangement of living separately, this marriage was probably just for show. Was there really a need for such a touching gesture?

Jin Chaoyan zoomed in on the modified ring setting. Compared to the original feminine design that highlighted the softness of the gemstone, the widened and more angular design made the jewel look much colder.

It’s actually pretty cool.

She imagined how the ring would look on Hibari Kyoya’s hand and quickly came to a conclusion: with hands like his, even two random blades of grass woven together from the roadside would look perfectly aesthetic.

But now there was a problem.

“If I want to change the setting back to the original design, will there be an extra charge?” Jin Chaoyan typed rapidly on her phone’s keyboard.

7NA: “?”

The all-capable butler rarely sent a question mark.

The chat showed that she was typing for a long time, perhaps wanting to ask if they had quarreled or why she had changed her mind. But after a long half-minute, the reply was:

“Because you previously approved the design, and the design has now been completed. There has already been material loss. Also, the original setting had a unique way of setting the stone, and to protect the integrity of the gemstone, there was slight damage when it was removed…”

Jin Chaoyan didn’t read any further. She understood. It meant the money had already been spent and was now down the drain. Changing it back would cost even more.

“Forget it.”

She replied. “Just leave it as it is.”

…

“Chaoyan~ Chaoyan~”

“Good morning~ good morning~”

Hibird’s voice had become Jin Chaoyan’s alarm clock. She opened her eyes to the gentle scratching of the bird’s claws on the wooden window ledge. She instinctively reached her right hand out from under the covers, felt the weight of the little bird landing on her index finger, and greeted it as it folded its wings.

“Good morning, Hibird.”

She picked up her phone with her left hand to check the time, but as expected, she was first greeted by the “dangerous person is only 500 meters away” warning from the mall. But unlike before, she decided to open the app and take a look today.

There were more items listed today than yesterday, and they were even labeled by category.

Items: [Tenseigan (Uses 0/1)], [Mera Mera no Mi – 5-minute limited experience]

Abilities: [Hado 90: Kurohitsugi (Uses 0/1)], [Reversal Curse Technique (Uses 0/1)]

Jin Chaoyan, who couldn’t even remember the over 200 episodes of Reborn! the anime, stared at the item pictures and racked her brain for a long time, finally managing to recall which animes they belonged to.

She looked at the price of the Tenseigan—

Initial Version: 200 yen

Advanced Version: 3,000,000 yen

Customized Version: 5,000,000 yen

Huh, why is this stupid mall being so honest today? No insane prices?

Jin Chaoyan suspiciously looked at the details. The first line was exceptionally brief.

Initial Version Description: Seen before episode 60 of Bleach.

Jin Chaoyan: You’ve got to be kidding me, this stupid mall is definitely doing this on purpose.

It was another day of her goldfish memory being mocked. But at least she could afford this item. Jin Chaoyan added all three versions to her cart. Customer Service 001 popped up a “confirm purchase” box, and she clicked “yes.” The next second, she received a bank debit alert.

She was not in a hurry to read the user manual that 001 sent her. She went back to the mall and continued to look at the Mera Mera no Mi. She looked at the Empress’s Edition description and found that the worst-case scenario was that she would remain in a fiery state for half an hour, it was easily extinguished by water, and it could cause property damage at home.

I’ll buy it.

Then she clicked on Kurohitsugi—

Fool’s Edition: 1 yen

Description: You don’t think you can challenge this with your mortal body without proper training from the Shinigami Academy, do you? This 1 yen is for us to dispose of your body.

Empress’s Edition: 100,000 yen

Description: We provide a side-effect shielding mechanism. Come on, what if your Empress’s luck gives you the power of Aizen’s version?

Ultimate Edition: 10,000,000,000 yen

Description: Besides slaying a god, there is no problem in this world that a Kurohitsugi can’t solve. If there is, then just use another one!

Jin Chaoyan: No thanks.

She still only bought the Empress’s Edition.

Considering that the Reversal Curse Technique and the Tenseigan had overlapping functions, Jin Chaoyan had originally only wanted to buy a normal version for healing. She didn’t expect…

[Reversal Curse Technique (Uses 0/1)]

Buy-it-now price: 8,000,000 yen

Description: Whether you want to bring the dead back to life and regrow flesh on bones or just heal a scratch, it’s up to you.

Eh?

Well… should I buy it? After all, who would complain about having too much healthcare money?

“Buzz.”

The phone sitting on the table vibrated.

…

The man in the Japanese-style yukata held a ceramic teacup, taking a sip of green tea. He didn’t turn his head as he listened to his subordinate kneeling at the door reporting. “The underground base in Nanimori is roughly complete. Vongola is preparing to purchase a large amount of medical equipment and has asked if we want to join in—”

“No need.”

The man’s refined jawline was reflected in the green tea in the cup. Ripples appeared in the water as his pleasant voice fell.

“Yes. And one more thing. The corporation that purchased the commercial street in Nanimori suddenly halted development a few days ago, announcing an extension of the construction period. Should we investigate this matter thoroughly?”

Hibari Kyoya put down his teacup, which made a soft clinking sound on the wooden table. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly shifted his gaze and looked toward the other side of the long corridor.

Kusakabe Tetsuya was confused and turned his head, vaguely catching a glimpse of a flowing smoke-gray dress in the corridor. Even without seeing the owner of the dress, he knew that the only person who could walk around freely in modern clothing in this mansion was her.

So he discreetly gathered his documents and withdrew, quickly giving the couple some time to be alone.

Although Kusakabe couldn’t quite understand the nature of their relationship, he had come to a conclusion from his noticeably increased medical expenses recently:

Never get involved in a couple’s domestic affairs!

He left in a hurry, almost brushing past Jin Chaoyan, which made her, who was looking at a map on her phone, suddenly look up. She then let out a sigh of relief. “Oh, it’s Mr. Kusakabe…”

“Good day, Madam! I must be going!”

The woman hadn’t even finished her sentence, and Kusakabe’s greeting was already a distance away. She wanted to call out to him to remind him about the documents he had dropped in the corridor, but it was too late.

Jin Chaoyan, who was holding her phone and using the map to find the “dangerous person,” tilted her head. She guessed that Hibari Kyoya was probably in the room, so she moved a few steps toward the documents.

She stared intently at the map provided by 001. The red dot marking her and the dangerous person had gotten closer. So, as she absentmindedly picked up the documents, she wondered which idiot was so blind as to lurk around Hibari Kyoya’s residence.

“What are you doing?”

“Ah!”

A voice suddenly came from the half-open wooden door, startling the person standing at the entrance.

After recognizing who the speaker was, Jin Chaoyan patted her chest and let out a huge sigh of relief. She reflexively glanced at her phone and then cautiously took a step into the doorway with the papers in her hand. “You…”

After just one step, she was dumbfounded by the location and distance displayed on her phone.

“Hmm?”

The man sitting behind the wooden table was uncharacteristically patient, waiting for her to finish her sentence.

With her mind in a jumble, Jin Chaoyan looked down at her phone, then up at him. After a moment, her expression was extremely complex. It was a mix of bewilderment and sudden understanding, shock and a sense of having already known. After meeting his gaze for a few seconds, Jin Chaoyan slowly replied:

“Oh… you dropped your documents.”

She slowly walked to the table, her head down, looking at her phone. When she reached the table and handed over the documents, the dangerous red dot on the map and her own green dot were almost completely overlapping.

Jin Chaoyan: “…”

You useless mall.

Her expression was blank. She wanted to leave after handing over the documents, but as she looked up, she accidentally caught a glimpse of the contents of the document. It was a medical report that looked familiar, so she took another look.

Hey, I know the patient’s name too!

“…Why do you have my medical report?” She was half-bent over, her palm resting on the paper, making her at eye level with the man seated behind the table. She asked with a hint of confusion.

Hibari Kyoya heard her words, and a hint of a smile appeared in his cold eyes. But because it was as light and faint as smoke, the smile didn’t soften his expression. Instead, it gave him a sense of cold indifference.

“I was just curious—”

“I remember your heart condition was congenital and couldn’t be completely cured due to imperfect surgical conditions ten years ago, leaving some complications.”

Hibari Kyoya’s voice had always been pleasant, like the sound of a valuable musical instrument.

But it was only today that Jin Chaoyan realized the terrifying effect of him using such a beautiful voice to suddenly reveal her past.

He didn’t even give her a chance to argue. “But in this echocardiogram report, your ventricles, chambers, valves, and blood vessels… are all perfectly healthy.”

After the man’s voice fell, the room was silent for a long time.

Jin Chaoyan suddenly felt that the mall’s crisis warning was correct. For example, right now: when there was no danger, Hibari Kyoya was the greatest danger!

A thin layer of sweat seeped into her palm resting on the paper.

The woman’s expression was calm and she didn’t move, but she didn’t know that from this close distance, the man, with his excellent eyesight, could clearly see her pupils suddenly dilate.

“The story has to start with all the good deeds I’ve done in my life…”

Don’t ask, just say it’s God’s will. And if you ask again, say it’s a medical miracle!

“A… medical… miracle?”

When Hibari Kyoya repeated her words, syllable by syllable, Jin Chaoyan realized that she had accidentally blurted out her internal monologue!

And after repeating the phrase, this time, the man’s lips curled up. It was as if the person in front of him had just told him a good joke.

In fact, if Jin Chaoyan had a way to investigate the business of the Disciplinary Foundation, she would understand that her husband possessed a top-tier scientific team capable of researching the world’s seven great mysteries. And those researchers would likely be very interested in her “medical miracle.”

—Unfortunately, she was completely unaware of this.

Therefore, facing the man’s clearly mocking expression, she silently gritted her back teeth.

“Don’t believe me then.”

She quickly threw out that sentence, turned around in a huff, and walked away. Although her expression was full of anger, her retreating figure had the air of someone fleeing. She was even hit by the wooden door that hadn’t been fully opened yet.

“Thud.”

A small velvet box fell out of a shallow pocket on the side of her dress, left alone on the ground.

The man sitting behind the tea table listened as her somewhat panicked footsteps faded away. After a long time, he got up from his seat, walked to the door, and picked up the square box. The box had opened from the fall, and a light flashed from within.

He had been about to call his right-hand man to return the item to its owner, but his movements paused. He used his finger to pull it open and saw a men’s ring with a purple gemstone inside.

His eyebrow raised slightly.

Because the Mafia world had begun to favor fighting with a combination of Boxes and rings, the value of high-quality gemstones worldwide had risen due to the frantic plundering of war merchants. Naturally, Hibari Kyoya paid special attention to such luxury items.

If he remembered correctly, this gemstone was supposed to be sent to a Tokyo auction, and the original piece was a woman’s ring.

Hiss

A very faint sound rang out. Hibari Kyoya looked down and saw a faint violet flame rising from the gemstone on the ring. The gem had sensed his emotions.

Staring at the color of the flame, Hibari suddenly remembered the person who had just stared stubbornly back at him. The straps of her smoke-gray dress had accentuated her delicate skin. She was so afraid she was trembling, and the shadows of her collarbones shifted with the rise and fall of her chest, yet she had to keep meeting his gaze.

He smiled very faintly.

He then closed the ring box in his palm and accepted this gift, which wasn’t exactly sincere but had found its way to him by chance.

…

“Obliviation Spell.”

“We don’t have that item, my dear~”

A worthless thing.

Jin Chaoyan, who had returned to her room, was on her hundredth attempt to talk to Customer Service 001 about a custom service. 001 had seized the business opportunity, but unfortunately, it couldn’t fulfill a single thing Jin Chaoyan asked for.

“Then do you have any way to make a person lose their memory quickly?”

Customer Service 001: “It’s not hard to make a normal person lose their memory quickly. But making Hibari Kyoya lose his memory is not that simple.”

Then what are you good for?

Jin Chaoyan took a deep breath. Thinking about her precarious act, she changed her approach and began to figure out how to get a divorce at the speed of light without her husband’s knowledge—

But the lawyers in this world couldn’t provide that service.

She lay on the tatami mat for half an hour with her mind blank. She didn’t even react when Hibird brought her a few nuts in its beak. It was only when Chiyana started calling her that she slowly answered the phone just before it was about to hang up.

“Hello?”

“Madam, I’ve already made reservations for dinner…”

“I don’t want to go.”

“Did your plans change? Your voice sounds a bit off. Are you feeling down?”

“…”

Jin Chaoyan, who had been tormenting herself with 001 just moments ago, felt a wave of grievances well up inside her when Chiyana asked that in her gentle voice. She asked, “If there’s someone you can’t provoke, can’t beat, and is just annoying, what do you do?”

“If we can’t provoke them, can’t we at least avoid them?” Chiyana said with a laugh. “Madam, are you feeling down from staying at home too much? Should I plan a fun trip for you?”

“!”

Jin Chaoyan sat up!

She felt Chiyana’s words made perfect sense!

Running away might be shameful, but it’s effective!

…

The next day, as the sky was faintly bright.

The morning glow streamed across the horizon, and a soft orange light quietly reached the treetops of the Hibari mansion. Under the long corridor, a neatly dressed figure adjusted his tie. Just as he reached the door, he seemed to remember something and thoughtfully looked back at the courtyard.

“Mr. Kyoya?”

Kusakabe, who had already prepared the car, asked with concern.

“What’s that noise in the backyard?”

His hearing was excellent. He could hear the sounds from the courtyard even from this distance. Based on what he knew about Jin Chaoyan these days, she never woke up early.

Kusakabe Tetsuya hesitated, then forced himself to speak. “The Madam says she’s planning a hot spring trip and is taking Hibird with her. She’s probably packing right now…”

It wasn’t cherry blossom season, or autumn foliage season, or snowy season. Who goes on a hot spring trip in May?

Kusakabe knew instantly that something had happened between the couple again!

But for the sake of his life, he didn’t dare to ask again.

Hibari Kyoya let out a faint laugh. He didn’t comment on the ill-timed hot spring trip, nor did he care that Hibird was being taken with her. He simply said, “Let her be.”

He turned his gaze back to Kusakabe. “Let’s go. Back to Nanimori.”

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