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Chapter 127: Bike Date?—Or a Lead to Yggdrasill

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“Whoohoo~!”

I laughed hearing the loud cheering from behind me. My back felt blessed as two soft mounds pressed against it, squeezing forward to affirm their shapes, and two arms tightly held me from behind.

“This is sooo~ much fun!” Ai declared, and I trusted her. She wouldn’t have lost her senses and pressed her boobs against her son’s back like this otherwise.

It’s been about a bit more than an hour since we started driving. We were almost at our first destination; I could see the spiraling stairs of the highway before us. Irohazaka Winding Road was a street more famous than any in Japan. Why won’t it be? It looked insane.

We were at the very bottom, and our goal was to reach the top and move ahead. “I’ll be rising now,” I told her, and though my words were muffled in my helmet, her heightened senses didn’t miss it.

“Hey, when will you let me ride~!?” she demanded with a giggle as she held me tight.

“Not now, woman, the path is too complicated for a beginner,” I said and sped up. “Plus, two-rider bikes are banned on this road, and you’re under an invisibility spell, what would people think if the bike rides on its own? Stay put.”

“Excuses- kyah~!” she let out a chime of a yell as my Harley-Davidson Breakout throttled down the Irohazaka Winding Road, the engine's roar beneath me a steady drum against the dance of autumn leaves.

With each curve of the road, my mother’s presence sent a reassuring pressure against my back, her chest rising and falling with mine in the rhythm of our shared breaths. We sped up, and the leaves painted a blur of fiery reds and amber oranges, a canvas that rushed by in a dizzying array of color and light.

Each hairpin turn was a choice of precision, my hands steady on the grips, and her arms encircling my waist. She held me tight out of fear, but that fear soon turned into exhilaration as she spread her arms like wings and shouted. The road demanded a ballet of balance and precision, and we danced it together, both laughing and giggling as we enjoyed the air.

The ascent marked no challenge for my Breakout, the vehicle carried our bodies moving in unison, the air growing colder with altitude.

This ribbon of road led us to the top, and we saw the morning sun shining down at us gently amidst the orange leaves.

“This is insane, ahh…!” she gasped and breathed in deeply. Since she wasn’t wearing a helmet, thanks to being invisible, she breathed in fresh air and relaxed herself against my back. “I love this, Aqua.”

I laughed as I slowed down, descending downwards slowly, while she took out her phone from the backseat and began to take selfies. Our descent was careful maneuvering through the snaking path, her trust in my control absolute as she enjoyed taking selfies with a big grin on her face.

“Oh, oops,” she suddenly said, sounding startled, “I- I accidentally started Live, this isn’t good. People will be curious about the biker now!” she yelled in panic, but I laughed and sped up instead. This truly was fun.

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After another hour's drive, we stopped at a mountain range.

“It's breakfast time,” I said with a grunt as I stopped the bike and took off my helmet. My mother hopped off the bike and I followed after.

“Mmhm, ahh~” Ai stretched her arms and let out a soft moan. “This place is nice.”

“It's not bad,” I looked around the area. It was near the sea, and although the sea was not visible, a small green river flowed here from the sea.

“Hey, take a picture,” she tossed me her phone and I caught it, while she unzipped her jacket to reveal her tank top, and sat down.

A beautiful scenery was behind her, but all its beauty paled before the woman. She wore a biker's black leather boots, pants and jacket, and a white tank top. Her pants tightly hugged her thighs as she crouched down on top of a rock, behind which the green river flowed.

– Click.

I took the picture and she hopped over to take a look. “Show me- kya~” she took the phone and grinned. “As I thought last time on Okinawa beach, you're really good with the camera. You stand there now, I'll take a picture of you too.”

“It's fine, I’m good.” I shook my head with a smile.

She frowned, “Why not?”

“Well, you're going to post your picture. So what if one day your phone gets hacked and they find pictures of me on the same spot you were?” I said. “Wouldn’t it be troublesome if that happens? Superstar Ai is hanging out with a teen actor.”

“Then I'll just have to reveal to the world that you're my son,” she walked over to me and put her arms around my neck, her head tilted slightly as she smiled at me.

“Wouldn't that too be troublesome?” I put my arms around her waist and asked. “It's still a secret, after all.”

Her expression shifted slightly, an unsure look on her face. “Hey, Aqua, do you think I should… announce you and Ruby? After all, it's been 15 years.”

“It's alright, leave it as it is till we're 18.” I pulled her body closer, her tummy pressed against my abs. “It's not like revealing this will benefit us in any way.”

“Fair. Alright then, I'll listen to that,” she said with a smile. Then she gently pushed herself away from me. “Come on… let's have breakfast already.”

I pulled her back, the sudden jerk sending her hair swaying in the air as I grabbed her waist tightly, watching her eyes tremble.

We were in the middle of nowhere, there was nobody to interrupt us here.

“I am staring at my breakfast,” I said as I ran a thumb against her lips. “Can I have a bite?”

“Aqua, don't…” Ai said with a frown, accompanied by rosy cheeks that betrayed her expectations.

“What's a date without a few kisses?” I whispered to her ears, biting her earlobe, and watched her swallow her saliva.

“Don't…”

“Alright,” I released my hold on her.

A surprised light of disappointment washed over her face, lasting only a second, as she looked away from me and scratched her arm. I walked to the side, took out a mat from my Void Storage, and placed it on the ground, followed by food that we bought just earlier on top of it.

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“Can I drive now?”

“You sure? The road is kind of hilly here, you might end up in an accident.”

After we were done eating and about to leave, Ai was too excited to finally ride the bike. What’s up with bikes and girls? Then again, I can understand the charm. She’s too excited to heed my warning though, but I deemed that fine.

There were cars and people in the near vicinity, as my Jade Perception let me know, but there was nobody in sight. She needed to be careful while taking turns, though, in case a vehicle appeared from the corner of the road.

Ai curled her bicep and tapped it, “I am Supergirl, I’ll be fine.”

Fair, even a serious bike accident shouldn’t bring any harm to her. ‘I guess it should be fine then…’

“Alright,” I tapped the seat and looked at her. “Come, sit.” She walked over and raised a leg over the bike, bringing it down and slumping on the comfortable seat. Her leather-clad butt jiggled and I ran a hand over it, my fingers tracing up to her waist, out of pure instincts.

She shot me a look, but when I didn’t take my hands off her waist, she shook her head and turned forward. She jerked her head, swaying her hair, before pulling them into a ponytail. Then she put on a helmet, covering her beautiful face, and her hands on the handle.

– Vroom~Vroom~

I whistled as she made the bike roar like a lion. “Be careful,” I said and let go of her waist, allowing her to shift gears and shoot off like a bullet.

The bike cut through the air, Ai lowered her torso like a jaguar waiting for its prey, and her form blurred across the road. There was a road turn right ahead, but she didn’t seem to slow down.

“…This stupid woman!” I shouted and kicked after it, and although I could reach a speed much higher than the bike, my initial start-up speed was too slow. In under a second, she barely managed to turn the bike, winding in the road, and barely managed not to fall off a cliff.

But perhaps falling from the cliff would have been better. At least, then I could have just flown to her and stopped any harm.

What happened instead was far worse. A car came out from the turn right then, and the biker lost her mind. She tried to evade the car, moving to the side, and it would have been a clean evasion if the car hadn’t tried to dodge the bike itself, moving in the same way. The exact situation occurred another time, as the two vehicles tried to dodge each other, and ended up bumping into each other.

“Kya-!” two feminine yells, and a collision. A loud thrum rang around the mountain range, and I came to a skittering stop right beside the accident. Ai had managed to slow down the bike just earlier when turning it, but the damage to the car wasn’t small.

Ai was shot to the side, slamming against the side of a hill, but perfectly fine due to her physique. I facepalmed. I was more worried about the car and its occupants; it seemed to be one person only, a woman, who was driving it.

The door slammed open, and an annoyed blonde lady, thankfully with minimum injuries, stormed out of it. “What is the meaning of this?! Are you blind?!” She wore a mask, but her voice still thundered out. She glared at my helmet-covered head. She soon realized I was not the driver and turned to glare at Ai, “You-! Who gave you a driving license?! You should be jailed, I could have died!”

‘Oh come on, it was your fault too,’ I sighed. Ai’s fault was more, of course. It’s always the biker’s fault, after all.

Ai looked extremely uncomfortable, I could tell even with her head covered. I already had solutions spiraling in my head; we just had to use a Restoration Spell on the car, and then a memory erasure spell on the lady.

“Take off your helmet, let me see. I will put a case under your name, your reckless bitch!” the mask-wearing lady said, pointing a finger. The cursing made me frown, even if it was understandable that she was mad, it irritated me that she dared curse my mother.

“Hey, calm down a little,” I walked over to her and put a hand on her shoulders.

“Calm down?!” She shot her head to look at me. “You are her partner in crime, aren’t you? Then you too will-” she paused, “Ah,” as her adrenaline-filled body realized the difference in our size. “….” She grumbled and frowned, trying to show defiance. “I’m calm, but take your helmets off. I can’t let you two go.”

“Hey i-it’s alright as long as I take off the helmet,” Ai quickly stepped in. She didn’t want me to be known as a reckless driver across the country, unaware of my plan that I’d make this woman forget this incident. She grabbed her helmet and took it off, her head jerking left and right, and her pink-purple hair blooming like a flower.

“….”

She looked at the blonde woman with green eyes, “Hello.”

“Ai… Senpai?!” the woman shouted, startling Ai as she yanked off her mask, revealing her face and staring at Ai in dumbfounded shock. “Is that really you?”

“Oh.” I blinked in recognition.

“Ah,” Ai blinked too. “Yura…?”

Yura Katayose? So that's why she looked familiar.

Titled ‘the 2nd greatest actress of Japan’, as well as ‘the unlucky one to be born in the same generation as Ai’, Yura was a star of Japan only behind Ai in popularity.

What is someone like her doing alone on a mountain?

I knew why she was not with someone. I have gone through my memory of the Oshi No Ko manga a few months ago, after I was attacked by Yaggdrissil. In the original source, Ai died, and so Yura became the greatest actress of Japan. Hikaru Kamiki, my biological father, took an interest in Yura, and he spent a few years with her. Then he killed her when she was at the peak of her popularity.

He made her addicted to mountain hiking by taking her every month. That's why she was here, to hike. As for why she’s alone?

Hikaru Kamiki was hiding from me after the damage I inflicted on his soul, so he couldn't take the risk of being in Japan.

Yura had nobody to accompany her but herself.

What a great find.

I wonder how that bastard will feel if I ruin his divinity-honey-pot project?

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