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The next trip to the rink is for the show's practice, and now Louise is questioning her decision in agreeing to this as she continues to fall in her spins, warm up her voice in the middle of the cold, and toss herself in the air in harness like a sacrifice for the queen faery choreography.

"People aren't paying for me enough for this," she breathes, lying on the cold ice floor to rest as soon as Ojiro turns his back to her group.

When the practice is finally wrapped up, they are called into the dressing rooms for the costume fittings. Lousie goes out of the door, and she finds Ojiro and Kaimen outside.

"Hi, boys!" she calls out to get their attention. "What do you think?" She moves to make a twirl, showing her fairy costume.

The mesh matches the color of her skin, and her costume was designed to look like a piece of clothing's weaved together in yellow greens, complementing her skin tone and showing her curves perfectly, looking like she's wearing almost nothing.

The two boys' mouth's form an 'o' upon seeing her.

She did a vougue pose in front of them.

"Yes, I know, so please if you may close your mouths."

"Hey!" Ojiro nudges Kaimen beside him.

"Oi!" the child nudges him nack with the obvious blushing.

Louise shakes her head, rolling her eyes.

"Ugh, Korishimas,"

Of course, Ojiro has something to say about her costume, so he will go back to the designer for some changes to make it look less naked.

Lousie saw Ichika pass by, so she waved at her.

"Chika-chan!" she calls out. The girl just throws her a surprise look, and then she runs away and disappears into the other hall.

The smile in Lousie's face fades. For unknown reasons, her sidekick has been giving her the cold treatment lately.

"The other girls have been bullying her since the dating scandal came out just because they saw her hanging out with you. She doesn't want to talk to me either," Kaimen explained.

"Kai-kun, wasn't your mom going to pick you up right now?" Ojiro said.

He rolled his eyes at him. "Haaaai." With that, the child runs to leave and packs his stuff with him.

Ojiro can recognize the sadness in Louise's face, so he tries to cheer her up with the magic trick that he learned.

"Do you want tortilla for dinner?"

Her face lightened up a bit, nodding to him.

They've been living together since signing the NDA, and she's not gonna lie; it was such a relief that they can move a bit freely now, even if it's just in front of the people they have trusted.

Ojiro needs to stay a little longer at the rink to meet his staff, so as the dutiful waifu that she is, she gathered his stuff to bring home with her.

"I'll wait for you, okay? Don't forget the extra lemons and hot sauce."

"Hai," he mumbled, and then bowed to kiss her in the mouth.

They broke the kiss, startled, when they felt someone standing in the doorway, but to their relief, it was just the security waiting for Louise to assist her to the car.

"Okay, I gotta go," she said, and then left, pulling the luggages with her and then following the security to the car.

Louise leans her back to the car's seat, finally having some time to rest. She's slowly drifting to sleep when she feels the car stop to a halt, thinking she's finally at her destination, but when she looks around, the place is dark and she doesn't recognize the surroundings.

The Japanese man that Ojiro hired as a new security guard got out of the car, and then he opened the passenger's door to her side.

"W-what's happening?"

The security then went inside and sat beside Louise.

"Oi, Gaijin. I saw you gave Korishima-san a kiss earlier. How about you give me and my pal in front some?" the pervert lets out a laugh, sticking out his tongue in a lewd way.

Louise was just frozen in horror, and when the man touches her leg, she screams at the top of her lungs.

She managed to flee the car barefoot as she used both of her shoes as weapons and then ran away as fast as she could until she made it onto the main road, filled with passing cars and people.

Ojiro reunited with her at home, and she's just crying, her eyes out in his arms, unable to speak any words. When she calmed down, that's when she noticed that Ojiro hadn't said anything the whole time.

He then held her and then spoke to her gently.

"You're safe here now." He murmured. "No one's going to hurt you here. I know you're a strong woman Louisia so now, I just need you to tell me clearly what happened and what exactly they did."

Louise knows how dangerously calm he is at the moment, so she relayed everything to him obediently, like a lost child. When she finished, he smiled at her and thanked her.

They ate dinner and took a bath together like nothing happened.

His unusual silence  made her even more scared than those assaulters.

The next day, Ojiro needs to leave for product shootings and meetings with sponsors, so Louise takes on the caring duty of a waifu by preparing breakfast early in the morning.

"Are you sure you're going to be alright?" he asks while she ties his necktie for him.

"I'll be fine, Ojiro," she says, tugging the tie and patting his chest. "You need to go now, handsome,"

He wears his coat over his linen sleeves and Louise saw him grabbing the keys from where they hung on the wall.

"You're driving today?"

"Hai,"

"You could have brought Atsushi-san with you,"

"He's in Fuchu city now servicing my grandparents,"

"How about Yoshio? The other security staff? They should be here here right now, right?"

"There's no staff for now, Louise; I fired them all."

"W-what?!"

"I got the result of the investigation very quick and found out two more persons conspiring to do things to you. I'm not going to let that happen again to you or to anyone else, so it's time for me to change staff."

"Just like that? But...how about Yoshio? He's a good friend to me!"

Ojiro throws her a look, but his expression immediately softens. He cups her face and looks directly into her eyes.

"I will not let anyone hurt you or have them take you away from me," he whispers, then kisses her on the forehead.

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