Chapter 238 - *Father's Day Commemorative Side Story: Rio's Gift
Rio Saito was carrying a certain worry around with her.
It wasn't something she could fix on her own, and Rio herself bore no responsibility for it whatsoever.
Despite that, it weighed down on her as a handicap in various scenes of life, which was unbearable.
(...I'm frustrated too, you know.)
Letting out a sigh as she gazed at the calendar.
Today was the third Sunday of June — Father's Day.
The children of the world were probably handing presents to their beloved daddies and spending a happy time.
Rio wanted to do that too if she could. She wanted to get all lovey-dovey with a male parent.
...And yet, she didn't have a father.
That's right.
The worry she was carrying was,
'Being a daddy's girl from a single-mother household.'
That was it.
Rio currently lived with her mother and older brother, the three of them together.
No one knew where her biological father had gone. He had left home when Rio was still small, and his whereabouts had become unknown.
She heard her biological father was a failed host turned small-time punk who had connections with the yakuza.
He might be being looked after by some gang about now. Or maybe he was in prison.
Incidentally, fitting for a woman who had been married to a man like that, Rio's mother was a textbook yan-mama. Her name was Misaki, but terrifyingly enough, she was still only thirty-three years old.
Calculating it, she had given birth to Rio at seventeen, and as for her older brother King Leo, she had given birth to him at sixteen.
Perhaps because she had grown up in this cesspool-like family environment, Rio had come to harbor a strong longing for a 'proper family' at some point.
What would it feel like to have a proper father at home?
How reassuring would it be to have a strong, kind daddy who would support you both financially and mentally?
She envied her classmates whose parents both attended entrance ceremonies and graduation ceremonies.
She wanted to have her father listen to her selfish requests. She wanted him to be her support.
She wanted him to catch all the restless energy of her rebellious phase.
She wanted to throw her smartphone, shouting "You're annoying, you damn old man!" and get slapped across the face. And then she wanted him to chase after her with all his might as she ran out into the heavy rain. Once he caught up, she wanted him to say "We're both soaked, let's take a break," drag her into a love hotel, and roughly push her down. She wanted to resist, saying "No, we're father and daughter...!" but be powerless against daddy's strength, have her purity taken, realize she was a woman, and look up at him with tear-filled eyes, thinking she didn't want to hand this man over to her mother...
"Ahh, that's good..."
Spinning out her favorite fantasy made her feel a little better.
Rio crawled out of her futon and sluggishly stripped off her pajamas.
It was already almost noon.
No matter how much it was Father's Day, she couldn't just mope around forever.
If she didn't have a father, she just needed to make an older boyfriend. She just needed to replenish her fatherhood from that person.
While zipping up her skirt, Rio pictured one man in her mind.
— Keisuke Nakamoto.
A thirty-two-year-old brute, an unscrupulous old man who had assaulted her brother on the very day they met.
The next day, he had stormed a yakuza office and rescued her brother, so he wasn't a bad person. ...Or so she thought, but he frequently engaged in obscene acts with her, a current JK, so he was probably a genuine beast after all.
Moreover, he had recently added an arrest record to his resume, so it seemed he had sunk even lower than a NEET living in his parents' house, becoming a buta-bako old man.
He was exactly the kind of bad man Rio liked.
As they say, girls fall for men who resemble their fathers, and Rio had a tendency to be attracted to antisocial men.
And happily, Rio and Nakamoto had been getting along well lately. She didn't know what he was thinking, but he had even gone so far as to get engaged to her.
(Since it's a special occasion, maybe I'll give Nakamoto-san a Father's Day present...)
That said, Nakamoto was more of a boyfriend figure, so treating him like a father might be a bit off.
...If Nakamoto-san were my daddy, we could have had a happy father-daughter incest...
"—!"
Just then.
An electric current ran through Rio.
It was a devilish flash of inspiration.
What should she do to get everything she was looking for?
Of course, the answer was set.
"Mom!"
Running down the stairs, Rio shook awake her mother — Misaki — who was napping in the living room.
"...What? Rio? I'm sleepy..."
Misaki was currently working at a cabaret club, shaving about six years off her real age.
Because of that, her days and nights were reversed, and if she was woken up while it was still light out, she became completely useless.
"Mom, Mom, here."
But as if to say "Like I care about that," Rio handed Misaki some cosmetics she had just bought the other day.
"...What's this all about?"
"Use it. It's a Father's Day present."
"Huh? What part of me looks like a father to you...? Ah, or is it because I'm pulling double duty as both mom and dad? Oh no, I'm gonna cry!"
Satisfying herself with that explanation, Misaki started getting excited with an energy that belied her age.
She was originally the type to look younger than her actual age, but when she made a face like that, she looked ten years younger.
Her being easy wasn't great, but the fact that she was younger and prettier than her classmates' mothers had always been a point of pride.
She was a different type of beauty from Rio, and when the two walked together, they looked like sisters.
That was precisely why she was perfect for a Father's Day present.
"Come on, hurry up. Use that and get dolled up, quick."
"Are you taking me somewhere? A restaurant? An amusement park?"
"I'll let you meet a celebrity."
"For real!?"
The celebrity-chasing Misaki happily finished her makeup and even put on her best lingerie. Her carnivorous attitude was refreshing.
(That's how it should be.)
Rio, not to be outdone, finished getting ready herself and dashed out of the house with Misaki.
Their destination was Nakamoto's apartment.
"Ah, you're finally going to let me meet Nakamoto-san? Right, right, I've gotta greet him soon. Like, 'Please take care of my daughter.'"
"The one who's going to be doing the 'taking care of' today is probably you, Mom."
"What do you mean by that?"
While enjoying their mother-daughter chat, before they knew it, they had arrived at Nakamoto's apartment.
When they rang the intercom, the man in question appeared in less than ten seconds.
"Rio. What do you want?"
Nakamoto asked with a suspicious look the moment he opened the door. His gaze was darting left and right, so she could tell he was comparing Rio's and Misaki's faces.
"Um... who's the lady next to you?"
"She's my mom."
"Your mother!? She's crazy young, man!? No, I heard about it, but seeing the real thing is surprising, damn..."
Perhaps because Nakamoto had called her 'young lady,' Misaki was squirming happily.
Rio was impressed that this man could charm women as easily as breathing.
"Hello there. Rio here is always in your care."
"Ah, no, no, the pleasure's all mine."
"By the way, what's the occasion today?"
"Huh? Didn't Rio contact you about it?"
Just as the two adults were starting a friendly greeting, Rio immediately put her plan into action.
"Continue this in bed, why don't you."
With a shove, she kicked Misaki's back, sending her tumbling over on top of Nakamoto.
Without a moment's delay, she slipped inside the entrance and locked the door behind her.
Now there would be no interruptions.
"Rio!? What's the big idea!? ...And hey, Mom, could you please stop touching weird places!?"
"A celebrity's abs! A celebrity's abs!"
Looks like Mom's happy too, that's what matters, Rio nodded in satisfaction.
"That's your present. Make sure you savor it and eat it up good."
"Explain what the hell is going on!"
"Today's Father's Day, right? But I don't have a father. So even if I want to give a present, there's no one to give it to."
"How does that lead to you shoving your actual mother at me!?"
"It's simple."
Rio spread her arms and announced with a full smile.
"—If you don't have a father, you just make one yourself, right? If Nakamoto-san marries my mom, then you'll become my father, won't you?"
"What the hell are you saying...?"
"So, I'm giving you that."
What she was pointing at while saying 'that' was, of course, her mother Misaki.
"Ah... giving?"
"Yep. As a Father's Day present, I'm giving you my mom. Come on, come on, hurry up and hold her before her freshness fades."
"Don't be ridiculous! You like me, don't you!? Are you in your right mind, foisting your mother on the man you love!?"
"It hurts for me too! My eyes are stinging from the pain of having the man I love stolen by my own blood relative! But this pain is kind of pleasant in a way... like I've seen a new world open up..."
Nakamoto stared at Rio, who was shivering, with a face like he was looking at a monster.
"And then, if I have sex with Nakamoto-san after he becomes my father on the family register, my long-cherished wish of being united with daddy will be achieved, right? Mom will finally find a proper husband, and the Saito household gets a happy ending for everyone."
"So you're telling me... to have a mother-daughter set meal!? To taste both a flashy thirty-three-year-old young-looking mama and a sixteen-year-old JK daughter, that's what you're saying...!?"
"You're thinking 'that doesn't sound so bad,' aren't you, right now."
"..."
Nakamoto averted his gaze awkwardly. It seemed she had hit the bullseye. He was reluctant to admit it, but he was a man who loved women at his core.
He seemed to be trying hard to hold on with his reason, but who knew how long that would last.
"Mom seems totally done in by Nakamoto-san's muscles already, and she's all into it, right? A womanizer like Nakamoto-san and a man-lover like Mom. I don't think their compatibility is bad."
"A celebrity's muscles..."
Misaki was burying her face in Nakamoto's abdomen with hazy eyes.
"Well then, I guess it's about time for me to join in as backup."
"Rio!? Hey, wait, don't strip! Rio!"
Once she was down to her underwear, Rio straddled Nakamoto without hesitation. She had never possessed a sense of morality that would make her hesitate in the first place. It seemed the same was true for Misaki, and until they were torn apart by a furious Angelica, they thoroughly showed off their mother-daughter teamwork.
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