They spend the entire way back to their home discussing the matters related to Takashi's plan of having a harem.
At first still he was a little nervous talking about it, thinking that Yurika was just putting a tough front, but as the conversation continued he didn't saw any sign that she was uncomfortable with the idea resulting in he eventually being more relaxed while talking about it with her over time.
Of course she also wasn't talking with any particular enthusiasm, but was relatively relaxed about it.
She simple didn't thought that was any big deal, since there was many situations worse or just more weird than that.
Yurika wasn't even faze when Takashi mentioned wanting to include his sisters, Yuria and his cousins into the harem, which not only surprised Takashi but let him be extremely pleased.
She did frown however when he mentioned Yariko's name, stating that she didn't like the idea of having her in the harem. Yariko was popular at their school, but only among the male population and that was a result of her relatively open mind in regard of sex. She wasn't as active as Saeko, that had sex with basically anyone for sex, but she was no prude either so it was only fair that Yurika had reservations.
She did agreed o let the final decision to Takashi, but warned him to be careful to whom he wanted to bring to the harem. Takashi knew she was doing that only out of concern for him, so he wasn't really annoyed with it. He was actually happy that Yurika wasn't hiding her thoughts about the matter.
One of the pillars of maintaining a harem was making sure that everyone was getting along with each other, so as to don't let anyone be at odds with each other. Takashi had to find a way to make the other girls be more welcoming with Yariko.
Takashi and Yurika also talked about what both of them intended to do in the future. They had already talked about this in the past, but it was always in a more relaxed way, like it was something that it was so far in the future that it was unnecessary to think about it. But now that Takashi wanted to maintain a harem, he needed to think seriously about it from the very beginning.
Yurika wanted to inherit thee family business, that is the company of her father, and was going to give her all to be more than competent enough to her father don't protest it. Her father can be said to be really old fashioned, wanting a son or someone that marry Yurika to take it, but Yurika couldn't accept that. Takashi didn't need to think about it to don't discuss with Yurika about it, and agreed to let her whatever she wants. He didn't want to have anything to do with a company that had to please a bunch of people that he didn't like as much as possible, so if Yurika wanted to take that for herself the only thing that he could do was support her as much as possible.
Yurika was aware of how Takashi was making money, be investing, and advised him to find more reliable ways of gaining money, stating that while it could have significant gains it was also very dangerous since it only needed one mistake to lose everything thing that he had.
Takashi was sure that even if he made a mistake he would be able to recover, but he didn't dismissed Yurika opinion entirely. He had already being thinking in how to have a more stable way of gaining money, and having another person advising him to do it just made him aware that he neede to do that as soon as possible.
He didn't mentioned to Yurika, but whole they were talking he was olso thinking about the incident earlier of the day.
He had already deal it with two situations that were related with NTR hentais and avoided them, but the earlier incident was a way make him see that he might encounter situations that weren't in any of those hentais, but could end in a similar way.
He had to do two thing: deal with that group of rapists once and for all and stablish himself as someone that shouldn't be messed with. He didn't need to be some kind of criminal master mind or anything, but someone that anyone wouldn't think to harm or the people important to him.
As they finally reached their home, both of them were saying their goodbyes.
"Can I see you tomorrow Taka-kun?"
"I think it won't be possible. There's something that I want to do that will probably take me the entire day"
"Hey, don't need to be so down. We still will see each other on lunch Monday"
"Hehehe, that's true. Why don't you invite Rina and Anna as well? I would love to all of us be together"
"Sure, no problem"
She didn't mentioned Yariko, but he wouldn't press on that for now. He still felt that his situation was a little similar to walk on thin ice, so he would opt to be careful for the moment.
They shared a light kiss, that developed in a more passionate deep one for a few minutes, and went to their own homes.
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