21st Century Necromancer

After informing the boss, Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi left the small store.

Yu Chen did not ask the boss for any promises, he simply informed him of the seriousness of the situation and what the boss needed to know, and trusted that the boss would make his own judgement.

As for the boss's desire to ensure his daughter's happiness by not stopping what was going to happen...

it gave Yu Chen enough reason to send Minami back to reincarnation.

After all, the only reason that everyone allowed Minami to remain in the mortal world was only because of Yu Chen's face, and Yu Chen only summoned Minami's soul back and offered her protection initially out of sympathy for the boss and his family.

If the boss broke the agreement he had initially made with Yu Chen, then Yu Chen naturally would no longer provide protection for Minami.

Yu Chen was not stingy with his kindness, but such kindness was neither cheap nor endless.

"Husband, there shouldn't be any problems with Minami now, do you want to tell Mr. Naoki about this?" Hiromi Jounouchi asked Yu Chen with concern.

"Let's not for now, he is just an ordinary person and has not come into contact with these things, it's better for him to continue living as an ordinary person," Yu Chen thought for a moment and then decided not to involve his friend in these matters.

Perhaps in some people's eyes, being able to interact with the transcendent is very cool and amazing, and many people spend their entire lives trying to become transcendent in order to do things they deem incredible.

But only those who get truly embroiled in trouble understand that an ordinary life is actually the most precious of all.

Besides, Yu Chen felt that it would be better to just let things take their natural course rather than telling Inomata Naoki the truth; otherwise, given Naoki's character, if he came to know these matters, he might dig into them too deeply and feel that his relationship with Minami was true destiny, insisting on being together at all costs.

"Got it, are we going home now? We've been out for so long, I've started to miss our bed at home!" Hiromi Jounouchi couldn't help but stretch and yawn, displaying her graceful figure even more prominently.

Hearing her words, Yu Chen chuckled: "You talk as if you've slept in that bed at home many times. Aren't you the one who spends every night sleeping in the castle within the Necromantic Space?"

"Is that wrong!" Hiromi Jounouchi pouted and, with hands on her hips, asked Yu Chen in a pretended huff.

"You don't look like a queen at all when you're like this!" Yu Chen laughed softly and took his wife into his arms.

Being held by her husband, Hiromi Jounouchi softened and leaned into Yu Chen's embrace before asking, "Now that there's nothing urgent, are you planning to just go back to work? We still have a few days left of our leave, do you plan on going back early?"

"I'll rest at home tomorrow and go back to the hospital the day after," Yu Chen considered for a moment and felt it was better to get back to work soon: "You haven't forgotten about your Artificial Womb experiment, have you? That fetus is almost due. Plus, Keiko's father's matter has been delayed for so long, I should heal him."

"Counting the time, Mrs. Egawa's child is indeed almost ready to be born, I nearly forgot about it if you hadn't reminded me!" Hiromi Jounouchi said, finally catching up to the matter at work.

During this period, she and Yu Chen had been through so much that she had almost forgotten that her main job was a doctor and that her patients were waiting for her healing.

Thinking of this, Hiromi Jounouchi couldn't help feeling a sense of urgency and said, "Then should we go to the hospital now? Since we're here anyway."

"Don't you plan to rest for a day before going back to work?" Yu Chen curiously asked. According to his habits, he wouldn't think of ending his leave early if he had asked for one.

"It seems like I don't especially need to rest... so should I go back to work at the hospital tomorrow?" Hiromi Jounouchi tentatively asked Yu Chen, as she found both working and resting acceptable.

However, Yu Chen clearly wanted to spend another day of intimacy with his wife, so he said to her, "Rest at home tomorrow, adjust your state, and go back to work the day after. After all, we should get used to living like a newlywed couple, right?"

"Newlywed couple..." Hiromi Jounouchi's face blushed. Although the two had moved in together quite early on, the term "newlywed couple" still made her feel shy.

Seeing his wife's bashful look, Yu Chen couldn't help but laugh heartily, taking her hand and walking back home.

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As Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi were heading home, Misumi Mikoto on the other side of the city was also reaching the end of her workday.

Stretching and yawning, Misumi Mikoto rubbed her stiff and sore back, tidied up the things on her desk, and then stood up, ready to leave work for home.

Noticing that Misumi Mikoto was about to leave, Tokairin Yūko suddenly approached and asked, "Meiqin, you seem very tired lately, and you have such dark circles under your eyes!"

"Oh, I've been looking through documents late into the night recently, so I haven't been getting enough sleep. It's nothing, really." Hearing Tokairin Yūko's inquiry, Misumi Mikoto hurriedly chuckled it off, skirting the subject.

She obviously couldn't tell Tokairin Yūko that she had been staying up late every night researching the newly-acquired Book of Inheritance of the Necromancer, which was why she seemed so lackluster during the day.

It had to be said that the book truly deserved to be the Book of Inheritance of the Necromancer, as the various knowledge recorded within it was immensely beneficial to Misumi Mikoto.

Even without the spell knowledge, just the content on corpse dissection alone had greatly improved Misumi Mikoto's dissection skills, even increasing the efficiency of her recent autopsies.

Thinking about the content she hadn't finished the night before on the effects of various toxins on heart function, Misumi Mikoto was about to go to the changing room to get dressed and leave, but Tokairin Yūko didn't let her go. "Meiqin, you look so haggard. Come to the beauty salon with me tonight for some maintenance. You know, as a woman, you must take good care of yourself, otherwise, you'll look worn and faded in your thirties or forties—that would be tragic!"

Although she preferred to go home to read, Misumi Mikoto, being pulled by Tokairin Yūko, really couldn't find the words to refuse.

However, with Tokairin Yūko's insistence, Misumi Mikoto also began to think that staying up late every day to read indeed took a toll on her health; perhaps she should research a Magic Potion that could strengthen her body or replenish her energy? She recalled that spellcasters seemed to be good at concocting potions. Should she research how to prepare her own potion that could restore vitality?