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After instructing your wives to travel in groups and keeping to the well ordered parts of the city, you step onto the lift with the two wives that accompanied you.
Hisashi, your father in-law, was one of the main leaders and the most influential person of that company's side. He had been surprisingly flexible with you for multiple reasons— the key one being how you married his 'undesirable' daughter, promising to care for her.
A bit above the skies, you see the city peek out between the clouds. Lights and airships dance around, each to their own work as their worlds collide and separate.
You can see <span class="mu-i">The Vixen's Luck</span> from here— moored close to the unassuming, yet pleasant, inn you'd decided to give business towards.
To fill the silence, you decided to speak with your wives.
Mel, speaking through cutely flustered words, didn't seem to have much going on other than keeping her own body fit and her powers sharpened. You found that Ruby was teaching her how to properly use daggers.
Herta, when you spoke to her, went off about how Bad Luck was actually a type of 'anti-skill' that artificially made a karmic imbalance. As you understood almost every word, and saw that she'd at least need another week to figure out how this could relate to hereditary blessings, if at all. Poor Mel seemed to have trouble grasping it, despite her attempts to join the conversation.
Eventually you're arrive at the top and are warmly greeted by Hisashi, who seemed to be playing some sort of card game by himself.
"You know how to make an old man wait, don't you? Ho-ho." He stands up.
The two of you shake hands, and he invites you three to his airship.
"I, Yumi, shall now demand to roam these gilded halls and trying steps!" The ghost girl made herself known. "Only then can I make sound judgemen-"
"A spirit?" Hisashi said, soon turning to you with fake shock. "Is this another wife of yours I've yet to meet, Lord Savant?"
"Wait, that's-! I'm not-! You know what? I'm not dealing with this." Yumi was done with things. She went back to sleep in her crystal prison, ignorant or uncaring to the fact that Hisashi was just taking the piss.
"She calls herself my 'cursed servant'." You say, being the closest friend she has. "She's not that bad once you get to know her. Though, according to her, I'm an 'acolyte' with latent ghost powers."
"Ho? And do you have said powers?" He asks, to which you respond in the negative.
You soon notice how he has another tail to his name.
"Ayane told me you were dying to share a story with me. But I didn't expect you to have another tail." You said.
"I almost lost it as soon as I got it." He chuckles. "In one of the most interesting voyages I've had." Hisashi wastes no time in recounting the story he'd obviously talked about so many times before, starting with a joke of how "it must've been my Bad Luck spilling out".
